Stuck on a boy's name...which one do you like better?

saisongbird · September 2013

I also posted this on my BMB, but I'd love your opinions too!

Yes it's early, but DH and I are stuck. Due to religious traditions, we have certain people we need to name for, and it limits the letters we can use. We have a girl's name, but are trying to come up with a boy's name. We want your opinions! We are putting up the first and middle names only.

sgautschi · September 2013

I voted for Andrew Louis, but I like Alexander Louis as a combo too, if that's a possibility. Just not a fan of Neil, mainly because it seems to short to go with the first names.

saisongbird · September 2013

@sgautschi - we thought about it, but the name was just too long with our last name.

sgautschi · September 2013

@Madeline I do think Andrew Neil sounds better than Alexander Neil. Now that you put it together, it actually is growing on me a bit.

BackseatDriver · September 2013

I actually prefer Alexander Louis

TudorRose11 · September 2013

Ditto to Alexander Louis

MRads · September 2013

Hmmm, what's your girl name? I feel like it would help me get a better sense of what your style is.

Regardless, I've really been digging both Alexander and Andrew. Maybe slight edge to Andrew, nn Drew.

saisongbird · September 2013

I think Drew is cute. DH doesn't like Drew with our last name, since it starts with a D.

This is going to sound weird - we don't mind sharing potential names, but since we've settled on a name for a girl, we don't want to share - afraid of jinxing ourselves or something!

ILoveRedVino · September 2013

I voted for Andrew but I honestly like both choices.

Aimothy · September 2013

saisongbird said:

@sgautschi - we thought about it, but the name was just too long with our last name.

It's one more letter than Alexander Neil. ?? I do like Alexander Louis best. It seems to flow better.

saisongbird · September 2013

One reason we are hesitant to do Alexander Louis is the royal baby - we don't want to be called copycats. But it's also just too long with our last name.

sgautschi · September 2013

Haha I hadn't even thought about the royal baby. I forgot that was basically his name.

FWIW, I don't think you can go wrong with any name combination.

saisongbird · September 2013

@Aimothy - too many syllables, not letters. DH has a poetry certificate and these things bother him.

Aimothy · September 2013

saisongbird said:

@Aimothy - too many syllables, not letters. DH has a poetry certificate and these things bother him.

I could see how one more syllable would throw a poetry certificate holding DH over the edge.

carcrashheart · September 2013

Aimothy said:

saisongbird said:

@Aimothy - too many syllables, not letters. DH has a poetry certificate and these things bother him.

I could see how one more syllable would throw a poetry certificate holding DH over the edge.

haha.

i don't like louis for anything at all.

now i'm curious what the religious tradition is.

saisongbird · September 2013

In Judaism, you name for the dead, and you don't use the same name - you use the first letter/initial sound of their name. My husband is Catholic, and is the firstborn and only, so he needs to use his father's name, or possibly his uncle, as his uncle passed recently and had no one named for him. So that's where Louis and Neil come from. The A is to honor my grandmother, who was like another mother to me, and loosely, his grandmother.

carcrashheart · September 2013

Interesting.

The rest of the Catholics are currently scratching their heads over the tradition they have never heard about.

saisongbird · September 2013

This is what DH told me - maybe it's an Italian thing? That's what his family seems to do...there are TONS of people with the same name, and apparently there was a MASSIVE falling out when his mother was born because they didn't follow the tradition!

pennstated912 · September 2013

saisongbird said:
This is what DH told me - maybe it's an Italian thing? That's what his family seems to do...there are TONS of people with the same name, and apparently there was a MASSIVE falling out when his mother was born because they didn't follow the tradition!

It's an Italian thing. My family does the same thing. You name a child after someone you would like to honor within your family. For example, our girl's name was going to be _____ Claire (we hadn't settled on a first name yet) because of my great-grandmother whom my family always says I take after.

The major Catholic tradition everyone talks about is that the baptismal name has to be after a saint.

saisongbird · September 2013

@pennstated912 - thanks for the clarification! I always seem to get confused whether the tradition they tell me is Italian or Catholic - partly because I'm not sure that they're sure! DH is the first one not to marry another Italian Catholic, so we're all figuring things out as we go.

pennstated912 · September 2013

saisongbird said:
@pennstated912 - thanks for the clarification! I always seem to get confused whether the tradition they tell me is Italian or Catholic - partly because I'm not sure that they're sure! DH is the first one not to marry another Italian Catholic, so we're all figuring things out as we go.

I just snorted because that is so true of many Italian families. Especially mine.

My family tends to make things up because "it sounds right." Lol

bobcee · September 2013

pennstated912 said:

saisongbird said:
This is what DH told me - maybe it's an Italian thing? That's what his family seems to do...there are TONS of people with the same name, and apparently there was a MASSIVE falling out when his mother was born because they didn't follow the tradition!
It's an Italian thing. My family does the same thing. You name a child after someone you would like to honor within your family. For example, our girl's name was going to be _____ Claire (we hadn't settled on a first name yet) because of my great-grandmother whom my family always says I take after.

The major Catholic tradition everyone talks about is that the baptismal name has to be after a saint.

Their baptismal name is just their given name, it does not have to be after a saint. When you choose a confirmation name, you pick a saint's name.

pennstated912 · September 2013

bobcee said:

pennstated912 said:

saisongbird said:
This is what DH told me - maybe it's an Italian thing? That's what his family seems to do...there are TONS of people with the same name, and apparently there was a MASSIVE falling out when his mother was born because they didn't follow the tradition!
It's an Italian thing. My family does the same thing. You name a child after someone you would like to honor within your family. For example, our girl's name was going to be _____ Claire (we hadn't settled on a first name yet) because of my great-grandmother whom my family always says I take after.

The major Catholic tradition everyone talks about is that the baptismal name has to be after a saint.
Their baptismal name is just their given name, it does not have to be after a saint. When you choose a confirmation name, you pick a saint's name.

Thanks. I knew it was one of them. Lol for some reason, baptism stuck out over confirmation. However, I was confirmed 17 years ago so obviously my memory isn't the best lol

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