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Topic: Names
Posted By: mummy_becks
Subject: Names
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 10:34pm
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Do the names you have given your children mean anything or are they random names that you both decided on?? Andrew John: Andrew as that is the only name we could agree on, John is my dad's middle name. There are a few people that think we named him after Andrew Johns on of the greatest league players. Joshua Gareth: Joshua was the only name that we had agreed on that he suited, Gareth is one of DH's middle names. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 10:37pm
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Spencer Richard: Spencer we both liked and Richard is DH's name. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 10:43pm
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Kobe we both loved and was going to be that boy or girl and John is hubbys family middle name.
Addison we got from someone on OB who suggested it and we loved it (who was that?) Emma is a family name and what she was going to be called if we couldnt think of another name and Kate is for both our mothers who are Catherine and Kathleen but we didnt want Kath |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 10:45pm
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I thought you had got Addison from Grey's Robyn ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 10:49pm
all our kids names are just ones we liked and agreed on. i would've liked to use a family name, but murray, david, andrew (no offence) tui, raymond, gilbert, harold, beryl, lorna, joesphine, irene are just not what i'd like to call my offspring!
i wanted to use zoey which is my nana's name, but i promised my sister i would only use it as a second name. then, we couldn't come up with a name to go with it...charli zoey just didn't sound right, so out it went  ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: MonicaMouse
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 10:49pm
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I have 2 stories to how we got Blair's name, the untrue but funny story goes....DH and I were discussing names early on and he said what about George, and I said no I like BLEEEEEAAAAAAH (making retching sounds). In all honesty it was one of those names that about 3 weeks before EDD he said what about Blair, and I commented that I had thought about the name a couple of day's earlier too.
Samuel is a name that I've always said that if I were to have children and a boy and was going to bring a family name thru, then that's the name I wanted to use - and I like it. My grandfather and greatgrandfather had Samuel as a middle name, and as it turns out DH had a grandparent/greatgrandparent with the name as well. He wasn't sold on it as a first name, but cos I really wanted to use it he was happy to use it as a middle name The Nathan came about as one DH really like but I wasn't totally sold on it, but realised we couldn't give our wee man the initials BS! ------------- 
Blair 15/10/2007 Daniel 30/07/2009 |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 10:51pm
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Ha Vanessa I know someone who has Tui as their sons first name. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 10:53pm
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Conor Alexander - Conor is from the movie Highlander, Alexander is my grandfathers middle name. My grandmother died 5mths before he was born. I wanted to honour her somehow. I was a Whangai baby, so she raised me for four years...and I didn't think Pearl would suit a boy!
Nyah Zoe - Nyah is from Mission Impossible 2 (Thandie Newtons Character). Zoe was our back up name and DH's fave. Cooper Wade - I'm a huge league fan (hanging out for March 14th!) Cooper Cronk plays for Melbourne Storm and Wade McKinnon plays for the Warriors. I liked Cooper alot and DH liked Wade. Phew. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: my4beauties
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 10:54pm
Rico Mikaere Kiriwai: Rico my DH got from Puerto "Rico", & I loved it straight away. Mikaere is maori for Michael which is dh's first name even though he's called by his first middle name (he has 2) and Kiriwai is Dh's 2nd middle name, which is also a family name. Did you get all that?
Gia Nadia: Gia is Italian & Dh & I were watching an old italian movie before I was even pregnant with Rico & there was a Gia Campbell on it, Dh always said when we had a girl that was her name. Nadia is my middle name. Jett Te Akau Ryan: Once again Dh came up with Jett, I had heard it before & liked it, but then came to love it the more I thought of it. Te Akau, Dh wanted another maori middle name if we had a boy & got some suggestions from his step-father (whose also Maori), that was the one i liked most, and Ryan is my brother's name. PHEW! ------------- My babies: R (9),G (7), J (5) http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 10:57pm
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Lesieli Lose Kakala, Lesieli (a tongan name) is after her Grandmother on her dads side who passed away from Cancer when Lesieli's dad was 12. She is the first Grandbaby on both sides. Mercedes Manuatele, Mercedes her dad named her, Manuatele is her Grandmothers name. It is also the name of a boat that used to sail between Samoa and Tokelau. Alize Fou, Alize was named by her father, He came home when Mercedes was a baby with this bottle of Alize and said this is what we are going to call out next baby boy or girl, 6yrs later and he arrived lol Fou is his fathers name. BTW I still have the bottle of Alize ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 7:14am
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Alan William - DH chose this and I found out the day he was born We wanted to keep it a secrect and I sux at keeping secrect's. Alan is my MIL's father's name. And william is my FIL Middle name. Michael Joab - well I really liked Micah, but DH did not so we went for Michael which jsut happened to be FIL first name. We both really wanted Joab as a first name, but BIL would not let us it is his first mane so we decided to use it as a middle name he protested being only 19 at the time now I think he is quietly chuffed. and for our girl's name(if this is a girl.) Will be Elizabeth Karen Elizabeth being after out M/W oh and I jsut love it and Karen being MIL middle name. and if baby is a boy we are looking at either Andrew John Henry After my brother or Henry John after my dad I really love the name Andrew, but we know so many our age and we both like something a little old fasioned. Hence the Alan. ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: hooper
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 7:46am
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Paige Hooper - we both liked paige, Hooper is my grandmas madden name.
For our boy i think we are going with, Paul Peter Arthur Paul is my Dads name, Peter is DPs fathers name Arthur is his great granddads name. ------------- Desiree 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 7:53am
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jake is from us watching the blues brothers - he was very nearly Jake elwood, and walter is from my grandfather who died.
taine...i can't remember when we got that, possibly taine randell, and Jason is Lewis' best friend. If we have a girl we'll probbaly call her Leah - middle name to be decided but probably something raro |
Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 8:14am
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Mike chose Seb's name.
Sebastian was the main character in one of our favourite fantasy novels. He was a (good) half-incubus, half-wizard. Go figure. Daemon was the name another character in a different series by the same author went by, and if I tried to explain it it'd probably just look bad Satan (his father) in the series was more of a guardian over (all) dead souls than any christian example. We went with Dae'mon so people wouldn't pronounce it Demon. (It's "Day-mon"
My favourite names for the next bubba we have are so far: Griffin Alexander - Griffin is just an old-fashioned name we like, and Alexander is the name of an old friend, plus I love it. Ella/Eleanor Evelyn Joy - Haven't decided whether to use Ella as name or Nickname, but basically we just like it. Evelyn Joy is MIL's middle names which she gets from her mother. Mike is her favourite grandchild. -------------  
 
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 8:17am
| I always loved the name Alyssa when I used to watch Whose the boss, and thought Alyssa Milano was gorgeous. DH thought so too so we agreed :) |
Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 9:19am
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Arabella -
I liked Aroha and Bella and couldn't decide and then found Arabella which I thought was a nice compromise and sounded nice and feminine. Means moved by prayer or beautiful alter. Grace - Was my sisters middle name (she died just over a year ago) and I wanted to pass that on and honor her ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 9:24am
Well where to start? LOL When DF and I first met we were discussing names in passing and he piped up that he loved the name Keziah and instantly I fell in love with it.. I didn't care what it meant, my first born girl was going to be Keziah whether he liked it or not..Turned out he did. HA, it means "A Sweet Spice" and that she is 
(She's actually named after someone from a Mythos game, but if you want to know more just ask
Leiandra is a name a lady on another forum used for her baby born earlier last year and I thought it fit perfectly with Keziah (well I think so anyways).. So I played with the spelling and added an "I" to it and that's what I came up with.. I'm not exactly sure what it means, but it's very pretty don't you think? -------------  
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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 10:05am
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Oliver John Mclaughlin: Oliver is a name I just loved the sound of plus the meaning is 'symbol of peace' - I guess I was hoping that the meaning would have influence on his temperament! John is FIL middle name. John McLaughlin is first and middle name of DH granddad.
Lilia Eva Anne: (So long as this bubba is a girl) Lilia is a play on my mums name Riria as well as Lily which is a name I like. Eva is DH's great nana's middle name and Anne is my BF and MIL middle names. ETA: Neeks - I work with a lady who named her daughter Leandra (born April-ish 07) From memory I think she got the name from a (story) book ... ------------- DS 8 DD 6 DS 4 DD 2 |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 10:13am
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wow you guys all have great stories.. our family middle name (on Dh and my side) is Edward..and umm no way..even though I'm bucking the trend:)! We both liked Nathan James but it's an exes name so nope.. and then DH came home with Ethan as a name.. and we both liked it..middle name still being discussed..no meaning there just names we like...
if he is a girl Georgia is just a name with both love and Rae after his Dad ray who died when he was two. ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: NovemberMum
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 11:08am
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I chose the name Megan as it wasnt a popular name but still nice and simple. I didnt want an out there type name. and I picked Grace as the middle name after my nana , who is 91.
funny thing is I couldnt even think of a boys name. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: MumsyMoo
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 11:23am
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Well, our little girl will be names Eden Cale.
We wanted something slightly biblical (but not an 'out there' blatantly biblical one) to honor DF's Christianity, so we went with Eden - as in: Garden of Eden... Meaning: Pleasant It's also a name I've loved for a long time. Cale, is a name that I shortened to suit my needs lol, it's derived from 'Callie'... But 'Cail' is also used as a boys name... The name Callie means: Beautiful poetry... So our little girls name can pretty much be translated to Pleasant Beauty or Pleasant Poetry. And we can't wait to meet her and put a face to the name! (here's hoping she suits it or else we're buggered!) If it was a little boy, he'd have been named Lucas James... Lucas being a name that both DF and I loved, but not only that, it was his mother's Maiden name, and there have been no boys produced to carry on the name, so we figured we'd honor it... James is DF's family's middle name used for all first born sons... So gotta stick with the trend It also went really well with Lucas.-------------  My wee girl is the love and light of my life!
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Posted By: my4beauties
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 12:38pm
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Kawwww, I know a 'Nathan James', James is his last name though. ------------- My babies: R (9),G (7), J (5) http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 12:46pm
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hhhm well..
Paris, I was trying out all sorts of names - had i had my way she probably would have ended up Eden Nicole, or Jasmine Veda, but mike knew a girl ages ago named Paris and also knew one named harmony and we became adamant that our little girl would be called Paris harmony (if it was a girl of course, we had no boys name) I tried all sorts to convince him of other names, even suggested Tamsyn, or tried to make it Paris Olivia (but got told no cos the initials would spell POT!) So, out came our girl and Paris Harmony she was. With Ayja we found out what we were having at the 20wk scan, but before then i had been convinced i was having a boy, and we had decided on Leo Michael, (Leo we were reminded of while watching charmed re-runs one afternoon and both thought that was neat, and Michael because mikes family has the tradition that the first boy gets the fathers name as a middle name) of course it was a girl, so we started on lots of lists of names, again i tried for Eden Nicole, and Jasmine Veda - we needed something different in the same way Paris's was, we knew we couldn't have something plain, we went through all sorts of ideas like Opal and Coral and a few others i can't remember. We were nearly actually set on Coral until mike told his mum and she said it sounded like an old ladies name, in the end we came up with a couple of names and each time he'd tell her and she'd say something that put me off it (obviously I musn't have liked it that much otherwise i wouldn't have cared). Finally, one morning i was mulling over our names etc in the shower, and Ayja had been down the bottom of our "maybe a middle name" list cos we knew how much bollocks we'd get for using the name since it would mean we'd have 2 place names, but Mike came in and I said "what about Eden nicole?" he said nope nope i told you, so I said "ok, how about Ayja Nicole" and that was it, from that day she was Ayja Nicole, and he was told not to tell his mum. Ayja was originally from the idea from Aja Rock on treasure island, I decided i liked the name, (not the chick though  ) But changed the spelling as Aja has a hindu meaning of Goat, and i knew people would spend her life saying it wrong. So we added a y to get Ayja... which is close to the name Aisha which means woman.. (lol she might surprise us, right now she's not very lady-like) and well Paris definately fits the image of her name with the bossy sophisticated girly girl air about her. She likes the fact that there's Paris hilton with the same name as her, I would be very happy if she didn't turn out like that Paris though thank you very much.
so long story short, not too much meaning, just liked the names. I did finally get my Nicole though ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 1:28pm
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James is one we just picked it was a choice between that or Damion and Jesse Chose James. Alexander is a family name on Jesse's side. Heaps of people think James is actually a Jesse-James though. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 2:01pm
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Serenity, I love the name you have picked out, but wanted to point out that if you chose the spelling of Cale to stop it looking like a boys name, all the male Cale's i have taught have had that spelling. Now I am not saying not use it, because it goes so nicely with Eden, just wanted to let you know that as that was how I read the post! (So fel free to totally ignore me, lol!) -------------  
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 2:05pm
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Weeeeell, we almost killed each other choosing names.
I was about 36 weeks pregnant and we were still arguing, although we had sort of decided that if Baby was a boy, he would be called Jed. However, we did the yell in the back yard trick calling Jed, and everytime we did it the dog went NUTS so, back to the drawring board. I was worried th ebaby would come and remian namless. I really liked Jake but Rod wasn't too sure, so we comprimised and went with Jacob for a boy, then I would still get my Jake. And Russell Bruce for middle names (our Dads) And, like Liz, Jake comes from the Blues brothers (and Shorty st as well...) We had chosen Jaimee Lyn for a girl (Lyn for Rods mum) With Charlotte, I had gone off Jaimee as I didn't want her to spend her life spelling it for people, and I thought it was a bit ambiguous while she was a baby, as I would always have to say SHE is a girl. We had a short list, Gabriella (and she was that for about 10 minutes)Sienna, Charlotte, Emma. I wanted Sophie, or Georgia sooo bad, or Hannah, but Rod didn't like any of those. He was more into names like Katherine, Jacquiline (so?)  and Nicole. Indiana was discussed, too, much to my surprise, as Indiana and Sienna were 2 names I thought he would veto outright.
We never discussed boys names, toyed with Alex, the other boys name from Jacob, but we found out at 34 weks preg we were having a girl. When she came out, I said I think I like Gabriella (a very late contender, Rod had decided he liked it about a week before and it had grownon me) so She was that for a bit, then he rang Nathan to tell him Baby was here and Nathan said he liked the name Charlotte better, so Charlotte she was. Or, Charly, we call her (shhh-arly, not ch-arly) Wow another Novel on my way to the 4000... ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 3:36pm
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italiah:) that's his given names:) he lives in the south island..though nowhere near me thank god:)as he wasnt a long term ex i still considered it but no in the end we both liked Ethan more! and my preg brain isnt working..who was Jake in shorters? ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 4:00pm
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Jake and scarlett.. craigs kids. He was a right dick, but had a prominant story line when I was preg, maybe? ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 4:56pm
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Bailey Wayne Duncan- well everyone asks if hes named that because that is how he was concieved! but NO! my sis was going to call her girl that but she had a boy and decided to call him oakley so the name Bailey was still floating around, DH and i COULD NOT agree on a name! then i saw Bailey in a baby book and that was it! Wayne is DHs father and Duncan is my mothers father who passed away when mum was 14.
Astin Luke - We couldnt agree on a name for him at all!!! if he was a girl he was going to be Lilly after my grandmother and our wedding flower (meant to be our wedding baby but he took too long! lol). One night i was dozing off to sleep when Astin just popped in my head! so i jumped up and woke DH up to put it to him and he screwed his nose up at first so i said "Astin Luke" and he quite liked it! Luke is after his bestfriend (his middle name) who is also the boys godfather, DH wanted it to be Astin Jason, Jason is his BFs first name but i didnt like the sound of it! so yeah Astin luke it is! If we have another child i want to try and get a name out of mine and DHs names but so far havnt figured out how! (alan conrad and amber maree! lol) |
Posted By: MonicaMouse
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 5:50pm
Conner was the first thing that came to mind. -------------
Blair 15/10/2007 Daniel 30/07/2009 |
BaileyandAstin wrote:Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 8:09pm
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When if have a boy (because I'm going to) I want to call him Padraic Dene - Padraic because I'm sure he could benefit from 'the luck of the Irish' and I love Paddy as a nickname and Dene after my dad ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 8:46pm
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Hannah was the only name we could both agree on for a girl. There were lots of names tossed around but we kept thinking of people we went to school with Elizabeth is MILs name. The middle name wasnt decided until two days before she was born and MIL was very very sick in hospital (we were told she would probably pass away 4 days before Han was born), so we decided if the baby was a girl that would be an appropriate middle name and they went well together.
if she had of been a boy, she would have been Joshua (no particular reason again) Gilbert (DHs middle name, his dads middle name and DHs grandfathers first name). Not that keen on the name but felt we should carry it on. This time we know the sex and her name will most likely be Greer Aimee (Greer cos its the only name we both like and Aimee after me). If we find out at my scan on Tuesday that its actually a boy (  ), then we have no back up name sorted yet - not so keen on Joshua anymore... ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 9:16pm
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I love Greer Aimee its gorgeous! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 19 January 2008 at 9:43pm
No, i had never watched greys and even when it was suggested on here I still didnt realise it was from that programme until someone else asked if thats where we got it from and so i started watching to see who she was and then of course got addicted! |