What are your current guilty pleasures? Most of mine aren't off the table since SO and I don't have a naming style, we just pick what we like, but I always like hearing more.
Formerly ChoicesMom "Squishy" 2007 "Lyric" EDD Nov/4/11 - c/p Feb/11 "Fishy" 2012 "Bean" 2014 "Lux" EDD Apr/21/17 - c/p Aug/16 "Kokonah" EDD May/24/17 - m/c Oct/16 1 surprise - 1 Noonie - 1 preemie - 3 gone but not forgotten - One more on the way!! Grab bag of mental health disorders Pancolitis
Dallas or Sterling for a girl. My first pregnancy I was completely obsessed with Sterling but everyone I talked to, everyone on the bump and my husband all hated it
I knew a girl in college named Michael Anne who went by both that and Mikey. We have a lot of Michaels and Annes in our family, so I always thought that would be a cute honorific girl's name. But I'd never do it.
I tend to use names from our culture/family, so two names I love but wouldn't use are Astrid and Jaia. Not weird names, just not our style.
Oh, and Skye. In high school I always said that would be my baby name, boy or girl. Now, not my style, but definitely still a guilty pleasure name.
I love traditionally boy names on girls: Ryan, Noah, Sawyer, Joey etc. I also love Scout, Story, Sailor, Briar and Poet for a girl. I love Sebastian and Atlas for a boy.
Formerly ChoicesMom "Squishy" 2007 "Lyric" EDD Nov/4/11 - c/p Feb/11 "Fishy" 2012 "Bean" 2014 "Lux" EDD Apr/21/17 - c/p Aug/16 "Kokonah" EDD May/24/17 - m/c Oct/16 1 surprise - 1 Noonie - 1 preemie - 3 gone but not forgotten - One more on the way!! Grab bag of mental health disorders Pancolitis
I knew a girl named Austen in college. I thought the idea of naming a daughter after Jane Austen like that was so cool, but I would never do it. I also used to have a thing for using the name Stacey for a boy, but it's definitely not my style now.
I love Atlas for a boy. Would never use it, but I love it.
I really want to give our LO the MN Hermione if it's a girl, but DH says it's waaaay too nerdy. I also love Henrietta and Elisha for a girl, but would never use them. I also love month names, like January Jones, or September, which is the name of a character in a book series I love.
Mine are all ethnic names from a background we obviously do not share (my kids all have red hair and a McLastname). Ekaterina, Paloma, Esperanza, Alessandra, Noor, Kiranjit.
Boy names for girls, but I don't consider it a guilty pleasure, they are on my list... Riley, Ryan, Spencer, Elliotte, Charlie, Dylan.... Dylan and Charlie we can't do bc of family names similar, husband hates Elliotte. I loved Riley but it's getting really common. Still like Spencer too. NN Spence or I've seen Penny
TW: 1 infant loss 8/17: Our daughter was born 8/18: Our daughter kicked open heart surgery ass 2/19: We lost our son to Prader-Willi/Paradoxical Vocal Cord/ Noonans at 6wks old 4/26/2020: EDD for baby #3!!!
My GP names are fairly normal names that I can't use with our last name. My last name starts with an S so pretty much any name that ends with that sound would just slur right into our last name. I can't use Grace for that reason. Ruth was a name that my H loved, and I love the meaning, but it RHYMES with out last name, so hell to the no with that one. And I LOVE Judah for a boy, but with a LN starting with S, if you say it together, it sounds like Judas and o.O So damn.
Married: May 26, 2012 Eden: February 8, 2016 Ivy: April 3, 2018 Baby 3.0: Due September 26, 2020
Oh so many guilty pleasure names! Our last name starts with R and ends in son, so a lot of names that end in the -on sound are completely out. Plus longer names are out too.
Wolfgang Park Winter Story September January Stone Olsen nn Ole Klein I would never use any of these, but I have smiled when I've heard them on people. (I would use Wolfgang )
I knew a girl named Austen in college. I thought the idea of naming a daughter after Jane Austen like that was so cool, but I would never do it. I also used to have a thing for using the name Stacey for a boy, but it's definitely not my style now.
I love the name Austen for a girl. It is actually on my list. I don't know if I would happen because my husband isn't a fan. But I think it is adorable.
I'd totally use them, too, but we won't have enough kids to ever get to those names (We'd have to have 2 more boys and 3 more girls to cycle through the list before we got to those.)
Re: Guilty Pleasure Names
No, I'd never consider this in real life
I tend to use names from our culture/family, so two names I love but wouldn't use are Astrid and Jaia. Not weird names, just not our style.
Oh, and Skye. In high school I always said that would be my baby name, boy or girl. Now, not my style, but definitely still a guilty pleasure name.
I also love Clementine for a girl, but don't think I would ever actually name my daughter that.
As for boys, I absolutely love Clayton on a boy which I would 100% use but DH Isn't a fan- not sure that counts as GP
Baby #2 Due 3/7/20
I also love Scout, Story, Sailor, Briar and Poet for a girl.
I love Sebastian and Atlas for a boy.
Formerly ChoicesMom
"Squishy" 2007
"Lyric" EDD Nov/4/11 - c/p Feb/11
"Fishy" 2012
"Bean" 2014
"Lux" EDD Apr/21/17 - c/p Aug/16
"Kokonah" EDD May/24/17 - m/c Oct/16
1 surprise - 1 Noonie - 1 preemie - 3 gone but not forgotten - One more on the way!!
Grab bag of mental health disorders
Pancolitis
boy gp names: orien, fearchar, ardy, winston, quinn, pierre, lane
eta: prudence gp girl name
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Me 34 DH 34
PCOS
Baby number 2 due 4/11/20
Boys: Horst, Emery, Addison, Reginald, Isidore, Ignatius, Mordecai
Girls: Yui, Mirai, Avivit, Bronwen, Temperance, Verity, Sigrun
Names I might use given the chance
Johannes, Percival
I really want to give our LO the MN Hermione if it's a girl, but DH says it's waaaay too nerdy. I also love Henrietta and Elisha for a girl, but would never use them. I also love month names, like January Jones, or September, which is the name of a character in a book series I love.
Boys: Pollux
For Aoife, we have Irish heritage, but its not that prominent so it would just seem a bit of a disconnect. Also, pronunciation.
Evangeline would make our kid's name 20 letters long! My husband is pretty set on most first names being 6 letters or under.
Ingrid would sound awful with our surname.
Boy - Amadeus
Riley, Ryan, Spencer, Elliotte, Charlie, Dylan.... Dylan and Charlie we can't do bc of family names similar, husband hates Elliotte. I loved Riley but it's getting really common. Still like Spencer too. NN Spence or I've seen Penny
1 infant loss
8/17: Our daughter was born
8/18: Our daughter kicked open heart surgery ass
2/19: We lost our son to Prader-Willi/Paradoxical Vocal Cord/ Noonans at 6wks old
4/26/2020: EDD for baby #3!!!
Jasper, Beck and Hugo for a boy
Eden: February 8, 2016
Ivy: April 3, 2018
Baby 3.0: Due September 26, 2020
Girls: Persephone (nn Phe), Ariadne, Sparrow, Wren (DH vetoed).
Boys: Tadhg, Destry, Orion
Park
Winter
Story
September
January
Stone
Olsen nn Ole
Klein
I would never use any of these, but I have smiled when I've heard them on people. (I would use Wolfgang )
Baby #2 Due 3/7/20
Christianne
Penelope
Astrid
Marcella
Lyla
Ava
Sophia
Charlotte
Isobel
No boy names. DH is set on naming a boy after his dad so I never think of boy names
Married: 10.15.16
DS BD: 8.20.17
TTC #2 1.1.19
BFP #2 7.3.19
EDD #2 3.13.20
Laurel Dawn for a girl.
Finnick Ryan for a boy.
I'd totally use them, too, but we won't have enough kids to ever get to those names (We'd have to have 2 more boys and 3 more girls to cycle through the list before we got to those.)
Boys: Ronan, Soren
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