What might you name your children?

[ryan]

Hi!

I'm curious to know: what might you name your children, or what have you already named your children?

Do naming patterns or traditions effect your decisions? Which names are your favourites, or which names are you not so keen on?

Do tell 

[Sasha]

I wanted to name my daughter Kitty after my 3xGt-Grandmother who I'm quite fond of, but my husband hated the name.

Instead I gave her Elizabeth as a middle name as this is the middle name of both myself and my mother so I thought that was a tradition I could carry on.

Sasha.

[Adi1962]

My family used to go mad with names, both my mother and father have 4 middle names, all taken from uncles/aunts, so I ended up with no middlenames as they found it a pain having to write them on forms etc.

We gave our son a middle name after my wifes father, as he obviously has my fathers surname. It was not until sometime later we realised his initial are MDF (Morgan David).

Strangely there is no welsh blood in the family (excpet a slightly undercook lamb I ate last Sunday) 

Adrian

[nora T]

hello ryan,  iam lucky enough to have 6 grown up children, and 8 g, children,my first 5 children, have nice ordanary names, but the last one, we went a bit mad and called him heathcliffe, because i love the name ,and the character.he has grown up {in looks] just like his name, very dark and very hansome, he called his own son heathcliffe,and they have both found their name an advantage, in his teens he had a bit of fun when girls asked his name, the usual answer to heathcliffe was, yes, and i,m cathy,as the kate bush song was popular at the time.but where we live heathcliffe is now accepted as normal, with the two of them growing up here. regards nora T

[Kazza]

Nora,

What a lovely story,  and how great that your son loves his unusual name enough to start a family tradition.   

 

[D ap D]

Until my parents generation it wasn't the done thing to give your children Welsh names, so my parents and all their brothers, sisters, cousins, etc. have English names. When it was their turn, Welsh names were just coming back into vogue, hence my brother, my cousins and I all have Welsh names.

However, I moved to Germany about 10 years ago, met and married a German, and last year we had our addition to the family tree. We wanted 2 forenames, but names which both sets of grandparents could pronounce properly, and names which couldn't be shortened. I wanted Welsh names, my wife wasn't too bothered. Another point we had to consider is the dialect in the part of Germany we live in, where the "sp" or "st" sound (e.g. Christopher) is pronounced "schp" or "scht" (giving "Chrischtopher".

We agreed that I would write a list of all the names I liked and my wife chose the ones from the list. It worked well, both sets of gps like the names, can pronounce them and she is the first in the family tree with that name.

To rekindle the old Welsh patronymic tradition, we have also give her the "ap" bit with my forename. (not strictly correct, it should be fch, but that died out of its own accord centuries ago).

If the next one is a boy, we already have the names handy, but are keeping them to ourselves to stop our parents interfering.

D ap D

[nora T]

thanks kazza, glad you liked my tale , by the way , they get  called big heath ,and little heath, even though little heathcliffe is 17 and not so little, any more. regards nora T

[ryan]

Hey guys.
Thank you so much for your replies. All of you have wonderful stories which were exactly the kinds of things which I wanted to hear!

I'm not really sure what I would ideally want to name my children when the day comes, and I'm glad to hear how other people have managed to figure out which names they liked the best.

Hmmm, a daughter. This one I know for sure: I would name a daughter Lily for my maternal Grandmother, Lily Fereday. She's such a wonderful woman who's had a marvellous impact on my life, and I would hope by giving my own child this lovely name that she would inherit some of my Gran's qualities of kindness, compassion and good nature.

I like the names Evan & Luke for boys. Seeing as how my Nan is German it may be interesting to use a German name, like Heidi??

Thanks again for your replies.

[peterbennett]

Hi All
       Nothing so romantic in our family I'am afraid, just a lot of Williams, Ethels,Freds,Lena,Mary,Hellen's etc.
       My parents were no more imaginative, Peter, Paul, Susan and John no middle names.
      In fact it wasn't until I went to school and the teacher marked the register that I realised my name was Peter, up till then I was thick'un then there was thingy then watsername and whatjacallit.
      I used to ask my dad why he bothered to have us baptised as that was the last time they ever used our proper names, he said they had to give us names it looked better when filling in forms and such.
    So when our two were born we thought we'd push the boat out a bit and give them middle names, William Frederick, and Mary Helen.

peterbennett