Blast From The Past

I happened to stumble upon this old post, which was my “question of the week” on baby names.  Since it’s mine, I will quote in full, copyright be damned:

Question of the Week: Baby Names

This question was not inspired by Kim Crawford, whose related post I just saw. It was inspired by this post and my comment to it over at Acidman’s.

Those of you who don’t have any kids yet, do you already have any names picked out? If you never had kids after all, or now don’t expect to, do you find it disappointing not to be able to use the name(s)?

Those of you who do have kids, did you have names in mind as much as years beforehand? Is that what you ended up using, or something else?

Was there any particular inspiration for the name(s)?

Feel free to give us details! What names you like or dislike, why, what you used or planned to use, what you actually did use. I bet some of you came into a marriage with baby names already in mind, only to have to haggle with the spouse who also had names in mind.

The first comment on that post?  Deb of course:

Hmmm...I don’t expect to ever have children. If I had a daughter, though, I’d want to name her Sadie, which is the name I *almost* got, after a relative of mine who was a wild woman before wild women were cool. I wouldn’t exactly say I’m disappointed that I’ll probably never get the chance, but that’s a whole ‘nother comment, as they say.

Heh.  Little did she know…

So how about now?  Any new or additional responses to this?  The commenters included Ian, Candy, Kate, Ith, Jennifer, Rob, Ken, and Dave.

1. I have always like the name Elizabeth, which we did end up using as Katherine’s middle name, mainly because we didn’t like “Beth” as a nickname.  You already know that we love the name Sarah (remember the name war? LOL).  Oddly enough, my mother suggested all three of our kids names and we loved them.  Funny how the naming thing works out.

   Posted by Sharon  on  06/29  at  02:47 PM

2. That’s why that seemed familiar!

   Posted by Ith  on  06/29  at  03:02 PM

3. Brandon’s name was picked out a fair amount of time before I was even pregnant. The next one, if a boy, will be Matthew. I like Matthew Dillon, the hubby does not like the “Dillon”. If a girl, Ashley Elizabeth. Originally, it was going to be Laila Elizabeth, but then we found out the meaning of “Laila”...not something a mother would be proud of!

   Posted by Amanda  on  06/29  at  06:18 PM

4. Rule #1, no family names (don’t want to deal with the politics)
   Rule #2, no names with obvious “body” nicknames (peter, richard, etc)\
   rule #3, no names that over and over again seem to belong to assholes (Nathan and Andrew come to mind… Sorry… just my experience)

   Posted by caltechgirl  on  07/01  at  10:11 PM

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