L names

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

So it seems my husband and I have a different taste for names than the average person. I wanted to get opinions on names we like to get a feel for how the "average" person thinks about them.

[not in any specific order]

Lorna
Lorena
Leona
Lela [not a serious chance but I did like it]
Lenna

Too popular names...?

[kaugomu.livejournal.com]

For those of you who chose to avoid names that tend to be on the popular side of things, where do you draw the line as being "too popular"? Do you go by name ranks, like nothing in the top 20, top 50, top 100, or is it just that you hear the name everywhere so it's too popular? If you use the name ranks, what are you favorite sites to look at and compare, and how many years do you look at?
Just wondering what every one else does.
(x-posted)

I hate baby naming right now.

[poespretty.livejournal.com]

Or more correctly, I hate all the names I've ever come up with at this point.  At least in combination with my last name and my current kids' names anyway.

Does anyone have the Baby Name Wizard book?  If so could you post about Amelia (especially the sibling part)?  I'd really appreciate it.

any other sibling names (particularly girls) that 'go' with Amelia in your opinion?  

thanks for listening to my frustrations. :/

names in my training class

[opalfirefly.livejournal.com]

ladies:
Saada (say-ah-da)
Tanika
Lindy
Apryl
Carmolita

Men:
Sayeed
Sherwin
Moises (from Columbia)
Gibril (from somewhere in Africa)


those are just the uncommon ones (of course we have jason, sarah, laura, and so on)

MacKenzie

[silentyrs.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone,

(This may offend some of you, and I apologize in advance)

I'm left scratching my head, wondering why many mothers in America have latched onto the name MacKenzie. I've always associated it with the well loved Bull Terrier, Spuds Mackenzie.

I'm 24 and of child bearing age, yet I remember Spuds very clearly. Spuds was the mascot for Bud Light Beer during the late 80's and 90's.

Is this a case of national forgetfulness?

What is your opinion? Mackenzie: Dog name or not?
Am I letting my pop culture iconography taint a perfectly reasonable name?
Why is this name so popular?

( A picture of Spuds )

(also posted over at TheQuestionClub)

On two names

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

*note my boyfriend and I are not pregnant and are not going to be any time soon so this is for speculative purposes*


My boy and I were visiting his grandmother in Montreal for the last couple of days. While we were there she took out this old box of papers, a wedding certificate written on the fly before escaping Poland, passports etc. So she was reminiscing and she mentioned that when she was pregnant with Ben's Uncle she had wanted a girl and was going to name him Leah after her mother (instead she named Arje, Polish for Aryeh I think. But everyone calls him Libi which I guess is where the similarity to Leah comes in, since she pronounced Leah like "LIE-AH").
The point of bringing that up is that my boyfriend and I agree on very few girls names but Leah (pronounced Lay-uh) is one that we had decided we both liked previous to knowing about his great grandmother. Also we are big on the idea of naming our future children in honour of people who died in the Holocaust. So it may be our new top girls name.

( and a query about another name )

(no subject)

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

ABC news anchor Elizabeth Vargas (husband is singer Marc Cohn) gave birth to a baby boy today, Samuel Wyatt Cohn. I love it. WDYT?