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[aimeera.livejournal.com]

well, our next baby apt is December 10th...dr thinks it's a girl, but wants to be certain...so we're looking at naming the baby after my grandmother & sister. -I really don't want to know how my kids gonna hate me, it's a bad name, whatnot and all that, I'm just happy to have this baby and it's going to be named after my gma if indeed it is a girl.-

If it turns out that the baby is indeed a girl it will be Laiyhleine Anaya, after my gma & my sister, if however it is a boy, I need help finding a name that goes with Bryan. I don't want Bryan Daniel as that's his daddy's name and he doesn't want it the same either, I would like to keep the D initial-but daddy doesn't care, so if anyone can come up with some suggestions...for a middle name that goes with Bryan. We've had D suggestions before, if anyone has any other letter suggestions.Our last name is Farr, so..any help would be appreciated.

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[dingo83.livejournal.com]

You've asked this before, right?

Bryan David Farr
Byran Dominic Farr
Bryan Donald Farr

[estrella-jenita.livejournal.com]

curious...how do u say your girls name>?

[aimeera.livejournal.com]

it's lay-lene but spelled how my gma's name is.

[http://users.livejournal.com/---surfacing/]

how in the world is that name pronounced?

it just looks like a big bunch of letters thrown together and that child is going to have to correct every single person who tries to read it and say it

..sorry but it's the truth

[mobilemum.livejournal.com]

Bryan Darragh
Bryan Daniel

[aimeera.livejournal.com]

we like Darragh but daddy doesn't know what to settle on, so we're looking at other middle names too if you have any other suggestions... ^_^

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

It's a baby names community. Don't post it if you don't want feedback, positive or otherwise. It's part of the deal. As a matter of fact, posting a 'disclaimer' like that is asking for it even more. Hell, I'm having a hard time containing myself just because of it. You can't go posting something in an opinion based community and then telling people they can't have an opinion.

[mrskmw.livejournal.com]

IAWTC

[aimeera.livejournal.com]

I've seen other people do that here, and I simply put that there because I was asking for opinion on the boy's middle name, I don't want any opinion on the girls. Sorry if that was a problem I just figured if someone else could say they didn't want to have a huge thing about how the name is messed up or whatnot, then other members could do the same. My apologies.

[muliebrity.livejournal.com]

If you didn't want opinions on it, why did you post about it? You could have left it out and it would have been just as relevant to what you WERE asking.

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

I don't care what other people have done, more then likely they were referred to the rules like you were. Don't f-ing post if it you can't handle opinions.

[lateforthesky.livejournal.com]

I really hope you have a boy.

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

*sending boy vibes*

Yeah, sorry, but when you post a name as bad as that, people are not going to be able to hold back from giving their opinions.

[mcandiburger.livejournal.com]

My hubby's name is Bryan Grant, which I've always loved. I know it doesn't start with a D, but I think it goes together really well, so I thought I'd throw it out there.

[evilegg.livejournal.com]

How about Dan-L?
Hyphens are making a comeback in a big way.

Or maybe you'll be the first.

[peach-rose-girl.livejournal.com]

If you're going to go the "junior" route, I'd say just keep it all the same. Otherwise, use Bryan as a middle name. The exception would be if you wanted his middle name to be after someone else. But if you're just making something up, why bother? Unless you're actually going to call him by his middle name.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

My father and brother have the same first name, and are called by such, but have different middle names (they each have two middle names). So either way works.

Also a lot easier to figure out whose mail was whose... TDW was my dad, TCK was my youngest brother :P

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

By why bother having two people with the same name if they aren't even going to be namesakes? None of the benefit (whatever the appeal) of namesake tradition, and most of the same confusion.

I don't get it. Using your example, sure you can tell TDW and TCK apart, but wouldn't it be easier to tell Thomas (or whatever the T is for) and Steve apart? Like on phone calls, "Is Thomas there?" "Which one?" Blah.

The purpose of a name is to identify a specific person. If you can't keep people straight despites their names, the name is failing its primary purpose.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

In a way it's still being a namesake... they share the first name, they're just not completely identical namesakes. The other middle names my brother has are family names on my maternal side.

But yeah, sure having different first names would make things even easier, but if you have to have a child named after your first name, then (IMO) the confusion is less with different middle names/initials.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Dashiell :D

It's what we named our son ;)

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

It's only correct to use II if the child is named after someone other than the father, like an uncle or grandfather. A child named for his father *IS* a junior. People have done it the other way, but it's incorrect to do so.

Doesn't sound like she's going that route though.

A traditional name?

[neroli.livejournal.com]

A lot of people are sticklers for traditional spellings for historical reasons. Interestingly, though, it is just as "traditional" for names to have spelling variations. Back in times where literacy was less common, the "spoken version of a word was primary, while the written form was simply a way of recording it," so if you look at names from, say, the Middle Ages or Elizabethan times, you will see people using just about every imaginable phonetic variation. (Look at all the different ways William Shakespeare spelled his *own* name, for goodness sake!)

So if you want to spell a name Alisoun, go ahead - it has historical precedent: Chaucer did it in his *Miller's Tale*. Or use Alyson if you prefer. Back then, "Any spelling that would reproduce the sound [would have been] 'correct'"

But there's the rub: even the barely literate of the Dark Ages, when forced to transcribe a name, would have used spellings that *phonetically represented the sounds* they wanted to convey.

Sorry, but spelling you suggest here is one that not even a medieval churl would consider.

Re: A traditional name?

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME.

You win.

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

That's just painful. I feel so badly for a kid that won't even be able to spell her own name.

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

No comment on the girl's name, but my maiden name was Farr :) My brother is David (and that was my first son's middle name).

[aimeera.livejournal.com]

wow thats neat, we haven't seen any other Farr's. Thanks :]

[rvos.livejournal.com]

Well, I have to admit the spelling of the girl's name is unusual. I didn't know how to pronounce it. But I do kind of like it. It kind of reminds me of Celtic/Gaelic spelling.

[aimeera.livejournal.com]

thanks its my gmas name.