Banned Baby Names

[renishas.livejournal.com]

I read this yesterday and thought that this community was the perfect place for it. There are some fascinating names in here. Some of them make you wonder why their parents hate them.

10 Illegal Baby Names

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Sibling name ideas.

[mrsbenglish.livejournal.com]

Hi there, It's been awhile :) Over 3 years ago I was here asking for ideas about my first daughter's name. Now we're expecting baby number two. I don't think we'll be finding out the sex of this babe so we're trying to make lists of names we like.

We're having a hard time with boy names in particular.

Our Daughter's name is Lilliana Elizabeth (I know, before, some of you said this was the wrong spelling, and redundant, but we like it so we stuck with it.)

For a girl, we're leaning heavily toward the name Margot Emily, but we have a small list of other girl names too:

Beatrix
Imogen
Penelope
Ivy
Evelyn

For boys:

Orin
Jude
Michai
Oscar
Jasper
Elliot


But none of these are really "THE ONE" for me. I like other names like Samuel, Simon, Maxwell, Henry, Theodore, and Asa, but all of these names are names of friend's or family's children.

What do you all think? Do you have any other ideas?

Duplicate names in a family via spouses/SOs?

[opalgirl28.livejournal.com]

There's a pattern in my mother's family that I thought might interest you, baby_names folks: family members marrying/dating someone who has the same first name as another member of the family.

ex.

My great-grandfather's name was Ervin. My great-aunt, his daughter, grew up to marry a man also named Ervin.

My grandparents had four children:
Randall (Randy) Boyd
Annette Marie
Kimberly (Kim) Ann
Paula Claudette

The youngest of my aunts and uncles, Paula Claudette, grew up and married a man named Randall (Randy) Blair. Her husband has the same first name as her older brother--this makes gatherings endlessly confusing, because we're a pretty close bunch.

Annette Marie is my mother, and her SO's name is Eric. After my biological grandfather passed away, my grandmother married a man--also conveniently named, you guessed it, Eric.

Kimberly Ann has a teenaged son, Justin William, whose longterm girlfriend is Kimberley Anne.

Randall Boyd's daughter is Ashley May, and she just called to ask if she could bring her boyfriend, Justin, to my family's Christmas dinner.

Does this happen in anyone else's family?