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Baby name ideas? 👶🏻

My sister is having a baby in a few months. And of course she’s discussed certain names whether it’s a boy or a girl. I want to hear some of your suggestions, for boy or girl, whichever no matter how wild or unusual they may be 😂 Let’s hear them 📋

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ShepherdBard · 31-35, M

Bard is always good

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ShepherdBard · 31-35, M

@iamonfire696 buncha haters here 😒

Ashly · 26-30, F

@ShepherdBardSending hate from SoCal

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@ShepherdBard We just like babies more 🙃

Matt85 · 36-40, M

Maddie

Ashly · 26-30, F

@Matt85 pretty name 😊 I personally don’t hear it that often

ElwoodBlues · M

As a general rule, look at the names that were most popular in the last couple years and steer clear of them. My son was in a grade of like sixty kids with five variations of Sophie!

https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/most-popular/top-baby-names-2023
I see Sophia is still #5. Give it a rest!!

Names that are going extinct:
https://nameberry.com/list/761/extinct-baby-names
Yeah, Adolph is still unpopular! Good to know!!

Pamela is a pretty name for a girl, and rare, too! "1804th most popular girls name" according to the uniqueness analyzer.
https://datayze.com/name-uniqueness-analyzer

Verlin or Verlyn, meaning "true" is a boy's name. Short, sweet, and extremely rare!

I'm fond of Roman history, and there are some great names to mine there. Some may have come from old names of the month: Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius, (those are the masculine forms; replace 'us' with 'a' for the feminine.) No, don't name a daughter Sexta!

Some girl names from Ancient Rome: Lucia, Gaia, Marcia, Publia, Paulla, Quinta, Titia, Tiberia. Again you can swap 'a' for 'us' to get the masculine forms. Beware, Tiberius was a lousy emperor.

Cicero, Cato, and Julius were great orators. Sulla, Scipio, and Trajan were great generals. Augustus and Hadrian were great emperors (Yo, Hadrian).

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ElwoodBlues · M

@Ashly My pleasure! My wife & had the fun of picking two names a while back and I still enjoy the topic. Some of the funny suggestions that came our way: "Professor," (from a fellow grad student) "Agamemnon," (the King of Men) and "Tecumseh." In the book "Catch 22" there is a soldier named "Major Major" who is rapidly promoted to the rank of Major due to a bureaucratic slip-up!

Ashly · 26-30, F

@ElwoodBluesim glad you two had fun deciding on names ☺️

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Mmiker · 46-50, M

Donald Trump.

Ashly · 26-30, F

@Mmiker

Bexsy

Girl I always liked:
Gracie, Amalie, Amber, Emily, Mia

Boys: Derrick, Cole, Daniel, Nicholas

Ashly · 26-30, F

@Bexsy aww ☺️

Degbeme · 70-79, M

@Bexsy Not Deg? 🤔

Bexsy

@Degbeme i didn't even list my sons name. And only my daughterss first name. Even though I prefer her middle name 😆

LilPrincess · 46-50, F

I always liked Grace for a girl and Ethan for a boy but didn't use them for my own

Ashly · 26-30, F

@LilPrincess aww Grace ☺️ a quality that’s even harder to find in today society 😕
I knew a girl in HS named Harmony… there was nothing harmonious about her 😂

LilPrincess · 46-50, F

@Ashly one of my granddaughters is named Mazikeen which means invisible demon...and she is a little demon to everyone but me😂

FreeSpirit1 · F

Angela Belinda Chloe Diana Emily Donna Gina India Jolene Krista Lilu Marie Nancy Ophelia Penny Quinn Rachelle Stephanie Toni Ursula Vivian Wendy Xena Zoe

Aldo Brandon Clark David Edward Frank Gregory Harris James Kenneth Lewis Michael Nathan Owen Patrick Quincy Richard Steven Terrence Uria Vincent William Xavier Zachary

Ashly · 26-30, F

@FreeSpirit1 I appreciate all the suggestions 😊

FreeSpirit1 · F

@Ashly No problem

Gumba1000 · M

Joey Jojo Fibbles 3rd

Ashly · 26-30, F

@Gumba1000 who’s the 1st and the 2nd lol

Gumba1000 · M

@Ashly Teddy bears

supersnipe · 61-69, M

It's better not to lumber kids with 'wild and unusual' names. Growing up is an obstacle couse as it is, without adding extra burdens.

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Ashly · 26-30, F

@supersnipe 40 years ago?
I doubt those names are as weird as they are today 😂
I’ll check it out

supersnipe · 61-69, M

@Ashly The book was called 'Remarkable Names of Real People or How to Name your Baby'. I remembered it incorrectly.

I now have a copy! Someone in my family had one years ago and I always thought it was fun, so I got a secondhand copy.

I just opened it at random and found:

A. Toxen Worm
Ave Maria Klinkenberg
Private Baby Cherry, U.S. Army
Bambina Broccoli
Basil Crapster
Sir Basil Smallpeice
Bathsheba Finkelstein
B Brooklyn Bridge
Rev. Blanco White
Mrs Belcher Wack Wack

And so it goes on. All the foregoing are from the USA, with the exception of Smallpeice, who was British. And let's not forget:

Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila
Humperdink Fangboner
John Senior, Jr.
Katz Meow
Lettice Goedebed

🙂

Ashly · 26-30, F

@supersnipe those are some weird names 😂 poor babies

Nebula · 41-45, F

Luna and Gustavo

Ducky · 31-35, F

PJ

That's what my sister named her younger daughter and I love it, lol.

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Ducky · 31-35, F

@Ashly Partially named after me since Judith is my middle name. 😌

Ashly · 26-30, F

@Ducky lovely name 😊

Ducky · 31-35, F

@Ashly Thank you.

Not to mention PJ makes for a lot of cute nicknames, like it has with my niece. Peej, Pajama, Peejy, or as my sister once called her PG-13. 😂

BrewCityBarfly · M

When we were expecting our second, I was really wanting the name Quinn for a boy. Just thought it would be neat to call him "Q". Anyways, it was a girl so my wife and I didn't have to battle that.