@romanigypsyeyes You know you are dying to tell us the name, or at least many of us are dying to know! I haven’t been this invested in a baby’s name since my two GDs were born. Neither my son or daughter shared their names prior to the birth. Actually when my son let us know GD was born, it was a few hours until he responded to our request for name, weight and length.
Both my kids used old names that I know 60 year olds with the name, but no little ones. Hopefully they will not be in a class full of others with the same name. My son had 3 boys in his grade with his name that while not unusual, wasn’t very popular. He has to go by first name and last initial until he switched schools in 6th grade. My daughter had 4 girls with her same name, and had to do the same with first name and last initial. Her name has a nickname and not one of the girls use it!
Names are very generational. My parents’ generation, women (girls!) were named Gladys, Fanny, Esther, Ethel. My (our) generation, we’re Linda, Carol, Susan, Jane, Margaret, Barbara. Nowadays, Ashley, Madison, and all sorts of names I don’t even know.
Well my mom was over today and threw out that she really liked one of our very first picks and Mr R goes “That’s a good one too.” ?
Sigh.
I guess I’ll just say it because now it’s up in the air. head desk
If you have criticisms, please know I’ll just ignore them because there will always be someone who says something. So please just keep them to yourself.
A few people guessed it already and the 80s one was a big clue - it’s Ren. Number one boy name in Japan last year. (Rin was #1 for girls.) The only misspelling I ever see is someone spelling it Wren.
It means lily/lotus and Lily has always been one of my favorite names. But it’s generic enough to not be weird with our super white O’Irish kiddo.
It’s kind of trendy because of Star Wars but it was actually a non-SW cousin (Mr R’s cousin that we’re really close to) who recommended it and we both instantly liked it.
I won’t be sharing the other name because I’m pretty sure people on here would prefer my mom’s pick ?. It’s the same criteria - short (not necessarily 3 letters), one syllable, unisex. Classic spelling even though there are alternatives nowadays. Several people did guess it.
Both our son’s first and last names are four-letter common words. Googling his name is hilarious, absolutely none of the hits are people. He likes his name and no one has ever butchered it, although some do try to add an “e” to our last name.
Prior to marriage, my initials were CEO. I was rather loath to let that go, but had no intention of keeping my odd-looking Czech last name which caused no end of schoolmate teasing. I’ve posted before that, in addition to his fabulous hair, I was attracted to DH’s simple last name. If we ever divorce, I’ll keep the name, he’ll keep the hair.
Looks like this thread may turn into a form of Rumplestiltskin.
I was thinking maybe Finn, but Ren is really pretty. Pairing it with Elizabeth and an O’Connor type last name would be beautiful.
We picked names for our kiddos based on the meanings. I didn’t want anything that could be shortened to a nickname either. Our choices seemed to be uncommon at the time, but have gained popularity in the last decade or so.
Yes, even though Shannon was a unisex name, my SIL decided is wasn’t any more (and that was 35 years ago). Have to admit I haven’t met any ‘Shannon’ guys since this one who my niece was named after, and he’s 60+ now.
It wasn’t my nephew who was the ‘chicken’ but my own 1#4 oz daughter (week under the bilirubin lights didn’t help). My nephew looked kind of like the baby on the Incredibles - huge head balanced on a skinny neck.
Just want to throw out there, the first thing that comes to my mind is Ren & Stimpy. But I think you may be a little later generation, so that may not be a consideration at all.
And when you say you have an O-something Irish name. Do you mean that literally? Like, with an apostrophe in the name? Just saying that as an IT person, dealing with special characters. Some systems don’t handle them as well as others.
Really don’t want to come across as second guessing your names. Just throwing out some things to consider.
As a comp sci person, I’m a big believer in the rule that an end user shouldn’t have to change their name because the system can’t handle it. It’s the system that needs to change.
@O2BonCC yup I mean that literally and yup, I know. I’ve had an O’Irish last name for the entirety of my 29 years here on earth lol. I’m quite well aware of what the apostrophe can do.
Luckily, there’s an easy fix for this known problem - don’t use the apostrophe. It’s truly never been that big of an issue. People know whether their systems like apostrophes or not and use or don’t use it accordingly.
@austinmshauri I actually quite like Finn for both a boy and a girl, but it’s become such a common name that I don’t want my kid to go through what both Mr R & I did - names soooo common that you almost always had to go with a last initial to differentiate you from 3 other people in your class. His name was in the top 10 most common for his birth year and if you take my name + all of it’s variations (usually shortened to my name), it’s in the top 10 for all of the late 80s and early-mid 90s.
ETA: Heck it’s so common that Mr R and my best friend have the same name - and were born 2 days apart lol. That definitely never made things confusing or weird ?
D2 was a name we just liked without thinking it was trendy - pretty classic. Turns out many people thought the same. In her small church preschool 3 year old class there were 3 girls with same name. I think they go in waves. Seen some real “old” names coming back. I know a baby Doris, Nan and Elementary age Sylvia.
In my sorority there were only about 40 of us, and we had 7 Kathy/Cathies, 2 Kays, and a Katie. We also had 2 of almost every other 1950s name - Linda, Nancy, Michelle, Sue, Debbie.
Now a good number of these have married guys named Jim. It makes it easy to remember.
Want a name you never hear anymore? Mary. My daughter even went to Catholic school and while there was another Mary in the class (they even had the same middle name, and sisters with the same name), the other girl was called Molly.
names are one of the best part of childbirth for sure.
we went to the hospital all 4 times not knowing what we were having. One time we did not have a boy’s name in mind; so that kid was nameless several days.
My two favorite names I never got to use (as we had veto power over the other’s choices) were Zane and Gia. I think Zane could be unisex . . . Its a GREAT Name. one syllable! that’s my guess . . .
I’m name-neutral and ready to go “yay” to anything. Am just hanging out on the thread to find out when @romanigypsyeyes opens up times for visits or childcare!
My mom threw out that she really liked one of our early names and Mr R said “That’s a good one too” so I’ve decided to just go semi-public with it because at this rate, who knows? He needs to figure it out in the next 10 weeks (or less!)
I haven’t been this invested in a baby’s name since my two GDs were born. Neither my son or daughter shared their names prior to the birth. Actually when my son let us know GD was born, it was a few hours until he responded to our request for name, weight and length.
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