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My cousins keep popping out babies (and every time I can feel my mother looking at me like I'm next!)

So, in the past few months alone we've gotten:

Cade Christopher - I hate alliteration and the name Cade, so I hate it. Everyone wanted him to be named Christopher after his grandfather who died really suddenly a few years ago and was awesome.
Megan and Micah - female fraternal twins. Megan's too bland for me and I refer Micah for boys.
Carlita - who joins her sister Raquel, my cousin's husband is mexican (like, moved here when they married mexican) and their names are Rachel and Carlos, so the babies are Raquel and Carlita (who they call Carly) i think it's cheesy, and i don't like either name

my other cousins already had (i put m or f where it wasnt obvious):

Emma and Matthew
Katie and Grey (m)
Chloe and Macy
Timothy (Timmy) and Michael and Anna
Shelby and Gabriel (Gabe) -- love this name and
Fredrick (Fred) and Xavier
Alexis (Lexy) and Cassandra (Cassie)
Katie (another)
Helen Catherine
Paul

and i'm forgetting a few, which is pretty sad, but geez there's tons of them!

on the other side of the family only one cousin has a baby, Grace Constance which I think is beautiful. Grace and Constance are both family names on my fathers side, though this baby is the first Grace to go by Grace instead of her middle name (my grandmother goes by Bernadette and my aunt goes by Connie even though they're both named Grace).

my boyfriend asked me a bit ago if i popped out a baby right now what would I name it, I said Lennon if it was a girl, but he said no, so i said Augustine (augus-teen) and if it was a boy Curtis after him. I'd want the girl to be Augustine Catherine for my mother but if i had another girl i'd probably make her middle name Denise which is his mothers middle name and my first name.
Augustine and Curtis are a kind of bad sounding sibset though, haha.

thoughts on any/all of these names?

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is Shelby a boy or girl?

For the life of me, I don't know why anyone would name their kid Fred. Ugh. Such an ugly, "50 years ago" name.

i think fred is spunky! it's my mom's name, so i'm probably biased, but i think the name has character.

it was my uncle by marriage's name (well, fredrick, he went by fred), and they named their son fred and one of their other sons named his son fred, so thus it went.

To me, Augustine is a boy's name.

I like the name Emma a lot but it's used a ton. Xavier is kinda cool but I don't know that I'd ever use it.

Constance is a great name, I love that.

I love Lennon. It's on my list, as a tribute to two of my all time favorite musicians... [john and sean...look to the icon!] emma is okay, matthew is alright, i prefer kate to katie, grey... no. too many people name their chihuahuas chloe. macy is alright. no to timmy...south park connotations. michael is alright, kind of bland. so is anna. shelby...eh. gabriel is alright. fred is eh. xavier is eh... no to alexis, and to cassandra. helen is alright, i prefer helena. catherine is alright. paul is boring. micah and christopher are the only good ones out of the first few. augustine isn't bad. i don't really like curtis.

I like:
Christopher
Megan
Raquel
Matthew
Katie
Chloe
Timothy
Catherine
Curtis

I don't like Augustine at all.

My friend's niece is named Augustine. She has a twin sister named Antonia.
I personally love the name, but I know a lot of people percieve it as a boys only name.

And my good friend Julia's middle name is Constance. I always thought Julia Constance sounded so elegant.

I love Micah, but it's horrendous on girls. It's a boy's name!!! Argh!!! That and it sounds so awkward with Megan as a sibling set, especially for twins. If they were going to use Micah, another unisex name would work so much better; if they were going to use Megan, I would have gone with something like Ashley, Alyssa, etc. - something of a similar style.

Like:
Matthew, and although I dislike Emma, it sounds great.
Timothy, Michael, Anna
Gabriel/Gabe
Frederick
Cassandra
Helen and Catherine but not together
Paul

I like Raquel, but not after you explained the Rachel/Carlos thing! Too bad if they have a third hey