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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.

[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?

[orbg.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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]

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.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

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

[sweetrhythms.livejournal.com]

I love Steve Nash too

[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 :)

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

You're not the first woman to say this. If he makes zero suggestions, he's allowed zero vetoes. Give him a large baby name book and tell him he's required to pick ten. And you can make a limited list of ten, too.

And then work from there.

But if you continue to allow him to negate negate negate without creating, how is that going to help you out, in the end? Make it clear his input isn't optional — not unless he wants his veto power to be optional, too!

[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.

[doodlbug.livejournal.com]

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

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

Yay! Then you know who I'm talking about! I personally wanted to name him after Raja Bell somehow - but my husband said there's no way we can fit the very ethnic name 'Raja' into our little boys name...so Steve was the compromise. I actually think it flows really nicely.

[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]

I'm just going to print out your comment, and hand it to him, along with the baby name book.

aquilium says so.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Happy to help! Stern ol' LJ lady, fightin' for your rights!

[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.

[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]

haha oh wow! raja bell would be a tough name to fit in there... Maddox Bell? Maddox Raja? haha

[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.

[nikkabee.livejournal.com]

HAH, EXACTLY!
I was just trying to sneak in the first name Raja - but my hubby was like 'absolutely not, we're not naming our baby after the tiger on Aladdin'

[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.