Baby Name Question

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Ame said:
I have Benjamin Clayton and Joshua Joseph aka Ben and Josh. I grew up having to spell my name before I ever said it - my parents thought it was neat to spell it Aimee. I taught high school English for four years before becoming a stay-at-home mom and I saw how truly cruel kids at school can be. Please be careful about how the first name sounds with the last name (I knew a boy name Rich Kidd) and also do not get silly with the spelling.
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I would have to agree with that. I know a very nice lady whose name implies she was sitting on the beach without a beach towel.

When I was a kid, there were little name pins you could buy at the drug store. My name is spelled Debby, and the pin was Debbie. I really wanted a pin because every one was wearing them, but my name was spelled wrong. I have a nephew named Tanner, and there are all those cute Christmas ornaments with names on them, but never a Tanner. My granddaughter is named Destyni. She’ll never get a pin with her name! A guy in grade school’s name was Micheal, and the nun gave him a huge amount of grief because he didn’t know how to spell his name…except he did! That’s how HIS name was spelled. Nothing but trouble. It’s hard enough to grow up without being named something weird or spelled wrong.
 
My dad & step-mom made separate lists of names they liked on index cards. Then they got together and compared lists, keeping all the ones they both liked. Then my step-mom (the queen of organization) laid all the cards out on the floor and arranged the names to see which looked best as first names and which names were better as middle names and finally, which were compatible pairs. They ended up with Brandon Michael, Brianna Marie, and Dillon Ryan.

Names are tricky, though. Whatever you do, don’t tell your future child(ren) if someone in the family didn’t like their name. Ever since hearing the story about how my mom’s dad told her not to name me Marybeth because “It’s a fat girls’ name” I’ve had a terrible time with it - the name, not the weight, luckily I’m young and still have an active metabolism :o My other grandpa and I have a running joke where he spells every correspondance with me “Mary Beth”. He has always insisted that my parents simply spelled it wrong on my birth certificate … his own wife’s name is spelled Jacquelyn, by the way :rolleyes:

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Well, if you have enough kids it gets easier…😉
DH had a boy’s name he loved, so we just discussed the middle name. Of course our first was a girl. We narrowed it down to 2 or 3 names and then chose after she was born. (We had no clue; this was in 1982; I didn’t have ultrasound.) DH then came up with a middle name completely out of left field, but that was OK.
We didn’t always agree completely or immediately, but we tended to be in the same general ballpark. (Our kids’ names are pretty traditional.) If this isn’t the case with you, maybe you need to talk about why you like certain names. Understanding could help.
 
We have a simple but unusual rule. Names can contain only L’s and vowels. Gives us about ten options, mostly female.

Yeah, I’m serious. 🙂
 
My husband and I had several criteria:
  1. The name had to have special significance or meaning to us (e.g., a family name), not just “because we like it” or “because it sounds nice.” IMO, you pick your pet’s name because you like it, but your child’s should have a bit more thought and effort put into it.
  2. It had to be classic, *not *trendy or temporarily popular. We *abhor *names like Nevaeh or Jayden/Ayden/Brayden/Cayden. We wanted something that would fit our child as a baby, a young kid, a teen, and an adult.
  3. I preferred to pick a name that wasn’t in the top 50 (preferably not in the top 100) of the U.S. Social Security baby names list. This was something I was willing to flex on if the name was special enough.
We chose the name Elanor Mary for our daughter. Elanor is a special name for us because it comes from our favorite book series, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. I also loved that it was similar to Eleanor, which is a classic, beautiful, yet fairly uncommon name. Also, I liked the nickname Elly for a little girl, and felt that Elanor was an elegant name for a woman. Mary is after the Blessed Virgin Mary and also after the Basilica of St. Mary in Mpls, MN, where my husband and I were confirmed into Catholicism. (Elanor was baptized into the Catholic Church exactly three years to the day that we were confirmed! 👍 )

We chose the name William Joseph for our son. William is my husband’s middle name and also the name of my husband’s grandfather. Grandpa Billy had four daughters and no sons, and my husband is his eldest grandchild. He is also one of my husband’s role models, so we wanted to honor him by giving his name to our son (and he is *so *proud and delighted to have a namesake!). Joseph is after St. Joseph and also in honor of our Holy Father, who was Joseph Ratzinger. (Our son was almost William James, after my great-uncle James, but my brother and his wife gave James as a middle name to one of their sons so we decided to go with Joseph instead.)
 
BamaRider said:
So your name is Amy??

I’m sure you wear it well. 👍
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Need any help prying your foot out of your mouth? I got a crow bar. :rotfl:

Oh and BlueRose/Amy for the longest time I thought you might be my long-lost friend Marie, who preferred the online name of BlueRosary.
 
DH names the boys.

I name the girls.

Each of has veto-powers.

There ya go.
 
daeve said:
I would have to agree with that. I know a very nice lady whose name implies she was sitting on the beach without a beach towel.

When I was a kid, there were little name pins you could buy at the drug store. My name is spelled Debby, and the pin was Debbie. I really wanted a pin because every one was wearing them, but my name was spelled wrong. I have a nephew named Tanner, and there are all those cute Christmas ornaments with names on them, but never a Tanner. My granddaughter is named Destyni. She’ll never get a pin with her name! A guy in grade school’s name was Micheal, and the nun gave him a huge amount of grief because he didn’t know how to spell his name…except he did! That’s how HIS name was spelled. Nothing but trouble. It’s hard enough to grow up without being named something weird or spelled wrong.
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Oh don’t get me started, because my name has always been “KC” try and find that on a pin, button, cup, license plate…name it. It is my initials but only because my mom wanted to name me Kasey. My dad thought she meant “KC” and said it was too short for the birth certificate. Thankfully my last name was a C-name, so she came up with a “K” first name, but only so she could call me “KC.” Now dad refuses to acknowledge my real, and long, first name on my birth certificate, and will write checks etc to “KC” – what a mess – why did he just not agree to KC in the first place?? LOL NOBODY calls me by my real name except doctors, and the rare instance of a police officer – and once or twice a priest during a sacrament. LOL

BUT my grandma once found this little teeny tiny coffee mug type thing with “KC” on it. She was so excited she bought it. I still have it and feel pride when I see it, after all it was probably the first time anyone found anything with my name printed on it.
 
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