No offense, but it looks like a creative spelling of Lauren.
I teach Pre-School and I hate the “creative” spellings, too. All those extraneous e’s and y’s are just ridiculous.
Audree. Baylee. Brydgyt.
Khyrstyne. Stefanee. Mistee. Leesa.
Davyd. Kevyn. Stevyn. Jordyn. Mychael.
:rolleyes:
Want to be creative? Paint your house purple with green and orange polka-dots.
But spell your kid’s name correctly!
It isn’t a creative spelling, it is an old family name.
I’m going to name my child “Geddy Barchetta” - Heh. My wife would kill me if I even suggested it. 
I can blame my Mother for many things, but she did right by naming me.
I like the name Eric. Simple. It was a name of a Cartright son.
No matter how bad the birth was, no mother names her son “Hoss”
BTW my name is not Eric.
I like Loren. Would you use it for a girl or a boy or either? (I’ve known several male Lorens)
I plan to use it as a first name for either a boy or a girl. I looked it up on the polularity charts, it is around 658 for boys and 705 for girls. I wanted a name that would not be common, but on unheard of either. It was my grampa’s first name. His middle name was Burdette. I thought Loren was much nicer. It is a bit old fashioned, but I like it. My friend suggested that if it is a boy, I should call him Ren for short. I dunno, I think Ren & Stimpy will be still too well known.
Sorry Miller, Ogden is the correct pronounciation. the “gh” sound in Aoghdan is silent. so it is pronounced Ay-dan, the same as the currenct anglicisation of the name Aidan.
Please people, before you use an Irish name for your child, learn how to pronounce it. I shudder at a child being called Ogden because of a failure to actually learn pronunciation.
the incorrect, even.
Damien. Damien. It could have been worse, I suppose.
This makes me even more glad I’m named after my grandpa Steve. God save us from trendy baby names. Reminds me of a The Onion bit about popular baby names, I’ll have to paraphrase:
White:
Ashleigh
Brittany
Dakota
Black:
Tomiqua
Propecia
Sinutab
Asian:
Sue
Amy
Mike
Or even worse, “MaKenna”, as my sister named my niece. I love my sister, and my niece is lovely, but WTF!?!?!?
:rolleyes:
The continued absorption of boys’ names as girls’ names is annoying as hell.
If I ever write a Romance Novel (which, of course, I never will) I am going to name the villain Madison Park Lexington III.
I have three boys. Their names are:
Christopher Allen (LN) Sickeningly normal and he LOVES it!
Sean Michael- Anthony (LN) Yes it’s a hyphenated middle name. I was a single mom and couldn’t make up my mind WHAT I wanted to call him so I gave him 2 middle names and he can drop whichever one he wants later. He’s already said, at the age of four, that Anthony HAS to go!!
Danyl Edward (LN) is my youngest. I’ll bet Jomo Mojo Can tell how to say his first name 
I have the same middle name as my mother, grandmother and great grandmother. My niece has the same middle name. 4 generations of Marie. I SWEAR this family is NUTS.
INFIDEL! Thou hast broken the 18th Commandment: Thou shalt not name anything after a character from Enterprise, for the program is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
Awwwwwww…I used to have a kitty named Madison when I was a child.
I haven’t thought about that little kitty in ages!
If I ever have a daughter, she will be named after a Byzantine empress.
Theophano
Irene
Helena
are my top three choices.
Boys would most likely be named for saints or biblical characters.
Michael (after the archangel, BTW, my confirmation name is Michaela, after same) would top my list. I would not call him, or allow him to be called Mike, because my stepfather was a Michael who was called Mike and the name Mike has very bad associations for me. Somehow I am able to disassociate the name Michael frm him.
Josheph and Joshua would also be on my list. So would Jacob. Not Jake, Jacob.
I actually have a dislike of diminutives
I thought this thread was going to be about Wilson.
My (male) cousin is named Courtney. No wonder he joined the Army (he’s since received a medical discharge returned to the civilian world). I’ve found that men with somewhat androgynous/effeminate names tend to be on the macho side to compensate, but no way in hell am I naming my son Sue :D.
Hee. Me too. After that movie came out quite a few stray dogs that came into our rescue ended up with Wilson as a temporary name.
One of my friends named her daughter Addison. I have a second cousin named Ansley.