I don;t have any children yet but I always find myself talking to older relatives - aunts, my nana, my mum, and getting their ideas/suggestions etc on names. I'm sure when the time comes, I will have some names picked out, though if I am anything like the other women in my family, I will change my mind at the last minute.

I know when my mum had us kids she had names picked out, but then, they didn;t suit us she said. As soon as we were born, she'd take a look, and decide what to name us based on what she felt we looked like. My sister in law just had a baby boy a few months back and the same situation happened with her. She had a name picked for months but when she took a look at her new bundle of joy, she picked a new name.

I'd really like to keep some of my family's traditional names when I have kiddies.

I remember watching a TV show once ( I think it was Ellen) and they said when you have more than a few names to choose from there is a simple technique. Stand at the bottom of the stairs, and yell them all out, whichever comes out easily and fluently is the name you should pick, after all, you'll spend a large majority of time yelling that name anyways LOL

Well, my parents named us all Dar's.  When I had my oldest son I named him with a D.  Then I got married 5 years later to a man with a D.  So when I had my second son, his named started with a D.  My first son's middle name is after my brother that died but it was also my grandfather's name.  My second son's middle name is my husband's uncle which is also my husbands grandfather's name that died when my husband was real and very close to.  So, in really not meaning both of my kids middle name is their great-grandfather's name.  So I guess we might be starting something.  My mother worked with a lady with a name that mom liked, so she just replaced the M to a D and presto, there's my name.  My middle name is my mom's. 

that's funny Smokey about the stairs.  I had originally thought to name my so Kyle, but my mom couldn't pronounce right.  She kept putting a twang on it.  So I didn't.  Now I couldn't imagine my son a different name.  He was nick named Jack in my belly by my parents because I couldn't come up with a name.  In fact I have a Christmas card that my parents gave before my son was born and it is labeled "Jack".  I need to pull that out and show to my dad again...I bet forgot all about it.

Joty, Grace Slick didn't really name her girl "god." She was just messin' with the nurse. Gotta love that Gracie!

http://www.snopes.com/music...

All the kids' names on my hubby's side begin with a "J". His mom's name is also a "J" name, and they call his dad "Jack" as a nickname. Weirds me out, frankly.

When my mom was pregnant with each of my two older brothers, she had picked out a girl's name too, just in case. It was Candide. I'm sooo glad she changed her mind when I finally came along.

But when I was around 6 or 7, I realized that I didn't have a middle name like all my friends & all my brothers. My brothers had important middle names; one after my father, one after a favorite uncle, and the last one was my mother's maiden name. I felt slighted. So I asked my mom why I didn't have a middle name, too. She said, "When you get married, then you'll have a middle name." And of course she was right; I do use my maiden name as my middle. So the family name live on.

Once before I was married, I had to fill out a police report for a stolen bicycle. When the officer asked for my middle name, I said "none." He wrote down on the report, "nun." I figured right then & there I wasn't gettin' my bike back.

;-)

Southeners come up with some bizarre names too. My mother was Virgie Easter, my father Hulon Hamilton. I have an Aunt Sarah Perrilee, an Aunt Nellie Albanie. Most of my cousins in MS are still called by both first and middle names.

Our second daughter named her three sons with the "k" sound and middle names that started with 'a' - we have Cody Allen, Kyle Anthony and Christopher Andrew. We have another grandson named Harrison - his father's middle name is Harry which was his grandfather's name so - son of Harry.

Kind of an offshoot here...all my dogs have 'human' names - anyone elses?

Ok, I just remembered a joke about naming - 

which I have now removed because though I didn't mean it to be, it was offensive.

My husband and I couldn't agree on names at all.  We finally settled on finding an English-sounding name to match the origins of our last name.  It matches him though.  His name sounds stubborn and strong, and that's what he is.  I like weird names too much- not misspellings or anything, just non-English names- so I was overruled.  But if I have a girl next, I'm totally going to give her a great name!

One of my dogs is named Jesse.  My best friend named him that because I wanted to let her actually name a dog for once.  The other one is named after a previous dog my husband had.  What do they call them- life dogs?  When you have a dog that is so very special and completely changes your life?  That's what this dog was for my husband, so he named our other dog in memory.

oohchild, if you read the entire article, you would have seen where Ms Slick actually used the name 'god' for her child two months prior to birth in a magazine interview, referring to the gender as 'he'...so maybe when she gave birth to a girl, she changed her mind. Who knows - it was the 60's afterall, lol!

Great topic Joty!  My folks named my brother and myself after saints, lol!  Gregory Paul, and Peter David, good Catholic names, even though I'm a recovered Catholic now.

I met someone who named her daughter 'Safiya', and I said, do you mean Saphire, she said no, Safiya, S-a-f-i-y-a.  I thought oh god, that poor child, she's going to have to explain that to everyone she meets in life.  Not one minute later the mother was going through the same explanation with someone else.  I think sometimes people just don't think things through.

Spam code: MOQJN (How about that for a name?)

How about the famous Texan, Ima Hogg?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

I knew some kids with this last name, but they insisted on pronouncing it "Hogue."

I like to read movie credits. It always makes me giggle when I see names like Dick Richards, John Johnson, or Peter Petersen. Didn't their parents have any imagination at all?

Oohchild- how about the credits for Monty Python and the Holy Grail? I like all the llamas, myself.

OMG madkow, it's been ages since I've seen that movie. I vaguely remember that....

Aaah, here we go:

http://www.mwscomp.com/movi...

40 SPECIALLY TRAINED
ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS

6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS

142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS

14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS
(CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA)

REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON

76000 BATTERY LLAMAS
FROM "LLAMA-FRESH" FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY

and

TERRY GILLIAM & TERRY JONES

Did I tell you we saw Spamalot in Vegas this year? You'd love it if you're a Python fan!

...then there was the creative mom who named her baby girl  "Nevaeh"   (Heaven spelled backwards...)

I just filled an order for a Dr. David S David.   I guess his parents liked the name David?

Oprah Winfrey named her production company Harpo Studios. "Oprah" spelled backwards.

My father loved palindromes. His favorite was attributed to Napoleon: Able was I ere I saw Elba.

Funny where the mind goes, when discussions like this take off in different directions!