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Friday OT - Names

Angie said:
Do you like your name? If so, what is it? If not, to what would you change it?

If you are ever to have a child/already did, what would you name him or her, and why? What are your criteria for picking a name?
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Coolest guy I knew back in grade school was named Scott. And I thought that was the coolest name and I wanted to be Scott. But my last name is Scott so it would have been really stupid. Now when people call me Scott I get mad because that's not my name.

2 first names is a curse.
 
Never been a fan of my name. Plus with the long lastname as well, filling out bubble sheets sucked.


Have always been a big fan of Miranda and Anna for girls names and Alexander for a boys name (after my grandpa)
 
Angie said:
Margaret was actually way up on our list for if this baby were a girl. Maggie as a nickname. I also liked Mary, but it can be a little plain. Elizabeth was to be the middle name almost 100% regardless of first name.
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I was surprised to see Margaret in the Top 10 because it isn't a very common name you hear with recent generations. It will probably make a comeback at some point in time but as of right now it would be pretty unique.
 
SpokaneCY said:
Coolest guy I knew back in grade school was named Scott. And I thought that was the coolest name and I wanted to be Scott. But my last name is Scott so it would have been really stupid. Now when people call me Scott I get mad because that's not my name.

2 first names is a curse.
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My mom's first name is a a common name from the 50s/60s, and she married my wonderful stepdad who happened to have as a last name her first name minus the last letter. Think similar to "Sharon Sharo" or something like that. I remember pointing it out to her when they got engaged, and we both laughed.

It's better than the ones like you mentioned, where I know kids named John Johnson or Christian Christianson.
 
bos said:
Never been a fan of my name. Plus with the long lastname as well, filling out bubble sheets sucked.
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I like your name, but I bet you have to spell it a lot. My maiden last name was always the pain in the butt for me.

Cyclonestate78 said:
I was surprised to see Margaret in the Top 10 because it isn't a very common name you hear with recent generations. It will probably make a comeback at some point in time but as of right now it would be pretty unique.
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Yeah, I'm kind of surprised by that, too? Looking at the Baby Name Wizard site, it was REALLY popular in the 1910s, maybe we just weren't exposed to a lot of Margarets who were old?

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=margaret&sw=f&exact=false
 
We had a Liam a couple years back before the name took off (ugh)

our newest is Alida (Uh-lie-duh) which we love and isn't too weird or common.
 
My mom wanted a Sarah Elizabeth, but she had two boys, so our first family dog was sarah elizabeth. I don't know alot of dogs that have middle names, but ours did, my mother's only "daughter"
 
Family Guy once told me I have the most unattractive male first name in the English language.....I respectfully disagreed (I'll leave you to figure out what that is). Having said that, throughout my entire elementary/middle/high school career, I was the only person, student or administration, with my first name.
 
ISpyCy said:
Family Guy once told me I have the most unattractive male first name in the English language.....I respectfully disagreed (I'll leave you to figure out what that is). Having said that, throughout my entire elementary/middle/high school career, I was the only person, student or administration, with my first name.
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When we were talking about Margaret as a girl's name, I liked Meg as a nickname. My husband vetoed that due to Family Guy. :)
 
I think most people are reasonable with the names they give to their kids and that is very important. Anybody remember the player for St. John's (IIRC) whose parents named him "God's Gift"? Are you ******* kidding me? His dad was a minister but come on... God's Gift is just a tad over the top. :eek:
 
ImJustKCClone said:
The one girl's name I would have loved to use was Esther. She embodied strength, grace, courage, compassion and love. Who better to share a name with? I always knew I wouldn't, though, because it was a very "dated" name. Now many of those "old people" names are coming back around - several of our granddaughters have names that were popular in the early 1900's. Don't think Esther will make a mainstream resurgence, though.
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One of my favorites. Really wish there was a way to modernize it. Esther was such a great figure in the bible. Essthyr maybe...
 
Had the nickname Tubby in college and 15 years later there's a lot of people that only know me as that.
 
wartknight said:
One of my favorites. Really wish there was a way to modernize it. Esther was such a great figure in the bible. Essthyr maybe...
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Bible names can be tricky. I love the name Rahab, but people only remember her old life, not that she turned and followed God or that she is in the line of Jesus. Oh well.....
 
I really like my name (William) because there are so many options for nicknames (Will, Bill, Liam etc.). There were three of us in my classes in elementary school, but we all used different forms of William so there was never any confusion.

I'm quite a few years from having kids, but I like the name Alicia for a girl, or if I had a girl I think I'd like to have her middle name be Mae (pronounced like the month) after my grandma Ora Mae
 
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Angie said:
I like your name, but I bet you have to spell it a lot. My maiden last name was always the pain in the butt for me.
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Yeah, if you weren't from my hometown, you had no clue how to spell or pronounce my maiden name. My married name is shorter and easier to spell, but as it's a fairly German name (albeit Americanized), we still get some interesting spellings/pronunciations.

I'm so glad my taste in names changed from when I was younger. I remember at age 10 wanting to call my (hypothetical) daughter Autumn Rose. Hello instastripper!
 
We have 4 girls, so had to come up with 8 names we could both agree on. Good thing is we always had plenty of girl's names we liked, we never had a boy's name we agreed on.

Our oldest just turned 11. When we were expecting her, there was a little show on called "Friends" and Rachel was also pregnant. There was one episode when they were trying to decide between the names Ruth and Emma. I was praying they would pick Ruth because Emma was at the top of our girl name list as a family name. They didn't pick Ruth. Yes, our daughter is one of 6 Emmas in her class of 100 kids. It was the #1 baby name the year she was born and in the top three pretty much every year since. But it was worth it to us. Both my husband and I had a set of Grandparents who were Edward and Emma, so she had two great-grandmas with the name. I have such fond memories of my Grandma Emma--a German farm wife born at the turn of the century. They lived in the same hometown so even though they were in their 70's-80's when I was growing up, we spent a lot of time with them. Because we named her after our grandmas, she is inheriting a couple special pieces of jewelry--one is the engagement ring my grandpa bought my grandma in the 1930's and the other a necklace my hubby's grandpa bought for his wife while overseas during WWII. Our Emma also has a couple nicknames. Our last name starts with M so Emma M got shortened into M&M. She is also called Yadi by her softball team (she is a catcher and a Cardinals fan).

Our next daughte has no family connection to her name, just a name my hubby suggested and I liked it (it is a biblical name). Our third daughter has a "classic" name and her middle name is after hubby's other grandma who was Adel (we spell it Adele). Our last daughter was named after my other grandma who was Ila Mae (pronounced Eye-la). We added a letter to the first name so she is Lila Mae. The name Isla (also pronounced Eye-la) is becoming popular right now, have had at least three friends name baby girls Isla in the past 18 months

All 4 girls have names with 4 letters and ending in "uh". Not necessarily intentional, and at times confusing. Like all parents I call them the wrong name. Constantly.
 
MoreCowbell said:
Yeah, if you weren't from my hometown, you had no clue how to spell or pronounce my maiden name. My married name is shorter and easier to spell, but as it's a fairly German name (albeit Americanized), we still get some interesting spellings/pronunciations.

I'm so glad my taste in names changed from when I was younger. I remember at age 10 wanting to call my (hypothetical) daughter Autumn Rose. Hello instastripper!
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I know how to say/spell your last name. :tongue: You were just lucky you had a shorter first name. I had a lot of letters to remember in kindergarten.
 
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