Help with First Baby's Name
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Help with First Baby's Name
| Tue, 11-08-2005 - 2:57pm |
My husband and I are really struggling with a name for our first baby. We are mostly looking at traditional names. Our last name is a very common first name, so names like Cooper or Conner would not work. People will always mix up the first and last name! It's happened to my DH his whole life. Also, I don't want anything too popular, since I grew up as Jennifer in the 70's and 80's. We haven't found out the gender yet, but will in a couple weeks. Any help is appreciated!

HI Jennifer -
Here was a list of names that we loved when naming our daughters:
Girls:
Alexandra, Alyssa, Audra, Gabriella, Danielle, Charlotte, Elisabeth, Katherine, Catherine, Samantha, Melanie, Francesca, Noelle, Nicole, Marie, Therese, Victoria , Lauren, Erica, Amanda, Erin, Phoebe, Alexa, Michelle, Leora, Ella, Audra/Audrey, Belle, Rose, Georgia, Lynn, Dana, Isabella, Jane, Patricia, Veronica, Grace, Gwedolyn, Annelise
MN: Marie, Rose, Noelle, Nicole, Diane, Therese, Victoria, Isabel, Elisabeth, Jessica,Josephine, Kathrine, Elise,Jeanine, Kelley, Kimberly, Colette, Grace,Belle, Ashleigh, Leigh , Lynne, Kate, Suzanne,
Favorite Girl Combos:
Alexandra Marie (dd)(fav)
Samantha Rose (dd) (fav)
Gabriella Noelle (dd)(fav)
Ella Catherine
Francesca Noelle
Isabella Nicole/Therese
Dana Victoria
Ashleigh Belle
Belinda Rose
Leila Gabrielle
Veronica Nicole
Patricia Therese
Lauren Jessica
Erin Therese
Alexandra Rose
Samantha Grace
Alexa Nicole
Audra/Audrey Danielle
Georgia Lynn
Erica Rose
Phoebe Michelle
Melanie Jane/Grace
Noelle Annelise
Michelle Diane
Victoria Kelley
Gwendolyn Rose
Gwendolyn Leigh
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Girls:
Laurel
Juliet
Julia
Andrea
Christina
Boys:
Grant
Brock
Craig
Kevin
William
Kent
Niel
Good Luck!
What about Emmaline or Annalise for girls? I really love both of those names and they have great nn's- Emma/Emmy and Anna/Annie/Liesel. I also like Catherine (Cate) and Abigail (Abby). My grandmother's mn is Adeline, which I love as well.
As for boys, Sam is my very favourite. William and Thomas are really growing on me.
COMBOS:
#1) Emmaline Adeline
#2) Annalise Nicole
#3) Catherine Grace
#1) Samuel James
#2) William Alexander
#3) Thomas Gage
As a mom of two older kids 17yrs and 8yrs I say go with simple elegant names. Nothing trendy and please stay away from all those trendy ways of spelling names. I remember when I use to own a children's party business I could not believe how many different ways you could spell Britney for example. After that I always knew I wanted names that were easy to pronounce and easy to spell otherwise the child will be forever correcting the person trying to pronounce their name. Parents might like trendy names and think the spelling is cute, but the poor child is forever stuck with it. My 17yr old daughter's name is Lauren. We picked that just before it got trendy in the late 80s. My 8yr old son is Samuel, but we call him Sam. It's a nice strong name and no chance of mispronouncing either of my kids names.
Good luck.
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