Hypotheticals

LC122

Let's say you somewhat coincidentally had a theme for the middle names of your first two children. Like, let's say they both had names that were legit names but also happened to be flowers.
Now, let's say you were expecting a boy and wanted to keep the theme but no flower names are really legit boy names. (Again, this is hypothetical, so please don't get caught up trying to think of one.)
Then let's say you were plugging possible names into a random name checker you found on the Internet and one of the things it told you about names was possible anagrams. And one of the names you plugged in had a flower name as its anagram. And it suddenly seemed like fate. Would you use the anagram flower name as a middle name even though it wasn't a traditional name (as most flowers aren't)?
And hypothetically, the full name has a nice-sounding flow to it, fits the theme, but just isn't a traditional name (for a middle name). Oh, and the first name (whose anagram is the middle name) also happens to be the masculine form of your (the mother's) name.

gingercatNJ

Er...I'm dizzy now. Maybe just tell us what the name is?

Edited because I am gif-illiterate.

magsugar13

hypothetically i need to know the name 

penelope4612

Yeah just tell us the name.

gingercatNJ

penelope4612 said:

Yeah just tell us the name.

Oh my goodness, your signature.... )

Bringmemylongswordho

What's the name?

cjt121413

If it's not really a name, I probably wouldn't choose it. Are you a law professor, by chance? Bad flashbacks with your use of hypothetical.

FutureMrsCaesar

I have no idea where to even start thinking about this without real examples.

lm45678

I wouldn't name him John Petunia... But short of that it's very hard to tell without knowing the name.

joforyoga

No idea what you're asking. What's the name?

dramaphile

The suspense is killing me!

Have you thought about tree/plant/names instead for your boy? Or maybe something geologic?

Ash
Aspen
Sorrel
Reed
Cypress
Basil
Sage
Rue
Aster
Forrest
Jasper
Malachi (Malachite)
Everest
Flint

LoveIsOwlYouNeed

Hypothetically I would say: without real, specific examples I can't help you because I cannot even follow or begin to imagine what you're describing. Just tell us the names.

LC122

Well, I figured it was too abstract an idea. So, our "theme" is actually colors, not flowers. We still aren't sold on any color names as boy names. Like, none sound like legit names to us. (We know a Sage (boy) but have also met girls named Sage).
Anyway, there is a color that happens to be an anagram for the masculine form of my name, spelling dependent. Like, if my name were Ryanne (I don't consider this a real name, btw) and the masculine were Ryan and then the letters in Ryan happened to rearrange into a legit though uncommonly used color, let's pretend it's cyan or something slightly more obscure, but a real color. Ok, this is a bad example because Ryan and Cyan rhyme, and my real examples don't remotely rhyme. We don't divulge name options (even to strangers/the Internet) before the baby is born.
So, as a Ryanne, would you name your child Ryan Cyan, or let's just say Ryan Blue (to avoid the rhyme issue)?

cortney227

Are you having a stroke?
Am I having a stroke?
Is there someone we should call for help?

klirwin82

This is like Puzzle Sunday with Will Shortz on NPR. It's a name board, if you're unwilling to divulge the name it's pretty hard to get an opinion on it. Especially when you start talking colors/flowers/anagrams/masculine spelling-dependent forms.

I would however, recommend you pose this question to NPR because today's puzzle was lame.

magsugar13

Bye Felicia

joforyoga

Questions......
What is your first name
What is the boys name/color in question?

ecwk

cortney227 said:

Are you having a stroke?
Am I having a stroke?
Is there someone we should call for help?

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Seriously OP, Wtaf is going on right now?

klirwin82

It's generally advisable to stop smoking the sticky icky when pregnant. Both OP's posts sounds like she's high as a kite.

LoveIsOwlYouNeed

OP are you basically saying you wanna name your son something like Gary Gray or Miles Lime? That seems kind of silly regardless of your name. If you name is like Gertrude or Mila, yeah that's a bit much. If that's not what you mean you either gotta be specific or just be done with this.

LC122

klirwin82 said:

This is like Puzzle Sunday with Will Shortz on NPR. It's a name board, if you're unwilling to divulge the name it's pretty hard to get an opinion on it. Especially when you start talking colors/flowers/anagrams/masculine spelling-dependent forms.

I would however, recommend you pose this question to NPR because today's puzzle was lame.

My husband made this exact suggestion. I think he was mainly hoping that Will Shortz would have another suggestion because he agrees the coincidence is too perfect and feels like I ultimately have more say in the kids' names, so the first name being a masculine form of my name is too biased in my favor.

ClaireBear90

Going back to your original post, I'm guessing that your older two children are both female. But even if they are boy/girl or boy/boy, my answer is going to be the same: you don't need to have a theme. The important thing is that your baby has a great name that you and your husband both like and agree on. And the important thing is, it sounds like (from your latest comment) your husband isn't on board. So even if you shared the actual name with us and we all loved it, it makes no difference if your husband does not.

Both of my kids have first names with five letters. I've thought about naming all of our kids with five letter names (we even have a few more on our "favorites" list for both girls and boys), but we both happen to love six letter first names more for this baby so that's what we're going with. DD has a name that honors someone, DS does not, this baby will. Themes can be fun, but they're not worth getting hung up on in my opinion.

cortney227

So are you saying you want to give your son the masculine version of your name for his first name? Like u are Brianna and u want to name him Brian with a color (or an anagram of a color?) for a middle name. Ex: "Look here comes Brianna and her son Brian Aquamarine." Or am I interpreting this LSAT question wrong?
If so I'd be much more focused on that than any potential hidden anagram issues - which in all honesty who the $&!@ cares about or would ever notice that's not on an NPR quiz show.
I'd probably pick another first name before you enter into some Buster Bluth level mommy-issues territory.

ElRuby

Is this a common core question?

stephweinstein

This thread made my day.  Especially the "Are you having a stroke? Am I having a stroke?"

daystardreams

Ok...so this middle name is an anagram of a color name? Not actually a color name right?

This is where I get confused though...it is also an anagram of the baby's first name? And it happens to be the masculine version of your name?

I'm going to go with no...I would not name my child the masculine version of my name even if it were just a coincidence.

No, I would not give my child a fn and mn that are anagrams of each other unless it is very not obvious. Gary Gray for example is way too obvious.

However, I do think that an anagram of your name is cute. I love the name Isla and love that is has the same letters as my own name Lisa. I don't think that most people would notice (though I wouldn't do like Isla Lisa because that's more obvious and strange)

I think the theme is becoming more problem than it is worth. Find a color name you love or just drop the idea altogether....good luck.

holocene

What is happening right now?

yellowbean15

Honestly, I wouldn't give my son the masculine form of my name. I just can't think of many that aren't really obvious, making it kind of odd. But if I knew the names I might feel differently.

As for the middle name, I'm just so confused. I think you saying that it isn't a colour name, but the anagram of a colour name. And it is also an anagram of the masculine form of your name? (This seems like a fun puzzle I'd like to try and figure out sometime when I'm less sleep deprived). In any case, I think you can go for whatever in the middle name spot. So my advice will be use that middle name but choose a new first name.

But I do kind of like Gray as a boy middle name...

yogahh

My pregnant brain cannot keep up. So...confused...

magsugar13

ElRuby said:

Is this a common core question?

Just spit out my coffee!!

keri0426

As for Gary Gray, that is a garbage company where I am from.

Smax0822

I'm lost sorry. Just tell us the name if you want any kind of real answer ....

LoveIsOwlYouNeed

To be fair, OP never said Gary Gray, it was the only thing I could think of as an example of how I understood her question. but I am also not sure I understood it.

bbiutmcph

For some reason I can't quote properly but the common core response just won the thread. Especially since I just spent way to long figuring out CC first grade math over here.

saham07

LC122 said:

Well, I figured it was too abstract an idea. So, our "theme" is actually colors, not flowers. We still aren't sold on any color names as boy names. Like, none sound like legit names to us. (We know a Sage (boy) but have also met girls named Sage). Anyway, there is a color that happens to be an anagram for the masculine form of my name, spelling dependent. Like, if my name were Ryanne (I don't consider this a real name, btw) and the masculine were Ryan and then the letters in Ryan happened to rearrange into a legit though uncommonly used color, let's pretend it's cyan or something slightly more obscure, but a real color. Ok, this is a bad example because Ryan and Cyan rhyme, and my real examples don't remotely rhyme. We don't divulge name options (even to strangers/the Internet) before the baby is born. So, as a Ryanne, would you name your child Ryan Cyan, or let's just say Ryan Blue (to avoid the rhyme issue)?

Do you talk like this in real life? Is this MUD in a new form? What did you say?

LC122

LoveIsOwlYouNeed said:

OP are you basically saying you wanna name your son something like Gary Gray or Miles Lime? That seems kind of silly regardless of your name. If you name is like Gertrude or Mila, yeah that's a bit much. If that's not what you mean you either gotta be specific or just be done with this.

This isn't too far off. The idea is right, but different names. The names are longer - the first name is two syllables and the middle name is four, so it isn't at all obvious that they are anagrams.

As for the theme issue, my husband likes the idea but we are having trouble finding colors that seem like legit boy names. It was almost a coincidence with the first two kids - we happened to like both of their middle names and both happened to also be colors. And now we like being able to color code their things with those colors, so that would also be helpful for the next kid.

As for the masculine/feminine stuff. So, I was named after my father, but to his dismay, his full name is a nickname. And we would use the long form masculine for this kid. Think, if my dad were Jerry, I was Jeraldine, and this kid would be Jerald. Then if the letters in Jerald scrambled to make a legit but uncommon color for the middle name.

My husband doesn't dislike the first name choice and honestly he would probably be more likely to imply it was after my father (suck up) whereas I would be more likely to say the kid was named after me. He's just been surprised by how many people think our first was named after me. It's a pronunciation issue. I say my name differently then he does and our first's first syllable sounds like how he pronounces my name. Like, if my name were Kara and I say Car-uh but he say Care-uh and our first's was Caroline.

Anyway....

lm45678

@LC122 can you please just tell us the name??

theGDpaterfamilias

Just go with Puce.

Bringmemylongswordho

This is beyond obtuse.

stephweinstein

Can you give us the first letter of the name? I'd like to take a turn at bat.

mamaksweez

Ramequin Aquamarine?
Seriously though, Please name your child Miles Lime. Best suggestion on this post!
To actually answer your question, if you and your SO actually really like the name - not just because it fits your theme - I say go for it.