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[chadwah.livejournal.com]

Just found out last week that we're expecting our third baby in November! We already have a boy's name we'll probably go with -- Josiah Birch -- that we had planned if our last daughter had been a boy.

We have two daughters:
Ezra Grace -- nn Ez, Ezzie, Ezzie Grace
Elspeth Dove -- nn Elsie, Elie, Elspie

Some names we like/love but wouldn't use, for various reasons:
Moira
Brigid
Prairie
Bethany (we have two little Bethanys in our church!)
Tabitha
Selah
Mercy (too sing-song-y with our last name, I think)
Leda (love the name, not the story!!)

I've been liking Jane a lot lately -- it's close to my mom's name (Joan), and we're fans of Jane Austen & Jane Eyre.

I also love the name Margaret, though I'm having trouble winning my husband over to it. We like Evangeline, and Armistice (probably Armistice as a middle name -- having trouble thinking of good nicknames for it!)

We like classic names, Biblical names, Jewish and Irish names. We are NOT set on beginning all our kid's names with "E" (runner-up to Elspeth was Liesl), but we do like naming after friends in creative ways -- ex: we have an elderly family friend named Grace, and Elspeth's middle name is after my Grandpa Dave (Dove = Dovid).

Our last name is Irish, starts with a "G," rhymes with "Malachy" (the Irish saint, not the OT book), and has the same rhythm.

Comments

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Armistice could go by Misti/Misty.

I think Jane goes better with Ezra and Elspeth than Margaret does. Jane Margaret would be nice.