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Originally posted by crowjoy:
Well, we're still in love with Angus Conor and Ruby Grace (for mine) and Hadrian Cole and Sophia Renny (for Mander's) even though we're starting to get flack from the families. We want their names to be somewhat unusual but kind of classic too.

Everyone's glad we abandoned Zaephod. Earlier in this thread someone pointed out that the character has 2 heads. I think I was too horrified to confess at the time but my greatest fear is a 2 headed baby. Ack! Thank GAWD we didn't settle on Zaephod.

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Please, please don't make your child's first name Angus unless you want his childhood to be Hell. Just think of the cow jokes to which he'll be subjected by other kids. Angus is not a name that will be easily accepted by other kids--especially not in Florida.

I'm all for unique names, but I think parents should also think more about their children and what it will be like growing up with a "unique" name.

I think Hadrian Cole and Ruby Grace will do fine. Especially if you let Hadrian go by his middle name if he really wants to.

A friend was going to name her baby Bain, pronounced "BANE." As in "Bane of my existence" etc . .. I strongly encouraged her to rethink it, and her defense was "It's a NAME, not a word!" My reply was, "sure, you can say "FUCQ" is a name, not a word, but it still sounds like "FUCK!"

Other thoughts on the name (from other people) was that it sounded like a WWF wrestler, or a really bad thrashmetal band, or the title of a Dean Koontz book, or the name of a pitbull -- not a beautiful happy child.

She used it as a middle name, but still, it makes me cringe.

Does anyone remember the "Az-weep-ay!" skit from SNL? Where the couple is trying to pick out a name for their baby, and the father shoots everything down, and it turns out his name is "Asswipe" but pronounced "AZ-WEE-PAY!"

Maybe we should bring back the Native American tradition of using several names - one granted at birth, a new one granted when the child becomes an adult, one only for family, etc. We do that a little with nicknames.

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Originally posted by crowjoy:
Well, we're still in love with Angus Conor and Ruby Grace (for mine) and Hadrian Cole and Sophia Renny (for Mander's) even though we're starting to get flack from the families. We want their names to be somewhat unusual but kind of classic too.

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I like all those names Crowjoy.

Edited to say, we've actually decided that when we have kids we're not going to tell anyone the name until they're born, partially for the reason you stated above about your family giving you flack. Also, it just seems like between all the people you know in life, someone will have either known someone with that name that they didn't like or they just don't care for it (and people love to tell you when they hate a name) and it kind of ruins the name (for us). But if there's a little baby there... then any negative association they have for that name will soon be replaced with an association with that cute little thing. Sounds good in theory anyhow.

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Originally posted by BionicGirl:
we've actually decided that when we have kids we're not going to tell anyone the name until they're born

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This is what my best friend and her husband are doing. It allows for an element of suprise, especially in an age where you can post your ultrasound pics on the internet for all to see. Steph called me recently, frantic that a friend of hers was considering that name for her child as well. She wondered if she should say anything to her friend. I told her no. Steph's baby would be born first, and no one is going to think you STOLE a name. Plus, if she tells Shannon the "secret name", it'll be all over town in a matter of minutes. No more suprise. As a member of the "I get updates on Steph's pregnancy every thirteen minutes" club, I would actually LIKE for something to be a suprise.

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Originally posted by deadboy:
I've had it in the back of my mind that Sascha and Sonja would be good names for a boy and a girl, respectively. Even better if they were twins. But I read somewhere that a lot of people with those names have had shitty lives.

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Originally posted by deadboy:

I like Desdemona as a name, too. Sounds mellifluous, lots of nickname possibilities.. Des.. Mona.. Demon.. heh heh.

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And there will be no doubt as to what font to use on the baby announcements. ha.

Quinn (I like this as a girl's middle name)
Finn
Blaze

If I had twins, a boy and a girl, they would be Tyler and Taylor, respectively.

I like romantic sounding girls names...

Rhiannon
Alyssa

So be honest...

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Originally posted by Chameleon:
I'll put in a vote for Taylor. I used to teach swimming lessons to the sweetest little redhead named Taylor. Isn't it funny how favorite names can be influenced by who has them?

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Someone way back mentioned the name "Sabine" - from personal experience, noone can pronounce it correctly.

I think it has been very trendy in the past few years for GenXers to give their child either unique name or unique spellings for names. (I went "what!" when I found out that there are 125 spellings for the name Caitlyn.) Could you imagine being a kindergarden/primary school teacher trying to help kids learn to spell their names? I think that fad is slowly diminishing and now there is a sudden emphasis on traditional names.

BG, I think you were the one who mentioned that you didn't like have an initial after your name in class. I was always kind of envious of people who had common names. I didn't meet another Sabrina until 9th grade or another Brie until 12th grade. My teachers would always comment on how pretty Sabrina was and they never did that to anyone else so I got embarrassed. I always felt that they wouldn't do that if I had a common name. (I was Sabrina Z and the other girl Sabrina V and you really had to pay attention to figure out which one of us the teacher wanted. It didn't help that we have 6 classes together.)

(and apologies to anyone's name I may have insulted - I don't mean it in a bad sense, it's just odd to an irish girl!)

there are so many odd names floating around these days that I'm not sure if teasing is such an issue anymore. annoyance when people screw up your name, I guess. I remember one girl named Yuen Yuen, pronounced yen yen, in my elementary school. It got so when we had a substitute teacher one of us would go up to him/her before class to clue them in on how to say it because it bugged poor yuen yuen so much to be called yoon yoon. But then I grew up in a big city. (if that was the difference, who knows.) I know my friend Felicia from a small town in AB still gets called Fellatio by people who knew her in high school. Sigh.

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Originally posted by Riah:
Each year the newspaper I work at we put together a big list of all of the babies born in our area to find the most popular baby names. This year there were no Bobs or Roberts. Do you think it is a trend that gen Xers that become parents want more unique names?

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Yes and no. I think there are a lot more people going for unique sounding names or trying to at least (my sister thought Michaela was really unique but it turned out to be really popular). None of the names on the top 10 list seem that unique to me, especially the boys. Teh girls names seem to have turned more towards the older names (as far as that list goes), but still none of them seem that unusual. Madison is the one that seems newest, but after being around to little kids more than ususal in the past seceral years it seems run-of-the-mill to me too. That's not to say I don't like it, there are just a lot of little Madisons running around out there.

briezee... I guess it just comes down to personality of the child. Something totally bizarre might cause a lot of problems, but Sabrina is a well-known, long-established name, even if it's not as common as Lisa. I never had a problem with my name except that everyone and their dog has it. And I guess I'm a person that would prefer to a little more unique identification. I'm sure it's probably a bit of a grass is always greener situation too. For my kids I want something that sounds smart and sassy, isn't too unusual, but still not the same name as 6 other people in their class.

Hah, okay I'd never really name anyone zoodle other than like, a Sim. (actually, I name all my Sims zoodle. though I've only played a few times.) I keep meaning to give my pets weird names to use them up so I'm not tempted to name my children them - got rid of Zebedee that way on a lizard, and Tanoa on a mouse - but when I got my cats they came with names from their previous homes and I couldn't stand to change them and confuse them. Not that I even know if cats recognize their names. I wanted to name Cambie and Granville (awesome names! but awesome "major street" names in my city.), but they're Toby and Suzie.

I almost adopted a cat named Ipswitch. He was grumpy, dirty, missing his tail, and tried to claw me, but the name alone was almost enough to convince me. Fortunately suzie saved the day with her crazy "I am really random! Love me! Okay who are you?" act.

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Originally posted by yam:
Please! I'm not cruel. I'd never saddle a poor, defenseless cat with a silly name like Zoodle. Humans, now, they can take it.

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Originally posted by yam:
I know a guy with an uncle Boopsie.

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Originally posted by BionicGirl:
Ha! I had an Uncle Dot, except she was a woman. I have no idea why she was called uncle, but it used to really confuse me when I was 5. I would stare at her trying to figure it out... "Uncle Dot looks like a woman, but she's called 'uncle' so...???" She was my dad's aunt, and he said that he always called her that when he was a kid too, but didn't know the reason for it.

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I can think of a reason or two .