ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space...

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

due in less than 10 weeks with my second daughter, i have decided that i am just going to call her "the baby". as my husband an i cannot seem to agree on anything and nothing is "sticking" with me at all.

"the baby" it is.

ok, all kidding aside...is anyone else as seriously stuck as i am? my first daughter was named before i was pregnant pretty much.

My monnogrammed diaper bag (that my mother is constantly harrassing me over since she can't get it monogrammed til we know what the name is...cause apparently she just doesn't have anything else to worry about and how nice is that, right?) is on hold and if my mother brings it up again, I swear, I'm gonna tell her to shove the bag up her butt.

ok, back to your regularly scheduled "vote on my baby name list" posts.

And thank you for letting me vent.

Comments

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to vent, but I don't think I see the list :P

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

oops forgot to ask, what's your first daughter's name? that could be of help, thanks!

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

Isabel

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

really pretty!

:)

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

it's a one name list "the baby" what do you think?

it's either that or "number two"

which do you choose:

the baby
number two

Re: :)

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

ahh sorry now I've read your post again, and noticed there wasn't supposed to be a list :P

"the baby" sounds really cool, like, this is "THE baby!" or "THE baby is in da crib!!" ..it makes for a great hip hop persona :P

Re: :)

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

exactly. i was thinking our birth annoucement would be the shiznit, for sure. it would read:

Brent and Angela gave birth to THE BABY, weighing at 7 lbs, 11.5 oz and 22" long. THE BABY has one sibling, Isabel.

If we call it "THE baby" people will think it's "the baby" to end all babies. i really think we're giving this child an upperhand in life.

haha.

no seriously, sometimes i can totally see how people end up naming their children numbers or how zappa was just like screw it, we're gonna call you "dweezil" and "diva"

Re: :)

[silver05.livejournal.com]

Haha! How about Secunda Infanta? Literally "Second Baby" in Latin. Or:

deuxième bébé (French)
zweites baby (German)
seconda bambina (Italian)
segunda bebê (Portuguese and Spanish)
futame bebi (Japanese) (Other words for baby: osanago, akachan, chinomigo, youji, akanbou)

:p

Deux Bebe!!!

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

if we name her "baby" we can do "dirty dancing" reenactments, nonstop.

the ever popular "nobody puts baby in a corner"

"i thought i knew you, baby".

[plaidpineapple.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Nymbler? It generates a list of names from names that it thinks you'll like based on the names you already like. Does that make sense?

Anyway, from Isabel:

Eliza
Nina
Daniella
Madeline
Arianna
Gabriella
Lucia
Maya
Eva
Phoebe
Talia
Bethany

Maybe you'll like something from that list? Good luck naming "the baby"! ;)

[plaidpineapple.livejournal.com]

The website is www.nymbler.com.

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

that's awesome. i'm going to check it out pronto.

some of my faves i plan on entering are

Georgia
Lily
Elliot
Ada

(all of which my husband hates!)

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

off that list i really like Talia. Something I had never thought of before...as well as Lucia...which was a character in a movie I recall. However, I just told my husband I liked Talia and he wrote back and said that was Rocky's wife's name. Apparently now it is just no good.

[plaidpineapple.livejournal.com]

LOL, my soon-to-be-husband does the same.thing. I'll suggest a name, and he'll be like, "You mean ____ from Cheers?" As if when the kid gets older, s/he'll be laughed at on the playground for having the same name as someone from a TV/movie 20+ years older than the kid.

What about Thalia? It's similar, and it means "to blossom".

p.s. Rocky's wife's name was Adrian. The actress who played Adrian's name was Talia, though. Which should still be completely use-able, imo. :)

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

yeah, he's pretty impossible. i really wish he wasn't so damn opinionated. most people would not even know what adrian's real name is...he's a pop culture nut and it's hard to get much past him. sounds like yours might be the same way.

as for Thalia. I really like "Talia" better. Do you know what it means??

[plaidpineapple.livejournal.com]

It's a variant of Talya, which means "dew from god" in Hebrew, according to behindthename.com.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

rocky's wife was Adrian. the actress who played her was Talia.

and my name's Adrienne, so you can bet I heard about it my whole life ;)

[so-there.livejournal.com]

oh, duh. it would help if I read the comment directly below this :P

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

Isabel is on my list, so I now share the rest with you. Feel free to steal if you see one you like:

Rose's Top Girl Names, in order of favorite:

Susanna
Lenora
Meredith
Eleanor
Corrina
Josephine
Mariana
Nora
Elizabeth
Isabel - this is where Isabel is on my list. :)
Miranda
Helena
Eliana
Liliana
Luciana
Adele
Adelaide
Gabriela
Daniela
Alana
Elena
Alaina
Alissa
Marisa

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

i see we have similar names tastes

of your list, these are on mine as well:

Lenora
Meredith
Eleanor
Nora
Elizabeth
Helena
Adele
Adelaide (which I like Adeline, probably a tad bit more)

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

And the hubby doesn't like any of them? :( Adeline is beautiful too. :)

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

he will deal with a few but he doesn't just LOVE any of them. adeline IS pretty...i don't know what i'd put in the middle, though. any suggestions??

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

You can call her Ada - so cute!

Adeline Rose
Adeline May
Adeline Corrine
Adeline Jean
Adeline Catherine
Adeline Michelle
Adeline Jane
Adeline Jade
Adeline Elizabeth (I love this one!)
Adeline Janine
Adeline Claire
Adeline Danielle
Adeline Rebecca (I know an Addison Rebecca)

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

and I just saw your baby name list at Babynames.com, where you have some excellent middle name options:

Adeline Lane
Adeline Reese
Adeline Marie
Adeline Norah (although this sounds like Adelinora)
Adeline Lily

they all sounds good!

[neverstarsburn.livejournal.com]

thats tough. name her bebe, french for baby! haha. dont really. please.

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

it's awfully tempting. haha.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

my first and second children were named before I was pregnant with either of them. my third...? took forever. but he did end up with a name.

I'd go with "number two". "the baby" won't age very well..

[jordle.livejournal.com]

Hey Baby works in Dirty Dancing... :P

Good Luck with finding a name you both agree on. Maybe when she is born she will just look like a name and it will be easy.

[isoldereverie.livejournal.com]

Yeah I had the same problem with my girls. The first one was easy. We had a boys name picked out and everything. So when #2 came along, the torture began immediately following the sonogram when we found out we were having another girl.

I dont think Barnes and Noble had a baby name book on the shelf I didn't own. I found out Bruce Lansky is a lazy man who had a good book and then just added varient spellings and milked it for far too long. Baby Name Wizard (inspiration for Nymbler) is a brillant book and I hope the author releases another edition with more entries. Sue Browder has a great book The New Age Baby Name Book which is actually not very New Age~just left out a bunch of the names from our parents generation. I love Browder's book because it includes pronounciations for all the names! :)

Anyway, Baby Name Addicts.com eventually led me to my daughter's name with 2 weeks until my due date! I spent HOURS on the computer going from one site to another. "Addicts" was very appropriate by then.

From the short list you posted, I love Meredith and Eleanor. I think both flow well with Adeline as a middle name. I love Merrie as a nn for Meredith and Nora for Eleanor. Good luck!

[ugottafriend.livejournal.com]

Ok I'm just pulling a name out of the sky here......

Ruby Genevieve

Ohhhh I like it. WDYT? Or you could always go with the day she is born...Tuesday, Sunday, etc. Ok don't do that. :)