What baby names do you like?

Girls:

Olivia
Elizabeth
Grace
Hannah
Leah
Amelia
Charlotte
Alexandra
Molly
Rebecca
Tessa
Josephine
Eleanor
Alice
Evangeline
Eve
Beatrix
Louisa

Boys:

Nathaniel
Joshua
Samuel
Alexander
Ethan
Spencer
Thomas
Archer
Gilbert

Popularity list here:

http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi

My very outdated go to list for names is:
Boys:
Anaxamander
Blixa
Laj
Teren
Valin

Girls:
Alina
Annika
Anoka
Cimra (Simra)
Cimral (Simral)
Elara
Etala
Etara
(E)stella
Ha(e)nnelore
Jadra
Jera
Mer®in(n)a
Phaedra
Raxa
Sa(l)la
Saskia
Sidra
Tala
Thalia
Vinca
Zara(h)
Then I really started just making up names, such as this list from several years back:
Absorion
Beraphe
Claraphe
Dyniv
Effalanic
Firunda
Ghanyoal
Hurth
Ijimbee
Jawniv
Kyrun
Lolligallagandera
Mollict
Nerunnurch
Opov
Phrinya
Quuluther
Rhapyb
Srennish
Turniture
Umbrak
Vurigha
Wekachure
Xewewicta
Yonion
Zwargarita

I have a rule not to discuss this with people I know IRL, but hey this is the internets, everything remains anonymous, right? These are to go with an Italian surname Bxxxxn:

Boys:
Ari
Sebastian
Oliver
Xavier
Remy

Girls:
Gaia (this is Baby From Mars)
Remy (you can see that whatever the next child is, they’ll be a Remy!)
Honor
Eleanor
Beatrix

We won’t have kids, I’m 99.999% sure, but our girl-name is Clementine, and our boy-name is Albert.

Joe

Boys:

Gregory
Henry

Girls:

Bria
Phaedra
Aurora
Pascha

Claryssa
Danyel
Xavyier
Olivya

I might think of more.

I give my imaginary/hypothetical children fairly traditional names. They’re time tested, and people still seem to like them.

Nicholas
Owen
Christopher
Jeremy
Henry
Avery
Benjamin

Caitlin
Page
Devin (yes, as a girl’s name)

Basically, I like names with Ns in them, like my own, and names with Ys. But not Ys that don’t belong - I wouldn’t name a kid Dyvin or Owyn.
Girl From Mars, one of my friends has a one-year-old named Ari. I’ve always liked that name, and it seems to be becoming a bit more mainstream, so people don’t automatically assume the family is Jewish (and in this case Ari’s family isn’t).

That reminds me, I met a little girl called Devon once, and really loved the name.

Around here Ari is more Middle Eastern than Jewish - Lebanese etc. (In Australia) I wouldn’t have automatically considered it a Jewish name, but that’s interesting to know.

I like traditional names:

Claire
Rebekah
Rachel
Leah
Elizabeth
Eleanor
Diana
Alice

I have no idea what I’d name a son.

Superfluous “y”'s are worse than parking in handicapped places. You, sir, are a monster.

:stuck_out_tongue:
I’m pregnant, so this is currently occupying a lot of my thoughts. We have a name picked out for a boy, but we’re at a stalemate on the name for a girl. I won’t hijack this thread, I may start a poll about it another time.

I love your lists, LavenderBlue! Those are pretty much all to my tastes - I’m a Rebecca who might have been an Eleanor or possibly a Charlotte, if I’d had a sister she would’ve been Josephine, my cousin is a Samuel and my cousin’s daughter is Beatrix - taste is clearly bred into me :smiley:

Our front-runners are Anna and Arthur. I like Anna Jean, for my Nanna, but the wife’s not keen - there’s also Matilda, Nathaniel, Alexander and Thomas.

When I was little I wanted to have twin girls so I could name them Anne and Diana. After playing Sims2 I decided that twins were possibly the worst thing that could happen to a person. :wink:

I like the name Anne. (Must have an “e” of course.)

As an aside - and not as an attempt to hijack - I sort of object to the use of the term “baby names”. They’re not baby names, they’re *people *names. The people they’re given to happen to be babies, but that’s temporary.

I prefer “future adult names”, myself.

Girl:
Freya
Aoife
Eleanor
Maeve

Boy:
Alexander
James
Daniel
Alistair

I liked Ellie for a girl but my brother stole that one for his daughter!

Precisely what I came in here to post, and I was beaten to it. Except I don’t “sort of” object - I totally object to the term baby names.

It’s a “baby name” for a couple of years, then a “little boy/girl” name for another ten, then a “surly teenager” name for six or so, and then it’s an adult’s name for 50, 60, 70 years.

Did you want other children named James, Walter, Shirley and Marilla?

:smiley:

L.M. Montgomery’s names were such a product of her day.

I like those sort of old fashioned names from children’s books. I’ve always sort of wanted a Louisa and a Josephine in honor of Louisa May Alcott and Josephine March.

I’m also pregnant so yeah this is also sort of on my brain as well.

Our chosen names right now are Charlotte for a girl and Nathaniel for a boy.

Girls:
Henrietta
Xaviera
Roberta
Alberta
Georgette
Keturah
Aurelia
Paulette
Beatrix
Gertrude

Boys:
Otis
Amos
Linus
Magnus
Lazarus

Dorcas Wilhemina for a girl.
Enos Culpepper for a boy.
Ignatious Percival for a punk revivalist.

Girl: Morgan, Harper
Boy: Griffin

Tortuga, my Gramps name was Ignatious. Everyone called him Beans for some reason.

LOVE the name Freya!! Norse Goddess of love and beauty (not to mention war and death!) :slight_smile: If children take on the characteristics of the name they’re given, a daughter named Freya would be unstoppable!