Name Your Kids

[xzvrw2]

well my brother is naming his daughter madison
thats a cool name
id name my kids after my favorite cartoon....transformers...wait no i wouldnt
haha
boys: ummm probobly max(just max nothing else)
aidan thats pretty sweet(and thats the guy of of stargate....man im a geek)
Stephen Francisco Alvarado III(im a junior)

Girls: ummm i dont know..i havent really thought about names for girls haha i kind of what a boy haha

[1086Programmer]

^_^ Angsty. Great word that is. Heh, it's actually come up in a lot of conversations recently. o_o

Boys: Lucas, Tristan, Demetrius, Malachite, Vincent, Alecksandre, Leon, and Victor.

Girls: Victoria, Lenore, Eleanor, Lucille, Anastasia, Reigna, Aria, Xelia (Honestly, who's name starts with an X?), Adorina, Amber, Lila, Rosaline, Zeria, Takeshi, Mischa, and Siran.

^^; I like those names that you have to pause and think about before you pronounce them.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Every name I've run across my girlfriend has gotten shot down. She's conservative, I'm liberal. She wants them out of the Bible or traditional, I want something unique. We've settled on Evelyn Kathleen for a girl, though. That's my grandmother's first name and her middle name. The boy's middle name will be Allen like mine. So what about a boy's first name? Here's a few suggestions from me:

Atlas Allen Johnson
Blaire Allen Johnson
Kai Allen Johnson
Kekoa Allen Johnson
Atom Allen Johnson <---- My latest to get shot down...

[Jaine Perotti]

I really haven't thought about boy's names that much, although if I have sons, I would like one of them to be named after their father.

But, I have thought about girls names:

Linnea
Ayla
Naomi

Linnea (pronounced LIN-NAY-AH) is the name of one of the closest female friends I have ever had (who happens to have a beautiful and unusual name), and I would like to honor her by naming one of my daughters after her. It is of Scandinavian origin, and its meaning is "lime or linden tree." It is also the name of a small pink mountain flower that was named after the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, inventor of the universally recognized system of classifying plants and animals. So, the name would also reflect my interests in science and nature.

Ayla (pronounced with a long "A") is the name of my favorite fictional female character out of the series of books by Jean Auel (the Earth's Children series). I love the sound of this name, as well as the strong woman the name represents. Ayla, the fictional character, shows intelligence, leadership, and the ability to innovate, and is a worthy namesake.

Naomi is another female name which I have always had great fondness for (I like the delicate sound). Naomi is also the name of my first "BFF" I had in elementary school, so I have another personal reason to choose that name. It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is "pleasant." It is also a Biblical name, although that is not the reason for me choosing it. Mostly I enjoy the sound, and its connotations of femininity and beauty.

Originally Posted by Eugenia Gabrielov

Elise's list is so confusing that I am going to name ALL of my children "Fabrizio" for simplicity.

Somehow that makes me think of an italian version of Febreeze...

[KarenH]

Originally Posted by Budda648

Every name I've run across my girlfriend has gotten shot down. She's conservative, I'm liberal. She wants them out of the Bible or traditional, I want something unique.

Atom Allen Johnson <---- My latest to get shot down...

With a last name of Johnson, you need to choose unique first names. Otherwise you end up with a name like John Johnson.

Gotta watch out for those Bible names, though, because if you take a good look, you can find plenty of unusual, unpronounceable, or disreputable names that parents have wisely avoided using. Wouldn't you just love to name your kid Joshbekashah?

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Originally Posted by KarenH

With a last name of Johnson, you need to choose unique first names. Otherwise you end up with a name like John Johnson.

Gotta watch out for those Bible names, though, because if you take a good look, you can find plenty of unusual, unpronounceable, or disreputable names that parents have wisely avoided using. Wouldn't you just love to name your kid Joshbekashah?

Well, since my name is Jeremiah Johnson, people always ask me -- "Where you named from the Bible or after Jeremiah Johnson, the Mountain Man?"

I like to reply with the latter, but I've never gotten a conclusive result from either of my parents. And Robert Redford is awesome.

Me and my girlfriend had this same conversation....


Boys:
-Kalin (call-in)
-XYZZY (just because I'm that geeky)
-Mathias
-Draco (ruined because of Harry Potter.... /me grumbles)
-Allucard (if you get the reference, you deserve a cookie)
-Madrias
-Merek
-Ace

Girls:
-Kali
-Saphira
-Kana
-Thyer
-Lotus (after a friend... rip....)

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Heh... the SHS coach for our team just had ANOTHER child, yesterday. A girl. Named Ayla. I don't know what comic book/cartoon/geeky show this one is named after. The others are Logan (Wolverine), Benjamin Archer (Star Trek right?), and Annastasia (sp?) (the animated movie).

[luvmydogs]

Very distinguished name you have Shaver. Funny thing though, I think I know your dad from many years back. Did he go to college in Lexington?

[Elgin Clock]

I have always liked the names Amber & Max for a girl and boy respectively.

And plus, there hasn't been any of those in my family yet that I know of.

But with my last name, I could have a ton of fun choosing names.

My parents stuck with a family name from a great-great grandfather of mine for my name, and no, they didn't have a sense of humor and pick it randomly like a lot of people think.

There were many men in my family with my dad's name, and I wasn't going to be a 4th. So, they went back 4 generations and picked my name.
If we had known more of my family's genealogy at the time, they could have gone with Samuel which was Elgin's father way back when.
But Elgin it was.

[KelliV]

Way to resurrect a thread and give me something to do other than my finals! You rock!

My names (which I have had picked out since 7th grade)
Boys
Griffen
Denim
Allen
Tristan
Michael
Graham

Girls
Guinevere
Grace
Marie
Belle
Diana
Jennifer

[Conor Ryan]

Haha me and My friends do this all the time too, our latin teacher has a baby name book in the class (supposedly to find the latin root of a name) so once in a while we get to go through it and find names for what we'd name our children. So heres a few that I find intresting, as a side note from personal experince, an intresting first name always is remembered

Boys:
Gearoid-"gar + roid"-Its irish, another reason why I love it. Means Means "brave with a spear" or "spear carrier." but It spells future engineer.
Kyna-"key + na"
Riordan-"reer + don"-Not only sounds cool, but it means Royal Poet, and very highly regarded in any royal household as he acted as scholar, historian and advisor to the king. Since my last name being Ryan, which means King

Girls:
Siobhan-"shiv + awn"-Really cool I think
Aideen-"ay + deen"-Femine form Aidan, another name I like
Eimear-"ee + mer"-Yes, its pronounced with a Long E at the beginning, Yes I'm a bit mean, but is nice and means a lot of very nice stuff.


As you can see I love being 100% Irish, and I Love having to list a pronunciation guide for a name

Conor is a highly reconmended name though

[KarenH]

Originally Posted by Eugenia Gabrielov

10. Vashti (Ridiculously cool sounding.)
3. Tamar (Hebrew - one of my favorite names)

Names from the Bible always seem to be popular (especially names such as John and Mary), but it's a good idea to look up who the people are and what they did. The etymological meaning of a name may not be important to you, but each person in the Bible is known for something, and people may wonder about the associations with some names (such as Cain).

In the book of Esther, Vashti was the queen who was deposed because:
a) she was wicked and rebellious, or
b) she was righteous and stood up to her indecent husband
--depending on which interpretation you favor. So you may or may not want to name your daughter after this famous divorcee.

At least two women in the Bible bore the name Tamar. It's a beautiful name for beautiful women, but their love lives were even more problematic than Vashti's, to put it mildly. I won't elaborate, but the sordid details are recounted in Genesis chapter 38 and 2 Samuel chapter 13.

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

Riordan-"reer + don"-Not only sounds cool, but it means Royal Poet, and very highly regarded in any royal household as he acted as scholar, historian and advisor to the king.

And to a southern Californian, Riordan also means "former mayor of Los Angeles."

I used to write stories, so I got some practice naming the characters. The fun thing about this is that your characters can't get mad at you if you give them a bad/stupid/ridiculous name.

[1086Programmer]

Originally Posted by KarenH

I used to write stories, so I got some practice naming the characters. The fun thing about this is that your characters can't get mad at you if you give them a bad/stupid/ridiculous name.

I still write stories. That's where most of my names come from. ^_^ It's always fun to imagine what you'd name someone and why. I don't know how some people can be like, "See my baby, yeah, his name is Tom." oO!

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by KelliV

Way to resurrect a thread and give me something to do other than my finals! You rock!

My names (which I have had picked out since 7th grade)
Boys
Griffen
Denim
Allen
Tristan
Michael
Graham

Girls
Guinevere
Grace
Marie
Belle
Diana
Jennifer

Tristan is a girls name! I think we need to have a talk over some of these names

Originally Posted by Conor Ryan

Conor is a highly reconmended name though

Look at me, I'm conor and Irish. I know, I'll named my kid Conner, like how it's supposed to be spelled.