We have our finalist!

[compulsivelyme.livejournal.com]

If we have a girl, it will be:

Theresa Grace

We'll probably call her Tessa or Tess.


If we have a boy, it will be:
Henry Grant
Marshall Scott
Samuel Warren

Thoughts, comments?

ETA: I see a lot of folks like Henry Grant. I think that's our front-runner! Henry is a family name on my mom's side that hasn't been used for a couple of generations (actually, to be exact, it was a surname) and Grant is the name of a dear friend of our family that just died of cancer at the end of April.

Comments

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely name. Not too out there, but not generic. I love the nickname Tessa too.

I like all the boys names, but I think Henry Grant is my favorite.

[lisasimpsonfan.livejournal.com]

I like all your picks. Theresa Grace is very pretty. All your boy names are great but Henry Grant is my favorite.

[holidaylights.livejournal.com]

It's not my personal style, but they're all really nice and classic, and I love Tess and Tessa as nicknames.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

I like it, especially, with the nickname Tessa. As for the boy names, my favorite of the batch is Henry.

[spaceandclouds.livejournal.com]

I'm not wild about Theresa, but Tessa/Tess is fantastic. Good name. Congrats!

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

As a Tessa, I always used to haaaaaate it when people asked me whether it was short for Theresa. You can use it that way, obviously, but it also has a totally separate origin.

But yes, good for Tessa. Whoo.

[compulsivelyme.livejournal.com]

Separate origin, eh? I hadn't heard of that... what is it?

Theresa is my husband's grandmother's name and while I don't luuuuuuurve it, I think it's nice enough.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Theresa is apparently related to words about summer/harvesting, etc., whereas Tessa is related to the word "tesselation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation)" and refers to the number four.

Or, if you're a Madeleine L'Engle nerd, the word "tesseract" refers to traveling in four dimensions, and that too is related to the "tessa" root.

[compulsivelyme.livejournal.com]

Oh indeed! I hadn't even thought of that I and love A Wrinkle in Time. In fact, Margaret nn Meg was on our list for a while but it just didn't make the final cut. (Also, my husband was concerned that Meg was now too much of a Family Guy name and he used to use the Seth Green voice to say Meeeeehhg whenever I brought it up. Sigh.)

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Ha!

At any rate, it's obviously not prohibited to call a Theresa by Tessa, the way a lot of Rosamunds and Rosalinds are called Rose or Rosie (but again have COMPLETELY different origins).

[longlostblue.livejournal.com]

It's pretty, but perhaps you could just name her Tessa if you want to call her that? That's a great name on its own.

[compulsivelyme.livejournal.com]

Theresa is a family name, which is part of the reason we're using it... but thanks!