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13584. Jenerator - 2/1/2005 11:12:10 PM Thanks Wonkers, thoughtful, Cap'n, Arky, Wiz and Alistair!
It's wild to think that back when I met you all, I was in my mid-twenties, and now I am a 30s something mommy.
Maybe you all can help me pick a name for the baby if it's a boy. I'm stumped. I have a girl named picked out, but not a boy's. 13585. thoughtful - 2/1/2005 11:48:26 PM so what's the girl's name you picked out?
i can see you naming your son something biblical...david, joshua, jacob, samuel, luke, matthew...
though lately the people having babies around here seem to naming their kids after place names...we recently had a jackson and a dakota in the office.
Then there was this couple my husband knew who lived in lynnbrook so they named their daughter lynn and their son brook. Really. I guess it would work if they lived in Brooklyn too.
His cousin was named after her parents, joseph and ellen so they called her jo-ellen.
cousins had a boy last year and named him alexander.
We work at the salvation army angel tree every year and i'm amazed at the names. Hardly see anything familiar let alone pronounceable. Hubby says it looks like they grabbed a handful of tiles out of the scrabble game and took whatever came out. Fortunately they mark the tag whether it's a boy or girl...otherwise you'd never be able to tell. 13586. wonkers2 - 2/2/2005 12:00:52 AM Jen, congrats. If you want a distinctive and imposing name how about Martin Frobisher __________? We considered naming our first son for that intrepid English sailor/explorer. (Frobisher Bay in Nova Scotia.) However, it's hard to pick first names without knowing the last name because, at least the first and last names should be easy to pronounce and sound good together. Another theory of mine is that names that are used in several languages with more or less the same pronounciation and spelling are an advantage in today's globalized society. Examples: Sara or Sarah, Robert, Carlos, Carl, etc. Another consideration--don't give your child a name that will become the butt of childish jokes. Finally, don't name a son after his father. I was a junior and, although I had great respect for my dad, I would have preferred having my own name for practical
(mail and other confusion) and psychological reasons as well. Finally, as for naming him or her for someone else, I might be tempted to chose the name of a very rich relative, assuming it met the other criteria! There's nothing like a little help from rich relatives when it comes time for college. 13587. judithathome - 2/2/2005 12:10:33 AM ...we recently had a jackson and a dakota in the office.
I may have mentioned this before by my hairdresser named her sons Dakota and Canyon...not from places but after pick-up trucks.
13588. thoughtful - 2/2/2005 12:13:10 AM Knowing the last name is important. My old sec'y new grand baby was to be a Tighe....pronounced tie...so she ixnayed all my suggestions like Paisley, Mai, or Twisty.
Then I had another secy expecting whose last name was Salamoni...I suggested if she had twin boys she name the salvadore and anthony so they'd be sal & toni salamoni.
The torre family ixnayed my suggestions of Laurie, Dory, or Rory.
Then, no joke, a woman called me on the phone and her real name was Patience Wait. How could you do that to someone.
Then we did have this guy last name finger and his first name harold....Yup he really called himself harry finger.
You also want to be careful of initials...not name a kid something like andrew samuel simons.
Then there was that old line about Debbie Schitz...hated her name...went to court to change it. Now she's Veronica Schitz. 13589. wonkers2 - 2/2/2005 12:15:40 AM Well, after many consultations and exchanges of information with my client over the phone and Internet and a near sleepless night, I completed my first really tough adversarial hearing today. I shouldn't predict for fear of a jinx, but I think we prevailed. The ALJ (administrative law judge) seemed sympathetic and ruled in favor of every one of my hearsay objections against the employer's witnesses testimony. (The principal incident that prompted his dismissal occurred in another country, and my client was the only one present at the hearing who could offer first-hand, direct testimony. I think the employer came off pretty shabby for firing a long service employee with a good record, thus screwing him out of most of his pension and health care in retirement and then piling on to dispute his eligibility for a few weeks of unemployment compensation. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. [I wish I could describe some of the details, but I'm afraid to do it. Suffice it to say the case involved a dispute over the number of people who were present at a business dinner and whether the dinner was actually a dinner or merely drinking and entertainment of the type favored by The Cap'n, if you get my drift.] 13590. alistairConnor - 2/2/2005 12:22:37 AM I know a woman whose last name is Diot.
I jokingly remarked that she probably hadn't given her children names starting with an I. She grinned and said she has a sister in law called Annie. Just think. She could have married someone else... True love.
Annie Diot = un idiot = an idiot
Hey it just about works in English too. 13591. judithathome - 2/2/2005 12:34:11 AM Here you go, Jen...the solution to your problem:
About Baby Names 13592. judithathome - 2/2/2005 12:50:32 AM Here's another interesting list:
Male Irish Names
I like Declan....pronounced DEK-lan.13593. judithathome - 2/2/2005 12:50:59 AM Ooops! 13594. arkymalarky - 2/2/2005 1:07:00 AM I thought if I had a boy I would like Ian. Short and easy and not too common.
Bob had a colleague years ago whose daughter was named Cashmere. I insisted when she got pregnant again that he instruct her to name that one Polly Ester, but I don't think he ever passed on my suggestion. 13595. arkymalarky - 2/2/2005 1:08:50 AM Hey PP! You can try amalarky@yahoo.com for me. Thanks for asking about it. I wondered where you'd gone! 13596. robertjayb - 2/2/2005 1:27:07 AM Cashmere?
I do notice quite a few girls who seem named to be exotic dancers and such.
I call once again on the Dan Jenkins football novel Semi-Tough and the player named Tonsillitis.
Wayback in the old home town we had a young man named Romeo Julius Caesar Alexander. Fortunately he had the looks, style and personality to carry it off. A nice guy. 13597. Macnas - 2/2/2005 10:29:45 AM re 13592
Most of those names haven't been used for about 800 years I'd reckon. Some of the pronounciations are wrong, but it's a good list nonetheless.
Joseph, you can't go wrong with Joseph. But it's tempting to call someone "Dagda" or "Lugh" (pronounced exactly so, not as loo). 13598. Magoseph - 2/2/2005 2:12:44 PM The ALJ (administrative law judge) seemed sympathetic and ruled in favor of every one of my hearsay objections against the employer's witnesses testimony.
Well, Won, it certainly appears to me that you have prevailed and congratulations for a job well done in a good cause.
Mac--we always used Joseph instead of Joe for my eldest son, but when when he started nursery school, he insisted to be called Joe. Guess who continued to call him Joseph--his dad or his mom? 13599. Macnas - 2/2/2005 2:51:48 PM Oh I'd say it was you. 13600. thoughtful - 2/2/2005 3:29:37 PM wonks...your client wasn't named bob edwards by any chance and the employer NPR???
I as well as many others thought he got screwed with their canning him after 24 years of excellent work, just before his pension became more lucrative. 13601. Jenerator - 2/2/2005 3:37:33 PM Thanks all of you.
Pretend that my last name is Hartley.
My mom says that according to Social Security, last year's most popular boy name was Jacob and for a girl, Madison.
My daughter's name would be Faith Elizabeth "Hartley"
For a boy.... I was thinking about Dane Thomas.
I don't know, though. Nothing is really striking me as "the one" yet. 13602. thoughtful - 2/2/2005 4:41:36 PM Dane? Will he be Danish? Or is that as in Great?
Friend's grandson is named Tanner. He asked, is he going into leather working?
We did have a family of 3 girls in the area...named Patience, Faith, and Hope.
Funny how there is a fashion to names. Rarely hear the old standards like Jane. Great aunt Mabel had siblings Alice, Fred and Elmer. Rarely hear those any more. Then there are the celebrity-based fashions...lots of Diana's and Sarah's after the Brits. Does anyone name their kids Cotton anymore?
Then there was that Dr. Frank Field TV meteorolgist who named his kids after weather...his son Storm was a weatherman too. 13603. wonkers2 - 2/2/2005 4:57:58 PM Jen, Howard Dean Hartley has a nice ring to it! Oh, I forgot--how about John McCain Hartley or Taft W. Hartley>
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