baby names

[ethanryan]

my sister in law is about to give birth but still hasnt chosen a name she would like something different but not that different that the child will be teased at school. just wondering what ideas people had and what names you have all chosen. she does not know the sex of the baby.
she dont want ethan thomas or ryan samuel as they are my boys names and she dont want kaylee or kelsey as they are our nieces names

[Psychick]

I still havent got a clue myself! We had Ryan picked out early on but then found out its a girl so cant use it. What is making it hard for both me and my boyfriend is that we both work in schools so most of the names we think off, one of us knows a little whatnot with that name and it puts us off lol Also, alot of the names we have thought about are very popular.

So good luck to your sister in law, on both the birth and naming the baby, and any girls names she thinks of but doesnt use, ask her to pass them on lol

[redcrx]

my short lists for names are

Alice
Elizabeth
Abigail
Sabina
Grace
William
James
Oliver

nothing unusual really apart from Sabina.

I know a Deryn which is a nice boys name.

[ethanryan]

thanks the only name she has come up with so far is teigan but she still isnt sure

[gina32]

i used to know a girl called Duranne, it wasnt after the group but its apparently a sctotish name, never heard it before or since but it is unusual

[warpig3]

I have a few names in mind but haven't really decided on a particular one yet. I think I am hoping one will just appear in my head when she arrives and I will know thats the one.

It is difficult though, as psychick says, some are just too popular and you know kids who are little imps who are called a name you love.

[ethanryan]

i wanted thomas or harrison but daddy was not impresed with them. we had loads of girls names picked and i had two boys

[Psychick]

What girls names did you have picked out ethanryan?

[redcrx]

one of Little CRXs middle names is Thomas

how about, depending on name, her maiden name or a family surname?

[ethanryan]

hollie mae
teigan
katie
cerys
olivia
lilly
grace
leah
paige
mia
lauren

[ethanryan]

the surname will be ward

[annie0000]

Boys

how about:

Lucas
Callum
Gregor

Girls

Jenna
Julia
Olivia

Being scottish, my kids have scottish names and so are most of the names we didn't use:

My sons are Craig Iain and Ciar Alastair, Ciar is more usually spelled Keir, but we went for a gaelic spelling. We also liked Gregor, Alec, Walker, Grant, Struan and Kerr for boys.

For girls it was going to be Kirsty or Mhari

I have great nephews called Oscar and Caleb and colleaugues kids are

Georgia, Liberty, Maddison, Luis, Connor, Ewan, Shane, Karys, Arrianne, Aleesha.

[annie0000]

I wouldn't panic though, my first took 3 days to be names - the second was a week and a half! We were busy.

[mrs_overall]

I have a huge number of nephews & nieces and some of their names are:
Boys:
Dylan
George
Beau
Alexander
Taylor
Leon
Niall
Archie
Ross
Max
Joel
Dominic

Girls:
Tilly
Ruby
Iris
Tamsin
Leah
Zoe
Serena
Cory
Imogen
Eloise
Cherry
Alys
Chloe

[ethanryan]

mrs overall that is a huge amount of nieces and nephews. i thought we had a big family

[mrs_overall]

That's not half of them! I'm one of ten and have dozens of nieces & nephews who in turn are themselves breeding for England! The names I listed are a few of the nicer ones and are a mix of nieces, nephews and their offspring. Some of the rubbish names (I hope none of my sisters see this) are:
Crispin, Barney, Charity, Prada (yes, Prada!), Josephine, Flossy, Pepe and Martha.

[roomster]

Oh i quite like Pepe!

[redcrx]

is thought Prada sounded nice, but then perhaps thats a bit too upmarket for me so ive changed my mind and will go with Skoda instead.

sorry Mrs O, shouldnt laugh :)

[*Princess*]

I think that some of the more modern names will be so common when the child starts school, so what would be unusual would be for them to have an classic name like Elizabeth or William, Victoria or Thomas?

However, a lot of the even older names are coming back into fashion like some of the celebrities who've chosen Violet (Jennifer Garner & Ben Affleck) or Olive (Ali G/Sacha Baren Cohen & Isla Fisher) so how about one of them?

Names like...

Girls: Elsie, Bessie, Iris, Evelyn, Felicity, Clarissa, Cecile, Anastascia

Boys: Albert, Alfie, Archie, Ted/Theodore, Vincent, Hugh/Hughie

There are loads more, but I think they're the cutest!

[hau kola]

For a girl i like Freya or Thea.
For a boy-Lucas,Taylor or Ty.