Children's Names

I've noticed some very interesting and unique names of the children of some of the members here.  Wondering if anyone would be interested in tell us what their children's names are, and why they chose them.  Are they family names?  Something that is special to you?  Or just a name you liked.

I have a very different name (it's pronounced:  Leeza - NOT like Liza Minnelli)  So I'm always interested in hearing other unique name stories.

~Liza

I don't have kids and at the moment have no plans to, but I'll never say never, and when I was younger I did think I wanted them. If I did have them I'd call them Caitlin and/or Daniel - dh is Irish and I've got an Irish background, so I tend to like Irish names. Also I like names with built-in nicknames.... For some reason I've always been partial to VERY traditional (like bordering on old-fashioned) names rather than unusual ones. I also really like Grace, but I know a lot of people think that's an "old lady name." Our families are both full of very traditional names that border on dull - lots of James, John, Frederick, Mary, etc.

My eldest son is Martin Robert and the younger one is Charles Richard.  Nice, traditional, normal non-trendy names that hold up in most English-speaking countries! 

My girlfriend's niece/god daughter is named Grace - she's only about 7.  I think it's a lovely name!!  And I think it's growing in popularity again.  Simon and I joke about our children being named Mary Kathryne and Michael James - I have to wonder if the time ever actually comes if we could ever call than anything else!!  

~Liza

I know it's popular to pick out "the" name whilst pregnant if one knows what gender the child is - but I had 5 boy names listed when I was pregnant with my youngest, and when he finally got here he didn't look like any of them!  I had to start all over - the girl in the Records Department was calling me every five minutes, so she could fill in the birth certificate! 

Well, I don't have kids yet, either, but their names are already picked out (still trying to get DH's approval for the girl's name!  ) -- Geneva Grace (she could be GG "Gigi" for a nickname -- even though I loathe nicknames!) and Declan Byrd (he could just be Dec).  Geneva is from a Rockwell Church song, Grace is just a lovely name, Declan is just a name I've always liked, and Byrd was my great-grandfather's name.

I've always been partial to very old-fashioned names -- Evangeline, Millie, Callie, Zebulon, Gladys, Hattie, Henry, Pearl, Daisy, etc.  This has been a slight bone of contention with DH as he seems to like more common, modern names like Jennifer, Rebecca, etc. (not that there's anything wrong with those names in the slightest...I just prefer old lady names!  )

My own name comes from my great-grandmother, who was Lola Jewel.  My cousin (the second granddaughter) is Jewel.  I share my middle name (Ellen) with my mother, and would like to carry on that tradition, but I can't think of any first names that "go" with Ellen.

Fundamentally, I like naming children after their (great)grandparents, but my choices are sort of limited as my grandparents are named Major Lee (too strange for a little boy, plus our last name starts with M and that'd be too much alliteration), Mildred Virginia (too old-fashioned, though I do like Millie), Freida Earlene (!) (quite like the first name, but loathe her!), and Raeford (too redneck).  The great-grandparents were Hattie (okay), James (boring), Gladys (not too bad -- she was Lola Jewel's sister and raised my grandmother after LJ died), and Byrd (like that).

Hmm...I've just realised that I've spent far too much time thinking about this over the course of my lifetime.  

Son's name is Jonathan Alan, and he goes by Jack (after my grandfather- the anniversary of his death fell the same day my son was born- and he had a lot of charactaristics I want my son to have. . . but grandfathers given name was John, and I liked Jonathan better- I am a nonconformist. . . . )

I named mine with pretty standard names; Jeffrey Neil, Brian Matthew, Ashley Nicole, and Cory Scott

Our son is Alexander Patrick. DH liked the name Alexander and Patrick is named partially after my real mother who died years ago and her name was Patricia and my middle name is Patrice so Patrick seemed fitting.

And our baby girl who turned a year old last week is Rhiannon Joanette. Again my husband came up with Rhiannon, it's Welsh and his family orginates from there.  And Joanette is my step-mother's middle name. I always told her that if I ever had a baby girl I was going to name her after her and I did.    

They've got big names I know but Im sure they will learn to spell them some day.  

Son #1: is Joshua Charles, Charles after my father

Son #2: Niall Linden Pàdraig

Niall because both hubby and I admire a man named Niall, Linden after my father and Pàdraig because I like it.

Had Niall have been a girl he would have been either Siobhan Màiri or Madeline Màiri, Màiri being my middle name.

Cait, I hope that Niall is a boy! 

My girls are Kaitlyn Nicole and Kirsty Mairi.  

The whole time I was pregnant w/Kaitlyn, I was being told she was a boy.  (Even had a scan... )  Needless to say, we didn't have any girl names picked out.  When she was born, I wanted to call her Caitlin Noelle, but the ex vetoed that.  He preferred the more modern Kaitlyn and didn't like Noelle at all.  So Kaitlyn Nicole she is.

Kirsty Mairi is named after a great-Aunt from the Isle of Skye.  The 'original' was Kirstie Mhairi, but that was a little TOO 'foreign' for the ex.  So we compromised.  Poor girl is constantly referred to as 'Kristy' over here, but she's got a sense of humour about it.  I suspect it won't be as much of a problem once we arrive in Scotland.  

Cait, I hope that Niall is a boy!

D'oh!

my favorite girls name is Mirabelle.  I don't know where I heard it, but it just has a lovely ring to it.  Mirabelle Evelyne.

my favorite girls name is Mirabelle.  I don't know where I heard it, but it just has a lovely ring to it.  Mirabelle Evelyne.

It's a berry that grows in the Rhineland.