Names

starla · March 2018

@Car0liiine I agree with PP. I love Vera and Lila Gray. I knew a girl name Abby Gail (like Abbygail, but two first names). Kind of cute, but also weird? I'm not sure if I like it. LOL Anyway, another option is a playful name like that.

For Verabella, I think most people would call her Vera or Bella and I agree about the Twilight comment. The only downside to Lila Gray is that people might think that "Gray" is her last name.

jhjocelyn · March 2018

@Car0liiine I like the names! Not gonna steal them though. I feel like Lila-Gray Felicity Blahblahblah is a mouthful, but Lila Gray Elise Blahblahblah or Lila Gray Verity Blahblahblah (pretty sure I spelled that wrong sorry) have a smoother flow?
Pretty sure I practiced dd’s flow w the classic “you’re in trouble now” holler... and now I use her first and middle several times a day ha!

Random funny name story:
DD helped pick her name. I wanted to use my middle name as hers since it is a mix of my grandmothers(but spelled normal- Joyce + Jacquelyne = Jocelyn). DH preferred Elizabeth which has no purpose/meaning for us and neither does her first name. So late in the pregnancy I was laying in bed talking to her, hand on my tummy and asked her who she was, she kicked whenever I said Kate Elizabeth and was still when i said Kate Jocelyn. So, I caved and it was decided.

jumpy57 · March 2018

@jhjocelyn that is such a cute story! I can't decide if I want to go with a family middle name that I feel "meh" about or pick something I really just like. Good thing there is a lot of time to decide still. At least our boy name is totally set!

jjess1201 · March 2018

I love reading everyone's ideas and discussion! So, if we have a girl, H is really set on the name Isabella. We have never watched twilight and I don't know any Isabella's. I know the name is on the top 10, is that a new thing or has it been in the top 10 for a while? We both like the name but I don't want it if everyone will think we're huge twilight fans or something. We just like the name!

pourmeanothermocktail · March 2018

@jjess1201 According to Baby Name Wizard, looks like it's been getting popular since maybe 2004, peaked in 2010, so I'd say it's been very popular for a while. Unfortunately, that timing really lines up with the book and movie releases. 2007 my friend named her daughter Isabella because of Twilight (yes, she's a fan girl, and that was literally her reasoning.)

So it's definitely up to you.

ferris0906 · March 2018

Lila Gray 100%--it's a lovely name.

Car0liiine · March 2018

@jjess1201 I think I remember Isabelle/Isabella getting popular before Twilight got really big. To me Bella reminds me some of the series, but not the longer forms because the character never went by those. Also, these weren't names that no one has heard of before Twilight. I liked the name when I heard it as Katherine Heigl's character on Roswell, and then she played another popular Isobel in Grey's Anatomy.
So I think you can totally use the name without a connection being assumed. And I think Isabelle and Isabella are both pretty. You can always use the nn Izzy to further distance it from Twilight if you feel the need.

@ferris0906 Thank you!

jumpy57 · March 2018

@jjess1201 I think we are far enough past the twilight hysteria that people aren't going to assume you choose Isabelle because you liked the books/movie. Like others have said, it was a real name before twilight

DanyTargaryen · March 2018

jjess1201 said:

I love reading everyone's ideas and discussion! So, if we have a girl, H is really set on the name Isabella. We have never watched twilight and I don't know any Isabella's. I know the name is on the top 10, is that a new thing or has it been in the top 10 for a while? We both like the name but I don't want it if everyone will think we're huge twilight fans or something. We just like the name!

Like @EErin86 said I think we're far enough past Twilight that not everyone will jump to assuming you named your kid after the series. There are also plenty of people like me who refuse to have anything to do with Twilight and the series doesn't even come to mind when I hear the name Isabella. It's a beautiful name and while the nickname Bella does make Twilight come to mind, unless I know the parent is a big fan I would never assume that's why someone chose the name.

jaylii · March 2018

@jjess1201 According the U.S. social security website the name Isabella has been a top 10 name for 14 years (since 2004). I'm a data nerd so I love the SSA website. You can also find percentage of births, number of births, name standing by state etc... https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/

dexnie · March 2018

I love Lila Gray. Not big on middle names with a double name.

Like Vera. Verity does not feel like a name to me - anymore than Honesty or Integrity do.

katiebeth4 · March 2018

Lila Gray is very pretty!
Although, I don’t think it’s uncommon enough to flame someone for stealing.

My oldest daughter has a true double name (no hyphen) and a separate middle name.
We’re from the south so we have no issues with people not calling her by her double name.

I do wish I would have just done a double first name and not given her a middle name because it’s rarely used. It’s a precious family name that I would have loved to use as a first name for another child. I just didn’t think because she was my first baby.

Edited because the bump cut me off

jhjocelyn · March 2018

Okay, who has used the baby name app? I can’t make it connect to dh, is it because we only have the free version? Neither of us could figure it out.

yosemite2018 · March 2018

I think Lila Gray is really pretty and if you’re in an area where double names are common, I wouldn’t worry about people not saying it correctly.

FX we find out the sex tomorrow because if it’s a boy we need all the time we can get to come up with something! If it’s a girl we’ve been set on a first name since I was pregnant with DD (we’ll still need a middle name but I insisted on one with DD so I’ll give DH preference in choosing this time).

mrsman2018 · March 2018

DH is stuck on Georgia for a girl but I am not sold. I like short cute names.

klj0228 · March 2018

I can’t remember if I posted this here or not, but for some reason the name Kennedy Grace is stuck in my mind for a gril. Any thoughts on that name?

starla · March 2018

@mrsman2018 I like Georgia!

ferris0906 · March 2018

@mrsman2018 Georgia is beautiful. Also, I see you are a fellow GG fan (see my profile pic as well).
@klj0228 Kennedy is not my favorite as I prefer more classic names. I do like Grace.

mrsman2018 · March 2018

ferris0906 GG = Life.
I always wanted an Al's Pancake World grab-bag.

mrsman2018 · March 2018

Mollie or Molly?

nackie · March 2018

mrsman2018 said:

Mollie or Molly?

Molly all the way

jumpy57 · March 2018

@mrsman2018 I would go Molly, but I prefer traditional spellings. It bugs me that there are 10 ways to spell traditional names now (or I'm just grumpy because spelling isn't my strong suit)

nlc8424 · March 2018

Molly definitely.

SkilledSailor · March 2018

Fourthing Molly. I have a normal name but unique spelling. I love my spelling but it means constantly correcting people on it. While I don’t mind doing this, a lot of other people in my situation do.

starla · March 2018

Molly.

mrsman2018 · March 2018

Is Molly the traditional way? I think it is more common though.
And Molly does look better, but DD ends with an 'ie' and thought it may be nice to do that again.

smsaulino · March 2018

So... me and DH had our first kids names all picked out before we even got married.. and now he wanting to the change the girl name. We got into an argument about it last night. We had agreed on Polly Annette for the girl name because his grandmother had always been called Polly by her friends and family and Annette is his mother's middle name. Now... he is wanting to change the first name to Pauline because that was his grandmother's actual name and it is "more formal"... I don't like it at all.. I don't think it has a "ring" to it all and I also don't like a long first and middle name. Me and DH both have shorter first names and longer middle names. Ugh.

smsaulino · March 2018

@mrsman2018 I love the name Molly.. either way. I don't think either spelling is "too common" ..

ferris0906 · March 2018

@mrsman2018 Definitely Molly. Such a cute and classic choice.

@smsaulino For what it's worth, I think it's beneficial to use a full (more formal?) name and use a nickname for what you actually call her. I was given a nickname as my full name, and it has always bothered me. First, people always try to "correct" me when I'm filling out paperwork--yes, I know it's asking for my full legal name--that's it! Second, I'd love to have the choice to sound more formal if I wanted (such as in a professional setting).

MandyMost · March 2018

@smsaulino what about shortening the middle name, so it’s Pauline Ann?

jumpy57 · March 2018

@smsaulino I will back you up on Polly, I assume that's what you intend to call her. I'm in the club of naming kids what you will call them. My sister is named Marjorie after my grandmother and my parents always intended to always call her Jorie, my mom mildly regrets using the full name.

MandyMost · March 2018

@EErin86 I feel the opposite! I like the option of nicknames and a more formal name. I really like to think about how a name will work at all life stages and for all different personalities you kid might have. Like, know a Christina who was called Chrissie by her family and through school, but as a career-woman she prefers Christina. And a Frances who was called Effie by her family and through school but does not go by that professionally either. Since they don't use their nicknames professionally, I can assume they're happy to have a "more serious" name to use when the situation fits!

jumpy57 · March 2018

@MandyMost oh I totally agree that there are differing opinions. I also wouldn't pick a cutesy name as an official name. My name is Erin, it's short and there is never a question of what to call me when meeting new people and I love it. To be honest I think I have a very different style than most of the commenters, and that's fine because I don't think they will use any of the names I'm considering

MandyMost · March 2018

@EErin86 as an aside, I used to have a roommate named Erin, and to me "Erin" is a girls name and "Aaron" is a boys name, and they are pronounced differently. Unmistakably differently. But the way she pronounced her name it sounded like "Aaron" and I had the most awkward conversation with her once (e.g. "Erin?" "No, Erin" "Aaron?!" No, Erin" "So, Erin?" "No, Erin" .....), and then for a whole year I swear I never said her name! LOL

adirat · March 2018

@MandyMost How do you pronounce them differently? I'm so curious. I would pronounce them exactly the same (IPA: ærən)

And +1 for Molly over Mollie.

jumpy57 · March 2018

@Mandymost I didn't really know anyone with my name until I went to college and the track team had 2 Erin's and 6 Aarons... It was crazy. But between IL, WI, MI, and MN everyone said it the same way. I did listen to an argument once between IL/IN people about how to pronounce John they had very subtle but distinct ways of saying it.

MandyMost · March 2018

@EErin86 and @adirat I had no idea how to describe the difference, but Google to the rescue! This is exactly it:

"My sister named her son Aaron. She is adamant that his name is pronounced with the ''a'' sound as in ''apple'' rather than with the ''eh'' sound which she says is exclusively for the girl's name ''Erin.'' From my research it seems that England and Australia as well as parts of New York, New Jersey and New England support pronouncing these names differently, while in the rest of the U.S. (particularly the Midwest) these names are pronounced exactly alike."
https://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/message-details1.cfm?asklingid=200384213

I'm from New England (born and raised just south of Boston).

Here's another one: Aaron rhymes with baron, Erin is just like Eric with an n instead of a c.

Or another: I pronounce the first vowel in Aaron as the same way I pronounce it in "bad" and Erin the way I pronounce the vowel in "bed".

nackie · March 2018

@MandyMost that’s how I pronounce them as well. I didn’t realize it was a regional thing.

Car0liiine · March 2018

Well Lila Gray is back on the shelf now that we are team blue, but I hope to get the chance to use it some day.
I'm kicking myself because our policy is not to share the name but the other day I had my guard down and shared our long list with my family. I prefaced it by saying I didn't want to hear their negative comments, pointing out a couple that we know are kind of ridiculous so it's okay to poke fun, but the rest are serious options. Well of course my mother latches on to our top choice and goes on and on about how bad it is. "That's a fat kid's name!" On and on. I was sooooo irritated I had a hard time sleeping that night. I told her the next day that hurt my feelings and I thought she should have been more considerate of my feelings and filtered herself. She apologized but defended herself. This is all so typical of her. I should've known better. But now I'm second guessing our top choice even though I know she and I have totally different taste.
Sigh. I just want to feel confident in whatever name we choose. There are other names on our list that I like better but they're all becoming too popular.

DanyTargaryen · March 2018

Sorry, but WTF to a name being "a fat kid's name". Some people just don't think before saying something!

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