My list is done!!! Many thanks!

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

GIRLS

1) Gemma Hermione Gibbons
2) Elsa Fleur Gibbons
3) Sofia Teddye GIbbons



BOYS

1) Rafe Hollis Gibbons
2) Gabriel Beauregard Gibbons
3) Jasper Grayson Gibbons

Comments

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

I like the combos of Sofia Gemma and Gabriel Hollis better, but at least you got them narrowed down, choosing names is hard.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

Gabriel Hollis is a possibility, I can keep that in mind! I think my husband would prefer it to Beauregard. Thanks! Although Gemma is definitely a first name for me! It's my top choice. :)

It's taken me a long time but I am extremely happy and satisfied with every name on this list so I won't feel like I settled if I don't think one name suits the baby and have to use a different option. Now, no matter what name I choose from this list, it will be a name I absolutely adore. :)

[behindgrey-eyes.livejournal.com]

Absolute loooove for Gabriel Beauregard and Jasper Grayson! :D SO PRETTY.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Gemma Hermione and Gabriel Beauregard are my favorites, and the only ones I really like.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Are you the one who *absolutely* had to have Teddye as a first name for a girl? What's changed?

I like Gemma a lot. It was on our list with our first (went with Brenna instead). Fleur is pretty as well. Only girl's name there that I don't like is Hermione... ugh, lol irritates me so much! I like your boy names, but other than Colin, none jump out at me. Well, no, I do love Rafe, but think I might prefer it spelled Ralph.


Are you pregnant? I'm impressed you have all these picked! We only have semi-set in stone our next girl's name, and just the one choice. Of course, we're only TTC... have awhile to decide.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

No, I am not the one who *absolutely* had to have Teddye as a first name. One of the ladies posted her baby's name as Junia Teddye, I had never seen that variation and really loved it on sight, but I would not use Teddye as a first name for a girl. Just not really my style. I paired it with another choice my husband and I already liked for a girl. That was the only mention of my using it prior to this list and it was made less than 24 hours prior to me posting this. :)

Gemma is my "favorite" (they're all my favorites, but Gemma is just the one I'm most fond of) and Hermione was the middle name my son helped me come up with wand I likewise loved it. It was a battle settling on it over other options, but we're happy with it.

I love Fleur, and Beauregard. I love French sounding names, but I have to be careful not to over do it or risk being vetoed by the husband, lol! Amazingly, he didn't hate any of these names or would change anything about them. Let me tell you, that's an oddity right there! :D

I don't know where you got Colin at though, since I never even considered it and never will. I think maybe you confused Hollis?? I love Hollis. I like Rafe spelled that way because when you write Ralph, they don't pronounce it the same.

And no, I'm not currently pregnant! I can understand why you might think so though! We just know for sure that we want more children in the future, and I find it to be far less stressful when I'm not agonizing over name choices *during* pregnancy. Plus the next time around I don't want to find the gender out until the baby is born. So I decided to come up with my names ahead of time, and get all the agonizing out of the way now.

I've had every sort of screw up you could have with naming your children. Thinking I was having a girl until the last month of pregnancy. Having our girl name usurped by a friend due 3 months after me. (okay it was one letter off, but still she threw a fit about it) Announcing your top picks to friends and family and having all of them ripped apart to the point I couldn't hear the names without being angry at everyone. And then we did it once the easy way: no telling, settling right away and then tada! using that name! No stress. So now I'm super secretive to the people I interact with in real life, and I'm super prepared. ;-)

I did not mean this to become a book. I apologize!

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay! I just remember a woman awhile back being set on using Teddye because it was her grandmother's chosen name and it, and the spelling, were really special to her. It's been awhile since I read this community though, so thought that might be you but wasn't sure.

I don't love French names per se, but I tend to gravitate toward some of them. :) We're pretty set on Esme for out next daughter's middle name, but we may save it and use it as a first name because we love it s much. Lol, will go well with my best friend's Sophie Renee.

Ralph can be pronounced Rafe-- think Ralph Finnes.

Lol, I must've seen Colin in a different post! Or I really am going crazy.

We want to keep our names secret too. I've gotten over feeling 'usurped' over certain names (infertility's a bitch), but I no longer share our favorites with friends and family. I won't even share the name I want t pair with Esme online since I've never seen it used here. I figure if I don't share, no one can steal and I have no real room to feel butt-hurt when someone I know likes the same name as me. Now the only problem will be keeping names secret until birth. :)


It's okay! I worried I'd offended you with my opinion on Hermione when I saw all that text though, lol.

[beepandetch.livejournal.com]

That was me! Teddye was my beloved grandmother's name. I had my baby 10 days ago and named her Junia Teddye. It was always slated for a middle name (not first), I'm thrilled someone else is considering it too.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Ah, I guess I got my wires crossed on first name vs. middle name!

Congrats! I like the name. :D

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

By the way, good luck with TTC!!! Exciting! We're at LEAST a year away from that point, possibly two. My husband needs to finish trade school first and we would need to move into a bigger house before we'd be ready. And I didn't mention it since I was caught up in trying to answer your questions, but I really like the name Brenna! What's the one choice you have for a girl? How about boys?

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah, it is exciting. It'd be more so if it were new, lol. We tried for a few years, no dice, but took a break as of last June because I'm in nursing school. We're going to start again this September. We'll hopefully have a better handle on my infertility by then (we'd just been about to start more intensive, a lot more likely to work, treatments when I decided I wanted to wait because of school).

Thanks! I loved it too. Makes me sad I don't really get to use it much (lol, of course, that's not what really what mostly makes me sad there). Her name was Brenna Rose (two name first name). Rose was going to be her middle name, but I decided I wanted her to have three names at the last minute. Her middle name is after my cat. ;)

Esme is the middle name we love. We love it enough that it might become a first name instead. We're keeping the first name secret from everybody, even the internets. Gemma is still on the list, but not near the top so we probably won't use it.

Boys... I'm all over the place. Brenna, had she been a boy, would have been David Christopher. We're not really to keen on either of those anymore, though. My husband is an Albert Edward III. I hate the name Albert (which he doesn't go by), but Edward (my husband goes by Ted, a nickname for Edward) has grown on me. I also love Liam, but it's so overdone in the last 8 years or so. Jeremiah is high on the list, in memory of my brother Jeremy. So... Jeremiah is a definitely, either for a first or middle name (I want first, husband isn't sure and I'd want to clear it with my mother first), probably Edward, maybe Liam. I like Liam Edward, Edward Jeremiah, and Jeremiah Edward.


Meant to say, Hollis is a guilty pleasure of mine, but I couldn't use it after watching Big Love (plus a girl goes by it in a series I read... same series I saw Gemma in, lol)!

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

I've never watched Big Love. I saw it used in "Watchmen" but I had already seen it in the baby name book and liked it a lot. Funny enough, I later realized it's the middle name of my best friend's husband. And THEY hate it!!

I love Esme. I also loved Bella, but since Twilight hit I tried to stay away from it being she was the main character. I left Jasper alone, because I loved it and he's not as CRAZY popular as Bella, Jacob, and Edward. Lol! Esme too! That's right. Still I'd use it, it's gorgeous as a first or a middle name. I won't try to pry the secret from you. ;) I understand.

Actually Ralph Fiennes is where I got Rafe from. But he has to correct people about the pronunciation, which is what lead me to the straight spelling of Rafe. And I was definitely not offended that you don't like Hermione. It's not exactly a popular choice (even after Harry Potter) but we just loved it. All the girl's names have meaning with their combined names. Gemma Hermione is "Precious jewel from the earth" Elsa Fleur is "Noble flower" and Sofia Teddye translates best as "Wisdom is a gift from God". Very neat. It also helped determine what middle name to go with :)

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Lol, everyone I tell my names to thinks I'm a Twilight fan! It's even worse than you might think-- our 'usurped' name was Alice. So, my niece is named Alice and her cousins will very likely be some combo of Edward and Esme. I had a cat named Bella, lol. I've never actually read the books nor have I seen the movies.

It's not that I don't like Hermione in itself. It's that I'd never heard of it before HP, I'm not a fan, and I just assume everyone that uses it is OMGHARRYPOTTER!


*sigh* Love Ralph Finnes. That's where I got it too. Not sure I would want to use the name of someone I drool over though, lol.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

Well, admittedly, we do love Harry Potter here. But I don't really use too many names from movies intentionally. I saw it in the baby name book and saw it's meaning and my son was all about it lol.

Don't worry, I happen to think that Stephanie Meyers has great taste in names. Carlisle?? How awesome is that, come on!

Ralph Fiennes is great, I love his acting, but I don't drool over him. Especially after Voldemort. *shudder* That mental image is a mood killer lol.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Lol, admittedly I got into him like 10-15 years ago when he was looking a little me dreamy. ;)


I don't usually get names from movies either, but my *supe secret* name is actually a name I heard in a movie! In my defense, it's a fictional biography of a real person. :)

[beepandetch.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm going to pick Sofia Teddye! My grandmother was a sweet wonderful person and Teddye suited her so well, I hope anyone with her namesake follows suit.

For boys I pick Rafe Hollis. Jasper Grayson comes in second.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

They are in NO order lol. My husband and tried ranking them, and we did not match up on a single one, aside to say that they're all well liked and none are on the rejected list. So basically like I said, I'm just going to keep the list until I have my next baby and decide then which name seems to belong to the baby. :)

I do love Teddye, it beat out several other well loved middle names I thought I would definitely use, but didn't. Fleur and Teddye came in to steal the spots I thought Suntine and Laramie would take. Laramie is a boys name but I didn't care, because it meant 'tears of love' in french, which I thought was so awesome.

I would be happy with any name for boy or girl so it's all just a matter of what baby looks like! :)

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I adore Gemma and Fleur.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I love Gemma Hermione. I wish people would use Hermione more! Fleur, Sofia and Teddye are fabulous as well.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

Thanks!! I actually had a lot of love for Hermione when I was trying to settle on a middle name, so you might get your wish :) Teddye I got from this community!