Still trying to name our Daughter

My esteemed friends,

About six weeks ago, I posted a poll asking your opinion as to what to name our new Daughter due in August. The winner of that poll was the lovely name Olivia, which was rejected by my Wife, as was Grace. These were the top two vote getters.

Here's the original thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=5098717

So, we've been knocking around more names, and I want your input......

or Sophia and call her Sofie

So yes, if you name her Sophia, call her Sofie if you like.

;)

I am traditional. I pick Sarah Lynn. Beautiful name! :)

can we use it?

:rofl: :hi:

nearly 30 years ago, we went through the 1000 names for baby book and picked something we could agree on. It was Sean. Did the same for #2 son.

Family names are good, if the names are cool. (Maybe you really don't want to turn Grandpa Frederick into Fredericka.)

You've got a couple of months. You'll pick something. It will be fine. She will become that name or that name will become her. It will be fine. And you will love her like you cannot imagine. :loveya:

Mz Pip
:dem:

probate court, I believe. As long as she is not trying to defraud anyone.

You look at a tiny infant and give it a name.

I happened upon Linda Michelle for my girl, and David Scott for my boy. I would have given them my maiden name as a middle name, but it wasn't in vogue then.

They both grew into their names, and Mz Pip, you're right. We love them like you can't imagine...

And here's why.....

Sarah is a beautiful name, and it stands well, without needing a nickname...

Also, Sarah Lynn rolls nicely off the tongue.....



:hi:

It sounds beautiful when you say it out loud. And there won't be six other little girls on her soccer team with the same name. When she's an adult, her first name alone will identify her at work. And, I must repeat, it sounds beautiful.

How cool is that?

:hi:

. . . then I won't bother voting. ;)

:thumbsup:

:thumbsup:

but I love the name Eva. If she is creative, it's a great name on its own.
Eva Lynn ?

However, I learned that the name can be said as "A-va" with a long "a". It's a French pronunciation.

That might make me hesitiate a little.

My favorite name for girls is:

Emily Rose

April is a beautiful name, and Lynn is my middle name. What could be more perfect? :)

..be the first on your block to go 'retro.'



Tikki

And I'm really sorry if it's your name, but I HATE the name Lynn. It's so clicheed and middle America, and it seems that every redneck has "Lynn" somewhere in their name, male or female. Olivia and Grace are much better, but in this poll, I had to go with Sophia Sage. I like Sophia, and Sage is unusual but not kooky.

Again, don't mean to offend. Just my personal, personal, worth-nothing opinion. But you did ask.

And CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't much care for the name "Lynn" either, but since it's in every choice, there must be a reason.

My kids' English names are Isaac and Joseph. I'm glad I didn't have to name a girl because the popular names now - Brooklyn, Dakota, Ashley, etc. are too cutesy for my taste. Kids' names in general these days seem so pretentious and yuppie-ish or soap opera-ish. Taylor, Tyler, Dylan and Declan? :puke: Even the boring 70s names like Matt, Scott, Todd and Ben , and Jennifer, Stephanie and Kelly were better.


Maybe it's time to go really old school on the names and bring back Agnes, Clara & Sandra, Charles, Richard & James...

but it is overused, I must admit. However, I just wanted to second bringing back the name Clara. I love that name. If life had turned out differently, I might have had my own Clara.....Clara Allyn. (Allyn after my favorite uncle, may he rest in peace).

Genevieve Lynn is a beautiful name!

She's Genevieve Irene, after my grandmother.

but only because I've known a pair of really sweet Sarahs.

I am guessing that Mehitable, Scholastika, Sophronia, Thekla and Cunigunda are not options. What about Keziah? She was one of Job's daughters.

I can't help it. Natalie will always remind me of the fat girl on "The Facts of Life."

please - no herb names! IMHO! The others are all beautiful.
Well - Rosemary would be okay.

(Don'tcha just hate it when people spell "Jasmine" that way?)

sounds good to me

maybe

Viya Lynn?

?

Unique without being "odd".

:thumbsup:

They sound like "stripper names." While I personally have no problem with women who choose to support themselves via exotic dancing--sadly, the rest of this sick, misogynist society has started forming a few disgusting judgments about women with "those kinds of names." Whenever I meet someone who has been named their kid something like that, I wonder if Dad has been spending a little bit too much time with his adult videos.

That it was a Porn Star Name......

announcing them as strippers. "...gentlemen, welcome Tanya Faye!!! Let's hear it for Tanya Faye!!"



:rofl:

It's a nice name, but there's a good chance that she'd be one of several Sarahs in a class or on a team.
That may not be an issue for you and your wife. Saralyn would be different

I've never met anyone with that name.

Maybe that was answered upthread, but there are so many names that can be put together. My daughter's middle name is Elise. :shrug:

I like the timeless names like Sara and also Genevieve (using the French pronunciation).

:shrug:

I'd go with Sophie Sage, as the first poster suggested. Sage is a way cooler middle name than Lynn. And Sophie Sage has a better ring to it than Sophia Sage

Names are not that complicated.

Hey Im goofy today

Magnificat anima mea Dominum
Et exultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo.
Quia respexit humilitatem ancillæ suæ: ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes.
Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est, et sanctum nomen eius.
Et misericordia eius a progenie in progenies timentibus eum.
Fecit potentiam in bracchio suo, dispersit superbos mente cordis sui.
Deposuit potentes de sede et exaltavit humiles.
Esurientes implevit bonis et divites dimisit inanes,
Suscepit Israel puerum suum recordatus misericordiæ suæ,
Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros, Abraham et semini eius in sæcula.

I always had at least one other Sara in my class, I hated the confusion :(

Mahanehdan Jeberechiah

Hispanic girl at Del Taco.

..."Interesting". I said *interesting*.

That would be nice.....She may be the one that oversees her parents' old age......

and that's what it means; Merciful.

Funny story, she was the youngest daughter. By Hispanic tradition, she was supposed to remain a spinster to take care of her parents in their old age. Ever see Water for Chocolate? that tradition was for real. Luckily, she rebelled and was the first to marry.

:bounce:

Of course, there is also Aimée, which means beloved. I like that name as well.

Best name ever for a girl baby, so she can decide on:

Katherine
Kate
Kay
Katie
Kathy
Kat

Of course I gave mine a middle name with a T....She's an Adult now and a K.T. :)

...given to me before the birth of one of my 3 kids:

Two naming constraints:
1. choose a name whose NICKNAME can be screamed out the back door of your house without causing your child to die of shame.
2. chose a FORMAL name that will sound reasonable when preceded by "Doctor" or "The Honorable." "Doogie Howser, MD" was a very bad joke, and rightly so.

SARA is good, but SARALYN sounds a little to0 "Southern" (if you get my drift) or like a mispronunciation of "SARIN."

My two cents as the father of STUART, SIDNEY, and GWENDELYNN.

I had to move, really had to move.......

If I had a daughter thats the ne=ame I'd choose.

Nice choices, and congrats! :)

Not a handle I'd want to end up with.

That is always the first mental connection to the name for me, as well, when I see it in writing, even though I know it is pronounced with a silent "h".

Every time they have to explain, "No, it sounds like Talia, not Thalia!


Mommy!!!!!

I always felt a little bit sorry for my cousin, Siobhan, when she was young, having to explain over and over and over and over again that "it's prounounced SHA-VON" when people just tortured her name.

Of course, it's all fine after we grow up, but some kids never truly recover from early traumas.

:D So I'm biased.

Anyone ever heard "Milaina"?

Tell me how YOU would pronounce it.

fsc

of course, I have always wanted to name my future little girl Nitala.

and I happen to have it! Your daughter wont meet many Natalies, believe me! Thats why I like my name so much.

Truly a great name if I say so myself. It's regal, yet changes to Julie for the nickname. Julies are always pretty and personable, which my Julie is.

Love it.

Julianna.

I have never met another Julianna.

But it's always been my favorite name.

Her middle name is Helen as in Helen of Troy.

no?

:shrug:

I was just kidding...although I love the name Anastasia

I am not a fan of Lynn.

When I was a little girl one of my good friend's was Sarah Lynn. I have good memories of her, but Lynn seems like a very dated middle name to me.

It was my dad's middle name, I spared my son the honor...

I know a man named Lynn and he's a great guy, but I'm not crazy about the name. Since it's a family name, I think that's nice to pass it on to your daughter. I'm from the era when it seemed like a good 80 percent of the girls middle names were Lynn, Lee, Marie, or Elizabeth.

That would have gone over well! :rofl:

Leslie has a long history in my inlaws' family, and Beverly has a long history in the family of my sister's inlaws.

But the worst of the worst, I think, is my brother in law (of the Leslie line) whose given names are Brooke Leslie.

Yep, complete with the "e" on Brooke.

Poor guy, no wonder he's so screwed up.

Angelina, Arianna, Alexandra,
Chloe, Jade,
Katherine

always: Gwen-killy Bohru, knew an irish couple named their girl that one also pretty imo :thumbsup:

Then, I'm sort of a traditionalist.

our last baby was a boy, so we never got to argue over which name to use:

Vivienne
Isabeau
Gabrielle
Therese

our first child was a girl - her name is Genevieve (the French pronunciation)

Is she gonna grow up and marry a Kennedy?

:eyes:

Or are you French?

but my husband's family emigrated from France to Canada, then U.S. (his aunts & uncles grew up speaking French at home). Since our last name is very French, we elected for a name that would look "right" with our last name.

the pronunciation is something like "zhan vee EV" (it's similar to the J sound in the French pronunciation of Jean)

It caused a little confusion in my family - the first year of her life, my dad would call her JonBenet!

That's hilarious.

And I always liked that name, either pronunciation.

Much much better than Ashley or Britney or Crystal. ha!

I am so glad my parents gave me a standard, boring, Anglo-Saxon name (rather than any of those that were popular in the seventies when I was born!).

I bet her whole name all together sounds right fancy. :D

French names...so feminine!

Redstone

.. but there is no way to pick a first and middle name without knowing the last :)

Of course, I would never suggest that you identify yourself...

Wendy
Rachelle
Allison
Anna

Let's really confuse things!

PS My daughter-in-law's brother took 3 months to name his daughter - and this was after she was born. So you have plenty of time...

Mz Pip
:dem:

Former GF

Kinda like Allison.......

Not a huge fan of Lynn though, it's overused.

Just not Jenna - a beautiful name tainted by porn stars, Bush daughters, and reality tv morans.

I like Cecilia, Wife doesn't

<<<======
You want your daugther to use the same spelling as the asshole on the left who thinks being a WR in football makes him qualified to be governor of Pennsylvania?

:grr:

:shrug:

a lot of names with Lynn as a middle name, I suggest Summer Lynn or Summerlyn or Summerlin as potentials. Naming her something like Summer reminds you of the season where it all began.

PS: I like Olivia, too.

How about Summerlin Sage?

Strong and tall like the mountains.

Pretty name ... but, quite common.

Along those lines, I'm glad your wife rejected Olivia and Grace. She would probably have been Olivia X. or Grace X. (or whatever your last initial is) to differentiate her from Olivia Y. or Grace Z. in her class ...

sorry if you've already answered this -- the thread is just looong and I haven't read the whole thing yet.

actually, i just googled, and it IS a porn star. so maybe that one isn't so great...

just sayin.

but when we took a good look at him, we realized it was wrong.

:wow:

So we picked another, almost at random, that seemed to fit him. To this day he **loves** his name.

I'd just let it float until you see the kid...

because that's my niece's name

(Although, she was born in April and I wholly disapproved of the name when my brother's S.O. insisted upon it for the very reason that it was silly to name someone born in April, April ~ but since your daughter in due in August, I think it rocks!)

Selma, Dorothea, Shirley,
Adele, Hortense, May
Fannie. June, Pearl
and
Rhoda


j/k

Hey I like some of your J/K names. Just wanted to write some names in the same vein...

Choosing a timeless, classic name is the best gift parents can ever give their child..

Lots of people don't imagine that name on an office door, a business card, a desk name plate or on a uniform..

Cutesy/trendy names are best used as NICKNAMES...

No child enjoys being Madison#7 or Joshua#4 in kindergarten:)

and someday that child will be a grandparent.. Grandma Tiffani just sounds odd:)

I'm grateful to have one and I named all of my children classic names.

Remember, Myrtle and Gertrude were once trendy names. Today's trendy names are tomorrow's dated, has been names.

;)

but I would call her Sally. :)

Three of them even had the same last initial *and* middle name. I'd say no to Thalia for the same reasons listed above and my first association is "thrall" and bondage.

I've always liked the name "Aletheia". It's Greek for "honesty" and has good nickname possibilities if she ends up a tomboy (Allie), a bookworm (Thea) or an artist (the full name). And it's not too common, but not totally out the of the woods and it looks like it sounds.

I also like Agatha, Audrey, Constance (with the nickname "Stanzi") and Daria.

Haven't been able to sell Ms Uly on it if we ever get a girl, though.

However, if your wife has ruled out Olivia and Grace (in my opinion, two of the most beatiful female names in the English language), she's hardly likely to accept my third choice.

Let her name the kid whatever she wants. Obviously, she has strong opinions that she isn't interested in having challenged by you or anyone else. I really wish you luck.

Saralyn Sage just sounds beautiful.

Madeleine
Claire
Juliet
Sarabeth
Lucinda
Lily
Charlotte
Eliza
Daisy
Gianna
Chiara
Georgiana
Margot
Celia
Alexis
Alessandra
Macy
Norah
Eleanor
Susannah

...although I associate it with boys because my grandson's name is Sage Thomas.

Ella Rae
or
Eleanor Anne
or
Sarah Louise
or
Sarah Jane
or
Eleanor Eve
or
Eva Mae
or
Evelyn Anne


I like 'em all

:hi:
aA

If your name is Holly you must be born in December or January.
That's the rules.
June may not matter so much. I prefer Mae over May.

I voted for Natalie. It's a power name and uncommon. Sara is not real exiting.

I also like Claudia (pronouced either english or Spanish), Julia (pronounced english), and Helene (pronounced Helleen not the french hell-n), and Helena (pronounced either hel-n-ah, or hel-ee-nah)also Caroline, Lydia, Nina, and Suzanne.

If I were Spanish I might go with Marielena or French Mirielle or Sofie, or Mariela if I was one or the other.

But the rules are these: You don't want to pick a name where people say "Get Over Yourself" and you don't want to pick a name where a potential date says "I can't date someone who has my mother's name or who has the same name as the last person I dated."

I've written some stories with a character named Genevieve, and I'm convinced it's because that should have been my name--I was a "Jennifer" when so many girls were being named Jennifer, but Genevieve is just a twist different, and it sounds pretty. And you still have the option of baby nicknames like "Gen" and "Genny." But what may very well happen is, you'll see your newborn sweetheart and say, why she looks like a (Cassandra, Melinda, Angelina, Bridget, Emily) and there you'll have it.