Baby names

[SO16_Saint]

Never realised it's such a hard job picking a name for your child.

 

We don't know what were having, which is probably half the problem, but it's bloody difficult picking a name.

 

You kind of want one that'd cute for now, but not one that's too ***tty for the future and the kid gets grief when older.

 

Also, you can't have a soft name and it turn out to be a big brute!

 

How did you decide? Was it set in stone early doors or did you see the baby and just 'know'?

 

We know middle names!

[shurlock]

Matthew. Simple.

[Barney Trubble]

Ethan

[Lighthouse]

If you want him to have any friends, don't call him Dominic or Keith.

[TheCholulaKid]

Daughter was easy. Just felt right. We didn't know what we were having and had a name for either we were happy with.

 

Second time around (3 weeks ago - cheers) we did know what we we were having and for some reason it was a lot harder. We finally named him a couple of days after he was born.

[Colinjb]

Me and Mrs Colinjb found the best way was to just fire names we like at each other during car journeys, and then based on this go yes or no and explain why.

 

Sadly it meant that girls names were easy.... but boys names almost impossible, it seems we have met a lot of total ars*holes in our lives.

[1976_Child]

I've always liked the name 'Joy' for a lass.

 

for a lad, just call him 'son'. When he gets old enough he can pick his own name

[bridge too far]

It was easy choosing a name for my son (although we did choose a boy and a girl name for any eventuality). Strangely, that girl's name didn't figure when we were expecting the second child. My second daughter's name was an easy choice, although we just sort of hit on it.

[SO16_Saint]

We have a sizeable short list of:

 

Aiden

Caitlin

Niamh

Emma

Cameron

Chloe

Eloise

Isabel

 

Both Daniel and Matthew were in the running but the Mrs has gone off both, so were now running shirt on boys names!

[SO16_Saint]

Ethan

 

Like that!

 

Ethan James.

 

Got a nice ring to it.

[View From The Top]

In all honesty, found it easy.

 

They all had their names before they were born and we called that instead of "bump".

 

My eldest had both a lad and lasses name as we didn't know what we were having (well we "knew" it was a boy).

[bridge too far]

We have a sizeable short list of:

 

Aiden

Caitlin

Niamh

Emma

Cameron

Chloe

Eloise

Isabel

 

Both Daniel and Matthew were in the running but the Mrs has gone off both, so were now running shirt on boys names!

 

Not Cameron FFS!!!!!!

[Dr Who?]

Me and Mrs Colinjb found the best way was to just fire names we like at each other during car journeys, and then based on this go yes or no and explain why.

 

Sadly it meant that girls names were easy.... but boys names almost impossible, it seems we have met a lot of total ars*holes in our lives.

 

Snap!!

[Micky]

Bert.

[Dr Who?]

Me and Mrs Colinjb found the best way was to just fire names we like at each other during car journeys, and then based on this go yes or no and explain why.

 

Sadly it meant that girls names were easy.... but boys names almost impossible, it seems we have met a lot of total ars*holes in our lives.

 

My wife is a teacher so hates most of the names we come up with. We even resorted to looking at Eddie Stobbart names, but then found out it was a boy, so that one is out. We found it easier with girls names than we are boys!! But we are thinking Laurie!!

[SO16_Saint]

Me and Mrs Colinjb found the best way was to just fire names we like at each other during car journeys, and then based on this go yes or no and explain why.

 

Sadly it meant that girls names were easy.... but boys names almost impossible, it seems we have met a lot of total ars*holes in our lives.

 

Were driving down to St Ives tomorrow so may do this

[Jonnyboy]

It is weird how its much easier to come up with a girls name.

[Chin Strain]

We have a sizeable short list of:

 

Aiden

Caitlin

Niamh

Emma

Cameron

Chloe

Eloise

Isabel

 

Both Daniel and Matthew were in the running but the Mrs has gone off both, so were now running shirt on boys names!

 

Our 8 yr old is called Niamh, also with this spelling. We liked it because you can't shorten it, amongst other reasons. We also considered Caitlin and Carys for no. 2, but went for Bronwyn. We had a mare with boys names, but with 2 girls and no more kids to come it doesn't really matter now.

[View From The Top]

James Matthew Walker

 

Grace Lily Walker

 

Molly Rose Walker

[SO16_Saint]

I love Niamh, but my reservation is that people may not know how to pronounce it.

 

Have you had any issues with it?

[Chin Strain]

I love Niamh, but my reservation is that people may not know how to pronounce it.

 

Have you had any issues with it?

 

You do get the odd one, but she soon pipes up and puts them right! Some of the spellings of it though......

[SO16_Saint]

You do get the odd one, but she soon pipes up and puts them right! Some of the spellings of it though......

 

Good on her!!

[LGTL]

It's pronounced "neave" isn't it? I remember when I lived in Ireland for a while there were hundreds of them and I pronounced it "neam" to begin with, what with my ignorant english way!

[Jonnyboy]

Why choose such a difficult name?

[Micky]

I love Niamh, but my reservation is that people may not know how to pronounce it.

 

Have you had any issues with it?

 

It's pronounced "neave" isn't it? I remember when I lived in Ireland for a while there were hundreds of them and I pronounced it "neam" to begin with, what with my ignorant english way!

 

And your reservation would be totally warranted - even with LGTL's explanation, I still have no idea how to pronounce it. (knee ave / nee ve ?)

Edited 18 September, 2011 by Micky

[sambosa75]

Didnt realise we had so many Irish people posting on here...

[sambosa75]

Some modern and trendy like.....Baby P.

 

A good, original unisex first name is Fritzl.

[Micky]

Some modern and trendy like....

 

Ethel.

[Colinjb]

Out of interest, Mrs Colinjb and I decided on the following names:

 

Male: Arthur

 

Female: Molly, Megan, Holly, Dotty, Evie.

[shurlock]

I can't actually imagine a baby named Nigel.

 

A name mired in middle-aged defeatism.

 

Saying that, seems to be quite popular on the footy manager circuit= Nigel Adkins, Nigel Clough, Nigel Pearson etc, though with the exception of NA, they too appear slightly fed up with life.

[hamster]

Me and Mrs hamster don't have a chi/d of our own [sic] the one we lost [sic] was a girl, we gave her a very special name and mourn her loss every day.

[SuperMikey]

Ewan/Euan for a boy.

[Special K]

Didnt realise we had so many Irish people posting on here...

 

It does seem very trendy these days to select Irish or Celtic names for newborns. Maybe the OP could consider some old english names like Cuthwulf or Ethelfleda...........

[Dog]

Tom

 

Peggy

[bridge too far]

I was called Ruth, because my parents didn't want my name to be shortened.

 

I am invariably called Ruthie

 

Because it's an uncommon name, it does have the advantage of being remembered though.

[Window Cleaner]

Tom

 

Peggy

 

Peggy is a diminutive of Margaret, don't ask me why.

[Window Cleaner]

I was called Ruth, because my parents didn't want my name to be shortened.

 

I am invariably called Ruthie

 

Because it's an uncommon name, it does have the advantage of being remembered though.

 

Ruth used to be quite a common name,same as Jane,Janet etc,however having biblical association it sort of died out. Names

are cyclic,they come and go.How many Berts (either Bertrand or Alberts) do you get nowadays? 80 years ago it was one of the most common masculine names about.In france we went through a period where 8 kids out of 10 had a Breton name,now half of them are associated with yank TV shows,mostly spelt wrongly though. At one time the "Etat Civil" could refuse a child's given name if they thought there was no real reason for giving it (we have some friends who call their 3rd daughter Fannely but her name is Caroline because the mairie refused their choice) but now it seems you can do much as you like.

[alpine_saint]

We went for traditional names, since a lot of the modern names would sound stupid on adults.

[Saint-scooby]

http://www.babynamegenie.com/baby-name-generator/

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

Peggy is a diminutive of Margaret, don't ask me why.

 

My mother was christened Peggy and often got asked if it was short for Margaret.

[Johnny Bognor]

Nicola (can be male ala Cortese or female)

[holepuncture]

 

You should name your children Mohammed and Olivia, HTH

[Bath Saint]

 

You should name your children Mohammed and Olivia, HTH

 

Typical Daily Mail scare story. They conveniently combined all the variant spellings of Mohammed (or is it Muhammed, or Mohamed, or....) to skew the figures. It transpires there are eight different variants of Oliver, which makes it far and away the most popular name in the UK. When all the variants of names are added together, Mohammed goes right down the list.

[Durleyfos]

Call her Dave.

[Bath Saint]

Call him Sue

[Dog]

Gavin or Wayne for a boy

 

Jill or Morag for a girl

[Trader]

I was called Ruth, because my parents didn't want my name to be shortened.

 

I am invariably called Ruthie

 

Because it's an uncommon name, it does have the advantage of being remembered though.

 

I'd always assumed you were a Bridget.

 

Awful name BTW.

[Dog]

Roof is a sexy name.

[bridge too far]

I'd always assumed you were a Bridget.

 

Awful name BTW.

 

What's awful? Ruth or Bridget? I didn't have much say in the matter. Strangely, the reason for my user name is complex, but part of it is because my dad used to call me Bridge (short for Bridget) for some strange reason.

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

My wife & I went for a brilliant and yet shallow compromise for our son: Matthew (as in Le Tiss) Louis (as in Vuitton handbags). We were both happy.

 

Our daughter was a few days away from being called Lucy (after a certain well known lady Saint) but the name was vetoed when my wife found out the reason why...