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[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Good Afternoon Everyone!

My lovely husband and I just got the exciting news we will be expecting in January...time to start seriously considering names...

Boys:
Cohen Nash
Hudson
Reynolds
Maddox


Girls:
Matilda Ryan
Marley Ryan
Madeline
Evie


I'm struggling with middle names, if you can't tell. I'm debating using Olive, after Abigail Breslin's character in 'Little Miss Sunshine' as a middle name for Evie...Evie Olive. Not too sure how it sounds...

Suggestions? Comments? Hate mail?

Comments

[mamakimi.livejournal.com]

Boys:
Cohen Nash - Like the first HATE the middle
Hudson - Cute
Reynolds - Reminds me of Ryan and I LOVE him but don't think it works for a first name
Maddox - It's my sons middle names so it's love


Girls:
Matilda Ryan - Dislike the first, love the second
Marley Ryan - Love both!
Madeline - It's okay
Evie - It's okay but it's to nick name sounding and can't picture it on an adult.

Evie Olive - TERRIBLE. Sounds awful together.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

As far as Nash, Hudson, and Reynolds - we're BIG Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks fans in our house - Nash is after Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns, and Reynolds and Hudson are both members of the AZ Diamondbacks.

I'm beginning to notice how many people don't like Matilda - but I'm totally amped that people agree with Marley - It's my number one choice, but my husband thinks people won't like it.

[la-jolie-vie.livejournal.com]

I love Marley and Madeline. Evie Olive... well I don't really like the name "olive." Maybe "Olivia." Maddox and Hudson are my favorite of the boys names that you have chosen. I would choose something like Evie Adara or Evie Adele. Maybe Evie Lilah, Evie Dylan, Evie Diane, or what about Evie Madeline?

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

I love Evie Dylan! That sounds so adorable! I'm going to have to jot it down and take it back to my husband - he usually casts the 'veto' vote :)

[orbg.livejournal.com]

I love the name Coen, only I'm planning to spell it without an H. Olive rocks!

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Olive TOTALLY rocks...unfortunately she might remain trapped in the film masterpiece she was created in.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

All your boy's names sound so much (or are) last names...but I do like Nash.
I also really like Marley and Matilda.
I prefer Madeleine to Madeline...but that's just personal preference.
As for Evie...how about a longer name with Evie as a nickname? Some suggestions:

Evalyn/Eveline
Evangeline
Evana
Evanthe
Evangelia
Evania
Geneva
Genevieve

Also, I loved Little Miss Sunshine, but the name Olive always reminds me of, well, olives.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean! I was just watching it last night, and desperatly trying to match a middle name to Evie - and when I heard her name, I thought, maybe - just maybe, it might work.

I love Evalyn - my husband has already turned it down a couple of times - so we'll have to see if I can sneak it in again.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Another Madeline? I am so tapping this for fastest-rising name between the 2007 and 2008 chart. Christ on a cracker.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

You should see how long it took just to get my husband to agree on those names.

Zero suggestions, yet every other name I've come up with is terrible.

[decembermama.livejournal.com]

My best friends name is Olivia and I've called her Olive for years but I don't know, I don't like it much as a name rather than nickname.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Awh! I totally love that! Although I would hate to name my child one thing, just with the hope that a nickname will stick.

[doodlbug.livejournal.com]

I dislike Evie Olive, mainly because I feel like Evie could be a nickname for Olive.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm beginning to probably realize it was a bad last minute conclusion for a middle name. Back to the ideas board...

[sweetrhythms.livejournal.com]

I love Little Miss Sunshine, what a good movie! However, don't love the name, and don't particularly love it with the first name Evie...

That said, I think I like all of your names. Reynolds is the only one I'm not really crazy about.

My favorites are Hudson, Maddox and Marley. =)

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly - I wasn't that crazy about Reyonlds either, I just sort of threw it out there, and now my husband really likes it.

Yay irony.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I don't like Evie as a full first name. Why not Eve, Evelyn or Evangeline?

I like Hudson and Maddox. I really dislike Marley for a girl, especially with a name as masculine as Ryan.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

I actually really like the middle name Ryan for a little girl. To me, it could go both ways. Maybe the spelling should be different? Although I really hate it when people do that...butcher names all crazy.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

They're all super trendy. I do like Matilda, though. I also like Madeline, but combine all the Madelines, Madeleines, Madelyns, Madisons, etc., and man oh man. Out of the boys' names, I like Cohen the best. Maddox just makes it look like you're obsessed with celebrities or something. Evie would be a nice nickname for Evelyn, or Eveline, or Evangeline, or Evanna, or anything else that starts with 'Ev', but it seems too informal on its own.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

That's EXACTLY what I was worried about with Maddox - I super love the name, but I'm in no way a Celeb Hound, and I'm def not a huge Angelina fan...I promise you, all it probably takes is just one person confirming what I already felt.

You're the first person to like Matilda :) I've loved it ever since the Matilda movie with Danny DeVito...starring that little girl who hasn't done anything since she wasn't a little girl anymore.

I think Madeline may be exed - even though I swear it's not due to anything in the trend universe - it's actually from one of my favoite books growing up - the Madeline books.

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

Oh Hudson ♥

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Thank you! My husbadn really seems to like it as well :)

[auxoriousrex.livejournal.com]

why Cohen? and why pair that wish Nash?

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Well, my husband REALLY likes the name Cohen - and I actually find it kind of cute too - it's not too masculine (like his other choices - Brock, Brody), and I think it's also a name that the baby can grow into...not one of those cutesy names that only really works for a toddler & child.

We actually, sadly, got the idea from the TV teen soap drama 'The OC' - My husband loved Adam Brody's character Seth Cohen, and since everyone called him 'Cohen' on the show - we got attached.

As far as Nash goes - I explained it in a comment up above...we're both big Phoenix Suns fans, and loved the idea of naming our son/daughter (if we could get away with the latter) after a member of the team. We both really like Steve Nash, and thought that the name Cohen Nash flowed really nicely.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Your boys' names are all surnames!

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

It's absolutely ridiculous.

[auxoriousrex.livejournal.com]

I will say something nice though, since apparently I'm way ~harsh~. I adore all of your other name choices.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

I appreciate you showing your non-patronizing side. Even if it is how you do.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

For boys I'm not crazy about any of them, but I don't mind Hudson.

I like both Matilda and Marley a lot, and Ryan is a name I balked at at first, but I actually don't mind it as a middle name, because it can just look like the mother's maiden name or something, which I think is cute. But Madeline is way too popular these days. I'm not fond of Evie (I do like Eve, though). Evie and Olive individually would be okay, but together it becomes too old-fashioned for my tastes.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for your suggestions! Both Marley and Matilda are staying on my list - I think Madeline has officially made it's way off the chart :)

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I've actually grown to like Matilda; it's a friend's middle name, and it works really well with her.

Evie Olive sounds awful. And Olive is one of my favourite names, so it's not that I don't like it, but they just sound so bad together.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Don't worry - you can peacefully go on knowing that I most definitely will not be naming my child Evie Olive. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/____tonightt/]

Im planning to name my first son Cohen. That is my top boys name, and I am aware of its meaning to the Jewish religion, which I am not apart of but I do respect. I like the sound of it and I saw it from the Coen Brothers, and thought it was such a nice last name and could pass as a first name, I looked it up a while ago and saw that it could be spelt Cohen and loved it ever since.

There are so many names that can be offensive for people, such as someone naming their child after a saint, or naming them Jesus, or Nevaeh is offensive to some people. You shouldnt take that to seriously.

For all your other names, I love them all except Evie, maybe you could find something that that name could be the nn for :]

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for commenting me. If you can't tell, I'm also aquainted with the Jewish meaning of the name as well now ;) I really didn't mean to be offensive, and I'm sure that no matter what name I pick - it's never going to please everyone. Cheers.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__recidivist/]

Dude, Cohen Nash would have to be a bad. ass. Like, I'm envisioning Jack Daniels straight from the bottle, an electric guitar held without the strap, and the Metalicar.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

LOL, I really don't want this to add to the -drama- that is the name Cohen, but I would be COMPLETELY lying if I said that image hasn't come to mind. It's very...Van Wilder to me. Except graduated. My husband loves it.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

cohen nash is cute. i LOVE hudson. and i sort of like maddox, but i cant shake the jolie association and that makes me upset.

i like matilda ryan, madeline and evie. i prefer evie as a nickname for something however, like evelyn.

evie olive is a bit of a tongue twister.

ps: i really dislike reynolds, and marley.

pps: congrats!!!!

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

LOL- Yeah, everyone has been honest and told me they can't shake the Angie association also - *Crosses Maddox off the list*

It can join the Evie/Ovie combo, since I've gone ahead and taken that first and middle name duo off.

Thank you SO much for the congrats!

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on the boy's names for girls bit: Dillan, Toni, etc.

I was on the fence with Ryan, and I'm pretty sure I won't pair it with Marley anymore - but I do really like it with Matilda. I think they balance each other out, actually.

I don't like the name Nash in and of itself (I once met someone with that first name...), but I actually think it flows really nicely with Cohen, and it's after Steve Nash from the Phoenix Suns.

Thanks so much for taking the time to comment!

[azelmaroark.livejournal.com]

Boys:
Cohen Nash -- Sounds last-name-y, and "Nash" brings to mind redneck connotations for me (and I live in the south).
Hudson -- Ditto with the redneck.
Reynolds -- Last-name-y.
Maddox -- Favorite of your boys' list, but I do think of Angie Jolie. =/


Girls:
Matilda Ryan -- I love Matilda, and this combination works well.
Marley Ryan -- "Marley" is too masculine with "Ryan." I'd go with either Matilda or Madeline if you want to use Ryan as a middle name, but I do like Marley with a more feminine middle name.
Madeline -- Love "Mad-ah-line" but not crazy about "Mad-uh-lyn."
Evie -- Love as a nickname for Evelyn (not Evalyn, this looks misspelled).

I like Olive as a nickname for Olivia. I'd try to give her something else to go by in case she grows up and decides that Olive isn't cute anymore. Good luck!

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

HAH, Awh that's sad they bring to mind red-neck connotations. Both Nash and Hudson are members of Arizona sports teams (Steve Nash - the Phoenix Suns, Orlando Hudson - AZ Diamondbacks), and it's an idea my husband really likes. I'll have to tell him - LOL.

I think I'm totally over Maddox - a lot of people have voiced EXACTLY what I was afraid of - that it would be too Angelina Jolie-esque.

We had originally paired Marley with Grace - my great-grandmother's name, but I thought it sounded too girly with Marley. And I couldn't agree with you more about the Ah-line vs. Uh-lyn.

Thanks so much for your comment :) Awesome suggestions.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i really like both evie and olive, but not together.

out of your list, i like:
Hudson
Matilda
Ryan
Marley - i looooove marley
Evie

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, after this LJ post - I have to publicly announce that Evie and Olive will be more than likely breaking up ;)

[catchstars.livejournal.com]

I like Olive and Evie/Eve, but not together. The repeating V sound is a little much. From the names you like, I like combining them to make Marley Olive and Eve Marley as well as Madeleine Olive and Matilda Eve.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

I'm actually probably crossing Matilda and Madeline off my list. Not too many people have been crazy about them - and I totally understand the reasoning.

As far as Evie Olive/Marley Olive - I actually REALLY like Marely Olive - way cute, and I thank you a bunch for that suggestion - but Evie Olive is MOST DEFINITELY off the list :)

[anaphylexis.livejournal.com]

A no to Evie Olive. I love Evie but like it better as a nickname because it does not sould like a stand alone name. I really like Olive too. It's the combo that sounds anappealing. The name Evie exists in the name Olive, all the same letters are there so it looks a little off. I do like Marley Ryan, even though I don't usually like boy names on girls. Maybe it's because I like the actress Marley Shelton?

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Yeah...Evie Olive is a no.
Marley's definitely still on the list, though :)