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Speaking of baby names
My girlfriend and her husband have named their daughter after Grandmas.. Elizabeth Grace. They are also due at the end of the month.. Baby will be named Olivia Marie (both of the girls will be named after two grandmas and great grandmas). Both names are very cute.. I told DH that we won't be using family names.. Doris Rita and Ethel.. I hope you girls have better options!
Re: Speaking of baby names
Dave's mom's name is Bertha. I would classify that as NOT a better option.
We already have two names picked out.
Byron Mark and Becca Lane. Byron is Adam's dad's name. I've ALWAYS loved the name Byron so it works. Mark is Adam's middle. Becca (my mom's name is Rebecca, but I like Becca better so we're going to go with that) and Lane was my middle name before I had to drop it for my maiden name.
oh what cute names!!! Jay loves the name Olivia
My top choices for names are Catherine Olivia or Jason Michael.
I also like Ryan if Jay doesnt want a semi-junior. Jay's middle name is William and I hate how Jason William sounds, lol I like Juliana Rose for a girl too.
That is so cute!
obviously since we're TTC this has been a topic of conversation lately
Our top two names our Cameron James and Mason Lewis for a boy (the middle names are family names)
For a girl... we're having a harder time with.... but we both like Taylor Ann (Ann is mom's middle name)... Ellie Ann, Eryn Ann.... but we haven't decided.
My Grandma's names are Evelyn and Marilyn. Not options. lol
Once upon a time, we were planning on naming the first girl Aria Lynn. Lynn is my dad's middle name, was my middle name, and is Matt's mom's first name, so I felt like we kind of HAD to use it.
As you can imagine, however, naming a child after my MIL is no longer in my plans. I also dropped my own middle name when I changed my name at the SS office. Part of that was a convenience factor (I didn't want my legal middle name to be "Lynn Maidenname"), but part of it was that a name I used to love now sends me into twitching spasms and accelerates my heart rate every time I hear it.
Those are cute names. My grandmothers name is Elaine and my mothers name is Lynda. I dont think so.
We decied on Aiden Edward, FIL, HH's Grandfather, and HH's are all named Edward and I really dont care for the whole Jr. thing plus its difficult when HH, FIL, GIL are together to get someones attention. For a Girl I have always loved the name Gabriella
That's a nice gift for the holidays!! Exciting!
Our grandparents all have pretty old school names. Helen, Elena, Maurice, Louis (latin pronunciation), and the list goes on to be more ethnic. I'm more partial to using the men's names then the women's, just because they're easier to use to make a nice variation.
Have any of you checked out the baby name board on the bump? I lurk there once in a while. There's some pretty crazy names out there (local hospital posts), but that board is also pretty picky.
For a girl, I think we're pretty set on Lyla Jackson and for a boy it will be Jackson ________. I haven't found a middle name that I like with Jackson yet, but there are a lot of ideas in this post
I love everyones names!
The name we have picked out for a boy is a little different, but we both like it, and surprisingly so do our mothers lol. If we have a boy we're going to name him Texas Ryan. I know Texas is a state, but for some reason we love it. I also love the name Easton Joel, Joel is HH's middle name.
For a girl the only thing we can come up with that we like is Cali Jo. And yes we know that Cali is short for California lol but that wasn't thought of until after we'd decided we loved the name. Jo is my Dad's first name, and my middle.
Pretty sure I had someone in my class named Callie.
Rose is my MIL's maiden name, and I would LOVE to use it as a middle name. However, I'm still trying to figure out how it would work, considering we've already picked out the first name for our first little girl. I don't want to share it here because I'm uber-secretive about it, but it's a combo of my grandmother's two first names.
However, the name we've chosen would EASILY be shortened into a nickname, and that nickname is also the name of a flower. So I don't want it to be Flower-Flower, right?
GAH. We'll just have to have two little girls so we can use both names
My two aunt's are Evelyn and Marilyn. I wouldn't pick these names either
My BIL is named Maurice, but pronounces it Morris, not the french way.
And I LOVE the name Helena (combo of your two gmas). Love love love it. My old boss was Helen, but her sisters called her Helena and I just adored it. This might actually make my short list for girls names.
Close. Gladiolabananahammock Rose. Shortened to Gladiola Rose.
We like Matias for a boy. I also came to like Mauricio, but that might be weird since a) our friend Mauricio is a crazy Brazilian b) before we left the kibbutz he joked about me being pregnant and I told him I'd name the baby after him.
When I think of Helena I think of Helena from The L Word. Not sure if that's good or bad. The name's not really my style, but it's crossed my mind for a mn. I've also though of Bell for a mn b/c my grandma collects bells (I know I'm cheesy).
We also pronounce it Morris.
My co-worker from last year had triplet boys, and one of them was named Mathias.
I have no idea what the L Word is. lol
The L Word was on Showtime. It was a lesbian drama. Good show, the later seasons got a bit ridiculous. Helena was this rich b!tch basically.
I have Jacqueline Anne (my little french girl) Jessica Ashley (My little southern Belle) These names I picked out when I was in the 6th or 7th grade & Joanna Mercedes (my it girl) Mercedes was after exhusbands aunt Sister Mary Mercedes (yes his aunt was a nun) She died on my birthday and she was the sweetest woman around.
If Bernie and I do have one. We have felt that we need to stick with the J thing so the kiddo doesn't feel left out. SO if we have a boy which would be just wierd for me but if it were to happen his name would be Justin Daniel we would call him JD. If we had a girl it would be Julianna ______ don't know the middle name. My fear is having twins agian. I don't know if I could do that agian. Its a lot of friggin work.
You should be fine. Heredity twinning runs on the mothers side not the fathers side you should be safe. Hugs! You can now breath a sigh of relief.
On the other side of that they don't know why identical twins happen and that can happen to anyone. They don't know why the 1 fertilized egg splits and becomes 2. So on that note you could worry.
Also the older you get the more likely chance you can have twins as well.
I have twinning on my mothers side. It was my generations turn to have twins and I was the lucky one!!! Mine are identical so no one has been blessed with a set of faternal twins in my family yet. Hence my worry. Twinning has pockets where it happens more often as well. One is california, another is Georgia. HAHA There are like 7 pockets where twinning happens in the world. I think there is one more in the States. Africa has a huge populations of twinning as well. Sorry you probibly didn't need to know all of that. I read a lot on twins when they were little and have a lot of useless information bouncing around in there.