What might you name your children?

[ysabeau]

Hi,

Eldest daughter is Heather Flora Margaret and youngest daughter is Fiona Flora Elizabeth Anne.

Flora is after both paternal mother and maternal grandmother.

It's probably a good thing we didn't have a boy - Callum is the only name we could agree on.

Ysabeau

[the happy granny]

We have seven children and thirteen grandchildren.All the children have traditional names.......one after my mum,an aunt etc.The only name that was unusual at the time was Nancy and she was named because for our first date we went to see Oliver!

Our grandchildren have beautiful names too after family members etc..........the only unusual one is Monty.........but he is so wonderful and looks like his name.

I think even if you choose names when you are expecting babies you quite often change your mind after their birth.
We chose Nancy for our second daughter but she didn't look like a Nancy.......she looked like a Kate..............so she was called Catherine............a name we hadn't contemplated but it turns out to be in the family anyway!!

My daughter has a friend who wants to call her daughter Remee...............reminds me of the brandy!!......so I'm not too keen on that...............another younger friend of mine called her children  Blake and SammyJo..........if you weren't fans of Dynasty it will mean nothing!!!!!

Whilst looking on the 1881 census today in order to help someone else.........I found a Head of Household (female divorcee) with the name Mourning!!! perhaps her parents wanted a son!!

Sue

[jericho]

When I had my first child I hadn't thought of any girls names as I was so sure it would be a boy, so when my daughter was born 10 years to the day the my beloved Grandmother Catharine died I called her Catherine Margaret. Catherine after my grandmother,and Margaret after the eldest of my Dad's 10 sisters.
My second daughter was called Hanna-James Nivek after my Dad, James who had died a year before.But she finds that most people call her Hannah,which she hates, when she was younger she hated the name James but now doesn't mind because its different, but is usually just called Hanna.
My third daughter was called Sinead Danielle,I loved the Irish name and it made me feel closer to my Irish heritage.
And Danielle because her sister liked that name best.

[AnneMc]

I have two children Christine Lillian and Robert Cameron, my husband picked out the names when I was expecting Christine. On sunny summer day my mum and I were sitting outside with the baby book of names and reading off very different names. At that point we had not come up with any names we agreed on. After my parents left I stayed outside and my husband disappeared for a while when he came back he said look at the beginning of the girls names and look at the beginning of the boys names I have picked names out.  The interesting think is that I had mentioned Christine before and my husband said no. When we were expecting again we kept the name Robert Cameron and decided on Marie Louise if it was a girl.  I agreed to Robert as long as he was not called Bob or Bobbie!  So it was Robert it was not till he was about 16 that he started being called Rob.  Christine is still called Christine her name did not get shortened. In fact once when she was about  5 or 6 she was at the dr.'s and we saw a locum and the first thing he said when he came in the room was how are you Chrissy???  Christine looked at him and said my name is Christine.

If I had another daughter I would have like to name her Anglea Kathleen just like those two names.


Anne
Canada

[whoosh]

Hi,

Child number 1-Bromley Victoria Molly:
Bromley:- after my favourite non league Soccer team.  (Wanted Chelsea but my wifes ex husband has a step daughter named Chelsea)
Victoria:- for Queen Victoria
Molly:- a derivitive of Mary (my wife's name and also the mother of Jesus)
Child number 2- Declan Montgomery Joseph:
Declan:- Irish Saint
Montgomery:- the town in the USA where on 1st Dec 1955 Mrs Rosie Parks was arrested for not offering her seat to a white person
Joseph:- family name and father of Jesus
Child number 3- Uriah Malachy Ainsley
Uriah:-hebrew name meaning God is my light
Malachy:-hebrew name meaning messenger
Ainsley:-a black chef was on TV cooking when we were trying to pick a third name for Uriah and because he was a very funny man and entertaining we chose his name

Cheers,
Darren Flowers
Wyrallah NSW
Australia

[Jaycon]

Eldest son STEVEN..next son STUART..daughter HEATHER for no other reason than liked the names. All born years before I started doing family tree.

[alllegs]

If and when I ever have kids I'd call a girl Isabella Amy after 2 gr gr gr aunts who were teachers (I'm at uni doing my teacher training!) and for a boy, I'm not sure about a first name but middle names would be George and Bradley.  George is a 'passed down' name on my dads side but came a halt when my mum and dad had 2 girls and my aunt had no kids and Bradley because that is my surname and obviously the line will be stopped now as no son's were born.  I'd also like to use Featherstone as a middle name as I had a great x4 granddad called Featherstone, he was supposedly illigitimate until I found his birt cert with Featherstone as his father.  Quite unusual I think.
I do like the more traditional names such as James, Thomas, Charlotte, Lucy.

I don't understand these 'modern' names either, I have friends with a son called Chilli and have come across Ice-Maiden, Fury and Skylark on my teaching practice.  What were their parents taking?!

[ozwendy]

I heard some unusual names recently, at least unusual to me, twin girls named Diaz and Brinnly(I've spelt it pheonetically) anf they have an older sister named Remeny.

I haven't found any unusual names in the family tree yet, it seems people are much more inventive these days. there are so many Georges and Williams on all branches that I often get confused, I get ecstatic when I find a Charles or Samuel!

Wendy

[ysabeau]

Hi,

I came across a Samuel recently and all it meant was that I got nowhere faster

Ysabeau