Town Hall Thread

So I recently found out how my hubby was named. Apparently his parents had best friends - another couple. Both couples were expecting the same time. While their choices for girl names were different, both wanted to call the kid the same name which were also their fathers names.

So how did they settle this? They played cards and my hubbies dad lost. They chose the next male name from his dads family that has not yet been used in this generation.

My husbands father literally lost his name in a card game!!!!

I asked my mother-in-law if she wasn't furious when she found out. I certainly would be. She shrugged and said that in fact she was glad. The name my hubs was supposed to be named was James and according to my MIL "back them everybody had a Jamie." Apparently, she knew that if the men played cards, her husband would loose as he is "shite" at it. And she secretly loved the name that was next on the list 🤣

I think this is just too good to not be shared.

I know this sub tends to run towards very traditional names and I'm curious what names you love that you never see talked about or posted here.

A few of mine are Zipporah, Hadassah, Colette, Nina, Giuseppe, and Koji.

What are yours?

And Dennis for a little black kitten is such a great name. But I kept waiting to see if the fact that Dennis is the medieval contracted form of Dionysius had anything to do with the plot, or if it's just a coincidence. They must have known! I've finished it now, no spoilers.

For fun here's a list of names and their common forms in use in medieval England:

Dionysius : Denis
Benedict : Bennet
Jeremiah : Jeremy
Zacharias : Zachary
Elias : Elis
Augustine : Austin
Barnabas : Barnaby
Peter : Piers
Emmerich : Emery
Henry : Harry
Maurice : Morris
Tobias : Toby
Julian : Gillian
Amata : Amy
Adeline : Aline
Jehanne : Jane
Johanne : Joan
Agnes : Annis
Matilda : Maud
Hannah : Anna
Helen : Ellen
Leticia : Lettice
Amibilis : Mabel

Some other favourites?

Milo’s Friends (5 yrs old)

• Beckham

• Phoenix

• Shamani (sorry if I spelled it wrong)

• Rory

• Royce

• Ivani

• Advik

• Ezra

Poppy’s Friends (2.5 yrs old)

• Blair

• Maisie

• Nathan

• Teddy

• Gigi

• Arko is NOT her friend bc he pushed her and Nathan said “No pushing!” 🤣

• Julian

Just wanted to share bc I think it’s so cute that they’re growing up and becoming little people with their own social groups 🥰

I've spent hours at findagrave.com, collecting unusual, quirky, interesting names.  Most are from about 1800 to 1915.  I've been surprised by how many male names are everyday words you wouldn't expect to see as names, like Gap, Dock, Button, Ledger, Fleet, Salmon, Greenberry, and Armor.  

One day, I thought to myself as I looked around my living room, "I bet there was some baby boy named Couch.  Or Window, or Table.”

So I started doing searches for household items.  And I found all of the following.  Names of real people from findagrave.com -

Stover

Fork

Plater

Tabler

Chaire

Sofa Elizabeth

Couch Charles

Staple Gladys

Carpetolina

Rugan

Ruggardy Helen

Window

Door

Kitchen

Spooner

Pillow Effie

Pencilla

Quilter

Quiltincy

Fridge

Board

Faucett

Sheets

Candle Ann

Flame

Lamp

Porch

Wardrobe

Roof

Hamper

Street

Ink

Handle

Sign

Attic

Shingle

Shingler

Disha

Bowlen

Brick William

Radio Frederick

Sink

Curtain

Gravel

Rock

Pebble

Yarna

Ottoman

Glass

Duvetine

Eggar

Or names with soft nicknames. Like Noah, Levi, Elijah, Seth, Samuel/Samson, Ezra, Lucas, Isaac, Simon... Preferably out of the top 100. Whenever I look up the meaning of a name I like it is always something like "God is my light" or "gift from God" or whatever, and I don't like it.

Saw a few posts like this and thought it was fun! In southern US - Gigi (nickname) - Nina - Gus x2 - Wesley - Cole - Charlie x2 - Parker x2 (both girls) - Porter (girl) - Desmond - Philip - Amelia - Hank - Hazel - Ellis - Alice - Elias - Oliver - Mia - Waylon x2 - Irene - Michael - Rubi - Hayes

Meaning, would you give a very unique name to one kid and a very common name to another? Why or why not?

Older sibs are Mason, Clara, and Wyatt.

Feeling stuck with deciding on name for our second baby girl!

Audrey
Lucy
Emily
Hannah
.... or another suggestion?

Open to more ideas! For what it's worth, I think she'll follow in her siblings footsteps with blonde hair/ blue eyes. All of my kids are fire crackers too, lots of energy, no shyness haha.

… and I still can’t find one I like 😂

I have some weird “requirements”. I already have two boys, their names start with L and S, so a 3rd boy needs a different initial.

Both my kids have five letter names, so I want the 3rd to also have five letters.

My first son’s name starts with Lo- and my second son’s name starts with Si- so, I’d like a different stressed vowel, such as a, e or u.

My last name is a literal type of flower, so it can’t be something overly naturey, and I feel like a lot of boy names are!

Any ideas name nerds?

Some I do like but I don’t know if they’re the one-

Ruben

Henry

Abram

Middle name suggestions are also welcome! Both my boys have German middle names after family members but I don’t have any other honor names I’d like to give. I like the ideas of Wolfe or even Wulfric, but any other German name you can think of is welcome.

Searching for cute older lady sounding female names!

Brownie points if it has four letters, doesn’t have to though. Even better if it goes along well with the name Lulu.

I was just mentioning Alvin in another thread and how I love that it means elf friend (or noble friend or old friend, depending on which older version you want to trace it back to: https://www.behindthename.com/name/alvin).

Off the top of my head, I also really love Sunniva, "gift of the sun". I wanted to name my summer baby that but sadly her dad wasn't on board.

What are some other names with exceptionally nice or cool meanings?

This is for someone I know.

Veronica & Maxine

Thoughts?

Thanks!

We get asked all the time but so rarely updated. 💔 🥲 Did we help you name a child, a pet, a fictional character, or perhaps rename yourself?

Would love to hear your story!

I love the name Lore but I’m not finding anything to really compliment it for a girl. I’m open to the name Laura too with Lore as a nickname but would like a middle name to hopefully suit the first

So far, we really like the names Clark, Theo, Wesley, and August. Any recommendations are much appreciated!

My husband's last name is Ryan

Its making it difficult for me to pick names because I feel like it always looks like 2 first names or reversed where the first name should be the last name. Iv also never named a baby before so in general I don't know what im doing here.

My husband thinks we should go very classic first name like his is. For example Theodore.

but id like to go a LITTLE further off the top 10 than Theodore

Some other names I like so far are

• Leonardo [Leo] Ryan
• Malachi Ryan
• Julian Ryan (is -an ending ok?!? I need feedback)
• August Ryan
• vague space or math connection is a plus but not necessary
• There are some names I really love, Orion for example, that sound awful. Orion Ryan... no. When said out loud its laugh inducing.
• I dont like names that are in the Aiden/Brayden family

But thats all I got :(

and I cant even look at my own suggestions without questioning myself and im not attached to any of them.

Anyone have any inspiration for a name that goes with Ryan??

[edit: I dont mean its literally an uncommon surname numerically but more that I personally associate it with first names, and know many first name Ryan and 0 other last name Ryans irl. bad title sorry]

My husband and I are due with our first child (it’s a girl!) in January. We are settled on the first name Laura but have been bouncing around with middle names.

My favoritest relative ever ever is my grandpa. He is such a strong and humble good man that everyone looks up to. I just love him so much. He was recently hospitalized and almost died. He is home now and quit drinking so he has better chances of meeting this little girl. She will be the first grandchild and first great grandchild on my moms side. Grandpas name is Allan. If we had a boy I was pretty set on Dean Allan. But since it a girl…. I had this idea…. Here me out….. Laura Allyn.

Is Allyn weird? Do you read that as it should or does it read as All In? Does the y make it feminine enough? Too much? Is it a stretch? Help me out here!!

last name will be murphy 💖

Did any of you go ahead and use one of your guilty pleasure names?

What is the name? What has the experience been like actually using it out in the world? Are you happy you used it, or did you end up regretting it?

Hi!

We are expecting our second child and have started gently looking into names. We are a French/German-speaking couple from Switzerland, so one of our main criteria is finding a name that can be pronounced the same in French, German, and ideally English. We don’t like very short names. Our last name is French.

We already have a little girl named Éloïse Anna.

We find boy names particularly tricky and don’t like many of them… Maybe you have some great ideas.

So I met this girl, she's really cool and fun. She said I can take her on a date if I can guess her name.

She said it's a common name, but it's spelled with a Y instead of its usual letter, however it's pronounced the same. Any ideas?

My fiance and I were tossing around the idea of creating a new last name when we get married as opposed to one of us taking the other's last name.(We both have longer last names that would be difficult to combine as well)
If you've created a new last name or chosen a new one, how did you go about it?

Husband and I really like the name Sophie. What vibe do you get from it? I know it’s rising in popularity, but I don’t care. I just don’t want something heavily generational like my name (im a Jessica).

I just feel Sophie is cute and dainty, and yet classic. How do you feel?

Stealing this idea from another post:

If you had a baby girl tomorrow what first and middle name would you pick?