What's your take on baby names?

[momentarygenius.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone! I'm new here - just joined today- and I love baby names.

My husband and I currently have 1 daughter. Her name is Kristen Elaine Kadrlik. (pronounced Kud er lick - darn difficult czechoslavakian last name). Anyways, we chose Kristen for no reason other than the fact that we wanted her to have a "K" first name. And Elaine was my deceased grandmother's name. My husband and I are plagued with WAY TOO COMMON/BORING names (Mary and Matthew). We liked Kristen because it's not too common, but it's not like "Where'd they think of that?" uncommon. Kristen turns 3 next week, and we had hoped to be pregnant again by now but due to some medical problems I have to wait until August to even try to get pregnant. Anyways, I have a nephew named Jestyn (like Justin), and my sister is pregnant again. She's thinking of Alysha if it's a girl. I'm wondering what's with the "y" thing? I seem to see a lot of people doing that and if it's ever going to go away?

And if anyone's wondering - when we do have our next child it will be Kelsey Jane for a girl or Adam Michael for a boy.

Also here's a link I always find interesting.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/


thanks for having such an interesting community!

middle name as a first name??

[estrella-jenita.livejournal.com]

 me again!  thx to everyone who responded to my "Aaralyn" dilemma ...

NE who.. heres a new question... what do you guys think about using a middle name as a first name? like I really like the name Rebekah with the biblical spelling and all...but i dont really want my kid to go by "becky" or "becca"... and so i paired it with cristiana  and  raquel  so she'd be  Rebekah Cristiana Raquel  but i thought she could go by Raquel  what do you guys think?? yes or no? i know a guy whose name is "George Kyle James" and he goes by Kyle...

let me know!

 

~La Jenita~

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