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[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

Ok I'm in pre-labour, it's crunch time on the baby name front.

This is out list - please vote, or comment with scathing reviews! The more scathing you are, the more I'd appreciate alternatives suggested just to prove your superior taste! =D

http://babynames.com/namelist/9629141

The list comes from a variety of sources...I'm honestly considering just calling the baby 'Baby' forever. It's all too hard! ;P

Comments

[brittmarie.livejournal.com]

Galileo is the best of all the names you chose. :]

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I didn't chose them all - but my mind is just totally blank! I've named both my other monsters by 30 weeks - but this time no luck!

I love Galileo tho =) the name AND the man - just not sure if it's fair to call a kid that.

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

Oh and thanks. ;)

Btw - PLEASE add suggestions!

[missmaxattax.livejournal.com]

There's not much in between for me on your list. I love some and I hate some.

I love:
Galileo
Lyric
Faolan
Phoenix
Kipling

Don't like:
Huck - reminds me too much of Huckleberry Finn.
Casper - Casper. the ghost.
Hyde
Tripp - I can't help but think of a stereotypical goth or gangsta kid here.
Romulus - at least you aren't having twins and considering Remus as well?
Ziggy - sounds VERY much better suited for a nickname and doesn't sound in the least bit serious. And plus, it reminds me of LazyTown.

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

I'm interested/glad to see another person likes Galileo and Kipling =)

Most of the names have come from 3am searches or discussions - scouring the web. For reference my other sons are Orlando & Fox.

As ever - any suggestions gladly considered! & Thanks for the opinions it's really nice having feedback.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i really like huck a lot. henry is pretty high on my boys list, with the nickname huck.

i also like tripp and kipling (nickname kip)

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

My second son's first name is actually Fox-Henry, I like Henry too - day to day he's just Fox, but I still can't re-use Henry. Orlando the eldest is 'Nano' because it's all Fox can say. Pity about the ipod ;)

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

I love the meaning too! The meaning I found was 'little wolf' which I found really cute.
I was told by history snobs that even they weren't sure how to say 'Faolan' but with our accent, sadly it sounds like "fay-o-lin" as in, 'I'm failin' maths' - it might need parents with a better accent.

The history of the name is pretty cool too...


Saint Fillan, Filan, Phillan, Fáelán (Old Irish) or Faolan (modern Gaelic) is the name of (probably) two Scottish saints, of Irish origin. The career of a historic individual lies behind at least one of these 'saints' (fl. 8th century), but much of the tradition surrounding 'Fillan' seems to be of a purely legendary character.

St Fillan was credited with powers such as the healing of the sick and also possessed a luminous glow from his left arm which he used to study and write by in the darkness.[2]

As late as the 19th century, the mentally ill were flung into St Fillan's Pool, bound and left overnight tied to the runied chapel's font and if the bonds were loosened by morning it was taken as a sign that the cure had been successful.[2]

I love the glowing arm, hilarious.

[cardiovascular.livejournal.com]

ziggy is what my boyfriend and I called our daughter when I was pregnant and we were still picking out names!! :)

[farting-nora.livejournal.com]

I like the name Zephyr, and it seems to fit with your choices. Out of your list, the only one I liked was Galileo, and I'm not sure how a name like that would work on a kid. Seems like a lot to live up to.

[farting-nora.livejournal.com]

Also, I'll add, my son was almost Damien Tobias, but then his name switched to Maxwell Zephyr, and now he is Adrian Maxwell (And this last name will be sticking because he is 2 months old now.)

[wingsofmaybe.livejournal.com]

I like Huck, Lyric, and Kipling!

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

There is not enough thumbs down in the world for a male Lyric.

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

-Lol- I could make a new list for you with nothing else so you could down vote it many times? ;P

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

I voted down the names that sounded like out of touch hippie names, and kept the ones that at least had nickname potential.

For me Tripp (so many reasons this just irks me to death, tripping/high/drugs, tripping someone down like a prank, Tripp from the virgin suicides, etc.) I can't take it seriously as a name. Ditto for Lyric. And ditto times a million for Ziggy. (Rolling papers anyone?)

But I liked Huck, and Casper is ok. Hyde is my favorite on your list--geographical, yes, but literary and short enough to be hip. Like it. Maybe...Thoby/Tobey/Tobias, Felix, Roan, Cormac, Silas, Jasper, Guy, Gideon or Gus fit your style?

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

If I call my son 'Thoby' I think everyone will assume it's Toby with a lisp ;)

I'm not old enough to be an out of touch hippy ;)

I wonder how much the country we come from influences our experience of the name. I think a lot of these names are more american - and I'm australian so they have a different association for me. Ie - Ziggy papers?

I do like Jasper though. Sadly so does every 3rd parent with a son at the moment, which doesn't really matter but hard when I've lost MINE whilst out shopping! =D
Still like Cormac and really love Gus.

[kaoriz.livejournal.com]

Congrats! =) I liked a lot of the names on your list. It's okay not to choose a name right a way; my grandparents brought my aunt home as "Baby Girl B____"

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

I love Galileo and hate Huck. After the dignity of Galileo, Huck is like straw in the mouth.

I like Casper but prefer Gaspar... different way to Anglicize the same name.

Mordecai
Rufus
Ansel
Solomon


? Maybe?

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

I think Mordecai is really cute, but I know two kids called that.

[missmaxattax.livejournal.com]

Let us what you decided on when you get the chance! =)
Oh and I don't think I've said this yet but congrats!

[azelmaroark.livejournal.com]

Most of these are just too out there for me to take seriously on an actual child, sorry. And you asked for scathing comments, so: ;)

Galileo -- As a middle name, sure, but only one person can pull off this name, and he's been dead awhile.
Hyde -- Where's Dr. Jekyll? C'mon, at least give your kid the good personality!
Lyric -- This sounds like a (female) Mary Sue in a fourteen-year-old girl's bad fanfic.
Tripp -- Drug trips, tripping and falling over
Kipling -- "Look how ~literary and pretentious we are!"
Romulus -- And Remus? No. =P
Ziggy -- Um, this is a comic strip character.

Huck (if it's a nickname for Henry or something, but keep in mind that it rhymes with 'fuck'), Casper and Phoenix might work, and I do kind of like Casper despite the friendly ghost associations, so that would be my pick, I think.

Suggestions based on the names from your list that I liked:

Leo
Shane
Felix
Lucian
Linus
August
River
Jasper
Cyrus
Caspian
Cash
Jude
Asa
Julian
Orin
Ezra

Congrats and good luck picking a name! Let us know what you choose!

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

Your responses did really make me laugh =D - I have made these points before too! Not all the list are my suggestions so we go around and around.

Huck really does rhyme with fuck, it's pretty much all it sounds like when other kids say it which isn't great.

I love love Jude.

[i12bmore.livejournal.com]

Kipling can go by Kip, making it the most down-to-earth selection of the bunch. Good luck!

I wonder if you'd like Orion. I always liked that name.

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

Kipling is one of 'mine' - I guess it's kinda pretentious but I like Kip too.

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Go with Casper. It's the only name I can take seriously on your list.

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

How much should I invest in being taken seriously? ;)

[love-in-war.livejournal.com]

ok I was loving your list.... I like Kipling ALOT!!!! my other favs are Huck Tripp and Ziggy... dont know why but those names just seem great to me. Ziggy is my least fav out of all of them and Kipling and Tripp being top favorites.

Good Luck coming up with a name. I just had a friend that took 2 days to name the child after she was born =)

let us know what you choose

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

Glad you like Kipling and glad to know other people got stuck too! =)