Name Decided, thank goodness!

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Name Decided, thank goodness!
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Mon, 05-14-2007 - 12:56pm
DH and I spent hours yesterday poring over names and only agreeing on two that we remotely liked. Of all the great suggestions I got off here he liked none of them, go figure! I guess that means that we'll be ready with another first name if we have another boy in the future, but for this little beastie we've decided on Daley John. Yes, Daley would be pronounced like the word 'daily'. Hubby has a friend at work whose last name is Daley and since we are a military couple you really get desensitized to the boundaries between first and last names, so we thought we'd steal it as a first name. :p John is the middle name because DH's family is huge on reusing family names and it is his brother's and grandfather's name. I realized later that Daley has 'Dale' in it, which is my dad's middle name that no one likes. LOL at least there is a slight family connection there. I know a lot of people talked about how it aggravated them when people tried to put in vague familial references in their kids names, but I realized this afterwards and thought it was kind of cool since John was Dh's family's name. What do ya think? It had the unique yet not off the wall factor that I liked, and to DH I guess it represents a good guy that he knows.

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Mon, 05-14-2007 - 1:08pm

As someone who is "aggravated by vague familial references," I have to say...Daley to honour a Dale isn't vague at all. :) Even if you did realize you had a connection there after picking the name, it's not a bad way to honour your father. It would be irritating if you named your son something more trendy, like Aiden, and then wanted to "justify" it so people didn't think you chose it for its popularity. "We named our son Aiden because my father's mn is Dale, and if you change the 'L' to an 'I', move the 'D', and add an 'N', they're exactly the same!"

KWIM? :P

Anyway, I think it's a great name! When he gets older, if he thinks Daley is too juvenile, with the '-ee' suffix, he can just go by Dale or John. No matter what, I think it sounds very professional. I could see a Daley John being a cute little boy, and later, a successful man!




Edited 5/14/2007 1:17 pm ET by soma_holiday
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Mon, 05-14-2007 - 1:15pm
Thanks that means a lot! For me it's hard to reconcile the name Daley as being for a baby because the man we know is so humorously muscular and very masculine lol I didn't even think about the generally cutesy -ee part.

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Mon, 05-14-2007 - 2:22pm

Congratulations! I'm sure you feel very relieved to have come to a decision.

FWIW, I like Daley a lot. I don't normally like names that look like nicknames that are common names with a -y at the end (like Emmy rather than Emma or Danny rather than Daniel/Dan). But I don't see Daley like that at all. It looks very much like a surname and not at all like a nickname. However, I LOVE the fact that Dale is your father's middle name. I think using Daley John allows you to honor both sides of the family, without reusing a name exactly. And I definitely think it still honors your father -- it's only one letter difference. My partner and I are contemplating the same idea, actually. Her grandmother's maiden name is Ollis, so we are contemplating Hollis in her honor. It allows us to honor her without using a name we don't really love.




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Mon, 05-14-2007 - 2:36pm
I think that's a cool idea! I know I've heard a lot of people gripe that if you are changing the name then you aren't really honoring the person, but seriously if you don't like it in its original form it should be okay to alter it and make it work for you. It's the thought that counts :)

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Mon, 05-14-2007 - 3:33pm

Love it. ;)


It's great that you have the connection to both sides of the family (yes, Dale/Daley DEFINITELY counts ... it's actually quite obvious).


Also, not that you need any convincing, but Daley isn't unheard of as a given name at all! There's the Olympic athlete Daley Thompson, for one. And the name itself comes from the Irish word "dail" (related to parliament or a counsellor).


I've actually had it on a list of ours in the past. Great choice.

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Mon, 05-14-2007 - 3:57pm

Love it and love the connections for you.

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Mon, 05-14-2007 - 6:05pm
I think it works fine! But, don't be surprised if you start hearing Daley for girls in the near future.
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Mon, 05-14-2007 - 8:11pm

I agree with the PP- nice choice, and I think it honours your father very nicely.

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