Boy name

irish4jan1

My husband is stuck on the name Jace-I'm still on the fence. We will find out this Friday if it's a boy or a girl. We are decided on the girl's name: Gianna Lena (Lena is my grandmother's name-she is fantastic!). Thoughts on our boy's name or suggestions.

1. Jace Matteo

2. Gavin Jace

3. Jace Diego

P.S. How do you do a poll? It wasn't working for me.

Thanks! 

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irish4jan1

I see how to do the poll thing now

526SadieSadie

Yay!  Another Gianna coming into the world!!

I do not like Jace at all.  Besides the Teen Mom connection, it's not a real name.  It's at most, a nickname for Jason.  Would you consider naming your son Jason and calling him Jace to your heart's content?  Everytime I have heard Jace as a child's name, I always think (and hope) I'm hearing Chase.

irish4jan1

Thats how I feel about Jace-it sounds like Chase. I dont like Jason at all. Gianna is such a beautiful name! I can think of no other name I like better.

526SadieSadie

Maybe let your DH watch a couple episodes of Teen Mom with Janelle, maybe her nasty WT attitude will put him off the name lol

irish4jan1

HA! Is it that bad? I've never watched it. Do you think people will automatically reference Teen Mom if we choose the name Jace. I personally know the name from a kid a went to school with-nice guy.

irish4jan1

You see, I like all the traditional Italian and Irish names. My husband hasn't really given any input for a boy's name. He likes Owen, but I don't want to use this because every day I feel like I hear about someone naming their kid Owen. I'm glad we are decided on a girl?s name, but I have sneaky suspicion that it's going to be a boy.

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526SadieSadie

Maybe not most people, but since she's constantly getting arrested for drugs and stuff, I think a decent number of people would make that association.  Same goes for Bentley (another son of a Teen Mom).

I really like Irish-esque names, too.  How about any of these:

Ian

Liam

Malcolm

Declan

Seamus (SHAY-mus)

Shea

Patrick

Collin

Conner

 

 

irish4jan1

Yikes! Thats not a very good association. I like all of those names you suggested- espt. Shea, Patrick and Liam. What do you think of Gavin?

brookelynpaisley

I hate Jace. It doesn't help that it's a Teen Mom baby name

526SadieSadie

Gavin is ok, it's NMS but it's certainly better than Jace lol

irish4jan1

I appreciate everyones brutal honesty. Maybe just showing this thread to hubby will help...LOL!

526SadieSadie

That's what we're here for!  BTW, Matteo is a great name - I like it a lot!

irish4jan1

LOVE Matteo! There I go with the Italian names! I might have to sneak that in with an Irish name for the complete package.

sagoon

If you must use Jace could it at least be a nickname for Jason?

526SadieSadie

irish4jan1:

LOVE Matteo! There I go with the Italian names! I might have to sneak that in with an Irish name for the complete package.

DH and I are both Italian (well, he's half) and we LOVE Italian names but the ones we like the most just wouldn't fly here in the US -

Enzo, Fabrizio, Andrea (On-DRAY-uh), Niccolo, etc...

The only one we're considering is Domenico (we'd probably call him Dominic or Nico). 

 

tusshie2004

I like Jace. 

Voted for the first one. 

guilletskichuk

irish4jan1:

HA! Is it that bad? I've never watched it. Do you think people will automatically reference Teen Mom if we choose the name Jace. I personally know the name from a kid a went to school with-nice guy.

I never made the association.

I prefer it spelled Jayce though. I've never met someone with this as a fn but a student of mine had it as a mn.