experiment

[arbus.livejournal.com]

so this is my experiment. it's a bit opposite of what we usually do here, but my husband and i have set middle names for our first boy/girl so it's a thought i had to come up with different first names to choose from. so, participate if you would like.

if you were pregnant with a girl, and her middle name was going to be colleen, what would you name her?

if you were pregnant with a boy, and his middle name was going to be john, what would you name him?

we don't care a whole lot about flow and all that other stuff, and we do mostly have names picked out already, but i just wanted to get some new ideas. i've been on this community for a while, so some of you know my naming style already, but i am just excited to see everyones thoughts and maybe get some other names to possibly freshen up our list a bit!

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Colleen Elaina
Colleen Louise
Colleen Amanda
Colleen Georgina
Colleen Odessa
Colleen Miranda
Colleen Diana
Colleen Helena
Colleen Bridget
Colleen Pheobe

John Alexander
John Andrew
John Phillip(I prefer the double L in Phillip)
John Brody
John Deacon
John Grady
John Gabriel
John Bernard
John Bradshaw
John Mason

HA I read it wrong! Oh well, give me a minute, haha.

[giveitfullheart.livejournal.com]

eh just tell the OP to flip 'em all around! lol

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

Some of them are flippable, others don't slip off the tongue too nicely, like Louise Colleen. Don't like the way that sounds, although Louisa Colleen works!

My picks the other way around are:

Daphne Colleen
Pascale Colleen
Odessa Colleen
Helena Colleen
Elaina Colleen
Louisa Colleen

Mason John
Gabriel John
Brody John
Deacon John
Grady John
Bernard John

There we go, haha.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

thanks so much for all your work! :)

i really like daphne, helena and louisa!

also a big fan of gabriel and brody/brodie, but they are unusable for us, unfortunately!

[becomingun.livejournal.com]

No worries! I'm a name freak, so names tend to come pretty quickly to me.

Helena and Louisa are two of my favourite names ever and they also flow really nicely with a lot of names which is so handy.

Oh that's a pity, but that's the thing about John, it goes so nicely with a lot of things! I love both those names a lot, and they're so nice because they're not like, screamingly manly, but also still good strong names, so they're easy to suit.