What name should BlueIris REALLY choose? ;)

[Katherine Brengle]

Something distinctive, but still good...

(I dug out ye olde baby name book for this, lol...)

[DS1]

1. Anything but her own ideas

Really, they're that bad. If I were her kid, she'd be in a retirement home so fucking fast :eyes:

[Katherine Brengle]

2. Eek, I didn't make this thread to be mean--just to help...

I was really worried about giving my daughter a name she would hate, so I definitely understand where you are coming from, lol.

I initially wanted to name her Eden--I thought it was really pretty, but everyone told me I was insane, so I came up with something else lol.

[DS1]

3. Millard?

There's a point where being nice just isn't enough. Millard will get a kid all but killed in school.

These names are nothing short of fucking sadistic

[Left Is Write]

4. I wanted to name my oldest daughter something pretty, something

that was connected to my own name (Catherine), something that wasn't overly unusual but that also wasn't overly trendy or too popular.

I chose Kayla, a derivative of Catherine/Katherine.

That was in 1987. I had NO IDEA it was about to explode as The Most Trendy Name Of All Time Ever.

*sigh*

It was unusual enough when I named her that some people said, "What? What kind of name is that?"

I stuck with classics - neither trendy nor overused nor unusual - for my other two children.

[greatauntoftriplets]

21. Sorry, but Kayla was the name....

of a German Shepherd my cousins had when I was quite young. Same spelling.

Better to stick with classics.

[Katherine Brengle]

22. Um, when I was a kid, our dog's name was Sydney--

has nothing to do with anything.

My cat's name was Genevieve.

Ick on the self-righteous attitude when it comes to names--those "classics" came from someone's creative spirit at some point in history...

[greatauntoftriplets]

23. More names I'd never stick on a kid.

Most classic names came from the saints.

[Katherine Brengle]

31. Um, where the hell did the saints get them?

All I'm saying is that these so-called classic names didn't just fall from Heaven--they were made up by SOMEONE.

Not all of the more modern names are good, but some of them are, just as some of the classics really suck (Ethel, anyone?).

[Left Is Write]

34. Assuming your name really is Katherine...

(it is, right?), our shared name - a classic - comes from the Greek word katharos, which means pure.

And it's a saintly name too. :D

[Left Is Write]

33. It's a legitimate derivative of Catherine...

I just wish it hadn't become so popular and trendy.

I don't mind dogs having people names. ;) If I had a dog, I would name him Frank. I already have a cat named after Dean Martin. :D

[SOteric]

5. I'd go for a nice "Maxwell"

Something unusual, distinctive and easily shortened to Max or even Mack if the little git actually wants a social life.

[Left Is Write]

6. Excellent choice.

[SOteric]

12. Thanks. I'm all for giving a kid refuge in a nickname.

:hi:

[ulysses]

7. "Amsterdam"?

:scared:

[CatholicEdHead]

8. Probably be a wild child with that name

:D

[ulysses]

9. or a stoner.

[SOteric]

10. They could call him 'Dam' for short.

Every time someone cursed the kid would answer "who me?"

[ulysses]

11. jokes about Amster the Hamster come to mind as well.

[SOteric]

13. *L* There's really nothing safe from the cruel jests of other children.

Even 'John' has its detractors, as well you likely know.

[ulysses]

14. oh yes - I was "John, John, the leprechaun,

came to school with nothing on" more than a couple of times in grade school. :D

[Katherine Brengle]

16. HAHAHA!!!

Sorry but that was really funny. Kids are so creative, lol.

I had the unfortunate experience of possessing a last name that almost rhymes with a certain popular brand of potato chip...

[Katherine Brengle]

15. It was my "Maylon" lol--

it's the name of the main character from Gangs of New York--I thought it was kind of cool :).

[johnnie]

17. Something wacky and crazy

A name no one uses anymore, like John.

[miss_american_pie]

18. Holden

I like literary names.

[Redstone]

19. "Amsterdam?" "Vander?" Have you been drinking?

Redstone

[Katherine Brengle]

20. Amsterdam was just for fun--I found Vander in my name book, lol.

Come on, both of them beat Maylon and Dillard hands down, lol.

She seems to like somewhat unique names, so that's how I chose them...

[Redstone]

24. Maylon? Dillard? God save those kids.

Parents need to pay attention to this. My parents (though not deliberately) gave me a first name that I disliked so much that I don't use it unless I have to; my friends and business associates refer to me by my first initial.

Though I'm comfortable with Redstone...only the privileged few know me by that, because it's my coming-of-age name.

Redstone

[miss_american_pie]

25. But how is a parent to know?

My mother gave me a perfectly normal common name that meant something to her. I wouldn't have chosen it for myself, but I understand why she did.

Hubby and I gave names to our kids that we like and mean something to us. I hope they would understand that.

[Redstone]

26. I didn't say it was my parent's fault. They had the best of intentions.

And it's no matter now anyway, because I have a chosen name in the Indian tradition.

Redstone

[miss_american_pie]

27. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply blame there

I just meant that we really have no way of knowing whether any future kids BlueIris has will like her unusual name choices, and more than she can know.

[Redstone]

30. No apology needed. I understood what you meant. And may I mention

that no matter what name she chooses, any child of BIs will be fortunate to have her as a mother.

She's a peach.

Redstone

[hippiechick]

28. Elliott

I've always been partial to the boy's name Elliott; and in fact - when I was pregnant with HippieKid, I was planning to name him (ahem) Elliot Jameson _____. Then she was born and I had to come up with a girl's name, quicklike ~ so may I present,

Gwyneth Alexandra ______, a.k.a. HippieKid.





:hi: Really, you'll know when the baby's born and you look at him/her, what their name should be.

[miss_american_pie]

29. Great picture

I liked Elliot for our second but hubby nixed that.

[Katherine Brengle]

32. Elliott... SM-elliott, would be my concern, though...

I really like the name myself.

HippieKid is beautiful!

I knew from about halfway through my pregnancy what my daughter's name was--and when she was born, I took one tear-blurred look at her tiny little body and I knew it was the right name.

I think most people get it right in the end :).