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I know people feel really strongly about names, as do I, and I'm just wondering, do you have a list of names you'd never use? What about ones you'd CONSIDER using, but only if your future/current SO refuses to use the names you really like? Well, I have one and thought I'd share:

Girls

Definite Firsts: there are really long stories behind these three names and why they mean something to me, but all of the first names I have picked out for my future kids has some sort of meaning behind it other than "I like it".

Julianna (Jules)
Olivia (Liv)
Amelia (Mia/Amy)

Middles Only: (I think of MNs as a way to honor friends/family and/or name a child after a hero without going overboard and naming your kid John Fitzgerald Kennedy Hayes or something like that).

Lillian - I don't really like the idea of naming girls after flowers, but I plan on using this middle name to "honor" (I guess?) my best friend

Rose - Same; I plan on using to honor another very close friend

Judith - Love the name, but I don't like the nickname Judy and Judith seems awful long for a little girl.

Eleanor - Love it and would like to use it to honor Eleanor Roosevelt (one of my heroes)

Cady - Love it, but I have a friend with this name who is constantly having it misspelled/mispronounced. It would be in honor of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Margaret - Don't particularly love the name, but it's my grandmother's and I would love to honor her with that.

Beth - After a family friend who died a few years ago

Love, but wouldn't use

Siddalee (Sidda) - Love! this name, but I would never use it. It seems a bit...much. But I really do love it.

Autumn - I love this one, but I refuse to name my kids after days/months/seasons, so it's out. Besides, it totally makes me think of a hippy or something.

Evelyn - Like it, but I had a crazy great-aunt named this and all I can think of is her.

Hope - Love it, but I don't want to name my kids Hope/Faith/Charity/etc. because what if she grows up to be really pessimistic? I'd love her anyway, but naming her Hope is saying something about her personality that I don't know yet.

Rebekkah (Bekki) - absolutely LOVE this name and this spelling of it, but my middle name is Rebecca and I'd never name my kid after myself.

Victoria - Love it but I hate the name Vicky and Victoria's too much for a kid.

Would Never Use

Coco - Reminds me of a pet or something.

Ashley - It's OK as a boys' name, but it's kinda...blah.

Kayleigh/any variation - Too cutsey and trendy for me

Emma - same, plus I just can't stand this name

Carissa - I know two girls with this name who are incredibly annoying

Charlotte - Just not my style

Kelly - Ugh. Bitchy people from high school ruined this name for me. I think I've only met one Kelly I actually liked.

Alyssa - Too cutesy/trendy

Alison/variants - same ^

Chloe - Same as Coco

Cleo - same as Coco/Chloe

Dawn - Times of day bug me, too.

Summer - No seasons/months/day names

Faith/Charity - See explanation for Hope. Plus I really hate these two.

Kelsey - Too cutesy/trendy, plus it was already taken by a cousin

Katelyn - Same as Kelsey

Might Consider (I like all of these names, but I want my kids' names to mean something more to me than they sounded good.  That's why I picked the three I definitely want to use.  I'd use these if for some reason my future SO has a problem with those.  Although my first daughter is going to be Jules.  End of story.)

Danielle (Dani)
Caroline
Shannon
Alexandra (Alex)
Carrie
Miranda
Samantha (Sam)
Sarah
Jordan



Boys

Definite Firsts
Charles (Charlie) - one of my favorites, also after my great-grandfather

Luke - one of my favorites, also love the meaning "bringer of light"

Liam - one of my favorites, also love the meaning "unwavering protector"

Middles Only

Atticus - I love this name and the connotation it has with it (thanks to To Kill a Mockingbird), but I wouldn't name my kid this as a first name

Brian - I don't LOVE the name, but I do really like it.  I'd use it as a middle name to honor of my closest friends who is an absolutely amazing person and who has qualities I'd want my child to have

Michael - LOVE this name, but it's my brother's and I don't want to name my kids after a living relative as their first name.  So middle it is.  Probably with Charlie.

James - I like the name, but I hate the nicknames that go with it and James is too formal for a kid, so I'd only use it as a middle

Timothy - don't particularly like the name, but it's my dad's

Otto - I have a love/hate relationship with this name, but it's a family name and I'd consider using it as a middle.

Isaac - Love it, but a little too...something.  I don't know.  I just can't picture giving my kid this name as his first.

Love/like, but wouldn't use

Aiden/Aidan - WAY too trendy for me, plus not really my style

Robin - Love it, but I have several FEMALE relatives with this name and therefore my family associates it with girls

Henry - Love it, but too formal/old fashioned sounding

Marcus - same

River - haha, I fucking love this name but it's SOOO weird and I wouldn't name my kid that

Orion - same with this one

Brennan - Love it, but I think it might sound weird as a first name and there'd be no nicknames for it

Walker - same

Josiah - Love it, but I feel the same about this one as I do about Isaac

Joel - Like it, but don't love it enough to use

Elliot - Love it, but if I name my daughter Olivia, I don't really want to have a whole Law & Order: SVU theme going on here

Anthony - Like it, but I have a cousin named this and it's really popular I've noticed

Brady - Like it, but it's too unisex for me (I like names that are clearly boy or clearly girl)

Caleb - Like it, but not enough to use

Derek - Like it, but too modern and trendy-sounding for me

Jeremiah - Same as with Isaac/Josiah

Rocky - Haha, I love it, but I would NEVER name my kid this

Would NEVER use

Richard - Ugh, I hate the nicknames that go with this.  Except Rick.  But it just strikes me as such an old-man name

Christian - It's OK, but there's just something about this name that bugs me

Malachi - This name bugs me for some weird reason

Mark - I can't stand this name.  It's way too...I don't know.  I just don't like it.

Justin - Too trendy.  I know way too many people in my generation named this, and while I know that it won't
be when I have kids, I still hear it way too much.

Lee - Too boring, even for a middle name.

Gerry/Jerry - crazy uncle ruined it, but I didn't like it to begin with

Austin - Too trendy

Brandon - I've only met one Brandon I've ever liked, so I just think negatively of this one

Cameron - Just don't like it...at all.

Dylan - Ugh, same as Cameron.  I hate this name.

Cliff - Too pro-wrestler sounding to me

Scott - Too popular in my generation

Travis - same, plus I don't like it anyway

Gavin - I don't know...there's just something about it that makes me not want to name my kid that.

Would Consider
Noah
Jonah
Samuel (Sam)
Max
Matthew (Matt)
Benjamin (Ben)
Leo
Gabriel (Gabe)
Ryan

Comments

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean. Victoria sounds pretty and everything, but I just can't picture naming my daughter that. I like names that are cute enough that they fit a little girl but will also mature along with her so that she's set whether she wants to be a lawyer or an artist or whatever.