Names my wife will not let me name the baby

[NightWatcher]

Boys Names:
Jerry, or Garcia, for that matter
Hunter (as in S. Thompson )
Cassius , or Ali
Elvis or Presley
Dylan (to be fair its been overused lately)
Marley (I think Bob, she thinks book about a dog)
Dakota, Geronimo, Creek... (we don't live in LA)
Sue (smartass, better luck with Johnny or Cash)

Girls Names:
Sugar Magnolia, Bertha, Viola Lee, Cassidy, (do you see a pattern)
Scout (Bruce Willis, you've beaten me again)

Amber (that whore- her words, not mine)

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. I've never given serious "decision" thought to what I'd name a boy, but if I had ever had a girl...

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[nolabear]

2. Scarlet Begonia it is!

Oh heck, now I gotta go listen to Old Dead all day. Well, it'll take the edge off this miserable election.

Franklin?

[Gormy Cuss]

5. or Stella Blue

or August West...

[Bertha Venation]

3. Tell your wife that you know a Bertha

so she doesn't think your daughter (if a girl) would be all alone in the world.

Good luck with the naming. :)

[Brickbat]

4. Mr. Brickbat wanted to name our daughter Jessica and call her Jesse, but that was when Jesse Ventura

was our governor and I said HELL to the NO.

[ismnotwasm]

6. LOL

Good for your wife, kids have to live with the shit we do.

I almost named my oldest daughter 'Amber Rose'--Hey I was very young. I changed it to 'Lisa Ann'.

My son I wanted a 'Billy'-- so I named him William. That Billy thing? Didn't work out well. His middle name is 'Cain' NOT from the bible but from Steinbeck's "East of Eden" Oy Vey. They survived it.

(By the way, I'd avoid Anita for girls as well--that one is trouble. I know a guy by the last name of Dick, and that is his future wife's name. Yes I'm quite serious)

[SteppingRazor]

7. I liked Dylan for a boy too, but my wife wouldn't have it.

I also wanted to do a nice Irish name, like Finn or something, but my wife, who is Jewish, already took my last name, and the kid has it too, so she said I had to give her something and not go completely shamrock-laden with the name. Fair enough.

I like Cash for a boy. You could even combine two of your ideas -- name him Cassius but use Cash for a nickname.


As for Hunter, despite my avatar picture, there's no freakin' way I'd name my kid after that lunatic. ;)


As for the Dead names, I never really considered that for my boy (I liked Cassidy for a girl, though.), but we do have two cats -- Casey Jones and Stella Blue.


On edit: I also wanted -- so, so badly -- to have my son's middle name be "Danger," so he could honestly say "Danger is my middle name." But my wife even nixed that. Darn it!

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. 'Finger' is my middle name. 'Middle' is my first name. n/t

[SteppingRazor]

18. Coincidentally, that also describes what my wife did when I brought up the Danger idea.

;)

[peacefreak]

19. My daughter DID use it as my grandkid's middle name.

Figured it would help him when he's a teenager.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. I'm particularly fond of "Thrognor, Chancellor of the Grasslands".

And make it normal and natural that the kid demand everyone say the entire thing, every time they address him/her.

No one can call the child "Throggy" for instance, lest they be banished to the center of the great desert to the east.

What the hell. Give it a whirl.

[old mark]

9. I have always wanted to name my first child either Otis (after Otis Sistrunk)

or Mongo...but I don't have any kids. (sigh):shrug:

mark

[barb162]

10. The wild-assed dog next door is named Hunter.

Never name a kid Hunter.

[ileus]

11. CJ and TJ...

I wanted to use just initials from Jeep for our boy and girl....I was shot down.

[kimi]

12. Yeah, the baby names can cause some conflict

Seriously. I think I first realized the true nature of my kids' father when he started coming up with these out-there, absolutely unacceptable names for our kids.

Thank goodness I was the one who filled out the birth certificates. Those kids should be thanking me every day for the rest of their lives.

[mcollins]

14. Oh- we went through that cycle as well.

Some of the ones that didn't get passed:

Jackson Russell
Thomas Collins
Anthony Bennett

[abq e streeter]

15. One of my best buddies' last name is Fine...and he chickened out (probably including wife's veto)

of naming his 3 kids Mighty, Feelin' and Doin'.

[nolabear]

16. I've said it before but it's so good it bears repeating.

My (shudder) favorite name for a kid was Nancy Ann Cianci.

Poor thing.

[WinkyDink]

17. Just don't have unfortunate initials or nicknames when added to the surname!

[applegrove]

20. My grandmother's first name was Bertha. When she was 4 years old, in 1903, she demanded

that her teacher call her Adeline (her second name). I'm just saying....