please help,I am desperate, no time left

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Registered: 03-26-2006
please help,I am desperate, no time left
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Sat, 04-01-2006 - 11:59pm
Hello Everyone,
I am desperate for help! I have a three and a half week old son that is still nameless, shame on me! I am having a crisis over name choices. Before he was born, we had a ton of girls names choices but almost no boys, since I loved the name Finn so much, I knew I would choose it. Ever since I was little I thought it sounded so heroic... and unique. My parents are both Irish and they used to tell me stories about Finn Maccuil, so it had resonance. Wel... I was blissfully unaware that Julia Roberts had named her son Phinneus and was going to shorten it to "Finn" So maybe this shouldn't affect my choice, but it does, I am terrified that it is going to become popluar. The thing is I know myself and if there's two ( or gasp, even one) Finn or Finns in his class I will be disturbed! In otherwords, I DON'T want a trendy name. Compunding the problem is the fact that I cannot find any name charts for 2005 ANYWHERE on the web! Does anyone know how I can find these up to date figures? 2004 does me no good in making a choice. If I could find out for SURE if Finn was wildly poular in 2005 I would just abandon it. Esp. when Julia only had her son in 2004...I don't know what to do, I feel sort of petty being hung up on originality but that's the way I am. Should I resort to a backup? Though its rather bizarre that it sounds alike, I love the name "Flynn" as well. Has anyone heard of lots of new little Finns being born in their neighbourhoods? Be honest with me, I can take it. I need help I seriously don't know what to do, I feel guilty not having given my little sweetheart a name, I was so sure he would be Finn .. ( after I realized he wasn't going to be a girl, which is what I thoughtafter someone I met who claoimed to be psychic predicted it!!) Help is MIGHTILY appreciated, thank you...not much time left, must register... Circe

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Registered: 10-13-2003
Mon, 04-03-2006 - 12:52pm

Finn is adorable. Here's another vote for you to use it. I am a nurse who works with new moms and babies and if it helps calm your jitters, I have not heard a single Finn or Flynn among them in the past 3.5 years of working there. And I ask all my moms their baby's name because I'm a name nut!
Use it. I'm sure your baby will be special to you and those you love even if there is another Finn in a 300 mile radius somewhere. :)

Noemi

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Registered: 03-17-2006
Mon, 04-03-2006 - 1:40pm
Dear circe,

I'm pregnant for the first time and somehow have managed to stick with the name I liked from the beginning because its only my choice and I feel good about it. Also, I know people with the same name as the one I like, but you can't let that discourage you fom what you want to name your child, your child might have the same name but carries their own personality. I have never heard of your choice names, so your safe around my area.

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