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crista.livejournal.comI've been lurking in here for a few weeks now but today I am having crazy pregnant lady obsession with names and I'm fairly sure if I go over this with my friends again they are going to start blocking my IMs. So I pose my current dilemma to the group in hopes y'all can either talk some sense into me or soothe my worries.
We're 5 months pregnant and have yet to find out gender. So far husband and I have a name if "Bean" is a boy, Benjamin Michael, which are family names for both of us. The issue comes in with a girl name. For various reasons I never saw kids in my future so until we became pregnant I had not given them much thought, or paid much attention to naming trends. That being said as long as I can remember I've randomly had dreams that I'd eventually have a daughter named Madison. (I know, I know! Hear me out.) I never mentioned this to my husband, and literally days before we found out that we were pregnant we both had baby girl named Madison dreams. He's really set on using it as a girls name, he utterly adores it, and I was all about this too until I learned just how popular it is. Honestly, I had no idea.
As my username suggests, my first name is Crista, and I've always enjoyed having a not incredibly common name without it being "out there". Was never teased about my name, the only problem I've ever had is people putting a K or H in there. So my goal was to find something equally as uncommon but not crazy the offspring. I know neither Benjamin or Michael are remotely uncommon, but Ben is incredibly special to my husband and Michael is my beloved deceased Father's name. I know he'd be utterly tickled that we use it for a middle name. Also, something in my brain says that we're having a girl so I'm not worried about it.
So I'm torn. Really torn. Part of me says to just go with Madison popular or not because thus far it is the ONLY girls name we're remotely on the same page about and because I'm just hippie enough that a lifetime of repeated dreams means something to me. The other part of me gags at uber trendy name.
This has probably become TL;DR but one last thing is Anne is written in stone for a femme middle name. It's my middle, Mom's middle, Grandma's middle, Great Grandma's Middle and Great Great Grandma's middle. As each one of us are/were pretty awesome ladies (if I do say so myself) I'm not budging on that.
TIA, sorry I'm so long winded =)
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