whats in a name?

[LizzieW]

When my daughter was expecting her second child, I suggested Amy if it was a girl.  It was and she called her Amy Elizabeth.  I like to think I am responsible for both those names. 

Lizzie

[rancegal]

   When daughter was expecting her youngest (a boy) her firstborn daughter, then aged 3 said 'He's called Celery'. Of course from then on we referrred to him as 'Celery', to the extent that I was afraid the poor child would be stuck with it as a nickname!
                Luckily that didn't happen, but when I was pregnant for the first time, in the days before routine scans told us the baby's sex, we christened 'it' Baby Grumpling after a newspaper cartoon (Daily Mail? Express?) and we did actually call him 'Grum' as a pet name until he was in his teens.

[marcie dean]

I have a daughter with the name Marcie... (as a by the way)

xin

xin, its a pseudonym  one time I was going to write books of poetry.  Haven't done any for years.  Became hooked on genealogy and horticulture no time for anything else these days.  I hope your daughter is happy and healthy and that time does not do her any injustices.  I wish you both well xx
marcie

[Finley 1]

Bless you  my husband chose her name  he is a 'Snoopy' fan  or was 30yrs ago..He wanted it as her first name, however it is her middle name... she is wonderful and now a mom of 3...I gave her the first name of Liana  --- so if she reads this she will know she is wonderful  (one of 4 wonderful daughters)..

I chose Liana because ... when it came to her time to arrive in the world -- she had tried 3 times previously much too early  and eventually was 7 weeks early...

Liana meaning 'one who clings'  (its actually the Vine that Tarzan swings around the jungle on!?!?) ---
I wish you luck with your Poetry  and that 2 hours a day you need to get back to it.
 
Xin

[Kevinshouse]

Just seen an article in the Daily Mail about children's names 2010 apparently Bean is now a common first name - the poor child with that name what are parents thinking about!
Regards Susan

[Finley 1]

I can hear the jokes on that one already... why dont people think it through....  before naming a child.


Xin

[alyson123]

When I named my 4 boys back in the late 80s /early 90's the only thing that
influenced my choice was not having the same as every body else!!
Consequently none of their names appeared in the top ten of boys names, and all
my family were frowning at some of my choices. Today however, all the names I chose
ARE in the top ten of 2010 ....... must have been a bit of a trailblazer??
More interestingly, I had no idea about my ancestry at the time they were named, but
I inadvertedly duplicated ancesters names from only 3-4 generations back, except for one
of my boys  whom I named Oliver (my Oli!) ..... his name does not feature at all in my tree,
but everyone used to comment his name really suited him.

[Finley 1]

These quirky relationship namings are or can be scary.... When I had my eldest daughter... I had no HONEST inkling of dead rellies...  I considered  Phillipa... but that didnt go with the surname... so I chose Helen   it was a little different at that time.

I come around to now almost 50 yrs later and am doing this dead rellie searching... and find that my Grt. Grt. was named Phillipa... nobody knew that one... the other side a grt. grt Nan has my name and her daughter is named Helen..... nobody knew that either.... o m goooooodness.

xin

[LizzieW]

I have 4 sons.  Not one of their names is in the top 10, although one,  Robert, might have been at some time.  I named them in the 1960s/70s and they weren't in common useage then and it seems they aren't in common usage now either, nor have I found any ancestors with those names, apart from my 14 x g.grandfather who was a Robert, born about 1400.

Lizzie