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getnmarried910
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When naming your kids do you have any rules?
getnmarried910
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Not the normal, must be spelled "right" rules or something like that, but things like all must start with the same letter?
We try to make sure there is a family name somewhere. Also, both our kids have the same number of letters total.
So far we have Kylee Nichol-Nichol is short for my husband's name who is Nicholas.
Elijah Roman-Roman is my dad's first name.
The next two names we have chosen are
Adleigh either Rose, Kate or June-Leigh is my mom's middle name, and June is my grandma's middle name.
Micah Monroe-Monroe is DH's and his grandpa's middle name.
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Re: When naming your kids do you have any rules?
Yep - DH's family has a strong tradition of using family names, and I'm totally all for it...
DD is named after DH's grand-mother
DS's first name is my mother's maiden name and his middle name is MH's middle name (as well as his father's and his grand-father's).
In MH's family, everyone's name starts with the letter "L"...well at least his mom, dad & brother. So any boy we have will have a name starting with "L", like DS' name Lucas.
In my family the oldest girl is named after her maternal grandmother, so we basically have 2 names alternating for oldest girls in my family: Margaret & Natalie. If we have a girl, she will be Natalie (and this was my only way to get past the whole "L" thing).
I want to use family names, but since we didn't have any good family "L" names, we chose Lucas, but his middle name is my dad's name. Our one steadfast rule is that a name must look good on a resume - I've seen too many ridiculous names on resumes that have held back otherwise good candidates.
Nope, our only rule is we have to love the names.
We've chosen names for both our kids that are family names, but that wasn't really a "rule"--we just happemed to like the names.
My rule is that the initials can't spell soemthing that's just wrong. When I was pg, if we had a girl my dh wanted to name her Jordan Elizabeth. That would make her initials JEW. I told him no way!
Ours is simply that we want a name that is more than one syllable that also has a NN (if the name does have a NN) that is more than one syllable. Our last name is one syllable and we like the flow of having multiple syllables in the first name when paired with our short last name.
Also, we don't want to have a first name that ends with the same sound our last name begins with (we don't want anyone to have to use the dreaded glottal stop, as Niles Crane so aptly put it on Frasier).
DH is Korean and using names of people who are still alive is not really done, so we don't use family names. We have the ILs pick a Korean name for the MN, which makes things easier for us.
We have kind of a lot of rules to go by and it made choosing a boy name difficult. Luckily we both liked Alexander, which fit all our rules nicely. I don't know what we would do if we had another boy.
Alex (11/14/06) and Nate (5/25/10)
"Want what you have, do what you can, be who you are." - Rev. Forrest Church
You'd love my cousin's name-DeVine Star. No, my aunt and uncle didn't hame her that. She's actually my aunt's niece on her husband's side, but her mom couldn't take care of her, so my aunt and uncle have guardianship till she graduates high school. What a name!
I have some rules:
Must be easy to spell.
Must be pronounceable and understandable on the first try.
Must have a popularity on the social security website that goes back at least 80 years, preferably 100 years. It can fall off the line, it can even not be on there now, but it cannot have just shown up in the last 10 to 20 years.
1. Can't be in the top 100.
2. Can't start with the same letter as DS's name. I am not for matchy-matchy, so since his name starts with K, K is off the list.
Does my child's name sound like a doctor, lawyer or senator? If yes, then it's a good name.
you asked, so here is mine-
cannot be above #500 on the SSA list - I had a name that was #21 the year I was born and was ridiculously trendy. I HATED having to go by my last name and do the "which one?" for so much of my life, so I vowed not to let that happen to my kids. 100 was not far enough down the list for me.
not weird - with the above, that takes away a lot of the "normal" names, but I didn't want a name that was too far out there. It couldn't sound made up, you know? Although, I did love the name Tanith (like the ice skater), and DH vetoed it for "it sounds made up" reasons.
great meaning - I always liked that the meaning of my name seemed to "fit" me. So, I sought out names that had nice meanings that might somehow define or fit the child. My DD's name means "cheerful" and it TOTALLY fits it!
MNs are family names. That's tradition on both sides of our family. Actually, I didn't know until I was an adult that I could just name my kid anything I wanted, lol.
No repeating letters or obvious "theme". So, no more L, B, or C names unless we have like a dozen children.
Nothing too popular. Something heard of, and accepted as a name, but not something your hear on every other child. I like to stay out of the top 100, but Layla's seem to skyrocket after she was born. I hate that it's popular now, even though we don't personally know any.