Well, as it turns out...

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

My aunt is also pregnant! She id due a whopping 5 days before me, though her original due date was a full week. I'm due september 22, she is due the 17th. We can't wait to do it together this time, yay!

Anyway, its her first baby, and we were going back and forth about names for her baby.

For a boy:

Steven Thomas (Stephen is the father, Thomas was my brother, and the reason my younger so has Thomas as a middle name instead of being a pure junior, as he also has his Father's middle name)

But I have managed to slip in the idea of Sean/Shawn/Shane. :)


For girls, however, so isn't even nearly sure.

Her original choices, before us talking:

Natalie
Isabelle
Samantha
Jasmine
Theresa (after my mom. :D)

After we spoke, she added:

Julianna
Judianna (my moms original choice for ME!)
Louise (my moms middle name)
Melanie
Deliliah


A few more were there, all ending in either a vowel, or a vowel sound, which I pointed out to her (she honestly didn't notice!).

Well, I said I would come here, ask a few more suggestions, and see if there are any name combo's you gusy could come up with. Some of mine were:

Isabelle Jasmine
Jasmine Theresa
Natalie Isabelle
Melanie Delilah





Help?! :-p


For the record (i've said them here before) my husband and I have our choices, that people keep trying to talk us out of, successfully when it came time to name Topher (christopher, legally).

Boy:
Khyber Julius (khI-br) (just names we really liked)

Girl:
Keladry Thayet (kel-ah-dree ty-et) (After two of our favorite Tamora Pierce heroines. :D)

Comments

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Are you and your aunt close in age? I've rarely heard of an aunt/niece same-time-pregnant combo! It's cool!

Anyway, I LOVE Melanie Delilah. The name Melanie has been growing on me lately.


I also love your choices for your own baby. I had never heard either name before! :)

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Yes, we are a measely 2.5 years apart, i'm 8/7/84 and she's 1/18/82.

My gramma was getting it on late in life. To be fair though, my mom was adopted. :) But gramma had my aunt Frannie when she was 40.

:D Melanie Deliliah was my idea! One vote for meeeeeeeeeeeee!


and thank you. Everyone in the family is like...WTF!?!??! I'm like, well YOU named YOUR kid Hezikiah CURIOUS, after we talked you out of CURIOUS GEORGE so STFU! :-p

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

It must have been fun for your mom and grandmother to have children close in age! It's a little odd, but in a good/fun way! Now your kids get to be even closer. Very cool.


LOL

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Yep. Frannie is my older son's god-mother, and the first to hold him, so my kids are already close with her. I can't wait for her to have her baby. I just can't. *squee*

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

Theresa Louise
Theresa Julianna
Samantha Louise
Samantha Jasmine
Samantha Julianna
Natalie Delilah
Jasmine Samantha
Jasmine Julianna
Julianna Louise
Judianna Jasmine
Louise Julianna

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Somehow, I don't think Theresa Louise will happen. That was my mom's full name. We want to honor her, but give the baby its own identity too. :-p

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

Oops, didn't even notice that. *facepalm*

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Its ok! :)

That is why Thomas Philip was not a choice for either of us. :)

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

BTW, where did you make your icon? I want one of meeeeee! *is jealous*

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

eLouai's candybar dollmaker (http://elouai.com/doll-makers/new-dollmaker.php)

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

you rock. *e-love*

[lastcastle.livejournal.com]

I like all the names except for Judianna, which I find confusing. I think it'd be annoying to have to correct people constantly that it isn't Julianna or Judith.

My favorite is Delilah. The others are nice names, but some of them are a bit tired. I also really like Julianna and Jasmine. Theresa would be good as a middle name, or she could have two middle names (Theresa Louise). Has she thought of Lila? or Delia, or Dahlia? Deliliah made me think of them.

If I may ask, why did you pick Khyber? I mean did you ever hear of it being used on a person? The only association I have with it is the Khyber Pass.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Trust me, I am happy I did not get stuck with Judianna! :D


Hehe, my husband was deployed to Afghanistan, so people think that is why. Alas, that is not the reason. when I worked in a day care, there was a little three year old I fell in love with, and his name was Khyber. :)

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

I have the feeling that Khyber will remind a lot of people of the Khymer Rouge, the Communist party which ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and killed, tortured, raped, and maimed approximately 1.5 million people. The Khymer is primarily remembered for these atrocities, which some people equate with the genocidal mania of the Nazis during WWII. The Khymer Rouge killed people through execution, starvation, and forced labor. I strongly urge against you giving your son a name that will be so closely associated with something so disgusting and tragic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khymer_Rouge

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

In the dozens of people I have told that name to, not a single person has ever said that, including my annoyingly over-eductaed sister.

I've ALWAYS gotten the Khyber Pass connection instead. :/

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

And to be honest, my brother and mom were murdered in cold blood, by my stepfather, and his name was also Thomas, same as my brother. To me, THAT was teh most tragic event on earth, but it didn't kill a perfectly good name for me. :/

[xanya.livejournal.com]

That's so awful! I feel very, very sad for you.

In terms of the Khmer Rouge "connection", I don't know about you guys in the US, but in Australia, the pronunciation (and spelling) isn't anywhere close to sounding like Khyber, so that's completely not an issue.

I love the idea of naming your kid after a favourite character from a book (I plan to do something like that too). I especially like Keladry. Good luck with the pregnancy, and same to your aunt!

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

I'm a Political Science major and a total geek when it comes to history and I didn't make that connection at all.

[lacuna.livejournal.com]

I really don't think it would, in all fairness. Khyber has its own associations, which have already been mentioned, and the pronunciation is quite different - Kim-air vs. Ky-ber.

[whisperthewords.livejournal.com]

I like all of your friend's names save for Melanie and Judianna. Melanie just sounds very stuck in the 80's to me. I think Louise would be a great middle name for any of those!

I don't like your names except for Julius (which I love!).

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

I told her Melanie just didn't seem right either, but, eh, its what happens when a 22 and a 25 year old start talking about names. :-p

And...:(!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_x_blackroses_x/]

Hmmm...Delilah Jasmine?
I LOOOVE Delilah!

[sensualquills.livejournal.com]

I LIKE:
Julianna Samantha
Judianna Louise
Natalie Isabelle
Delilah Theresa

CONSIDER although the two names you really like are really beautiful names, one as to really try hard to pronounce them first. And think about the fact that your children may always have to correct and spell their names for people. Just looking at these names, i never would have guessed the way to pronounce them, as you have spelled out above, which really helped, but took a while for me at least, to put my mouth around.

Khyber Julius
Keladry Thayet

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

Thanks,

and...

:(

I don't want to be mean, since my boys are Seth, and (chris)Topher. :( but we LOVE these names. Had I had my way, Seth would have been Malaki, and Topher would have been our Khyber. :-p

[5thousandkisses.livejournal.com]

Melanie reminds me of Meridith... which seems to go with your name choices, at least in my mind.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

ew ew ew. Don't say that! :( I hate the name Melanie. And your spelling of Meredith.



Sorry.. very caffeinated.

[sleepherealone.livejournal.com]

If Steven Thomas is used, I just hope the last name doesn't start with a "D." I know someone whose intials ARE STD. :(

[kelkie.livejournal.com]

i also find your choices in names hard to look at and pronounce, even though i do generally like "weird" names. and i also don't think they will fit into a sibset of seth and topher :(

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Any of the vowel-sounding last names should not be put with a similar-ending name. Louise, although I don't like the name, would be a good middle name for all of those.
Out of your choices for her, I only like the last.