Last week I announced I'm having a girl. The only problem with this (besides Mike casually asking me if I would ever consider a third) is that I already used my girl name.
The name 'Mazzy' was established long before I met the man I wanted to marry, headlining the baby name list I've had hidden in a folder within a folder within a folder on my computer for the past fifteen years.
It was the first name I suggested to Mike when I got pregnant and it was the only name he liked from that point forward.
Easiest process ever.
This time around, naming our baby is proving to be a bit more difficult. Every name I bring up connotes some sort of odd association for Mike. His response is usually quick and brutal, with a shake of the head that says, "There is nothing you can do to change my mind".
Our conversations (pre-gender determination) have gone something like this:
ME: What do you think of Rowan?
MIKE: RO-WAN?
ME: Yes, Rowan.
MIKE: No.
ME: What's wrong with Rowan? Rowan is a cool kid!
MIKE: No, he's not. He's a skinny mime who wears his pants too short.
ME: What? What are you talking about?
MIKE: He thinks he's funny but he's just annoying and British.
ME: WHAT????
MIKE: You know, Rowan Atkinson.
ME: Mr. Bean???
MIKE: Yeah, I'm not naming my kid Mr. Bean.
ME: Nobody associates Rowan with Mr. Bean.
MIKE: I DO.
ME: Alright, what to do you think of Lennon for a girl?
MIKE: No.
ME: Why not?
MIKE: Everybody's gonna think we're huge Beatles fans and start asking music questions we're not going to know the answer to.
ME: This is coming from the guy who suggested Hendrix for a boy?
MIKE: Hendrix is an awesome name.
ME: You know NOTHING about Jimmy Hendrix. What about Lennox instead of Lennon?
MIKE: Lennox is a stripper.
ME: Really?
MIKE: Yes. What else you got?
ME: How about Violet?
ObMIKE: Tell me one person who is happy with the name Violet.
ME: I don't know any Violets.
MIKE: Exactly.
ME: What about Archer for a boy?
MIKE: (long pause) Archer is cool.
ME: And then we can call him Archie for short!
MIKE: You just ruined it for me.
ME: Okay, we'll never call him Archie…
MIKE: No. Next.
ME: Sebastian?
MIKE: Sebastian is a cat.
ME: Jasper?
MIKE: Jasper is a ghost.
ME: That's Casper.
MIKE: Same thing.
ME: Allegra?
MIKE: Allegra is an allergy medication.
ME: Alexa?
MIKE: I like Alexa.
ME: No, I'm not naming my kid Alexa.
MIKE: You just said Alexa.
ME: I know. Forget that ever happened. Isadora?
MIKE: No.
ME: I LOVE ISADORA!!!!
MIKE: Everyone is going to call her Izzy and then we'll have Mazzy and Izzy and that just sounds stupid.
ME: Alright, you have a point. You come up with something.
MIKE: Indiana.
ME: Huh. That's pretty.
MIKE: Indiana Jones Wiles.
ME: YOU SUCK.
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Obviously, Mike and I need help. What should Mazzy's sister's name be? (And just for fun, I'm going to answer as Mike in the comment section.)
Since we're on the topic, I thought it was finally time to share my 'tale of baby name regret' over on Babble today. For a brief period after Mazzy was born, I experienced the baby naming equivalent of "buyer's remorse". It was awful and took me over two years before I could write about it. But don't worry— it has a happy ending.
Hahaha Jasper and Casper – same difference.
With the 2nd boy, we chose it very early, way before we knew we were having a boy. We were both happy with it until week 36 – clearly someone (not me) had too much time to think about it and suggested a name change. So we did what people do – scour the Internet. I suggested Kai and he liked it. So Kai it was. Until a week before the baby was born and he said, “Kai sounds too hippy. People will think we’re flower people.”
Me: ……….
We named the baby with our first choice name. Good luck!
we had two names we couldn’t decide between. and then he was born and we said, “ok, now he’s austin.” he just didn’t look like a dylan.
Back in the day, we didn’t know if we were having a boy or a girl until we gave birth. We had to agree on TWO names! Alyssa’s dad wouldn’t even discuss girls’ names until I was seven months pregnant! That was fun.
I’ve been ‘blessed’ with an ability to think of how kids would tease just about any name you can think of. Not fun when you’re trying to name your own!
I heard the name Marinka the other day and thought it would be a great name for you.
What about the name Bonnie? I think it is absolutely adorable, and although I’m having a girl I can’t name her Bonnie because that’s my mom’s name and my husband thinks that is just weird to have a daughter named after his mother in law (I know, right?).
It’s also the name of that adorable girl in one of the Toy Story movies, oh, and I guess there is that Bonnie and Clyde connection too…
I just read your post on your baby name regret…and WOW…I now have to read your post saying Mazzy in my head in a different way…I never knew it didn’t rhyme with Daisy…so sorry!! I am glad I read that post because now I can say it the RIGHT way 🙂
Rerun. Since you are Peanuts fans and all.
Oh my gosh. Seriously, have you been eavesdropping on the conversations at my house? However, instead of girl names, it’s boy names. We don’t know what we’re having yet, and we’re set on girl names, but cannot agree on boy names. Of course, it doesn’t help that he vetoes EVERYTHING, yet has nothing to add. Grr.
This sounds like every conversation I have with my husband about baby names. My favorite is when I’ll say, “Oh, do you like ____ ?” And he’ll make some horrible noise and moan and respond with, “No! Ugh! Why, do you?” And then I have to pretend that a name I thought would be perfect was just a joke. We have a boy named pretty much settled on, but if it’s a girl I’m almost positive we’re going to be stuck at the hospital for a really long time because we won’t be able to decide on anything!
Harper or Malia?
Oh my gosh, this is the convos in my house 800% right now. We are still completely girl nameless. My husband also always remembers a girl he didnt like with the same name. I have no help for you.
Some names we’ve thrown around recently, even though we’re not planning on a second any time soon.
Felix, Monroe, Arianna, Olivia, Elliott.
My girl name was Caroline. For some reason it was SO EASY to come up with and the boy names just about killed us. I finally saw ‘Brody’ two days before the c section on a BMW commercial during the Oscars. It was the name of a kid who was saved by a BMW right after a lady named ‘Farrah’. So yeah, I was biased.
Good luck!
I’ve always been curious about Mazzy’s name, but it seemed rude to ask… as hard as I’d try to phrase it with genuine curiousity, I was sure it would come across like “so why did you give your kid that weird name?”. In any case, I love that it’s unique but not too complicated. Now… for this new baby!
My sister has a friend who named her daughter Calaia (Ca-LAY-AH)… I’m not sure if that’s the exact spelling she used but I LOVE the name. Same combination of unique and not too complicated that you seemed to strike with Mazzy. It certainly wasn’t a name I had ever heard before.
That was a fun re-visitation of our own naming discussions. For the record, I grew up with a cat named Sebastian so I totally agree on that point. My husband and I didn’t talk names until we new the gender, and I like you had had my little girl’s name set aside for 15 years already (Evelyn), so it was mostly a middle-name discussion. But we didn’t totally settle on it (Victoria) until a few minutes after she was born!
It’s a good thing you named him Austin because Dylan really messed up Kelly’s life in the end.
Oh, and since my husband has already vetoed it for future use in our own home, may I suggest Amethyst? You can call her Amy for short. I also once knew an Amaryllis which I think is really pretty, and you could also use Amy for short with that one.
I like Rerun. But he’s less a Peanuts character and more a fat guy who wears a beanie on “What’s Happening”. Maybe Dee would be a good name for a girl…
I had the same experience with boys names! Our first baby was a boy, but unfortunately he was stillborn. When I got pregnant with Caitlyn, we knew we were in trouble if we ended up with another boy. We used literally the ONLY boys name we could agree on already!
Felix is a cat, Monroe is the annoying neighbor on “Two Close for Comfort”, Arianna is too pretentious, Olivia is a pig, and Elliott is the guy from “Thirty Something”.
What else you got?
Names I loved (I have 3 girls) but got vetoed by my husband: Morgan, Maia, Avery, Caileigh (kay-lee), and Vivian. Names we ended up using: Zoe, Gwendolyn, and Elena. I am just thankful we never had a boy – he was *dead set* on using his dad’s name, which I was *dead set* against, but thanks to strong X chromosomes we never had to have that fight.
Ha! I’m so glad that I don’t have to deal with trying to name another child. My one was perfect but I just couldn’t get her middle name down. Then me and a girlfriend were talking and she came up with Emilee Odessa and that was my girl.
Whatever you do THINK about it. Long and hard. I’ve had to live 32 yrs with my name and High School was a suck fest. My name is Cinnamon Charmaine (no freakin lie!) I tell my mom all the time she was smoking crack when she named me. I’ve got a built in stripper name if I ever decide to go that route I won’t even have to think of a stage name! lol
I’m a Jessica so all my kids pay for it. I have a Loralei (Lora-lie) and a Haven and culminating in Baila (Bay-lah). I love it, its completely unique and if I fudge a little I can say its either a variation of Bailey or a pronounciation difference of the Spanish word for ‘she dances’. Also, a name my husband vetoed was Ember I just loved the image it evoked and Haven and Baila are twins so I think both would’ve worked.
Charlotte
Oh, wow… hang on a minute… I’m experiencing a combination of deja vu and PTSD. That was eerily similar to so many of the conversations Hubs and I had when discussing baby names. I actually wrote a post recently about how Lil’ Bit got her name and opened it with a contentious marital discussion about the name Bronwyn. It wasn’t pretty (the discussion, not the name; I maintain the name is gorgeous).
Hubs and Mike would get along well. Just so you know, I’m a baby name freak and would be happy to indulge all your whims while our husbands sit back and make fun of us. Sound good?
I’m not sure exactly when or why Mazzy entered my brain (it’s possible it had something to do with Mazzy Star) but I’ve always thought it would be great name for a girl. Something about it sounds pretty, cute and cool all at once.
Mike loved it too (plus an “M” worked to both honor my grandmother Marion and his grandfather Meyer) and when we looked it up online, it said that it meant precious or pearl in Hebrew- which we thought was perfect.
Shortly after Mazzy was born, we were informed by more than one Israeli person that Mazzy means no such thing. (Never trust the internet!)
But Mazel means luck in Hebrew which is close. And I have since seen Mazzy listed on numerous sites as a variation of Margaret which also means precious or pearl. SO. All good stuff.
As for Calaia, that is a a beautiful name!
If you name your girl some combination of ‘Texas’ and ‘Renaissance’ you get free passes for life to the Texas Renaissance Festival! True story. http://www.texrenfest.com/heirtothethrone
I understand totally we named our first daughter Zoe Alessandra(2). I had suggested the name Zoe and my husband was like no….1 month before I was to give birth he had a revelation saying Zoe just came to him..My second daughter name was supposed to be Noelle…but she didn’t look like a Noelle we named her Maia (pronounced My-Yuh) Isabella(8months).
GOOD LUCK 2 IS TOUGH…..Heres SO Names
Girl Names to go With Mazzy
-Anabelle
-Ellie
-Nina
-Rose
-Ruby
-Lucy
-Darcy
-Noelle
Boy Names to go With Mazzy
-Jack
-Charlie (Charles)
-Henry
-Cullen
-Ian
-Ethan
-Noel (you can pronounced it No-ELL or NOLL like TOLL)
Charlotte is a spider.
I love the name Finley for a girl. Also, Harper. I had a name on my list, too, but never got to use it cause we had boys. Sazie. It’s actually a name I saw at the Hermitage in Nashville- on a gravestone. But that wouldn’t work well with Mazzy.
I have three children: Sean, Grace and Mariah. Each time, I was sure that I had chosen the wrong name, because once they arrived, it seemed awkward. Within a day (or a few days with Mariah) they seem to settle into “their names”. They started looking like a Sean, a Grace, or a Mariah, and then I could never imagine calling them anything else. Well, except for Mariah, who we affectionately call Peanut. She’s going to hate us for that someday!
P.S. – -I wanted the name “Hannah” so bad for my girls, and got vetoed both times. Guess what I got for Christmas last year? A puppy! Guess what her name is? Ha. Ha. I win.
I like Rowan a lot, but hubby doesn’t. Also, to make you feel better, I NEVER thought Mazzy rhymed with Daisy. It just never entered my head that it wouldn’t rhyme with Jazzy. so its not everyone :)Hubby and I have baby name convos all the time even though we’re not trying until the end of the year. I’m just a planner and since I’ve had my babynames forever, I want him to agree lol
So it’s Mah-Z? Ya I was totally thinking rhymes with Daisy whenever I read your blog! That is a new interesting way of saying that name I have never heard before! My son is Jaxen. Said the same as Jackson. but people spell it Jaxson, Jaxon, Jaxsen. Every way but the way it’s supposed to be. And I think it’s an easy spelling!! We also kept our name a secret until we announced his birth, we didn’t want opinions either.
i love reading Mike’s replies to peoples suggestions. that is my favorite part about this post.
so here are mine….
-parker (which is my sons name, and can be a girls name that is why we chose it, cause we had a surprise so it worked for both, done!)
– avery
– calliope
– lane
– raegan
hey we had that problem. I wanted to use Johanna (mother’s name) and that got shot down. I wanted to use Lillian, and that got shot down. So finally I told hubs if you shoot it down you have to offer one up.
We didn’t talk about it for 3 months. Then we got the 1 billion baby names book and went through it line by line.
So we ended up with Rossalyn!
with my our son my husband wanted to name him “Maximander”, which is a combination of Maximilian and Alexander, or “Nickodemus” after the rat in “The Secret of Nimh”. I wanted Benjamin, Theodore, Christian, or Alexander……( classic names) He said Theodore reminded him of a chipmunk, his friends son was named Christian, He just didn’t like Benjamin, so we settled on Alexander. I am now pregnant with our 2nd child and I find out in 2 weeks what I am having…. We haven’t even started with the name debate yet….. But it should be interesting
I have a friend that named her daughter Violet. She seems pretty content with it so far. Btw, I LOVE that name.
Lol my 2nd son’s name is Sebastien.
A few girl names we were going to use, which I loved, but have no use for are: Miguelina (my grandmother), Lily or Lilith, Sarah, and Aeryn
For what it’s worth, I also thought of Rowan Atkinson 🙂 And the first thought for Sebastian was “the crab” (followed closely by “Bach”, but I *am* a music nerd)
We were bombarded by pressure (e.g. Jewish Guilt) to name after family members. My sister had already named her kids after my deceased grandparents, and we had already decided to use at least ONE of the names for my husband’s grandfather. But we didn’t really like any F names enough for a first name, so the middle name became Faith, and we just picked Rebecca because I always liked it.
What killed me was that my husband’s grandmother called us about a month before I was due and literally BEGGED us to name our daughter after her husband. We were already planning on it, but it really pissed me off because it took away the entire sincerity of the gesture. I was NOT HAPPY.
Good luck!
-Heather 🙂
If I have a girl, I want to name her Evolet.
Wow, I’m tired, I read “Calliope” as “Cantelope” 😉
But a kind, smart, and benevolent one 🙂
I like Harper but my wife is scared of the Victoria Beckham factor. Malia sounds like a disease. Get some ointment- I have Malia!
Amethyst sounds like we harvest crystals on the weekend.
About 20 minutes after my #3 was born, my husband was holding her and the OBGYN asked if we had a name for her. I said yes, her name was Kiera (we had discussed this at length and agreed).
Hubby piped up, “No, it’s not.” What? I looked at him, dumbfounded, and saw him looking at her with overwhelming love in his eyes. Without taking his eyes off his little pink bundle, he said “This is my Gracie girl.”
Sold.
Gracie she is 🙂
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How about Bialy? They are awesome toasted with butter.
Girls names are so difficult! When I was pregnant with our second, we came up with a full boy name almost immediately. And then we found out we were having a girl. We finally narrowed it down to Emily and Natalie. We decided that Emily is a little blonde girl and there was no way our child was going to end up blonde, so Natalie won out. And it’s perfect for her!
My ideas:
Grace
Peyton
Ellie
Parker and Avery are good. But Calliope sounds like a melon, Raegan is a know-it-all and the name Lane didn’t make high school any easier for Jon Cusack in “Better Off Dead”.
Theodore is 100% a chipmunk. Or a Cosby Kid.
Adora? 😀
On the topic of “what goes with Mazzy”, I think a repeating name like Coco or Jojo would work well. Anything with a “y” at the end will end-up sounding a little too femmy and I’ll bet Mike would like something that doesn’t over do that girl-y thing. Plus, second girls are often tough little tom-boys and I’ll bet it would suit her in the end. 🙂 Good luck!
wow! 2 approved by mike! including a reference to one of my favorite movies…. “there are raisins in it, you like raisins” 🙂
It’s funny you say that because I keep suggesting anything we can use Lulu for a nickname— Luna, Lula, Luella, etc. Mike vetos them all.
Coco and Jojo both sound like excellent hot beverages.
What about Leona?
If you ever decide to follow your fate and become a stripper, tell Lennox I said hi.
What about Adelyn, Addison, Paxton, Bexley, Emery, Quinley??
My husband and I both worked in jobs that ruined lots of names for us.
We have a Kai Christian, a Gabriel Isak, a Lauren Jade and a Sebastian Liam (older kids wanted input, I would have made him Sebastian Henrik)
We sat down with a baby name book each. Husband with a blue highlighter, I with a pink highlighter) Then we switched book and I went through his names wrote down my top 20 from those and he did the same with my book and those were the only 40 names we looked at from then on.
Then we made a short list of about 10 together, and narrowed down from there.
Lauren Jade had been out girl name for 5 years when she was born and really, I didn’t feel it fit her at all, but went with it anyway. I really felt that she was an Iris, but now Lauren fits.
Good luck, naming is difficult
Helmsley?
Bianca, Mara, Meadow, Mila, Sable, Sade, Shay, Jacey, Delia, Paisley, Parker, Reaghan, Rayna, Rylie, Evie…
I didnt have this issue, I had Jade. My husband and i agreed 100% on this girl name. Then when i found out i was having a boy 3 years ago, we both agreed on Jace. Got REAL creative and switched out one letter…lol.
GOOD LUCK!
I’ll give up my sister’s chosen baby name, since she’s not likely to procreate any time soon (thank God!): Harper Olivia. BTW, I like Violet, but my husband knew a 250lb chick in high school with the same name, so I was ix-nayed. We went with Penelope.. but some Kardashian stole that recently!
practice yelling the name at the top of your lungs: Ie at the playground, or when she’s a teenager and leaving the house half naked. Make sure it sounds strong and serious. And make sure it makes a great by-line too, for when you know, she’s famous like her mom!
OMG. I’m dying. lol
I’m tapped out for names, so I’ll give you variations from our list. Thomas Dean. Tommi can work, so can Deana. Charlotte Rayne. I’ve always loved Charlotte and all variations. Charlie, Chuck, Carla. And Rayne just Rain… You could run with that. Rainey, maybe? Samara Marie. Think “The Ring” Yeah. The little girl in the well. I love it. We often call her Sammy. And Alexavier James. We got stuck, so we asked the older two to help. Thomas came up with Alex, Charlotte came up with James. We added Xavier to make it Alexavier. Good luck! Maybe ask Mazzy what she thinks?
This conversation made me laugh. I have four kids and my husband and I went through the exact same process each time. In the end, we never really agreed, just took turns picking the names we disliked the least from each other’s lists! I have to say that girl names were the easiest – mine is Tessa (his choice, but I don’t hate it!).
also, love the name Lena (pronounce Lee-na). Lena and Mazzy sounds great together!
I picked 3 name combinations. He just had to choose which one fit her the best after she was born. Here were his choices:
Layla Elizabeth
Ella Kate
Zoe Jayne
He picked Zoe, so you can have any of the others since it is looking pretty unlikely that I will ever breed again. I really liked Layla (but apparently I was overruled).
BTW – my father in law was off his damn rocker and got all offended when I rejected every name he tried to offer: Phyllis, Dolores, Belinda. WTF – do you seriously want me to have the only kid to get her ass kicked EVERY DAY?
Ok, I’ll throw my other fav girl names in the ring to see if they withstand the husband test….
Marin
Celeste
Natalia
I don’t know what it is about girls’ names but it’s so hard! I’m laughing so hard at Mike. Wow.
I think being a teacher makes things worse too – boys or girls, although I love Makayla, Kyleen, Addison, Abigail, Caralynn, etc, etc… I associate them with a student I’ve had. Poop.
I think you should totally name #2 after someone on Sesame Street because then it will be easier for Mazzy to welcome them.
Cookie – as a tribute to the Monster
Elma – as a slight head nod to Elmo and Mazzy’s old love before he fell off the ‘cool’ radar.
Erna or Bertie – to show solidarity for that totally straight puppet couple.
Birdie – for the normal 8′ yellow parakeet.
and finally,
Zoe – because that’s already a girl name and she’s cool.
Marin sounds like a brand of tuna fish, Celeste is a porn star and Natalia is our first nanny who totally screwed us.
Keep thinking.
Chloe, Quinn, Avery, Alyx, Grayson.
Hit me.
I have b/g twins. Sydney’s name was agreed on in two seconds. We called Nick “the boy” for so long. Nicholas was a compromise. If we had another girl it would have been Kate or Jordan.
That is insane. Has anybody ever taken them up on it?
I think you should let Mazzy make a list of names she likes! She seems like quite the baby genius so you never know, she might think of the perfect pick!
I have read all your comments. There just is no pleasing you is there? No matter how hard you pray, odds are the new baby will have a vajayjay. So hop to it picking out a girlie name Mister! Just because it is a girl doesn’t mean you can’t have a namesake. How about Michaela, Mikaylee, or Milona? 😉 Or if you want to make it truly interesting and unique, let Ilona’s fans kids name her – Mazzy can be top judge. My 9 year old said Erica, my 3year old said Porchup ( variation of porkchop, her favourite word. I realize if you are kosher naming your kid after pork may be weird but at least it’s unique! 🙂 Or Koko … ” there can only be one Koko!”
Oh – I also loved the name Arden for another girl. Could not sell that one to the husband.
I’m super Southern, so my daughter goes by two names–Austen Lily.
Runner up names were: Georgia (I know, we have a “places for names” problem), Lorelei, Cadence, or Martha (Marti/Mazzy–too cute?).
I don’t know if I should laugh or cry that we’re all in the same boat. Every name I suggest, my husband responds, “I’ll think about it.” I often remind him that the kids will have his last name, not mine and that helps a little.
I have no girl name suggestions. It’s SO personal. I read all the comments on your post of people earnestly suggesting names that make me cringe. It’s cultural, it’s regional, it’s socio-economic. Did you read Freakonomics or was it Tipping Point? about trendy names?
LOL about Sebastian…I never thought of it as a cat’s name. Love the name Jasper but huz hates it. I have the added pressure of picking a Latin name.
Good luck!
Or Echo … since Mazzy is natural born leader and kids tend to look up to/repeat/copy older siblings, chances are once baby can talk you will be getting a lot of repeated behaviour/attitude/conversations! So naming her Echo prevents you from sounding horribly sarcastic to your future toddler when you say ” Thanks ECHO!”
Yep, I’ve been duped by my husband. Aster nine months of tossing back and forth names that weren’t good enough or were past girlfriend names, we finally decided on the old-fashioned, Faith. I got the name during church, husband loved it and we went with it. Later I figured ot that husband only liked it because it was the name of the psychotic vampire slayer on Buffy.
What about Piper? She was my favorite witch on “Charmed.” Or Willow (a la “Buffy?”) Hmm, I guess I like witches. (Willow’s character was a witch, in case you didn’t know that.)
By the way, my 17-year-old brother just walked in and suggested “Zelda.” Apparently Robin Williams and his wife named their daughter that because they liked to play the game “The Legend of Zelda.”
I like names that are slightly old-fashioned but not *trendily* old-fashioned, if you know what I mean. If the kid can pull it off (and your daughter certainly will), it’s memorable. My 14-year-old Dexter ROCKS his name, and loves it, too.
In that vein, how about Janet? Easy to spell and pronounce, and she’ll be the only Janet in preschool, guaranteed. I also think it goes well with Mazzy.
Perhaps it’s because I know and love Mazzy Star, but I’ve always pronounced Mazzy correctly in my head (and what a relief because I hate when I read a book then see the movie and the character is called something different from what I said in my head all that time – it’s a real problem for me – life is hard).
Anyway.
When it came to naming Karly, my husband was an ass. He didn’t like a SINGLE NAME I suggested. Not one. But he also couldn’t come up with any names of his own.
So I bought a name book, picked 50 options for girls (FIFTY) and told him I’d be happy with ANY ONE of them
He rejected them all.
By the way. Karly was not one of those fifty names.
One day, near the end of my pregnancy, when he’d still failed to come up with a single name he liked, my best friend offhandedly said, “I kind of like Karly.”
He practically drooled all over her (she’s pretty) and said, “I like that name too.”
So.
Karly Gardner.
Now, when people ask if Karly was ALWAYS MY FAVORITE NAME, I say no.
It’s my fifty-fucking-first favorite name.
(Sometimes I take out the “fucking” part.)
How about Avery? or Ashlyn?
If your kids ever become strippers you have only yourself to blame. I know my kids will be ok due to my mad parenting skills as I dispense Words of Parental Wisdom such as ” Just remember honey. always the pimp, never the prostitute” 😉
Dude, I can relate. Pesky husbands thinking they get to have opinions! Don’t get me wrong, I love my kid’s name (Lindsey), but it’s pretty boring. I had something more adventurous in mind. Maybe with Baby 2…
I don’t name my own children. SHHHHHH!
But seriously, I tell my husband to name them, and then I get veto power….except he pulled a fast one on me with Sheldon. It was announced to everyone via text when I was in recovery, heavily drugged. I remember thinking NOOOOoookay, Sheldon’s not that bad. Groovy man, pass the morphine”
And that was that.
Boyfriend wants to name our daughter Vodka Marie. Feel free to take that one off my hands for me.
What about Yolanda or Yomanda?
Maybe, if you want your daughter to be a sleezy broadway musical producer who cons little old ladies with sexual favors 🙂
Or Pop musicians… 🙂
Mazzy’s head might explode if you name her “Abby” 😉
Everytime I hear “Yolanda” I think of “YOLANDA VEGA!”, the girl who announces the lottery numbers in the NYC area 😉
We have 20-mth old twins – Zahara Emily & Yasmina Elizabeth. My other favourite girls’ names are Eden, Savannah & Willow. Any of them sound good to you?
Or… Tanaella. Harrietta. Sacksteinifer. ???
That’s so funny. My mom and dad had difficulties naming my siblings and I when we were babies. Sadly it was my mom who was the crazy one. She wanted to name my sister Svetlana, why I have no idea. My dad choose Stephanie instead. My mom wanted to name my brother Darth Vader. They wound up going with Jason. My name was the least crazy out of my siblings. My mom wanted to name me Briar Rose after sleeping beauty. I would have loved to have that name. They wound up going with Katherine, but they did keep the Rose.
I’ll just list the girl names I like and that I am thinking of for a girl, if I ever have one.
Evangeline
Natalija
Carolyn
When I was little I always liked Olive for a name.
Porchup. We have a winner!
That’s my kind of thinking.
I’ve always been more partial to Cindy. It’s a Three’s Company thing.