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Re: How did you come up with your child/future childs name
« Reply #45 on: December 14, 2005, 03:42:43 PM »
I've always loved my first name, but my middle name is spelled Ann.  I've always prefered Anne - silly I know.  So when I get married and change my last name, I'll change the middle as well.

My Dad and his side of the family have always called me Lisa - It drives me crazy and is so disrespectful.  I only let immediate family get away with it and will correct others.  My Dad said when I was born and my mother named me that it sounded like a (very derogitory term) name and refused to call me it.  It is pronounced Leeeza - like Lisa, but with a "z" and not an "s". 

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Re: How did you come up with your child/future childs name
« Reply #46 on: December 15, 2005, 05:10:14 PM »
My youngest son was born in Bath during a sabbatical there (and weren't the folks at home surprised when I returned with a wee infant!) and I batted around the idea of naming him Alfred because of King Alfred's ties to the region.  Tricky name, I know, but I just liked it.  Husband suggested Arthur instead and I agreed with that. Then for the middle name. He suggested Joseph and I suggested Edmond, which we settled on. But then, when my husband went to the official place to put the name on the record I had a panic and decided that Arthur Edmond sounded too pompous, so I phoned the registry place and pleaded with the clerk to have my husband call me the minute he arrived. The man laughed and seemed to know just what I was on about. When my husband phone me I said, "John! Arthur John!." He was quite happy to change it, so that's what the little guy's name is, and it suits him well.


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Re: How did you come up with your child/future childs name
« Reply #47 on: December 15, 2005, 09:16:20 PM »
For our oldest we both liked the name Victoria.  I was big into Tori Amos at the time so we thought as a nickname we would call her Tori. Her middle name is Ann -which happens to be my middle name.
For our youngest we ended up using the middle names of her Grandma's-Evelyn Jane. 
If we would have had a boy he would have been called James Edward-James was my late Uncle and Grandfather's name  and Edward is my husband's middle name (as well as his Grandfather's name).


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