September 2008 Weddings
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I am having a hard time. I hate all girl names all of a sudden.
If you had a baby girl today, what would you name her (moms having actual girls don't have to play if you don't want to give away your name)??? I need to come up with at least a list of names that are acceptable!
Re: names
I have a Lacey and I love her name. My cousin gave me the idea. And I also love Lilly
I've always loved Olivia. M and I don't agree on names, so we have tabled even talking about it unless there is actually something to talk about. The only thing I know for certain is Pearl would be our girls middle name.
eta. I also love Colleen
My favorites for first names in no particular order are Elizabeth, Emma, Lily, and Anna.
I like Jane, Ann, and Elizabeth for middles names (obviously some of those don't go together). Matt doesn't like Jane, which is a shame because my favorite combo is Elizabeth Jane. Regardless, I really want to use Elizabeth in some way.
Names are hard. It's a big decision and I'm sure it is ever harder when you are actually choosing one for real.
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Oh, Olivia Pearl is a beautiful name!
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I think so too, but M is not a fan of Olivia. But we will cross that bridge if/when we come to it!
Here are some names I love, any that end in a vowel sound are off the table due to our last name starting with a vowel....
Lillian (Lily)- We won't use this, but I LOVE it!
Emma
Abigail (Abby)- totally on the table if we were to have a girl, even with the alliteration in first-last names:)
Lucy
Chloe
Anna
I love the name Sophia, Craig isn't crazy about it. Also on our list of girl names, these Craig is on the fence about: Ruby, Mae, Jeannette, and Adelaide (call her Dela).
Names are so hard!
Ha! Jo, sometimes I think we might be the same person....
I also love Olivia, wouldn't use it though since it ends with an "A", but it's a great name!
It would either be Charlotte Kensely or Kendall Grace.
Other names on my list are Libby, Layla, Kali, Gwyneth, & McKinley
Samantha has always been a favorite for us.
Some others I like: Hannah, Katherine, Lucy, Olivia
If Brody was a girl, he was going to be named Audrey. I still love that name and hope whoever I have a baby with next loves it too
I have a IRL friend who just named her daughter Makenna. Love that one too!
Elizabeth Rose is the name we will pick for our girl (if we have one). She will be named after my mom and my mom's love of roses.
Another vote for Olivia
Grace (could be used as a middle name)
Renee
Sabrina
I love the name Audrey!!
I like the name Margaret (Maggie) and Lucy ( I Love Lucy is my fav show)
I will tell you that our girl middle name will be the same as my middle name, which was my grandma's name - Teresa. As for a first name, I'll tell you later, if we ever have a girl.
Names we also liked, but won't be using: Camille, Sophie, Mary, Zoe, Natalia, Giada
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If we have a girl I'm pushing hard to name her after my gram, Rosalind, it's a beautiful name, we'll call her Rose or Rosie.
I also love Oliva and Audrey.
Books read in 2011: 111
Books read in 2012: 100
my read shelf:
in no particular order -
elizabeth (vetoed since its my mom's name and SILs middle), harper, claire (love), avery, madison, addison, annalise, quinn, emerson, ava, olivia, brynn, kennedy, payton, kaylee, reaghan, megan, corrine
that's basically the ones that got written down and picked from
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Our top girl name right now is Olivia Mae
ETA: I also LOVE Micaela, but our niece is Kayla. I also like Madeline, Sadie, Madison, and Makenna
I have a running list of them but one that I love but DH doesn't is Naomi... Eliza (my BFF used that one though)... Natalie... Caroline (DHs sister)/ Carolynn (DHs grandmother)...
Are you definitely using your grandmother's name as the MN? Could you do a variation of her name for the first name if not-- like something that starts with an "M"?
I have no idea what we are going to end up with ourselves!
On my short list for girls names are:
Abigail (Abby) - despite its popularity, I just love it
Mia
Caroline
Claire
Middle name will be Virginia after my granny.
And basically none of these have been run by Tim because we aren't talking about names until we know what we're having.
other names I love that are likely off the table:
Olivia
Sophia/Sophie
Anna
Alexandra
Ariana
Emma
Ava
Leah
Eliza
Alice
Alison
Oh, I like Ava, Alice, and Caroline, too.
If I ever have a kid, it isn't going to be named until it comes out. I'm way to indecisive.
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Ditto. Sometimes I like a name for a while then change my mind. I just hope I don't ever change my mind after the kid is born and officially named.
I think my big issue here is that I thought Minna Grace would be perfect (my grandma was Minna, K's was Grace). Then my cousin is having a girl in Sept and her mother told mine that we're "not allowed to use Minna" because my cousin is. But honestly, if this baby comes out and looks like a Minna, she will be Minna. Probably we'll call her Minnie when she's little because it is cute. My grandmother went by Min most of the time, but her legal name was actually Minnie and when she got married she changed her whole name - first to Minna and her maiden became her middle, and then she took my grandfather's last name. (BTW, grandpa's name was Max, were they made for each other or what?).
I also like Audrey a lot. Audrey Grace could be nice.
We for sure will make this a game-day decision once we see her, but I just want a list of possibles to choose from.
I love that a few of you like Claire. I loved growing up with that name as I was usually the only one :-)
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P was named 2 or 3 days after. And now every time I see a commercial for The Mentalist, I wonder if that's why it was on my mind (the main character's first name is Patrick). I watched that while I was in labor and it was the first time I had seen it.
For the record, we've never regretted his name once we finally picked it!
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While we do have our names picked out for each gender, it may change!
CRAFTY ME
my read shelf: