Name my Baby!/ Your fave name

I love some of the names that are in my family tree. I won’t include Wallaburg.

Monica
Lauren
Clara
Neva
Catherine
Jean
Regina

Everett
Edward
Maximilian
Bartholomew
Christopher
Mark
Steven

I named my daughter Annabel. I think it suits her and I like that she has nickname flexibility. I notice that the spelling Annabelle is more popular these days, but I prefer the slightly shorter version. The other top contenders that I was considering for her were Alice and Eloise. If she’d been a boy, I liked James, Thomas and William, and I really like Alexander and** Xavier** now.

My son’s name is Jackson, so I’m already partial to that. I like Gavin, as well.

My daughters name is Elissa. Other girl names I like are
Sienna
Mary
Saira
Sarrah
Farrah
Zoya
Zara

boys: John
Adam
Noah

And, like most Hebrew names, has a fairly easily determined meaning: It means “be strong,” or, as the more creative biblical anthroponymists like to say, “in Him is strength.”

Same here. My boys are Dante and August.

Another vote for perfectparanoia’s naming criteria.

Girls:

Abigail
Tess
Mathilda
Stevie
Penelope
Bonnie
Boys:

Zeke
Toby
Hayden
Wyatt
Levi
Colton

Theodore
Douglas
Elliott
Richard
William

Evelyn
Josephine
Elaine
Cecilia
Julia

I love your criteria. The only one I would add is

  1. Should not result in uncomfortable or hard to pronounce alliteration or rhyming when combined with middle and last names.

My husband’s first and last names begin with the same two letters and when he was a kid, it was hard for him to say his own name because of the difficult and closely repeated consonant/vowel combination.

These were the two names my parents debated on for me. They chose Julia, but my dad said later that he thinks they should have gone with Cecilia, who is the patron saint of music.

Other than my kids’ names I like

[ul]
[li]Gareth[/li][li]Noah[/li][li]Melissa[/li][li]Alannah[/li][li]Rhiannon[/li][/ul]

I have many more for girls, struggle with boys’ names.

It’s been done, but:
[ul][li]Ryan[/li][li]Curtis[/li][li]Taylor[/ul][/li]Airplane names. :wink:

(Of course I’m partial to ‘Genghis Bob’ or ‘Attila James’. Or maybe ‘Akira Suomi’.)

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Here are some names from my childhood friends, and some from friends and relatives of my parents.

Mervyn
Arthur
Herman
Edward
Eric
Barry
Leslie

Glenna
Bernadine
Esther
Julene
Rebecca
Alexandra
Miranda

For a girl, BRUNHILDE.
Come on - you know that nobody is going to ever forget her name, and on any resume, she will go to the top of the list simply because people what to see what Brunhilde looks like.

For a boy, DANGER.
Talk about a studly name, and even if he grows up to be a nerd or a flaming queen, who would not want to hang out with a dude named “Danger”?!

Oh, come on. Everyone knows that Danger is a *middle *name.

Unless your name is Robinson, thus you would then have to have a middle name of Will.
Danger Will Robinson.

Still think Danger is a perfect first name…

I guess either is ok as long as you start a legal for fund for the kid so they an afford to have it changed when they turn 18 - or the more likely event of becoming an emancipated minor. :stuck_out_tongue:

Actually, it would be sort of cool to give a boy “Danger” as a *middle *name. That way when he’s trying to impress a member of his preferred gender by saying, “My middle name is Danger!” he’d be telling the truth. :smiley:

ETA: Oops, missed Alessan’s post. But I’m going to leave this one here anyway, 'cuz I elaborated. :slight_smile:

I have been saying for years that I want my son’s middle name to be Danger!! I’m totally serious. I mean, it sounds cool, its funny… and if he doesnt like it… he had a hidden secret (a badass secret). I mean, how cool is:

Jackson Danger Davis. Or Jack Danger. :cool: