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[miss--nikki.livejournal.com]

Hi I just found this community while I was looking for help with baby names. My friends are great, but sometimes you need more. I KNEW there had to be an LJ community for it, and I was right! (There's a community for everything!)

Anyway, here I am almost 3 months pregnant, plenty of time to decide, but love to think about it all the time so you could say I'm a little obessed with baby names. Always have been. 5 weeks and I find out what gender it is so for now I'm picking both, but hoping for a girl. (I shouldn't say that hehe)

Girl Names so far:
Avalyn
Madison
Johanna
Aurora (husband doesn't like that too much, but I love it)
Gwendolyn
Hazel
Sky
Taylor
(I'm sure there is more I love, but can't think of them atm)

Boys names:
Aidan or Ayden
Evan
Mason
Garrett
Grant
Trevor
Jason


So, those are some I'm thinking of. Any input is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!!! Glad to meet all of you! :-)
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Comments

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Grrr!!!!! Every other post here is about Aidan/Ayden!!!! Make it stop!!!

Sorry. I'm not yelling at you in particular, but I had to get that off my chest... :) Not that it's a BAD name - I'm just SO tired of seeing it that I think I have developed some kind of grudge against it!!

Okay, now that that's over with....

I LOVE Hazel and Johanna.

Avalyn looks like Evelyn spelled wrong. Or like someone liked Ava but wanted to change it a bit. Don't like it at all. Why not just go with Evelyn, a pretty, classic name?

Madison is trendy... or, WAS trendy, what, about three years ago? It already sounds dated, and I've never understood its appeal.

I like the look and idea of Aurora, but hate the way it sounds - it's hard to say clearly. Rowrrrowrrr...

Taylor will forever be a last name to me.

Sky sounds like a stripper, and I can't imagine an adult professional woman with that name. If anything - a middle name if you're really set on it. (Evelyn Sky would work if you like those names.)

As for boys... None of your boys' names really appeal to me. Grant, maybe.

[http://users.livejournal.com/---surfacing/]

i agree with the aiden comment. lol

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

It made me think of the car Avalon.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Sky sounds like a stripper, and I can't imagine an adult professional woman with that name.

I used to agree that names should be versatile and able to sound professional as well, but recently realised that I know heaps of professional people with really babyish names, and am completely used to it. The name just goes with the person. I also know a young woman named Skye and once you learn that that is her name, you just associate the name "Skye" with her, and not with strippers or hippies or anything else you might think if you just heard the name on its own referring to nobody in particular.

So, I'd say Skye would be fine for someone of any age, especially considering that there are many more wacky names about in her generation and Skye won't sound too out there, amongst all her peers.

[miss--nikki.livejournal.com]

I agree. I have read in articles for help naming your baby that you shouldn't worry about a name sounding too babyish or cute or childlike. A person grows into their name. I would like to give my child the option though. For instance my name if I feel professional I could go by Nicole, if I feel playful and flirty I go by Nikki. (Course even at work I go by Nikki because I think Nicole is boring), but you catch my drift. So I must say I agree with you. I think Skye is pretty. I could see a woman in a suit with the name Skye. I would never name her Cherry or Bambi or anything. LOL ;-)

[daveandmonika.livejournal.com]

I actually know a Cherrie (pronounced like the fruit) and it's true, once you meet a real person with that name you tend not to stereotype it anymore (especially if they are not like the stereotype at all).

[miss--nikki.livejournal.com]

Funny that you say that about Aidan because after my husband and I read that Aidan was the numebr one most popular name for 2005 I didn't want it anymore. And same with Madison (it was #3 on msn). I NEVER have heard Aidan, and Madison has always been a favorite of mine. But we are picking completely different names. i just wanted to know what everyone thought. I'm not sick of eithe rbecause I don't knwo anyone with either name. But I don't want my kid to have 5 best friends with the same name liek I did growing up.