Let's talk names . . .

[Marcia]

What is your child(ren)s full name, minus last name of course?

I love hearing different middle names and how they sound with first names.

[Marcia]

KC was named by her mom, her full name is Kay-Cee Lynn (first name) Carole C.

Mackenzie is Mackenzie Arlene C. Her nickname is Mac and so are her initials.

[AmsterDamsel]

When our kid is born he'll be Gabriel William. The middle name is the same as my dad's first name.

[Katie]

DS is Joshua Davis T. Davis is my grandfathers middle name.

DD is Hannah Jo Irene T. Jo is after DH, and Irene was my great grandmothers name (I also carry Irene in my name :D).

[Marcia]

I :love: the name Gabriel.

[AmsterDamsel]

I :love: the name Gabriel.

It took us a very, very long time to choose it. We wanted something that would work in Italian so my husband's family could pronounce it. We chose quite a few names but none of them felt "right". This one does. We're still arguing how to spell it. In Italian it is actually Gabriele but I worry about people calling him Gabrielle. The part that drives me nuts is that my husband doesn't get it. His name is actually Daniele and he was teased sometimes as a kid. Now that he's older he says he appreciates having a true Italian name. I guess the teacher in me can't help but worry about our kid being teased. Granted if we stay in Amsterdam it won't be as much of an issue because all the kids have unusual names! :)

[Goosey]

Going from oldest to youngest...

Connor Knight K.~Knight is my maiden name. My father had no sons and he is the last male in his family so once he goes the name will go with him. This was our way of honoring my side of the family as well as keeping my maiden name going down the line and we hope one of the boys will continue the tradition so the name stays strong in the family.

Avery Danyael~Its pronounced Daniel which is my husbands middle name(and the one he goes by). This was our way of honoring Dans side of the family but the spelling is all on me cuz I saw it in a movie called the Prophecy and it was an angels name and I just went crazy nuts for the spelling and HAD to use it.

Devinn Asher~Was going to be Asher Devinn but Dan didnt want him having the same initials as Avery so we flipped them and it worked out better...he's definately a Devinn. The extra N was also my idea, saw it under the list of alternative spellings and liked it. Asher we got from Ash which was the lead in Evil Dead(my husband not me LOL)and we just liked the longer name of Asher vs just using Ash. We used these names because we knew he'd be our last and we wanted 2 names we absolutely adored and couldnt live without using.

[Bootysaurus]

Dylan Kathleen but we call her Dylan Kate. Dylan for Bob ;) And Kathleen is my mum...but she goes by Kate :love:

Aidan McCartney. I was about 6 months pregnant and had no name and "Aidan" came to me. I liked it because it's gaelic and it means "Little Fire". McCartney because of Paul ;)

Had Aidan been a boy, she would have been Hendrix Alexander. Hendrix for Jimi ;) and Alexander is DH's middle name.

[Caitlin]

Aiden Benjamin: We both wanted to honor my mom's Irish heritage and Aiden was the one name we could agree on. Benjamin is DH's middle name.

Connor Ralph: Again, we liked Connor because we wanted to keep with the Irish/Gaelic tradition. Ralph is my late grandfather's first name; he just passed away in November.

[bettercowpatty]

Duncan Glenn B. - Glenn is my DH's middle name, and his dad and his grandfather's. Duncan was sort of a whim. DH got it from "Dune" (SO nerdy) and loved it. I initially hated the name, but grew to love it.

John Francis B. - Francis is for DH's grandfather and was the confirmation name for both my dad and Pop-pop. John is for John Jr. (my dad) and John Sr. (my Pop-pop who just passed away.) :love:

[lilbunnygirl]

Cash Vario - we wanted a strong masculine first name that was easy to spell & pronounce, and we watched Walk the Line the day we conceived. Vario is Sean's middle name too, it's his mom's maiden name.

Daisy Verlaine - (this is the official "press release" about her name)
My grandmother's name was Marguerite, which is French for Daisy. My mother's name, Dove, began with D and in the Jewish tradition of her family you name your child "after" a deceased loved one by giving them a name starting with the same letter, but not the same name). Not only is it a flower, just as my name, Lily, is also a flower, but it is the birth-flower for the month of April, when my mother's birthday falls.

Verlaine is a derivation of the name Vera, which means "faith", something that was central to my mother's life & something that she instilled strongly in me.

It is also a nod to the singer Vera Lynn, whose most famous song "We'll Meet Again" was one my mother loved from her childhood. Whenever I hear it, I feel like the lyrics are something she would say to me now if she could.

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when
But I'm sure we'll meet again some sunny day
Keep smiling through, just the way you used to do
Till the blue skies chase the dark clouds far away

Now, won't you please say "Hello" to the folks that I know
Tell 'em it won't be long
'cause they'd be happy to know that when you saw me go
I was singing this song

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when
But I'm sure we'll meet again some sunny day


(I still get choked up every. single. time. I explain that aspect of her middle name)

Turns out there is a famous French poet named Paul Verlaine, I need to read up on him.

And also the NZ based band The Verlaines whose music I quite like. But she's not named after either the poet or the band.

[Jojo]

Matthew Joseph-Matthew for DH's middle name and Joseph for my name

James Alexander-James we because we like it and Alexander because I like it

[Mama Sandy]

Jacob Alexander - Jacob was my Great grandfather and Alexander was just a good strong name that sounded nice

Ethan Devere ("Kevin's" Ethan) - No idea how they came up with Ethan but Devere is a family name (Kevin's grandfather, father, Kevin, Kevin's oldest nephew and Ethan). On a bit of an aside, Kevin said he wants Ethanial as the full given name....BLECH!!! I don't like that but that's just my opinion.

Ethan Skyler ("my" Ethan) - I liked Ethan Skyler and Mason Zachary. Jacob was about 4 years old and I asked him a few times which names he liked and it's pretty obvious what he chose...Mason.....KIDDING of course!! :hehe:

Alexis Paige - This would have been Jacob and Ethan's name if they had been girls instead. I just loved the name and it's a good strong name that can be shortened to a couple cute variations (Lexi, Alex, etc)

Averie Ione - Averie we just liked and it was a little different. We went with the "ie" spelling because Kevin felt it made the name seem more feminine :rolleyes: (and he says I am a naming whack!). Ione is his mom's middle name

This baby is STILL nameless!!!! She'll have a name when she comes I am sure but we certainly don't have anything set in stone at this point :))

[Sign Of The Fish Burger]

Isabella Louise W.

Isabella came to me in the hospital. Up until she was born I was certain she was going to be Michelle (from the Beatles song), possibly Sadie (another beatles song) or Juliette.

Louise was my great aunts name. She never married or had kids and I am her only niece. I also ended up being born on her birthday so she was very, very special to me. We celebrated every birthday together, shared a love of figure skating and curling, etc. So I knew before Isabella was born that her middle name would be Louise.

This baby... totally nameless. So right now he's Baby Boy W. :lol:

Though I would like to use my grandfather's name as his middle name but I can't figure out what to do. His actual name was Earl Garnet but went by Garnet. So I'm not sure if I should use Earl or Garnet for the middle name. Earl is a much nicer name and seems to fit better with everything but I think Garnet would be nice since that's what everyone knew him as.

[lilbunnygirl]

Isabella Louise W.

Isabella came to me in the hospital. Up until she was born I was certain she was going to be Michelle (from the Beatles song), possibly Sadie (another beatles song) or Juliette.

Louise was my great aunts name. She never married or had kids and I am her only niece. I also ended up being born on her birthday so she was very, very special to me. We celebrated every birthday together, shared a love of figure skating and curling, etc. So I knew before Isabella was born that her middle name would be Louise.

This baby... totally nameless. So right now he's Baby Boy W. :lol:

Though I would like to use my grandfather's name as his middle name but I can't figure out what to do. His actual name was Earl Garnet but went by Garnet. So I'm not sure if I should use Earl or Garnet for the middle name. Earl is a much nicer name and seems to fit better with everything but I think Garnet would be nice since that's what everyone knew him as.

I know I said this before, but I LOOOVE the name Garnet, I think it is so strong, cool and unique without being weird. I would totally use it as a first or middle name if I were you, it's great.

[Meshell]

William David Spartacus N.

William is the only boy name DH and I could agree on. I wanted Davin, but we had decided on David as the middle name before we even chose the first name because that is DH's brother's name. Davin David just didn't work for me. DH wanted Phillip Jasper :puke: So, I put my foot down and told him we had to decide on a name before the big u/s because I wanted to leave knowing what to call my baby. William just kinda came to me and we both liked it. Spartacus is just for fun. We have a friend who will only call him Spartacus or his little Sparty. :hehe:


If I ever get baby fever and we decide to have another the boy's name we've chosen in Marcus (or Markus) Orion N. and the girl's name.....we are debating on. I wanted Lila Louise after both of my grandmothers.

[dixielanddelight]

DS -- Absolutely named after nothing or nobody. :hehe:

DD -- has the same middle name as my grandmother and her mother, both very great strong women and I felt like the name deserved to be passed down. I love my grandmother!

[Marcia]

I forgot to include how I came up with Mackenzie's name.

I have always loved the name Mackenzie. I heard it when I was younger and it just stuck. Arlene . . . My mom passed away when I was 17. Her name was Janet Bertha, but I didn't like either of those. When my mom passed away, a lady at church stepped up and kind of became my second mom, her first name was Arlene. I liked how Mackenzie Arlene just rolled together, so Mackenzie Arlene C. it is. It's a mixture of old and new.

If Mackenzie were a boy, she would have been Behnjamin (Benjamin, just different spelling) or Dominick. I'm glad she was born a girl, because now I don't like either of those names. LOL

[Elaine]

To start, both my DH and I have names that can't be shortened and it bothered both of us growing up so we decided that our kids would have names that could be shortened.

Benjamin John - After going through a plethora of boys names (Samuel and Nicholas being at the top of the list), Benjamin came to me one night while we were watching TV. For whatever reason I'd been reminded of a guy I'd had a crush on in high school named Ben (the majority of girls I knew had a crush on him - he was a cutie! ;)), I mentioned it to my DH and the name was decided. John is my late father's name and would have been Ben's first name if I didn't have a nephew with that name already.

Thomas William - Again, after juggling a dozen boys' names, Thomas just came to me, I mentioned it to my DH and it was decided. William is my late grandfather's name (although he went by his middle name, Harold) and it was also my DH's late grandfather's name so we shot down 2 birds with one stone on that one. :twothumbs:

[NathanielsMomma]

Nathaniel Walter Ferguson (no I don't care if You all know my last name :hehe:) - I always loved the name Nathaniel but Jeff and I had fought tooth and nail about first names, but never agreed on one till after he was born. Walter is from Jeff's Mom's Dad. His name was Walter R. Kelley and so we wanted Walter in there somewhere but didn't want his name to just be Walter R.. So Nathaniel was born on Thursday night, and we didn't settle (finally) on his first name being Nathaniel till Saturday morning when I had to sign the papers for his birth certificate. I love his name, I feel it's a strong name, but can be something that could be shortened to help get him through school.

If we ever have a little girl her name will be Lily Faye from my family's side. Lily was a baby that my Grandmother had, but was stillborn, and Faye is for my Grandma Layne.

Also if we have another boy I would love to figure out a way to get the Layne in his name some how. I had thought about naming a little girl Laynie or playing with the spelling some how. Eh, who knows if I'll ever have another child to work it out on :hehe: I'll deal with it when the time comes I guess.

[bella_bella]

William Christopher Douglas M.
William - Hubby's family name....he's a William, his dad's a William, Grampa's a William...etc etc! It was kind of not a choice once he knew we were having a boy...BUT I love it now! I didn't like the idea for a long time but once he was born he was a William in my eyes!
Christopher is a family name on both sides, my uncles name and hubby's brothers middle name....and I love it.
Douglas is my dad's name. I figured it would be fitting to have both grandfathers in there! :)

It's a VERY strong long name....but it suits him to a T! :hehe:

This baby is still an unknown...I have so many faves right now. When it all comes down to it I get the ultimate vito because William was more or less named by hubby....hehehe I always remind hubby that too!

[Elaine]

I love the name William and that would have been Thomas's name but any shortened versions sound terrible with our last name. Too many i-l-l's. :hehe:

[emilade]

Alice Annabeth- No real story behind it. I wanted a unique name without being all new-age-y or creating some weird spelling of a normal name, so I went classic. Annabeth was just a name I had heard and always loved.

Brendon Michael- I like the name Brendon, and Michael is after both his dad and grandpa.

[Cindy]

Conner Anthony.. Conner because I liked it. Anthony is my Dad's middle name and it just flowed together.

If we have another boy William will be in his name somewhere in memory of my FIL who just passed away in April. If we ever have a girl Allison will be in her name in memory of my MIL whom I never got to meet because she passes away when Eric was 12.

[Bootysaurus]

Geez. Nice family names! I didn't care for ours...Patrick--it's cute, but Pat is not. We have big Pat, Little Pat, Ricky and Baby Pat. They're all grown :hehe: William is big in our family (my dad, grandfather, great-grandfather...although they are Vilhelm), same as Christopher.

I LOOOOVE the name Lurella (my great-grandmother who was born in 1883) and I cannot find ANY information on that name. So maybe my great-great-grandmother was innovative and made up her own name! I love it.

We have a lot of Lorettas too...Retta, Rettie, Lori, Lou. :hehe: All in one family!

[AddiesMomma]

Addison Anne Ballard - Anne was my grandmother's middle name, is my middle name, and Kirk's grandmother's first name was Ann. I made a list of names that I liked and Kirk picked the only one he liked - Addison.

If she had been a boy she would have been Evan Lee Ballard. Lee is my dad's middle name and Kirk likes the name Evan. I was actually relieved we ended up not using it, because my mom said something about "oh, Evan Lee...how heaven-ly!" and it killed it for me.

[Goosey]

Gosh, I forgot to add what the girls names would have been.:hehe:

Rian Camille was if Av had been a girl. Rian we just really liked and it flowed with Camille better than our other choice, Mara. Camille was Dans mothers middle name...I didnt get to meet her she died 12 yrs ago and this was our way of honoring her(her first name was Susan and I just really dont care for that name...no offense).

If Devinn had been a girl we through all reason to the wind and went with a name we loved...Parker Devyn. Would have totally gotten us looks but people think Avery Danyael is a girls name so we are used to it LOL.

[Mama Sandy]

Geez. Nice family names! I didn't care for ours...Patrick--it's cute, but Pat is not. We have big Pat, Little Pat, Ricky and Baby Pat. They're all grown :hehe: William is big in our family (my dad, grandfather, great-grandfather...although they are Vilhelm), same as Christopher.

I LOOOOVE the name Lurella (my great-grandmother who was born in 1883) and I cannot find ANY information on that name. So maybe my great-great-grandmother was innovative and made up her own name! I love it.

We have a lot of Lorettas too...Retta, Rettie, Lori, Lou. :hehe: All in one family!

My sister's given name on her birth certificate is Cynthanie Dione. My dad got to choose girl names and my mom got to choose the boy's names. My mom HATED the name Cynthia for some reason so she made up this version and my sister has always been known to EVERYONE as Cindy. Most people assume it's Cynthia or Cindy and she makes everyone that knows the truth swear to keep her "secret" by threats of death because she hates it so much :hehe: I don't think it's *that* bad but then again, I think Sandra Michelle is pretty lame!

[Elaine]

I forgot about mentioning girls' names too! Well, not really. We didn't really have any girls' names picked out so we would have been screwed if either had been a girl. :hehe:

The one we liked the best but didn't particularly want to use was Elizabeth. We both like the name but we know someone with that name and she isn't high on our list of people we like so we were torn. Allison and Sara were up there too and my DH really likes Erica.

[Mommax3]

Not any real stories behind ours:

Jacob Tanner- just liked it, was gonna call him J.T., but it never stuck
Kylee Grace-Mom loved Kylee, I didn't. After i thought about it for a while, it kind of stuck on me. I didn't hear of any Kylee's back then, hear them all the time now. And Grace is my mothers middle name
Madaline Morrigan- Mike decided the middle name would be Morrigan before we ever had a first name. Morrigan is a figure in Irish mythology, and Mikes family is Irish. She was the goddess of war and strife. Then we fell in love with Madaline.

[Heather]

Well, Cohen Reece and Aven Jade, neither of which have any special meaning other than Dh and I agreed on them (kindof lol). We got Cohen from an old college friend of mine except her son's was spelled Cowen. Dh fell in love with the name. I had my heart set on family names. Cohen would've been Pittman (mil's maiden name) and our next son would be Hendrix (not after Jimmy, it's my mom's maiden name). I loved Hendrix the most but have a very goof friend that has a dog by the name ( after Jimmy lmao) so I thought by using it as our second son's name the dog might be long gone and forgotten by then. :hehe: but alas, dh won out with Cohen, so idk about Hendrix next. And the damn dog still lives! He's like 15 freaking years old.

[dixielanddelight]

DD was going to be "Kayleigh". I dunno, but I slowly started to not like it. I also don't think my mom liked it cause she kept throwing other names up at me.

I had to go look back for my "blinkie" I had when I was pregnant to see what DD would have been if she were a boy and it said "Noah Zachary". I really couldn't remember the first name and when I saw it I was like, "Huh, I picked that?" I don't really like it now.

[Bootysaurus]

I wanted Dylan to be Miranda Erin (Erin is my middle name) :hehe: Her dad wanted Stephanie Erin :puke: So we fought. A LOT! :lol: Then we were in a bookstore looking at baby names (I was about 8 months pregnant) and a Bob Dylan song came on and we both said, "Oh I love this song..." and he said, "DYLAN!" and said, "Omg....I LOVE IT!" and that was that. :hehe:

It's the Welsh form of Dillon (Irish) and means "Of the sea" which is awesome because she is such a little beach bunny :love:

[AshleyMommyto2]

Eli Don W. - I don't like my sons name! I have grown to like it and it fits him. But my DH named him and we fought clear to the morning I had him about it... :rolleyes: Eli is after DH's Great Great Grandfather, Don is after Dh, & Dh Dad...

Addy Love - We worked as a team on this one!:hehe: Love is my middle name. And I wanted a Girl name that started with an A.. So I like Addison but we knew everyone would call her Addy and I wanted her name to be her given name.. I also like Anna. So DH said why not just call her Addy I really like that.. I agreed but wanted it spelled Addy and not Addie to be different..

I told DH if we have another baby, there are going to be the odd one out b/c we used both of our middle names! :hehe: If I would have had my way with Eli he would have been Cody Robert W. Cody b/c I like it and Robert after my Dad. But my brother just had another son and named him Jake Robert B. so I won't be using Robert now..:rolleyes:

[Sarah]

Andrew Robert: We both just liked the name, Andrew, for a boy and all the people we knew named Andrew were nice and/or smart. :hehe: Robert is after my husband.

Elise Maya: I fell in love with the name, Elise, when I was younger -- I always liked it and thought it was pretty (from the time I first heard the Beethoven piece, Fur Elise). Then, when I was looking to name our baby (the one we lost before Elise), I went to Nymbler.com and plugged in Andrew's name to see what went well with it and Elise was the first name on the list. Even though we lost that baby, I did decide to use it for this one because I wanted to. Maya was one of the names I suggested as a middle name and it was the only one DH liked out of my list. He also is a history buff and liked to learn about the Mayan culture, so voila! Elise Maya it was.

What's crazy is when we had the 36 week u/s with Elise (she was measuring small), the u/s tech asked if we had named her and I told her we had -- I also said that her brother was named Andrew -- she said that it was crazy because a friend of hers had 2 kids: Andrew and Elise. How crazy!

[theWrap]

Douglas Samuel DealDouglas is my husband's first name. Because I am Southern, Samuel is a 3-syllable name ("Sam-u-uhl" is how I pronounce it). I wanted a very down-to-earth, friendly, but strong name, and I liked Sam Deal, but I didn't want that to be his formal name.

I am superstitious about naming children after other people because you might unwittingly pass along negative attributes or experiences of that person. But since my husband is also Sam's father, I thought it was worth the risk to name him Douglas.

I knew from a few weeks into my pregnancy that Sam would be a boy, so we didn't bother with girl's names.

If this is a girl, I don't know what to name her. Doug and I both love Liesel (from the Sound of Music) but I'm not so sure about Liesel Deal.

Sarah, I love how our life stories merge in so many ways. I love the name Elise, also because of Fur Elise. The piece is central to one of my favorite short stories by Eudora Welty. Elise is also similar to Liesel and to my middle name, Alicia.

[Sarah]

Sarah, I love how our life stories merge in so many ways. I love the name Elise, also because of Fur Elise. The piece is central to one of my favorite short stories by Eudora Welty. Elise is also similar to Liesel and to my middle name, Alicia.

:lovey:

[Utahmama]

Emma Lynn: We wanted her to have a really strong name. Plus DH and I loved the name. Lynn is after my SIL who was at her birth.

Andrew David: I have no idea where Andrew came from. But david is after my father.

Evan Mark: DH came to me with the name so i have no idea where it came from. Mark is after DH's dad..

And yes, DH named all of our kids. He even named the ones we lost..