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We are expecting our third baby in April! It's a girl. Five years ago this week our "Totally Digging Your Mom" entry was a ballad to my wife, pregnant with our first. Now she's 4 and wants to name the baby "Lucy".

QotD: What's the new baby's name?!

Congrats!
Lucy is a cool classic name. My son was also 4 when his little brother was born and we were going to let him name him, but he wanted to name him hotdog. I was all for it, but my buzz kill wife shot that name down. So we ended up going with Cody. But still to this day, my older son and myself call Cody, Hotdog, which has now evolved into CodeDog.

I think Emily is a pretty name for a girl. Classic and sophisticated.

Congratulations! This is a fun toy for picking a baby name.

Congrats!

QOTD: Beavis.
... or Belutha. What a beautiful name.

Amberlynn Dawn X (Golden Morning)

Scarlet Autumn X ( uh... Red Fall )

Misty Summer X ( another self explanatory )

Violet Eve X (works better if last name is more than one syllable)

Note: These names, while very pretty... have a huge drawback.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Congrats!
Lucy is a cool classic name. My son was also 4 when his little brother was born and we were going to let him name him, but he wanted to name him hotdog. I was all for it, but my buzz kill wife shot that name down. So we ended up going with Cody. But still to this day, my older son and myself call Cody, Hotdog, which has now evolved into CodeDog.

I think Emily is a pretty name for a girl. Classic and sophisticated.

I think hotdog is an excellent name. This coming from a man called sausage...

So girl names I like:
Jessica, Tegan, Emily, Natasha

and just to keep with the 'theme', what about Pineapple?

Heäther. Redmön. wrote:Congratulations! This is a fun toy for picking a baby name.

That is wild. I wonder 'why'. I really do... how culture reflects itself and particular periods of time.

I imagine I'm in the minority here, but I don't think you should pick a first name without seeing how it sounds next to the last name. I mean, the two should sound cool together, like she's destined to be a badass novelist or cure cancer or some shit.

What's your last name?

beulah

Congrats!

QotD: Anastasia (Stacey)

Yay! Congrats!

Don't choose Emily. It tops the charts every year! There were 3 Emilys in my kindergarten class.

Speaking of the charts, the U.S. Social Security Administration has a nifty widget for looking up the top baby names for a given year.

Enter a year. Check out what was hot in, oh, 1918. You'll get a good list o' old-fashioned names.

(I just did 1918 -- and got Agnes, Beatrice, Eunice, Essie, Effie, Imogene, Eugenia, Philomena, and Wilhelmina to name a few.)

I personally would choose Madrona, but you can't have it, as I'm saving it for myself on the off chance that I breed. I also like all the -olly names -- Polly, Molly, Holly, etc.

Seven

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Bisquick

Name her after a flower. Take my Violet Wants it Her Way as an example.
Let's see...
Rose
Daisy
Holly
Iris
Jasmine
Angelica
Lily
Veronica
Althea
Ivy
Dahlia
Fern
And, of course, Violet.

Okay, some of those aren't exactly flowers, but close enough.

We never checked the sex of the kids until after they were born. And we were certain our first was going to be a girl. So we had a bunch of names ready either way. My favorite was Juniper. I like Gin, and I think June is a beautiful shortened version of Juniper. Plus, it's a tree! That's cool.

I think you should have a set of names ready, and decide after she's born which one fits her personality.

That said, I do like Bisquick, though. I think Lord is on to something.

Ding Dong
Cupcake
Ho Ho (that's probably not so good when she hits high school)
Twinkie
Snowball
Zinger

loinfruit.*

*hey, blame caravan ray for that one...

anti-m wrote:Yay!

Speaking of the charts, the U.S. Social Security Administration has a nifty widget for looking up the top baby names for a given year.

Please pardon me if I'm wrong but I suspect you might have missed Heather's post... I mean, speaking of charts:

Heäther. Redmön. wrote: This is a fun toy for picking a baby name.

<font size="1"> I apologize if you in fact did see her post...</font>

Hey, your chart was cool too...

Ross wrote:Ding Dong
Cupcake
Ho Ho (that's probably not so good when she hits high school)
Twinkie
Snowball
Zinger

uh, snowball would also be bad when she hits high school.

In related news, if the were somehow wrong and it turns out their newborn was male, then ALL of those names would be bad hitting high school. All for their own special reasons!

drc: Still sick, but I was feeling enough better today to go to work. We had a team-building exercise where we went down to play bocce, which none of us had ever done before. It was fun.

qotd: Bioncé. No, not really. Abigail?

I've always liked my Mom's Mom's name, Janis. Never liked it spelled "Janice," though.

I'm also quite fond of my fiancée's name, Allyson, with that spelling, although if you give your daughter a "normal" name spelled abnormally, she'll grow up hating you for it. In fact, it's probably a good idea in general to stay away from names that have multiple variants of spelling (Like Allison/Alison, Brandy/Brandi, Britney/Brittany, Clair/Claire/Clare, and so on).

If I had to pick a girl's name with which I don't have a personal connection, I'd probably say go with Virginia/Ginger. Don't know why, but I've always liked that name.