Michael
Great name, but alas it is my name and we don't want to name them after us...
Quite like Riley. Hmmm
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Children's names! HELP!
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Posted 3 years ago #
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michael jrn.
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Radio 1 DJ Sara Cox is son is called Isaaxc ... nice!
Is his surname cox though? Might not be.
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Munqe-chick I agree.... just a wee hurdle to get over....
Was going through middle names as well... Effie Louise.... sounded like F'ing Louise to me...
I'm more with Holly myselfPosted 3 years ago # -
We called our non identical twins Katie and Emily, but if you can choose names that don't end with the same sound then it will help, as currently they both respond to both names!
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Also twins names should be the same lenght so they can learn to spell them at the same time, eg Sam and Christopher is a no no.
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Effie Louise .. that's great! makes me chuckle everytime I say it! I do like Holly, that's my niece's name.
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Don't choose anything that's difficult to spell - either for the child her/himself, or for other people.
Or something that looks like a misspelling of a normal name - like 'Jaycub' or 'Izaac' or whatever. They'll get six different spellings every time someone writes it down, all wrong. Plus it makes people think they have illiterate parents.
Joe
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Mercedes - Chardonnay
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We went for the shortened versions for both our kids, as we knew we'd never use the full names so there didn't seem any point in using them. Plus, we've a mate called Ben whose parents wanted to just call him Ben but were pressured into calling him Benjamin and regretted it.
Names we were thinking of, but didn't use: Noah, Sam, Hannah. We really liked Hannah, but we're from Darlington where the letter 'H' as the initial letter in a word is considered optional...
We went for Ellie and Libby in the end. (Geek points: Ellie is named after Samwise Gamgee's first child.)
Don't get hung up too much on not choosing the popular names - I was one of four Mike/Michaels in my class at secondary school and it was never an issue and my daughter is on of many Ellies.
We went for simple names, as they're stuck with McTimoney as a surname for a long time (I'm alliterative).
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Effie?
Think you mean Euphemia, which although it sounds like a debilitating lung disease caused by excessive brass band practice is at least preferable to Effie
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Any news yet? How's Mrs M-F coping with this hot weather?
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my tip for new kids names, take the first names of you and your partners dads:
Vlassis (the wifes old man, he is Greek) and Ronnald (my old man) = Vlonald or Vlon for short.
Angela (the wifes mum) and Sheila (my mum) - Shangala
I quite like Vlonald
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Stuart and Ken = Sten or Kert
Carolyn and Susan = Carosan or SuslynPosted 2 years ago # -
Shangala has a certain ring to it I think.
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Shane is a terrific name IMHO
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Any news yet? How's Mrs M-F coping with this hot weather?
No news yet - Mrs MF is coping okay thanks but we are relieved they will be out sooner rather than later especially if we get the really long hot summer the forecasters are promising us.We actually have our 36 week scan tomorrow afternoon so we should know a precise plan of action then (unless they make a surprise early appearance before then).
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Heat is terrible for pregnancies. My first was born on the hottest day of 2003, which was fun.
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It is fascinating watching them move around though.
They seem to particularly like it when I start singing 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' at them.
(Awhimaaway!)
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I love all these old fashioned Anglo-Saxon and Celtic names, well done STW. We played it safe and went for Charles, James and Grace.
Please, please don't shorten their names already. Flash, Feline and Rusty are right, give them the full handle. Jack is a nickname for John or James and has been for about 400 years. Standards please.
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If you are Star Wars / Indiana Jones fan you have to call your boy Harris..
Harris dAnford
"is that my coat?"
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