Step Right Up and Help Name the Baby.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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As most of you know ( and for the lurkers just tuning in) I am due to have a little girl on/about/around February 14th. ( I say earlier, but what in the hell do I know I’m just carrying this space pod that tells me to eat, eat eat, pee x10, crab, bitch, moan, sleep, sleep sleep.)

Hubby and I thought we found the name that we liked (see below), but it’s not gelling with us as easily as our Son’s name did. It is a still viable name that we might go with, but we need something else.

Here are our qualifications for a girls name:
Welcome to our Dante’s Inferno.)

  1. Must be two syllables that cannot be broken down to a one syllable name like Stanley to Stan. ( Not that we’d name her stanley…)

  2. Cannot be anything trendy at the moment. This applies to the top 50-100 name lists. Emily, Sarah, Hannah as much as I like you, you are tooo popular right now. Shouting " Go Emily" from the sidelines of a soccer game and having five girls turn their heads is not what I want.

  3. Cannot begin with an “E” or “Ah” sound. There is an Emily, Ally and Emilena and (barf) Brianna on our street. We plan to live here for 30 years and so do our neighbors.

  4. We are into European names more than the standard white bread americanish names.Yeah, we are snobs, but everything else about us is right from Sears. :slight_smile: Cheerleader/perky names are also a big fat no no. Perky Names make evil people.

  5. Our last name is Arndt ( as in Isn’t) and her name, as much as I like it, cannot be Ann or Anna. It would sound like an english teacher’s nightmare, “Ann Arndt” like " An Apple." It just sounds funny.

Our families and friends are expecting something weird from us. ( Not trailer park
(sorry Kellibelli) just not white bread.) Our son’s name just about shook all the nuts from family tree.

The number one contender right now is:

Tegan O’Hara Arndt
(O’Hara is my grandmother’s maiden name ( and for you computer hackers out there, my credit card and ss# are 000-999-333-8762 ;p ) and will give her,Baby X, the option of going by that name rather than the travesty of having a one syllable last nasal-y last name. ( note to self, do not print this out for hubby to see… :slight_smile: )

The other option is : Keely OHara Arndt.

This one goes well with her brother, Carsten. And I think it is a distant family name from Ireland.

So, now that you know of our conundrum and the pain in the ass stipulations we have hog tied ourselves with, I thought I would share them with you, my friends. so that you too may be hornswaggled.After all, misery shared is misery doubled.

All suggestions are appreciated.

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After some of the things I have read on here (most recently, the band name threads seem to fit, I get the feeling you will want to take that statement back.

Good luck naming the baby.

You can feel free to call me Mr. Tied for 26th place on the favorite poster’s list.

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Is there a prize for the winner?
Seriously, me and Chris did not come up with Bowen until he was born… sometimes you have to see the baby before a name truly applies. Who names a pet before they get one? Anyway, I always had a fondness for some of those cool Star Trek type names such as B’lanna or Tuvok. (probably misspelled but you get the idea)

“Wow! Spider-Man! Are you really friends with the X-men?”
"Not since Cyclops tried to use my viewmaster."
(Marvel Team Up #1)

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Im kind of partial to Sue… how about Brogan?

We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another

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Mary; Mary—plain as any name can be!
Though with propriety, society will say “Marie.”
But it was Mary, Mary—long before the fashions came.
And there is something there that sounds so “square;”
It’s a grand old name!

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Keely will not work. See, if your daughter is going to marry my son, well, we’ve got to find a name that works with my last name too. My last name is Lamb. Keely Lamb just isn’t doing it for me. Tegan is kinda neat, though. :slight_smile:

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We must rule out Mary right now. I love the name, but Mary Lamb…well, no. Sorry, Eve! :slight_smile:

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Let’s see…following the guidelines you’ve posted, and considering that you apparently have some Irish ancestry, the most euphonious girl’s name in my opinion would be…

Maura or Maureen. (I’d suggest Laura or Lauren also, but Lauren is probably too trendy right now.)

Chaim Mattis Keller
cmkeller@compuserve.com

“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective

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Am somewhat partial to Rowan, but I can see where that one wouldn’t entirely work. Katrina is good as well.

>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<

—The dragon observes

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Feel free to use Frankie!
Kelli used it and it worked out!

-Frankie
Lack of charisma can be fatal

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Grania? Grainne?

-Melin

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How about Rowan?

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

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Maxine!

Won’t do it, just cuz it can be abbreviated as Max? Shoot…

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What, ya don’t wanna give her “Haddalittle” as a middle name?

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I’ll give some from my family:

Sadie (great grandmother)
Viola or Violet (grandmother)
Nadine (my middle name)
Colleen (sister’s middle name)
Belle (great-great-grandmother from Scotland)
Heather (sister’s name)
Shelby (niece’s name)
Emma (niece’s name; even though you’ve kiboshed “e” names)
Dolores (grandmother)

Now here’s ones I’ve been thinking about for any future Bunnies:
Sarah
Katie/Katherine
Jane
Marguerite
Natalie

I’m sure I’ll think of more at home tonight. Feel free to strike any out! :slight_smile:

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Remember, this is just one point of view, but…Keely? Yikes, besides being a bit smarmy, it simply sounds like someone whiiiiiiining the name Kelly.

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This violates some of your rules, but I think Allison would be pretty. As far as I know, it’s not terribly trendy, but it does seem to be a classic. And “Carston and Allison” goes together pretty well for brother and sister. Since it ends with a nice “N” sound, it would go nicely with either O’Hara or Arndt.

Allison O’Hara Arndt - see, it even looks nice written down.

I only know 3 Allisons, of varying ages. They all are quite nice, down-to-earth people, and the two who are adults both contribute positively to society.

Second or third choices would be Catherine (or Kathryn) and Courtney.

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Lila.

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Eve: My own mother tried to get me to do that, when I was pregnant with my daughter. My own mother. Sigh.

I still like Tegan. :slight_smile:

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I like Regan. I know, it’s a lot like Tegan, but with literary significance. And it sounds a little more snooty.

The IQ of a group is equal to the IQ of the dumbest member divided by the number of people in the group.