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Poll: Cool family names you'd use for baby
What cool/unusual/fun family names do you or DH have that you'd think about using for baby?
Re: Poll: Cool family names you'd use for baby
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I love Emery, my grandmother's maiden name, but it was never considered because I have a niece Emily already. Harrison is another maiden name on my side, but that's pretty popular right now.
There isn't much on H's side. His family is Czech and Polish, so the last names don't make good first names.
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My MIL wanted me to use McGregor or Sterling from her side of the family. Just because they were her ideas I nixed them.
We don't have much that I would use. My aunt is Kay, which I like as a middle name. Gma is Betty. I have a lot of Ann's.
My grandpa is Hardin, which I always liked.
DH has a grandma whose name was Annie Arvella. Arvella is kinda cute.
Most of our names are pretty ordinary and others are names I wouldn't consider like Gay for example. The only *special* one I would consider is Willadean after Dh's grandma. It's nms at all but her husband used to call her Dean and I loved it. DH is anti family names though so I doubt he would go for it.
Oh and we thought my middle name was cool enough to pass down for miss Molly.
Lots!
Grandmas': One's name was Gloria Adele, the other's MN was Mae
Grandpa's FN: Henry; love it!
Aunt's MN: Adaire; love this, too!
My Dad's MN: Lane; I've always planned to use Laine as a MN for a girl
A great (x2 or 3) uncle: Theodore (Theo)
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Paternal great- grandmother: Ina May
Maternal great- Grandmother: Daisy Mae
Maternal great-great grandfather: Hugo Alexander
Paternal grandfather: Frelen Allen
Neena Mae. 1/7/10
"A baby nursing at a mother's breast is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature." - David Suzuki
My great grandmother was Geneva Lillian which I love. A large part of my lineage is full of the last name Henry, so it would be a great choice. My maiden name means angel in German, so I often thought of using something that means angel for one of my kids, but I don't like any of the names unfortunately.
DH's family is full of Italian names like Vincenzo, Salvatore, Lorenzo, etc. I love those types of names, but since our last name is Scottish I think they seem out of place for our baby, unfortunately.
Fatima was my great grandma's name. I love the name but worry about kids calling her "fatty", especially since DH & I are fat & she may end up chubby too. Fatima means "field" in Portuguese & is also the sight of a Marian apparition.
DH's grandma's name is Laxmi (pronounced "Luck-shmee") which I think is very pretty but I worry about people effing up the spelling. Laxmi is the goddess of wealth.
One of my favorite names.
Neena Mae. 1/7/10
"A baby nursing at a mother's breast is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature." - David Suzuki
I see the name Lakshmi a lot too and I pronounce it Locks-mee. Is this the same type of name but spelled differently or am I saying it wrong?
It would go nicely with Neena!
We've actually been looking through our family trees for names lately.
DH's great-grandmother's name was Emilia and she went by Emily. We actually didn't know her legal name was Emilia until DH started doing some geneology stuff. Unfortunately, Emilia wouldn't work with our last name, but Emily would.
I don't know if there are any particularly "cool" names, but there are definitely some names I love/think would be fun....
boy: Henry, Axel, Edison, Gilbert
girl: Lilla (I so badly wanted to use it this time, but the "la" was too much with our last name) & Estelle