Also, it has always bugged me that Pamela Anderson named her boys Brandon and Dylan. Hello, BH 90210 anyone??? Anyway, I have too much time on my hands.

I pick names according to how they will sound with Kip's last name since I am planning on marrying him someday. We have agreed on Glenn Robert for a boy.
Glen is Kip's middle name (but with 1 n), and Robert is all over my family.

For a girl, I really like Bella Mae, mainly because it sounds really cool with Kip's last name, and Mae is my late grandmothers name.

Other names that I LOVE:
Camille
Roxanne (Kip hates this one--he says it sounds like a party girl name)
Ireland or Irish (for a middle name)

Not too big on boy's names. I guess I should pray for only one boy...

Also, and I hope I don't hurt anyone's feelings with this, but my bf's mom named his little sister Shasta. That is a stupid name, in my opinion. It reminds me of that 80s soda pop.

-lily marie
-isabella

for a boy i like:

-jackson
-james

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Originally posted by ragazzina:
Ireland/Irish: You have NO idea how funny I find that. Apologies. Imagine calling your child america/n...

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Actually, that's much more common than you think. I have known or known of people named: Ireland, Irish, and America.

The geographic locations names have been kind of popular in the states... Montana, Dallas, Dakota, Houston, Austin (what's with all the western names, how come Connecticut hasn't been widely adopted?).

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Originally posted by briddy:
No one would name their child America because the American people and the American nation are not good enough to name an innocent baby after.

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Oh, but they do, they do, briddy.

Is it the pure, aesthetic sound of a name?

Emphasis on a name's meaning or level of uniqueness?

Honoring a family member or friend?

Choosing a historical/mythical/fictional name that represents a specific idea to you?

Keeping with naming traditons of your religion, culture, or family?

Playground teasing factor (as in minimizing that by not naming you child "Dick" for example, especially if you last name's "Head.")?

A combination?

Anything else?

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how come Connecticut hasn't been widely adopted?

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Originally posted by BionicGirl:
Oh, but they do, they do, briddy.

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My last name is White...my mother jokes that she was going to name me Snow. Sometimes I don't think she was joking. So instead I ended up with the most generic name ever, and have had to be cautious about credit fraud and identity theft because of it. I've had credit ratings all screwed up when dealing with various things because there are a million Jessica White's with bad credit.

Beware of naming your children common names!

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Originally posted by Jessica:
My last name is White...my mother jokes that she was going to name me Snow. Sometimes I don't think she was joking. So instead I ended up with the most generic name ever, and have had to be cautious about credit fraud and identity theft because of it. I've had credit ratings all screwed up when dealing with various things because there are a million Jessica White's with bad credit.

Beware of naming your children common names!

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Originally posted by Jessica:
I have a friend who's parents were hippies...my friend's name is Summer Star and her sister's name is Ember Frost. She has another sister named Jamie Joy, but she was going to be Jingle Joy since she was born near Christmas. One of the sisters had a baby girl and, in keeping with the unusal name thing, named her Ambryn.

My last name is White...my mother jokes that she was going to name me Snow.

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My parents almost named me Lucia, because they loved Lucy. But I have a really Italian last name even though I'm only a quarter Italian. and they thought it would be overkill.

On the hippy thing, my best friend's older sister was born while his mother was in full hippy mode, and was named Dagua [DAY-gwah]. Then he was born about 9 years later (different dad) and even though the parents were tending more towards a conventional lifestyle, they named him Rayne [Rain]. By the time his little sister was born 7 years later they were living in a subdivision, but they named her Esme [EZ-mee]. Which is pretty, but the three together are quite a spelling contest!

I think we'll avoid *really* unique names and go for old-fashioned. I love some of my family's names (Katherine/Catherine, Thomas, Elizabeth, Margaret, Hanley) but hate his family's (Dominic (BOTH grandfathers! aie!), Beryl, Martha). So we'll most likely mostly avoid family names.

It hurt me that someone said that maybe I shouldn't live here then. Isn't the U.S. supposed to be a place of free speech? I'm happy to live in a place where I have the freedom to bash my government and put down the poor choices some of our people make. That's what America is all about! (joking, joking, about that last part. relax).

I'm pissy today. Don't mind me too much. But I do mean what I said.

Edited to say that I truly fear what is going to happen after I post this. Go easy on me guys.

Girls: Sophie or Sophia (used the first one on one of my dogs, though), Bianca (also used on a dog), Leila (lee-I-la), Padma (pud-muh), Michaela (mi-kye-ayla), Micheline, Michelia (see a trend here?), Helena, Parker, Madison, Padmini (after my mom, an Indian name), Megha (another Indian name), Shanti (also Indian!), Taylor, and many others.

Boys: Phinneas (shortened to Phinn), Ian, Nathan, Oren, Owen, Hunter, Alan, Salman (Indian), Roderick, Daniel, Taylor, and many others.

I'm not saying I'd name my kid after my country, because like raga, I tend to think it's kinda odd to name any child after a geographical location, but I don't see why America is any worse than Ireland or India or China or any other place-inspired name. All countries have their good points and bad points.

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Originally posted by Joanna:
Something I dislike about current naming trends is the urge to make common names different through spelling - Danae is a lovely name, but everyone will think it's just "Dana". Brydghette or Kimberleigh are lovely names, but your poor first grader is going to go out of her mind.

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There is just as much to appreciate here as there is to cringe about. I'm not proud of everything that happens here, but no country is perfect, I am certain that there isn't a nation that every citizen is proud of everything about their country. Nothing's perfect, but I'll take the good ol' U.S. of A. any day over a load of other options.

I mean, France seems pretty cool but then there's that Jerry Lewis element that throws it all out of whack. (G tries to lighten the mood with some humor)

I'm not p.o.'d or anything, it's just a really bold statement that you made and I think there's a lot to appreciate about living here that maybe you weren't considering when you typed it.

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Originally posted by yeefan:
I tend to think it's kinda odd to name any child after a geographical location.

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A woman I used to work for named her daughter Maia, thinking that would be a very unusual name because no one in her generation had that name, and as it turns out, Maia/Maya is now a very common name for baby girls.

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Hahaahahah I'm in a silly mood today, but now I have the "Maya, Maya the bee" song in my head.

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Originally posted by Joanna:
Something I dislike about current naming trends is the urge to make common names different through spelling - Danae is a lovely name, but everyone will think it's just "Dana". Brydghette or Kimberleigh are lovely names, but your poor first grader is going to go out of her mind.

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Does anybody know what they would have been named if they were the opposite sex? My parents were convinced I was a boy, and they were going to call me Brian David. My sister would have been Mark Brian.

Girls:
Elizabeth
Ruth
Isabel
Charlotte

Boys:
Elijah
Gregory
Collin
Ian

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Originally posted by hermia:
But I think Alexander Chadwick (w/ his last name) sounds quite royal, and possibly like the kid will *have* to overachieve.

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uh oh - my best friend's ex is called Alexander Chadwick, and he has a really small penis, apparently....

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Originally posted by Sophie:
uh oh - my best friend's ex is called Alexander Chadwick, and he has a really small penis, apparently....

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Was Chadwick his last name, though?

What I mean is, I would've been a Michael if I was a boy, so instead kid #2 is a Michael. Kid #3 would've been an Erin if he was a girl, so instead kid #4 is. The only different name I've heard was Ian, b/c that's what my sister would have been if she was a boy, but they stopped with her.

I'm sorry if what I said was a bit icky. I wasn't saying what Briddy went on to say, just that I find naming someone after a place mor nationality is amusing. Especially when MINE turns out to be a popular one. I have a friend here called Ginger Irish, and I think that's funny. Irish as a surname. But that's understandable, as at ellis island, people were often names after their origin or a physical feature (small).

I don't think that the US is inherently worse than any other state. ireland has its own share of political scandal and fuckedupness... Instead of obesity, we have alcoholism and child sexual abuse. Instead of the Oval Office Cigar, we have brown envelopes full of cash. Ireland was recently named one of the most corrupt states in europe.

If you were basing your naming practice on the political, social and physiological factors of the country, would you STILL want to call your child Ireland?

Apart from the amusement factor, there's no reason why not to call a child America if one were going to choose the name of a State.

Personally, I wouldn't do it, but...

We weren't considering family names at all and now never will. Talk about politics. Since we don't want to know gender ahead of time, we have 2 names for each picked out and will let their faces decided which they get.

So either:
Hadrian Cole or Angus Conor
Ruby Grace or Sophia Renny

The girls names were the hardest because we wanted to make sure it would work from the bedroom to the boardroom. I like the boys names because they seem unusual (in the US anyway) and aren't too bland. I wanted to go with Zaephod but Mander thinks that sounds like a plant.

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Originally posted by crowjoy:
They had a great name all picked out but her dad is pressuring her to name him Horace Herbert, after HIM. Ack, there is something disturbing and perverse about a father seriously feeling entitled to name his daughter's baby. He's actually threatening to cut off contact with them if they don't name the baby Horace (alternate spelling Whoreass).

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Um, pardon me, but that's F'd up. Can you say, "controling?" Seems like he of all people would understand that the name Horace Herbert is about the WORST name a baby would get, apart from making ultimatums like that just being downright jerky and childish. Man, I'm thankful for my parents.

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Originally posted by ragazzina:

I don't think that the US is inherently worse than any other state. ireland has its own share of political scandal and fuckedupness... Instead of obesity, we have alcoholism and child sexual abuse. Instead of the Oval Office Cigar, we have brown envelopes full of cash. Ireland was recently named one of the most corrupt states in europe.

If you were basing your naming practice on the political, social and physiological factors of the country, would you STILL want to call your child Ireland?

Apart from the amusement factor, there's no reason why not to call a child America if one were going to choose the name of a State.

Personally, I wouldn't do it, but...

I would see it as a nationalist statement. Ireland has had enough of that.

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Bum dum de dum dum! Let's play....(*drumroll*)...WHO'S COUNTRY SUCKS MORE?!!?!?

OK, of course I'm joking. I find it humorous that you defended your statement by pointing out all the things wrong with Ireland, Raga. I'm not saying this in a snotty way, I totally see what you are saying. When I read it though, I had to laugh becuse it's like arguing over what is better: eating boogers or eating worms. Neither is better, and why are we even talking about it? Does this even make sense...?

OH! I also wanted to say that "location" names aren't necessarily geographic locations but references to special moments in peoples lives (not necessarily conception either). For example, if someone used to spend a lot of time with their father at a certain campsite and it was her fondest memory, i can imagine her naming her first child with that name....does that make sense?

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Originally posted by hermia:

I just spit out my coffee laughing.

Was Chadwick his last name, though?

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admittedly it was his surname. I've been worried all night that one day he'll do an ego search on Google and find me blabbing to the world that he has a small willy.

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Originally posted by Sophie:
admittedly it was his surname. I've been worried all night that one day he'll do an ego search on Google and find me blabbing to the world that he has a small willy.

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