Name That Kid

Comment by mightyninjamom on June 24, 2010 at 9:30am

Little B was not granted a name until roughly an hour after he was born. I could just NOT get AlphaGeek to commit to a name! My massage therapist set me on the path after saying that she felt like his name needed to be something with short 'e' sounds. His name has never broken out of the mid-200's. The Little Miss is named after her great-grandmother, and her name is consistently in the 500's. Neither of them should have a problem with anyone being named the same.

Comment by kommishoner on June 24, 2010 at 12:14pm

You know, the beauty of names is that your kids can always change them. I suffer from the same naming affliction as mcglory (there were three of us in my kindergarten class), and by the time I was 6 I'd had it. I started a new afterschool program, told them "my name is X but I go by Y" (having decided that Y was probably my middle name and I didn't know anybody else that had it), and was Y from then on. Apparently I flat out refused to answer to X anymore.

Comment by Herasmus B. Dragon on June 24, 2010 at 12:53pm

Are you now X or Y?

Comment by kommishoner on June 24, 2010 at 1:00pm

Y, ever since that fateful day when I was 6. ;) Turns out it was, in fact, my middle name (at 6 I only had the haziest notion of what a middle name was), which has made documents and such significantly easier.

Comment by zombiemom on June 24, 2010 at 1:38pm

I named my son Samuel mainly because I liked the name , and I liked its nickname Sam. But it also sounded good with my husband's last name, is common but not too popular, is easily spelled, and hopefully won't get him made fun of in school.

Sam's middle initial is L. and I'm eagerly awaiting the day when someone asks me if I named him after Samuel L. Jackson.

Comment by hermit crab on June 24, 2010 at 2:20pm

I found myself drawn to the names of tragic Shakespearean characters when I was drawing up my baby list. The cool-sounding ones, at least. I mean, who wouldn't want a baby Cordelia?

The boy's name we chose was Shakespearean, but my husband and I both thought that we came up with it from different sources - I thought I came up with it because it was the title of a Paul Simon song I loved, and L thought he had come up with it because it was one of his favorite characters in Dune.

Comment by Egggirl on June 24, 2010 at 3:06pm

http://www.nymbler.com/ is a great site for playing with names. Kind of like Pandora for names, and you can put in multiple name inspirations. Awesome time waster. So is Baby Name Voyager, which shows the popularity of the top (1,000 I think) names over the past 100 years or so. Really fun to play with. I am a total name geek, but I became a mom through marriage so I didn't get to name my own kid. Yet.

Comment by sockiboo on June 24, 2010 at 10:15pm

glad to know we're not alone when it comes to the dawdling baby. i've been trying to stay off the internet (since there are only so many ways you can say, "no, not yet"), but inevitably someone takes the radio silence as proof positive that we're at the hospital giving birth.

it's really fine. the most uncomfortable part is entertaining the various family who've come to town according to pre-arranged plans, when we thought we'd most likely have a baby to show them by now. we're playing a lot of cribbage and watching netflix.

Comment by mcglory13 on June 25, 2010 at 6:11am

Kid was 2 weeks late here too. And all of our family was here for Christmas. Entertaining them was tricky, especially when I got put on bed rest for the last few weeks. They ended up organizing all my closets. Then they went home. Then the baby came. Hang in there. :)

Comment by Gumbo Momma on June 27, 2010 at 10:18am

They organized your closets?! That's awesome!

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