Glad I've started choosing names early...

[myiris.livejournal.com]

More ideas as the search continues for name combinations we love. Thoughts and suggestions welcome. Last name is Ward.

Tessa Mae
Tobin Mae
Maya Carlisle
Ivy Carlisle
Carly Sunshine
Ivy Levi
Maya Levi

Thatcher Dean
Thatcher Carlisle
Kanyon Asher
Asher Kanyon
Gavin Carlisle
Gavin Elijah
Gavin Presley
Gavin Bodhi
Asher Carlisle
Tobin Asher
Tobias Dean
Declan Matthew

Comments

[doxerssoldout.livejournal.com]

i like tessa mae and tobias dean. asher is nice too, but i don't like kanyon. love levi for a boy, not so much for a girl.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

Tobin and Levi are boy names to me. They could be worse on a girl (and I like both on boys), but I'd stick with ones that aren't going to cause confusion -- teasing in middle school is hard enough, you know?

I like:
Tessa Mae
Maya
Ivy

Carly is okay, but I think Maya or Ivy is likely to "grow up" better. They look better on a resume or business card, you know? But Carly isn't awful.

Most of your boy names are AWESOME. Thatcher, Dean, Asher, Gavin, Elijah, Tobin, Tobias, Declan, and even Carlisle are great. Best ones: Thatcher Dean, Gavin Elijah, Asher Carlisle, Tobias Dean.

With Kanyon...I always say: if it's in the dictionary, spell it the way it's spelled in the dictionary. Same with names like Lily, Rose, Violet, etc. If they're words, don't mess with the spelling because NO ONE is going to spell it right and it really doesn't make it more unique or anything: when you say it out loud, people are still calling him Canyon. So why spell it Kanyon? As a middle name, I think Canyon is fine.

I'd stick to the more conventional but still unique names like Thatcher or Ivy for first names and leave names like Levi and Tobin for girls, Sunshine, Canyon/Kanyon, Carlisle, Bodhi, etc. as middle names.

[myiris.livejournal.com]

Good advice; thanks! The only reason we started using Kanyon instead of Canyon was because we thought it made it seem more like a name than just a word, but I think you're right. I hate the trendy patterns of spelling names weirdly so I probably shouldn't succumb to that. I want to use Canyon as a mn, but it always ends up sounding like a location. Can you think of any suggestions/combinations from above names using Canyon as the mn that Don't sound like a place to go on vacation?

And thanks for the compliment; I feel like I have a strong stock of boy names to choose from but I am having a hard time finding girl names that aren't over-the-top frilly/feminine or trendy.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

Oh man...I think you're right -- they do all sound like places to go on vacation! Hahaha. I didn't even think of that. Hmmm. I think Thatcher Canyon isn't too bad, and neither is Tobias Canyon. Asher Canyon definitely does, so stay away from that one.

I totally understand the girl name thing. I have 585959576696965 boy names I love and would consider using, but only about four girl names I like.

You could use something feminine that has a boy name as a nickname. For example: Josephine or Jocelyn, nn Joey; Charlotte nn Charlie; Georgia nn George; Louisa nn Lou; etc. That way she's got a couple different options. I personally really like this option because I'm pretty much as far from frilly as a girl can get and have always wanted a name with a nickname that works for me -- for example, Alexandra/Alex -- so I could more easily genderbend. However. There are a lot of girls for whom this would NOT be a goal, and I have a hard time seeing a frilly ballerina princess pulling off a name like Tobin or Levi. And you never know what your kid is going to be like.

Some other ideas:
Eden
Evelyn/Eve (or just Eve)
Lena
Elsa
Sadie
Beth
Nell
Mae
Harper
Avery
Ainsley
Kate/Cate
Elly
Lucy
Jillian
Julie
Allison/Allie
Maeve

Just some ideas for names that aren't super over the top frilly the way names like Amelia or Julianna or something is, you know? Hopefully you find something you like :)

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

:D


I LOVE the name Tessa!





Still, Ivy, Maya, and Carly (in that order) also meet with my personal approval.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I think you're pretty set on the boys' names.

My personal favorite would probably be Tobias Carlisle.

[frost.livejournal.com]

Individually, I like Maya and Ivy the best. Carly is okay. Tobin, Levi, and Carlisle are boys names, to me. What about Ivy Mae?

As for the boys, I think Tobin Asher and Tobias Dean are the best (I like the latter). Actually, most of the boys names are okay/good; the only one I dislike is Kanyon/Canyon.

[anamericanchild.livejournal.com]

I like...
Tessa Mae
Maya Carlisle - I adore the name Maya. It's so simple and classic but it's also very beautiful.
Carly Sunshine - I really love this but I think it's too fun. Carly sounds more like a nickname than a given name and Sunshine... is well, Sunshine(it's on my list too by the way). I think they'd be fine separate but together... I don't know.

Thatcher Dean
Gavin Carlisle
Gavin Elijah
Gavin Bodhi
--

Tobin sounds more masculine to me.

I don't really like Ivy because it makes me think of poision Ivy, I guess because I had a friend in junior high that was called that because her name is Ivy.

Levi I don't like anyway... I just think of jeans. But definitely not for a girl's name.

I really like the name Asher but not too fond of anything you have it paired with. Perhaps Asher Matthew? Gavin Asher?

Thatcher Carlisle I almost start to like but then it seems too long and too... constant. I don't know if that makes sense. They are both pretty nice names apart though.

I love the name Matthew but think it works best as a middle name. But I don't like Declan at all.

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

I agree with pretty much everything lind_saay has already said, especially about gender confusion and spellings. Give those a lot of thought! Tobin is all boy to me. Some boy names I can imagine on girls (Aidan, Ryan, Dylan), though I still think the trend is horrible. Tobin would be cruel, IMO. Even the most boyish of women wouldn't fit the name, sorry.

Carly Sunshine is too casual. Both, I think, need a solid name to balance it out. I think of baby names in their adult context, so the only professions I can picture on a Carly Sunshine are those of art teacher, preschool aide, or something similarly artsy and/or low-key. It's hard to be taken seriously in most professions when one doesn't have a name to back it up with, and I don't think it's fair to a child to name her Carly Sunshine when she's aiming to be CEO of a Fortune-500 company. Better to name her Caroline and have her be able to fall back on Carly should she choose not to be so ambitious.

Tessa Mae is really nice! It's my favorite off of the list.

Some suggestions:

Lily
Tamsin
Nora
Elspeth
Molly
Maeve
Fiona
June/Juniper
Lacey
Kara/Cara
Fay(e)
Rose
Lark
Nell
Wren
Daisy
Miranda

[ditzyfish.livejournal.com]

Ivy Carlisle Ward flows nicely :)

[my-little-voice.livejournal.com]

like:
Tessa
Mae
Maya
Ivy Carlisle
Asher
Declan Matthew

[hwar.livejournal.com]

LOVE:
Tessa Mae
Tobias Dean