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Oct. 8th, 2007 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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!
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!
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on 2007-10-08 05:46 pm (UTC)Alexander Nicholas, nicknamed Xander.
Lillian Marie, nicknamed Lily.
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on 2007-10-08 05:50 pm (UTC)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)That's all I have now because last night we were going through and mocking names (and spellings) we don't like. :-P
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on 2007-10-08 05:59 pm (UTC)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.)
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on 2007-10-08 06:00 pm (UTC)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.
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on 2007-10-08 06:02 pm (UTC)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.
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on 2007-10-08 06:13 pm (UTC)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.
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on 2007-10-08 06:21 pm (UTC)Sebastian is a great name, though. Man, I miss the Neverending Story. (Not the theme song, though.)
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on 2007-10-08 06:25 pm (UTC)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.
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on 2007-10-08 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2007-10-08 06:38 pm (UTC)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. ;)
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on 2007-10-08 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2007-10-08 08:11 pm (UTC)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
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on 2007-10-09 02:48 am (UTC)I wanted to name our baby Zorak, but the Scholar said no.
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on 2007-10-08 06:58 pm (UTC)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.
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on 2007-10-08 08:24 pm (UTC)For a boy? Daniel. Or...urgh I don't know!
Call me later if you want?
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on 2007-10-09 05:25 am (UTC)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.
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on 2007-10-08 08:44 pm (UTC)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!
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on 2007-10-08 09:59 pm (UTC)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.
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