Misteri. Skye. Madison. forget boy’s names, i cant think of any 
Trinity is a nice name too.
Bennett and Owen are my two boys.
My wife saw the former’s first name in my family tree and liked it; the latter 's first name I picked just because I liked it and my mom’s maiden name is Welsh.
…um, not literally “Welsh”, but you know, like from Wales…:smack:
No more kids for me, but we named Lilly, Queen of the Universe, after her grandmother (actual name is Lillian).
Had we had another girl it was going to be Caroline (long “i”).
Boys: Mark (named after my late brother)
I still think it would be cool to name a kid “Zoltan,” but only if I was Mickey Hargitay.
My 3 sisters all have the middle name Ann.
Not sure why. Maybe when I see them later this week I’ll ask them if they know what my parents were thinking.
And Ms D doesn’t have a middle name (altho her 2 sisters do). She always says her parents were too poor to afford one.
My (and leenmi’s) kid is named Elliot Nmi. ‘Elliot’ just because we liked it, and ‘Nmi’ because it’s sort of a family name. Or a family non-name. (It’s short for No Middle Initial. leenmi has no middle name, hence NMI in the ‘middle initial’ space when filling out forms.)
We’ll don’t intend to have more children, but if we should ever have a girl her name would probably be Article Jones.
Atticus. Hands down I wanna name my boy Atticus.
If I have a child (IF), it’d better be a girl, because I like the following full name:
Laylah Moon Irish.
(My last name is Irish, and The Cody will be taking it upon marriage.)
My rule for naming a child is putting “Dr.” in front of the first name,
“Dr. Laylah.” Yeah.
“Dr. Typhannie.” Nooo.
“Dr. Misteri…” Hmm…
“Headlining tonight at the Stiletto Gentlemen’s Cabaret, Hustler centerfold and star of many fine, fine adult films, Misteri!”
Yup.
Sorry.
Damn! Two people mentioned my girl’s name, Raven. I love that name because 1) I love birds 2) ravens are one of my favorite birds 3) it is pretty.
My boy’s name will be River.
River and Raven sound really good together!
I am surprised at how many common names people are picking. I am determined to name my children something unique so people will alway remember their names.
Damn! Two people mentioned my girl’s name, Raven. I love that name because 1) I love birds 2) ravens are one of my favorite birds 3) it is pretty.
My boy’s name will be River.
River and Raven sound really good together!
I am surprised at how many common names people are picking. I am determined to name my children something unique so people will alway remember their names.
Madeline Ellen and Maxwell Philip are my first choices for our future children.
I didn’t intend to end up with two M names - I just like the way “Maxwell P. LastName” sounds. It’s like a private eye name or something like that. 
Unfortunately, hubby doesn’t like Maxwell at all. 
And his brother already took Nathan and Ryan (two of my favorite male names).
I loooooooove Madeline (short I sound) and Ellen is a family name (going back 6 or 7 generations). My hubby would like Elizabeth Ellen, but our last name starts with a Z, so she would be EEZ. I don’t like that idea!
I’m really digging the name “Quinn” right now … we have an old friend named Quinn, and he’s in town for the first time in 18 months. Maybe as a middle name, though.
I love Olivia as well, but my brother named his daughter Olivia Jeanette. My mom wanted to call her “Olly,” but it ended up “Livie” for a nickname. Oh well.
Ari Moshe (b)
Aliza Vered (g)
Raviv Hadassah (g)
Ours require a little backstory; my wife’s given middle name is “Dove”, because she was born in the mid 1960s and her parents, being a fairly typical young Jewish couple of the time, were quite taken with the movie version of Exodus (Sal Mineo’s character is named “Dov Landau”). Now, “Dov” in Hebrew means “bear”, so since she was a girl they decided to Anglicize and feminize it. They also didn’t fully have the courage of their convictions, so they gave her a much more conventional first name. They always called her “Dove”, however, and when she changed her name after we got married she dropped the first name, adopting “Dove” as her first name and her maiden name as her middle name.
As a teenager, she decided that she was going to name her firstborn, boy or girl, “Ari”, after Paul Newman’s character in Exodus, Ari Ben Canaan. And so when our son was born, “Ari”, meaning “lion”, was a given. We also decided that we perferred to give our children Hebrew names as their English names, rather than have one of each as is common practice. It’s also traditional to name children in memory of recently deceased relatives, so his middle name became “Moshe”, in memory of my wife’s paternal grandfather.
During her second pregnancy, my wife decided that it was going to be up to me to come up with a name; the constraints being that it be a Hebrew name and that it be in memory of a fairly short list of relatives. Her paternal grandmother’s name was “Frieda”, which was a non-starter for lots of reasons, but the meaning in Yiddish/German was essentially “joyful”, so we considered Hebrew names of roughly the same meaning. I eventually decided on Aliza, meaning “joyous”. My wife also wanted to honor her great-aunt Rose; the most common Hebrew name meaning “rose” is Shoshana, but with our last name it seemed a fairly infelicitous combination so I settled on “Vered”, which also means “rose”.
When our second daughter was born a couple of months ago, we still hadn’t arrived at a name we liked. We’d kicked around “Micah” for a long time during the pregnancy, which would have been fine, but it didn’t really grab us and the only family associations were some not altogether positive ones on my side. My wife had thought of honoring another of her great-aunts, whose name was Esther, by using either “Esther” or “Hadassah” (the Hebrew equivalent), but neither of us were that thrilled with those as choices for the first name. My wife’s grandmother had also died earlier this year, but her name was “Rita”, a shortened version of any of several names from the Romance languages meaning “pearl”, and none of the Hebrew versions of “pearl” (“Margalit”, “Pnina”) really worked for us. Then there were all the considerations if it turned out to be a boy (we didn’t know before the delivery). The morning of the scheduled c-section came with still no name. The baby came, and we still hadn’t decided. I spent some more time with the baby name books while waiting for my wife and daughter to make it to the hospital room. It was a cool, drizzly October morning, and I kept coming back to “Raviv”, meaning “rain” or “drizzle”. Being an “r” name we could claim some connection with “Rita”, and at least there’d be some story behind it. My wife agreed, and we decided to use “Hadassah” as a middle name.
Since it’s been a little harder each time to come up with something, I’m sort of relieved that my wife had her tubes tied, so that we don’t have to go through it all again – the negotiations around the feelings of extended family the last time around were fairly difficult.
I am due next August and think I have the names already picked out
boy - Thomas Andrew
girl - Audrey Ellen
Both middle names are family names… and the first names are strong and somewhat traditional, which suits me to a tee.
Our son’s name is Aaron George. George was my husband’s grandfather’s name. Aaron is just a name we liked. We had three: Aaron, Issac and Joshua. Each day we would call the unborn baby by one of those names and Aaron was the one we ended up liking the best. If we have another boy, we’re leaning toward Benjamin Marc: Benjamin for Benjamin Franklin (really!) and Marc for my husband’s late uncle.
For a girl we’re leaning towards Abigail Carol or Sarah Eve. The first names are just names we like. The middle names are for my husband’s mother, Carol. Eve is the Anglicized version of her Hebrew name Chava. Sarah Carol just sounds wrong.
Yeah, but if I hadn’t mentioned Star Trek, it never would have dawned on you, would it?
The girl is Victoria Alexandra, called Alex. (A reference to A Clockwork Orange, though it’s unlikely I’ll ever tell her that.) And Victoria I just liked. The names don’t exactly flow together, but I said the hell with it. If I had it to do over again, I’d choose Deborah Catherine (My aunt’s and mother’s names). Then I’d call her D.C. to avoid confusion.
The boy is David Paul. The David is after a gay friend of ours (besides just being my favorite boy’s name of all time.) My friend likes to call himself the child’s fairy godfather. Paul was the name of one of my mother’s boyfriends, the one my brother and I wanted to have for a dad. I think David Paul flows beautifully and it’s common enough to reap all the “normal-name” benefits OldBroad mentioned. I had all kinds of wacky name ideas but I’m glad I didn’t actually go that road.