family names

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

I know that some people don't like using family names.. I didn't use to care for it much myself, but it's grown on me. Problem is, I love my family's names, but don't care at all for my husband's family's names! ;)

So three names we like and I've mentioned before are Lily, Elizabeth, and Catherine (lol, these are our tamer names). My mn is Catherine and my mother's name is Catherine Elizabeth. Catherine and Elizabeth are also the names of my maternal great-grandmothers. My MIL's name is Susan, which I really do not care for, but Susan means Lily. My mom also used to call me her 'blackeyed susan' (type of flower, black/brown center, yellowish-orange petals). Anyway.. so I'm thinking of a combo of Lily and Elizabeth or Lily and Catherine. Could also be Lilian or Eliza. Combo ideas? WDYT? *edit* What do you guys think of Elizabeth Catherine or Lillian Catherine with 'Lily Cate' as a nn? Too much of a mouthful? Also, I came up with Edith Catrine (a play on my name, Meredith Catherine) during my first pregnancy, but noone liked Edith. Okay, so no Edith, but what do you guys think of Eliza Catrine?
 
Also, as I've said before, we're probably going to use my husband's middle name, Edward, as a mn for a son. My husband is a third and we want to carry on at least part of his name. We've liked Edward, but lately have been liking Ashley for a boy and we'd be able to carry on the same first initial that way. What do you guys think of  Ashley Edward?  *edit* for comparison-- our other name idea, which we've been fond of for awhile, is Jonah Edward. If we do use Ashley, we'd probably nn to Ash. Yes, I totally love this name because of the Evil Dead reference. ;)

Do you think it's weird when siblings share a first initial? I've never liked that my husband and his sister had the same first initial We might use Alice as well so that would give us multiple A- names as well. :( Hopefully we'll have more than two children, though. FWIW, my husband goes by Ted, not Albert. 

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[tammihayne.livejournal.com]

Actually Rogan and Rylan aren't made up. Rylan however is typically a boy's name and is sometimes spelled Ryland. Riston actually shows up in a name dictionary too believe it or not but ya...we get some looks most of the time when people hear them...especially all starting with R and ending with N :P