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[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

Hello! I'm Erin, married for 2 years, almost 6 weeks pregnant with our first child. This name thing is going to be war, I can tell already. :) While I enjoy classic names, I erally don't want to name my child something common. I want to use something different, but not ghetto. Hubby likes (IMO) really biring names. He's not really into anything I pick, though it's unclear yet if he's going to fight me on any of them, haha.

Here are my favs:

Girl: Aubrey Joy, Mae Victoria or Victoria Mae

I would also love to encorporate my sister's name in my daughter's name, if I could, since we're very close. Her name is Allison. 

Boys: Dalton Christopher or Dalton Matthew, we also like Tyler and yesterday I thought of Levon, but I don't think I actually like that enough. 

Hubby keeps going with Sara and Shawn. Ugh. Sooo not creative at all.

Comments

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I like all the girl's names you mentioned, but I like Victoria Mae best.

Also, I would consider Audrey more classic than Aubrey, but maybe that's just me. Have you thought about that one?

I'm not really a fan of Dalton but I do like Tyler.

Other suggestions:
Faye
Elyse
Lillian
Sophie
Clara
Elaine
Helena
Adrianne/Adrienne

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

Of those listed, I like Sophie and Lillian, we even though about Lillian, except they are both super popular right now and I'm trying to stay away from super trendy names. Don't want my daughter to be one of 4 Lilly's in her class.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I didn't know Lillian was so popular! I can see why you'd want to stay away from it then =)

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

It may just be where I am. According to the SSA it's been the top 50 for 2005 and 2006, so that's really not THAT popular, I guess. I think I just know a lot of Lilly's.

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of names popular that have a Lilly nickname right now.

Lillian, Lillith, Delilah, Lilly by itself, etc.

[admirari.livejournal.com]

I like Tyler and Sean/Shawn. Not Dalton, Matthew, Christopher.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

I like Tyler. I hate Shawn. And hubby wants it spelled liked that. At least it would be a little better with the gaelic spelling!

[admirari.livejournal.com]

I agree. But the character on Psych, Shawn, has changed my opinion. he's too adorable and a Shawn, too :D

[admirari.livejournal.com]

maybe Alexandra as the nod to Allison. Has the "al..." but also regal sounding like Victoria. Alexandra Mae?

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

IAWTC.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I love Mae Victoria and Victoria Mae. I don't like Aubrey, but I like Audrey, so I think Audrey Joy would be really nice.

I'm not crazy about Dalton, because it reminds me of the premier of Ontario, haha.

If you don't want boring names, I'd stay away from Tyler, because it's really popular, and has been since the 80s or 90s at least... it's even kind of dated. But something like Mae Victoria would be pretty uncommon.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

Haha. Dalton is my mother's maidan name, so it's special to me.

Yeah, Tyler is pretty common, but my last name is Newton and I think Tyler Newton is a rockstar name. :)

I'm really liking Mae right now, quite a bit.

[admirari.livejournal.com]

I actually like Aubrey Joy better than Audrey Joy - a 'b' to a 'zh' sound is easier to me than a double 'd''zh'... make sense?

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

Yes it does. I love Aubrey. Love love love.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

lol it's my name - use it use it use it ;P

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

Yay! Well, I can ask you some questions about it then, if you don't mind.

What's your middle name? Do you have a nickname and are there any awful things that children did to your name that I should be aware of?

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

No problem!

I have two middle names. I'm Aubrey Clare Elana. My parents thought my nick name would be Bree but no one has ever called me that. My Dad calls me Aubrey and my mom calls me a pet name that has nothing to do with my actual name. My friends call me Aubs.

Nobody has ever made fun of my name really. When I was a kid and people needed to taunt me they called me "Aubrey Bobrey" but really that can be done with any name.

[willsjoy.livejournal.com]

I like that. Yeah, I would think Bree or Brie. My bother says he'll call the baby cheese, haha. It's not a very popular name, is it? You're only the 3rd Aubrey I've ever heard of.

And that's a stupid taunt. haha. :)

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

I love Aubrey Clare.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I like May more than Mae, but beyond that I like all of your name choices. Sara and Shawn...meh. I hate those spellings! Sarah and Sean are much nicer.

Allison is a pretty name too, maybe use it as a middle name?

[scouty.livejournal.com]

I like Victoria Mae

maybe you could use Victoria Mae Allison

and Dalton Christopher

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

I like Victoria Mae the best.

You could use Alice for Allison. I like Alice a lot. It's classic, but uncommon, and I think it has "spunk".

Some suggestions:
Flora
Annie
Claire ( really like Victoria Claire)
Violet
Eloise
Anabel
Etta
Rachel
Josephine
Bryony
Esme
Elsa
Viola

[plaidpineapple.livejournal.com]

I really like Victoria Mae and Mae Victoria.

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the name war. It took me until 20 weeks or so to get Hubby to even suggest any names (except the one he'd had in mind since he was about 16), so you've got a good start. We still aren't settled on any names, and we're 26 weeks, but we do have a "possibilities" list, and he's more vocal now about whether he likes or dislikes names I suggest.

Maybe you could compromise on a classic name that's currently super-popular (Victoria's a good start; I love it), or longer names that could shorten to things he likes (Sara could be a plausible nickname for several things).

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

I prefer Victoire to Victoria, but I like your names. Like Aubrey better than Audrey. As far as classic not ghetto names go -

Annabell(a)
Arabella
Coraline
Helena
Vivian/Vivienne
Veronica
Ophelia
Philomena
Petra
Bronwen

Boys name are hard for me. I'm very surnamey...

[ladydiddymus.livejournal.com]

I love Sara, and at least it could never be called trendy :)
I like Victoria, but its almost always shortened to Vicky and I really don't like that name.

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

Haha, you and your husband sound so much like me and my BF. I like classic and slightly different names, and he likes boring names like Sara and William! :D

I love Victoria amd like Dalton!
Some of my favourites are:
Theodore
Gethin
Edward
Caspian
Julian
Rhys

Imogen
Alice [to incorporate your sisters name?]
Rhiannon
Harriet

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i like mae a lot! would you be open to naming her something like megan, or margaret, or mary and calling her mae? you could name her mary allison?

i like the name dalton, but its the name of the town i grew up in, so its always wierd to hear it as a name. if i could separate myself from that association, i think its a really great name.

[nothingbuthp.livejournal.com]

Love Aubrey Joy!!!