For the longest while I wanted to name one of my daughters Peggy. I knew a couple Peggys and they were all nice people. Everyone thought I was a horrible person for it, because of the fact that it was such an easy name to make fun of... (having the name Ray, I've never really had a lot of sympathy for that argument, btw...)
Same goes for Philip...
So what names would you name your kids if you had a dozen and wanted them to have distinctly nice yet not the run-of-the-mill common names?
--Ray
__________________
I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
I was going to make a comment on "Peggy" but I won't. One of our choices for our first son was Gavin, but everyone kept asking us "As in Gavin McCleod from the Love Boat?" The other was Hyrum, but Cat's sister thought it sounded too old fashioned.
Here's something funny, we were going to name our youngest daughter Samantha until Cat heard one of the characters names from "Sex in the City" was Samantha and he decided he didn't like it anymore.
Ya just can't please everybody. Naming a child is very individual. When I was pregnant with our second child there was a girl I worked with who was pregnant also. When her son was born she named him "Brigger." Because it was a good "cowboy name." Yeah maybe, but would it look good on a resume'?
Our neighbors who lived above us also at the time named their daughter Kamree. Every time we mention that name people say, "As in the car?"
I wanted to name a boy Trenner, but my husband said that would get him beat up on the playground. I'm thinking we can use it if we have another boy, because I'm homeschooling
__________________
"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
We try to avoid anything too crazy for the first name because it's tough on a kid going through life having to correct everyone on the pronunciation. When my wife and I thought of names we would think of people we knew with a similar name or characters from literature or television and what sort of impression that made. After our first child we decided short names were better than long ones because it was a struggle for our oldest to learn to spell her name while the others could do it before kindergarten because they were shorter.
I had a college roommate with a normal name with an unusual spelling (why do parents do that? Why? Why?) She would get so irritated with absolutely everyone because of course they all spelled her name wrong. So if you're going to give a kid a weird spelling, teach them patience to go along with it.
But there's simply no excuse for spelling your kid's name Androo.
Janey wrote: But there's simply no excuse for spelling your kid's name Androo.
Unless you're a kangaroo in a zoo.
__________________
"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
My wife wasn't too amused when I suggested that we name our kid "Mahonri Moriancumr" or "Maher Shalal Hash Baz".
__________________
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Neither was Jared's Mom, or Isaiah's wife... but sometimes men have a tendency to name their children strange things... :)
--Ray
PS> I have a daughter named Emigail. (I wanted to name her Gail (after my dad, which is weird for a guy, but okay for a girl), and my wife wanted to name her Emily. So we compromised.
__________________
I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
More important than the actual name, are the various reasons you will give for why you picked it. It doesn't have to be true, just plausible. My strategy is to give reasons according to who I'm trying to light-heartedly bug.
So, sometimes we named both our kids after StarTrek charicters, to get a rise out of the kids. Or, after the cute nurses in the delivery room, to get a rise out of the wife. Or, we picked names as a way of culturally distancing ourselves from Utah, to get a rise out of the in-laws.
Actually, after peeling away all the b.s. reasons, there really isn't anything left, because I can't remember why we named them what we did. My wife picked, I was just a spectator.
LM
__________________
And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, seven hours every day. That would be the sweetest thing of all.
We pick pretty normal names. My first daughter's middle name is a little unusual...a family name. And I changed my baby's middle name spelling by one letter.
My son came close to getting "Potter" as his middle name until hubby put his foot down.
"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
My brother wanted me to name my second child Papaya if he'd ended up being a girl.
__________________
"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
