Names you just love?

[WatchingThemGrow]

I enjoy the naming threads, but I have a hard time suggesting things with certain constraints - needs to begin with an x, have 4 syllable, NOT have the long a sound, must rhyme with ____ and sound great with 3 siblings' names, etc.

Just off the top of your head, what are some names you always thought were nice but never used for whatever reason?

Ellory
Eliane
Jackson
are mine.

[AbbysMom]

I love Jack for a boy and Angelina for a girl. Both are family names. If only Angelina Jolie weren't around, I'd have an Angie!

[vludmilla]

Isabella
Rachel
Lauren
Sophia
Olivia
Natalia
Annalise

[MelissaTC]

Evan
Everett
Elias
Noah
Connor
Aiden

Mikayla
Camryn
Halle
Hailey
Isabella (my Grandma's name is Isabel)

[momof2girls]

Whitney
Erica
Natalia

Liam

[DrSally]

Girl:
Julia
Riley (Although prob not after the John Edward's scandal)
Madeline
Grace
Laurel

Boy:
Dylan
Jack

[KpbS]

Lots of girl names, LOL.

Caroline
Jane
Eleanor
etc.

[mecawa]

Boy Names:
Jack (haven't had a boy yet so it hasn't been used)

Girls Names:
Madelyn (love, love, love it, Dh does not)
Victoria
Meredith

[sunnyside]

I love Jackson too.

I'm trying to come up with a girl name right now for my baby. I feel like I've heard them all, but I don't feel sure about any of them! It is a big challenge to name someone!!!

Names I love but wont be using:

Clementine
Samantha
Storm (for middle name)
Sophia
Chloe
Charlotte

Boys names that I loved but we had decided against (before we found out she's a girl):
Owen
Elliott

[LarsMal]

Graham
Hayden
Thomas
Eli


Jillian
Delaney
Jenna
Bridget
Caroline
Gwen
Audrey

[DietCokeLover]

Mallory
Laurel
Gabriella
Lindsey
Anna

Christopher
Phillip
Jefferson
Logan

[Jo..]

Laurel and Ariel for girls

Cole for boy...

I chose to give my kiddos more traditional names, but will always love these. If I had another boy, he'd be Noah.

[L'sMommy]

Rachel
Emma
Eliza

Connor
Noah
Luke

[boolady]

Clara
Cordelia
Julia
Lydia
Louisa
Harper
Amelia
Elsa
Charlotte
ETA: Gwendolyn (mamicka's list reminded me:))

Benjamin
Theodore
Jeremy

[HIU8]

Girls:

Jenna
Jocelyn
Jacqueline
Orli
Aliyah
Aviva
Talia
Jordana
Elana
Ilana
Devon
Taryn
Sionna
Ariella

Boys:
Eli
Edward
Jacob
Elliot
Ethan
Ephram
Avi
Ari
Elan
Todd
Jarrett

[mamicka]

Charlotte
Emmaline
Veronica
Genevieve
Gwendolyn
Ophelia
ETA:
Clara
Louisa
Catherine

Nigel
Oscar
Ronin
Abram

[ourbabygirl]

Girls:

Katherine (Kate)
Laura
Lauren
Alexandra
Anna
Suzanna
Grace
Elizabeth

Boys:

Alex
Andrew
Luke
Thomas
John/ Jack

Traditional & maybe boring, I know, but they're what I like. :)

[KrystalS]

Great thread because DH and I are having issues deciding on name if we have a boy.
Girl:
Lila
Elizabeth
Isabella
Carly
Sophie

Boy
Rowan (DH loves)
Liam (I love)
Jaxon
Owen
Carter
Eli

[TwinFoxes]

I love these threads!

Girls:
Lillian
Ileana
April
Hero (My crazy girls name :) )
Philippa
Camilla
Willa
Fiona
Siobahn
Soledad

Boys (these are mostly whacky, because I never had to seriously consider boys names)
Caspar
Tobias
John (one "normal" name)
Seamus
Benjamin (another normal one!)
Mateo

ETA: ooh ooh, PP reminded me, Carter was a top choice for me.

[blisstwins]

Tatiana
Elena
Katerina
Anya

Charlie
Alexander

[MolieMuts]

Piper
Shay
Ivy

Wade
Shae

[lmh2402]

i love thinking about names...

eliza
emma
eve
grace
greta
harper
nora
orla

garrett
graham
liam
noah
nolan
william

[iowavb]

Great thread because DH and I are having issues deciding on name if we have a boy.
Girl:
Lila
Elizabeth
Isabella
Carly
Sophie

Boy
Rowan (DH loves)
Liam (I love)
Jaxon
Owen
Carter
Eli

My daughter's name is Rowan :)

[newg]

Ohhhh this is just the thread I needed!! We **hopefully** find out tomorrow what we're having!! We have tons of girls names we like, but pretty much no boy names.

Names I like:

Gwendolyn (my name!)
Wendy (DD's)
Catherine (or Katherine)
Madelyn
Ella
Elizabeth
Clara or Clair
Kaitlin (haven't decided on a spelling yet)
Caitlyn

Michael
Joseph
Joshua
Jackson
Alexander

I like names that can be shortened to a nickname.

[Maggie'sMom]

Whitten
Natalie
Darcie

Cooper
Eli
Micah

[jgenie]

Caroline
Gabriella
Isabella
Lauren
Sophia
Olivia
Camila

Daniel
Nicholas

[ewpmsw]

Elliott
John
Rowan
Ileana
Sterling
Cady
Cyndol
Gillian* (hoping to talk DH into this one)

[liamsmom]

Diana (all time favorite)
Darcy
Angela
Aisling (pronounced Ash-ling)
Caroline
Courtney
Carly
Veronica
Erika
Kara
Portia

Luke (all time favorite)
Logan
Jeremy
Nathan/iel
Anthony
Michael
Jason
Lucas
Seth

[TahliasMom]

isabella
kara
kayla
annabelle
ayala
ava
lily

derek
liam
cole
carter

[MontrealMum]

Girls:
Isabel/Isobel/Isabelle
Olivia
Helen/Helene
Clare/Claire
Aileen
Ailis
Catriona/Kathleen
Meredith
Margritte/Margaret/Maggie
Brigitte/Bridget
Lynn/Lynne
Virginia
Emily/Emilie/Emma
Ingrid
Astrid

Boys:
Michael
Lars
Jacob

MUCH more agreement on the boy's names than the girl's.

[shawnandangel]

Julianne
Ruth - my absolute favorite but a big no no on DH's list b/c he dated a Ruth for a long time in high school.
Genevieve
Alexandria
Ava
Annalise
Isabella
Lilith

Connor - would have been DD's name if she had been a DS
James
Noah
Luke

[MoJo]

Lian would have been our boy's name.

Amelia is my favorite girl's name that I'll never get to use because DH doesn't like the possible nickname Amy.

We're still completely undecided on the name for the little girl inside. The first one was easy!

[JTsMom]

Charlotte
Julia
Kate

Jackson/Jack
Nathan

[Cheburashka]

For my girl names:
Charlotte
Evelyn
Aoife
Shizuka
Natasha
Kimiko
Tarja
Kaisa

For my boy names:
Nathan
Liam
Andile
Cody

[TwinFoxes]

Amelia is my favorite girl's name that I'll never get to use because DH doesn't like the possible nickname Amy.


FWIW, my mom's name was Amelia, and no one ever called her Amy. (I remember having a conversation with her about not having a nickname). It's not really a nickname for Amelia. I mean I guess you can shorten anything and call it a nickname, but it's not like Gabriella/Gabby, if you know what I mean.

I'm a big fan of the name Amelia obviously. :) One of my DDs has it for a MN.

[boogiemomz]

FWIW, my mom's name was Amelia, and no one ever called her Amy. (I remember having a conversation with her about not having a nickname). It's not really a nickname for Amelia. I mean I guess you can shorten anything and call it a nickname, but it's not like Gabriella/Gabby, if you know what I mean.

I'm a big fan of the name Amelia obviously. :) One of my DDs has it for a MN.

i had the same thought... i :heartbeat: amelia! i knew an amelia growing up and no one ever called her amy... i wouldn't think of that as a nn for it at all. may your DH just doesn't like it and that's his excuse? if so, tell him the BBB has spoken and he's been overruled! ;)

needing the hubby to agree can really put a damper on the whole baby naming thing, can't it? don't they know that we know what's best? :ROTFLMAO:

[lowrioh]

Girls
Bess
Lucille
Esme
Cornellia
Anne

Boys
Colm
Mils
Emil
Adrian
Lucas (SIL named her DS Lucas in Feb)

[Seitvonzu]

sophia (sophie)
violet (my mother said this reminded her of a southern hairdresser, bleh!)
joy
clementine

eta:
katherine (how could i forget katherine?)
lily (i guess i like flower names)
ALICE

LOVELOVELOVE-- Phillipa!!! (ever since i saw that name in an anne of green gables book)

boys are harder. we don't see ourselves as a boy family -- like ever, even if our current only becomes a sibling. we like lots of boy names (well, i do :)--

ethan
jack
edward
austin (we want to move back to texas, so i wouldn't do this)
william

i'm pretty traditional. our current child is "lucille margaret" and we call her "Lucy"-- after my grandmother.

[jse107]

For boys:
Parker
Jackson
Chase
Brady
Nolan

For girls:
Allison
Maggie
Megan
Caroline
Charlotte

[Twoboos]

Morgan
Kayla
Riley
Gianna (but this is a recent occurrence)

Jeremy (would never use it, psycho exBF's name)
Mark
Ryer - this was our boy name that we never needed! :) I really ended up liking it, even though I was on the fence at first.

[fortato]

Jack- of course.

Girls-
Kate
April
Julianne
Dorothy
Alison
Elise

Boys-
Oliver
Matthew
Connor
Anderson
Henry
Leo


Of course, All the names I love for boys, are being vetoed by my husband...so this baby has no name.

[LexyLou]

-Gabriella "Ella" DD1
-Sofia DD2(I love sofia and always have but hate that I've given her the Jennifer of the 2010's. Oh well.)
-Amelia (which is what I wanted to name Sofia but DH said no)
-Ana (pronounced aahh na, but would always get butchered)


Boys:

-Benjamin
-Joaquin

[sariana]

Girls:

Catherine-Dad's ex-wife was Katie, so this one was out
Sarah-I love, love, love. DH doesn't. It's also the name of a neighbor.
Asia-I like this name but wouldn't give it to my real child.
Allegra-same as above, especially after it became an allergy med (i.e. I wouldn't use it after that)
Christine-but I like it more as a middle name (Sarah Christine)

Boys:

Jonathan-would have been my choice if DD had been a boy
Kevin

DH liked a certain girl's name, but it wasn't my favorite. We had a First Middle picked out, but I convinced him that we should switch them. I'm really glad because I like DD's middle name less all the time. I'm so glad it's not her first name. It also wouldn't suit her.

[HIU8]

Oh, I really like Asia and I would use it. I know someone who's name is Kenya.

[arivecchi]

I wanted to use Morgan, Mckenzie and Blake, but did not get my way. :irked:

[AnnieW625]

Audrey
Abigail
Violet
Elisa
Lauren
Jocelyn
Jenna/Jena
McKenna
Cassidy
Odessa

Max
Ethan
Jacob
Nicholas
Simon
Jack/John/Jackson
Ian

[shawnandangel]

It's suprising to me to see McKenna becoming a girls name. Mckenna is the name of DH's brother and I was always told it meant "son of Ken". (DH's father is Ken).

I really like the name though.

[catpagmo]

I have always loved the name Scout.

[wellyes]

I like Scout too.
I also like:
Tuesday
Blue

[SnuggleBuggles]

Amelia
Isabella
Kate

Alexander
Benjamin
Nicholas
Xavier

Beth

[bandgsmama]

girl name: Kingsley

boy name: Rigby

[TwinFoxes]

girl name: Kingsley

boy name: Rigby

I like Ben and Gracie better. :)

[mamicka]

Couple more:

Phillipa
Antonia
Amor
Jezabel (I know, I know - if one could ever get rid of the negatives with this name, I think it has a beautiful sound. DH thinks I'm crazy)
Beata (Beatrice, Beatrix)

Felix
Jasper
Josiah

[clb]

Catherine
Virginia
Camille

Adrian
William
Patrick

[jacksmom1]

isabella
kara
kayla
annabelle
ayala
ava
lily

derek
liam
cole
carter

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beautiful names, but in diff. situation now, just browsing around and trying to keep smiling...

[Tondi G]

girls

Paige
Olivia
Sophia
Isabel/Isabella
Charlotte


Boys

Declan
Noah
Gavin
Atticus

[kijip]

Ones we chose not to use but could have:

Julian/Jules
Joshua
Theodore
Gabriel

All of the girls names did not get used. That whole having boys thing.

Etta
Marian
Josephine
Beatrice

were some of my fave girls names.

[Fairy]

Willow
Eden
Henry
Ryan
Meredith
Marlena
Piper
Rose
Gwen

Yes, I know one-third of Sarah Palin's kids' names are represented here. I don't have much to say for her other than I think her girl's names are really cool.

[fivi2]

girls:
Violet
Vivian
Amelia
Zoe
Lilith/Lily
Laurel
Sabine
Piper
Olivia

boys:
Atom
Calvin
Miles
Griffin
Owen

[SaraBells]

My doctor told me he named his baby girl Aria and I think that's best name I've ever heard!

[SnuggleBuggles]

Sabrina
Isabella
Benjamin
Talulah


Beth

[stillplayswithbarbies]

I actually love my name, Karen, but my mom is Karen too and I just couldn't do that to a third generation. I did consider it though. And then I remembered all the phone calls where my dad would just hand the phone to whichever Karen was standing closest, which resulted in my mom talking to my boyfriend sometimes LOL. And the fact that some people in my family still call me "Little Karen" even though I am taller than my mom.