What do you all think of...

[azathar.livejournal.com]

I just found and joined this community. My wife and I are trying to have our first child.

We already have the names chosen (ok, we actually had the names chosen before we were married :) )

Anyway,

if our first child is a girl: Inari Elizabeth Mary-Catherine LeBlanc

if our first child is a boy: Keegan George Reilly LeBlanc

Other possibilities for second and beyond children of the same sex as the first include:

Girls:
Caitlin Jocelyn Aurora LeBlanc
Jena Rhiannon Amelia LeBlanc

Boys:
Elijah Daniel Liam LeBlanc

Just wondering what y'all think? Also, if it matters, my wife and I were born and raised in New England, she is mostly Irish/Welch and I am predominately French-Canadian with a bunch of other stuff thrown in.

Comments

[neroli.livejournal.com]

> We already have the names chosen....
> Just wondering what y'all think?

If the names are already set in stone, do you want candid opinions from people on the yea and the nay sides both, or would you prefer that we respond only if we like the combos?

[azathar.livejournal.com]

I'm curious as to what ppl think, good or bad.

They are set in stone, but feel free to respond if you like them or not, individually or in the combo's listed.

Also, just so everyone knows, each of the names has some sort of meaning (see Mary-Catherine explanation below).

[neroli.livejournal.com]

Okay, just checking; didn't want to make you feel bad!

> Inari Elizabeth Mary-Catherine LeBlanc

To my ear, this is so long that it almost feels more like a class roster than a single child. The end of Inari features the same sound as the start of Elizabeth (this may not be true if you say "ah" lizabeth instead of "ee" lizabeth of course) so they run together a bit. Because of this, because of the length, and because you've noted that Mary-Catherine was someone special, I would probably use Inari Mary-Catherine LeBlanc, and save Elizabeth for the next baby.

> Keegan George Reilly LeBlanc

Although the -ly and Le- are a bit echoey (Lee Lee), I do think the order in which you have the names has a better flow than if you reversed George and Reilly. So I'd probably leave this one just as it is.

> Caitlin Jocelyn Aurora LeBlanc

Just a heads-up: Caitlin is hugely popular. If you look at the Social Security name list of the most popular names of the 2000s (http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/decades/names2000s.html) to see where it ranks, you may not see this immediately because the Social Security site counts different spellings separately. I did a quick tally and came up with this:

39,280 - kaitlyn
26,104 - katelyn
14,609 - caitlin
11,698 - caitlyn
7,674 - kaitlin
6,449 - katelynn
3,673 - kaitlynn
1,647 - katelin

This totals 111,134, which would make the name with that sound the second most popular name for girls in the 2000s.

Since Caitlin and Jocelyn rhyme, if you do want to retain Caitlin and leave this combo as long as it is, you may want to try Elizabeth here instead.

> Elijah Daniel Liam LeBlanc

Thia also repeats the Li-/Le- sounds.

Mainly I'm finding these all feel a little wordy to me. DH has two middle names (both from family and both nearly unpronounceable to English-speakers), and he finds it cumbersome to the point where he would have dropped the second middle name altogether if his remaining initials didn't spell out something unpleasant!

Good luck!

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

heh. Someone wordier than me joined the group. ;) welcome.