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Originally posted by crowjoy:
I can think of a reason or two .

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Heh, Namblefreen. Namblefreen and Hermadeedle if it's twins. No, no, no.

Okay, maybe not THAT close.

Still I find myself thinking "so, what if my better-than-surgery birth control failed and I was pregnant RIGHT NOW? is there any way we'd be able to keep the baby without breaking up and going nuts?" Ack! Less scarily I find I've kind of adopted "as soon as I graduate" (in four years) as the time when babies happen, and also marriage. I think this might just be the phenomenon where I talk about things happening after I graduate to make graduation seem closer, but hey. Really I think I just have kids on the brain because of that whole scare with my mother-in-common-law. (hah, what a great term.) She was kind of pissed when it looked like she'd die without seeing any of her grandchildren... Anyway. Talking with someone about the future I realized "I don't wanna wait for a few years after graduating. I can barely wait to meet them NOW." I'm so impatient. I'm also so a student, so about to go in to massive debt, so not married, so not ready in so many ways. But who's ever ready?

Erk! Me, I hope. One day. In a few YEARS.

Ack. Anyway. Baby names. BORING baby names. Stuck in my head. Jane, Alice, Irene, Thomas, Alan. What happened to Brunswick?

Abby
Jenna
Emma
Sidney

I don't really like boy names as much, but...

Not that I'm out atryin' to breed, but at least that huge fear is almost gone. (and, really, student teaching can be flexible... so at this point, I consider my degree to be in the bag.)

Dave and i are always discussing names. We have a good set of girl names, but boy names are so hard! Youcan give a girl a masculine name and be okay, but to give a boy a feminine name is tough == and then there are names that are either BORING or too cute.

Our rules are that it can't be too cute -- you can have an "old" sounding name for a few years, or a babyish name for the rest of your life (And sorry, I can't imagine my lawyer being named Kohdeeeiey) -- and they can't be too commonplace.

a few times a week, though, we'll think of a name, or hear one, and run it by each other randomly.

Gretchen: "Hey sweety, what about "emmitt?"

Dave:"No. I knew an emmitt, he was rotten. I never knew a Vladimir though!"

Gretchen:"Except for that 'vlad the impaler" guy."
Dave: "so?"

I'm sticking with Elizabeth and James for my completely theoretical children. I am going to react to this fad for "unique" names that seems to have overtaken our generation. Anything that sounds like a medical condition or a prescription treatment for one is out. ("hey, darling, what about Chlamydia for a girl?").

I do really love some of the classical names, like Circe and Calypso, but obviously that's just the same as calling a kid Go Ahead And Punch Me.

On the other hand, people in Hong Kong get to pick their own English names when they're about 11 or so, so I have personally met all of the following:
Potato
Chlorophyll
Virgin (a boy)
Monitor
Apple
Devil
Tweetie
Pudenda
and my favourite, Oral B

so maybe little Circe wouldn't get such a hard time after all.

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Originally posted by Sophie:
I'm sticking with Elizabeth and James for my completely theoretical children.

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When I say "not too common," I mean, leaning toward the classic -- and underused -- names.

Like Angus! I think that's a great name . . .

Other rules are that each name shall have only ONE capital letter, there shall be no punctuation involved, anywhere, and there will be no nickname as sole name, especially ending in I. (future niece is Kristi. No Kristine, or Kristen, just Kristi. She's a doll, and her parents are great, but that's an example of a name that would be on the No list.)

I have friends kids who have gone with Ruby, Ezra, Liam, Adeline (Addie) etc....

Of course, I have another acquaintance who just named their newborn Isaac Danger Smith.... so that he could say as an adult, "Danger is my middle name!"

However, this causes problems.

1. I have no idea how to pronounce this name.
2. This would work well for a girl I think, but not so well with a boy, and since any child I produce is going to be a huge nerd anyway I don't want them beat up anymore than is already going to happen.
3. My parents and grandparents would sh*t a brick if I didn't use a "family" name.

Sorry, the Nivea thing has been a running joke in my circle of friends.

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Originally posted by Sophie:
I do really love some of the classical names, like Circe

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Hee, in my high school sociology class we had to carry around hard-boiled eggs and pretend they were our babies. Mine was named Circe.

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Originally posted by Princessjeanne:
I want to name my first child Genndy now... I have no idea how to pronounce this name.

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I met a Japanese guy with this name. He pronounced it "Jen-D," but he just went by Gen (pronounced "Jen"). He actually runs the company that produces the American version of Dragonball Z (I interviewed with him, that's how I met him), so there's another animation connection to that name for you.

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Originally posted by greschya:

Like Angus! I think that's a great name . .

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Of course, Gretchen was an evil fox, but hey . . . they used my name!

--CJ, I've known some Angii in my time, and they have generally been really good people.

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I do really love some of the classical names, like Circe

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I've always been hung up on names.... prolly cuz I'm not too fond of mine. My first thought/awareness was that my name was Suellen (Sue Ellen), and that seemed like a strange name. And no, my mother didn't watch Dallas.

Speaking of bad names, may I add Wayne? (and variations Dwaine, Duane, Dwayne, DeWayne) Not only is it ugly, but also lots of serial killers share it as a first or middle name. And then there's the first grade joke - Knock knock! Who's there? Dwayne. Dwayne who? Dwayne the bathtub, I'm dwowning!

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Originally posted by LimaEchoPapa:
It always reminds me of 'Emmitt Otter's Jugband Christmas.'

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Originally posted by jpunca:
Cecilia is one of my favorite Paul Simon songs, am I doing any danger to my child by naming her after a possible prostitute?

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Originally posted by jpunca:
Cecilia is one of my favorite Paul Simon songs, am I doing any danger to my child by naming her after a possible prostitute?

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Cecilia isn't one of those has to be a prostitute names. Sometimes I'll hear a name (none are springing to mind, but hmmm you'll know what I mean) and I'll be like 'ahhhh let the child have a choice of professions'. Because some names just don't lend themselves to professional careers & business cars, and you want your kid to have the option of going into one of them.

Honestly though, I don't think it matters in the long run. If nothing else, it makes you easier to remember.

That said, I prefer old fashioned names myself I was really mad when Friends used "Emma" as the name for the baby, because that one had been topping my list for quite some time! But now there are going to be a generation of little Emma's, and it's lost a lot of its appeal for me.

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Originally posted by becca11:
Cecilia isn't one of those has to be a prostitute names. Sometimes I'll hear a name (none are springing to mind, but hmmm you'll know what I mean) and I'll be like 'ahhhh let the child have a choice of professions'. Because some names just don't lend themselves to professional careers & business cars, and you want your kid to have the option of going into one of them.

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Originally posted by dcgrrrl1979:
I'm idly wondering how future news about mad cow disease would affect the perception of the name Angus....

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Bwahahaha! That's GREAT! We kinda call him beefy boy already (if it's a him) but Mad Cow is SO much better! I can just see myself calling it out across the playground. If he inherits his mom's temper it will be perfect for him. Heee.

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Originally posted by KatieJD:
A friend of mine recently had a baby and he said one of the most exciting things was picking out his daughters name. He and his wife ended up picking an interesting variation of a common name.

I'm curious if anyone has any names they particularly like...even if you don't have kids yet!

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Originally posted by chitowngal:
Super T keeps telling me he's going to name the Super Bean Pistachio Dante...

When I was growing up I wanted to name a girl child Sage Mary or Eponine...

I think that for now we're gonna try to stick with family names, however I pity our final child who may very well end up with the name Pistachio Dante because I'll just be tired of saying no lol

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Edited to add: One of my personal favorite names for a girl is Livia; as in Olivia w/o the O and Anna Livia from a famous novel. I'll give you a hint - the author's Irish. Ten points goes to the answerer. (Note: points count as in "Whose Line Is It Anyway")

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Originally posted by BionicGirl:
Melody is "way out?" Seems like a pretty normal name to me. Maybe because I grew up with a Melody and she never seemed to have issues with it.

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Hubby likes Kim for a girl and Kern for a boy. The Kern thing - I mentioned that Kieran was nice and he said "NO! Let's name him Kern!" Which I don't think is really a name. I don't like made up names and funky spellings. All my life I had to spell my name for everyone & their brother because my parents chose a perfectly normal spelling of my name. (normal, not overly common) I don't want to inflict that on my kid. I want them to have stickers with their name on them, key chains etc.