I love baby names

[dcrachel.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm new. My husband (of three weeks) and I have talked about baby names well before we ever said "I do." Now that we are official, we've been talking about baby names non-stop! Alas, we won't be trying to conceive for about a year. But still...babies!

So here are our favorite names:

Conrad Joseph
Richard Todd (we don't love either of these names, really, but they cover all three of our fathers. We'll come up with a cool nickname or something...)
Jonah Todd

Amelia Mary
Zoe Alice
Eva Mary-Alice
(Obviously, Mary and Alice are in the mix no matter what. The two together cover three of our grandparents, my mom, his sister, my aunt. Plus, it's pretty.)

Comments

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Hello clucky friend! :)

I love Zoe Alice. LOVE! :)

[lneef.livejournal.com]

These are all quite nice. Conrad's something you don't see often, but I sort of like it. Jonah's nice, though I prefer Josiah.

And I like all your girl's names, though I think Alice Mary would be my favorite combo, actually. I don't really like Mary-Alice hyphenated as one name. Alice is a gorgeous name. I had to take it off my list because my dumb husband once dated an Alice who told nasty stories about him.

[dcrachel.livejournal.com]

It's funny how names of other people stick with us. We've had to veto quite a few from our list because of lame people we once knew.

[thatandigirl.livejournal.com]

i like zoe alice - but im a big fan of spelling it like zoey. =]

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

all of your names are very nice. i once read a book, called aimee (forget the author), and there was a boy named richard and he went by chard.
my favorite of all of your names is definitely zoe alice. it's soo lovely. :)

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

I know a kid who goes by Chard; it always makes me worry that people are going to call him 'Chard the Tard' But, uh, maybe that's just me.

I prefer Rick(y) as a nickname for Richard.

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

oh, i hadn't thought of that, but i suppose it is a definite teasing possibility. but then again, rick rhymes with dick, and lick, and probably lots of other words, so it had teasing potential too. i'm not sure if i like chard, but thought i'd suggest it just in case the OP did. :) i'd probably use ricky as a nickname for richard, if i was going to use the name richard.

[dcrachel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if we came up with a nickname it would probably be totally unrelated to Richard or Todd. My husband's father's name was actually Dick, not Richard, but that's just not nice. He was Chinese, and in his family (or Chinese culture, not sure) the child gets a Chinese nickname that is not so nice (my husband's was "little mud ball") so the gods don't think your baby is too precious and take it away. We might use a family Chinese name like Wei or Jow or NiBow (uh, not spelling those right) and then let the child decide what name they like when they are older.

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

I think Chard sounds horrible. I don't make fun of kids because of their names (I'm a little old for that) but I think Chard sounds gross on its own and like a lot of potentially mean things. For actual names I never worry about teasing, but in this case...

I like Richard on its own without a nickname and I also like Rich as a nickname. I knew a Richie in school, as well as a Richard who I sometimes called Richo. I don't love Rick, though I prefer it to Ricky. And I don't think Dick is horrible, but school children might disagree.

[omfg----hxc.livejournal.com]

I like Todd Richard better. And I LOVE Jonah Todd.

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

I like Jonah Todd, but I REALLY don't like Conrad or Richard. Joseph and Todd are okay, but I prefer Jonah and Joseph as first names.

Joseph Richard
Joseph Todd
Joseph Conrad
Jonah Richard
Jonah Conrad

For the girls, Amelia Mary is GORGEOUS, and I like Zoe a lot, too. Eva Mary-Alice is okay, but it screams "Desperate Housewives!" to me because of the actress named Eva, and the character Mary-Alice. And I don't even watch that show! lol. So, I'd stay away from that one.

Amelia Mary-Alice doesn't sound horrible, and despite the alliteration, I even kind of like Amelia Alice.

[dcrachel.livejournal.com]

That's funny...I didn't even know those names were from Desperate Housewives! I don't want the show. But funny. Doubt anyone would put that together in 10 years when our kid is in school.