Comments on McMama's Musings: Power of a Name

I think about having more kids just to use up my g...

2009-10-29T00:02:01.461-05:00

I think about having more kids just to use up my good names. When Finnegan was in utero, his he/she names were Finnegan and Clementine. Come to find out, those were the two very names predicted in Freakanomics to become popular. Then I cried.

I love talking about names! What a well researche...

2009-10-26T15:12:45.209-05:00

I love talking about names! What a well researched post!

And I'm with you, the fact that we're probably not having anymore babies makes me sad because I still have so many names I'd like to use.

We had fun naming our son, Gavin. It took some ar...

2009-10-25T22:26:38.925-05:00

We had fun naming our son, Gavin. It took some arguing to narrow our list down to Tabitha for a girl (which, of course, we don't have), and Gavin for a boy.

My MIL was very snide when she said, "That's DIFFERENT." LOL

Different because I'm not Christian, and I wasn't about to follow her trend of Biblical naming, and her other son's continuation of that trend. :::shrug::: It just wasn't my thing.

So Gavin is Welsh for "Little Hawk" or "White Hawk". My husband's nickname is "Hawk". Therefore, Gavin is our "Little Hawk".

If Chris and I ever happen to get married (in the ...

2009-10-25T20:19:28.558-05:00

If Chris and I ever happen to get married (in the distant, but really not-that-distant future), we pretty much already have 1 boy and 1 girl name picked out. Of course, you never know what will happen, but here are the ones we have:

1) Brian Anthony - Chris's mom lost a baby that was supposed to be named Brian. Simple story, and I didn't need any more description than that... that means a lot to me. And Anthony is his family name (his grandpa, dad, and brother are all Tony).

2) Allyson (Rose?) - it's kind of a long story, but the name comes from http://scotthousehold.com/alliestory.htm. In high school, I did a Light the Night walk for Allie. Even though I never knew her, or her family, I felt really close to their story for some reason. I changed it from Allison to Allyson because I always wanted unique names (and now neither of my top two are!)... so it at least gives it a little bit of uniqueness. Not sure about the middle name yet. I like the sound of Allyson Rose, but not necessarily the meaning.

Coincidently, both Brian and Allyson mean "noble," which was not my intention at all.

Thank goodness my hubs and I agreed on names, as t...

2009-10-25T15:38:50.258-05:00

Thank goodness my hubs and I agreed on names, as they are so important! :)

We named our first my maiden name and our second has my maternal grandmother's name as her middle name and they share a birthday. If we'd had a boy we would have named him after my late father.

Fun post!

@admin: I wondered if "Constant Reader" was like.....

2009-10-25T14:34:31.056-05:00

@admin: I wondered if "Constant Reader" was like... copyrighted or something, LOL. I love your story about Selah! That will be an interesting one to tell her about some day. :)

@cabadov: you're right, that was way more than 140 characters, LOL My huz's mother and her siblings all start with C or K (and there are 10 of them!)

@AndreAnna: I totally did. I knew some of it already but figured I'd better reference it, LOL. "Different but not weird" was totally it for us. I was ok with weird but Luke was not. Sawyer East totally sounds like a hot fashion designer. :)

Holy canoli woman, you put a lot of work into this...

2009-10-25T11:32:17.965-05:00

Holy canoli woman, you put a lot of work into this post!

I wanted something different but not weird - that was our criteria.

Charlotte came into play when we found out we were pregnant an hour before boarding a plane to Charlotte, NC. Even though we went back and forth on other names, we came back to that one.

Sawyer was my husband's suggestion and I liked it, so we went with that.

They both have kind of "different" middle names. Charlotte's is Rayne and we just thought it was funky and cool and sounded good with her first and our last name. Sawyer's is East which was my grandfather's middle name and I think way cool.

You are so right, naming your kids is a difficult ...

2009-10-25T11:14:34.381-05:00

You are so right, naming your kids is a difficult and important task. I mean this is how your kids will be referred to and considered and thought about. No pressure.

My husband's the meaning guy. He likes names based on meaning. Our two oldest are based on literature characters (my daughter: a character in a Minette Walters bk who is accused of killing her husband; my son: a 1970's detective who was popular with the ladies).

We also have a rule that the name can't start with a B (which is the character in our last name) and no one can have the same initials; this means everyone starts with a different first letter. I like multi-syllable names too. And definately not a name on any top 100 list.

By the way, love the name Quentin.

1: <3 for "Constant Reader" 2: My son's first na...

2009-10-25T11:05:17.263-05:00

1: <3 for "Constant Reader"
2: My son's first name is my maiden name, and his middle name is his paternal grand father's first name = Jamieson William. It's strong and heavy, which was important to us. On several occasions we have had people say things like, "that sounds so presidential!"
3: My daughter's legal name is "Makaylah Madison" just because we couldn't come up with anything - however, when she was about three months old we changed it - we were sitting in church and our pastor was talking about the meaning of the world "selah"... Terry and I looked at each other and just *knew* that was supposed to be her name - so we are changing it, but haven't yet because we can't decide on a middle name. I'd like to use "Rose" because it's a family name on his side, and even thought "Selah Esther Rose" would be cool because Esther is my own middle name, and also is a family name from both sides.