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Topic: Naming your children


Topic Posted by: Charlotte
Date Posted: Mon Oct 26 15:01:11 2009
Additional Comments: How did you decide what to name your kids? Were they named after someone or did you just like the name?



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Posted by: Charlotte
Date posted: Tue Oct 27 16:14:39 2009
Message:

Thank you all. I'm always curious how parents decide on names. Some names are so unusual, I often wonder how both parents could agree.

The other day I heard of a woman who'd had twins 10 years ago. She gave them odd names and now wants to change them. She won't. It surprised me that she would consider it.

Since it's a handle that goes with us throughout life, it's a big responsibility. JMHO


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Posted by: Kubi
Date posted: Tue Oct 27 15:23:56 2009
Message:

About a half year before we were married and 6 years before we had our first child, Kubette and I travelled to Barbados.  We stayed at a small resort where we met a lot of British families.  One of the families had a young girl with the name 'Leila'.  We liked that name and we agreed that we would name our daughter this. 

Over the next 6 years, we never mentioned this name to anyone.  We didn't want anyone to steal the name or to 'bad-mouth' it.  In 1990 our Leila was born.

Our next daughter would have been 'Darcy' however we had a boy.  Darcy can be used for either sex and while I didn't mind it for our son's first name, we did settle on using it as one of his middle names.  We agreed on 'Ian' for the first name.  Since our last name is fairly long (4 syllables), we wanted something short for the first name.  Something that would fit together with the last name, preferably two syllables.  We agreed to 'Ian'.

Kubette, who is now reading this and who says I always get facts wrong, just pointed out that we actually had the name 'Ian' picked out before our first was born.  She would have been Ian if she had been a boy.

Oh yeah.  Kubette was not fond of the name 'Hagus'.  That would have been my choice.  That or Matutu.  That is a whole different story.


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Posted by: katiesbeach
Date posted: Tue Oct 27 15:11:05 2009
Message:
I knew it from the beginning that if I had a son, he would be Joshua and if it was a girl it would be Ashley.  I'm sure those were probably the two most popular names of 1984.  (Oh, I had a boy!)

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Posted by: Rusty
Date posted: Tue Oct 27 4:39:35 2009
Message:

Our first boy was named a name we liked. The second was named after a best friend.


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Posted by: Shirla
Date posted: Mon Oct 26 20:33:43 2009
Message:
Eric was named after steve & my dad (fredERICk). And my maiden name is in there too.
Had he been a girl he would have been Amanda (Mandy) or Megan.


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Posted by: Fed Up
Date posted: Mon Oct 26 19:13:46 2009
Message:
My birth name is Jacqueline/Jackie. My son's name is Jason as in ''J's Son'' Get it?

If I had given birth to a girl we would have named her Caroline as in ''Kennedy''. More recently. ''Sweet Caroline'' as song between the top and the bottom of the 8th inning at Fenway. My beloved Yankees beat the Angels in the ALCS and are going to the WORLD SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by: SuzyB
Date posted: Mon Oct 26 17:52:02 2009
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We picked our sons first name years before he was even born. Most of you know that we tried for a long time to have a baby, like nearly 10 years. We had picked his first name when we first started trying and when he finally did come along, that was going to be his name. We loved it so much, we didn't even consider anything else. His middle name is Noah, after Noah from the Bible.

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Posted by: JoEllen
Date posted: Mon Oct 26 16:45:28 2009
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After 21 years I probably would have named them differently if I had a do over.
I mainly picked the initials first becasue I wanted them to have good initials. I grew up with JEW as mine. Nothing wrong with that but I felt awkward because it was a religion/people and people assumed that's what I was writing instead of my initials.

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Posted by: Tori
Date posted: Mon Oct 26 15:57:47 2009
Message:

Our son was named after family, but it just so happened we liked the name and it would have been that anyway...a good solid first name. His first name is the same as the middle name of one of my brothers. Son's middle name is the same as thre middle name of one of my other brothers and is also my grandmother's maiden name.

We chose our daughter's first name solely because we liked the name. It's a name I'd never heard of until a few months before she was born. Her middle name was my second choice...there was a woman at Jeff's work with the same name as my first choice...the woman was loud, rude, and always had dirty hair. Whenever he heard the name mentioned he'd gag. I, on the other hand, thought of my great-grandma when I heard the name. Anyway, we decided to go with the second choice. As it turns out Daughter's middle name is the same as Great-grandma's mother's middle name...we had no clue.

So, there you have it...a little bit of family, a little bit of because we liked the name.

 


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