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What should we name the baby?
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Sally, la reina
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Jan 26, 2010 12:18PM
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Perhaps I'll look into German names, as that is what Noltemeyer is. I asked Sweeter's Dad and he printed out an obituary from when one of his aunts passed this year, and it had all sorts of great family names in it.
Oh, I forgot some very important names:Boys:
Tigran [tigrʌn:]
Aram [ʌrʌm:]
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Sally wrote: "I'm thinking Heideline Anthonna Noltemeyer "!!!
Score! I think we have a weiner!!! :D
I want to name either a child or a horse or a dog Django, like the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_R...
Sally wrote: "I'm thinking Heideline Anthonna Noltemeyer "Holy hell. That's a pretty cool name. What does Sweeter think?
My family has some old names that I would love to use if I ever have kids.My grandmother is Tommie Oleta.
One of my grandfathers was Covey, and he had a sister named Rixsy.
One of my friends named his boy Keegan, which I like.
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Speaking of old-timey names, my mother's mother's name was Ruby Avis Smith. Her mother's name was Thalia Keel. Thalia's mother was Narcissus Bennett.My father's paternal grandmother was Arminta Octovene Burrow.
Old-timey names.
Another ancestor's daughter was named (for real) Hellen Ellen Mary Dianah Fain. Hellen Ellen Mary Dianah married Marcus LaFayette Harper. They had a daughter named Atlanta Georgia Harper.
Wiki says:Thalia was a rustic goddess, one of the three Graces, and the Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry. In this context, her name means "flourishing," because the praises in her songs flourish through time. Thalia was the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the eighth-born of the nine Muses. In art, Thalia was portrayed holding a comic mask, a shepherd’s staff, or a wreath of ivy. According to pseudo-Apollodorus, she and Apollo were the parents of the Corybantes.
I have always wanted a son named Ned (like Nancy Drew's beau). Ned goes nicely with Noltemeyer.
Ned is a nickname for Edward.Sally... Heidi!!! You know you like it!
My advise is be careful about traditional names with odd spellings. I read somewhere it's hard for the kids when they're trying to learn how to spell. There's a double ended sword to naming a kid. If you go with a trendy name, like Jaimie was when I was born in the late 70's, you run into the problem you had last semester. Speaking from personal experience, I think it was hard for me figuring out my own identity when there were 5 other female Jaimie/Jaime/Jamie, etc. in my class from 1st to 5th or 6th grade.
But then if you go with something unique it could signal the kid out as being different, and could result in the kid being picked on. I was a redhead as a kid and I know that different is not always good.
If I were to have kids here are my names ('cause when you're a girl, you have your names already picked.)
Girls: Juliet, Jewel, Jemma, Daphne, Briar (like Sleeping Beauty), Astrid
Boys: Tristan, Elijah, Micah, Damian, Adrien, Caleb.
Also, a co-worker just had a baby in December. A girl that they named Amalie, pronounced "Ah-mah-lee." I love that.
I've always loved the name Juliet, and if I had had a girl, I would have gone with that.One of Jake's classmates was name Tristan. Didn't go over too well, altho it's nice in theory.
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A BABY?!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations, Sally!!
Welcome back Nools, we've missed you!
NOOOOOOLZ!!!!OMG!
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I've missed you, Nools!
When I was a wee lass back in the late 60s I had 2 little friends named Eunice and Mamie.In junior high I ran into the preppy pre-debutantes with boy-names--Spencer, Sterling, Hampton, Mason--and the double-names like Ann Douglas, Ann Carter, Ann Farrar...odd that they all seem to start with "Ann", isn't it. I'm sure there were a few Mary-Somethings in there, too. Mary Branch, Mary...Ferguson? I can't remember. Good Lord it was over 20 years ago. But No. NO, NO! double names like Mary Lou or Ann Marie. Heaven forfend!
In art school I ran into all kinds of freaks and weirdos who called themselves odd things. The one I remember best is "Nina", pronounced "NYE-nah", who held her cigarettes affectedly between the third and fourtn fingers and did a lot of performance art.
Nools wrote: "(Oh, ty Jim & Heidi. <3)"You planning on sticking around some this time, Nools? :)
Sally, it doesn’t matter what you call the baby, someone is not going to like it.
We called out first child Louise. (Due to a compromise on the boy’s name, long story). After the birth, my brother in-law asked my husband what she would have been called if she had been a boy. The answer was Marcus. His response was “Marcus f…king Marcus. You have got to be kidding!#@!!”
Needless to say our second child was a boy. His name is Marcus.
We called out first child Louise. (Due to a compromise on the boy’s name, long story). After the birth, my brother in-law asked my husband what she would have been called if she had been a boy. The answer was Marcus. His response was “Marcus f…king Marcus. You have got to be kidding!#@!!”
Needless to say our second child was a boy. His name is Marcus.
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Plus, it doesn't excuse anything just to throw that out there, whether there are any mistakes or not.
And it really takes the steam out of whatever you just posted, to then say that,tacked onto the end.
When I called my best friend from the hospital to announce that we had named the baby Eleanor she said "shut up." As in: you must be joking. Of course she felt terrible. We got similar reactions from our parents.
Some names:Ambrose, Rafael, Maximilian, Lazarus, Artemas, Julius, Sylvester, Oliver, Malcolm, Dexter
Phaedra (Fae), Roxanne, Audrey, Melina, Veronica,
5-letter max names:
Felix, Brent, Ajax (Jax), Cecil, Linus
Esme, Wren, Rhea, Lana, Maeve, Celia
I haven't read the entire thread, so please excuse me if this is a duplicate, but you could always go with a Utah name.It's truly cruel, what people in this state inflict on their children.
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I don't want to rain on the parade, because I think Esme is a pretty name as well, but you do realize that Esme is the name of one of the main characters in the Twilight saga, right? Which is fine, of course.
My daughter's name is Eleanor but we call her Bella sometimes.
I always think of the Salinger story "To Esme, With Love and Squalor."
Ooh, that's a good point. You'd have to live with people asking if you were a Twilight fan pretty much forever.I was surprised at how many people, after we named our son Tristan, asked me if I had seen Legends of the Fall. I was, like, no, why the fuck do people keep asking me that? Was it a great movie or something? And then someone said that Tristan was a character. The Brad Pitt one, I believe.
It could be shortened(?) to Renesme.
Ack Ack! I take it back! I never suggested it! No more Twilights! I didn't mean it I swear!
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Everything Baby Names Book: Everything You Need to Know to Pick the Perfect Name for your Baby (other topics)From Aaron to Zoe: 15,000 Great Baby Names (other topics)
