Girl Names...WE'RE HAVING A GIRL! (video posted #51)

[caseysmom]

I like Clara E. too. It's a lovely name, and not too common. There's an awful lot of "Natalie"s these days. Josephine was my MIL's name, pretty, but I find it a little too old-fashioned.

Really? I don't know any other Natalie's besides mine...

[*LabLoverKEB*]

I too really like the sound of Clara Elizabeth. Very pretty name!

[cyber-sibes]

Really? I don't know any other Natalie's besides mine...

My friend in IL's daughter, and I've run into at least 3 Natalies around here. Maybe its popularity is regional? It is a pretty name, I can understand why its gaining in use.

[caseysmom]

My first daughter is named Jennifer...now that name is a bit overused but I had it picked for many years while going through infertility and I was set on using it.

One daycare I looked at for her had 5 jennifers already

[Husky_mom]

I like Adrienne Elizabeth.. LOL a lil version of my name... hehe Isabel Adriana...

I do like Elizabeth.....

and also Josephine... but a lil too long names...you could use Joseph for a boy...

[caseysmom]

I like Adrienne Elizabeth.. LOL a lil version of my name... hehe Isabel Adriana...

I do like Elizabeth.....

and also Josephine... but a lil too long names...you could use Joseph for a boy...

I love Adriana, that is a beautiful name.

[finn's mom]

I never thought of it that way. I actually prefer names that can't be changed into nicknames easily.

It could be that my name has no nickname options, and if you're Jennifer, you probably get all kinds of nicknames! Who knows, though, why we like what we like? I gave up trying to figure that out a long time ago!

[carole]

I am also one that prefers names that cannot be nick names, but kids always find one no matter what lol, i guess that is why i like carole, no-one has ever called me anything else, except one guy at work who chose to call me Kaz, i have no idea why and i liked that, it is the start of my email address now.

My daughters friends call her Missa, she is Melissa,it has kinda stuck with us as well, although i rather have her real name used, it grows on one lol.

[Taz_Zoee]

Yes, even if you choose a name that can't have nicknames, kids will still make things up. Like rhyming names. Cindy Bindy or Carol Barrel (sorry Carole).
I went to school with a boy named Mark and people always said Mark and Cindy - like Mork and Mindy the old sitcom in the 80's.
Kids will be kids.

[carole]

Fortunately i was spared that lol, lucky me, no nick names ,only Kaz which has nothing what so ever to do with my name Carole, he just started calling me that at work and it stuck, and i liked it thank goodness .

[finn's mom]

Well for the sake of the thread, I'm mostly referring to nicknames that are shortened versions of the name itself, not just pet names or playful ones. I have had a few of my own, Karebear being one of them. Half pint, Cheerful, Sunshine, those are names kids called me in school. But, yeah, as long as they're not mean spirited, I like those kinds of deviations.

[Daisy and Delilah]

My first daughter is named Jennifer...now that name is a bit overused but I had it picked for many years while going through infertility and I was set on using it.

One daycare I looked at for her had 5 jennifers already

My daughter's name is Jennifer too. When I picked her name in 1975, I was so proud of myself. I thought I was being original. Hahahaha.....there must have been 6 other Jennifers in every class she had. Her middle name is Alane--at least I was clever enough to change Elaine to Alane. I don't think I've ever seen that name anywhere else.
With her name being Jennifer Alane, she has a ton of nicknames. Some she likes and some she doesn't really care for. At least none of them are in bad taste.

[Marigold2]

I like the way Clara looks with the name Elizabeth. The length of the name rolls off the tongue well also. I think the others are too long when they are spoken with Elizabeth.

[beeniesmom]

I like them all but Clara Elizabeth is so sophisticated and pretty.
We have to decide on what our lil girl will be named...

[Cataholic]

I must have a weird tongue! ClarA Elizabeth is tough for me to articulate. I would rather it be Claire Elizabeth.

I don't know what your last name is (and I am not asking), but, I would be cautious of having your child's initials spell something. For instance, my friend is having a baby girl in May. If they went with just her last name, and didn't hyphen it with his, this little one's initials would be ARS.