Kid's name... (Page 2)

That's going to gross her out one day.

Ruh Roh, I better tell my 5 couples I'm friends with who have decided not to have kids that it is inevitable......so they can start thinking of names! 

Thank goodness my dad named me.  At first I was going to be Sarah, but then he settled on Elaine.  My mom wanted to name me either Maureen or Teeweewas.

My husband is Zachariah Abraham.  He goes by "Zac" but people always think it's Zack, Zachary, etc.

I'm not having kids, but for a boy I like Octavian and for a girl Evangeline.

My older daughter's name is Jenna, so not much comment there, but my younger daughter's name is Brina (prounounced bree-nah; like Sabrina, except without the "Sa" part). Poor kid. No one ever gets it right. She gets called Brianna almost every day, or Brenna, or Brynna. There's certainly nothing wrong with those names, but they're not her name, and often people just aren't paying close enough attention to get it right.

Of course, I just blame my ex since he named both girls. I do like both girls' names, but if I had had my way, we'd have Tara and Renee.

Yeah, well, that's what parents are for I guess. Anyway, we mad a conscious decision to put slightly more thought in it than did our parent. Jim? My dad was Jim. Amy? Amy's Aunt was Amy.  Buh-or-uh-ing!

It is. We made it 8 years very happily kidless before we changed our minds.

Best decision, by far, we ever made though.

Both my grandmother's wanted me named after them.

Their names are Edith and Alverta.

I'm an Elizabeth. Can't really complain

And I LOVE my middle name: Scott. No, there's no good reason. Not a family name. Not even a friend of the family's name. But I love it.

I'm a DJ.

Daddy?

My parents somehow like the name Denise, so I am Denise. 

In the late 70s/early 80s back in Hong Kong, Denise is a very uncommon name.  No one could pronounce my name right.  I kept being called "Dennis". 

Wonder if Denise2003 had the same problem. 

My daughter's name is Riana. It is a feminine form of Ryan which is my maiden name. Everybody always wants to call her Brianna. I think she likes it though. I asked her the other day why she wasn't putting her last name on her school papers (2nd grade) and she looked at me like I was crazy and said, "There's only one Riana in the whole school."

One of her classmates is named Stormi and her mom's name is Sunny.

And, I have a friend who's stepdaughter is named Scottie - not a nickname, not short for anything, just because.

No disrespect to the grandmothers, but I'd say you got a great name.  You could have be Edverta or something.

My kids:  Bennie and Sophie.  Just cause it's easy to yell.

BUT, in Sophie's prek class there was a Truman, a Kennedy, and a Lincoln.  Now that's cool.

THAT'S JUST MEAN!!!

Or the story of the woman who named her two daughter, Lemonjello and Orangejello (Lemon Jello and Orange Jello).  BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD!!!!

Friends of the family......Last name is Rooney...named their son ROCCO.  DOH!!!!!

Friends just named their daughter GIADA (gee-a-da)....Italian for Jane.

<shudder> Close call there, huh?

Nola's middle is Flynn. Also just kinda cause we like it. 

I was named for Michael the ArcAngel.

Oh, the irony...

My name is Polly- just Polly. It's not short for anything, not even Pollyanna. People seem to have a hard time with this. My brother's name is Robb- not short for Robert, which is confusing to people because my father's name is Robert.

I think I read an article on MSNBC not too long ago by a child of celebrities (don't remember who) asking celebs not to give their children weird names because eventaully they grow up (like she did) and the name stays with them...

keep in mind that there is a hip hop group called Jurassic 5, and they quite often go by J5