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[amandavanessa.livejournal.com]

Hi there...I am 6 months pregnant and we are not finding the baby's sex out. I have played with the idea of a few names, but I'm particularly having trouble finding boys names I like. Our first son is Jayden Joshua. I like names that aren't incredibly popular, as my name is Amanda and I went all through school known as "Amanda P." I also don't want something so out there that my kid will get teased.
Some girl names I like are:

Layla
Eliza
Dusty (I have many people trying to talk me out of this one)

and for boys:

Jared (little too common though)
Anden (Andy for short)

Anyone have suggestions for me pleeeease? ;)

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[georgey629.livejournal.com]

I'm just curious about everyone's opinion on this.

I absolutely adore my last name, but I don't want to keep it when I get married since I'm rather old-fashioned I guess. I still want to pass it down, though. It actually could be used as a first name, but it's not exactly my style for a first name. I'm just wondering, what do you think of passing the maiden name down as a middle name to a child? I don't mean hyphenating the two last names. It would just be the middle name. What's your opinion?

Max

[photosofme.livejournal.com]

I've always really liked the name Max, but a lot of people I know think it sounds too much like something you'd call your dog. What do you guys think?