I always said that I was going to name my first born Doctor. It would give him a leg up in most circles for the rest of his life. However when my son was born I chickened out and went a lot more traditional.
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I always said that I was going to name my first born Doctor. It would give him a leg up in most circles for the rest of his life. However when my son was born I chickened out and went a lot more traditional.
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We are one of the people that named their baby Liam. We both loved the name and we have a Bill, a William and a Willy in our families that we both adore, so we had to find something that bound them all together. My wife also has a grandpa that is very Scottish so we wanted something Celtic.
He won't be a unique snowflake as far as names go. That wasn't our concern ... in fact the hardest part has been convincing my friends that my love of Oasis wasn't the backbone of the decision.
To anybody naming their baby, I recommend not telling people. As this thread shows people are baby name snobs. If the name reminds somebody of a person they used to know or if it's a name they just don't like many will be very upfront and annoying about it.
nothing wrong with Liam. Good name. It's all the stupid made up add "Y" names that piss me off.
I tell ya, it sure will be nice to have children with unique names for my similarly named children to play with. At least little "Dreamcrusher" and "House-Ruiner" won't be lonely.
Could be. The only person I knew with that name was straight from Ireland, but he once told me that his family history from way back was of Scottish decent.
EDIT: The interweb seems to overwhelmingly think that it is the Irish version of the name William.
Yup, thats how I got the name. The old man is William and we are Irish. Good times.
I'm actually scared to tell people the names my wife and are thinking for our kid. I passed one of the names we had for a girl by some girls at work and it got tore apart.
My wife wants to name our kid (if it's a boy) Felix. One, all I think of is Felix Potvin. Two, I think a Felix isn't born an ass kicker.
I'm having a kid in July and coming up with a name is harder than I ever expected.
We had a heck of a time with middle names for our 5th child!
We gave all our kids two middle names, one for each side of the family, but once we got to this point my wife found that she didn't have any of her relatives left that she actually liked! She had always wanted to give one of our children the middle name Anfield, named after the soccer ground where Liverpool play, and she finally got her way with this one.
All of the main names we gave the kids are very traditional and I'm sure they'll thank us later in life for that.
We had our daughter's name chosen right away, it's a combination of family names that we wanted to honor. I told some co-workers the name combination we were choosing, 1 month before my daughter was due one of the V.P.'s had a daughter and used the same first and middle name!
I have never seen my wife more pissed, I don't think that lady will ever be safe from her wrath...
That's a pr*ck move if he did it on purpose (likely), but I often wonder if you aren't going to hang out with the family does it really matter? I had friends who got upset that friends of theirs also named their daughter Olivia. It was the most popular name of the year, but they assumed it was because of them and it really bothered them. They hardly ever see each other ... seemed strange to me. Not saying you don't have a right to be mad, I just don't totally get it. Then again I named my kid Liam so originality is clearly not at the top of my list of importance.
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What he means is to not tell people what name you've chosen for your baby before the baby is born. People are too quick to give their opinions and shoot down ideas, but once the baby is born and named, they back off.
We went through this last year when our son (William) was born.
Exactly. My sister-in-law has (what I consider to be) odd baby name preferences. She listed off 5 names she loves and 5 she hated and I thought she was screwing with me. Now there's nothing wrong with that, except that she's very vocal and judgmental about them. She talked a coworker out of naming her baby "Annabelle" because it's "gross". I kinda thought it was a cute name. Regardless of your association or opinion of a baby name my position is to just shut up and mind my own business.
Our kids middle name is a little unique, but it's the middle name of my grandfather who I was very close with. If somebody told me they didn't like it I'd have a hard time not taking a swing at their crotch.
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I'm actually scared to tell people the names my wife and are thinking for our kid. I passed one of the names we had for a girl by some girls at work and it got tore apart.
My wife wants to name our kid (if it's a boy) Felix. One, all I think of is Felix Potvin. Two, I think a Felix isn't born an ass kicker.
That's funny, we named ours "Felix the Fetus" because we needed something to name it so we'd stop calling it ... well ... "it" all the time.
Felix is excellent. Being Russian and a historian in my former life, I immediately think of "Iron Felix", otherwise known as Felix Dzerzhinskiy, the founder of Cheka/NKVD/KGB. If that's not a kick-ass association, I don't know what is.
We have a shortlist of names for our baby bay that is coming in June. We are not going to decide until we see him though.
Middle names are set. Edwin (which is a combination of our dads names) and Thor (my Great-grandfathers name).
I was pushing for Thor as the first name, but my wife was against it. He could always take the middle name as his first when he gets older (as I ever so subtely push him towards it).
Felix is excellent. Being Russian and a historian in my former life, I immediately think of "Iron Felix", otherwise known as Felix Dzerzhinskiy, the founder of Cheka/NKVD/KGB. If that's not a kick-ass association, I don't know what is.
Well if you put it that way I can't help but agree.
What are people's thoughts on giving a son the same name as the father? My wife is totally against it but I wouldn't mind.
My family seems to do that a lot but in slightly different forms. Right now, we have Stjepan, Stiv, and Stefan (males), and Stefica and Stefi (females). I feel like I should continue the tradition
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My family seems to do that a lot but in slightly different forms. Right now, we have Stjepan, Stiv, and Stefan (males), and Stefica and Stefi (females). I feel like I should continue the tradition
What about Stefanurkel?
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