LoriCook wrote:

One of my son's names is spelled an unconventional way and I wish I would have gone with the normal way because it makes it impossible to buy any of the personalized thingies you always see when you travel. People already spell his last name wrong so it's bad enough. What was I thinking? The name is cool though, just confusing to people.

^I can so relate to what you're saying. I can only buy personalized thingies for two of my kids as the rest have unconventional spelling's too!

Queenie xx

Logan? I think of Wolverine from X-Men.

BTW, hate my middle name with a passion. It's a beautiful, old African-Arab name but it sounds straight-up ghettoish in the USA. As a result, NO ONE knows it outside my family. I know I shouldn't care what anyone else thinks, because quite frankly because of what others would say about my middle name is probably the only reason I cringe when anyone asks me what it is. Maybe by the time I'm 40 I'll be able to say "it's *****a" without caring what anyone thinks, ghetto or not.

I LOVE what we call our son since he goes by his middle name. It's quite a romantic name in my opinion. Esteban.

I dont like my name.
Im Irish and was named after a saint my mum was doing a novena to when i was born.

Dymphna (pronounced Dim-Fna) Particulary as there is a variation Dympna which is (Dimp-na) not the same at all. Its made worse by my loonnggg Irish surname 'McConnellogue' (Mac-Connal-Logue)

I go by Dee and have done for a really long time, in school and work included, my middle name is Louise, which I much prefer but meh.

Too make it worse, my brothers and sisters have nice names, easy to pronounce, which is handy for them since our surname is rather difficult for people to grasp! We have Zoe, Jack, Kieron (kee-ron), John James, and Damhan (Daa-vin).

For my kids I have :
Girls: Reagan/Ava/Erin
Boys: Noah

I do have a warm fuzzy spot in my heart for old fashioned names.

Me too. Love them.

Remier, Montgomery, Ezra, Emory, Axel, Vallerio, and Asa are some of my favorite old fashioned names for boys.
Beatrix, Ingrid, Margo, Astrid, Ester, and Elvyra are some of my favorite old fashioned names for girls.

I have a big list of "ethnic" names that match the ethnicity of my name, and should I one day have a matching ethnic surname, I would want to give my children ethnic first names. Just to match.

From the example earlier, I think Gaetano Giovanni Califiore has so much more of a personality than Bob Smith does. If I end up acquiring a last name that matches the ethnicity of my first and middle, I will definitely go full-out ethnic naming my kids. Veikko, Eero, Kalevi, Reino, Viivi, Satu, Ilmatar, etc etc etc.

Thoughts on that? What if you saw a Kalevi Reino Vaarakallio? (CALL-eh-vee RAY-no VAH-rah-kah-lee-oh) Would you think the parents were nuts for naming their kid this, or that they were sticking to tradition? How do you think the kid would feel having a name like that?

It amuses me that so many people seem to dislike the name Summer...it's my favorite girl's name for a future kid

Just don't raise her to be a brat (but I know you wouldn't!), and I'll live

My kids have unusual-ish names- Digory Aleksandre and Evelyn Tsukibara. Digory's name is an old english name and his middle name is Russian. I figure if Digory doesn't like his first name, he can always go by Alek/Alex/Xander or some variation of that.

Evelyn's first name is English as well, but her middle name is Japanese for "Moon-Rose". If translated incorrectly, though (and we didn't find this out until after we had named her), she becomes Evelyn "I like my belly" M. At the moment I'm finding it pretty comical because she REALLY loves her belly/showing her belly to other people, so it fits either way. If nothing else, she can just tell people her name is Evelyn Rose (what I had originally planned before Hubby gave his input).

I really like my kid's names, but it gets a little tiresome to explain "No, not like Cedric Diggory. Like Digory from The Magician's Nephew from The Chronicles of Narnia". I'm hoping they come out with The Magician's Nephew as a movie soon so people understand what I'm talking about.

My mum was convinced that I was going to be a boy so she never even considered girls names. She definitely got a surprise when I popped out. Not long after I was born she was talking with one of the nurses and she asked her what my name was, mum thought she said what names are you considering, and 10 minutes later mum gets a birth certificate with Patricia on it. At the time she didn't realise you could change it so it stuck. She wanted Siobhan but dad can't pronounce it. I think it was my brother that came up with Patricia initially, why he didn't think of Michelle (I was going to be Michael if I had been the boy they thought I was) I don't know. Mum doesn't necessarily regret it, she just wishes that she had been given more time to think about it.

I hate Patricia though. Trish and Patty I don't mind. Pat is the most hated shortening of all. I also don't have a middle name (parents don't love me enough ha).

My brother is Peter Bernard. He doesn't really like it, but I do. I'm the only person that can call him Pete, and I only do it to annoy him. Bernard is after my grandfather who died when mum was 15. I'm glad the didn't do the same thing to me and give me dads mums name as a middle name, Wally. I'd rather not have a middle name than that.

My mum's name was Patricia and she got called Trish. When she was younger and had her first job in an office (so it was about 1970), her workmates used to call her Trish Trash. Terrible, LOL.

I was born a few days after Australia won the America's Cup in 1983. It was a pretty exciting time, and our Prime Minister at the time even said "Any boss who sacks any worker for not coming in to work tomorrow is a bum". People were celebrating, HARD.

My mother, in all her hormonal, 4 days off giving birth glory, announced she wanted to name me "America". My Dad, more rational, shot that suggestion down, and I got named Erin. I am infinitely glad. I think we ALL would have regretted "America".

Erin.
::righteous babe::

^ You could have always developed a speech impediment and when someone asked your name you could have said, "I..... Am-erica." And then everyone would just think you were Erica.

Maybe by the time I'm 40 I'll be able to say "it's *****a" without caring what anyone thinks, ghetto or not.

Don't count on it. I'm going on 50 and still can't say or spell mine without cringing. It's so freakin' 50s, it's pitiful!! I use my maiden name for my middle name, so I can keep my KK initials.

I like my kids' names, but if they had been born a day later or earlier, they both probably would have ended up with different names. I find it a unique part of naming a child that they tend to grow into their names and after some time, we could not imagine them having any other name.

kk~

^^^Patty, mt dad is called Walter, which is always shortened to Wally. It was ok when he was born but obviously over the years Wally is a name you call a fool! lol!
When I named my son I wanted to use my dad's name somewhere, so compromised and used his middle name John instead.
I'm loving some of the reason's people got certain names, great post!!

Queenie xx

My name is Tiffany, and I hate it. It really doesn't suit me, and never has. It's such a bubbly, cheerleader, stuck up girl name. I'm loud, straightforward, sarcastic....it just doesn't fit! It also doesn't fit in a dignified profession...Dr. Tiffany, Judge Tiffany? No.

I went the other way with my daughters name on purpose. I wanted something uncommon, but not weird. She's 11, named Reagan. There aren't many her age, but there are a ton of little Reagans now. I still like it, and she likes it, too.

My son is Benjamin, after my husbands grandfather. I am not a fan of it, really, but people love it and it suits him. I call him Benny or Bubba, usually.

My mom wanted to name me Rhoda, after the charecter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. I have my gramma to thank for saving that one - she went "So what, if you find out it's twins, are you going to name the other one Avenua?"

Talked her right out of it...thank you gramma!

Lol, I wanted to name my daughter Erika and call her Rikki. My son (bless him) immediately said "Icky Ricky?" Well, forget that one then.

kk~

For those of you who know my first and surname, you'd understand what I mean about mine...

I used to think my father must have been on crack when he chose the name Carly. With my surname, it just sounded ridiculous and I was the butt of a lot of jokes in primary school. He named me after Carly Simon, which is good that it has a bit of meaning. Needless to say, I'll be taking on my husbands name if I ever get married!

However, a lot of people tell me they love it...it sounds like a movie star name etc etc.

I rarely get called Carly anyway, so I suppose it doesn't really matter all that much.

My Mum wanted to call me Emma, but I don't feel like an Emma. Thankfully, she didn't call me Melody either, which was what my brother was going to be called if he was a girl!

I will say I'm glad I'm not named after my Grandmother on my mom's side. Veta Mae Lastname. Now she was born several years before Velveeta made an appearance on the scene, but any kid nowadays would be stuck most assuredly as Velveeta for life. However my grandfather had an awesome name. Thomas Preston Lastname. Love, love, love his name.

This is an interesting thread.

My mom wanted to name me Forest for a while. Then Bridgette. My dad insisted that if was a girl my name would be Brittany. So, since my mom named my brother she let my dad name me. My brother and I both have the same initials. BAM. I'm fine with my name, though I wish there weren't so many people with my name (and that a user here use it as her username - I get brief moments of confusion when people are talking to her).

I've never been one to think of what I would name my kids if/when I ever had any. I think if I do ever have kids I'd try to pick something traditional and not easy to make fun of/ turn into something mean.

I don't regret my kids' names and I don't think they do, either. But things didn't turn out quite as expected.

My son's name is "Ralph" and he was named for my husband's father who was shot down in WWII. I was all for the name but regretted that it was so common that he'd be confused with a lot of other kids. But guess what! Nobody named their son "Ralph" in that generation or the following; so he ended up with a relatively uncommon name.

For my daughter, I tried to find a name which was rarely used but yet not "odd" and also not a name used in either my husband's or my families so as not to seem partial to anybody. I chose a good, old-fashioned name no longer in style: "Melissa". Guess what. A whole lot of other mothers of my generation chose that name so that she was constantly getting confused with other kids in school. And a cousin wrote to say that her mother (my great-aunt) was really delighted that I had given my daughter her middle name.

Naming children is a hard call!

My aunt works with a girl named Princess. My aunt said all of her co-workers feel so stupid calling for her and saying " Hey Princess". I mean seriously people that is a name that is going to affect your child forever. I would be so embarassed that I would change my name.

I don't regret naming Charlie his name at all, I love it. He just *is* a Charlie. We get the odd comment 'Oh is his name full name Charles?' but it isn't. Turned out, it wasn't even really featured on our shortlist of boys names. We threw around Reece, Jamie, James, and a few others. 2 days after he was born I was looking at him and said 'He's a Charlie' and that was that. He was possibly going to be an Emily if he was a girl. I wanted Isabel, which his dad did not originally get on board with, which is weird as now 5years down the line he has a new girlfriend who is pregnant and Charlie informs me 'Daddy wants to call the new baby Isabel!' Ummmm . . . weird. Also, thanks for stealing my name, ha.

My real name is Kirstin, but I am known at dancing as Kirsty, hence the user name. I'm not a lover of Kirstin. It doesn't sit particularly well with my last name. And people always spell it KirstEn which is a pain. I think I may have liked my dad's choice better which was Jessica. But I don't mind too much. I was going to be Aidan as a boy.

Kirsty

The advice given to me by my grandmother on naming kids was before picking any name go to the back door of the house and then yell it out at the top of your lungs 10 to 15 times. Remember that you might be doing this quite a few times for many years to come and it just may change what your chosen names are.

I love both my girls' names (Lucy and Caroline) and have no regrets at all on either of those. Their middle names I sometimes wonder if I should've gone with something else. Lucy is Lucy Campbell, which is my husband's middle name and an old family name, so we thought it was nice for her to have a family name in there in case she ever decides to change her last name. I like it, but when I call her by first and middle name, it sounds like that's our last name and it confuses people. I think at this age, she also gets jealous that hers isn't "girly" compared to her sister, though maybe when she's older, she'll like it.

Caroline's is Alison, which is my MIL, and I wish I'd gone with my gut and used Frances as her middle name. Caroline Alison is such a mouthful! My great-grandmother was Frances and her wedding diamond is in my engagement ring, but my dad is Francis and we're not big fans of him, so we skipped it. I think it would've flowed better though, dangit.

^ I approve how you spell Alison. But probably because my sister is Frances Alison. So of course one L is the correct way to do it.

Sumayah wrote:

^ I approve how you spell Alison. But probably because my sister is Frances Alison. So of course one L is the correct way to do it.

She has a beautiful name!

I don't have a kid but my mom regrets naming me Maegan. In her words, I don't even look like a Maegan! BUT she DID let the nurses name me... They couldn't agree on anything and the nurse suggested Maegan so, that happened and now my name is Maegan, even though about a month after that, they decided they would've agreed on the name Janna.
I may or may not change my name to Janna now.