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| Sun, 05-13-2007 - 1:35pm |
I've been stalking this forum for a while because I am very interested in names. I had a miscarriage in Jan and since then the thought of names has been both a coping thing and a hopeful thing for a future pregnancy. My husband and I picked out Darby for our child (a name I had clung to since I was little), and I'm glad that our child has such a meaningful name, but in the meantime I don't have that I've-had-my-child's-name-picked-out-since-I-was-14 thing going on. We won't be knowing the child's gender so I'm trying to think of good androgynous names (like Darby) that are also Irish. We like Nolan (my grandmother's maiden name), but the problem is that the Middle name will be my last name (I had my last name changed to my middle name when I got married and I want all my children to carry this O'D-name for the Irish meaning), and then of course my husband's last name (not Irish). Do you think that having 3 last names as a name would be odd? The other non-gendered names that I like are Finley and Rowen/Roan (but my husband has only agreed to Nolan). Any ideas anyone?

I love this site, and I thought you might be interested in it, too:
http://www.babynamesofireland.com/index.html
I hope this helps!
Nolan is a wonderful name, and I love the family connection for you. ;)
I wouldn't worry about the three-last-names feel since most Irish lns started out as fns, not vice versa, and probably 99% of people would immediately classify Nolan as a given name rather than surname (not that it can't be/isn't BOTH, but just to say that it doesn't fall into the surnames trend like McCormack, Fitzpatrick or O'Dell would, KWIM?). That said, Nolan is easily recognized as a masculine given name (with a lesser-used feminine form -- Nolana/Nolanna), not androgynous or non-gendered, as you mentioned wanting. I have no problem with it being used for girls, but you seem to specifically want actual unisex names so thought that worth pointing out.
Finley and Rowan (this spelling) are both great. ;)
Some others you might like:
HTH
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I think it depends a little bit on what the surnames are.