Early Suggestions?
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babynamesMy husband and I both have really common names (think Jennifer and James Smith, basically), and when we had our daughter, we named her Carolyn. I just found out I'm pregnant and I would like some suggestions! I have a few... criterion, I guess you could say.
I want to say up front that I actually love a lot of the names I'm ruling out here, so I don't mean to judge anyone who named their children names the fit these! We're looking for:
=> Traditional sorts of names, without unique spellings (no Cathwren, etc.)
=> We're avoiding really common names like Sarah or John
=> Old-fashioned names are great (like Evelyn or Colin)
{=> All three of our names have 3 syllables, so that would probably flow best, but not required}
=> Not looking for... not sure how to phrase this... No very Bible-like names like Levi or Esther
Basically we're looking for a balance of not too common (like Carolyn) but not the kind of name that would get a 'trying too hard' side-eye. There are some really unique names I love to pieces but they just won't work with Smith and three other, older family members with more common, traditional names. My daughter has a cousin named Amelia, and that's another name right along the same line of what we're looking for for the next one. Don't know our baby's sex yet, though!
Some of the ones I've thought up on my own:
Girls:
Julia or Julianne
Abigail
Lily (though a friend named his daughter this, she's 6 and told us we could totally use her name, lol)
Boys:
Martin
Jackson (though this is apparently more common lately?)
Zachary Zackary
David (pretty common, but I LOVE it)
I want to say up front that I actually love a lot of the names I'm ruling out here, so I don't mean to judge anyone who named their children names the fit these! We're looking for:
=> Traditional sorts of names, without unique spellings (no Cathwren, etc.)
=> We're avoiding really common names like Sarah or John
=> Old-fashioned names are great (like Evelyn or Colin)
{=> All three of our names have 3 syllables, so that would probably flow best, but not required}
=> Not looking for... not sure how to phrase this... No very Bible-like names like Levi or Esther
Basically we're looking for a balance of not too common (like Carolyn) but not the kind of name that would get a 'trying too hard' side-eye. There are some really unique names I love to pieces but they just won't work with Smith and three other, older family members with more common, traditional names. My daughter has a cousin named Amelia, and that's another name right along the same line of what we're looking for for the next one. Don't know our baby's sex yet, though!
Some of the ones I've thought up on my own:
Girls:
Julia or Julianne
Abigail
Lily (though a friend named his daughter this, she's 6 and told us we could totally use her name, lol)
Boys:
Martin
Jackson (though this is apparently more common lately?)
Zachary Zackary
David (pretty common, but I LOVE it)
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:41 pm (UTC)Alison, Cecilia, Erica, Georgia, Helena, Joanna, Louisa, Victoria
Darren, Jeremy, Nathan, Nicholas, Robert, Stephen, Warren
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:48 pm (UTC)I really like Darren, I hadn't thought of it at all!
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Date: 2011-02-12 03:00 am (UTC)It may not be your style at all, but for a boy I really like Sullivan, nn Sully.
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:42 pm (UTC)Girls:
Elizabeth - pretty common but can have a few different nicknames out of it
Kathleen - my name :)
Barbara - My grandma
Lynnette - My mom
Shelly
Annette
Boys:
Henry
Harvey
Jackson* (I'm 33 weeks with a boy right now so * = on our list)
Alexander*
Andrew*
Cooper
Parker*
Benjamin
Nicholas
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:50 pm (UTC)Alexander is one I'd not really thought of before but I definitely like! I like Kathleen too, but I suspect hubby will tell me we've already got one C/K name :P
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:57 pm (UTC)My husband's middle name is Paul and in both of our families middle names are usually a family name (father, grandfather, someone elses middle, etc.) so unless it doesn't go well, we're using Paul for the middle.
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:02 pm (UTC)I got super lucky that the name I wanted since I was a kid for a daughter, Carolyn, was the one my husband agreed on. It was my mother's favorite sister's name; she died when my mom was 21, and I never got to meet her. She went by 'Suzie' though, so while it's a tribute, it doesn't feel like one so that that's what everyone thinks when they see her :)
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:42 pm (UTC)Bethany
Rosalie
Natalie
Margaret
Miranda
Diana
Lillian
Lydia
Melanie
Helena
Pamela
Susannah
Alexandra
Josephine
Vivienne
Kathryn
Claudia
Tessa
Felicity
Jeremy
Oliver
Frederick
Timothy
Barnaby
Dominic
Anthony
Christopher
Laurence
Oscar
Rupert
Benedict
Roderick
Benjamin
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:51 pm (UTC)A LOT of these are exactly what I'm looking for :D Thanks, lots to think of!
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:46 pm (UTC)Our other son is River.
I vote for Tessa for a girl. Although I also love love love Sabine (want to have another baby just to name her Sabine - lol).
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:52 pm (UTC)Girls:
Abigail
Allison
Annabelle
Anna
Beatrice
Catherine
Charlotte
Christina
Eve
Evelyn
Elisse
Emily
Eleanor
Elizabeth
Harriet
Holly
Janine
Juliet
Julianne
Julianna
Julia
Louisa
Lillian
Lily
Liliana
Lydia (I think this is my favorite for your sibset)
Molly
Marianne
Noelle
Nadia
Rose
Rosemary
Sophia
Violet
Alexander
Arthur
Anthony
Charles
Christopher
David (I really like this as a middle name... funny that you love it but don't want Bible names)
Elliot (this is my fave for a boy to go with Carolyn)
Franklin
Frederick (I love this one)
Gregory
Henry
Joseph
Jonathan
Jackson
Louis
Nathaniel
Nicholas
Russell
Steven
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:56 pm (UTC)Yeah I think the David thing has more to do with knowing so many people with that name that it's 'Bibleness' wore off for me! I have a couple of friends who are all Noahs and Levis and Esthers and Ruths and I just... no, not me at all. Heh.
Thanks for a lot of food for thought!
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:54 pm (UTC)For a boy, Zachary is pretty good. I'm also a big fan of David.
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Date: 2011-02-11 07:58 pm (UTC)Yeah I like Zachary a lot. One of the things I didn't add (because it's a bit too much to fuss over for anyone but me) is that my husband isn't a huge fan of nicknames. So he always says if you pick a name for a nickname, just pick the nickname and name them that instead, which I see what he's saying but don't agree with personally. So I want a name that would sound good on its own AND in a nickname. *pulls out hair* Zach works pretty well for that :D
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:11 pm (UTC)Happy to serve!
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-11 08:00 pm (UTC)Benjamin
Nathaniel
Jeremy
Adrian
Briana
Susannah
Evelyn
Sofia
((some may be repeats from what other people said… sorry about that :) ))
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:04 pm (UTC)I like your list a lot, though a couple of them are people I know's names, awkwarddddd. Lol. Nathaniel is pretty perfect for what I'm looking for!
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:10 pm (UTC)LOL! I love the name Michael, but we know TONS of people named Michael. however, none of them know each other. I told hubby that we could make a couple dozen people feel special by simply naming a baby Michael and telling each of them "we named him after yoooooooooou!" :D
ZOMG CUTE BABY IN UR ICON! -points!- awwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:12 pm (UTC)Thanks for your compliment! Here's an older pic! She's so adorable, it's almost unbearable :D
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:32 pm (UTC)lol! ;)
awwwww lookit her!
the cute... it's overwhelming!!
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-11 08:25 pm (UTC)adelaide
evelyn
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:28 pm (UTC)The problem with doing it with Charlotte is that apparently both Charlotte and Carolyn have the root name Carl, so it'd be like naming both kids the same root name. But, seriously, how many people even know that?
My mental processes, let me show you them, lol.
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:33 pm (UTC)For boys: Alexander, Christopher, Sebastian, Zachary, Henry and Charles.
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Date: 2011-02-11 08:54 pm (UTC)Josephine
Elisabeth
Madeline
Emily
Lorelai
Mark
Andrew
Joseph
William
Patrick
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Date: 2011-02-11 09:24 pm (UTC)Abigail and Jackson are both very common these days, at least in Colorado. Depending on how close the friend is, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to give your kids the same name, even if you have her permission. Julia was the 50 most common baby name in the US in 2009, so I don't know if that's too common for you or not. All of your boys names look pretty common to me, to be honest.
Well, for my suggestions, I'm going to define "really common" as anything in the top 100 in the US. I'll put it's 2009 rank in parenthesis next to it and let you decide how you feel about it. A lot of them aren't three syllables, but I thought I'd throw them out there anyway.
Boys:
Timothy (110)
Vincent (119)
Kenneth (152)
Nicolas (156)*
Simon (263)
Theodore (276)*
Arthur (376)
Walter (386)
Lawrence (440)
Douglas (464)
Maximilian (479)
Tobias (505)
Frederick (536)*
Malcolm (603)
Cedric (702) **
Girls:
Ruby (108)
Stella (126)**
Violet (141)
Jillian (157)
Vivian (164)
Diana (165)*
Shelby (167)
Alana (173)
Miranda (181)
Eden (205)
Eleanor (218)
Laura (235)
Penelope (252)
Cecilia (265)
Veronica (279)
*I'm really surprised this is so low!
**Alright, so this one might feel very traditional, but it actually is quite old.
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Date: 2011-02-11 11:02 pm (UTC)Genevieve
Margaret
Emmeline
Mallory
Meredith
Georgia
Elise
Julietta
Audrey
Vivian/Vivienne
Annika/Anika
Juliet
Antonia
Claire
Lucille (nn Lucy)
Madeline/Madeleine
Jacqueline
Josephine
Matilda
Gretchen
Lydia
Estelle/Estella
Alexandra
Eleanor
Victoria
Leona
Arabella
Annabel
Anastasia
Bethany
Tabitha
Alison
Felicity
Juniper
Bridget
Adeline
Anneliese
Aurelia
Linnea
Magnolia
Rosalind/Rosaline
Rosalie
Imogen/Imogene
Spencer
August
Theodore
Matthias
Lachlan
Donovan
Desmond
Harrison
Leland
Gavin
Elliot
Pierce
Louis/Lewis
Finley/Finnegan
Evan
Felix
Maxwell
Curtis
Edwin
Edward
Thomas
Edmund
Frederick
Owen
Isaac
Oliver
William
Henry
Alexander
LOL I think that's enough.
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Date: 2011-02-14 03:59 am (UTC)