It's a girl!!

[breezy-boo.livejournal.com]

Dh and I are expecting our first baby in December and it's a girl!! We are sooo excited, I've always wanted a girl first... But we are not as set on a name! Boy would have been Artem Elliott

We are trying to stick with a Russian first name and a family middle name, but these rules aren't definite.

Here are some contenders-

Alena Mae (current top runner, nn Lena)
Lena Elizabeth (I think Lena might sound like a nn on it's own?)
Inessa Elizabeth
Ksenia Elizabeth
Klara Elizabeth (is clara too popular?)

Other names I like for suggestions-

Florence isadora (loovvee this name so much and wish dh would let me use it, but he says it sounds like a name out of classic literature... Which I see as a good thing and he does not)
elizaveta (could use as a middle name to kill 2 birds with one stone- family name/ Russian name)
milena (not technically Russian so dh is against it)


Anyways- suggestions and opinions?

wild names.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

I've heard a few wild ones lately. Hopefully this is not offensive because I'm pretty sure parents who pick names like these will consider wild to be a compliment.

In a waiting room: Triton (boy)
At a park: Moxie (girl). Nicknamed "Mox" sometimes. She was too young to be Penn Jillette's daughter, so there are at least two Moxies out there.
Also at a park: Orion (boy) and Arrow (girl), brother and sister.

Any wild names you've personally encountered lately?