What's in a name?
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babynamesChoosing a name is one of the most important decisions parents will make. Names can have a special meaning, honor or remember a loved one or just be something "cool."
While I have several years yet before becoming a parent, I have reached a few basic decisions on the names of my children:
1. The names will be easy to spell and pronounce, thus reducing and/or eliminating the possibility of years of frustration and aggravation from teachers and peers.
2. The names will not be unisex names, be spelled uniquely or be the most popular names used at the time.
3. The names will be mature names, but not ones my children will have to do much growing into as they grow up.
4. My children will be named after loved ones in my family and my spouse's family that have passed on. (I'm very happily taken but we're nowhere near marriage yet!)
5. Both my spouse and I will reach a decision on names together, even if it requires a LOT of debate and discussion.
Ever since I've been within realistic grasp of parenthood, I've had my list of favorite names that I would bring into the discussion:
GIRLS
Bethany
Eden
Heather (taken by a niece)
Natalie
Savannah
Leandra (see below)
BOYS
Leander (it's a family name and no one else used it yet)
Etienne (I know this one would be harder to spell and difficult amongst peers)
Nathaniel
Herschel
Earl
Ezra
While I have several years yet before becoming a parent, I have reached a few basic decisions on the names of my children:
1. The names will be easy to spell and pronounce, thus reducing and/or eliminating the possibility of years of frustration and aggravation from teachers and peers.
2. The names will not be unisex names, be spelled uniquely or be the most popular names used at the time.
3. The names will be mature names, but not ones my children will have to do much growing into as they grow up.
4. My children will be named after loved ones in my family and my spouse's family that have passed on. (I'm very happily taken but we're nowhere near marriage yet!)
5. Both my spouse and I will reach a decision on names together, even if it requires a LOT of debate and discussion.
Ever since I've been within realistic grasp of parenthood, I've had my list of favorite names that I would bring into the discussion:
GIRLS
Bethany
Eden
Heather (taken by a niece)
Natalie
Savannah
Leandra (see below)
BOYS
Leander (it's a family name and no one else used it yet)
Etienne (I know this one would be harder to spell and difficult amongst peers)
Nathaniel
Herschel
Earl
Ezra
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Date: 2007-05-03 06:20 pm (UTC)The three and a half sets of twins (my father's first wife nearly lost the pregnancy in a car accident, but one managed to survive and made it to full term, thus the "half" twin) in my family are all boys. Only one set of them have rhyming names...the other two have same-letter(s) names:
uncles
Alvin Kay ("K" for my grandmother's name of Katherine)
Calvin Jay ("J" for my grandfather's name of John)
brothers
David Duane is the twinless twin
nephews
Kyle Adam and Kameron Budd ("A" and "B" for birth order)
first cousins
Brent Thomas and Bradley Andrew (I love my aunt and uncle's choices in names - this uncle is a brother to Calvin and Alvin)
I went to school with quintuplets and I know their parents thought they were only having TWINS so they were really scrambling to find names for them...I can only imagine the generation of IVF parents having multiple births trying to figure out all the names for their kids! WHEW!