What do you think of these names?

suteki325 · July 2015

We're 12 weeks pregnant - going to find out the sex of the baby (if the bean cooperates) during our anatomy scan on September 18th. We're juggling around different names now.

For a girl, we really like Everly Lynn Brannan.

(Lynn after my own middle name, and also my own mother's middle name - family tradition).

For a boy, we really like Connor Wayne Brannan, but we're not AS sold on it.

(Wayne is, again, my husband's middle name, and his dad's middle name).

What do you guys think?

MamaWren919 · July 2015

Love Connor. Not a fan of Every. Really horrible, honestly.

eliztheforrizz · July 2015

Connor is fine. Every is ridiculous. You will set your daughter up for lots of headache with a name like that. Why do you want to give your son a nice, normal name but if you end up with a daughter, she is stuck with an absurd, random word name? Doesn't she deserve something she can be proud to put on a resume too?

bbiutmcph · July 2015

Your boy name is wonderful. The girl one sounds trendy and like something I would see on 16 and pregnant. Your daughter deserves a good name too.

MixedBerries88 · July 2015

Every?! Like the adjective?! Someone please break out the Michael Scott screaming "Noooooo" gif.

Your boy name is just fine. Please don't give your son a nice normal name and jack up your daughter's name.

suteki325 · July 2015

Whoops. I had a typo and didn't even realize it when I posted.

It wouldn't be Every, it would be Everly.

bbiutmcph · July 2015

Everly is still trendy and bad and totally in a different league than Connor.

Everycol0r · July 2015

Everly, sounds like my fair lady when the peasants said lover-ly.

Connor is very nice.

dogsombrero · July 2015

Everly with Lynn looks really disjointed and isn't very pleasing to the eye. I'd pick something more traditional/ in line with your boy name.

canarygirl · July 2015

Agree that Everly is bad. Would you consider Beverly?

suteki325 · July 2015

Hmm. Not too sold on Beverly - I think it sounds too old-fashioned. I do really like the name Everly (I have for years, ever since I worked at a daycare and a little girl there was named that). But I'll keep my options open for something more traditional too, if I come across another name I like as much. Thanks for the feedback everyone!

CharmBombExplosion · July 2015

Yikes, Everly sounds ridiculous.

letyourheartbeyourguide · July 2015

What about Evelyn?

wassuphoes · July 2015

If Lynn is a definite middle name, I think you need a name that doesn't end in -ly or an -in sound. Otherwise it's either a smoosh name mess or sing songey poem mess.

Linsbins · July 2015

Just because Channing Tatum says Everly is a good name doesn't mean it is. Connor is normal.

eliztheforrizz · July 2015

suteki325 said:

Whoops. I had a typo and didn't even realize it when I posted.

It wouldn't be Every, it would be Everly.

Still awful. Sorry. Way too trendy and it's a surname.

eliztheforrizz · July 2015

Suggestions, since you are open (contemporary feeling but not trendy to fit the style of Connor):

Abigail

Brooke

Blair

Bridget

Chloe

Claire

Delaney

Darcy

Elodie

Fallon

Gemma

Gretchen

Hannah

Holly

Isla

Joanna

Julianne

Justine

Kiera

Leah

Lauren

Mallory

Meredith

Noelle

Norah

Piper

Rachel

Regina

Savannah

Stella

Samantha

Tessa

Taryn

Vanessa

Veronica

Whitney

suteki325 · July 2015

That's a great list of names, thank you! Norah would be cute - Norah Lynn Brannan? Although I would probably spell it "Nora" if we did go with that one. I've always loved the name Savannah too, but I feel like with our last name it sounds/looks too "rhymey".

fwtx5815 · July 2015

For your girl name- I've always strongly disliked Lynn as a middle name (I know you can't help that you and your mom have the name but still, hate it). If you're dead set on that being the middle name, definitely don't choose a first name that ends in an -ee sound.

wassuphoes · July 2015

suteki325 said:

That's a great list of names, thank you! Norah would be cute - Norah Lynn Brannan? Although I would probably spell it "Nora" if we did go with that one. I've always loved the name Savannah too, but I feel like with our last name it sounds/looks too "rhymey".

Nora Lynn would be great.

eliztheforrizz · July 2015

suteki325 said:

That's a great list of names, thank you! Norah would be cute - Norah Lynn Brannan? Although I would probably spell it "Nora" if we did go with that one. I've always loved the name Savannah too, but I feel like with our last name it sounds/looks too "rhymey".

I think Nora Lynn is lovely!

gonetothesea · July 2015

Nora Lynn is great, especially if you are keeping Lynn as the mn. Everly Lynn definitely doesn't flow since the fn ends in -ly.

crf4 · July 2015

Nora Lynn is infinitely better than Everly.

suteki325 · July 2015

So I came across the name Emma in a book I'm reading and it struck me what a pretty, classic name it is. Emma Lynn? Emma Rose? Better than Nora?

Sassenach1743 · July 2015

suteki325 said:
So I came across the name Emma in a book I'm reading and it struck me what a pretty, classic name it is. Emma Lynn? Emma Rose? Better than Nora?

If you don't mind that Emma is in the top 10, meaning super popular, then yes, it's a lovely classic name. I do prefer Emma over Nora, and they both pair nicely with Lynn. Keep both on your list and decide when she is born.

Definitely throw Everly on your "guilty pleasure names I would never actually use list" and call it a day.

Connor is not my style but it's fine paired with Wayne.

4N6s · July 2015

I love Nora and Emma. Emmeline would be nice too.

Latina211508 · July 2015

I honestly think Everly is not bad at all. I personally like unique names. I think because my name is so simple and common I just got annoyed with everyday names that I hear too much.

wassuphoes · July 2015

Latina211508 said:
I honestly think Everly is not bad at all. I personally like unique names. I think because my name is so simple and common I just got annoyed with everyday names that I hear too much.

FWIW, Everly entered the top 1000 3 years ago and is already 178. It is the trendiest of trendy names.

When kindergarten rolls around for kids born last year and this year, Everly will be quite common

suteki325 · August 2015

DH and I -finally- agreed on a girl name that we both really like. I wanted to run it by you all, as well -

Natalie Elizabeth Brannan. I love it.

If it's a boy, I think we're going to stick with Connor Wayne - but we are open to other middle names, we just have a hard time thinking of boy middles names for some reason!

eliztheforrizz · August 2015

suteki325 said:

DH and I -finally- agreed on a girl name that we both really like. I wanted to run it by you all, as well -

Natalie Elizabeth Brannan. I love it.

If it's a boy, I think we're going to stick with Connor Wayne - but we are open to other middle names, we just have a hard time thinking of boy middles names for some reason!

Both great names!

gonetothesea · August 2015

suteki325 said:
DH and I -finally- agreed on a girl name that we both really like. I wanted to run it by you all, as well -

Natalie Elizabeth Brannan. I love it.

If it's a boy, I think we're going to stick with Connor Wayne - but we are open to other middle names, we just have a hard time thinking of boy middles names for some reason!

Both great names! Congrats!

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