Baby Names!

[wenrob]

Emily is only 2.

And DH's middle name is Andrew, lol.

I know it is important to him to have Michael as a middle name. When we were within a year of dating and talking about names, he brought it up. But, to me, that was already passed down to Emily. I really admire my father (and his father shared the same name) and my FIL. They are some of my favorite people, just good, kind, strong men. The kind I would like any hypothetical son to grow into (DH is included in that as well, of course). And they all have my style name, lol.

Ah, I shouldn't stress over it. Look at my track record, I'm 4-0 for girls, lol.

Oh, haha! Well you would have her whole life to play it up as a cool thing to share with her brother. It's a hard call to maybe let go of tradition I'm sure. I also get the wanting to share your father/FIL's names. My boy is also named after my father who was named after his father.

I have a girlfriend who has four girls and finally got her boy on the fifth. It could happen, lol.

 

[bigbabyblues]

Charles Andrew or Andrew Charles

Personally, Michelle and Michael are not the same to me. Michaela would be more like a feminine form of Michael. But, we don't do family names either.

 

[MamaBelle4]

Charles Andrew or Andrew Charles

Personally, Michelle and Michael are not the same to me. Michaela would be more like a feminine form of Michael. But, we don't do family names either.

My niece is Mikaela.
My brother in law and DH are both Michael.
My sister and sister in law are both Angela.
My brother and brother in law are both Matthew.
And my sister in law and niece are both Laura. Lots of duplicates in my family.

 

[MamaBelle4]

Oh, haha! Well you would have her whole life to play it up as a cool thing to share with her brother. It's a hard call to maybe let go of tradition I'm sure. I also get the wanting to share your father/FIL's names. My boy is also named after my father who was named after his father.

I have a girlfriend who has four girls and finally got her boy on the fifth. It could happen, lol.

If it doesn't, the new little girl will have all the clothes and toys she'll ever need!

 

[Kellykins1218]

I think you should go with Eugene...and call him Charles Flynn

 

[PigletsPal2]

I don't have boys, and after the debacle of my father predicting a boy for my first child, we decided that with our second, we wouldn't even consider any names at all until the baby was born and we learned the gender and saw a little personality. The debacle was that my father had correctly predicted the gender of each of his nieces and nephews - more than 20 kids! - so when he said we were having a boy, we took it as gospel and decided on the name Richard Dameron, the middle and last names of DH's unmarried rich uncle. We never even discussed girls' names.

Well, of course we had a girl, born in a military hospital where in those days you couldn't take home an unnamed baby. DH was in the Army, stationed in the Canal Zone and I was in Washington DC, so we really couldn't talk about it over a cup of coffee. Finally, I told him in a letter that our daughter's name was a combination of the diminutive French version of my name (our last name is French) and his father's first name with a more feminine spelling. I enclosed her hospital baby photo and introduced him to his daughter, Collette Alyson.

When baby #2 arrived (another girl), we decided on Laura to honor my father, Francis Lawrence, for his years of baby-gender-predicting and from which he retired after Collette. Laura's middle name is Mireille, because it's French and I like it. She says she was ten years old before she learned to spell her middle name. It's pronounced Meer-RAY in French and Mir-ray in English and Mir-relly by her grandfather (DH's stepfather).

Almost certainly TMI, but it explains how we came up with the names, having no tradition to consult. DH's father died when his namesake was only two months old so they never got to know each other, but my dad got to know Laura a little; she was almost two years old when he died. She doesn't remember him at all.

I think you're going to be very happy in the years to come that you incorporated family names in your children's names. You'll forever have a remembrance of your loved ones.

Queen Colleen







Queen Colleen

 

[MamaBelle4]

I don't have boys, and after the debacle of my father predicting a boy for my first child, we decided that with our second, we wouldn't even consider any names at all until the baby was born and we learned the gender and saw a little personality. The debacle was that my father had correctly predicted the gender of each of his nieces and nephews - more than 20 kids! - so when he said we were having a boy, we took it as gospel and decided on the name Richard Dameron, the middle and last names of DH's unmarried rich uncle. We never even discussed girls' names.

Well, of course we had a girl, born in a military hospital where in those days you couldn't take home an unnamed baby. DH was in the Army, stationed in the Canal Zone and I was in Washington DC, so we really couldn't talk about it over a cup of coffee. Finally, I told him in a letter that our daughter's name was a combination of the diminutive French version of my name (our last name is French) and his father's first name with a more feminine spelling. I enclosed her hospital baby photo and introduced him to his daughter, Collette Alyson.

When baby #2 arrived (another girl), we decided on Laura to honor my father, Francis Lawrence, for his years of baby-gender-predicting and from which he retired after Collette. Laura's middle name is Mireille, because it's French and I like it. She says she was ten years old before she learned to spell her middle name. It's pronounced Meer-RAY in French and Mir-ray in English and Mir-relly by her grandfather (DH's stepfather).

Almost certainly TMI, but it explains how we came up with the names, having no tradition to consult. DH's father died when his namesake was only two months old so they never got to know each other, but my dad got to know Laura a little; she was almost two years old when he died. She doesn't remember him at all.

I think you're going to be very happy in the years to come that you incorporated family names in your children's names. You'll forever have a remembrance of your loved ones.

Queen Colleen







Queen Colleen

Your post didn't feel like TMI to me. And I adore the name Collette. Thank you!

 

[low-key]

congratulations MamaBelle5