Children's Names

Here we have the top 10 UK names for 2004:

Rank Boys names Rank Girls names
1 Jack                            1 Emily
2 Joshua                       2 Ellie
3 Thomas                      3 Jessica
4 James                         4 Sophie
5 Daniel                         5 Chloe
6 Samuel                        6 Lucy
7 Oliver                          7 Olivia
8 William                        8 Charlotte
9 Benjamin                     9 Katie
10 Joseph                       10 Megan

And the top 10 for the US:

Rank Male name Female name
1 Jacob                Emily
2 Michael              Emma
3 Joshua             Madison
4 Matthew           Olivia
5 Ethan               Hannah
6 Andrew             Abigail
7 Daniel               Isabella
8 William              Ashley
9 Joseph              Samantha
10 Christopher     Elizabeth

I hope we won't see a ton of little Chavettes named Burberry in a couple of years!

Oh, I can see it coming, lol!   Little Burberrys and Lacostes running around everywhere! Yikes!  

DH has just announced that he now wants a baby so that he can name it ZebidyRedwood. Now he won't stop saying it - just keeps walking around the house saying it over and over again. Help me!

http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

My favourite commentary about baby names.   

http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

My favourite commentary about baby names.   

Oh yeah, that's a great site! 

Our daughter's name is Isabella Valentina....we chose to honor her daddy's heritage and thought it rollled off the tongue well!

Boy1- Ashton Miles, he is 7, I named him after reading a very touching article about a boy named Ashton.  At that time, I had never heard of the name before and there were no famous Ashtons dating Demi Moore at the time.  I liked the named then, as I do now.

Boy 2- Jackson Steven James, he is almost 2.  Jackson was the first name of an great-great uncle. Steven was chosen for a wonderful man the died suddenly at 50 and James after my two grandfathers.

Both names are surnames, though both have been used for first names in my family decades ago.

I saw a woman on Babycenter who had named her son "Aryan."

And if that isn't bad enough on its own, she didn't even realize what she'd named him.  She thought she'd named him "Orion."  Like the constellation/Greek myth.  I had to bite my tongue several times to keep from commenting on that one.  I still think about all I could have said.

Our girls are Dagmar Selina and Morgan Artemis.  Both middle names mean "moon" and are Goddesses (in fact, the same Goddess according to some-Seline, Artemis, and Hecate are aspects of one Triple Goddess.)

My husband just always liked Dagmar, and after I got over my initial dislike, I love it too.  Her middle name, Selina, is also the first name of Catwoman (Selina Kyle).  Morgan, we couldn't think of anything to name her.  It was hard to find something we liked that also went with Dagmar.  We both just really liked it.
Dagmar means "glorious" and Morgan means "bright sea dweller" (or something like that.)

If we had managed to have a boy, we would have named him Henry Bruce Stephen.  I was firm on Henry because I love the name, Bruce was my husband's pick (yes, it's Batman's name so we thought it went well with Dagmar's middle name) and Stephen for my husband.

And I suspect Madison became such a big thing because of all the little girls who watched "Splash" and thought, "When I grow up, I'll name my daughter Madison" without realizing that there were millions of other girls thinking the same thing.

My children's names are combinations of first names I really liked and middle names that are mostly family surnames...the older three decided on the twin's names

Christopher Mailey 20
Nicholas Sprague18
Jasmine Leigh 16
Joshua Stephen 5
Caleb Michael 5

I saw a woman on Babycenter who had named her son "Aryan."

And if that isn't bad enough on its own, she didn't even realize what she'd named him.  She thought she'd named him "Orion."  Like the constellation/Greek myth.  I had to bite my tongue several times to keep from commenting on that one.  I still think about all I could have said.

Our girls are Dagmar Selina and Morgan Artemis.  Both middle names mean "moon" and are Goddesses (in fact, the same Goddess according to some-Seline, Artemis, and Hecate are aspects of one Triple Goddess.)

My husband just always liked Dagmar, and after I got over my initial dislike, I love it too.  Her middle name, Selina, is also the first name of Catwoman (Selina Kyle).  Morgan, we couldn't think of anything to name her.  It was hard to find something we liked that also went with Dagmar.  We both just really liked it.
Dagmar means "glorious" and Morgan means "bright sea dweller" (or something like that.)

If we had managed to have a boy, we would have named him Henry Bruce Stephen.  I was firm on Henry because I love the name, Bruce was my husband's pick (yes, it's Batman's name so we thought it went well with Dagmar's middle name) and Stephen for my husband.

And I suspect Madison became such a big thing because of all the little girls who watched "Splash" and thought, "When I grow up, I'll name my daughter Madison" without realizing that there were millions of other girls thinking the same thing.

Saf - I never thought I'd meet a bigger Batman fiend than my fiance!!!  His screen name is Darknight - and he has gone by DK for years!!  He writes Batman fanfiction and all sorts of stuff - he's very talented, but then I'm only a bit partial.    His website is under construction, but you can see some of his stuff here:  www.batcave.co.uk

~Liza

Speaking of weird names, I went to college with someone actually named Suzy Sunshine.

I knew a girl when I was growing up whose name was "Sunshine Butterfly" 

We had clients at a firm I worked for in the US who had 3 boys - including a set of twins.

Their names were:  Richard, Rick and Ricky.

I had a former co-worker named Rickie Richey.  That was his given name!  Must've been very confusing in school.

I had a former co-worker named Rickie Richey.  That was his given name!  Must've been very confusing in school.

And I went to school with an Alec Alexander. He was one of 12 kids, so maybe his parents just ran out of ideas?

I went to school with a girl who had a brother named Abbas Abbas.  Yep - first and last name identical.  Hard to mess it up I guess. 

~Liza

I think the spelling of traditional names can get out of hand such as some of the ones previously posted... but names that were once 'weird' spellings are now commonplace - or relatively so. My name is Caryn Ami and when my mother chose that, she did get a bit of flack for it. Oddly though, I don't think of my name as the same as Karin/Karen/Amy though clearly it is!

As for made up names. It takes a bit of luck and a good ear. My cousin is 1/2 Guatemalan and her parents couldn't decide on anything that fit both American and Guatemalan - so they made up Katyana (pronounced cotyee-ahna) Marie. I think it's great!

Saf - I never thought I'd meet a bigger Batman fiend than my fiance!!!  His screen name is Darknight - and he has gone by DK for years!!  He writes Batman fanfiction and all sorts of stuff - he's very talented, but then I'm only a bit partial.    His website is under construction, but you can see some of his stuff here:  www.batcave.co.uk 

hijack- *Ahem* ...I own a catwoman costume and a Harley quinn one from previous halloween events

 


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