whats in a name?

[jubee]

I have often heard that a lot of girls were called Shirley in the 1930's after the child actress Shirley Temple. I do in fact have an Aunt called Shirley born in 1939. How much of this is a misnomer? Or are there indeed lots of "shirley"'s born in the 1930's. 

[GailS]

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

  I have a Liana (thats the way it was spelt in the baby book) too, I had never heard the name, it came about as like your daughter mine tried coming early (twice, and then ended up being 16 days late!) anyway my best friend and I were looking through the baby name book and came across Leandra, and modified it and came up with Leanah 

[Finley 1]

SNAP

xin

[Kevinshouse]

This thread is so interesting it is lovely to hear other peoples ideas and choices of names for their children. When my daughter was at university one of the boys sharing her flat was called Ben, he was a nice boy, and I once asked my daughter if she could be intrested in him in a romantic way, "oh no" she said "hes got a dogs name I couldn't go out with him" her grandparents little Jack Russell was called Ben so she thought of it as a dogs name, I think the name Ben is lovely (and by the way so was the little dog)
Regards Susan

[alllegs]

I'll really struggle to think of names for my kids if and when I have any, I'm a teacher so I come across many names, all of which become tainted by the characters of the children I've taught.  Some names I really liked I've gone off because I've taught children with that name who have been horrors and that name then reminds me of that particular child, however, there are other names which I wasn't keen on but have taught delightful children with that name and that has changed my mind on the name! 

I know what your daughter means about dogs names Kevin, I've had loads of dogs/horses/guinea pigs etc and could never name a child after one of them! So that's no Holly, Lily, Rosie, Zak, Connie, Jack, Ronnie, Coral, Jay, Millie, Hamish, Angus, Mikey, Alice, Phoebe, Lottie, Billy, George, Debs, Oscar, Kim, Dylan, Fred or Trevor.... I'm sure there's more too!

Legs
xxxx

[Kevinshouse]

Some of those names you have chosen for your animals are lovely legs - but like you say you are going to find it very hard choosing childrens names as you have probably used all your favourite names on your pets 
Kind regards Susan

[Deb D]

My husband and I argued for almost nine months over a girl's name, for our first child.  Had no problem picking a boy's name, but ...

I went into labour, and we still didn't have a name picked out for a girl.  So, on the way to the hospital, I dragged out a book (which, foolishly, I'd thought I might have time to read in the hospital! LOL!), and we agreed to use the first girl's name we came across on a randomly-opened page ...

The book was Frank Herbert's "Dune".  Our eldest daughter is Alia.

[SalmonBlue]

Called our daughter Bethany Isabella
the wife and i argued over the spelling of Isabella (what i wanted) and Isobella (the wifes choice) since have started the family tree and have come across 4 Isabella's and not 1 Isobella so its a family choice! but our son is called Louie Ethan Lee so that one is a break form the Williams, Thomas's and Ronalds and yep he suits his name a right little Monkey!!

[Kevinshouse]

Louie is a lovely name and if like you say it suits him you made a very good choice (my mum used to say the apple never falls too far from the tree)
Regards Susan