Which Name?

emmy236

See we're not so different! Love Graham and especially Asher!

For girls I like Charlotte and Scarlett best but unfortunately Charlotte is becoming popular. Ireland/Scotland I can get behind in the MN spot if baby was conceived there (warming a Kardashian gave Scotland as a MN to her baby)

Other suggestions

Girl:
Felicity
Leona
Genevieve
Vivienne
Georgia
Violet

Boy
Theodore
Sullivan
Reed/Reid
Brooks
Bennett
Kellan
Eoghan

capulet

I really love Asher!  It has family significance for me, so if it worked with our LN it'd be one of my top boy choices.  Graham and Solomon are also great names.  I like Charlotte and Scarlett just fine, and honestly while it's not everyone's taste here I like Aspen as a girl name.  Also Arden, along those lines.

DaisyZH

jaskls09 said:

Okay....Well, I like different names or spelling.

Here are some we liked:

For our boy we like, Graham Saul (nickname Gray)

Alternative Boy:

Kannon

Kable

Asher

Solomon

(I am not keen on doing K for boy, because of my daughter being a K)

Girl names:

Kadence

Aspen

Charlotte

Ireland or Scotland

Auryn

Auden

Phoenix

Scarlett

I like different names. 

I am open to any suggestions.

Even totally different names. I am stuck.

Graham is a great name! I really like Charlotte and Scarlett too. If you like Auden what about Arden or Autumn?

jaskls09

snowflake91011 said:

jaskls09 said:

Okay....Well, I like different names or spelling.

Here are some we liked:

For our boy we like, Graham Saul (nickname Gray)

Alternative Boy:

Kannon

Kable

Asher

Solomon

(I am not keen on doing K for boy, because of my daughter being a K)

Girl names:

Kadence

Aspen

Charlotte

Ireland or Scotland

Auryn

Auden

Phoenix

Scarlett

I like different names. 

I am open to any suggestions.

Even totally different names. I am stuck.

You've got a lot of great options on this list! Your boy name is nice, I also like Asher and Solomon.  For girls, I LOVE Scarlett and Charlotte is great as well, as long as you don't spell it Kharlotte

Lol. Thank you!

jaskls09

bromios said:

Wow, I leave to teach Ovid's Heroides for one day and come back to a four page BNB battle!

To summarize my feelings upon skimming the thread:

1. I very much dislike both Cadence and Aspen. Changing the C to a K makes Cadence not only an unattractive name, but also a misspelled one. Some names of Greek derivation have been Latinized to use Cs at the beginning, in which case I would not side-eye a reversion to the original use of a kappa, but this is not one of those names, I am pretty certain, since it derives from the Latin verb cadere.

2. As my dear wifey @MauiBliss already mentioned, children that are already born are off limits. OP, that rule shouldn't have been broken and I'm sorry you were put in the position of feeling like you had to defend your DD's name. 

3. Words have correct and incorrect spellings and names are words. To believe that any part of that is not true is ignorance and should be avoided.

4. Thank you, OP, for abandoning the purple font. 

5. As a man once said, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need." This is very much the core philosophy about feedback on this board.

6. My advice on names: back to the drawing board. 

Point Taken.

jaskls09

emmy236 said:

See we're not so different! Love Graham and especially Asher! For girls I like Charlotte and Scarlett best but unfortunately Charlotte is becoming popular. Ireland/Scotland I can get behind in the MN spot if baby was conceived there (warming a Kardashian gave Scotland as a MN to her baby) Other suggestions Girl: Felicity Leona Genevieve Vivienne Georgia Violet Boy Theodore Sullivan Reed/Reid Brooks Bennett Kellan Eoghan

I absolutely love the boy names you wrote!!

Thank you!

jaskls09

WashingtonQueen said:

WashingtonQueen said:

Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.

Soap, please? 

George Carlin would have told you where to stick it with that soap of yours.

I love the names Sterling and Xander, that I see under the insult. I really do. Where did you get them from?

jaskls09

DaisyZH said:

jaskls09 said:

Okay....Well, I like different names or spelling.

Here are some we liked:

For our boy we like, Graham Saul (nickname Gray)

Alternative Boy:

Kannon

Kable

Asher

Solomon

(I am not keen on doing K for boy, because of my daughter being a K)

Girl names:

Kadence

Aspen

Charlotte

Ireland or Scotland

Auryn

Auden

Phoenix

Scarlett

I like different names. 

I am open to any suggestions.

Even totally different names. I am stuck.

Graham is a great name! I really like Charlotte and Scarlett too. If you like Auden what about Arden or Autumn?

I love Arden. Great name! 

jaskls09

bromios said:

MauiBliss said:

Ah, I wondered where you were, @bromios. Pick up milk on the way home, would you? We're out. 

Sure thing, darling

I'm going to throw out a vote for Penelope, since I just finished reading about her telling Odysseus to get his ass home. 

OP, here is more or less my standard list of suggestions when direction, style, and willingness to go with unusual are uncertain:

Saffron

Juniper

Valentina

Freya

Althea

Anthea

Xanthe

Emmanuelle

Noelle

Clara

Artemisia

Hero (it's a girl name)

Andromache

Andromeda

Artemis

Thea

Rhea

Danae

Niamh

Aoife

Kira

Mira

Miranda

Valerie

Bianca

Kiran

Dorothea

Theodora

Sigrid

Astraea

Alexandra

Ariadne

Mallory

Beatrix

Tabitha

Matilda

Anwen

Eilwen

Gwendolen

Genevieve

Josephine

Georgiana

Evangeline

Marie

Rose

Corinne/Corinna

Sabine/Sabina

Bree

Mnemosyne

Aurelia

Aurora

Natalia

Catherine

Eos

Rhiannon

Aeronwen

Heloise

Persephone

Andrea

Callisto

Marisa

Mireille

Claudia

Madeleine

Magdalene

Miriam

Elsa

Eliza

Liesl

I'm sure I've left something out that I'll be kicking myself for later...

Love them. Thank you so much. Awesome list. Love Hero... What do you think of Honor?  Just throwing it in there!

streamtrax41

I feel compelled to point out a couple of things:
1. This board is far from a random sampling of the population, when it comes to baby names. If someone asked about what type of car they should get, sure this would be a random sampling. But the group of regulars on this board are here because they love names. They have that in common. And that makes them different than a random sampling of the population. So... generally speaking, these ladies will have much stronger opinions about names than would the general public. They have much more information about names. They know a lot more about the history of names. They also, I think, tend to have similar tastes considering a lot of naming trends. But please remember that it's a great big world out there and most people are not name nerds. Most people do not know if a name is "really" a name, if it's spelled "correctly," or where the name originated. And most people don't care.
2. It is incredibly wrong to criticize the name of a child who has already been born. I truly appreciate the ladies that point that out and those who apologize for having done so.

Now... OP:
I like Aspen Grace. I think it sounds great with your other daughter's name and I just like Aspen as a name anyway. Kadence is nms, though I also do prefer it spelled with a C. However, I don't believe any harm will befall your daughter if you spell her name with a K. (Though I would strongly advise against the K if your last name happens to start with a K.)

nittanyllama

I REALLY like Graham. Asher and Solomon are nice. 

I like Scarlett. Arden is a good suggestion similar to some of your other ideas too. Or maybe Audra? Charlotte is nice, just very popular.

Kannon, Kable, Auryn, and Auden do not sound like real names. Phoenix sounds like a boy's name to me. GL making your decision!

jackandpenn

I know a little girl named Auden and I actually love the name. Graham, Asher, and Solomon are all pretty cool names.  A lot of your names are actually pretty popular names and not very different.  I wonder if there is a different way to describe your tastes that would help us make suggestions. 

Names like Auden (gender neutral and/or short & sweet) :

Adele

Brynn

Grier

Harper

Quinn

Jael

Leigh

jaskls09

I love these.

bromios said:

Oh, I see we're doing boys as well. Here's another unbelievably long, diverse, and unusual list (but I love every name on it):

Raphael (my favorite name ever)

Etienne (my second favorite name ever)

Isaac

Dane

Jonathan

Mortimer

Myron

Leonidas

Phormio

Miltiades

Ulysses

Thaddeus

Theodore

Corbin

Corvus

Godfrey

Stellan

Lorcan (I'm currently having a love affair with this name)

Seamus

Aaron

Joshua

Gabriel

Matteo

Apollo

Prometheus

Arthur

Philip

Padraig

Aeron

Rhys

Evander

Finnian

Bjorn

Anders

Aksel

Julius

Gaius

Marcus

Aquila

Memnon

Hector

Harold

Edmund

Edward

Wilhelm

James

Gaetan

Joran

Phoebus

Pericles

Ari

Sebastian

Nicodemus

...

jaskls09

jackandpenn said:

I know a little girl named Auden and I actually love the name. Graham, Asher, and Solomon are all pretty cool names.  A lot of your names are actually pretty popular names and not very different.  I wonder if there is a different way to describe your tastes that would help us make suggestions. 

Names like Auden (gender neutral and/or short & sweet) :

Adele

Brynn

Grier

Harper

Quinn

Jael

Leigh

Leigh is my daughters middle name. 

Kamryn Leigh 

I fell in love with it.

I just like different. 

Out of the ordinary.

I dont know how to describe it.. 

I also like Phillipa.

What do you think?

Love Quinn. 

Names you dont hear often or at all

jackandpenn

Phillipa is a total bad a** name, excuse my language.  I love it.  Plus the nickname Pippa makes it even better. If you want something unheard of I would steer clear of Asher, Graham, Kannon, Charlotte, Scarlett and Phoenix from your list.  I personally know people who have used these name recently (Cannon, actually, but it's essentially the same).  In order to find actually uncommon names check these websites.

https://www.namenerds.com/uucn/  - This gives you a list of names based on actual popularity, considering kre8tiv spellings.  People think they name their son Kaedyn and it's so cool and uncommon but actually there are a million Cayden, Caden, Caeden, and Kaidens in the world and it's actually quite popular. 

https://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager - This graphs name that are trending.  Look at the graph of Harper compared to the graph of Louisa.  People think they are being uncommon with their names, but then they ALL use the same one and you end up with a common name

Annnnd if you find one you like, then check it at www.behindthename.com to make sure it's a real name.

Hope that helps.  When I started reading this board in 2008 I can honestly say I had TERRIBLE name choices.  I can't tell you how thankful I am that these ladies talked me out of some truly stupid names.

ETA: words are hard.