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See how I am not at work! I just can't focus today; I got some pretty upsetting family news this weekend and the place is dead for Columbus Day and my boss is out sick so concentration? Just really not happening. I can write up IRB paperwork from home - RIGHT?!

Let's talk about baby names. SEBASTIAN! What a great name. It was on our short list, because I saw "Neverending Story" WAY too many times during my formative years, and the way the princess says "Bastian!" with heartbreak in her voice as the island is crumbling beneath her feet made quite an impact. But we were already saddling our kid with four names (FN MN MyLN Marc'sLN) and both of our last names have three syllables and that was just way, WAY too much name for one small kid to bear. And A came thisclose to being named "Eleanor", because Marc liked Ellie and I liked Nora and, you know, WIN. She ended up with her name because she goes by a v. common nickname that's a short form of her name and from birth on, she just LOOKED like the name fit her. She still does.

The best thing about not having another baby might well be not having to choose another name. Boys are HARD to name for me, and if we had another one, he might be Baby Boy Marc'sLN for a long, long time. I seem to remember that we liked Evan and Jasper and Finn a lot at the time, and this was 8 years ago before all of those names were overused quite so much, at least in the US.

Tell me your names!

on 2007-10-08 05:46 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] wendywoowho.livejournal.com
Eleanor Louise, nicknamed Teddy.
Alexander Nicholas, nicknamed Xander.
Lillian Marie, nicknamed Lily.

on 2007-10-08 05:50 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sophie8.livejournal.com
I'm really liking Ryan, Aidan and Christopher for boys right now. I'm an eighth Irish and I feel I get to exploit this and use pretty Irish names. As for girls I love Alisha, Faith and Maia. So not so Irish there :D

I love my name and I'm still glad my parents picked it. I was so very nearly Kate or Julia.

*uses Sebastian icon*

on 2007-10-08 05:51 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] shakespearechic.livejournal.com
Funny you should mention this as last night Jeremy and I were discussing names (prompted by his pregnant sister's chosen names - not us!!) Specifically we mentioned Sebastian and Eleanor/Ellie but we talked about how we could never name a kid that now because Sebastian and Ellie are [livejournal.com profile] taj_mahal07's cats!! And, well, Sebastian is my fault because I loved the name and suggested it for the kitty.

That's all I have now because last night we were going through and mocking names (and spellings) we don't like. :-P

on 2007-10-08 05:59 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] bookwench31.livejournal.com
I was just thinking about baby names the other day. Not that I have any reason to be. *grins*
But the two names that have been on my "what I would name my child list" the most consistently are:
Boy: St. John (Sinjin) I've just loved that name for forever. I have no idea where that love came from. Possibly my child would kill me.
Girl: Josephine. (My mom's middle name is Josette, for her dad, Joe. Everyone in our family calls her Josie. I'd like to use Josephine one day, both for my mother and my grandfather.)

on 2007-10-08 06:00 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] florahart
Hee. We had the opposite problem. We were pretty close on boy names, and had a longish short list from which we chose after meeting the boys in question because I cannot cannot cannot name a child I have not met. I will be interested to see whether STBX's newbaby with The Girl is named before she is born.

But had either of ours been a girl, she would probably still be "Hey You," because I was saying Cordelia! Emilia! Araminta! and he was saying Britney! Tiffani! Didi!

Heh.

on 2007-10-08 06:02 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] etakyma.livejournal.com
My nieces are "Graziella" and "Bellina" shortened to Grazi and Lina. Italian? Why noooooo there is no Italian in their blood at all! (my brother and I are three-quarters, and the girls are a bit less, as their mama is only half).

Although, we are quite proud that Grazi, at six-in-January, can write her own name, with all the letters going the proper direction. Poor kiddie, between her first and last she has *three* 'z's in her name... Lina only has to contend with the two in her last name.

And I will never ever find anything like keychains, pencils, wooden door plaques with either of their names on them. It is something that will have to be special ordered or made.

on 2007-10-08 06:13 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] athenienne.livejournal.com
My mom's name is Eleanor - for Mrs. Roosevelt. :)

If I ever have a boy, I'd like to name him with both my grandmother's maiden names - Mitchell Wells. (Of course I'm flexible depending on the as yet unknown last name of whichever lucky guy gets to father this imaginary child.) I don't really know for a girl. My maternal grandmother's name was Brower (interesting story), which is kind of neat and has the bonus of being unusual yet easy to spell.

on 2007-10-08 06:30 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] wordplay.livejournal.com
There are LOTS of really awesome Eleanors, (Aquitaine!) and it's a gorgeous name, but there she was just so tiny and delicate and it seemed like an awfully intense name to hang off of such a tiny girl. Her current name is a lot flippier, a little girlier, and it fits her beautifully now, but Eleanor has all this lovely grownup gravitas and I hope that her name still fits her into adulthood.

on 2007-10-08 09:18 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] quintus-marcius.livejournal.com
As I understand it, your daughter has the same name as my sister. Although it's possible that I have only seen you use the nickname - my sister often finds that people think she is actually called something more formal. So maybe some people think it a slightly strange name for an adult, but I doubt it has ever caused her any problems. It doesn't seem strange to us, but then it wouldn't after thirty years of using it. She likes having a relatively uncommon name, although not being associated with some of the better known examples of it.

on 2007-10-08 06:18 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] katkim.livejournal.com
I always liked the name Gilbert (Anne of Green Gables!) but everytime I admit it, the other person always laugh. I still like it though.

on 2007-10-08 06:21 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com
Hey, you didn't say. I'm sorry you got bad news.

Sebastian is a great name, though. Man, I miss the Neverending Story. (Not the theme song, though.)

on 2007-10-08 06:25 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] wordplay.livejournal.com
Meh, I didn't want to go into the whole thing with K.V. sitting right there. I miss our old office! Thanks, though.

Today when I was leaving, there was one confused looking opossum wandering around on the strip of grass between the pool and the gatehouse circle. V. weird.

on 2007-10-08 06:36 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com
That was S.S., but I dig.

on 2007-10-08 06:38 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sanj.livejournal.com
I've never yet had kids, so I have loaned out a lot of my favorites to cousins and nieces and pets: Rachel, Briana, Zoe, Alexander, and so on.

I am still holding on to Adrienne, Claire (for my Aunt Clara), Renee, and Nicole; Andrew, Brendan, Joseph (my dad's middle name), and Zachary. Mae/May is my mom's, sister's, and grandmother's middle name, so I expect I would use that somewhere.

That's eight names, and I can't imagine having more than two children (especially since I'm 35 and would have to really work at having just one, at this point.) But the names are in abeyance anyway. ;)

on 2007-10-08 06:48 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sanj.livejournal.com
Also, I just noticed that all of those girls' names are French Canadian, and all but one of the boys' names (Zachary) are family names on the Irish side. Which I guess makes sense, but it's still kind of funny.

on 2007-10-08 08:11 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [identity profile] isiscolo.livejournal.com
I've never yet had kids, so I have loaned out a lot of my favorites to cousins and nieces

I have tried this, but they never take them! I tried to get one brother to name his firstborn son "Severus" (our last name begins with S and it would have been so cool!) but they chose "Josh" instead. I also attempted to convince my other brother to name his firstborn daughter "Krakatoa" (and I'm not sure how that came up, but again, it would have sounded really good with our last name!) but I was thwarted again ("Zoe"). As it turns out, Zoe has behavioral problems, so naming her after an explosive volcano might have been perfectly poetic.

[and a hug to [livejournal.com profile] wordplay over family problems. aie!]

on 2007-10-09 02:48 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] piperki.livejournal.com
OMG KRAKATOA. I bow before you.

I wanted to name our baby Zorak, but the Scholar said no.

on 2007-10-09 03:19 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [identity profile] isiscolo.livejournal.com
What is it with men and their refusal to give their children interesting names? Pfft.

on 2007-10-08 06:49 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sanj.livejournal.com
Also, whatever happened with the family, I'm sorry.

on 2007-10-08 06:58 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] alissomora.livejournal.com
Am sorry about the upsetting family news *hugs*

Baby names, hmmm. Was talking to a friend due next Monday and she told me the name she's picked, which I don't like at all, lol, and that got me thinking about what I do like.

I find I have more boys names than girls.

Boys: Daniel, Julian, Rhydian, Ben, Harry, and Luke
Girls: Emma, Jessica, Aurora, Evelyn (Evie), and Hermione, which has grown on me a lot. I do like Lily, too, but not sure it suits an adult.

on 2007-10-08 08:24 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] longtimegone
I have this love affair with the name Adelaide (and call her Addie) for a girl. It's v. old fashioned sounding, but I <3 it.

For a boy? Daniel. Or...urgh I don't know!

Call me later if you want?

on 2007-10-09 05:25 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] jbwigglesnapper.livejournal.com
Oh my god you do not love the name Adelaide! That is too coincidental for words. My grandmother's middle name is Adelaide and I love it to pieces and have thought about giving it to future potential daughters if I could ever talk the boy into using it. I guess first I should talk him into future hypothetical children.

I don't think I've ever run into anyone else who liked that name enough to <3 it though. Clearly we have a cosmic internet name connection mind meld thing going on.

Er...to stay on topic recently I have been grooving on dutch names and I really like Katja, but I'm afraid my daughter would grow up to be a porn star or someone with a weak character because it's so cutesy.

on 2007-10-08 08:44 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sundancekid.livejournal.com
Peyton for a girl. It's my middle name, and a common middle name in the family (though I am the first girl -- it was my grandfather's middle name and his father's middle name and on and on back to like, the one who married Thomas Jefferson's cousin). Since I figure she won't have my last name, that'll be her contribution from my family. I love Eleanor, and there are lots of great nicknames for it, but you're right, you have to have the Right Sort of Girl to name her that. I love Agatha, too, but I can't imagine actually doing that to my child. Maybe the dog.

For a boy, I love Harry. Yes, after Potter. When I was with M, I realized that wouldn't work with his last name -- it sounded *awful*. I love Henry, too, and Daniel, and Taylor for either a boy or a girl.

Whee, I love this game!

on 2007-10-08 09:59 pm (UTC)
Posted by [personal profile] moony

I've been thinking pretty hard about this because of the plan of impending Moonybaby next year, and so I have The List. I've pretty much shortened it down to a few choices, but I'm still waffling.

Zelda or Coraline for a girl. I also like Abigail, Isobel and Audrey. Elanor is on my list because of Lord of the Rings, oddly enough. :D I'm pretty much firm on Coraline though. I really, really love that name.

Charlie or Theodore for a boy. I really like the name Theodore. I've also considered Emmet, Gavin and Jack.


on 2007-10-09 12:10 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] vertigo66.livejournal.com
Our first son's name came pretty easily. It was on the short list, and then he was born with red hair. Plus it goes really well with our Scandinavian last name. We ended up fighting over son #2's name, because basically we were out of names--though Finn and Evan were on my list, the husband didn't go for them. His brother and his brother's wife ended up naming their 2nd son Finn (totally independent of us) so it worked out. My husband had kind of a thing for names that are really words, like Chance. Ugh.

on 2007-10-09 12:10 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] vertigo66.livejournal.com
Oh, Ingrid and Kelsey were on my girl list but my husband didn't like them.

on 2007-10-09 02:49 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] piperki.livejournal.com
Sorry for bad news and unfun day. I didn't even have that and I still couldn't concentrate. I'm blaming ragweed.

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