Name My Unborn Daughter

[rucky]

Poll question: Name My Unborn Daughter

My wife is due in October, so there's plenty of time. We probably won't decide on a name until we see her (the ultrasound kinda makes her look like a Spud). In the meantime, we're trying out different names. Here's the short list, though any other feedback/suggestions is welcome.

If there's any way you can make fun of any of the names below, please tell me now - there may have been a potential schoolyard taunt we've overlooked:

[Taverner]

1. Kincaid. Kennedy. Madison

Always liked those names....

[rucky]

5. We already have a last name picked out for her.

kidding. madison was on my list. got vetoed.

[Insider]

2. Paige or Libra

:bounce:

[AwakeAtLast]

3. I voted for Lilly

my second vote is Olivia.

[Badger1]

4. shelby rae n/t

[rucky]

6. ALRIGHT WHO VOTED "THEY ALL BITE"?!

Lemme at 'em... I'll splat 'em!

[LynneSin]

64. Well, that could be an interesting name

:shrug:

[aquart]

7. Were they picked out of a hat?

Do they have any personal meaning at all? Where, in these names, is your child's connection to her family, her world, her history?

Is there no missed relative or friend?

When they ask her what her names means, what will she tell her friends, "My parents liked it." I've met kids who have no more than that to say. For shame.

But then, there was a woman who named her twin daughters Syphilis and Gonnorhea... so perhaps you're still ahead.

[rucky]

13. we like them

if that makes her boring at cocktail parties then so be it.

what the hell is my daughter doing at a cocktail party anyways? she's just a little fetus!
anyhoo...

[Fleshdancer]

8. Isabelle

When I was pregnant, it was between Abigale or Isabelle and I chose Abigale because I didn't mind Abby as a nickname. If I have another daughter, I'll probably call her Isabelle.

BTW, Gloria is also a good name! *hint hint*

[Flaxbee]

9. If you named her "Olivia" her nickname/shortened name could be

"Lilly". I hear Olivia's getting very popular now, so that might be a consideration; she might not want to be one of many in her class in school...

I like Greta, too, and Elinor, Marianne and Margaret (the ladies from Sense and Sensibility ;-) )

[rucky]

18. oooh.... Elinor

I'll run that one by the missus

:)

[Unperson 309]

80. Another version of Greta

would be the name of an ancestress of mine: Margarete.

There are forms of Isabella that are nice. Sabella, Ysobel, Ysabelle
Sabeletta and Ysalette come to mind. Elspeth or Elsabeta are also nice.

The important thing is to go over the nicknames and see what cruel kids could do with them. Anything with 'bel' in it can be turned into "Jellybelly" or worse. Isabelle can be shortened to Izzy or Belbottom or whatever... kids can be vERY creative!

Anyway, good luck and congratulations.

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[PartyPooper]

10. Elizabeth, Margaret, Diana, Helen, Candice, Didra, Evelyn, or Madeline.

Do any of these name help?

:shrug:

[asthmaticeog]

11. Other.

For girls names, I favor "Iris," though that would leave her succeptible to being called "Virus," I guess. Of course, she might find that cool. From what's on the list, Madeline would be my pick, for sure. Absolutely lovely name.

[Eye and Monkey]

12. "Pepper" seems the name of a person who stands out in a crowd.

Especially if it's a given name, not a nickname.

And CONGRATULATIONS!

p.s. BTW - I check'd out your site - I have a feeling I'll be ordering sometime.

[rucky]

15. Thanks!

ps: THANKS!


our only reservation about Pepper is we're worried she may never want to become a Doctor. ya know... Dr. Pepper.

[Bombtrack]

20. I think a kid could have a hard time with "pepper". If she doesn't like it

there's no nickname that's less "unique". Peppy? Pep? I'd advise against it.

[rucky]

23. We'd do a tame middle name

so she'd always have that option

[Eye and Monkey]

34. My name stands out, and has "associations" - but I've never wanted another

You know, if she has a problem with it, she can always sort of reverse the middle and first names.

[SoCalDem]

Name her a normal name and use Pepper as a nickname if it fits..

Sometimes parents pick names of their "dream children", instead of their real children..

Dad may love the name Bruno , as he imagines his son, the wrestler or running back...but what if Bruno turns out to be the kid with the flute or paintbrushes??

Same thing for girls.. a name like Ginger...Pepper...Sassy..etc may be great for a self assured knock-out, but that girl could turn out to be painfully shy and bookish..

Take it froom someone with an "unusual" name.. I envied my friends with normal names.. I always wished I could have been a Susan..Mary..Connie..Laurie.. but I was a combination.. Julinda..Julia combined with Linda.. Either name would have been my choice.. I have made peace with my name, but I did take great pains to name my sons "ordinary" names..and let their friends nickname them..

[Bombtrack]

50. I'd like to agree with everything you just said. It's not exactly an easy

thing for a kid to change their name essentially and start going by their middle name. It's just wrong to saddle a kid with something that at least many others will find weird and they will feel self concious about. It's one thing if you're rich and or famous and the kid's going to have a relatively easy life as it is, but it unless you are it shouldn't be the parent's choice to have their kid's be known as something strange. If they want to be really unique, they can be really unique by their own method and their own choice. Little girls and little boys up to certain level of maturity just want to be as normal as possible and not have that normalcy or lack of it to worry about so they can do their own thing.

And it's a parent's job to give them the foundation for that by NOT being the the eccentric kid because their parent teach them to be eccentric, the poor kid because their parent doesn't do enough to make them look as presentable as possible, the fat kid because their parent's don't instill in them proper diet and fitness knowledge and routine, or the kid with the wierd name because their parents thought it was cool.

[wickerwoman]

57. I think there's a middle ground though.

I was lucky enough to get a name that wasn't very popular at the time I got it but never sounded strange or like someone just threw some letters together at random. I would have been pissed if my mom had named me Stacey (the other name on the table.) Not only would it have dated me inexorably, I would have had the same name as three other kids in my class.

I think it's wrong to give kids the same names that they will inevitably share with dozens of peers and colleagues over the years forcing them to use nicknames they don't like to distinguish them. And it seems to me that naming your children something like Ashley or Dave will reinforce their worst impulses towards conformity. I was the "fat" poor kid in my class and I'm four-times the person I would have been as anorexic, Benneton wearing Stacey.

If you look hard and use some imagination, there is a pool of recognizable, attractive names that aren't ubiquitous among children the same age. I think that's what we should aim for.

[Bombtrack]

62. There's also a BIG middle ground between being the fat poor kid

and the "anorexic, Benneton wearing Stacey". And it's clear that alot of overweight people like to call skinny people "anorexic" as a deflection from their own jealosy, and I was overweight for a few years during junior high and remember doing just that. But it's also quite clear that for whatever "conformity" an average thin kid with a non-extraordinary name has he also has 5 times the self esteem of the average overweight kid with the strange name, or for that matter any kid growing up with anything that they are automatically self concious about. I didn't want to get off on a tangent so I'm trying to link a general idea around that your and many parent's idea of having kids grow up with advirsity as being a good thing because they will be a better/stronger/more unique person is really unfounded and unfair in my opinion.

[wickerwoman]

102. But you're setting yourself up as the authority

on what other people are self-conscious (and jealous) about. I was never self-conscious about being poor or fat. I'm still not. You're assuming that a.) everyone wants to be like you and if they aren't they must feel awful and self-conscious about it and b.) that everyone who is different must struggle. Difference is not automatically an adversity to be overcome. If it's something that you accept about yourself and celebrate then it isn't a struggle at all.

And there really are people out there who wish that they had more distinctive names (including me) and many, many people like Paloma Picasso who said that her unusual name is the beautiful present she was ever given.

[Eye and Monkey]

59. dream children? and real children?

I think that most children are named somewhat before they have manifest much personality to match or not match the name.

Is there something wrong with a painter named Bruno?

And you didn't like your unusual name - what about children who don't like their "ordinary" names?

[SoCalDem]

61. Nothing inherently wrong with "dream children",

but naming a child is a conscious effort, and sometimes parents can get caught up in dreams that they have for their child (it's normal)..

We were a prime example.. In our minds' eye, our firstborn would be captain of the football team,handsome, straight-A student,strong and healthy...BUT......mother nature, she's a tricky one.. Our son was born with some serious birth defects, and just LIVING was very difficult for him..(he had 28 operations before he was 8 yrs old)

The name we chose for him was perfect and he grew up to be a handsome, smart, successful businessman, married, and very happy..There are a zillion Scotts his age, but he is a unique person..just as his brothers Michael and Steven are unique, even though their names are not ...

I guess all I was trying to say, is that lots of "unusual" names "can" present issues for a shy child..and there is no way of knowing whether your child will be shy or not.. A self-assured boisterous child can probably handle any name given him/her, but childhood is about fitting in...being "the other" can be miserable for some kids..

A cutesy "fun" name given as a nickname is a great idea, but NOT as their birth certificate name..
just my .02.:)

[greatauntoftriplets]

65. Pepper was my dog's name.

n/t

[Zomby Woof]

14. Fetus

Live in the moment.

[rucky]

25. Actually, I got to name the fetus

I called her "Q" until we found out she was going to be a girl, then she started seeming, like, real and stuff.

[Zomby Woof]

28. lol

Well, if you're referring to the Star Trek character, gender shouldn't matter - Q was a flexible being. :-)

[Pithlet]

52. My husband named ours "Beta"

He's a computer geek.

[Zomby Woof]

73. lol!

How about Pithlet 2.0? :D

[Pithlet]

81. lol

Our second one was 2.0 :)

[MercutioATC]

49. "Parasite" works too...

...it's not pretty, but it's technically correct.

[Bombtrack]

16. Would you mind saying either what her last name is or what it sounds like

otherwise it's not known which names will have a good ring to it.

[rucky]

69. It's German

and my screen-name is a derivation of my last name

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. Ask the baby...

She'll let you know. Really! :)

[rucky]

22. We name her something different every day.

Just to try it out. I'll pay more attention to how she reacts :) .

[Lex]

19. Olivia will get you Lilly for short--2 birds with 1 stone.

So my vote is Oliva; Lilly for short.

Can't go wrong there.

Good luck.

[rucky]

30. I didn't know that was common.

you're the second person who posted that.

I'll inform the missus :)

[Unperson 309]

82. The Diminutives of Olivia are

according to a friend of mine *named* Olivia, are Ola, Olive, Ollie, Livy, LiLi, Lily, Livya. ViVi and Ovie.

She also got "Oh, Leave ya alone!" (Olivia alone) Oliveoyl, Olive branch, Oliverclothesoff, etc... She hated her name until she was an adult.

If your surname is German, you can try for fairly American sounding names so as not to get *too* ethinc. Also, check to see what your surname *means* and name accordingly. "Flower Iron-hammerer" isn't going to make it. I highly recommend researching all names as to meaning, sound and what they will look like on a desk nameplate or on a polished oak door!

Speaking of names, in our church, we *do* have a Polly Parrott and a Blessed St. Francis! Some parents ought to be shot! :)

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[koopie57]

21. I always told my kids

that I was going to name them epididymus. I named my daughter Emily, but considered Hannah. I like the old fashioned names like Grace, Martha, but at one time all girls were named Karen, Debbie, Jean, etc. It might be fun to pick one of those. Pamela, Tracy, Mary, Bernadine, Florence, ... but I guess these little kids have to live with the name we dump on them. Pamela, Laurie is always nice, Heidi, How much fun you must be having. Enjoy!

[TheDebbieDee]

24. I like Paige...............Is your last name Turner?

[rucky]

31. LOL

we do have writers in the genes

[Lizz612]

32. There is a Paige Turner where I work

They keep paging her over the PA system "Paige Turner, four-two" it gets hard to keep a straight face.

[last_texas_dem]

36. I have an aunt

who married into that name! If I had been her I would have been tempted to keep my maiden name...

Of your list I like Lilly the most. Some of my favorites for girls are Natalie, Michelle, Molly, Hermione, and Rachel- just for what it's worth...

[rucky]

41. Hermione is cool, but what if she turns out to be a muggle?

[last_texas_dem]

48. Yeah

I didn't think about that... lol :-)

[wickerwoman]

26. Pick up a copy of Beyond Jennifer and Jason.

It's the best resource out for telling you what other people will think about your naming choice.

Isabelle is a really, really popular name now. She'll probably be in school with a few others. If you don't mind that, though, go for it.

If I had a daughter, I'd name her Anna Livia and call her Livia (but I'm a bit of a Joyce freak.) I like the name Aletheia (Greek for Honesty)too- she can be an Ally or a Thea if she thinks it's too pretentious.

I'd go for a longer name that gives you a couple nickname possibilities- a tomboy option, a princess option, and a power-suit option. That way she can choose what she likes when she's older. So I'd nix Greta, Quinn and Paige. And she'll resent the hell out of Pepper if she grows up to be anything but a cheerleader. Use Pepper as a nickname if you like it, don't put it on her birth certificate.

(The dean of my college was a 55 year old woman named Muffin. No one could look her in the eye.)

[devilgrrl]

27. Patsy - Edina - Saffy - Bubble

:silly:

[rucky]

29. Blossom, Buttercup...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

47. I told my parents that they should name my baby sister Bubbles

and they laughed hysterically. The funny thing is, you couldn't know a more effervescent person.

[pansypoo53219]

33. well, i like several

but a last name is needed to make sure they flow. but i think we need more genevieves.
and i think percy is a nice girl's name as it would be cruel to give it to a boy.
and why stop at quinn? how bout quinntessa?
odd letters?
xaviera.

[blackcat77]

35. Odessa

If we'd have had a girl, that was the name I wanted.

[Bombtrack]

37. You need a name that can be easily shortened for a nickname

I don't understand parents who want to give their kid's really unique or obscure first names. That's what last names are for. I know it's not scientific and it's "just" my opinion since I don't have any polling or anything to back it up, but a couple of those strike me as rather homely names. Particularly Greta. That seems like a dog's name. You don't want to brand a kid with a name that bring's with it anything that in any way lowers their esteem, even if you think it has a chance to toughen them up or something to that effect.

I think the smartest thing is to give a girl a traditionally pretty name that people subconciously associate with prettyness. I don't know if "stripper" name is the right example to bring into this, but why not. A guy on VH1 talking about which Olsen twin was hotter said that "Ashley is hotter cause she already had the stripper name. You never here anyone at the strip club saying Here come's Mary-Kate".

And I really agree with that. Of course there are unique names I think most people would find pretty, I just don't think you have any up their. "Paige" is an ok name, but the thing is their's no clear nick-name for Paige unless you want to call her "P.". I think more than 1 syllable is a good idea for that reason.

So, basically my reccomended criteria would be:
1: That it easily "comes with" at least 1 nickname that they can go by or be called if they chose 2 so that they are not stuck with as unique and therefor attention getting a name as they might want. An examle might be Alexa. They can go by Al, Alex, Lex, Lexy, Lexa etc, whatever evolves for and by the CHILD and her friends and family when she has an input on the matter.

One big qualifier that meets that are names that EITHER end with a Y and which the Y can be dropped for a nickname and names with out a Y at the end in which the Y or EY or IE can be added. For example Stacey can become Stac' or Kirsten can become Kirsty. Or names where parts of it can be dropped and the Y sound added: (Gabrielle becomes Gabby etc)

2: That it's associated with prettiness at a subconcious level with most people. I know this is sort of an abstract idea, and I'm coming at you with my biases and my taste, but I'm sure if you thought about it and talked to different people who were being frank and candid you could get a feel. And I know this might be sort of something that might sound antithetical, because you would never want a daughter who was a stripper, but I do think the "it could never be a stripper name" idea does have a connection to whether people associate a name with prettiness or cuteness or something to that effect.

Off the top of my head some other suggestions would be Julie or Julia or Jolene. They meet those 2 criteria Well. Lot's of different way they can be used and evolve at the childs own will during her life.

[Stargleamer]

38. "You'll not see nothing like...

the Mighty Quinn!"

'nuff said.

[Kenergy]

39. How about Liberty?

[Bombtrack]

40. In my opinion, that's the kind of name that a kid would hate her parents

for giving her.

[Kenergy]

44. Perhaps, but

just a suggestion :-)

[Unperson 309]

85. WELCOME to DU, Kenergy!

We like newcomers! Enjoy!

:hi: :bounce: :hi: :bounce: :hi:

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[TheWizardOfMudd]

42. Clella Elizabeth Jane Ruth Gerre Smith Jones Wagner Von Helmut Squank

[TheWizardOfMudd]

43. Fergie Caulkins

[proud patriot]

45. I like Paige

:hi:

[TheWizardOfMudd]

46. Chi Chi Bo Fumba

Or, in the alternative, Betsy.

[Pithlet]

51. You're ahead of the game

with that many choices. My husband and I could never agree on one single girl name, and I had a hard time coming up with too many that I liked to begin with. The situation resolved itself in that we have two sons.

I like Olivia the best. Pepper is cute, but I'd avoid it for the reasons already stated in this thread. It would make a great nick name, though.

[SoCalDem]

53. Also..think of the name on the door of an executive's office

or attached to the word "Grandma"..:)

[DustMolecule]

54. My 2 cents...

Madeline, Olivia, Isabelle are nice possiblities. I agree with other posters that Olivia is my fav out of the choices (nice with the Lilly or even 'Livvy' options as nicknames).

Downside on some of the other choices, imho:

Pepper - sorry to say this, but a lot of dogs are named Pepper, so just for THAT reason I wouldn't choose it

Quinn - doesn't strike me as pretty, feminine, or any other good kind of 'feel' about it. Can't make any nice/cute nicknames out of it.

Greta - unless you have a nice German surname to go along with it, you might just re-greta it ;-)

Madison, Paige - Nice names but lots of those out there already and these names will definitely 'date' a person (Meaning: Deborah, Barbara, Linda etc. is very often someone born 1950/60's. Bernice, Gertrude, etc. very often someone born in the 1920/30's. Paige, Madison will be names of the 1990/2000's).

Congratulations and best wishes as you await the arrival of your little one!

[Kellanved]

60. Greta: especially with a German surname

Just an observation.

[rucky]

70. I just happen to have a German surname

I like the ring of it, too.

[Kellanved]

74. well, it is just that names like that are hardly used in Germany

A girl named Greta/Heidi/... would be picked upon in Germany.

[DustMolecule]

76. Sorry - nm

Forget I said it.

If I had a dime for every dumb thing I've said, I wouldn't have to worry about poverty - Me

[yellowdawgdem]

55. wait until she's born

and see what kind of person she is, or what name would fit.
I do like Lilly. Madeline is nice, but I have a next door neighbor named that, and people call her mad for short, which isn't that great a nickname. She (my neighbor) does seem very angry alot, so the name fits in an unfortunate sort of way. Anyway, I don't like Pepper either, and prefer a regular name to something cutesy.
Sometimes you can name by nationality, ie, Irish or Jewish or what have you. I have always liked traditional names like Helen, Ann, Eleanor, Kate, Rosie, Ellen, and even Kimberly.

[JSJ]

56. NICEASS- just kidding n/t

[Reciprocity]

58. Renoah you can call her Wren for short. n/t

[OKNancy]

63. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

If I had another daughter, I would want to name her after Eleanor Roosevelt. Her full name was Anna Eleanor. I like the name Anna. Nice and old-fashioned, but not dumb.

[Kahuna]

66. If "we're" going old fashioned, Sylvia, Una or Michelle.

:shrug: Don't ask. It's early.

[AngryAmish]

67. Boobs McGiggles

or Busty McRack. That is if you want her to be a stripper.

[rucky]

71. We're saving those names for the Twins

[SarahB]

68. My girls' name list...

(I only was able to use one of them.)

Grace
Erin
Amelia
Rachel
Anna
Audrey

[SoCalDem]

72. Make sure the initials don't spell something bad..

A girl in college had these..

HOR

anther's were

BAD

[Quahog]

75. I like Lilly... unusual, but not freakish

There are a lot of Olivias running around, maybe that's just here in New England. Paiges too.

Madeleine will end up being "Mad," so you'd have to decide how you feel about that. Of course, Lilly could end up as "Lil," so there you go.

(Sidebar: when we named our son Austin, the name was not in common use yet and we liked the fact that it was unlikely to be abbreviated into something we didn't want. Now at age 12, he is always and forever our "Aus.")

I'd put Quinn and Pepper in the borderline freakish category, don't stick the poor thing with either of those. Or Greta, that's one of those old-fashioned names that should stay in the past where it belongs. Isabelle is a bit fussy, and bound to turn into "Izzy."

I like Lilly. It's pretty, it's poetic, it's fresh... that's the one to go with. Trust me.

[Lavender Brown]

77. Pretty names!

I think Lilly Madeline would be nice.

[put out]

78. Lucky you! Some suggestions, worth what you're paying.

Try not to have matching syllables in the first and last names. It can sound odd.

Don't have a vowel first letter first name matched with a vowel first letter last name.

Consider not giving your daughter a diminutive form of a bigger name. She'll have more options to choose her own diminutive later on. I would not want to be 44 and have "Kimmy" as my name.

If your last name clearly indicates your ethnic origins, you may want to name her something that "goes with it". Murphy Garcia, Eduardo Smythe, Carmine Wakamito. Maybe not. Please don't get mad; I think it's a little jarring.

If you give her a surname sounding first name, make it a family name, so that it really means something to her. I am inundated with Hunter, Taylor, Quinn, Carter, Hudson, Cooper, Lake, Logan, Chandler, Parker, Brogan.....and, if asked, the name means absolutely nothing to the parents. "I just liked the sound!" Yes, you and every other person who has had a baby within the last six years. It's a trend.

Something classic, something which will easily trip off your tongue. Something she can be creative with. Something which will suit her when she is a grown up person, trying to be taken seriously.

That said, enjoy. Enjoy the process of anticipating this darling's birth. My advice is free, but perhaps I should pay you for the opportunity of offering it. ;-)

[Cheswick2.0]

79. Cheswick is a really nice name for a girl

Really, would I mislead you?:silly:



I like plain names like Jane, Mary, Joanne, Ellen and Diane.
Though I really like the name Myriam.

Watch out for trendy names...please don't name the poor child after some town in TX or washed up musician.

My sons are Ben and Ian so they each knew a few other people with their names but not too many and they never ended up sounding like last decades most popular silly trend name.


PS... Pepper Fenstermacher (I don't know your germanic last name so I made one up) sounds like a dominatrix.

[nini]

83. I love the name Olivia

Madeline too...


nice names..

[johnnie]

84. I always liked the name Julie

I don't have children, but I like that name. I guess no one names their girls Julie any longer.

[cmf]

86. I really like Olivia

I give it a big thumbs up. Pepper is something you name a dog, I give it a big thumbs down.

[TrogL]

87. Whatever happened to "pick names from t he Bible or Shakespear"?

Every name on the list and in this thread makes me go :scared:

[Reciprocity]

88. Rudi

[NicoleM]

89. You've got a lot of really popular names on your list.

That's a problem for some people and less of a problem for others. If it matters to you, you could go to the websites of the hospitals in your area and see what people are naming their babies--most hospitals have a nursery section with pictures of the new babies.

[Interrobang]

90. I'm with TrogL

Too many trendy names in this list; not enough endurable classics. I feel really sorry for all these little girls who get saddled with pretentious-sounding soap opera names (think Madison, Ashley, Brittany, McKenzie, Fisher, Taylor, Paige, etc.). I think you should go with something that's been in the "middle of the pack" since time immemorial, like maybe Jennifer, Michelle, Elizabeth, Julie, Sara(h), Judith, or Mary. You'll get bonus points because everyone will know how to pronounce the name already, and in a crowd of Paiges, Fishers, Jasmines, Brittanies, Taylors, McKenzies, Olivias, and Hermiones, your daughter will have a name that stands out in a good way.

Then again, I like names that are to naming conventions as the little black dress/pinstripe suit is to fashion, so YMMV.

[NightTrain]

91. Fuck all those goddamned preppy names!

Can't you just give her a good, solid middle-class name like Julie or Lisa, or something along those lines?

[Terran]

92. Good lord, Pepper was Angie Dickinson's name

in "Police Woman". Don't go there, please. Olivia was the only one I liked among the lot (and I like that name a lot). I don't care for the current fad of gender-ambiguous names for girls, so Paige is right out for me.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

93. Olivia is a redneck name

Every single Olivia I have known is a neck.

[geniph]

94. Those are all extremely trendy names right now

and she will grow up being one of three in every school class she's in for the rest of her days. For example, my stepsons never were the only Josh or Jake in any of their classes, and between them, they've probably dated ten different Jessicas and Ashleys. It's really irritating to be Brittany B. for your whole life because there's always at least two other Brittanys.

My tastes lean toward classic but not super-common names - Emma, Arianne, Jacqueline, Caroline, Kathleen, Serena, Audrey, Marianne, Pamela, Tamara. I particularly like Arianne, and there's easy nicknames for it - Ari, Annie, etc.

But for now, she's basically a Spud.

[Catholic Sensation]

95. I personally believe Gabrielle, Alexandra, and Margaret are the prettiest

names for girls.

[ChickMagic]

96. Apple!

For some reason, it's all the rage. :shrug:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

97. "Greta" means "crack" in Portuguese

Not the drug -- the orifice. :evilgrin:

[SW FL Dem]

98. Good choices

My best advice is to pick the one that reminds you of someone special to you or your wife. You don't have to use the exact name. My son's name was inspired by my dad who died long before he was born. My sister named her daughter after her lifelong friend (a gay man who succombed to AIDS and missed my sister's wedding.)

[Canuckistanian]

99. Elorifred or Eowainn

..or some vaguely LOTR pseudo-Celtic name like that. Very popular these days.

[TNMOM]

100. Pepper is my vote

She'll always stand out. Plus it's hard to make fun of.

[Rabrrrrrr]

101. None of the above - they are all WAY too overused

and lost their charm any number of years ago. Meaning no offense. Though "They all Bite" works for me. :-)

Instead of Greta, you could go with "Gretchen", a name I totally love.

I'd suggest going traditional or going unusual, but not go trendy.

If I had a baby girl, I'd want to name her Sieglinde. Love that name. Or Akira. Or Waltraute. Or Kikuko. (when a couple is a german and a japanese, the naming arguments can be great).