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| Tue, 04-26-2005 - 2:49pm |
Hi everyone! I'm hoping you all can help me as I'm in the middle of a naming dilemna.
My name is Jennifer and DH is Frank. (yes, this is important, LOL!) We are having our 4th baby and we just are having the hardest time coming up wth any names. #3 was also really hard to name and we decided on a name just weeks before she was born. (Yes, I like to plan in advance more than that.) We find out what this one is in another 3-4 weeks but I would bet money on it being a girl. So we are focusing on girls names.
Let me give some background. With DD#1 (oldest) I really liked the name Katelyn. Of course, this was at the height of that phase and since I'm a Jennifer, I wasn't going there. So we picked Hailey and lo and behold, within 2 years the "new" name Hailey blasted through the charts. We did beat the trend, but barely.
DS came next. Once again, wanted a name that wasn't akin to Jennifer and picked Ethan. LOL! One year before it barfed its way to the top of the name chart for boys. Barely beat that curve AGAIN.
So with DD#2 (our third baby) we decided that instead of trying to pick something "unique" we would pick something we liked that at least wasn't in the top 10. Picked Olivia. Same year that it hit what, #3 on the girls' chart?
So our batting average is less than stellar. I am eagerly waiting for the SSI to be updated here in the next couple of weeks so I know what names to avoid, LOL!
Right now we are thinking about:
Ava (I really worry about this one. It went from the 80s in 2002, to the 40s in 2003)
Cecily (probably the most likely so far)
Hannelore (Germanic)
Jocelyn (Dh isn't fond of it)
Natalia (Dh speaks Russian and lived there for awhile)
But I'm not real happy with any of them right now. I really like German or Hebrew names (just a trend I've noticed). I want something classy, beautiful, and not too far out there. Any ideas of names or where to look would be appreciated.


Look no more.
Michelle
Graham (May 1999),
Somehow, I never minded growing up being Michelle F. To be honest, I was always grateful that I had a "real" name instead of a "strange" one. My parents swear that when they named me (1958) there were no other Michelles. I believe them, because when I named my daugher Abigail I knew of no other Abigails.
I actually have a friend who had always dreamed of a daughter named Megan. The day before her scheduled c-section she was in the childrens' clothing department of a store and heard three different mothers call their daughters "Megan." My friend paniced and ran home to get the baby name book. She had to use the initial M and searched the book until she found an M name she liked and had never heard before. SHe and her husband settled on, are you ready for this - Madison. Believe it or not, there daughter is now one of many Maddies (Madisons, Madilyns, Madelines, etc) but had NEVER been in a class with a Megan.
But back to you . . . I absolutely love Cecily. It's classic and beautiful.
Yes, we would be pronouncing it Sess-i-lee. Dh really likes it and campaigned pretty hard with DD#2. I've found it's grown more on me this time and am seriously considering it. I'm also checking things out as much as I can, in case there is a "perfect" name out there I stumble across.
And even though I have three common names for my kids, I LOVE their names still. And I really like Lily too. :)
Introducing baby #4.......
I don't know that I would have changed the name the day before my c-section, LOL! And Madison had been on the list with #1 but was taken off quickly after that. That is too funny of a story!
I've always been one of MANY Jennifers. We all had numbers or initials or someway to differentiate us and it got to be a drag. But then again, I was named in the height of the Jennifer craze.....
I'm very glad to hear of people liking Cecily. Having talked it over before, I know some family isn't crazy about it. But that's okay, they aren't the ones who are pregnant, LOL!
Introducing baby #4.......
Cecily is BEAUTIFUL. I can commisserate on missing the popularity of a child's name -- I had NO IDEA how popular Will was in 2001 until they were suddenly EVERYWHERE! I mean, seriously, there are 11 kids in my son's preschool class and he is Will E. (Ha ha, though, because I wanted to name him Ethan, which wouldn't have been much better in the "call it out in Target and three kids turn around" department...as you know...)
Okay, so Cecily is GORGEOUS, but I do have to say that you described your naming style much like mine, so others we considered for DD (e.d.d. 8-29) that seem to fit your parameters:
Gwendolyn
Adelaide
Anastasia
Astrid (I like this, DH HATES it, but I had to throw it in)
Beatrice/Beatrix
Camilla
Cecily/Cecilia (knew a gorgeous Celia growing up)
Evangeline
Georgia
Lila
Natalie
Pearl
Penelope
Philippa (nn Pippa)
Phoebe
Stella
Violet
Vivian
...We're really going on Margaret (nn Molly, Daisy, Greta, or Maggie...gives us lots of room for fitting her personality!) and Scarlett (he was skeptical at first, but I maintain it is not so outlandish as it might have been ten years ago and that no one will ever forget a Scarlett!)
Anyway, let us know what you decide! Good luck!
I really like Jocelyn a lot. you don't hear it much. it's been around a long time, but always a here and there name, never a chart topper, and I don't think that will happen to it
I don't know any Ava's but apparently it is popular according to this board. Hannelore will probably be shortened to Hanna and there are lots of Hannah's. Natalie/Natalia is semi-popular, not overly. I prefer Natalie to Natalia
here are some names I like that are not chart-toppers, but are known names
Aubrey, Brenna, Carina, Delaney, Erica, Heidi, Hilary, Jillian, Johanna, Kelsey, Kyndle (nice alternative to more male-sounding Kendall), Larisa or Larissa, Marissa, Mallory, Natasha, Piper, Paige, Peyton (although unisex), Reegan/Raegan, Rhiannon, Rayna, Sabrina, Sienna, Samara (is Hebrew I think), Teegan/Taegan, Torri, Tasha, Tonya, Whitney.
good luck