Names, names, names

[Lynner]

We've had so many comments on names lately, that I thought it would be fun to have a "name" topic.
Let's use this to post names you find unusal, names you like, names you don't, reasons why you named someone/something what you did, etc, etc.

I'll start by saying my children are named Alexandra and Nicholas and it was only after Nick was born that I'd realized I'd named them after Russian czars!

[sourmilkpinky]

lol...I know that feeling Lynn. When people hear my childrens names I always get 'Oh you are Irish' Well I don't know...but I can see where they get that...My children: Shannon, Patrick, and Samantha :)

Great topic...I will add more later...

[Lynner]

I once worked with a man named Rob Robinson. That was bad, but the fact that his given name was really Robin, made it so much worse!

[Rellevart]

I'm fascinated by names and I'm always curious as to why people name their kids what they do. My favorite family name story is that apparently my oldest brother was named after his two grandfathers, John and Harold. My mom was trying to decide whether to name him John Harold or Harold John and her dad (Harold) said "Name him John. You don't want to stick him with and old man name like Harold!" So John he is.

Grandpa Harold is good for another family naming story. When my mom was trying to decide what to name me, she really liked Lisa, but my dad liked Suzanne. Apparently Grandpa called ALL little girls "Suzie" no matter what their names were (I have no idea why), so Mom decided to go with Dad's name choice so Grandpa could have a little girl to LEGITIMATELY call "Suzie". :smile1:

[Rellevart]

Lynn, what horrendous name was it that I always used to tease you that you were going to name your firstborn? I can't remember what it was, but it was dreadful!

[pepperland67]

I know of 2 people who are brother and sister, their names are....get ready....Soda Pop and River Rain. Not kidding. :smoking3:

[MonaMe577]

I know of 2 people who are brother and sister, their names are....get ready....Soda Pop and River Rain. Not kidding. :smoking3:

Well hey, just throw in Pony Boy, Dallas, and Two Bit, and they can have their own 80's movie. :wink1:

Back when my grandma was a teacher, she had a student named Girlie Violet Africa. :afraid2:

[Sally]

We had a hard time naming our sons cos they have the surname Del Valle (pronounced Del Vay-eh) so I couldn't have too traditional english names. In the end we chose Louis, its pronounced Louie over here, silent S, the french way and it really annoys me when he gets called Lewis. Anyway we got the idea for his name after Louis Theroux, so he became Louis Jorge (jorge being his dads name).

When my second son was born we had real trouble finding a name, I wanted Arlo, Jorge didn't so in the end we looked in the name book and found the name Arlie and we both liked it. It means "hare in the meadow", its an old english name but I haven't come across another one yet.

We didn't know what to give him as a middle name and in the end Jorge suggested Hari after our George, (we couldn't give him George cos Jorge pronounces his name George) so we did, Arlie Hari doesn't quite go but we wanted to do it to honour George.

[Starry-eyed]

My husband's name is Anthony Joseph, and his father is Anthony Salvatore, so we named our first born Anthony Robert (Robert was MY father's name, so he's named after the two grandpas.

When my daughter was born, I wanted to name her after the two grandmothers. My mother's name was Ruth Elizabeth, and my husband's mom's name is Marita. I'm not too crazy about the name "Ruth", and I didn't want to name her "Elizabeth" (only because we have a LONG last name, and I wanted a shorter first name) So I shortened Elizabeth to LISA, and gave her the middle name of Marita.

[Asha]

I love names! I've always been interested in them, their meanings & so on. I don't know why! :laugh5:

I usually like names that are more unusual, but always figured I'd better wait & see what my surname turned out to be after marriage. I have such a tough surname that I always have to spell it, help people pronounce it, etc. So I thought, if I had kids & their surname was going to be hard, I'd probably use more common names.

As it turned out, I never married & don't have kids, so my pets will probably get unusual names! At this time, I only have one cat & he's called Mishra. :cat: Something I was never going to use for a child, but thought it was cool for a cat! LOL!

[ClarinetSparkle]

I made a giant post and then my Internet decided to die on me. Story of my life.

Anyway, my fiance and I have already decided names for our children, should we have some in a few years. We've come up with Stella Grace Amanda for a girl and Adrian James Paul for a boy. No, the whole Stella/Paul part in the names isn't for the McCartneys. (we get that a lot, just thought I'd clarify.)

Adrian and Stella are unusual names for our area (northern Michigan) so we like them for that. The double middle names are to honor friends, family, and family tradition. I really hope these are the names we pick in the end, they'll age well with the kids.

[Beatle_4]

When my 1 grandson was born, his father (my son Joe) decided to give him 3 names:-

Joseph - After himself
Robert - Explain that 1 in a minute
Edward - After me.

As for Robert, I have a friend of mine, Bob, who my 2 sons have known almost their whole life. He's never married, lives by himself, and has no other family except for 1 brother who lives in the Toronto area. Joe decided to give his son the name Robert so that Bob would feel like there was a connection to our family. When Bob heard what Joe did, he broke down crying. In over 20 years of friendship, that was the only time I ever saw that guy cry.

[Sally]

I was named after a donkey :teeth1:

[saziontherun]

I have such a tough surname that I always have to spell it, help people pronounce it, etc.

Hey, and I still remember it! :teeth1:
But I have the same problem with my surname. And should I ever decide to get married, I will have the same problem all over again cos my man's British and the Germans do have a tendency to not spell (or pronounce!!) it correctly...

Scary, Lynn, but I almost even remember your surname from the good old days... :eyebrows:


We had a brain fart with the name Dexter for our cat, I really like that name. And you can shorten it down to Dexy which is quite appropiate cos we're 80s music lovers. (Dexy's Midnight Runners)

[Lynner]

I remember the talks, but can't remember the name - it must have scared me too much!:devious: Lynn, what horrendous name was it that I always used to tease you that you were going to name your firstborn? I can't remember what it was, but it was dreadful!

[Celebrian]

Cool topic!

Well, on my father's side, we have Spanish surnames, but we did not adopt the apellido paterno and apellido materno format. Still we take pride in long names and a lot of my cousins have six names.

If I had daughters, I'd love to name them Gillian and Genevieve. As for sons, I'm not so sure. I like the names Trevor and David. I also like the family name Alejandro, but I'm not sure if I would use it.

[NaomiMcCartney]

I always loved my own name. However I use to not like the name which my father wanted to name me which was Audrey, I use to feel it was meant for an old women. Now I think it's alright. My middle name I use to think was too much of a bore, It's plain jane to me, for it's Kim. Naomi Kim, that's my name. It's not Naomi KImberly, but that would be a mouth full. :tongue2:

Also interesting enough my first name is more common in England and Japan than any other country. So perhapes if John and Yoko ever had a daughter they would have named her Naomi considering that simple fact.

In regards to a boys name in recent years like the name Jayden. Then again my current boyfriend told me he knew someone that named their daughter Jayden. That to me sounds more befiting for a boy than a girl. Then again I think a lot of those unisex names sound better for one sex over the other. Like the name Ashley, that to me sounds better for a girl than a guy.

[Blgmama]

I'm name after my grandmother.............thankfully my parents picked the names right.

Barbara Ann and Esma Lea

So my name is Barbara Lea (and not Esma Ann)

[HMVNipper]

I'm named for my paternal granfather, who died before I was born. His name was Sam, and Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jewish families do not name for living people. In English, it's enough to give the child a name starting with the same letter, hence, you can name a girl after a male relative. I was ALMOST Samantha, but my mother decided she didn't like it -- I've always been glad of that because when I was about four the TV show Bewitched went on the air and I would not have liked all the "Sam, wiggle your nose" comments! My Hebrew name is the feminine version of my granfather's Hebrew name. And my middle name is Beth -- NOT Elizabeth, just Beth.

My son is James Daniel, after his father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Those are the four James Daniels born in America -- there were lots of others before that in Ireland. While initially I was culturally uncomfortable with naming my child after a living relative, since Jim was okay with us raising Jamie Jewish, I simply could not take the joy of passing on the family name away from him too. But if he hadn't been insistent upon passing along James Daniel (which is a name I like, anyway), Jamie would have almost certainly been named John, after John Lennon. I make no excuses for that!

We have some interesting names in our family now -- my mom's first name is Reva, and I have only met a couple of other people who have the same name and spell it the way she does. Interestingly, on my son'svery first day of Kindergarten, another mom introduced herself to me, and her name is Reva, spelled the same as my mother!! And my sister-in-law (my bro's wife) is named Lowana -- she doesn't know how she got that name except that her mother liked it, but I really have to wonder considering her sisters are Lisa and Theresa!

[beatlebangs1964]

Let's use this to post names you find unusal, names you like, names you don't, reasons why you named someone/something what you did, etc, etc.


I think Jason, Patrick, Ross, Spencer, Stetson and Winston are the most gruesome names. :thumbd: I never liked Jason to start with and I grew to dislike it even more because I knew a Jason who smelled so bad he'd wilt flowers and cause cattle to keel over. He was an unflushed toilet with feet. He always reeked of :fart: and :barf4: and had a gruesome personality to boot.

I think Travis, Trevor, Michael, Adam and James and Joseph are the most prime names.
:thumbu2:

I think Agatha, Agnes, Bertha, Candace and Ida are gruesome and Christine, Holly, Jana, Maria and Nicole are prime.

This is not meant to offend anybody and is not a reflection on anybody with these names or anyone who would choose them - the first post did say "names you like, dislike, etc."

[Siobhan]

I once had a friend at school called Juliette, which in itself is a perfectly nice name. Only she had a younger brother called Romeo.

My daughter's name is Charley. When we were expecting her we didn't know whether she would be a girl or boy, but everyone kept telling me I was going to have a boy because of the shape of my bump. We picked the name Charlie for a boy, but couldn't decide on a girl's name. We went through loads of name books, but couldn't find one we both liked so someone suggested Charlie as a girl's name too. We both agreed, but changed the spelling to make it seem more feminine (I know Charley is often a boy's name too but it's not commonly spelt that way). He middle name is Ann, after my Grandmother Antonia.

My little boy's name is George. I liked the name George for obvious reasons :wink1: but I like old fashioned names too, especially for boys. My husband liked the name because of St George, plus he is an Arsenal fan and they once had a star player named Charlie George. His middle name is Richard after his daddy.

[sourmilkpinky]

I was named after a donkey :teeth1:

I have heard this twice now...please tell us the story!!!!

[beatlegirl9977]

I never liked Jason to start with and I grew to dislike it even more because I knew a Jason who smelled so bad he'd wilt flowers and cause cattle to keel over.
There's a lot of names that I absolutely would never name my child just because they're guilty by association like that one..... Matthew is one of them--every Matthew I ever knew in school (or babysitting, or teaching) was a jackass. Same thing with Nick... And, yeah, come to think of it, most Jasons I knew (including my cousin!) were criminals in training.

[motherTheresa]

i was almost named paulette, because i am a clone of my dad.

his name was paul. i inherited his "hideous great hooter" nose!

:laugh2:

too bad the only thing i got of my mom is her ass! i would've

preferred her face, she was a stone beauty! no lie!

ah well, c'est la vie! :wink3:

[Lynner]

There's a lot of names that I absolutely would never name my child just because they're guilty by association like that one..... Matthew is one of them--every Matthew I ever knew in school (or babysitting, or teaching) was a jackass. Same thing with Nick... And, yeah, come to think of it, most Jasons I knew (including my cousin!) were criminals in training.

Obviously you've never spent time with my son. :devious:

[beatlegirl9977]

Obviously you've never spent time with my son. :devious:
:teeth1: Yes, I know... I wasn't trying to make a generalization by any means; it was just the mental association I have with those names....

[Sally]

I have heard this twice now...please tell us the story!!!!

Ok, my mother was overdue with me and didn't want to be induced so she thought she would try to get things started, she ate curry, went on a bumpy car ride, drank raspberry leaf tea, had a shag probably and nothing worked. Anyway she and my Dad went to a place called Weston-Super-Mare to a beach where they had donkey rides for the day (funnily enough its the same beach the Beatles victorian swim suit photo session was done).

Anyway my Dad joked and said "Go for a donkey ride, that'll do it!" but she thought about it and ask the donkey man if she could sit side saddle and just trot down the beach for a couple of minutes (must have been a bloody big donkey to take a 9 month pregnant woman!), he let her do it and about 6 hours later she went into labour.

I was meant to be called Victoria but when i was born I didn't look like one and then my Mum remembered that the donkey had a name plate across the front of its head with the name Sally on it and thought it was a pretty name.

[sourmilkpinky]

That is great!! I can not imagine a donkey ride would have been comfortable at the time...must have been a special donkey :) And I agree Victoria is much too posh ;)

[Sally]

What you saying? I am bloody posh!! :wink2:

[HMVNipper]

I like the name Sally... it was my grandmother's name. Actually, if Jamie'd been a girl, he would have been called Sally Anne, after my grandmother and Jim's. So I think you have a pretty name, Sally! :smile1:

[Sally]

Thanks, but I have to say that over here you only really find animals called Sally, lots of them, mostly dogs (ie Johns dog), never people :cry3:

[Lynner]

:teeth1: Yes, I know... I wasn't trying to make a generalization by any means; it was just the mental association I have with those names....

Oh I totally understand - just felt like ribbing you. :teeth1:

Actually, I have the same issue with people named Steve - most of the ones I've met (including an ex-boyfriend) ended up being total looneys!

[HMVNipper]

Thanks, but I have to say that over here you only really find animals called Sally, lots of them, mostly dogs (ie Johns dog), never people :cry3:

Well, my grandma's name was really Sarah, but when she came to America as a young girl, Sarah was not "American" enough for her and she started calling herself Sally (which is a legitimate nickname for Sarah). I think it's a sweet, old-fashioned name...my grandma would be 98 years old if she was still here, so there ya go...it's a name from her times. I still like your name, does that make you feel better?

[Sally]

Well, my grandma's name was really Sarah, but when she came to America as a young girl, Sarah was not "American" enough for her and she started calling herself Sally (which is a legitimate nickname for Sarah). I think it's a sweet, old-fashioned name...my grandma would be 98 years old if she was still here, so there ya go...it's a name from her times. I still like your name, does that make you feel better?

Yes it does thanks, Sally is also a pet name of Sarah here too, I do like my name, many a good song has been written with my name in :teeth1:

[NaomiMcCartney]

My dog's name is Phoebe, I think it's perfect for a miniature poodle. The cat's name here is Molly, and my pet Betta's name is Lennie. :teeth1: You were talking about animals, so I thought I'd throw that in.

[Sally]

My dog's name is Phoebe, I think it's perfect for a miniature poodle. The cat's name here is Molly, and my pet Betta's name is Lennie. :teeth1: You were talking about animals, so I thought I'd throw that in.

whats a Betta?

[NaomiMcCartney]

whats a Betta? A fish http://img27.photobucket.com/albums/v81/dsphinx/red-cruising-DSCN2601.jpg This however isn't my fish. I don't have a photo of my betta to put on here. I got this from a Yahoo search engine. My Betta is a purple, silver, blue and pinkish purple color mix. :teeth1:

[Sally]

A fish

Oh, just cooking fish for my tea, don't want to eat it now!:blush4:

[MonaMe577]

My dog's name is Phoebe, I think it's perfect for a miniature poodle. The cat's name here is Molly, and my pet Betta's name is Lennie. :teeth1: You were talking about animals, so I thought I'd throw that in.

I love Bettas, aren't they pretty? My boyfriend and I are fish people, too. We have a big mean albino Flower Horn named Red, two cichlids named Pip and Little Stripey, and a tank-cleaning fish (I know I can't spell the proper name right) named Scummy. I also used to have a pet goldfish named Assassin, so named because he killed everything we tried to put in the tank with him!

[LovinLennon909]

Oh I totally understand - just felt like ribbing you. :teeth1:

Actually, I have the same issue with people named Steve - most of the ones I've met (including an ex-boyfriend) ended up being total looneys!
Hey, my boyfriend is Steve! It's okay, though, because when I met him I hated his name. I'd wished his names were flipped, and he was Thomas Steven instead of Steven Thomas. I thought Steve was boring, but I'm so used to it now, I couldn't picture him as anything else, and actually, he's a little looney too.

My name is Jennifer, which is one of two girl names my dad likes. The other is Stephanie, which is my little sister's name. I'm so glad he was firm in his choice of names, because Mom wanted to name me either Miranda and call me Randi, or Christine and call me Chris. I guess she thought a boy's name for a girl was cute. Hey it was the mid-eighties!

[NaomiMcCartney]

My boyfriend has a different name for a middle name. It's two names in one. RayEarl, he doesn't like it. People use to tease him and tell him that he has a true country sounding middle name.

[MonaMe577]

My boyfriend's middle name is John. ...sigh... :heart1:

:inlove6: Nathan John, just love that name.

[Sally]

My boyfriend's middle name is John. ...sigh... :heart1:

:inlove6: Nathan John, just love that name.

It would be handier if he name was John though:wink2:

[MonaMe577]

It would be handier if he name was John though:wink2:

Wouldn't it, though? Or John...Winston...

Oh, never mind. :wink1:

[twovirgins]

I got in a car crash with a girl named

Candi Cane

[ChrisG134]

My husbands middle name is Bernard :thumbd: .He wouldn't even tell me his middle name when we met he hated it so much.

[beatlebangs1964]

My dog's name is Phoebe, I think it's perfect for a miniature poodle. The cat's name here is Molly, and my pet Betta's name is Lennie. :teeth1: You were talking about animals, so I thought I'd throw that in.

Phoebe the basenji is a beautiful black and white dog. www.basenji.org (http://www.basenji.org)
Although the name Phoebe means sun (from Phoebus Apollo), I always associate Phoebe with that black and white basenji.

There's a man from the Dakotas who is a big George Harrison fan. Some history:

Ra is a red and white basenji who lives in Los Angeles. She has a sister named Hatshepshut, another red and white dog in L.A. and Hatshepshut had a female puppy named Ra (the Younger). Ra (the Younger) lives in the Dakotas and her daughter, a black and white basenji named Hana lives in Iowa. Hana's owner has a white Persian cat named Olivia; a beagle named LuLu (after the Lous in George's life), a male beagle named Taxman and Soft Hearted Hana, ("Hana"), the playful basenji.

There is a woman who lives down the street from me who has a very fat fawn colored male pug named George Harrison, but she calls him Harrison. Interesting, ain't it, how George had pets named after him!

[NaomiMcCartney]

Phoebe the basenji is a beautiful black and white dog. Ironic, my miniture poodle is black and white. Well, more like salt and pepper, but salt and pepper is sort of like black and white. :laugh5:

[NaomiMcCartney]

Many times I happened to run into people that do not know how to say, or spell my name right. I tell them my name clear as day so they can hear it properly, so they say it wrong anyway. :rolleyes:


When they say it wrong, they say Nye o me. Since when is there a Y or an I in the beginning of my name? And since when did an Ay sound like an eye? :confused: When they spell it wrong they spell it N.i.o.m.i or N.y.e.o.m.i.

It drives me nuts when people say my name wrong right when I say my name the right way with an Ay sound clear as day! :bigeyes3: It makes me feel as if they weren't really listening to me.:afraid2: It drives me nuts when people don't know how to spell it right either, since it shouldn't be that hard, considering it's spelt the way it sounds!

It's Nay o me and N.a.o.m.i is obviously how you spell it from what my screen name says. :tongue7: Also people should remember that if it ended with an e instead of an I, it would sound like Na om instead of Nay o me. :teeth1: That's why it ends with an I. :eyebrows:

[Lynner]

Hey, my boyfriend is Steve!

Yeah, but he's okay, since I've never met him. It's only people named Steve that I've actually met that seemed to be whacked!

Which is sad, because I've always thought that Stephen was a nice name!

[darkhorse]

Here in Spanish speaking countries we actually use two surnames: first one is from dad's side and second is from mum's side... it could be quite confusing for English speaking people from all over the world. In Spain I think there's a law where, in common agreement, people can actually invert their surnames (i.e. use their mother's surname first and their father's surname last). Also, women don't have to change their surname when they get married. My mother still mantains her surname and we are the (daddy's surname)-(mummy's surname) family. Get it? :teeth1:

[DizzymissLizzy909]

My full first and middle name are Elizabeth and Lauren. I don't care for either. :barf3: I like to stick with Lizzy or Liz because it's simplier, doesn't sound quite so old-fashioned, and I think generally suits me better. :smile1:

I love the names Audrey, Sandra, and Nancy, and whenever I decide to have kids, those will likely be my #1 choices to use. :smile1: For guys, I've always liked George, Michael, and Matt.

[Sally]

Here in Spanish speaking countries we actually use two surnames: first one is from dad's side and second is from mum's side... it could be quite confusing for English speaking people from all over the world. In Spain I think there's a law where, in common agreement, people can actually invert their surnames (i.e. use their mother's surname first and their father's surname last). Also, women don't have to change their surname when they get married. My mother still mantains her surname and we are the (daddy's surname)-(mummy's surname) family. Get it? :teeth1:

Yeah my kids have both our names, their Dads first cos he is Spanish, I don't mind his name (Del Valle) but mine is bloody awful, then again it would be like that anyway cos we are not married and so you see more and more double barrelled names now cos alot of people don't bother getting married now over here.

[Asha]

Yeah, but he's okay, since I've never met him. It's only people named Steve that I've actually met that seemed to be whacked!

Which is sad, because I've always thought that Stephen was a nice name!

I have a half brother named Steve. He's just fine!
& if I hadn't been given away, my name would've been Stephanie!
Of course, I'm a bit whacked, so maybe that's why? :laugh5:

[pattiboyd's slave]

I'll start by saying my children are named Alexandra and Nicholas and it was only after Nick was born that I'd realized I'd named them after Russian czars![/QUOTE]

Bravo, I'm a Nick (Nicholas) also; named after my father.
While we're on the subject of names I like the name Marina & had planned on naming a daughter that someday. Marina Nicole.

[Sally]

Bravo, I'm a Nick (Nicholas) also; named after my father.
While we're on the subject of names I like the name Marina & had planned on naming a daughter that someday. Marina Nicole.[/QUOTE]

Are you into the sea then?

[SnarkyKat]

My first and middle names are Katharina and Dawn. No big story behind my name -- my mother picked them out of a baby name book. If I were a boy, I would have been named Giovanni. I used to hate my name when I was younger, mostly because no one could pronounce it correctly (I would always get some form of "Katherine," which annoyed me). Now, though, I think it's a really cool name, because no one has it spelled quite the same way I do (except for 80-year-old Slavic women, apparently).

And, randomly, I have a great-grandmother that was named America.

[Isn't it good]

My first name is Karol, after my maternal grandfather. That side of my family is Polish, so his name, Carl, was spelled exactly the same as mine: Karol. My parents figured that in English-speaking Canada 'Karol' would be read as 'Carol', and they were right. My middle name 'Roberta' (which I've never been especially fond of, to tell the truth) is a combination of my paternal grandparents' names: Rose and Albert. ( I always tell my parents I'll combine their names for my first child and call it 'Pucy' or 'Lual' :teeth1: )


My brother's name is John Paul Thomas...and my aunt used to call him 'John Paul George and Ringo' all the time when he was young. Ha! No wonder he's a fan.

I've always liked the names Eve and Hannah for girls and Samuel and John for boys

[ImaginePeace78]

When I was in high school, there was a German exchange student named Katharina. I loved her name then and still do now. (She pronounced her name as Katarina).
-Kristi

[Rellevart]

Many times I happened to run into people that do not know how to say, or spell my name right. I tell them my name clear as day so they can hear it properly, so they say it wrong anyway. :rolleyes:

Oh, you don't have to have a difficult name to have that problem. I tell people my name is "Suzanne" and they write down or say back to me "Susan" at least 75% of the time. Neither one is that uncommon a name, but THEY'RE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE!!! (Are we, Susan? :wink1:)

[Rellevart]

Actually, I have the same issue with people named Steve - most of the ones I've met (including an ex-boyfriend) ended up being total looneys!

Are you including MY ex-Steve too? LOL, if you're not, you should. :wink1:

[pattiboyd's slave]

Bravo, I'm a Nick (Nicholas) also; named after my father.
While we're on the subject of names I like the name Marina & had planned on naming a daughter that someday. Marina Nicole.

Are you into the sea then?[/QUOTE]

To wise women & men, they look unto the seas and oceans for sustanence for not only their bodies but for their spirits & souls.
(Hi Sally :wave1: )

[Lynner]

Are you including MY ex-Steve too? LOL, if you're not, you should. :wink1:
Oh but of course - he's in the top 10! (ok, so I probably only know 10 men named Steve, but still!):devious:

[beatlebangs1964]

I never liked the name Candace or its equally unappealing nickname, Candy. I came to dislike it even more after cushion faced Candace Cameron whined her way through Full House. What a cushion face. I also can't stand her voice.

James and Jamie were names I always liked.

[Marmalade Skies]

So I shortened Elizabeth to LISA, and gave her the middle name of Marita.
Lisa Marita has *the* cutest ring to it!

I wish my name was something cool. My real name is Carly Rose (Pet-something Polish). People always go 'Oh, like Carly Simon, right?' and I always have to shake my head and say ' No, from a band-aid comercial'. I was named after a little girl in a band-aid comercail. Yay. My mom said it took her over and hour to figure out who she wanted to spell it. I always thought it'd be cool if she spelled it real weird like 'Carleigh' or something. But, no, she had to put a 'y'. And then Rose is my mother's mother.

Honestly, I fear for my children because they will have starnge names. I think my name is really boring so I have vowed to name my kids something interesting and uncommon. I like the names Lucy (Lucille), Lola, Lou (Louise), Bea (Beatrix or Beatrice), Molly and Francine for a girl. For boy, Jude :wink2: , Bert (Albert or Robert), Clyde, Haikydd*, Jimi ( James), or Stuart. I always thought it'd be cool to name a child Lennon, too. Starr would sound alright for a girl I suppose. I do hope my husband understands my likeness for uncommon names.

* Of my own personal creation. It's said like " HEY-KID".

[beatlebangs1964]

I knew a couple who named their son Lennon after John.

I've mentioned Beatle namesakes on other threads, but it seemed a propos here as there are people who have named their pets after Beatles:

My neighbor named her very fat fawn colored male pug George Harrison, but calls him Harrison.

I once talked somebody into naming their dog Ringo.

At the dog park, this man was visiting from out of state with his basenji, Hana. Her full name is Soft Hearted Hana and he had two beagles, Taxman and LouLou (after the Lous in George's life) and a white Persian cat named Olivia. I think we know who his favorite Beatle is! Hana is a beautiful black and white basenji who runs like an Impala (the antelope, not the Chevrolet). www.basenji.org

[Marmalade Skies]

I knew a couple who named their son Lennon after John.

I've mentioned Beatle namesakes on other threads, but it seemed a propos here as there are people who have named their pets after Beatles:

My neighbor named her very fat fawn colored male pug George Harrison, but calls him Harrison.

I once talked somebody into naming their dog Ringo.

At the dog park, this man was visiting from out of state with his basenji, Hana. Her full name is Soft Hearted Hana and he had two beagles, Taxman and LouLou (after the Lous in George's life) and a white Persian cat named Olivia. I think we know who his favorite Beatle is! Hana is a beautiful black and white basenji who runs like an Impala (the antelope, not the Chevrolet). www.basenji.org

Someone else named their son Lennon? Cool. I think that'd be a cool name.

As for beatle-ish named pets, I wish I had one. One of my dogs is named Louise, but she was named that because I just like the name. I should start saying it's after Georgie's sis and mum.

[Grace]

Almost everybody in our family have arabish (or Persian - I'm not sure) names. It's because we are Tatars. My name is Gulnara. It means "the flower of fire". My brother's name is Dinar, my mom's name is Flora (it is pronounsed as Flyora) and my dad's name is Rafis. :)