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[prlsb4swiine.livejournal.com]

thought I'd post my family

My Brother: Muhammad Umair Alam [aah-luhm]
My Sister-in-law: Fatima Khalid

My Sister: Mahwish [meh-Vish] Alam [aah-luhm]
My brother-in-law: Mateen Fazal [fuz-l]

Me: Benish [bee-nish] Alam [aah-luhm]

( my opinion on our names )

WDYT?

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[spikes-sexkitty.livejournal.com]

so unfortunately my almost 2 week late period was a false alarm. :(

oh well.

on the plus side, i'm an aunt again!!! I have a new little niece. this makes 3 of my siblings with one kid each all under tha age of 2:

Khaden D'Mar Eaden 
Adara Erin Williams

& the new indtallment of my family is

Aaliyah Lynn Caldwell (might be Rogers as the last name if his gf was mad enough at my brother lol. oh and i'm not sure on the spelling just yet, she was born yesterday @2am and i'm in another city. i'm going of how i'd spell it)

Family Names

[nearlyalegume.livejournal.com]

*pouts*  Well everyone else is doing it!!

These are names from both sides of my family.  Generations are by colours - my great-grandparents' generation, my grandparents' generation, my parents' generation, my generation and the next generation.

( Clicky! )

Watching 'Bringing Home Baby'..

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Twin girls-- Cameron and MacKenzie (they didn't show the spelling). WDYT? Okay, these aren't two names that I absolutely hate, but they're both very trendy and them together just makes it so, so, so much worse! I guess maybe because one's a last name and one's more traditionally a boy's name. I am so naming hypothetical twins Caedyn and Aiden, regardless of sex. OOh.. or maybe I'll have triplets-- Caedyn, Aiden, and Brayden. :P

OT.. but the tv just told me that the combo of cheerios and pampers can make my baby perform miracles. Now I know Mary's secret.

Albanian Names

[chucklincanuck.livejournal.com]

Although having a child is not even in my 5-year plan, I already feel as though I should start looking for names....lol! My fiance is Albanian (from Kosovo), and we have already decided that our children should have proper Albanian names. His name is Bashkim (pronounced Bah-shkim), and the names of his family members are:
Naim...pronounced Nye-im
Xhevat...pronounced Jah-vat 
Xhezeeta....pronounced Ja-zee-tah
Luljeta...pronounced Loo-lee-yet-ah
Bukurie...pronounced Boo-koo-ree-ah
Naybi (rhymes with 'maybe')

I can't really say I like any of them! Please check out this website for more names, and tell me which ones you like!

http://www.20000-names.com/female_albanian_names.htm

http://www.20000-names.com/male_albanian_names.htm

(Bytheway, there are not 20000 Albanian names listed! The site has 20000 names altogether!)

An interesting debate

[girlsteve.livejournal.com]

As you may have noticed, I've always been quite a fan of unisex names, girls names on boys/boys names on girls etc. however, I appreciate that it's not to everyone's taste and that you have to be careful not to lumber a kid with a name that'll cause confusion and teasing their whole life just because of your gender views. 

The reason I bring this up is because a friend and I were having a discussion about names that I thought you guys might have some interesting comments on. 

The thing is, my name choices in this respect are kind of political. for the most part they're not - in lots of cases, I just think that some traditional 'male' names work better on girls and vice versa, so maybe I just have different taste to the world at large. But there is also an element of gender politics, because I've always thought that there isn't a big difference between the sexes and that any child should be free to find their own identity regardless of the sex they were born. I'm one of those people who would be quite comfortable to let their little boys play with barbies or wear dresses IF THATS WHAT THEY CHOSE TO DO. And this is the thing, its the choice issue. I'm not going to put my little boy in a dress to make a statement if he doesn't want to wear it, and giving the stigma that goes with cross dressing he probably wont and that's fine. But he can choose to without judgement from me. However, if i name him Rachael - as much as it's a pretty name, and as much as it has always struck me personally as kind of masculine and as much as I don't think he should be insulted to be called a girl (after all, what's wrong with being a girl?) - he's going to have to live with that whether he likes it or not. I've always been a firm believer that you shouldn't use your kids for your own ends, personal, emotional or political, and in the real world you can't make your kids a crusade.

My friend, who agrees with me on many issues of feminist politics, disagree's with me on this one. She says that if you raise a kid to be strong, secure and not sexist then they wont have a problem with having a name of the other gender and are no more likely to have a problem with it than if you choose some other name they didn't like. As she says, no child gets a choice in their own name. She reckons that if you like a girls name on a boy you should use it, and only when people start doing that are these social ideas going to change. She also points out that I'm a girl named Steve and it never did me any harm - quite the opposite. I love my name and I personally think it's helped me. But I dunno.... She quite likes Racheal for a boy, and part of my wonders if I should feel really guilt for using it as an off-the-top-of-my-head example, just in case her future son resents me for it....

So, long rambly issue. But for the troopers who read it, wdyt?

The internet, it suggests names for me...

[amspeck-myworld.livejournal.com]

Have any of you tried 'suggestion' sites such as Nymbler.com or Babynamegenie.com ? Neither one is fantastic, but they are fun to play with...

Here are some of the boy names that were suggested:

Aldric
Alden
Constantin
Dominic (Already on my list)
Evander
Edwin
Franklin (Already on my list)
Gavin
Galen, Jaylen (same name, traditional spelling/pronuciation vs modern)
Naomhan, Nevan (traditional Welsh vs English version)
Fintan
Clark
Taliesin (Welsh name I'm debating the pronuciation of - I want to put the emphasis on the seond, but always come out on the third)

WDYT?

Boy Names.

[title-track-1.livejournal.com]

found out on new years eve that it is a boy to be expecting this may.

middle name will depend on first name selection.

just a quick poll of current first name contenders:

[Poll #1117374]new





*I opted for a poll because i don't really care to hear your negative comments on each name.
It would be more helpful for me if you would be so kind to pick your favorite out of the four chosen.

*I also realize that Holden from Catcher in the Rye wasn't the most likable character which has been reason enough for many to think that this name is a bad one always to be associated with the book.
To me thats like saying don't name your kid Ariel because it was a disney mermaid character and that is all people will think of. Plain absurdity. A name is a name.

more names from the hospital

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

Went through the house census on Sunday and wrote down some of the more uncommon names. Stars next to the ones I like.

I'll start with the ones I found middle names for...
Brentt Nathanayo (SERIOUSLY WTF, Brent Nathanial would have been nice, so they get major points for completely ruining a name)
Jasmine Maleah
Zachary Alexander*
Ana Lorena
Cianna Jin

and then there's....
( all of these names )

WDYT?

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[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

 My boyfriend's aunt is having a baby in Marchish and just found out it is a boy.

Christian.

The older two children are Parker and Jodi.

WDYT?

I've never been a fan of any of the names they used.

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[hoixcore.livejournal.com]

hi! ive been reading and reading but never posting..but now i am! anyway..im not expecting and probably wont be for a long time..but i have always loved thinking up baby names..right now i really like the name audrey for a girl..but im having trouble coming up with a middle name..one of my co-workers suggested lynn which is my middle name..im kelli lynn..and i was like..hmm i dont really want to give my daughter the same middle name as me..so then she said lane..i kinda like it..but im not sure..i was also thinking about christine..but she said its too long..i like it though..i was just wondering what you guys think :]

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[luxury-bus.livejournal.com]

We're completely stuck on middle names for the triplets. I like one name, whereas he likes the other and.... ahhh! We've narrowed it down pretty far, but this is where it's the most intense. Please vote and comment? We're polling practically everyone we see and getting down the public's general reaction to the names.[Poll #1117521][Poll #1117521]
We'll take any other suggestions as well. Thanks for your time!  =]