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Hey new members! I figured I'd repost my fave names (The names I plan to name my 4 children) and a couple others that I plan to use if I end up adopting out of the fost-adopt programme and I get a small child. Feel free to critique, but I warn you, I'm not nice when you attack my names! lol.

Boys (my known children I will adopt from Russia)

Twins:
Aleksei Zachary (nn:Lexxi)
Aubrey Ezekiel

Single:
Kaelin James

Girl (known I willa dopt from Russia)

Elisabeth Katherine (nn: Izzy)

Other names (I am joining the fost-adopt programme hopefully by August, so these names may come into play sooner rather than later):

Boys:
Joseph Nicholas (named after me and my brother)
Anthony Michael (named for my brother) (nn:Tony)
Edward ______ (named for my father (blah) but I have no middle name for Edward)
Nathaniel Brady (totally stolen from a kid I baby sit for, but that name is so perfect!)

Girls:
Carol Jean (Named for my aunt and my mother/grandmother/great-grandmother/etc...)
Leila Mildred (Probably won't use, but like a lot)

Comments

[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

why is Aleksei horrible?

[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

Boy, not girl.

Aleksei is the common translation of the Russian spelling. I suppose that is why I chose it, because it is another link to the Russian past.

[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

I plan to adopt from Russia and I want my child to have some type of link back to his birth country.

But yeah, American's have a way of murdering perfect names :)

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

I think Aleksei is an awesome name - if the boy can pull it off. I think it's a very 'sexy' name on an adult.

[kelkie.livejournal.com]

aleksei is not horrible - it's the russian spelling. lexxi is a very feminine name though - i think alex or alek would be more masculine and more american-friendly as well.

but kudos for adopting from russia - my boyfriend is russian and i would like to incorporate a russian name or middle name into our future children's names :)

[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

*laughs* yes, Lexxie is a "female" nickname, but where was all this when some chick on here wanted to name her sons Sandy and Whitney? It was no where.

Regardless, Lexi is merely a nickname, which will probably be shortened to Lex. I despise Alex and Alek, I would rather my sons be called Aleksei and Alexander then have those nicks...

[kelkie.livejournal.com]

ahh well, it was just a suggestion ;) lex is nice, much more masculine.

[pinkslit.livejournal.com]

i love kaelin james...but it reminds me of my daughter, kayleigh james.

[dosequisgirl.livejournal.com]

I love Aleksei and Aubrey.

(funny how someone said Aleksei was horrible) =/

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Not about the names, but - didn't Russia recently decide not to allow any more foreign adoptions, even ones that were in the works at the time?

[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

No, they haven't pushed reaccrediation, but that they are still allowing some agencies to run without accrediting. They have requested another document and have 90 days from resubbmission to make their decision.

They will more than likely allow it, but this is an election year and they have to put up a show of trying to make adoption by foreigners "harder" for votes... it's sad because all this does is hurt the children who are rotting away in orphanages... but allswell.

(if you are referring ot teh newsweek article, that was a big scare tactic type thing.. they printed that on the day that the final to accredited agencies lost their notes, but many independant agencies are stillr unning (I know personally of two women in Russia right now meeting their children))

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I hope it works out for you, then. I know of another family that apparently fell in with a bad agency, and actually met their child, only to wait eighteen months before finding out they would not, in fact, ever see her again. They're devastated, of course, but I haven't heard the upshot yet, or if there's any recourse.

[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

Yeah I know many stories like that... I read many blogs and am part of an IA group here in my town.. it's horrible.

[godmod.livejournal.com]

Congrats on adopting! I am planning on adopting from China in a few years. I think it's a wonderful thing to do.

So...were you saying that you wanted your children to have a Russian name? Because Aleksei is the only Russian name up there. I prefer the spelling of Alexei, just because it's more recognizable to non-Russians. Lexi is also a very common nn for girls. Try Ali!

Aubrey and Kaelin are also commonly used for girls, especially Kaelin. Kai could be a really cute nickname or alternative though.

It could be fun to give them all Russian names. Some of my favorites are Lev, Maksim, Nikolai (nn Niko, pron. Nee-ko), Sergei, and Viktor.


All the rest of your names are very, very traditional American names, so, while not terribly exciting, they make fine names. Leila is a beautiful name. Use it!

In the end, the name isn't what's important, right?

Good luck.

[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

Aye I know the only Trad Russian name up there is Aleksei...

I despise the names I adore being taken for female names, generally Aubrey and Kaelin are male in many other countries. Kaelin I know for a fact roots from teh Gaelin Coalin, which is Masculine only. Aubrey is my great grandfather's name.

As for the rest of the Russian flare, their birth names will rank within their names. They will have two middle names if they are under 3 when adopted, and if they are over three I will give them the option of keeping their Russian birth name or however they want ot do it.

And actually my other names are not very trad american names, all of them originate elsewhere. Aubrey and Kaelin are derrived from Irish Gaelic roots and Elisabeth Katherine is about as Irish as you can get with the english side. America has taken and butchered names, it's amusing to me honestly.

As for Russian names, I like the ones you mentioned, but if I did go with more trad Russian names I would stick to names of Czar's or Czar's families (such is where Aleksei comes from, Czar Nicolas II only son Aleksei Romanov).

My fave Czar(inas) names are Ivan, Alexzander, Ekaterina, Anastacia, Mikhail, and sadly enough I adore hte names Lenin and Stalin, though I would NEVER do that to my children!

[godmod.livejournal.com]

I understand that the other names originated someplace else, as we all did, but they are very recognizable and used in the American culture, as opposed to Aleksei.

I know an Ekaterina and she hates her name. She goes by Kat.

[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

Oh I know plenty of people who hate their names... shit I despise my birth names and I am even begining to hate the name I gave myself (which I may be changing anyway)... seriously.

I understand, but I don't name my children for other's benefits and if my children despise their names when they grow up, they are totally free to change it.

[kelkie.livejournal.com]

apparently (according to my russian bf), they don't use a lot of variations in names in russia. they're all just used over and over again, which makes for a lot of extremely common names. my boyfriend's name is anton, and his brother and best friend are both named sergei. other common ones are svetlana, natasha, vladimir (although i think that's more traditional now), katerina, etc.

i really like the idea of using anna - it works really well in both countries. (russian) friends of ours have a daughter here in canada named anna. they call her both "anna" (pronounced the american/canadian way) and "anya," the russian pronounciation. they also have a baby boy named george sergei =)

[xnaivetex.livejournal.com]

I don't believe in international adoption, but if you're going to take a child out of is home place why not at least let them keep the names they already have.

[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

I don't take advice from idiots, so it's okay.

Regardless, I plan to make a child apart of my family. If you read above in a comment you will see that they will keep their Russian names as a middle name and if in the future they choose to go back to their russian names, so be it.

And I'm taking children who are unwanted and will likely be turned out ot the streets at 14 into prostitution.. how fucking horrible of me. Get a clue.

[xnaivetex.livejournal.com]

Don't resort to names when I haven't been mean to you. I stated what I believe, if you can't handle that, then ignore it.

I just don't think that adopting children means that you should just go and change their names to something you like a little better, they're human beings who are used to their own names, not little puppies. You name babies as they come into the world because they don't have names, but with children already born, I just think they should keep the names they already have regardless of if you think it's a cute name or not. Being a part of your family does not = being owned by you, they're still people.

[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

What happens when that child has a name that does not translate into english, or is a female in America? (such as Denise in Russia is a masculine name, in america you'd never find a male named such).

They are people, but I choose to welcome them into my family as I would a new baby, for they are new to my family. I choose to make them apart of my family by giving them a name to fit into my family. If when they are older they choose to go back to their Russian names, I will not stop them. Children have a right to know where they come from and I plan to educate my children on that, as well as assisting them in a trip back to their home coutry to learn about their heritage, and if possibly a return trip to their destky dorm so they can see where their birth parents who named them dumped them.

i plan to bring children into my family and welcome them with the start of their forever life with a new start to life.

[thiscantbesoy.livejournal.com]

Lexxi is an extremely girlie name.

[seksimaggie.livejournal.com]

I really feel like Aubrey and Kaelin are very feminine names, and you're not doing your sons any favors by naming them those. I'm not sure how to pronounce the last bit of Aleksei, so I don't know...

Elisabeth Katherine is gorgeous.

[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

I do believe you are more used to seeing Aleksei as Alexey or some version of that. I am choosing the tradition Russian spelling.

As for Kaelin and Aubrey... I suppose I despise how Americans take names and decide to change their meaning... regardless in knowing countries they aren't feminine at all.