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What Names Were Considered?

beach-mom — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:39:07 GMT

I'm piggybacking on your fun thread @Oznell !

If you have children or nieces or nephews- or four-legged children, what names did you consider then discard?

DH was the only boy of 5. He did not want a junior. In my family all children born were named after other family members- mostly middle names. When DS was born there were already 3 in his generation named after DH's father- one first name, and 2 middle.

Anyway for him we considered Cody, DH's favorite. At the time I heard that name every morning on Regis and Kathie Lee! I just couldn't do it. I liked Kirby. It was hard to find a boy name, as there were already 8 boys in the Gen X and millennial generations in his family, and the names I liked were already "taken." We had already named our stillborn son after my late brother. So we chose the perfect name for him by looking at a program book, and I had good memories of someone I went to high school with who had that name!

For DD we considered Cynthia, DH's favorite, and Victoria, my favorite. We chose a different name on the way to the hospital!

My mom always told me she and my dad had settled on my name until my dad turned the page in the book they were using!

I have my grandmother's name as my middle name. DD's middle name was easy - both of our mothers had the same first name, one that really isn't that common!

When it comes to kitty names we have fun. Most of ours are rescues, whose names aren't known. We like unusual names. DD wanted to name our orange kitty Simba, but it didn't seem to fit him. The second kitty we ever had was found in a garbage can. She was pure white. We thought about Yuki (the Japanese word for snow), but it didn't seem to fit her. The name we settled on did.

I believe the names we end up with always fit. And I try to fit the names we didn't choose with that person or kitty now, but it just doesn't fit them. When you think about how you got to them it tells quite a story!

So what names did you think about?

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Love my grandkids — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:45:49 GMT

@beach-mom I love the name Patrick but decided to use it as our son's middle name. I didn't want him to be called "Pat" but didn't want to keep telling people "His name is Patrick." I had a grammar school friend named Pat and I always thought Patrick sounded better.

So we ended up with it as his middle name. His first name goes with it and with our last name, syllable wise and has a good shortened version which we use.

As a kid to get his attention all 3 names were used!

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beach-mom — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:49:37 GMT

@Love my grandkids - And when you called him by all three of his names did he know he'd better pay attention? LOL!

I have a nickname. When my mom used my full name I knew I was in trouble. And if she added my middle and last names. . . I might have well packed my bags!

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lkat — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:49:39 GMT

Fun thread! At the time we found out we were going to have a boy, my favorite boy name was Nicholas. Hubby hated it! It took forever for us to come up with a name that we both liked. Of course, after he was here a little while he didn't seem like a Nicholas at all and I was glad we went with what we did.

His middle name was easy - my dad, brother and brother-in-law all had the same first name so we went with that.

When we got our puppy (American Eskimo), I had the hardest time coming up with a name. Didn't want the standard names for white dogs. My husband and son wanted Cosmo which I resisted but finally relented to and of course now I can't imagine him with any other name!

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Sage04 — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:53:42 GMT

There were two names that I really liked for a boy. I married a guy with one of the names and then named our son the other name. Everything was fulfilled. That name was perfect for our son.

For a girl, it would have been my parents names with a hyphen.

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J Town Girl — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:54:20 GMT

Being of Irish descent I wanted my Yorkies to have Irish names. There's Shawna, Erin, Kelly and Bridget. My canary is bright yellow so his name is Sunny. All of my guinea pigs have been named by either their breed such as I have a Teddy so her name is spelled Teddi. My other piggies are named after their coloring, I have now or had in the past a Ginger, Brownie, Rusti, Grey Girl, Lilac and for unknown reasons a Baby and a Randi.

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CelticCrafter — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:57:48 GMT

You never realize how many people you don't like until it comes time to choose a name for your kids!

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Laura14 — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:59:39 GMT

My sister and her husband lost their mind with their first child and actually considered Trinity and Talon. Lovely names maybe for someone else's child but my niece ended up with neither and all bodies in the family remained undead.

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J Town Girl — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 22:05:30 GMT

@Love my grandkids wrote:
@beach-mom I love the name Patrick but decided to use it as our son's middle name. I didn't want him to be called "Pat" but didn't want to keep telling people "His name is Patrick." I had a grammar school friend named Pat and I always thought Patrick sounded better.

So we ended up with it as his middle name. His first name goes with it and with our last name, syllable wise and has a good shortened version which we use.

As a kid to get his attention all 3 names were used!

I've always loved the name Patrick. The parochial grammar school that I went to was called St Patrick's. So that name always has a special meaning to me.

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J Town Girl — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 22:09:49 GMT

@CelticCrafter wrote:
You never realize how many people you don't like until it comes time to choose a name for your kids!

So true! My mother wanted to name me Eileen but my brother went to school with a girl named that and she was mean so he didn't want his sister to have that name. No offense to any Eileen's out there but I'm glad they chose a different name. I just can't see myself as an Eileen.

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Oznell — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 22:17:18 GMT

I love this, @beach-mom , great idea! I love your sweet name stories.

I considered names that tended to fall into one of four broad categories, looking back-- "literary", Biblical, family or Welsh, weirdly (they all reflected my interests). I liked:

Theo, Oliver, Gideon, Barnaby, Christian, Reuben, Henry, Samuel, Tarquin, Brooks, John, (or "John Wesley"-- that was big in my family), Hugh, Abel, Gareth or Geraint, Simon, Eben.

I seriously considered naming him Edward or Edmond, just to get the cute nickname, "Ned"! But didn't.

Hubby didn't have any real preferences for names, and liked most of the ones I came up with. If there were any that he hated, we automatically discarded them.

We ended up giving him a 3 syllable Biblical name as a first name, which I considered to be handsome and timeless, and which was also a family name. He has three middle names-- a Welsh one which is also a family name, and then two other English family names.

It was really a fun process.

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VanSleepy — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 22:36:12 GMT

Since I was little I always said if I had a daughter I would name her Christina. Yeah, well husband ixnayed that one. Nicholas was also one of my frontrunners because it was my grandfather's name, but when the time came to use it, it was extremely popular so we didn't.

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KBEANS — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 22:47:29 GMT

@beach-mom

My daughter was going to be named Amanda. I just loved that name. There was the cutest little girl on the soap opera Another World with that name.
Oh well... I had a beautiful son.

Second child was going to be named Amanda again ... 😂 if it were a girl. I was also considering Erin. My husband said well then I want Seamus if it's a boy. I wasn't having that!

So happens the nurse at the hospital was an Irish gal, and was trying to keep me calm and asked what are the names for the baby. I told her and as soon as my baby boy arrived she said Welcome to the world Seamus!

I nixed the Seamus and named him after my husband. I love his name.

We always laugh at the Seamus story and my son said he would have loved that name! 😝

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Love my grandkids — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 22:51:14 GMT

@J Town Girl I went to Catholic schools for 12 years and St. Patrick has always been a favorite.

I really wanted Bridget for a girl but got my DS instead! Good thing as no one and I mean NO ONE else liked that name! I also liked Felicia, think it's so pretty.

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beach-mom — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 23:14:06 GMT

Thank you so much for your stories everyone! I'm enjoying them so much! Please keep them coming!

@Oznell - I have to share this with you. One of my closest friends married an ordained minister. She wanted Mark; he wanted John. John Mark was born and has been called that ever since. No one shortens his name!

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Citrine1 — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 23:20:47 GMT

@KBEANS Amanda is one of my top favorite names for girls. And I also remember Amanda from Another World; I loved that show!

My best friends daughter is named Amanda and she is a few years older than my daughter so I didn't want to use the name but, 35 years later, it still remains a favorite.

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occasionalrain — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 02:54:42 GMT

I eliminated a lot of names I liked because I didn't like the diminutive. I like Amanda but not Mandy.

We name our sons family last names and daughters get them for their middle name. It's a tradition and helps protect against identity theft. People with common names have, on occasion, been mistaken for a wanted suspect and spent a night in jail before it could be sorted.

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patbz — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:44:07 GMT

We have a long almost unpronounceable surname so we went with our first names when deciding what to name son or daughter. DH is Paul and I'm Pat so we decided instantly on Patrick Paul or Paula Patricia. Our son, Patrick Paul is 33 and his older son is also Patrick Paul ( jr). Everyone calls our son Patrick, never Pat.

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J Town Girl — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 02:24:16 GMT

@Love my grandkids wrote:
@J Town Girl I went to Catholic schools for 12 years and St. Patrick has always been a favorite.

I really wanted Bridget for a girl but got my DS instead! Good thing as no one and I mean NO ONE else liked that name! I also liked Felicia, think it's so pretty.

I also went 8 years to a Catholic grade school and 4 years to a Catholic high school. I hear many people complaining about Catholic schools but I feel that you get a very good education. I never regretted my 12 years in parochial schools.

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OKPrincess — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 03:37:51 GMT

My first husband and I made a list of boys and girls names and agreed to go with a name on both lists.

When our son was born, the only name on both lists was Brian. Therefore we named him Brian.