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

[cherrysorbet.livejournal.com]

Love Amelia.