What might you name your children?

[Sasha]

Nora,

My Dad and Grandad were both called Sydney, and your story reminded me that I was told they were known as 'Big Syd' and 'Little Syd'.  I think my Dad was Little Syd till he was in his 40's.

Sasha.

[nora T]

hello sasha, my husband, and our eldest son are both called malcolm, but when my son was younger he was very slim,  and soon got landed with the nickname SLIM , he is now about 14 stone. and a lot older , but is still called slim by everbody,  so that solved the big malc and little malc  problem . regards nora   T                         

[MrsLizzy]

I love names and tend to think of their meanings as well.  If I had had children, my son would have been called James Winchester Bigland (the Winchester because it was my great great grandfather's middle name and I think it was a shame it didn't become a family tradition) and my daughter would have been called Isobel Catherine Jane.  My close friend Isobel would have been her godmother, Catherine after her grandmother and Irish great-great grandmother, Jane because I like simple, traditional, elegant names.

What names do I not like?  Faddy or "fashionable" names like "Ryan" "Kylie" "Brad" - names that are instantly identifiable with a celebrity.  After all, my mother in law is named after Shirley Temple.

As I have no children, I have to content myself with naming my cats and elbowing in on my mother's naming of her dogs!  But never with human names, other than my two late tomcats, named Gorby and Boris after Mikael Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.

[Pollynation]

my eldest son is named after his dad and grandad(dennis),( i then remarried) my second son is named after his grandad( robert david), my third son is named after uncles (benjamin james) and with my twin daughters we just went through the baby names book until we found names we both liked.
(stephanie louise and kathryn annie). but annie was my grandmother's name.

Pauline

[MrsLizzy]

Does anyone else ever wonder what on earth their ancestors were thinking when they named their babies?  I mean, Herbert Roland, who would do that to a tiny baby?  And why name what turns out to be your only little girl - Nellie?  It's a horse's name!

[Black Sheep]

My Grandmother was called Sarah Ann and was called "Sarann" a mixture of her first names.

As a child as was often confused because if she was not called Sarann she was called Sally...........how can this be a short version of Sarah I thought there are still the same number of letters???

I would like to call one of my children Florence after many generations of my family and also a welsh name Geriant for a boy after the Welsh side.


Sarah

P.S I love the name Heathcliffe !

[Darcy]

Hi Everyone
it could be worse MrsLizzy - yesterday I found a -

 Cubitt Sparkall Shepherd -how about that?
 
Thomas and Andrew are the 'handed down' names in our family.

I am Aaron Thomas and my brother Jason Andrew.

My son'e middle name is Thomas but we went a bit mad with his first name which is Kyer.

I like Bible names myself.

Aaron

[ryan]

I too had a Saranne, my GG Aunt. On that note, MrsLizzy, my Great Grandfather was named Cecil Leonard Hill, two awful names when put together!

[MrsLizzy]

Now Geraint is sexy!      Can't say I would be struck to hear that my niece was to be called Florence though - not that I was struck to hear she was going to be Charlotte!

My Dad always says he wanted to call me Myfanwy Morag but mum wouldn't let him.