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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.

[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]

Oh and thanks. ;)

Btw - PLEASE add suggestions!

[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)

[brittmarie.livejournal.com]

Do it if you love the name. :]

[brittmarie.livejournal.com]

I have no suggestions. I'm bad at figuring out new names. :[

[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 ;)

[arbus.livejournal.com]

awww. well i think kipling/kip fits in well with your other two! good luck!

[arbus.livejournal.com]

also, i am not a huge fan of galileo (those are big shoes, after all) but do love the fact that it lends itself very easily to the nickname leo.

ps: i LOVE fox!

[missmaxattax.livejournal.com]

Haha, Galileo is such a beautiful name to me! And can there be a more interesting man to name your son after? Really? lol. It would seem a little odd, though. I'm usually not keen on nicknames but I'd definitely use the nickname Leo for Galileo. Is Kipling for Rudyard? =)

I like Orlando and Fox! Phoenix may sound too close to Fox. And I wouldn't use Faolan with Orlando. Hm..

I love that you have such a different taste. I don't know that I could come up with suggestions that you'd like. lol. I'll try a few:
Augustine
Alistair
Taite
Cormac
Matteo
Gallagher
Carrigan

[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!

[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.

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

I love Zephyr!

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

I think what puts me off Galileo is also that it's 4 syllables which seems really long and the boy's last name is a bit odd - like your impression of Tripp the surname seems kinda goth/wierd. I love Cormac, I think it's really cute for a little boy and lovely for a man - I will add it to our list! =)

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

They are big shoes - every quote the man has, is just brilliant.
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/galileo_galilei/

I love Fox too - once I read it, we were done.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

just thought i should clarify that when i said "i am not a fan of galileo" i really meant the name itself, not the actual man. just in case, you know, you thought i might have been one of those calling heresy. :)

name = kind of ok, i guess
man = far cooler than just ok

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

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

[slow-bullet.livejournal.com]

Totally understand and agree. I also found somewhere the meaning of the name meant 'flat piece of ground covering' or something else amazingly boring! -L-
I might have just been that one rogue baby site though...

[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.