What can someone deduce about you based on the names you gave your DC?

[BritAnnia]

That I didn't let my dh name our first child? :tongue_smilie:

Dh had been reading a lot of Louis L'Amour books when I was preggy with our first child. We were sure the baby was a boy and dh wanted to call him Barnabas. (My brother had a bunny named Barnabas!). Thankfully the baby turned out to be a girl :)

 

Our children are Kelsey Jade, Zachary Adam, and Jacob Alexander.

[Heidi @ Mt Hope]

That I'm obsessive compulsive. :)

 

All 3 boys have first names that begin with L and are 4 letters long. All 3 have family, biblical, and president/founding father names.

[kat19]

Who knows probably that we like J names :001_smile: It's hard to get my husband to agree with me on names..

 

DS13~Jordan(only boys name we could agree on) Daniel(after my husband)

DD12~Jenna Ann~we had many different girl names(I liked Rebecca, Kristen and Jenna) so she was nameless for a few hours then my mother in law came and said she looks like a Jenna, her middle name is the same as mine.

DS 7 months~Jacob(only boys name we liked) Thomas(my maiden name plus my grandfather passed away a few months after so I'm glad I went with Thomas)

For this last baby, we didn't know he was going to be a boy until 2 days before delivery~I liked the girls name Jade(I just like this name) Elizabeth(after my grandma).

[Alyce]

My son is named after my husband and his father. He is the III of his name and he plans on naming his son the same way. My son even has the same nickname as his grandfather. We did that right before his grandfather died and he was so proud that we had thought of him. My dd is named after her grandmother and my name put together.

[runamuk]

That we have a hard time naming our children?

 

I like traditional names and family names, my husband likes newer, trendy names. We have a hard time agreeing on baby names.

 

Victoria Nicole (Nicole for my husband Nick, Victoria because it's all we could agree on)

 

Noelle Christina (Christina for me, Noelle because she was due on Christmas)

 

Malcolm Alexander (my MIL picked Alexander - it's a family name on both sides- and we both liked Malcolm)

 

We had such a hard time agreeing on a name for Malcolm that we were telling our families that we were going to name him Three.

[nukeswife]

If my dh hadn't named our second child all of my children would have had names that could be shortened for a nickname. I suppose my 2nd child could but I'm not fond of Al for a little boy. I try to call him AJ but he doesn't like that.

 

Growing up with a name that couldn't be shortened and no nickname had an effect on me. Not sure why that is. I just read an article somewhere that said that nicknames make kids feel like they belong. Maybe that was my issue.

 

Kelly

 

It's too bad that you didn't ever get a nickname or your name shortened, although I'm a Kelly and was never called that . I've been Kel (see it can be shortened) forever and I love it. My mom started calling me Kel (and since I have no middle name there really wasn't much else to pick LOL) and I always knew that if someone called me Kelly I was in deep doo doo :tongue_smilie:

 

As for what people would think of us, I'm not sure. Most assume my oldest must be a family name, because we always here "Oh, I had a great grandpa named Everett" or they think that since we were stationed in WA at the time that he's named after the navy base there (weren't stationed in Everett we were in Bremerton anyway). They always pronounce my dd name wrong. Her name is Annika (AH-ni-ka, with a short i in the middle, most say uh-KNEE-ka which really makes her mad) they also think we named her after the female golfer, but she's really named after 7 of 9 from StarTrek Voyager, that was her human name before the Borg assimilated her. Our youngest, most probably think that we just ran out of "different" names. He's a Lucas, I wanted to use John for a middle name after my maternal grandpa who died when I was 16 (he was the best grandpa ever) and one night I had a dream the baby I was carrying would be a boy and should be named Lucas John.

 

Boring Hey?

[Kate in Arabia]

We chose Arabic names for our kids; two are named after famous figures in Islamic history and the third is a name from descriptions of Paradise in Islamic traditions. We tried to think of names that expressed our Muslim identity, but didn't have any of the "unusual" letters from Arabic; people still have trouble pronouncing some of them correctly, or use English names that are similar. I have tried to teach my kids to deal with that with grace -- it all depends on whether the person is being blatantly rude or doing the best they can, lol.

 

That said, just looking at the names themselves, I don't know if most people would know that they are "Arabic" or "Muslim" names; dh and I both like unusual names (he came up with some real whoppers when we were in the 'name-choosing' phase, lol).

[Jenny in Atl]

Would you believe that we have a relative who named her son Thor?

 

If we had had a boy, Thor was at the top of the list. I also like Cadence.

 

Mine are Mackenzie Greer & Fiona Eilish. Not sure what those names say about me (dh was more of a cheerleader in the naming than a player).

[saw]

That we're idiots. DDs are Fifi and Roro, DS is Cot. They have real names, too, but if you just heard what they are called, you'd think there was something wrong with us. DS has a real name that is a family name, the kind of name that if we meet anyone with that name we know we're related. The girls have very pretty traditional names, but F insists on being called Fifi by everyone (despite Fifi and the Flowertots).

[mellifera]

People sometimes think we're Catholic (we aren't). They also might think we're old-fashioned (which is true). Dh says that we're refugees from the 30's or 40's.

[mom31257]

That we are either Christian or Jewish. We are Christians and gave them each first names from the Old Testament. Our dd's middle name, Nicole, was because we liked the way it sounded with her first name and the meaning (Victorious). Our dd's middle name is Wesley, after John Wesley.

[Wildiris]

I named the first two boys romantic names that neither of them cared for until they were teens. Now their names are a good invitation to starting a conversation. Both have literary middle names; one middle name is after a charterer in a novel and the other a poet which fits his first name too.

 

Dear Loved One named the girls flower names. One got away with an ordinary middle name, the other received the middle name of joy for that is what she is~ a joy.

 

What do their names say about the givers of those names???? Perhaps that I am a sentimental, romantic given to flights of fancy.

[Kate in Arabia]

If we had had a boy, Thor was at the top of the list.

 

I was in a class in Cairo with a man from the Swedish embassy whose name was Torkel, he said it meant "Thor's helmet". I thought that was a really cool name (and the man was really nice as well!)..

[newlifemom]

That I'm obsessive compulsive. :)

 

All 3 boys have first names that begin with L and are 4 letters long. All 3 have family, biblical, and president/founding father names.

 

 

:lol:

[newlifemom]

That we're American. :tongue_smilie: You know, land of the melting pot or salad or whatever you want to use. Honestly I have names that are Greek, Hebrew and Swedish/Norwegian. There were some really great Irish names I liked, but could you imagine a half chinese (think simple last name) girl named Siobahn? Honestly we just went through lists of names and talked about what ones we liked and would go with our very boring one syllable last name.

Edited November 14, 2008 by newlifemom
Oops forgot the apostraphe. Shhh.

[percytruffle]

OH MY, I never wondered what people would assume; maybe I should have..... Defintitely biblical something or other which is to certain degrees both true and untrue. That we were bored maybe.....or indecisive???

 

Jada Rose Serene

Moses David Augustus

Elias James Shalom

yet to be here.....maybe today!!!!!! is Justice Raphael ?.

 

 

What lovely names! I am enjoying reading them all.

 

I don't know what our kids' names say about us?! We have a Julia Marie and a Shawn William. We chose first names we liked and which I did not have the negative image of a student attached to. (Picking names is doubly hard for ps teachers) Then, dd was given my middle name and ds was given dh's middle name.

[lighthouseacademy]

We don't like common names but we also don't like weird names.

 

My ds is named after my brother who died when I was 10. My son doesn't have the same name though but it is similar. It is also from the Old Testament, although that is not why we named him his name, despite how much I like that prophet. His middle name is my dh's first name.

 

My older daughter's name is a variation of my name, but that wasn't why we named her that. We liked it. It is only a variation in that it has the same first 3 letters and has the same meaning but it doesn't sound the same. Her middle name is rather fanciful but fits her perfectly- she was born with the morning light and thus, her name reflects that- Aurora.

 

My baby has an old fashioned name that has already been mentioned in this thread. It is a variation on a flower name. Her middle name is a flower name- Rose...

 

Ironically, the girls' middle names are used in the same fairy tale to describe the same person... but that had nothing to do with our choosing of their names. I didn't even realize that until much later.

[mom2att]

I dunno--we have:

 

Alexis (dh went to school with an Alexi and always like the name--we had no idea it was so popular)

 

Truman (named for neither the author nor the president--we just liked the name)

 

Thaddeus (one of the apostles, but again, we just liked the name)

[bettyandbob]

Well, a few years ago we had appointments to see a specialist at a university hospital. One of my dc sees this doctor yearly and it's about 1.5 hour drive. The doctor wanted to do tests on all the kids so 3 appointments back to back. After a long visit I was checking out the receptionist putting together our bill looked up and said "You gave all your children Bible names." My dcs names were intentionally Biblical names, but most people wouldn't notice that. No Rachels or Jedediahs in my family. My dd is named after our Lord's mother, my youngest child is named after a person who used strength from God to win a fight with a big man. My youngest son has disabilities so the name is significant to me, although we picked it out before we knew he had disabilities. My oldest is named for the priest who annointed Saul and David. The names are actually pretty traditional and ordinary, so I was surprised that anyone noticed.

[jayfromcleveland]

If we called our kids names like Track, Bristol, Piper, Willow and Trig, they probably wouldn't think we were homeschoolers!

 

No offense to anyone for the following, your kids' names are your business. But when we were picking names, we were sick to death of trendy names like Kyle and Brandon and appalled by ugly, unfeminine girl names like Jordan, Taylor and Madison. We were also weary of Christian homeschoolers who couldn't think outside of the box of the same old Joshua, Jeremiah, Sarah and Rachel.

 

We liked traditional names that were common in our generation but mostly unused in the young generation. We also wanted names that had a meaning, as in the Bible, or named after family members. So we went with:

 

David - means "beloved," the man after God's heart. Ironically, there was a popular run on Davids after we made this choice;

 

Richard - means "rich powerful ruler," after my wife's father;

 

Samuel - means "heard of the LORD," after God miraculously protected him from mom's chicken pox in utero.

 

Veronica - means "true image," after the apocryphal legend of Veronica's Veil, after my wife's aunt.

 

Florence - means "flower," after my grandmother.

 

Since most Christians don't use New Testament names, we were going to go with Stephen had Florence been a boy.

[Sharon H in IL]

Woohoo! I rarely start threads, and the ones I start rarely go anywhere. I feel so special now, guys. ;)

 

Joking, I'm joking!

Edited November 14, 2008 by Sharon H in IL
Realized original post sounded odd.

[kalanamak]

 

Florence - means "flower," after my grandmother.

 

 

Say, that's what sonny was going to be called had he been a girl, after his great grandmother. Do you call her Flory?

 

Kiddo has a short, known-but-not common name, with a Germanic background. Named after his GF. Fits him well.

[mcconnellboys]

We chose traditional, Celtic, family names.

[texascamps]

Xander, Wyatt, Noelle, and Claire. I don't know if it says anything..........Our next one in the oven will either be Rock, Juliette, Karzai, or Charlotte....so far... the list is changing, oh, and if the Longhorns win the championship, Colt. I usually let my husband come up with the list, I have Veto power.

 

Their middle names are of places you can visit, or see on a map, that touched us....Bryce, Duchesne, Torrey, Duke

[Sharon in MD]

His name is William Alexander....for William the Conqueror and Alexander the Great. Dh is a retired officer, on active duty at the time of ds's birth....we were both working the Gulf War right up to the birth. We wanted a strong masculine name for ds. He goes by Alex by the way....I wanted Alex to be the first name, but we couldn't agree on a middle name with that.

 

The second middle name is my maiden name, which I won't reveal because of privacy. I am the last in my line and we wanted the name to go on. Since my folks only had me, it seemed like a nice tribute.

 

If he had been a she....she would have been Victoria Marie....again very European and very historical.

 

 

What a fun thread!!! :hurray: Way better than politics! (evil grin)

[cin]

That we are unique, but not too unique. Piper Joy was named because we liked Piper and we had waited SOOOO long, we were full of Joy :001_smile: (IF only we had known!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

 

Zoie Rose....Zoie is Greek for Life. FItting for a child adopted from China. And Rose, Rose Marie was one of the ladies who helped us wade through the paperwork to get Piper. (I'd love to know how many namesakes she has!)

 

I LOVE The Palin kid's names. And not just because she has a Piper. Willow was on our short list.

 

IF we were to adopt a 3rd, she would Tayla Denise. Tayla from Stargate Atlantis. We just LOVE the name. Denise after my Uncle Dennis. But I don't think that's going to happen. :crying:

[Barb_]

That we're anglophiles.

 

Barb

[Karenciavo]

Regarding ds15 they have thought we are Catholic (Benedict)

Regarding ds6 they have thought we are Jewish (Ethan Samuel)

Ds13 was named for his great-grandfather James Zacarrio (Zachary James), I don't know what people might think about that name.

 

If we ever had a girl her name was going to be either Esperia, after the town in the provincia di Frosinone where my FIL is from or Isabel, although my husband was against the latter because he thought people would call her Isabella, which with our last name sounds a little too sing-songy for him. Moot point.

[CAMom]

Well, we've had people ask if we were going for a "river theme.":) Our sons are Jordan and Hudson. But, my daughters are Brenna and Katherine.

 

So, I'm not sure what folks would think.

[akmommy]

I'm not sure what it says about us but the girls' names are pretty traditional and our sons is a bit unusual.

 

Samantha Mildred (DH picked her first name and Mildred was my paternal gm's first name)

Sarah Michelle (Sarah has always been my favorite girls name and we just liked the way Michelle sounded with it.)

and bringing up the rear:

Ryker McClelland (I wanted something unusual for his first name and his middle name is an old family name, originally a surname I think, on DH's side.)

[kalanamak]

When someone doesn't recognize my daughter's name, can't pronounce or spell it, I assume they don't read much.

 

Hah! My nick name in college was a non-god character from the Greek myths, and anyone who'd heard of it got a plus from me, and the ONE prof that pronounced it "correctly" really got a plus.

[Lawana]

That we're traditional and not very original. Both dc's names duplicate (or triplicate) family names. Of my soon-to-be 98 yo grandmother's 34 grandchildren and 92 great-grandchildren, there are 3 Rachels (2 Rachel Anns [dd's name]) and 2 Aarons, but no other Aaron Josephs (AJ to all who know him).

 

But I am the only Lawana and my mother is the only Vola. ;)

 

Lawana

[jenadina]

The boys' first names come from the New Testament. You would not believe how many people point that out to me. Their first names are Andrew, James and Stephen.

RC

 

My brother's name is Andrew James Steven ____ :lol: However, he was not named for the Bible, but for my dad (James) and my uncle (Steven).

 

About the name Jennifer (my name)...I really dislike how common it is. When I was in the 11th grade, there were 11 Jennifers in my history class. 11! Some of us even had the same initials.

 

My son is Adam Diego, one name for his Caucasian heritage, and one for his Mexican heritage :D

 

He was "baby boy" until he was 3 days old though...he came early and none of the names we had been thinking of fit him, so we spent a lot of time with the baby book on our last day in the hospital.

 

I may be strange, but looking back I'm really glad that we met him before naming him and I would like to do that again with future children.

 

Other people probably think we are Christian, but they'd be wrong...hubby is a non-practicing Catholic and I am a Baha'i.

Edited November 15, 2008 by jenadina

[Zelda]

That I was born 200 years ago and never got caught up on the newer names.:tongue_smilie:

[kzdaisy]

That my dh drove me crazy trying to name the child and he finally ok''d Michelle on the drive to the hospital.And people ask why I only had 1?

[Philothea]

You would be able to tell we are Catholic. And if you know your saints, you'd be able to tell what "flavor" Catholic we are.

[WTMCassandra]

People would deduce that I have baggage about the common name with the bizarre spelling that my mother gave me. And they would be right.

 

My children have "normal" names but not super-common like Mary and John. And they are spelled, deliberately, with the most common spelling, so that there is little question.

 

I'm still mad at my mother for saddling me with this strange spelling. Sigh. If you want to know what it is, you can PM me.

[Laura Corin]

That we like traditional English names that are easy to spell and pronounce.

 

Laura

[Riverfront Headmistress]

I'm in the hippie bunch.

[Sunny]

they would say that we liked Bible names. Yes, we picked Godly names hoping they would meet the expectations.

[Mommy22alyns]

Probably nothing spectacular... they might deduce that I wanted beautiful names for my girls with a minimum of nicknaming that would "wear well" from infancy to (hopefully) grandmotherhood or beyond. They might deduce that I wanted to stay away from trendy names or spellings.

 

It would take a sharp eye indeed to realize that my youngest DD's first name has a literary link. But that's okay. :001_smile:

 

And I actually did not intend to name both of my girls so their first names ended in -a and their middle names ended in -elyn. It just happened.

[Jill- OK]

Dh and I went round and round on a few baby names. He has several 'rules'. (No 'theme' names--for example, I had a few "H" names picked out, but since our oldest's name starts with an "H"...this would be 'weird'. This was way before the Duggars, by the way. Also, no names that could easily be made fun of, no literary names, and nothing 'off the wall'. He also shot down the Dutch first name I suggested for our second child.)

 

The only name we readily agreed on was the oldest's. (Ah...the honeymoon years, lol.)

 

I didn't like the name he chose for my oldest son. (First name is a family name, middle name is Biblical...but unwieldy. I promptly gave him a one-syllable nickname, lol.)

 

Two middle daughters were sort of draws; I made up lists, he vetoed several, until we finally settled on mutually agreeable--and very plain--first names.

 

Youngest...is named after him, lol.

 

The boys' names are older, traditional names, and the girls' are pretty traditional, too, as well as being Biblical and Puritan-style virtue names.

 

I guess you'd figure we're white, and traditional, and you'd be mostly right, lol.

 

(On the whole...I like the names our kids ended up with. I would have named the oldest boy differently...but the uncle he's named after can't have children of his own, and I appreciate dh's intent. I would have loved to have one more little boy to name after my dad, though. :-( And I like it now that they have mild, traditional names. It fits us, even if it didn't fit me, in the beginning.)

[Jill- OK]

Growing up with a name that couldn't be shortened and no nickname had an effect on me. Not sure why that is. I just read an article somewhere that said that nicknames make kids feel like they belong. Maybe that was my issue.

 

...because my kids all have nicknames/ways their name can be shortened.

 

I did have several nicknames, as a child (many were from lengthening my name, though, not shortening it...just try and shorten Jill, lol), and what's funny is...I still get nicknames, as an adult, from a variety of people, and while it's odd...I do like it, in a way, lol.

 

I've never heard that before (about it being significant in a child's life)...but I believe it. Maybe not 'belong', necessarily, but I can see how a diminutive or pet name would make one feel as if the nickname giver is fond of them. My dad was a big believer in this...and a great giver of nicknames. (I rolled my eyes at the one he gave me, for years...but now I miss it, of course.)

[LaxMom]

Originally Posted by kwiech

Growing up with a name that couldn't be shortened and no nickname had an effect on me. Not sure why that is. I just read an article somewhere that said that nicknames make kids feel like they belong. Maybe that was my issue.

 

Interesting. I was named specifically FOR the diminutive and have always hated it. Angie B_____ is perpetually the five year old in Mrs. R's class. As an adult - particularly a professional adult - I have always been called Angela. Close friends and family call me Ang. All four of my children have names with no diminutives. (They have pet names, but not derived from their given names)

 

Ashley Marie - people who know me would think my ex husband named her, and quite possibly from the top 5 list of 1989 girls names. And they would be correct.

 

My three youngest, I guess people would think we were Anglophiles (we're not particularly) or Irish (there is Irish in both families, but my people are predominantly French). Bailey, Holden and Quinn are all literary and also surnames (in fact, my husband is waiting for the Redskins to draft a "Quinn" so we can have jerseys for all three... he may be a little disturbed) Their middle names (Anne, Andrew and Patrick, respectively) are family names.

 

If the boys had been girls, they would have been Ainsley and Genevieve. I guess that would have thrown a wrench in the whole "theme" we have going. ;)

[muffinmom]

That we don't call them by their first names. We didn't plan it, but... they just sounded better that way.

 

Ds is Elijah Luke and dd is Elizabeth Grace (but in her case, we call her Liza, after a little girl we babysat years ago). So then we have Luke and Liza, which people probably think we planned so we could have two "L" names, which is not true. In fact, I would have avoided that (too cutesy for me), but it turned out that the names we liked were both "L" names. Oh well.

[JWSJ]

Would you believe that we have a relative who named her son Thor?

 

Yes, I have a co-worker named Thor.

 

It's worked to his advantage. No one forgets his name or confuses him with someone else.

[KarenNC]

Dh and I went round and round on a few baby names. He has several 'rules'. (No 'theme' names--for example, I had a few "H" names picked out, but since our oldest's name starts with an "H"...this would be 'weird'. This was way before the Duggars, by the way.

 

Oh, the Duggars didn't invent the idea of names all starting with the same letter. My neighbor across the street when I was growing up named all three of her boys names that started with B. My parents gave my sister and I the same initials so that anything that was monogrammed could be handed down (as monogramming was more popular then). I promise you I am *much* older than any of the Duggar children:D.