Hello...

[lime-coconut.livejournal.com]

I'm new here, but have always been fascinated with the pursuit of names. I have no children currently, but am engaged and would love to become a mother someday.

I have a much easier time finding girl names I like rather than boy names. My old favorite girl name used to be Rosemary, despite the movie. But lately I've been loving Iris, which my SO doesn't like so much (he's in the icon, ha). I've always wanted her middle name to be Ann, which is my and my mother's middle name.

For a boy, so far the only name we can both decide we like is Oren,


For some reason I haven't been able to decipher, my SO has latched on with a fierceness to the name Alabaster for a boy. He wanted it as a first name, with Oak as the middle name. Ugh. I hate the name Alabaster. It doesn't even mean anything as a name, I think it's a mineral or something. All I can hear when I say it is "Al the Bastard." I only got him to agree to move it to the middle name after I found Oren, and that his initials would then be OAK...

Any thoughts? Is it really as bad as I think it is?



My other top names I like are:

Girls:

Alice
Amelia
Freya
Gillian
Thalia (Can it be pronounced both TAL-ia and THAL-ia or usually just Tal?)

(Unfortunately I really like names ending in y, like Melody, Bethany, Rosemary, etc. But our last name will be Killary, and cutesy rhyming is to be avoided in my opinion.)

Boys:

Amos
Asher / Ashton
Thaddeus (nn Thad)
Theo
Xander

All feedback is welcome. Thanks :)

Comments

[amspeck-myworld.livejournal.com]

I think your boy compromise is good - Oren is great, and the middle name/initials meaning a lot to your SO is always a plus. I quite like it :)

My favorite from your girl list is Amelia (prefer Amaliah) and I like Oren best from your boys list, with Amos being a close second :)

[sweatydog.livejournal.com]

Alice***
Thalia- When I see this I always say "TAL-iah"

Boys:

Amos- Loove
Asher***
Theo- I like Theo prefer Theodore as the full name
Xander- I like.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

could you possibly talk him into alastair instead? its so close, and is actually a name. how about owen as another alternative to oren?

of your list, with your last name, i really love alice and amelia, amos, asher, and theo is nice too.

[lime-coconut.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I actually rather like Alastair. I like the meaning too. Thanks, I'll see what I can do ;)

I have a rather bad association with the name Owen due to someone I know, but thanks for the suggestion.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i would go with alastair or allister instead of alabaster..or maybe something else that's sort of similar like alan or bastian?

i don't think the initials being OAK are a big deal at all.

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

Maybe convince him to go for Sebastien or something instead of Alabaster? He might also like Valerian. I do like the idea of the initials OAK, but Alabaster, not so much. Alistair is nice, instead, or Alain.

I like your other favorites except for Amos (I can't help but think of the husband in Chicago, and it makes me sad), and I prefer Xander as a nickname for Alexander, but it's still nice. I've heard Thalia pronounced thah-LEE-yah a couple times, as well as both TAL-ya and THAL-ya--I think it's mostly up to you.

Oren Asher Killary sounds pretty good, and still gives you OAK. You could get the same initials for a girl with Olivia Alice or Olivia Ann, but then I wouldn't suggest trying for the OAK thing with a future boy, lol.

[cherrysorbet.livejournal.com]

Love Amelia.

[feisty-fitz.livejournal.com]

I really like Oren for the first name and the initials OAK. However, I agree with some of the commenters above asking you to consider Alastair intsead. I think Oren Alastair Killary sounds like a really good name! Good luck!!