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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

[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 =)