baby names

[flea]

Born to the Park Mommy clan:

Jasper, older brother Emmett (not sure of spelling). Since to me Jasper evokes a 90 year old New England bachelor farmer, I find it especially amusing that his father's last name is strongly ethnic Ukrainian, and his mother's equally strongly Italian.

Elliot (not sure of spelling), a girl to be called Elly, older brothers Jonah and Evan. Scrubs notwithstanding, I still consider Elliot a boy's name, and there are tons of things to name your kid if you want to call her Elly.

I also met a 3 month old Florence recently, older sister Laura.

Names in Casper's class at school, almost all approaching 2.5 years: Olivia and Delancey (identical twin girls), Isabelle, Stephanie, Jasleen (girl), Chase, Connor, Evan, Ian, Kabir (boy), Lee (boy). Jasleen's father is a Sikh I think, and Kabir's mother is South Asian, and Stephanie's father is British, and I think everyone else is white Americans.

Names in contention for the Armadillo, at least in my head right now:

Flora, Louisa, Laura, Caroline, Shyanne just checking to see if you were reading, Mary/Maria/Maryanne?, Margaret except that's my boss' name, Sasha except that's RF Dad's name ugh, Alice.

Paul, Peter, Ant(h)ony, Joseph but for the misfortune that will be obvious if you know mr. flea's last name and think of Friends, Edward/win, Jeremiah I wish it's an ancestral name and I love it although it's weird but I really dislike Jerry, William but the world is too abundant in Wills right now and I don't like Bill.

Comments

[jesseh.livejournal.com]

First of all, Olivia and Delancey?? Those do not go together at all.

Also, I used to work with a guy who went by Jay. His given name was Jerry, which was a family name. Well, he looked back a little further and found that, of course, Jeremiah was the actual family name. He was pissed.

[richtermom.livejournal.com]

William can go to Liam. I REALLY like that option.

[susanw.livejournal.com]

I love Jeremiah, but I don't think there's any way to avoid Jerry--even if you didn't use it, friends/teachers/etc. would eventually.

William is out for us because the first syllable of our last name is "Wil", but it's one of my favorite names for other people. I like Will, Billy, and Liam, but loathe Willy and think Bill is too plain. These are pure gut reactions I can't completely explain.

Annabel's class at daycare is 18-24 months. The other girls I can remember off the top of my head are Yokasta and Annika. Boys are Christian, Han, and Riane (pronounced like Ryan, but with an "ee" instead of an "eye").

I love Laura, Caroline, and Mary/Maria/Maryanne, though for the latter I prefer the Sense & Sensibility Marianne spelling. Also Paul, Peter, and Anthony. I'm getting fond of "Ed" names, though I like Edmund and Edgar better than Edward/Edwin.

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Sasha can be short for Alexandra/ia, which also lends itself to other nice nicknames.

I kind of like Shyanne, although it would immediately lend itself to playground namecalling. :-)

How about Jeremy? Also can be short for Jeremiah. Or Jedediah/Jed?

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

I like Flora/Laura and Marianne v. much. And Edward is a family name -- my brother's in fact (he always goes by Ted) -- so I'm unreasonably fond of it.

There are a ton of Liams out there at the moment, including three of the Blue-Eyed Boy's friends.

[gchick.livejournal.com]

Because Theo and I think alike (and work intervened) she beat me to the Jeremy suggestion. I think you're right that Jeremiah is doomed to nicknaming, but somehow I never hear Jeremy shortened.

Too bad about Mariah Carey, because it's a Mary/Maria variant I like when it's not on her.

You're right about Joseph, and I always think of Sasha as a boy name since the world's cutest nephew graced us with his bratty presence.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of partial to Edward.

[veejane.livejournal.com]

Elaborations on what seems to be your trains of thought:

girl: something you would plausibly find in an Enid Blyton novel, weeding out the overused classics. Further suggestions: Gloria, Victoria, Vivian, Madeline, Agatha (okay, that's too fussy), Dora, Eleanor/Elinor, Iris, Violet, Rosalind. I am still assuming y-names like Dorothy and Polly are out.

boy: Classics preferable, possibly with a smattering of RAF names. (The boy-classics have a much more narrow range of overuse, it seems.) How about George, Harold, Josiah (no you can NOT turn this into Jed), Jonathan, Samuel, I suppose Earl still hasn't come back into fashion, Matthew, Mark/Marcus, Stephen, avoid Sebastian like unto a plague, I don't think you've ever been partial to Benjamin, and Obadiah.

Okay, that last was just so I could call it Armadillo the Bold!!