Most common baby names

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I like Taylor a lot for a girl or boy! :7 I love my GD's name...Kennedy! It fits her too! I like Jonathan for a boy. (My son's name!) Let us know what you decide.

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I like the traditional names too, but only if they are the common spelling. Too many people can't spell as it is. DH and I decided to use older names, Alexander William & Annamarie Grace, as opposed to my SIL who decided on the names Chase & Jet. The middle names of our children are respectively after my deceased father and DH's grandmother.
 
Kristi, I *love* those names! My bro and SIL are expecting their first. They are going with Henry or Beatrix, which I think are so cute and old-fashioned.

I do have a friend whose son is named "Huck" and I think that is cute.

Sparrow

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow - what a ride!’ — Peter Sage
 
Janet -

I have a Jacob born in 1999 too!

DH and I decided back in 1991 (while we were still dating in college) that when we were married and had kids, we would name our boy Jake and our girl Emma. When Jake was born in 1999, we decided to name him Jacob so that he had a proper name instead of a nickname. We were surprised when Jacob became the #1 name for boys that year. Emma was born in 2002 just around the time Rachel on Friends named her baby Emma. We keep saying that we didn't pick their names because of their popularity since we picked them years before! Now, we wouldn't have thought of Emma's twin sister's name (Abigail) if we hadn't met a little girl named Abby and loved her name.

Michelle
 
I get slightly annoyed by names that sound like nicknames, but are the whole name. I recently drafted a will for someone who named her sister as executor and insisted that her sister's full name was "Cindi". I find it hard to believe that she's not really Cynthia.

My nephew's name is Jake. His name is not Jacob. His brother's name is Jon. Not John, and not Jonathan. I say the kid deserves a whole name. If you want a daughter named Liz, name her Elizabeth and call her Liz. It's just easier for us lawyers, and probably everyone else too. }( ;)

And of course I agree about sticking with the traditional spelling.

-Nancy
 
>I get slightly annoyed by names that sound like nicknames,
>but are the whole name. I recently drafted a will for someone
>who named her sister as executor and insisted that her
>sister's full name was "Cindi". I find it hard to believe that
>she's not really Cynthia.
>
>My nephew's name is Jake. His name is not Jacob. His
>brother's name is Jon. Not John, and not Jonathan. I say the
>kid deserves a whole name. If you want a daughter named Liz,
>name her Elizabeth and call her Liz. It's just easier for us
>lawyers, and probably everyone else too. }( ;)
>
>And of course I agree about sticking with the traditional
>spelling.
>
>-Nancy

LOL Nancy, your post reminds me of a nun I had in Catholic school! My real name is Terri. Not Teresa or Theresa or Therese. Sister Elizabeth used to insist that I was just being ornery and my real name must be Theresa. She thought a "good Catholic girl" would be named Theresa, not Terri. The joke was on her though because I was neither Catholic nor particularly good.....:D

Sparrow

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow - what a ride!’ — Peter Sage
 
"The joke was on her though because I was neither Catholic nor particularly good.....:D"

LOL Sparrow! :7
-Nancy
 
My name is unusual, Claude-Helene. Little did my french Canadian parents know that everyone in the US would shorten it to Claude. The nice thing about unusual names is people generally remember them. I didn't like my name when I was younger because people always expected me to be a boy.

We chose an unusual name for our daughter too, but I tried to be certain it would sound distinctly feminine. We also spent a lot of time worrying about how it would sound when she grew up. What if she was a journalist, what if she was a judge, what if she was the first president of USA? We did the same for boys names, but we never quite settled on any one name for a boy. Good thing we had a girl.

DD's name is Shallyn Aubrey. I intended on calling her Shay for short, but in reality, most people call her Shallyn. It's pronounced Shal-lyn and the A is short like in Shannon. It took us a long time to decide how to spell this because I wanted to be sure people could pronounce it. I decided to follow the grammar rules I learned in grade school. Unfortunately, I must one of the few who remembers those grammar rules. Doctors, teachers, and everyone else who sees it for the first time prounounces it Sha-llyn with a long A like in Kate.
 
gym mom-
When I saw "Shallyn" I thought "Shall Lynn" and I was right. So, I think your spelling worked. :)
-Nancy
 
I can appreciate the name issues...my full name is Michaelann. Just one word but pronounced as Michael-Ann. It should be so easy since it's just the two names shoved together but no one can ever read it right. Plus, I don't have a middle name so people want to make Ann my middle name and think it's weird that my first name is Michael (which, hello? it's NOT!)

My whole life I have gone by Mikie pronounced like "Mikey Likes It". But, of course, people always say Mickey like the mouse. Mom and Dad never intended for me to go by Michaelann, just Mikie. My sister's name is Danielle but they planned for her to be Dani (which she was, until high school). They just liked boys' names for girls.

I have tried to go by Michaelann since Mikie is so "young" sounding but people always shorten it anyway so I opt for Mikie instead of Mike.

On the note of shortening: my husband is Matthew, not Matt. It amazes me that time and time again I will introduce him to someone as Matthew and their response? "Nice to meet you, Matt". It happens all the time...I just wouldn't shorten someone's name like that unless they told me to!

As someone who has spent my life correcting spelling and pronunciation and putting up with a constant stream of "Mikey likes it" commentary, I am very passionate about the subject of names!

We love Jack for a boy (it's been my favorite name since 2nd grade...I hate that it's trendy now). His name will be John Kenneth, after my grandfather and father, but he'll go by Jack. We are still at a loss for a girl's name!

Mikie
 
LOL, my DH's name is Bob. Just plain Bob, like his dad. He is constantly referred to as a Robert, and he hates that.

My first DD I named Sarah, and yes, it was after Abraham's Sarah, whose name means God's princess. I was so upset, because as a single, teenaged mom I wanted an uncommon yet strong name for her....not a Heather or a Jessica or anything else my contemporaries were naming their kids. So don't ya know, when Sarah started school, everybody and their sister had Sara as a name, thanks to Stevie Nicks and Hall & Oates. (I have dated myself).

Second DD came along 12 years later, and her dad got to pick her first name: Kasey. I got to pick the middle: Mae. So when I holler at her, I am calling her a brave or courageous maiden. Yikes!

My DstepD's name is Mandria, which DH made up from his middle name. She gets called Mandi, and she doesn't like that a bit.

Julie,
who was given the name by her Dad, who liked a singer named Julie Christie (or was it Julie London??):D
 
Myself being an Amanda who has gone by Amy since Day Zero (my dad's first words when he saw me were: "It's Amy!"), I have to put in a HUGE vote for naming a kid with a full-name option. It helps me to distinguish junk mail, LOL, and medical doctor phone calls, etc. If they ask for Amanda, I know they don't want ME. ;) (Or, I guess that's the other way around- I don't want THEM!)

My sister, on the other hand, is named Rebecca and went by Becky as a kid. When she went to college, she used that time to transition into Rebecca and now has a clear line for herself about adulthood/childhood.
 
Ok - elemntary music teacher here with some "I can top that" stories!

I taught twin 5th grade boys *both* named "Stephen Clark". This is how dense I am - I didn't reallise it was two different kids until about the second month of school (since I only see the students once a week). The difference between the two? One was nicknamed "Stevie" and the other, "Biko". Neither one knew who Steven Biko was until I told them.

Another teacher topped *my* story - and this is true - no kidding. She taught twin boys named "LemonJello" and "OrangeJello". How to pronounce?

leh-MAHN-jeh-lo and or-RAHN-jeh-lo

I saw her gradebook. It was true.

I also student-taught a Kindergartener named "Tequila".

I worked at a horse farm with a girl named Dorcas - the seamstress from the bible. She (the Dorcas I knew, not the biblical one) was really angry at her parents for giving her such a mockery-inducing name .



Susan L.G.
 
Susan-
Do you mean the parents named both of their twin boys Stephen? Or were the Stephens from two different families? (Please say it's the second one. The first would constitute very disturbing parenting.)
-Nancy
 
Here are some others:

1. My DD went to school with brothers: Dread Naught, and Dread Less (those were first names, each then had different middle and last names).

2. DH used to be a social worker and once removed 2 children: one named (no offense to our beloved Cedie) Mercedes Benz Channel No. 5, and the other P-A-J-A-M-A-S, pronounced PA-jamas, with the a's as in apple.

Gotta wonder. Guess those would be rather UNcommon names.

Lorrie
 
No, twin boys, from the same family, with the same name.

Yes, and is it surprising that the boys were terrors in the classroom?
 
As someone with an unusual name-Yasoni (pronound:YAS-oh-nee or JAS-oh-nee)-I have to say that it is both a curse and a blessing to have a name that is not run of the mill. I hate having to explain the pronunciation ALL THE TIME, but I like the fact that its unique. (I googled the name & yes I am the only one it seems!) BTW, I have forgiven my mother for her creative impulse!

I don't really understand the desire to give kids a name that is on the "most popular" list. Can't we all remember classes that had 2 Stephanies and 3 Sarahs (Yeah, the 70s!)? But, the creativity through spelling really shows lack of imagination. Be creative, but kind!

I think that the names Penelope,Marsha,and Rhoda should make a comeback!:)
 
Well my name (April) seemed to be semi-popular once in the 70's and never again. It was a little rough growing up with "Hey where are you sister May and June", high school brought the scathing taunt of "March won't but April, May" - aren't teenagers so creative! Let's not forget the every popular April Fools Day - I just stopped going to school on that day. I even had a teacher sing "April in Paris" to me, I was like 8 years old and had no clue!

All in all, past childhood and into adulthood I do like having a semi-unusual name that isn't spelled funky or have extra silent letters for affect. I work with in a company of 13,000+ employees and I think there are 3 April's in the whole place. I have only met a few in my lifetime, less than 10 I think. It's interesting when I meet another April, it's like an instant bond - they just understand!

:)
April
 
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