What might you name your children?

[Lemontree]

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Imagine, if you call your daughter Catherine, she can adapt it when she grows up, whether she decides to be a lawyer or a lap-dancer!  Kate, Kitty, Kathy, Kath, Kat, or the full Catherine.

Oh this did make me smile, my mum and my eldest daughter picked my second daughter's name - Katie, I asked my mum is it to be Catherine or just Katie and it was to be Katie. My mum died seven weeks before my daughter was born and when I registered her birth I gave her my mothers first name Ivy as her last middle name. Ironicly my mother and her cousins were all named with the initials IJK and my daughter's are KJI.

My grandmother liked the name Ivy as it was short and couldn't be shortened - or so she thought, my cousins and my dad all called her aunty I and I.

lemons

[Minn]

I have a distant cousin in my tree who was born after his father died & so was named Postumous! I thought at first it was a temporary description till they thought of a name for him, but he lived to a good age & even his will is in the name of Postumous LONG. 

Minn

[Paul E]

I've just come across a new line in my family (courtesy of the 1851!), so I have no doubt that any future male child will have to be christened Wilson Tiffin Etherington - it has such a ring about it, while still managing to be faintly ludicrous.

Paul

[hilbury]

Oh, my to have such wonderful names to use just makes me 

  

[linmey]

I was going mad when looking at my family tree and seeing the same old names coming up over and over again and I narrowed it down to about 10. "Did these people have no imagination" I moaned to my son. He then pointed out that 3 of those 10 names I had given to him and his brother. So now who has no imagination!!!
         Cheers  Linmey.

[kerryb]

If I did have children (bit late now at 40!) I would like to have called a son, Sylvan.  I found this name popped up a few times in my Harmer line in Sussex and I rather like it!!!

In the same line I found a girl called Augusta and I quite like that, although some might say a little pretentious!

Kerry

[linmey]

Hi again Kerry,
                           I like both those names and they make a nice change from the Johns, Williams, Mary Annes etc. Last night I found an Eleanor Blossom in the family tree. Glad that one didnt come down the family line.
    I had my daughter at 41 by the way so 40 is not too old. Bit tiring though!!!!
             Regards  Linmey.

[SooCatt]

I was going mad when looking at my family tree and seeing the same old names coming up over and over again

In one particular branch of my family I have a Thomas Crampton whose father was also Thomas and he married a Margaret Crampton (yes that was her maiden name too) whose father was also Thomas and who had a brother Thomas. Oh yes and they called one of their son's Thomas too

Simply too many Thomases

Susan

[BlackPearl]

My eldest is Arron Damian - Arron because it was the only name we could agree on and Damian as my other half is adopted and his birth name was Damian.
Then we had a daughter and decided the name was going to Emily Mia Jade ( I couldn't chose between Mia and Jade so had both) but after several weeks of Arron trying his best to say Emily but it coming out clearly more like Emma, the name stuck and we called her Emma (Arron was only 21 months old when she was born after all!)
Next we had Connor Liam Thomas - I have Irish ancestors and we both wanted a celtic name so hence Connor, liam is Arron's best friend and Thomas was my beloved grampy who died in 1990 when I was just 12 years old.
Lastly we have Oliver Philip Joseph Jones - Oliver is just such a cute name we couldn't pick another, Philip after his daddy, Joseph after me (well we couldn't call him Joanne plus Joseph is my best friends nickname for me!) and Jones as this is my mum's maiden name, the surname of my beloved grampy that I mentioned above.  We picked 3 middle names for Oliver as he is definately our last baby and we wanted a child to be named after us (to have another baby could kill me - or it very well might kill my other half!!!  Just to make sure at my suggestion he had a vasectomy a few weeks ago lmao!)

Joanne