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[being-lola-star.livejournal.com]

I have two hobbies, fictional children's names and fictional band names.

For the past several weeks I have been toying with the name Britain. I have no clue where I picked it up but I'm downright in love with it. My idea is that if my hypothetical son truly hates it he can go by Ian. The name has been tossed around so many times that I actually had decided on Atticus as a middle name. Britain Atticus just sounds... dignified some how. It's a big name but I totally adore it. My joke though with myself was that I added enough names so have my child be BAMF "last name". Would I really do it, probably not. But it's amusing right now.

So as of this evening my fictional child is now called, Britain Atticus Maverick Foster

This adds to the list of my other fictional children:

-A set of twins that a high school friend and I invented as a joke, Elizabeth Laurel "Bethie" and Jasper Felix
-Their adoptive sisters, who my college roommate needed to create for a program as part of her nursing course, Bronwyn and Bronwyn 2.0 (because the program never let us name her sister)

Other names I've been playing with are Imogene, Eloise "Ella", Sebastian, and Kyle (for a girl).

Any thoughts or similar names to add to our games?

Revealing Your Name(s)

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I was reading an online article about the "dangers" of revealing a selected baby name before birth.  (Open up to criticism, stealing, etc.)

In the comments they asked if people waited.  Some commentors told us their children's names.  I thought they were interesting:

Jezzek - (boy) revealed early to disdain, now a beloved name.
Chelsi - (girl) and due in July (Levi or Hattie) - Told everyone in advance.
Jacee - (girl) Told early, but changed to this.  Grandma had a fit and would only call her "Holly" which wasn't part of either name or middle name.
Adeline Harper Grace - (girl) Originally was Charlotte Grace, but a week before Sarah Michelle Gellar had a kid with the same name, and baby didn't "look" like a Charlotte, so telling everyone early didn't matter, the name changed.
Zoe - (girl) - told early and grandparents refused to use the name until they found someone else with it and learned it wasn't made up.
Julian - (boy) shared a "top names" list when asked, but never their final decision on the list.
Rowan (boy) - used a decoy name (Burchfield Mumford) when people asked.
Liam - (boy) was the name choice if first child were a boy, and told after daughter was born.  Bad reception  but still used on second child that was a boy.
Liam and Patrick - "reserved" names not used yet, but discussed and "claimed"  Other sibling also reserved: Seamus and Eoin.

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[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

hello, all! a few things for this post:

-i'm writing a story in which one of my main characters goes by a different name daily. any suggestions? i'm avoiding names starting with the letter m. (and for funsies, if you were to change your name for short periods of time, what would you choose?) *

-what female names would have "ted" as a nickname (other than theodora)?

-how would you pronounce the name "helena"?

thanks!

*eta: the character is female; her real name is mary and her tongue-in-cheek default name is moneypenny, which is why i'm skipping m's. her name is randomly selected from a pre-determined list every morning and sent to her.

Birth Announcements

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Mckenzie Mary-Aileen (Dawson)
Tehila Tova
Luke Robert (Chloe)
Malcolm Andrew (Gavin)
Twins: Luca Logan & Matteo Samuel