A variety of things

[lilmizmombassa.livejournal.com]

Sib sets:

Tobi (f)
Travis (m)

Majia (prn. Maya, f)
Wesleigh (f)

Kristen
Kerrin
Kaelin

Catherine MacEntire (middle is a family name)
Christopher Macre (prn. Mack-ray, he says it doesn't have any family significance, but is just "French")

And, a new baby:

Samantha Lynn, joins big brother Michael Martin.

Comments

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

Tobi - eh. i like toby for a boy.
Majia - how is this pronounced like maya? shouldn't it just be spelled maja?
Wesleigh - i like wesley for a boy

[lilmizmombassa.livejournal.com]

Nope, according to the book I read it in (an autobiography) it was prn. maya. Also, funnily enough, I knew a dog named Majia and they pronounced it the same way. I think it's icky, but the dog was adorable.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

Tobi - What would that be short for? I really hope that's not the given name. Toby is fine for a boy, but I don't like it for a girl. I don't think it goes well with Travis either.

Majia - It looks like Mah-zjee-uh to me. I don't like it regardless of how it's said. It reminds me of marijuana even though it's missing a number of letters.
Wesleigh - Wesley is a boy's name. Wesleigh is gross. I dislike made up spellings.

Kristen, Kerrin, and Kaelin are way too matchy. I don't like any of the names, but Kerrin especially bothers me. Karen would be better.

MacEntire is fine since it's a family name, but I don't like Macre. It just looks like they were trying to match with the girl's name.

Samantha Lynn is nothing exciting but there is nothing wrong with it. The same goes for Michael Martin.

[indicinderelly.livejournal.com]

Can someone explain the Last Name/Mother's Maiden = middle name tradition to me please? I'm not snarking it. I just don't know/understand where it comes from. Knowing nothing about it, it appears as a "couldn't think of anything else" sort of name.

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

I think the Mother's maiden name as a middle name has a lot to do with the fact that the child usually gets the Father's last name so they want to honor the mother's heritage in some way by giving the child her maiden name as the child's middle name. I am not sure if that's why everyone does it, but the people I know personally who have done it do it because of that.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I will never get how the Js get pronounced as Ys. And then throwing that I in after the J, I don't think that anybody is ever going to pronounce that as Maya. Wesleigh is just awful, oh my gosh.

[lolzabeth.livejournal.com]

I've never seen MacEntire spelt like that. I've only ever seen it spelt MacIntyre.