Hello, Everyone!

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

Hello!   :)

I've made a few comments in some posts here, so maybe it's time for me to introduce myself.

My name is Tracy, I'm married and I live in Scandinavia (but moving moving to England in the next few weeks). My husband and I are not planning on having children at the moment--I just love picking out names and learning what names other people like. However, I think I am the odd one out here. I don't do the "sibling set" thing. I don't care if my son's name matches my daughter's name. I'd give my son an Irish first name with a Scandinavian middle name, and  my daughter would have a Russian first name with the middle name of June. I also don't care about perfect flow in names--as long as it doesn't sound like it rhymes or is embarrassing in some capacity to the child (difficult to pronounce, intials make a funny word, etc.). And I think naming your kid just Maggie or Charlie is fine. Those are acceptable names for adults and I feel you shouldn't be forced to pick Charles if you don't like it. My name is short sounding and I'm fine with it and I never use my middle name with it.

I have a dog named Milo, a rabbit named Tookie and a new baby bunny named Frank (full name is Francis after the saint).

I enjoy reading the posts in here.   :)

Comments

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Hi :)
I live in England too, way down south. Which part are you moving too?

Am not majorly fussed about sibsets, because kids don't come in boxsets. My brother and I have totally non matching names (Richard & Sage), but they suit us as individuals.
Still would want to make sure the names sound good when rattled off together and aren't wildly diffrent style/popularity wise [tend to like similiar names in that respect anyway]

I do put a lot of thought into how names look and sound, possibly being a writer is a factor there. Though it's true we don't use middle names that much, so would go more with significance over 'sounding good'.

Much prefer full names instead of just the nickname. It's hard to know a birth whether a girl would better suit Liz, Beth or Ella; but if she was named Elizabeth then she'd have all those options.

Aww I have two rabbits too, the one in your icon is gorgeous :)

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

Hello,

We're moving to Milton Keynes....about 45 minutes from London, I believe. My husband is over there now (in training for the job that he accepted there). I have never been to England so this will be an adventure. I have lived in Ireland before so I guess I am a bit familiar with that area of the world.

The reason I believe nickname-sounding names are okay is because I don't want to feel that I have to pick a name I don't like. I also don't see a problem with an adult being called Maggie. I suppose if the child wanted to call themselves Margaret they could. I think a lot of people call themselves something which is not on their birth certificate anyway. I was reading one baby name board and someone said, "I love the name Rory, but I can't have a grown son named Rory..what is that a nickname for?" And everyone chimed in with Gregory and Robert. I just got annoyed because Rory is my favourite name for a boy and it isn't short for anything. Rory is Rory. Lots of grown men named Rory walking around in Ireland and the UK doing just fine.

Thank you. :) I think he's adorable! That's Frank. He's a Japanese harlequin Dutch.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Cool
It's not bad here really. Good luck with the move. :)

Fair enough
Yeah that is totally stupid when a name isn't actually short for anything.

Ah right, sweet :)
My two are just 'mutts'.

[bunnsidhe.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

And nothing wrong with a mutt. My Tookie is a mutt.