It's looking like the debate over our son's name is coming down to two choices, listed alphabetically so as not to bias the proceedings: Declan or Spencer.
For our son my wife liked the name Alexander and I wanted an Italian name so we decided on Alessandro, everyone calls him Alex anyways (except when he's being bad, then it's Alessandro) so we both got what we wanted. I got to choose the middle name, which was Zinedine Zidane. She gets to choose the middle name of our next child. That was the deal. If it's a girl it'll be Prudence Abigail and if it's a boy it's Massimilliano Giuseppe.
YES! That's the same way I spell my name and I always get complimented on it. Of course it also gets misspelled all the time, but whatever.
I know Spencer is a boy. Declan looks like something from Balderdash - the game where you make up definition of obscure words. just saying... I'm sure it will look good on his Declan for President signs!
Including in your own BigSoccer user name? Declan is a fantastic Irish name. One of my good friends is named Declan.
Go with Declan! We went the Irish name route with our first son -- Ronan. We have only run into one other kid named Ronan, but the name fits him like a glove. Our daughter is Moira (rhymes with Laura).
I told my wife I got the name from him. Um, there might have also been an Eclipse Award winning juvenile from a couple of years back with the name, too.
We've got a boy due in May and are strongly considering Damien as the name. Well the parents generation have the whole "Omen" issue but It is an irish name (spelled the French way) and he is part Irish. His sister is Violet Beatrice. Cheers, James
Bump. My daughter was named Holly because she was due on Christmas Eve (festive name) with my old dear's middle name. She didn't actually pop out until New Years Eve, mind.
Lots of cool stories here. Time for me to add mine, I guess. My oldest is Caroline Emilie. Emilie is a family name on my wife's side. We wanted to include it but not as a first name because there are already too many of those (that didn't stop us later - see below). While we chose Caroline because we liked it we did eventually find out it is also a familiy name on my wife's side. For my twins we went with Trevor File and Emilie Michele. Trevor was the only boy name we had decided on when pregnant with Caroline and File is my middle name, my father's middle name and my grandmother's maiden name. There really was no other deciding factor with Trevor. We just happened to like the name. If our twins were both boys we would have gone with trevor Patrick (my name) and Brendan File. Michele is my wife's middle name.
My wife and I are in trouble if our forthcoming child is a boy. We cant find a name we agree on. We just went through a book of over 50,000 names.
We had one of those books. Each of us went and highlighted any name that was one we were considering, and put a dot next to anyone that we thought might be more of a middle name. In the end, we narrowed it down to two of the ones I had highlighted, and then I begged and pleaded for 5 months for the one I really wanted!
you support Everton. name him Toffee but pronounce it Taw-fay with the accent on the second syllable. unless, of course, your surname is a two syllable name with the accent of the second syllable. that would sound foolish. ------- PS: you can use the same name for a girl, but that would not be my first choice.
My wife and I brought our 3 month old daughter to a birthday party recently and a friend's dad was holding her for a while... he told a story about how he had been expecting his daughter (now 30ish) to be a boy and planned to call him Joseph, and didn't know what to name her when they found out it was a girl when she was born. The doctor said "how about you name her Josephine"... to which he said he replied "how about hell no." It was at this point he asked the name of my little girl (who, again, he had been holding for a good 20 minutes), and I had to tell him it is Josephine (Josie) named after one of my grandmothers... a bit awkward indeed. Anyway, I really love her name and am glad we chose it.
I love stuff like that. It happens to us all - on both sides of it. I remember someone, having heard me call my daughter "Annie", comment that it was great that we didn't give her a pretentious name. I couldn't help myself and replied, "It's short for Anaïs".