Random name likes

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

Thinking about names, wishing I was pregnant (though it would add all sorts of mess to my already insane life, lol). Thinking about some names I've never thought of before...

My nieces and nephew all have eight letters in their name, which has become my brother and sister-in-law's "naming trend," which I'm sure most people don't even notice looking at their names or hearing them (Dominick, Lilliana and Scarlett - and the sis in law has said if they have another girl ever it will be Emmaline/Emmeline). Somehow a lot of the girl names I like just happen to have eight letters, so I might end up following that trend...

Margaret (my real first name, I didn't use it for years but started to use it again recently. NEVER considered using it for a girl until very recently. I'd likely call a girl Maggie if I named her Margaret - I was a Marge/Margie growing up, and I LOATHED that)
Gretchen (perhaps a nice alternative to Margaret?)
Adelaide
Victoria
Veronica
Virginia
Michaela (the only version of this pretty name I would choose. I think it's so lovely, but the McKayla and similar spellings sort of ruined it for me for a while)

On the not-eight-letter thing, I also love Emma, Julia, Hannah...

Boy names are harder for me... But I do like:
Benjamin
Sullivan
Harrison

I just have it set in my mind that if I do get pregnant, I'll have a girl, so I've not worried too terribly much about boy names. :-P I do really love William, but my boyfriend already has a son with that name (he's an adult at this point, but it would still be bizarre to name another kid the same thing, lol). We both really like Seth for a boy, and I love Gregory.

Would love suggestions of classy eight letter names, either gender. :)

Comments

[starcrossed.livejournal.com]

I much prefer that spelling of Michaela :)

other eight letter names:
Lawrence
Abigail

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

Abigail is only seven letters, lol. :-P

Also, for some reason, I have three cousins who have named their daughters Abigail. One is like sixteen now, and the other two were both born last year. Pretty name... but it's all over my family right now. Not that my kid would exactly grow up with my cousins' kids, but lots of little Abby's right now.

[fangirlism]

The other half and I really love the name Jeanette.

ETA: Megan/Meg is also apparently a nickname for Margaret as an option. (My middle name is Megan, and I later learned it's a nickname for Margaret and thought that was cool because it's my mom's middle name.

Also, I'm not sure you'd want this connection, but if you named your daughter Margaret nn Maggie with you being Margaret nn Marge, there's the whole Marge and Maggie Simpson deal going on.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

Oh lord... I didn't even think of that. Okay, cross that off the list. lol
I don't let anyone call me Marge/Margie anymore, though. Well, immediate family does, but I only see them about twice a year.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

Adrienne and Germaine for girls, Dietrich for a boy.

(respectively, those are my, my daughter's, and my son's names)

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like Adrienne. Don't dislike either of the other two, they're just not my style. I forgot about the name Adrienne. :)

[so-there.livejournal.com]

haha, no worries. my kids all have more germanic names, were as mine is more romance language. they're not quite in the same scheme. plus no one ever likes my kids names, and those that do like them on my kids but would totally never use them. ;)

Daisy and Pearl can also be short for Margaret, and Greta is along the lines of Gretchen, but has the -a ending like a lot of your choices. not 8 letters though.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

haha. Yeah.


Well, when my sister-in-law called me to tell me they named their daughter Scarlett, I was like "You. Did. What?" haha. I hated it. Not HATED, I guess... just thought it was a really weird choice. Now, I love it... can't picture her with another name. It's just... her. She is SO Scarlett-ish. haha.

Last time I posted on here that I liked Gretchen, most people were like "...eww..." But then I saw a little girl at the zoo shortly after that whose name was Gretchen, and it made me like it even more. :D

I love Daisy. Didn't know til I was older that it was a nickname for Margaret (I DON'T GET IT!). My mom's name was also Margaret. Both of our favorite flowers are/were daisies. :D

Naming a daughter Margaret would be a tribute to my mom... but would consider Gretchen since it's a form of Margaret, or Daisy as a middle name, for her favorite flower. :)

[so-there.livejournal.com]

I do middle names after family and my mom's name is Margaret.. so i may use it as a middle. I'm not too fond of it but for a middle it's fine, no need for nicknames or anything. she goes by Peggie and I think that may be one of the worst nicknames for Margaret out there :P I've toyed with Greta/Gretchen as a first name instead of using Margaret as a middle, but I have a daughter Ingrid as well and I think they might be too similar.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

lol, yeah, I don't like Peggie.
My mom was called Margaret, or Margaret Mary. When I let people use my real name, lol, I want to be MARGARET. Marge/Margie annoy me. Maggie would have been cute, had it caught on when I was little. :-/

Greta is cute.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I like Margaret (I love Maggie as a nickname though), Adelaide, Virginia, Michaela, Julia, Hannah, Benjamin and Harrison

What about Madeline or Caroline?

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! Love them! They were on the list at one point, but I forgot about em. Adding them back to my list. Hehe

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

I love your sister's kids' names. Dominick was the boy name we had picked out if our girl had been a boy. Alas, we are prego again and hubs has decided he doesn't like Dominick. :( I also love Liliana and Scarlett and have suggested them both. (both vetoed by the Jessica-lover, though).

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

Dominic is my brother's (nephew's dad) confirmation name. When my nephew was born, his mother named him dominick, because she didn't know how to spell it. Lol. I was annoyed when they named my niece lilliana because I had had lillian picked out my whole life, and now I can not use it. Well, I could... but I won't. And scarlett was going to be julia until I told my sister in law that "julia" would feel left out because her name didn't have eight letters like her brother and sister. Lol. Emmaline/emmeline is on their list because I suggested it. :)

What is your daugher's name?

And jessica isn't bad... normal, but not really popular anymore. So she wouldn't be one of three jessica's in her class like it was when I was a kid, lol

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

My daughter is Susanna Jane.

I like old fashioned, meaningful names. Although I don't want an Olivia or Isabella because they're so common, I also don't only care about that. Jessica will just always remind me of my own generation, which is not old-fashioned.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

That's really pretty! Classy, and not super-common. :)

It makes me sad that named I really like are so so so popular. I do love Olivia, Isabella/Isabelle, Emma... but I don't want my future potential kids to be like Olivia A. But I also don't want them to be some weird collection of letters, or one of those horrid names I keep seeing on toddlers and tiaras. lol.

Also, if I was to have a baby with the guy I'm with now... he has two adult children (his kids are older than *I* am, by 10 and 5 years, lol), with pretty normal names (Sherry and William), so it'd be weird if he also then had like a Tenleigh or something weirdly new and made-up (not that my kids would grow up with the kids he already has... they're grown and have kids of their own... but still. I'd want them to sort of go with their older siblings names - gosh that sounds weird, lol)