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[alocin.livejournal.com]

Yay! I can join this community with no funny looks from friends and family!

I'm 7 weeks pregnant (hooray!) but the Husband and I have been talking names for ages. I like names that offer a nickname, mainly because we both have one and it's handy to work out how much in trouble you are by the amount of names your parents used (if ever I got "Nicola Fiona!!" I knew I was in for it!)

So I just thought I'd put some of my names here and that would be all fun :)

Girls.
Eva Ann (nickname Evie)
Charlotte Ann or Charlotte Fern (nickname Charli)

Boys.
Cobey Danger (HE wants this as a middle name. And it's so damn cute I can't say no.) (nickname Cobes?)
Tobey John (nickname TJ)

Thoughts?
We both love Eva but lately Charlotte's been creeping in and I'm not sure if I like it more... I guess i still have ~ 8 months to work it out.

Comments

[dionysia.livejournal.com]

Get rid of Cobey Danger and you have a great list.

[alocin.livejournal.com]

I know! :P
Blame husband.
I like Cobey Douglas a bit more.
I'm half hoping the baby's a girl so he won't get stuck with Danger for a middle name.
I can veto it, I know. I'm also hoping that husband has been joking for the past 2 months.

[dionysia.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I'm just as anti-Cobey as I am anti-Danger.

I know that Coby (without the E) is a pet form of Jacob.

So what about Jacob?

Or using something that sounds like Cob(e)y:
Cody
Colby
Jory

[alocin.livejournal.com]

Jacob isn't a name I could see myself calling. I don't know, just not for me. I do like the name tho'.

I like Cody, but it sounds a bit American (which is fine.. in fact Cobey sounds American too I guess. I'm Aussie is all)
Don't like Colby.
Jory I don't like. I don't mind Rory tho' :)

[dionysia.livejournal.com]

I like Rory.

[alocin.livejournal.com]

Rory's nice :)
I'm worried it's been girlified since Gilmore Girls

[dionysia.livejournal.com]

Well, as long as it's not short for Aurora. ;)

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Yay Rory, i love that name!!

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with the first commenter--Cobey Danger is... not my style, to say the least. And I think I'd be upset if my middle name were Danger. But I absolutely love both Eva and Charlotte. Charlotte Ann is just lovely. How about Evelyn with the nickname Evie? It's one of my favourite nicknames.

Tobey John is lovely, though I like Tobias better--you could just nickname him Toby.

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Ack. Cobey Danger would be fine if your son stayed five years old forever. I wouldn't go to a doctor named Cobey Danger X, or hire a lawyer named Cobey Danger X, or get my car fixed by a Cobey Danger X, or vote for... you get the picture :)

Same goes for Tobey - as the above commenter wrote, I'd go with Tobias, which is an elegant, strong and uncommon name, and can still be shortened to Toby.

Your girls' names are great. My name is Eva and I've never met anyone with the same name, although it looks like it's getting more popular! I never used to like it much, it's been growing on me :) Eva Charlotte is quite nice if you like both, unless you'd like to save Charlotte for a future daughter, of course!

[alocin.livejournal.com]

I don't know the middle names of my doctors, lawyers or mechanics.

And I don't really like Tobias.

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Hm... fine, I was giving my opinion, because that's what you wanted, right? I always like to picture what a name might look like on, say, a resume or business card when the child grows up. I just think the names don't "grow" well.

[alocin.livejournal.com]

Nono, it's okay for you to give your opinion. I just like to give mine and justify as well. :)

My point is that I don't know any professionals middle names. My brother is in real estate and doesn't have "Cameron James" on his card. I'm a teacher aide and "Nicola Fiona" isn't on my badge.
Nor has it ever featured on my resume.. or anyone elses I've seen.
I know as well as we all do that it's a silly name. Hence why I blame husband for it at any chance I get.

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's different where you live, because many resumes I've seen do have middle names or at least initials. But sure - you can definitely get away with never using your middle name, so if the husband insists on it, you can indulge him and have it stay hidden on the birth certificate forever :)


(Although I think Cobey is kind of boyish-sounding in itself.)

[rockstargrrrlie.livejournal.com]

I like Charlotte Fern since Fern is the little girl in Charlotte's Web. :D

[alocin.livejournal.com]

Yay! Someone picked the reference! :D

[amandavanessa.livejournal.com]

Cobey Danger....blech.
Eva's a very pretty name.

[littlehounddog.livejournal.com]

I love the name Eva. And the middle name Danger is awesome, I was planning on doing that too. ;)

[invisiblepet.livejournal.com]

Evie is a cute nickname. Evelyn is nice too, as someone suggested.

I'm a sucker for literary names, so of course Charlotte Fern is nice.

Something with the Evie/Charlotte combo would be a very pretty name.

"Cobey" makes me think of cheese, even though yes I know it's Colby. And "Danger" makes me think of Austin Powers, which in turn makes me think of a very hairy man.

Tobey isn't too bad.

[alocin.livejournal.com]

I think you've hit the nail on the head as to why Husband wants Danger for a middle name.

[pale-september.livejournal.com]

I really don't like the name Toby and Coby is a cute name but it reminds me of that basketball player, Kobey Bryant (I think that's the way his is spelled, not sure.)

I love Eva, that's such a beautiful name. So, if you have a little girl I suggest that one. :)

[colin-chaotic.livejournal.com]

I love Eva, but would have to lean away from both Cobey and Tobey. I love Toby spelled without the 'e', it just looks weird with the 'e' to me. But it's still pretty. Cobey makes me think of Kobe Bryant, accused rapist/basketball player.

[alocin.livejournal.com]

We don't know who Kobey Bryant is here, so I guess that's a good thing :)

[alocin.livejournal.com]

How do you mean Ignorant?

[alocin.livejournal.com]

Danger's a bit different to Tyre, don't you think?
:P

[turabiannights.livejournal.com]

Brooklyn: next century's Missouri.

[alocin.livejournal.com]

hehe :D
give yourself a middle name by deed poll :D

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

I love your girl names. I'm sorry, but Cobey Danger sounds like a really bad comic book character name. Really bad. Cobes is worse. I have to agree with other posters, I don't think it will transition into adulthood very well.

[itsprincess2u.livejournal.com]

One of our local radio stations has a DJ named Mike Danger (well, that's his radio name, I have no idea what his real name is... but his wife's a DJ there too, and her name is Sandy Waters.)

[pale-september.livejournal.com]

Your icon cracks me up.

[alocin.livejournal.com]

I think the connection to me naming my child after my dead mother is a bit stronger then bottled water.

[alocin.livejournal.com]

Well no, and you couldn't know either. I was simply saying.

Also, here it's prn more 'eavy (as in heavy) ahn. Then it is Eevie-Ann

[anapology.livejournal.com]

You will change your mind sooo much in 8 months!
I definetly say go for Eva. I'm not a big fan of charlotte at all, it's really common & hmm... i dont know.
Evie is adorable! Congratulations anyhow. ♥

[alocin.livejournal.com]

:D Thank you :)
I know I'll swap and change. We've had Eva written down for years, but in the last few weeks I've gone "I like Charlotte now..." :p
Then yesterday I was thinking "Isla's a nice name.." LOL

[gingiecaps.livejournal.com]

I had a teacher last year who's wife was having a baby boy and he talked in class about names to us and he would always say the baby's middle name would be Danger and we all thought he was joking. But that is the kid's middle name. And yeah, it is DAMN adorable.

[cathkitten.livejournal.com]

I am a big believer in the Supreme Court Justice test...Can you imagine the clerk saying "All rise for Supreme Court Justice Cobey....Whatever"?

I can't.

[alocin.livejournal.com]

at least it's not Nevaeh :P

[semi-sweet.livejournal.com]

True. But then Condoleezza is sort of a ridiculous sounding name, but she is a pretty successful person.