baby names

[Ljt09863]

this isn't exactly what you think it is. fiancee and i decided on a name for the baby. Aleksander William. when people ask me what we are naming the baby, i tell them. and what do i hear? "oh! you mean like Alexsander the Great?!" and then kinda start laughing.

it really annoys me. no....i am not naming my son after alexsander the great. we are naming him Aleksander because we like that name.....but i usually just give a slight little laugh and ignore it.

how has anybody else dealt with this? it drives me nuts.

[Misanthropical]

My daughter's name is Tasha, we were asked if we named her after Tasha Yar from Star Trek The Next Generation. NO! We were going to name her Annastasha, because my husband likes the name and just call her Tasha, but decided if we were just going to call her Tasha anyway, why not just name her that.

My little guy's name is Jarod (pronounced like Jared) and I get people asking if I named him after the Subway guy. :rolleyes: My little guy was born BEFORE Jared was on TV.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

If it drives you nuts now, how are you going to feel about it for the rest of your life? You might consider that before you do it.

Just my two cents.

[CaroPhoenix]

I agree with RecoveringKinkoid on this one.

Also, another piece of advice to keep in mind when selecting baby names (courtesy of Bill Cosby and paraphrased, I think, 'cos I don't remember the entire quote):

"Take the name you like and yell it 10 times at the top of your lungs. If you still like the name after those 10 yells, keep it. If you don't, then find another name because you'll be shouting whatever name you choose for at least 18 years years."

That's how hubby & I went from Ian Connor to Connor Ian. But it's a moot point 'cos we have a daughter.

Off Topic: When a friend of mine told me that he & her husband were going to give their little girl the middle name of Deanna, I asked if they got the name from Deanna Troi of Star Trek: TNG. Before anyone throws rotten fruits & vegetables at me, please keep in mind, I knew her hubby is a HUUUUUUUUUGE Star Trek fan. So there!

Also, my daughter's middle name is Iraina - she's name for a literary character that not too many people have heard of. But that's okies with me.

[NightAngel]

My oldest son's name is Storm. People always assume that he was named for Desert Storm since he was born around that time. Truth is I had the name Storm picked out before it became Desert Storm. (Actually, I dreamed it but that's another story.)

I've always heard, "Oh, how very patriotic of you!" Thanks, but really I just love storms and I thought it would be cool to name my kind after one of the most powerful of nature's phenomenons.

Trust me on this one:

It doesn't matter what you name the child people will find a way to annoy you with it. There is also no name safe from other children coming up with a way to torment your child over it by turning it into a foul nickname.

Pick what you two like.

[NightWolf]

I've already got mine picked.

Johnathon Patrick for a boy,

Kirstie Alexandra for a girl.


No real reason for the boys name, but the girls...i like the name, and it was one of the main characters in the Hellraiser movies. I know....I'm odd.

[sportsmom]

When I was pregnant with our youngest I wanted to name her "Maddux Robert" if she was a boy. I just found the name and loved it. Hubby looked at it and said "There is no way in hell I am naming my son after one of your baseball players." Need I mantion that I am a HHHUUUUGGGGEEE Atlanta Braves fan and Greg Maddux was still there? I honestly never made the connection.

He also shot down "Declan" because our oldest dd pointed out that it sounds like "duckling."

Ah well, I guess it's just as well that we had a girl, we never did agree on a boy's name.

[Rapscallion]

There was mention on the radio today of someone who had genuinely named their child "Genghis".

How many children would dare to make a mocking name out of that?

Rapscallion

[irateguy]

He also shot down "Declan" because our oldest dd pointed out that it sounds like "duckling."



Declan is Elvis Costello's real first name.
I was almost named Lane acoording to my parents

[Barefootgirl]

I think Aleksander (or Alexander) is a very nice name. I would imagine people have been asking if small Alexanders are named after Alexander the Great for 2000-odd years, so why worry about it ? And even if he was, so what? At least Alexander accomplished something. Its not like you named him after some tedious sports person or pop star.

My daughter's name is Phoebe. I have never watched an episode of Friends in my life, but there are plenty of people who think that's where I got her name from. As it happens, it was the first name DH and I were able to agree on.

[Knightmare]

oh yeah? when I was picking out baby names, I got a bit crazy. I wrote some down and asked my co-workers what they thought. Some of the names were:

Polyphonic Gravity
Contemporary Fashion
Rau Conner
Miles Niles (rhymes with my surname)
Anita Lotta

I showed them the list and got :confused: :eek: looks. Yeah, I was a bit weird back then. Probably the stress, who knows.

But she has a normal name: Emily Madison

We picked it because Emily was traditional and not very common (but has since become wildly popular, dammit) and Madision being a modern name.

[NightAngel]

How many children would dare to make a mocking name out of that?


You are assuming that the children will actually know something about history.

[Rapscallion]

I think they'd learn pretty fast as the hordes swept once more across the playground...

Rapscallion

[TruthHurts]

A little :ot: but this thread brings to mind an incident that happened. I met some dude at a party and told him my name (Jennifer) when he chuckles and says "Oh were you named after Jennifer Lopez.

Of course my psychic mother knew that one day some little girl would take over the world with her music/movies and therefore named me after her :rolleyes:

[sportsmom]

Declan is Elvis Costello's real first name.
I was almost named Lane acoording to my parents

I didn't find out about Elvis Costello until later. It's just as well, as it is, we have a Savanna and a Delaney and I found out after they were born that of Jimmy Buffet's 3 daughters he has a Savannah and a Delaney also. In fact, on his CD "Fruitcakes" he has a song "Delaney Talks to Statues" and my Delaney asks me to play "her song" quite often.


If our oldest had been a boy, she would have been Lane Miller.

[Jpurple]

oh yeah? when I was picking out baby names, I got a bit crazy. Some of the names were:

Polyphonic Gravity
Contemporary Fashion
Rau Conner
Miles Niles (rhymes with my surname)
Anita Lotta


Heh- my husband kept insisting on 'Bubblegum 42' for our daughter. :roll:
We didn't go with that, although we still chose two unusual names (both from fictional characters!) My daughter's name is Adara Clarice.

One word of advice: if you're choosing unusual names and/or spellings, make sure you can live with people mispronouncing your child's name.

(and I've got chocolate chip cookies for anyone who knows where my daughter's names come from!)

[Lace Neil Singer]

I remember having a halfway serious discussion with a mate about baby names. I was saying that altho I like the names Mordred and Othello I'd never torture a son of mine by giving him either of those names (altho, I do have RP charries with those names!) and that I think it would be hilarious to name a boy after an 80s rock star, you know the ones like Jani Lane, Tracii Guns, Alice Cooper who have girl's names? It's probably a good thing I don't have kids. :lol:

Anyone who's as well read as I am should recognise Mordred and Othello. I am thinking too that those names have shall we say, bad associations which wouldn't make them good names. I am, after all, still surprised that people call their sons Hector, who was dragged behind a chariot after his death til his face fell off.

[Barefootgirl]

I am, after all, still surprised that people call their sons Hector, who was dragged behind a chariot after his death til his face fell off.

Whereas Agamemmnon and Odysseus have fallen RIGHT out of favour :D Just to be picky, in the Iliad, the gods preserve Hector's body from all damage despite the things Achilles does to it. And he IS one of the Nine Worthies.

I have never met anyone human called Othello (though I HAVE met a black lab of that name!) but I know two people called Iago, which I would have thought has even less pleasant connotations, but there you go...

There was mention on the radio today of someone who had genuinely named their child "Genghis".
I believe Ghengis Khan is as popular a name in Mongolia as John Smith is in the UK or America. Also, an extremely large proportion of the world's population is actually descended from Ghengis Khan - something like 0.5% which is much too large to have happened naturally, given when he lived.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I have never met anyone human called Othello (though I HAVE met a black lab of that name!)



*is thinking about creating the first* XD

I do wonder tho if anyone's ever called their kids any of the less popular Greek and Norse names; keep hearing of Freya's and Athena's for example.

[hawkchick11]

My son's name is Maxwell Lynn. Lynn is both of my son's grandpas' middle names but I still get asked why I gave him a girl's name as a middle name. I was going to name him just Max after my grandpa, but decided to give him a different name and just have him go by Max. Most people think his name is just Max but if they find out his real name is Maxwell, they ask me if that was my favorite brand of coffee.

I don't even like coffee.

[Barefootgirl]

*is thinking about creating the first* XD

Sorry? Is there anything you want to share with us, LNS? ;)

I do wonder tho if anyone's ever called their kids any of the less popular Greek and Norse names; keep hearing of Freya's and Athena's for example.

I know a Hera, a Thalia (actually not uncommon in North London in the mid-1970s - there were two Thalias in my sister's year at school), an Arethusa (the poor child) an Aeneas and a Clytemnestra in the same family (both parents Classics dons), and two Jocastas. I think I know the wrong sort of people, I wish I knew some normal ones, although actually I do like Jocasta.

The Norse names don't seem to have caught on quite as well, do they? One of my friends has cats called Snorri and Loki, because they are Norwegian Forest cats.

[sportsmom]

Heh- my husband kept insisting on 'Bubblegum 42' for our daughter. :roll:
We didn't go with that, although we still chose two unusual names (both from fictional characters!) My daughter's name is Adara Clarice.

One word of advice: if you're choosing unusual names and/or spellings, make sure you can live with people mispronouncing your child's name.

(and I've got chocolate chip cookies for anyone who knows where my daughter's names come from!)

I don't know about Adara, but I would guess that Clarice is from The Silence of the Lambs. Adara is familiar, I feel like I should know it.

Although I think you should have gone with your husband's choice. With a middle name like that, she would have to know the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. ;)

[Cia]

My daughter's name is Anja Michelle. Anja is from 9th grade German class and Michelle is my middle name and they just seem to go together.

So far no one has incinuated that she was named after Anya from Angel....yet. I don't think my kid is a demon who has a fear of bunnies.

I like the name Anja because it is unusual for the US, is harks back to my German heritage - my family came over in the 1750's so it's harking way back - and we've only met one other person with the same name.

Anja did throw a small fit last Monday when I was watching CSI-Miami and one of the character's name was Anja. She kept saying that they couldn't use her name. It was funny. :)

Oh yeah, pronunciation. I can count on one hand the number of people who pronounced Anja correctly the first time. Most people say 'ann-jah' - nope 'on-ja' but after that they compliment her on her pretty name. Maybe if we lived in North Dakota they'd get it right more often but naaaah. I like living in a state where the hills are taller than radio towers.

[MystyGlyttyr]

If I ever get deranged enough to have kids (nothing against people having kids, but like I always say, I'm a good enough mother to know I would be a HORRIBLE mother), I would like the name Eddie for either a boy or a girl. I might use the Eddie spelling for a boy and Eddy for a girl, but I dunno. But yeah, regardless, if I ever descend into madness and have a kid, I'm going to name it Eddie.

I did have a survivor's name on one of my obits a while back that had the name "Vickie Vital". That is just the coolest freaking name ever. :lol:

[NightAngel]

I would like the name Eddie for either a boy or a girl. I might use the Eddie spelling for a boy and Eddy for a girl, but I dunno.

Have triplets then they could be Ed, Edd, and Eddie! :lol:

[MystyGlyttyr]

Have triplets then they could be Ed, Edd, and Eddie! :lol:

My cousin has triplets. They're Kaleigh, Cassie and Jacee. All girls. Not identical.

Natural triplets, no fertility treatment. They'd only been TRYING to have a baby for like, six months.

Hence why my cousin has no reason to be annoyed when we call her Mama Cat. Since she apparently reproduces in litters.

[Rapscallion]

We didn't go with that, although we still chose two unusual names (both from fictional characters!) My daughter's name is Adara Clarice.


Clarice has been answered, but Adara is a character in the Belgariad by David Eddings. A touch underused, I thought, but a pleasant enough girl.

Rapscallion

[sportsmom]

Clarice has been answered, but Adara is a character in the Belgariad by David Eddings. A touch underused, I thought, but a pleasant enough girl.

Rapscallion

Now I know why I should remember it, hubby has a cousin named Garion.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Sorry? Is there anything you want to share with us, LNS? ;)

Nope; I know I won't make a good mother, so I don't plan to have any. XD However I will promise that if I do change my mind and have a son, I will call him Othello. :lol:



I know a Hera, a Thalia (actually not uncommon in North London in the mid-1970s - there were two Thalias in my sister's year at school), an Arethusa (the poor child) an Aeneas and a Clytemnestra in the same family (both parents Classics dons), and two Jocastas. I think I know the wrong sort of people, I wish I knew some normal ones, although actually I do like Jocasta.

The Norse names don't seem to have caught on quite as well, do they? One of my friends has cats called Snorri and Loki, because they are Norwegian Forest cats.

I like Loki for a name, too. As far as Jocasta goes, isn't she the woman who married her son after he killed his father? I'm not sure if I'd want to call a daughter that. O_o :lol: Speaking of this, I used to go to college with a girl called Cassandra; I think that's popular too.

[Sphinx]

Clarice has been answered, but Adara is a character in the Belgariad by David Eddings. A touch underused, I thought, but a pleasant enough girl.

Rapscallion

Nooooooo thats what I was gonna say!! :lol: I just got through re-reading those books for the 5th time :D

[Rapscallion]

I just got through re-reading those books for the 5th time :D

That all? I'd re-read them about eight times a year after discovering them.

Been a few years since that, and they've been read many times more since then.

Rapscallion

[CaroPhoenix]

My parents picked my first name because they heard the song, "Once in love with Amy" so that's how I got to be called Amy. (NOT short for Amelia, thank you very much, but Amy - with a "y").

I named my daughter Kelly 'cos my father is an only son and he had 2 daughters. Cookies to anyone who can follow that logic! :roll:

As for her middle name (Iraina), it's literary, maybe when she grows up, she'll be referred to as "The Woman" by some detective she's out-witted.

[Sphinx]

That all? I'd re-read them about eight times a year after discovering them.

Been a few years since that, and they've been read many times more since then.

Rapscallion

lol Well its kinda hard to fit in reading among other things when I work 7 days a week:lol:

[Myra]

Husband and I have ours picked out tenatively. Baby is due May 23rd so we've got time. We also won't know the sex til our January doctor's appointment. But here they are:

Cathy Grace
Connor David Wayne

Yeah, two middle names for the boy. Reasoning is every male in his family must have a "C" name, and we still wanted to incorporate both grandfathers in the name and Husband is dead-set against giving the child his dad's name of Charles, and giving the kid the middle name of David. I brought up if the child wished, they could go by their middle name, like several males in the family do. Husband just didn't want to name his kid Charles, I guess. So we have Connor for our "C" name, David which is my dad's middle name, and Wayne which is Father-in-law's middle name.

Cathy is my mother's name, and Grace is Mother-in-law's name. My mother passed when I was 11, so we're not too worried about confusion there.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

"One word of advice: if you're choosing unusual names and/or spellings, make sure you can live with people mispronouncing your child's name"

And mispelling it. We actually changed the spelling of my daughter's name so that it was clear how it was pronounced. No one has ever mispronounced it yet.

But then, I'm have a friend named Scheherizade. No, I don't know if I spelled that right! :lol: I'm not sure if that is problem that bothers her or not.

[The Gatekeeper]

*is thinking about creating the first* XD

I do wonder tho if anyone's ever called their kids any of the less popular Greek and Norse names; keep hearing of Freya's and Athena's for example.

I have a cat named Freya, and one named Branwen. I consider them my furkids. Does that count?:p

I also have a Matrika and an Unni, if you're looking for unusual names. By all means name your kids after my cats, I would consider it an honour:D

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Athena's a great name. I considered it for my own daughter. Actually, I considered "September", too.

Coolest name I ever heard was "September Le***." Damn, what a cool name! Customer of mine from about a million years ago.

As God is my witness, I have a friend named Thor. And he's a Thor junior.

Excerpts from conversations I had with a customers:

Me:Who did you talk to yesterday?
Customer: I dont' remember his name.
Me: Was it Thor?
C::confused: Uh...no.
Me: 'Cuz it it was, you'd have remembered it, right?


Sucky Frat boy type: How the hell did he score a nickname like that?
Me: It's on his birth certificate.
SFBT: You're shitting me.
Me: I wouldn't dream of shitting you.

One liner from college girl: (long pause after I'd yelled out something to Thor, who was behind me somewhere.) Um...excuse me, but....did you just say "Thor?"
Me: Don't ask him where his hammer is. You won't be original.

I used to tell him all the time, though, that if that were MY name, you can gar-on-tee that it would say "The MIGHTY Thor" on my nametag.

[Luckymom]

We had a boy and girls name picked out.

Our poor son, Colin Michea'l Eoin, it's a family name. Colin is pronounced like Colin Ferrel, not Colin Powell who everyone thinks we named him after, Michea'l is pronounced Mehawl (it's gaelic), and Eoin is pronounced Owen. He is name after his great grandfather, who was in the hospital the whole time I was pregnant.

Now for a girl we still like Amber Rose.

[Kiwi]

I wanted my first born son to be called maddox :cry: not so sure I want to now....

I get the wierdest comments about my name....oh like the perfume?

no like the designer who has a perfume :rolleyes: you ignorant vole

then when I was 18 I simply dropped my family name (legally) of course, and now have people ask for my surname like this

stranger: your last name
me: jane (not my last name but you get the picture)
stranger: noooo your LAST name!!!
me: J A N E
stranger: no your family name
me: JANE!
stranger: really, wow thats your last name, are you french?

mark me, every single freaking time

and youd better believe im keeping it when im married!

[AFpheonix]

We haven't really even decided if we want to replicate, so baby names haven't really come up. I do have to come up with baby horse names every spring..... Cooper and Ellis were the winners last year, Max, Mitchell, Audrey and Bonnie were the picks the year before that.

If we have any fillies this year, I may lobby for Sophie.

We have a cat named Loki, he earned it though.

[Banrion]

Anja did throw a small fit last Monday when I was watching CSI-Miami and one of the character's name was Anja. She kept saying that they couldn't use her name. It was funny. :)

Tell me about it. I love the Blade movies, but can't watch the show, because I cannot stand to hear MY name screamed out randomly. Her name is Krista, MY name is Krysta.

I named my daughter Kelly 'cos my father is an only son and he had 2 daughters. Cookies to anyone who can follow that logic!

I'm guessin you are Irish, and Kelly the family name? I have a similar thing with my name, my mom was the only child of the 1 boy out of 12 kids. My first name is my mom's first inital (K) and her maiden name (Rysta).

[Zombi]

Just out of interest, what makes people choose unusual spellings for their children's names? My niece's name is Makayla, and there's a running joke between my mother and I that we'll never be able to buy the girl a toothbrush with her name on it. :p
We don't really have unusual spellings in our family, just unusual names. One of my cousins is named Stirling, after Captain James Stirling, Governor of Western Australia from 1829-38. Said cousin later joined the army, and became Captain Stirling in his own right. :p He has a brother named Rigby, who was named for a relative of his mother's - we later found out that this lady's surname wasn't Rigby at all, that was her stepfather's name, so god only knows what it should have been.
My name is Sarah Elizabeth, so I rarely get mispronunciations. However, because I have a particularly long, hyphenated surname, the rest of my name gets cut off on my driver's licence. Hence this conversation with the guy in the CD library:
Him: So...it's Sarah Elizabeth, right? It's not Elizabe, is it?
Me: No...no, it's Elizabeth. -.-"

Not his fault, but it was quite funny.

[NightAngel]

Zombi~

My daughter's middle name is Heavyn- pronounced Heaven. Why? I don't know- just seemed nifty at the time. ;)

Some people just don't want their kid's name to be lost into the sea of Mikes and Janes, etc. Nothing against those names- but I remember a time in my life where we knew 10 Mikes at once. We had to resort to calling them all by their last names or giving them nicknames so we could keep them straight!

[Cia]

If DH and I ever get crazy and try again for a second kid if it is a boy I like Jared Liam and for a girl I was thinking Annika Elizabeth. The only problem is Annika is so close to Anja in pronunciation. Hmm, maybe I should go Irish instead of German.

[TNT]

Zombi~



Some people just don't want their kid's name to be lost into the sea of Mikes and Janes, etc.

When I was in high school, my two best friends were also named Tim. And so it was that people started calling me Tim Bob. Even my mother called me Tim Bob, or, when she was upset, Timothy Robert. It got to be so commonly used, nobody could figure out why my initials are TNT.

When my sister was married, she was contemplating having a baby. Her husband came up with this idea: since her grandfather (and mine, too) was named "Rhino" and his grandfather was named "Aquillo" then a boy child should be named "Rhino Aquillo." My response: "For the rest of his life, when he hears someone say, 'Hey, Rhino Aquillo,' he's going to know for sure they're talking to him. No one's ever going to say, 'I used to know a Rhino Aquillo... any chance you're him?' They'd just know."

My boy child is going to be named Geronimo Spade. I kid you not.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I quite like myth names, and Shakespearean names to be honest... if I do end up having kids, they are probably going to hate me. XD

[Seanette]

We have a cat named Loki, he earned it though.
I can easily imagine :devil: (lifelong cat slave over here).

My current feline owner is Felix (named for the Odd Couple character, NOT for the cartoon kitty I'd never heard of until after I named him), and the bird (see avatar) is Ava (suggestion from a then-friend). She was known as Avery until the morning we got up and there was an egg in "his" cage. :o

[Bella_Vixen]

I'm slightly biased, but I think Elizabeth makes a great middle name (it goes with almost every other name, in my opinion).

[Tanasi]

When we were contemplating our oldest's name it ran the gammut but we finally settled on Quillen Elizabeth. She's never liked the Quillen part so she insists on Beth, I still call her Quillen. The Quillen is original mostly from a misunderstanding and Elizabeth from her maternal grandmother.
Oldest son was named after both grandfathers and myself: James Joseph Thomas (Jimmy or JT).
Youngest son is Robert Michael Clay (Robbie) after my brothers and her brother.
Youngest daughter is Zella Mae Merrideth after my grandmother and my wife. She is know as Zellie.
For the most part we stuck with family names except my Mom insisted on not using her name because of the teasing she suffered with.
Since the board and mostly likely most machines do not support the Cherokee language I won't try their Cherokee names.

[Zombi]

I'm slightly biased, but I think Elizabeth makes a great middle name (it goes with almost every other name, in my opinion).

It's a traditional name on my mother's side of the family: girls were always named either Sarah or Elizabeth. If a Sarah had a daughter, she was named Elizabeth, and Elizabeth would name her daughter Sarah, and so on and so forth. However, my great-grandmother broke the cycle by naming her two daughters Margaret Evelyn and Lilian Heather. Margaret is my grandmother, and she named her two girls Linda Hazel and Veronica Mary. I sort of got the best of both worlds - sort of, because I was actually named for my paternal grandmother, who was also Sarah, and Elizabeth for my great-grandmother.
Funny how it works out, though. :D

[Monica]

I don't have kids yet. But if and when I do, I have thought of some names.
For a boy: Riley Michael, Adrian David, or Christian Paul
For a girl: Alexis Anne, Rory Michelle, or Lorelai Leigh

[CaroPhoenix]

*gives cookies to Banrion* YAY!!!! Even my ILs couldn't figure that one out when I gave that explanation! LOL ... they just gave me the deer in the headlights looks. :lol:

I have a friend of mine whose first name is "Mary-Elizabeth". However, her family only ever called Mary. Then when she was at the dentists' office, the receptionist kept calling "Mary Elizabeth <last name>". Her mother had to tell her (when my friend was 12) that her first name was actually Mary-Elizabeth and not just Mary.

[NightAngel]

For a girl: Alexis Anne...

My middle name is Anne. People are stupid- it's rare that anyone pronounces it correctly. According to 99% of the population my middle name is Annie.
:lol:

[Misanthropical]

NightAngel, according to 99% of the population my first name is Diane. It's actually Diana, but hardly anyone gets it right the first time.

[NightAngel]

MisA:
I have a friend whose name is Liane. Pronounced Lee-ahn-A.
She says she doesn't much notice anymore when people mispronounce it.:lol:

[CaroPhoenix]

My mother goes by her middle name: Marlene. She and everyone else pronounces it as Marleen. However, her father gave her the name of Marlene because his favorite actress was Marlene Dietrich (who pronounced her name as Marlena). My mom doesn't care, she's Marlene.

Nobody mispronounces my first name, but they sure mispronounce my last name! (Which I think I wrote about in the last incarnation of the board).

A good friend of mine's is named Anne. I know how to pronounce it.

However, if I have another girl, I was going to call her Annie Jean. Does this mean that she'll be called Anne all her life? :p

[TruthHurts]

I have always loved the names Tara Amber (for a girl) or Thomas Jordan for a boy.

[Barefootgirl]

My sister's name is Tara. i think its a beautiful name.

[Jpurple]

I don't know about Adara,
but I would guess that Clarice is from The Silence of the Lambs.
Yup! It appears I owe you some cookies

Clarice has been answered, but Adara is a character in the Belgariad by David Eddings. A touch underused, I thought, but a pleasant enough girl.

Rapscallion Geez, I better start baking! Our thoughts exactly, Raps. We're big fans of David Eddings (I just finished re-reading the Elenium and the Tamuli) We actually came very close to naming our daughter Adara Rose, but there were just too many r sounds too close together to make it sound right. And Ce'nedra just wasn't going to happen...:lol:

Husband and I have ours picked out tenatively. Baby is due May 23rd so we've got time. We also won't know the sex til our January doctor's appointment. But here they are:

Cathy Grace
Connor David Wayne

Yeah, two middle names for the boy.

If Adara had been a boy, she would have been Jacob Robert Wayne, with the middle names being the names of her grandfathers. Scary, isn't it?

[Spiffy McMoron]

Well, I've stayed out this conversation for a very good reason-I don't have kids, and I'm not having kids for a while. But I'll tell you my older sisters middle name: Edwina (Pronounced Ed-WE-na)

The name originally belonged to a beloved aunt who passed on when I was about 2. How she got the name is a funny story:

Aunt Edwina's parents (my great-grandparents) were just married when there was a Call To Arms-not WWII, or WWI, but the Boer War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War). My great grandfather volunteered for the army, and before he left, he did what soldiers have always done to their lovers. (I'll give you a hint: It's not buy her a fruit basket)

So my great-grandfather is in South Africa, and my great-grandmother is in the family way, when she gets word that her husband is very sick with malaria, and the army surgeon is pretty sure he won't be leaving South Africa. Grief stricken, she vows to name the unborn child Edward, after her soon-to-be-late husband.

She gives birth to a bouncing baby girl. :doh: Put between a rock and a hard place, she compromises on Edwina.

Fortunately for me (because my grandfather had not been born yet :) ) my great-grandfather make a remarkable recovery, and was able go back to England (they had yet to emigrate) and view his new daughter.

[Imogene]

Tell me about it. I love the Blade movies, but can't watch the show, because I cannot stand to hear MY name screamed out randomly. Her name is Krista, MY name is Krysta.


Is there any chance you've done any past life regression type stuff? I knew a Krysta in a previous life... Her (His/Her... never stuck to one gender) had the last name Lynn (no idea where she got it, her family line had the name D'gern... more info in PM, if you want to know.)


But then, I'm have a friend named Scheherizade. No, I don't know if I spelled that right! :lol: I'm not sure if that is problem that bothers her or not.

Scheherezade? If I'm not mistaken. And, Firefox isn't claiming it's misspelled... how many people have asked if she's a writer?

[CanadaGirl]

My name is really boring compared to everyone else's I've been reading: Tara Ashley (first and middle)
:(

[Lace Neil Singer]

My real name's pretty boring; I don't use it online, however my netname's pretty cool to make up for that. XD

[lolad]

My son is Andrew John.

John is my middle name, and my fathers middle name, and his and his and...

Andrew was decided upon as his first name them my wife and i realised that we both have cousin with the same name (not that we're that close to either of them)


But it gets worse.

I live in Cessnock (Australia) which is the original home town of Mathew and Andrew Johns, both footballers who are pretty well known here.
But we didnt make the connection of names until it was pointed out to us. So we got a few ppl say "you must be big footy fans"

[CaroPhoenix]

Talking about giving children names of their realitives:

My husband's first name is Byron. When I was pregnant, and before we found out our child was a girl, we were kicking around boy names. I even said we could do a Byron, Jr. situation. He said no. The reason:

His grandpa (Mother's father) was named Byron.
His mother's older brother is named Byron.
Uncle Byron's son is named Byron.
His mother's oldest son (hehehehe) is named Byron.
Cousin Philip goes by his middle name 'cos, as you guessed it, his first name is Byron.

So there will never be a Byron born of his loins.

[protege]

In one of the British car mags, I read an article about a guy who was into all things Aston Martin. Not only were his dogs named Aston and Martin...but his kid was named David Brown. D.B., as in the guy who had purchased both Aston and Lagonda...and who was later responsible for the DB4-6 cars.

I like my British cars too, but I'll be damned if I'm going to name any kids after their designers, or drivers :p

[Spiffy McMoron]

I like my British cars too, but I'll be damned if I'm going to name any kids after their designers, or drivers :p

Makes you wonder about people who name their daughters Porche and Mercedes, doesn't it?

[protege]

Makes you wonder about people who name their daughters Porche and Mercedes, doesn't it?

Ugh. However, there was a "Mercedes." She was the daughter of Austrian entrepreneur Emil Jellinek. At the time, he was on the board of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft. That eventually became today's Daimler-Benz. Anyway, Jellinek had a racing car built in 1901, and named it for his daughter. The name stuck.

[BusBus]

I asked one of my then-pregnant colleagues if she had any names picked out for her child. She told me that she wasn't telling anybody what she was planning on naming her child because it always leads to some sort of negative opinion on the name like...

"<insert name>? Oh, that's.....nice."
"I went to school/worked with a <insert name> and, boy, were they ever a terrible person!"
"<insert name>? Like the book character/movie character/insignificant historical figure?"

Best advice I ever heard. When it comes to baby-time (if I should say), no one is getting any hints as to what name the baby will have.

-BB

[AFpheonix]

I believe the girl's name Mercedes predates the company name.

In 1899, DMG automobiles built at Untertürkheim (a city district of Stuttgart) were raced successfully by Emil Jellinek (1853-1918), an automobile enthusiast and dealer. He had the name of his daughter, Mercedes, painted on the automobiles for good luck. Wanting faster race cars, it was Jellinek who spurred the development of the seminal 1900 DMG model that would be the first of the DMG Mercedes series, bearing the name of his daughter.
Taken from Wikipedia

[saint]

To the OP:
Actually, I want to name any child I may have Alexander/a, because of alexander the great.

When I was in grade school, I had a teacher who told us that story. He drew it out for well over 4 months. I was absolutly amazed. My intrest in Alexander the Great is still with me.

Just thought it was strange, our opposite-ness. :)