What are your favourite baby names?

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

My favourites for a girl when I was younger were Chloe, Paige, Sophia, Olivia
And I started to really like Amelia later on.
My favourites for a boy when I was younger were Dylan, Matthew which liked Matty for short and William. I think I liked Declan too.
My favourites names at the moment for a girl are Melody, Grace, Rain and I am really liking Jessie right now for a girl. I was love the thought everyone would pick her up and say here is lovely little Jessie.
What are yours?

 

[Luca]

Chloe has always been my favorite name for a baby girl too!! I also like Cassie, Avery, Madison, and Amanda.
I really like Vanessa too though (I was even considering it as a name for myself at one point) and I think for a child I would shorten it to Vanni. Super cute.

I had a hysterectomy so I can't have a baby, but if I ever did decide I wanted children, I would adopt. I am adopted myself, and I know from experience that the foster system is horrible, and older children are almost always overlooked because people only want babies.
If I adopted an older child, I probably wouldn't be able to choose their name, but I would be very happy to be giving a child a home where they could recover from the trauma of being in foster care and whatever led up to it.

 

[Ella Spell]

Clara, Esther, Elisabeth, Hazel, Annie, Catherine, Claire, Nicola, Norah, Laura, Frances, Jane.

James, Walter, Hank, William or Billy, Edmund or Edgar, Elijah, Timothy, Thomas, Oliver, Nate, Joe.

Non-Binary: Ellis, Raleigh.


* Naming my children was really hard because my exh didn't like anything I liked, and our surname didn't work with anything I liked, and some of the names were already used in our families so it seemed like namesakes when they weren't. Then add in my synaesthesia and the fact every name had a colour which couldn't clash with our surname colour, or the colours of any existing family members, and they had to be colours I liked.

I was happy with my adopted son's pre-named names, all three of them.

 

[Forest Cat]

Ella is a nice name. Emelia and Linnea too.

 

[Ella Spell]

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I debated between Emma and Emily for my daughter but couldn't decide, and wasn't sold on either one. Ella is lovely but a bit overused these days. I do tend to love E names, especially Elyse. The problem with Elyse is that there's no middle name that sounds right after it.

 

[Ella Spell]

Chloe has always been my favorite name for a baby girl too!! I also like Cassie, Avery, Madison, and Amanda.
I really like Vanessa too though (I was even considering it as a name for myself at one point) and I think for a child I would shorten it to Vanni. Super cute.

I had a hysterectomy so I can't have a baby, but if I ever did decide I wanted children, I would adopt. I am adopted myself, and I know from experience that the foster system is horrible, and older children are almost always overlooked because people only want babies.
If I adopted an older child, I probably wouldn't be able to choose their name, but I would be very happy to be giving a child a home where they could recover from the trauma of being in foster care and whatever led up to it.

I like Chloe.

My cousin named her daughter Vannesa -- with that horrendous spelling which looks like Van EEza or a drunken mistake on a boat off the coast of Italy. Perhaps Percy Shelley died there. I can't forgive her for it.

My adopted son was already named with three names which I loved, very surprisingly. The second and third were names I never would have even thought ot, but they're really cool.

My bio son has three names. His first name is a name I chose in Kindergarten and the only boys' name I ever really wanted.

My daughter got only two names. Her name took us the entire nine months to decide upon because my ex had bad mental associations of everything I liked. I'm still not thrilled with her full name in terms of its prosody but I like the names individually. She's changing her surname to something totally random to unattach herself from her estranged father, and it will flow much more nicely with her new choice.

I've changed my first name a few times because of trauma. That was hard to do, too.

I think I'm totally finished thinking about names now unless I get more kittens. Even those are hard to name.

Welcome wee Hester though. lol

 

[Forest Cat]

We have a princess here named Ingrid Alexandra, I think that's a pretty good name. The name Alice is also very nice. That has been the most popular girls name in Sweden for over 10 years now, the Swedes can't get enough Alice. The country is full of Alices. I think the most popular girls name now where I live is Nora. Also a very good name.

 

[Ella Spell]

That's very pretty. ^

My niece is named Alice. I like that too. Her name is actually Victoria Alice but she goes by Alice.

 

[Ella Spell]

I like Isabeau and Isabel. Ingrid. Yup, I's are good. They're silver.

We almost used Irene for a middle name.

 

[Ella Spell]

Funny story. When I was on the way to hospital to deliver my daughter it occurred to us that she might be a boy. We'd been told all along by ultrasound that she was female but I had an "OMG what if they were wrong and we don't have another boys' name ready?" moment.

With no forethought whatsoever I blurted out Robert Thomas Neill.

That would have been my daughter's name if she was a boy. I don't really even like Robert so I have no idea where that came from, but it just popped out and my husband agreed.

My daughter is very glad she wasn't a boy.

 

[Ella Spell]

I like Isabella (Italian) and most French names but they all sounded ridic with our surname which is very UK. Also my grandmother liked French names and used all the good ones on my aunts. Eye roll. It's so hard to name babies. We all have these names we've loved since childhood but it doesn't mean we can use them, depending on our last name and our partner's or even parents' input. My mother and MIL got all wound up about which of them or which side of the family our daughter would be named for, since my son had a family name among his three names. I'd only chosen the family name because I liked it and not to honour anyone. It became a ridiculous, ongoing saga where my mother and MIL were offended by everything we considered. We finally chose a middle name that means "heaven", so we said it would represent all dead women on both sides of the family past, present, and future lmaooo. My mother has never pronounced my daughter's first name correctly, by choice. She does the vowel wrong, making it a totally different name than what it really is. Then there's the whole debacle with nicknames and short forms. That's more difficult than choosing real names. We actually planned on one short form for my daughter with much deliberation, but it never stuck. I don't think anyone ever said it, and she's gone by a random nickname which has nothing to do with her real name, since birth.

 

[Ella Spell]

I got a Cabbage Patch doll when I was fifteen and it took me a full year to name her.

I'm ashamed of what I finally chose. Chantel. She had a middle name which I want to say was Danelle, but that would rhyme so that mustn't be it. I know it started with a D? I wonder if I still have the little birth certificate that you fill out with CP dolls.

 

[Forest Cat]

Ellinor is a good name, I like that one. It's the local version of Eleanor.

 

[Ella Spell]

Lol - I almost said that my other niece is Frances Ellinor (or maybe it's Eleanor? I can't remember.)

She goes by Ellie.

Everything good was taken.

 

[Forest Cat]

Funny story. When I was on the way to hospital to deliver my daughter it occurred to us that she might be a boy. We'd been told all along by ultrasound that she was female but I had an "OMG what if they were wrong and we don't have another boys' name ready?" moment.

My parents didn't want to know the gender beforehand but my mom had a feeling I was a girl and they decided to name me Marta. Then I was born and they suddenly had a name-problem. I'm happy they found another name, it would have been like that Johnny Cash song, "A Boy Named Sue". A boy named Marta. I wouldn't have been super happy about that.

 

[Mary Terry]

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I debated between Emma and Emily for my daughter but couldn't decide, and wasn't sold on either one. Ella is lovely but a bit overused these days. I do tend to love E names, especially Elyse. The problem with Elyse is that there's no middle name that sounds right after it.

How about Elyse Elizabeth?

 

[kenaij]

Ever since my teen years I like Giulia for a girl and Christian for a boy. I was lucky enough my wife also like the names right away.
My wife also liked Chloë a lot.
So we called our daughter: Giulia Chloë
And my son: Christian Michael

His second name is a mixture of the name of my best friend, and a translation of my second name Migaèl. Migaèl is the Dutch name for the archangel Michael. My best friend is called Maikel, which sounds the same as Michael. So it is the english version of my second name, and sounds like my best friend's name.
Unlike his name might suggest we are not a christian family. My wife is not religous, my believes lie closely with christianity but I don`t go to church.

 

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

Chloe has always been my favorite name for a baby girl too!! I also like Cassie, Avery, Madison, and Amanda.
I really like Vanessa too though (I was even considering it as a name for myself at one point) and I think for a child I would shorten it to Vanni. Super cute.

I had a hysterectomy so I can't have a baby, but if I ever did decide I wanted children, I would adopt. I am adopted myself, and I know from experience that the foster system is horrible, and older children are almost always overlooked because people only want babies.
If I adopted an older child, I probably wouldn't be able to choose their name, but I would be very happy to be giving a child a home where they could recover from the trauma of being in foster care and whatever led up to it.

That is very nice and also I think I would consider it too if I was infertile and wanted a child. As long as the child did not turn out to be too problematic because I think that is hard for an autistic.
But having a baby would be sweet.
I love your names, my niece is Maddison, Maddy for short.

 

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

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I debated between Emma and Emily for my daughter but couldn't decide, and wasn't sold on either one. Ella is lovely but a bit overused these days. I do tend to love E names, especially Elyse. The problem with Elyse is that there's no middle name that sounds right after it.

Elyse is nice, what about elyse Anne or Elyse Jane, Elyse Phoebe, Elyse May, you should look up a names book

 

[lovely_darlingprettybaby]

I like Chloe.

My cousin named her daughter Vannesa -- with that horrendous spelling which looks like Van EEza or a drunken mistake on a boat off the coast of Italy. Perhaps Percy Shelley died there. I can't forgive her for it.

My adopted son was already named with three names which I loved, very surprisingly. The second and third were names I never would have even thought ot, but they're really cool.

My bio son has three names. His first name is a name I chose in Kindergarten and the only boys' name I ever really wanted.

My daughter got only two names. Her name took us the entire nine months to decide upon because my ex had bad mental associations of everything I liked. I'm still not thrilled with her full name in terms of its prosody but I like the names individually. She's changing her surname to something totally random to unattach herself from her estranged father, and it will flow much more nicely with her new choice.

I've changed my first name a few times because of trauma. That was hard to do, too.

I think I'm totally finished thinking about names now unless I get more kittens. Even those are hard to name.

Welcome wee Hester though. lol

I want to change my name Augustina but I still like my name Laura.
I could be Augustina Laura