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[AKLRULZ]

For all you moms and dads to be - how does the name you've chosen rank! Kinda interesting!

http://www.parenting.com/parenting/t...p100_2001.html

[Nala]

I get soooo depressed when I see DD name in the top 10. I picked out the name 20 years ago, thanks to Alexis Carrington from Dynasty. Who knew after all these years it would be so popular. (Who knew it would take me 20 years to have a child) It's not that I mind how common the name is now, I just hate the confusion in public places! LOL

[AKLRULZ]

HA! Nala, I know how you feel - we picked our kids' names out only to discover they were just about at the top of every chart! My daughter's name, Brittany, has fallen in the ranks, but Justin is still right up there, and - hello - Joshua is still like #2 or #3! LOL! I don't really care because I love their names and we chose them for reasons other than they were in the top ten!

And by the way, Alexis was a top choice had we ever had another girl! Great name!

[sammycat699]

Glad to report that neither of my sons' names made the top 100. By the way their names are Scott and Keith.

[DebiDebiDebi]

Well, I see my girls are still unique...Dara & Diana didn't make the list...but grandson Tristan did, #98 on the boy's list.

[Chrissi]

Neither of the names we chose are on the list. Stella or Donovan. Although I'm still trying to talk my DH into Stellaluna. Yes, it's a book, but it's also Italian for Starry Moon, according to my Popop.

BTW - my name is still on the list and has been for like the last 25 years straight!!! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] I had the most uncreative parents. I'm named after the actress who played the secretary from the old TV show "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", the actress who played Ginger from "Gilligan's Island", and my Mimi Louise who passed away last summer.

DH is named after his dad and grandpa. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

[ 05-15-2002, 09:43 AM: Message edited by: Beaner ]

[AKLRULZ]

That's fun to start - who are you named after!?

My full name is Steven Dale. Steven (I go by Steve) was given to me for some individuality but Dale was my Uncle's name. He was killed in a plane crash in March of 1967 - 5 months before I was born. Never knew him, but proud to be named after him.

My kids all have "individual" first names and we carried the tradition of using middle names to honour others. My oldest son is Justin Thomas - Dale's name was Dale Thomas, so we named Justin after Dale, too. Brittany is Brittany Amanda - Amanda being my wife's grandmother's name. And Joshua William has William from both my maternal grandfather AND my wife's maternal grandfather. Kinda cool, eh?

How about the rest of ya'll? Any special meaning behind your name or others in your family?!?

[ 05-15-2002, 09:41 AM: Message edited by: Dadtojbj ]

[minnievoice]

My name is Amanda Beth, (first name is on the list) My parents named me Amanda but really wanted to name me just Mandy, my parents liked the infamous Barry Manilow song. My dad's mom had a fit and said my parents couldn't just name me a nick name so they went with Amanda. Now everyone including her calls me Mandy. It's not a bad name but it is a curse esp working in customer service where atleast once a day I get serenaded by men, quoted lyrics from the song or told of Barry's general concert information!! My middle name is for My grandmother (mom's mom) Elizabeth.

[TiggerAlli]

We can't decide on names (but then we can't decide if we want kids either so that's okay [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] ). I would actually use this list to make sure that my choices weren't in the top 25 because I loved [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] the fact that I was the only Allison when I was a kid! There weren't very many Kevin's (DH) then either!

I was named after AA because my parents got pregnant w/me after my dad successfully completed the program (20 years after my brother was born [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] ). He wanted me to be Anne but my mom nixed that one (thankfully). She gave him Anne for the middle name which is fine. DH was named after some actor I think but his middle name is his Dad's first name--that is a family tradition on his Dad's side, one we won't be continuing!

What a fun topic! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Janet 46]

My kids were named after no one in particular. Bobby is #38 and Kim is #70. Neither of us wanted "trendy" names for the kids. My MIL wanted our son to be George Henry III. I nixed that in a hurry. My DS middle name is George though, after his father, grandfather and my mother's father.

[September]

My future children will be named either Marguerite Roseanna (Maggie) or Scott Davis (Davis). Marguerite is DH's grandmother's name, and my middle name is Rose (named after my great-grandmother, Roseanna). My FIL is named Scott and Davis is my maiden name.

For some reason I'm very hung up on naming my kids after someone...for my entire life I've endured an endless stream of questions and bad pickup lines associated with my name...and the bottom line is that I was named after someone my parents barely knew who volunteered in my brother's preschool (they just liked the name). Not a very good story for something that's a continual topic of conversation.

[aurora1429]

DD, Rebekah is #42. She is named after Rebekah in the bible. I knew when I was about 15 that if I had a daughter she would be named that her middle name is Lynn. It just kinda went and is my middle name. About 2 weeks after she was born, Bryan White came out with the song, Rebecca Lynn.

DS, Zachary is #17. We were sticking with the biblical theme but our first choice was Noah. That name just didn't fit him. His middle name is Austin because DH lived in TX for a while and Austin was his favorite city.

I' not sure where ny name, Kristen, came from but I was almost Kirsten. Mom changed it at the last minute.

[Shell_of_the_South]

[allysonh]

Aurora1429, my DH's middle name is Austin! Like I said in an earlier post, he's a Jr. and wants a III, but I would rather name my son something different!

We've kicked Austin around as a first name as well!

Also, if you guys like this 'How'd you get your name' theme we've got going, do a search for a similar post topic I started sometime last year in 'Off Topic'. There were a ton of replies!

[CoachMickey]

We have three wonderful daughters. They weren't really names after anyone. Caitlin Elizabeth, Meagan Michelle, and my favorite name, Brennan Taylor. Lots of times people confuse her name for Brendan or without seeing her, they think that she is a boy!

I was named after both of my grandmothers, Amanda and Jean. Never really liked my middle name, but how could I complain?!?

CoachMickey
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