1. [name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have?
I have a girls and a boys “Favorites” list.
A list I call “Different” with nature names, virtue names, place names, and some other weirder names.
A girls and boys “Language” list which has the language origin of tons of names (from behind the name).
I have the “Social Security” name list from the last three years (sorted in a couple ways)
I have a “Biblical” names list
I have an “Eccentric” name list, with old-fashioned, slightly [name_m]OTT[/name_m] names.
I have a “Hate” list (it’s pretty short :))
I have a list of “1 Syllable Names”
I have a list with the “Meanings” listed out for the top 200 or so names.
And I have a “[name_f]Pet[/name_f]/Other” name list. (Other being like ships, houses, etc.)
2. What are your lists called?
My list names are in “quotation marks” above
3. [name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
About 150 on each [name_m]Favorite[/name_m] list.
About 400 on my Different list
The Language lists are huge, like 10,000 each
SSNL is the top 1000
About 400 on the Biblical list
About 300 Eccentric
About 30 Hate
About 250 on the 1 syllable list
About 600 on the [name_f]Pet[/name_f]/Other list
4. [name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
Not that often. Of course I update with the newest SS list.
And I have a Miscellaneous page where I update my actual personal favorites and make tweaks once in a while. But I don’t make huge changes on a regular basis.
5. [name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
Yes, I’m an Excel junky. It’s kind of an obsession.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
I have four lists - boys’ names, girls’ names, pet names and names for stories.
What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
[name_m]Just[/name_m] boring - “Boys’ Names List”, “Girls’ Names List”, “Names I’ve used in stories” and “Names for future pets”
[name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
This changes a lot, but at the moment -
Boys: 33
Girls: 36
Stories: 25
Pets: 32
[name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
I add names whenever I find one I like, and every couple of months I go through the list to see if I have changed my mind about any of them. Sometimes DH sees me updating a list and chips in his opinions, which normally makes the list a lot shorter because he is very trigger-happy with his veto!
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
Yes, especially with Nameberry because I can click on a name I am interested in and add it straight to my list if I want to. I just wish there was a setting to put them in alphabetical order for you, at the moment I do it manually by dragging the names around.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
I have a master list with all names I like including guilty pleasures, a top ten boys list, a top ten girl and a list for combinations.
What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
Master list, Top Ten Girls, Top Ten Boys and Combinations I [name_u]Love[/name_u]/Like . I’m not really creative.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
Master list: 149
Boys: 10
Girls: 10
Combinations: 31
[name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
Not often for my master list, but my girls and boys are always rotating around every couple of weeks. I try to add a combo about once a month. I usually just ending up changing the middle.
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
Kind of. I like to have everything in one place, but then again I’m rather picky so I’m constantly removing and re-adding names. It’s frustrating. I do how Behindthename has lists right next to each other so you don’t have to open another tab. It makes it much easier to go back and forth between them.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
I have about 8 lists, based on sounds I like, meanings, origins, themes, etc.
What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
“Multi-Cultural Names”, “Nomadic Names”, “Pets & Livestock” etc
[name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
My longest list, Multi-Cultural Names, has about 90 entries. I recently started a list of unusual virtue names and it has about 4 entries so far.
[name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
I’m constantly adding to them as I find new things that fit. I don’t purge or cull lists.
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
I go through phases. Sometimes I’ll start several lists and sometimes I won’t write anything down. I used to tear them up, but I wish I had kept my lists from over the years so I could look back at predictions and oddities. (:
I have a top 20/50 list for both boys and girls, a top 10 combos list for both boys and girls, as well as a guilty pleasure list and a middle name list. Sometimes I create lists of nature names, names from different countries, etc., but those are usually just because I get bored.
I don’t really have names for my lists, just “Top 20/50 Boys/Girls Names”, “Top 10 Boys/Girls Combos”, “Guilty Pleasures”, “Top Middle Names”, etc.
I kind of already answered part of that question. My top 20 list has 20 names, and my top 50 list has 50 names. I have ten name combos (first and middle) for each gender, and my guilty pleasures list is about 50-100 girls names and 25 boys names. My middle names list is about 10-20 for each gender.
My top 20 is monthly at the beginning of each month; top 50 is half-yearly in [name_u]June[/name_u] and [name_u]December[/name_u], replacing the top 20; combos are monthly in the middle of each month, and gp’s and middle names are just whenever.
It depends. It’s usually easy, but I know for a fact this month is gonna be a struggle because I’ll have to search for a new favorite name to replace [name_m]Atticus[/name_m].
[name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
I have 2- one for boys and one for girls.
What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
Mine are called “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Boy Names” and “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Girl Names.” I’m not that creative.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list? Boys:31 Girls: 40
[name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
[name_f]Every[/name_f] now and then. If I see a name that I would like and actually use, then it is added to the lists.
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
I like Nameberry because it is user-friendly in creating lists. I keep my name lists on a notes app on my phone. I don’t find it too difficult because the only names that I have on my lists are ones that I would use on a child.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
I have about 10 or so, but I usually only use my girls, boys, and guilty pleasures lists.
What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
“Boys”, “Girls”, “Guilty Pleasures :)”, “Pets”, etc. I do have one called “Constellation Sensation” which is the height of my creativity.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
Girls: 41
Boys:31
GP:66
[name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
I do more adding than subtracting usually, but sometimes I’ll downsize when I realize I’m just not as fond of a name anymore. I also try to alphabetize and add meanings and origins and stuff every now and again, but that’s usually wither when I first add them or if I get lazy I do it whenever it starts to bother me.
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
Making them is easy, but I do like them semi-organized, which is a lot more time consuming. I have yet to finish adding meanings to my gp list.
I have a Girl List, Boy List, Combo List, and Crushes for Today list.
My only list is my signature, so I just call it “My ever changing list”.
Question #3: [name_m]Just[/name_m] look at my siggy.
I update it every day
It’s not quite ‘easy’ but it’s a lot of fun!
[name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that? I just have a top twenty for boys and a top twenty for girls. I also have a bit of a guilty pleasures list but I haven’t written it down anywhere and it only has girls names on it.
What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative? [name_m]Just[/name_m] favourite names I’m like the least creative person
[name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list? about ten on my guilty pleasures list and twenty on my boys and girls lists
[name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists? When I get sick of a name so rarely.
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy? Not really or I would have more lists. I try to keep my favourites at twenty because they are the names I can see on a child in the very (very) distant future.
1 I have four or five lists: girl combos with one middle name, girl combos with two middles names, boy combos with one middle name, boy combos with two middle names, and sometimes when I feel
like it I have a guilty pleasure list.
2 No creativity on the name of the lists mine are called Names, so pretty lame.
3 It just depends. As of now there are five per gender on the one middle name and three per gender on the two middle name.
4 I usually re-vamp my lists every few weeks to few months just dependent on my mood.
5 Yes, but I use lists for everyday life too so I’m pretty good at making lists.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
I have my two main lists, one with all the boys names and one with all the girls names, and then several other differently themed lists. Overall I reckon I must have about thirty lists (although I’m too lazy to look up the actual number).
What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
My main boys and girls lists are just called “boys masterlist” and “girls masterlist” (why yes, I am creative like that). The most outré title I’ve got is probably “ASOIAF beyond [name_f]Daenerys[/name_f] and [name_m]Robb[/name_m]” (which is a list I, in return, haven’t updated for years) but that’s about it – the others are all something à la “Swedish”, “Ballet”, “Out of the ordinary”.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
In my main boys list there are 137 names, in my main girls list there are 215.
[name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
I often add to my main lists but I’m super bad at emptying out in them. I’m ridiculously bad at updating the different minor lists. I have several potentially interesting list I’ve abandoned for years.
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
Yeah. Making lists is a pastime activity for me. It’s the updating that’s the real problem exasperated sigh.
1. [name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
ugh, so many! I’m not too good with boys names so I just have one boys list which barely changes as I’m not as into updating it. I have so many girls lists though. One for names I would actually use. One for guilty pleasures. One for a bit of everything. One for the kr8tive names, trendy names. One for long classical frilly names, not to mention that I have different variations of each (ie, one with 400 names on, one with 100, one with 10, etc)
2. What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
to be honest I dont name them. In fact when I save them on my computer im so lazy and just type some gibberish like afuhada. This is probably why I hardly revisit lists and always make new ones. It is fun however when I go back through my files to see these lists and how much my tastes have or havent changed. Otherwise, if I am making a serious list, I’d name it “girls top 20” or something like that
3. [name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
as I said above, it really does vary. I have a list of over 1700 names, but that one isn’t a list of favourites, just a list of pretty much every name I’ve come across and wanted to note down :P. Out of my ‘favourites list’ I usually start with around 400 or 500 and then narrow it down to 200, 150, 75, 50, 20 and then the final 10ish or less. I usually save each one in between though so I can keep each number of names.
4. [name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
Not often. I usually just create new ones. I like to keep old ones as they are too see how my tastes change.
5. [name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
No. I definitely dont do middle names or create combos. I find it hard enough with just one list. The problem is, I always come back to the same names. I’ll spend hours battling them out trying to find my favourites, but its always the same ones in the end.
Haha! This made me laugh because I do the same thing when I write stories on my computer. When I go to save them in Word, I usually just type in gibberish for the name because I don’t know what the title is going to be yet.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
I have numerous lists, many long neglected. I have one master list called “Names” that I think of as my personal name database, but I haven’t really had time to keep it updated in the past few years. My other lists are usually related to name ideas for a future child.
What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
Names, A, B, C,…1, 2, 3(syllables), Fave Girl Firsts, Fave Boy Firsts, etc.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
100s in my master list.
[name_m]Just[/name_m] a handful or so in my others.
[name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
I used to update pretty frequently, but now, I rarely find something new I would like to add.
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
Yep. I’ve been making lists since I was 9 or 10 years old.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
[name_u]Ever[/name_u] since I started collecting names, I’ve always had a boys and girls list (both ones with and without middle names). Then fast-forward a few years and I’ve added “master lists” for both boys and girls (names I at least like without any sort of commitment to the names). Here and there I’ve had a guilty pleasures list, but it’s mostly now combined with the master lists. These days, the only list I’ve really been looking at and updating is the future children’s list, because it’s the “serious” list that got put together with not just my opinion, but the BF’s as well.
What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
The majority of lists have the generic names Girl’s List, Boy’s List, Girl’s Master List, etc, and the future children’s list is BF’s Last Name’s Babies.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
The general boy’s and girl’s list I usually limit to 10, but there are versions of those lists that had more or less. The girl’s master list has at least 150 names on it, and the master boy’s list is over 50 names. The future children’s list is in my signature.
[name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
The only one that gets consistently looked at and updated (though very rarely) is the future children’s list. The other lists served its purpose by initially putting names on the table and going from there until our current children’s list appears as it does now. I still go back and look at my old lists for inspiration or perhaps seeing if I missed a potential name.
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
The master lists were easy because I didn’t limit myself. The boy’s and girl’s lists were tougher because I gave myself only 10 slots each. [name_u]Future[/name_u] children’s list wasn’t necessarily the easiest, but it was the easiest to decide between names, because agreement was required and certain criteria had to be met with each combo (saint’s name, Scandinavian connection, pop culture connection, etc).
[name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
I have a boys master list and a girls master list, each divided into three sub lists–Full Combos, Single Names, and Guilty Pleasures/Unusable Somehow. I’ve also recently added a girls middle name sub list. Then I keep a list of combos I’ve used, for miscarriages and birth (as if I’d forget, lol–but I do like to see the set together!). Lately I’ve pulled out two new lists, one for each gender, of pared down favorites–I basically think of it as separating the ones we might actually use, so we can think about them a bit more clearly and narrow the list some—name lab lists, I guess. Then I just recently compiled a list of every C name I like, for no reason other than I noticed I like C names and wanted to see how many I actually like, ha
What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
No special name–they’re all in one excel heading called “names–organized” which is somewhat ironic because it may not be that organized any more.
[name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
Girls: 9 combos, 15 single, 6 possible middles, 3 GPs, 5 ‘name lab’ combos, 24 C names. Boys: 6 combos, 26 single, 16 GPs, 4 ‘name lab’ combos and 9 ‘name lab’ singles.
[name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
Sporadically—sometimes they sit unchanged for months, but just recently I had a girl name crisis and had my hubby veto ruthlessly–so now the girl list is very clean and neat. I need to do the same to the boy list! But I feel like right now I’m in a narrowing down phase with girls and a name-finding, list-expanding phase with boys.
[name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
I do. I like to see things in black and white, and it’s easy enough to add a name to an excel sheet, even if later it becomes clear I would never use it. I think I should start another list of names that I like, but don’t fit my aesthetic–right now, even the GP lists give me a feeling of pressure, like I should find a way to use them even though I don’t they’ll work. Maybe if I had a list exclusively for enjoyment–NOT for potential use–I would be able to enjoy them without feeling guilty for not using them
1. [name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
I just have two lists which you can see in my signature, a girls list and a boys list. Making lists stresses me out so I haven’t bothered, although I do have my ‘safer names’ list scribbled down in my head. 2. What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
They’re just called “Top names”, I’m not that creative. 3. [name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
There are 9 names on my girls list and 9 names on my boys list. In my ‘safer names’ list that I only have memorised, there are about 10 girls and 5 boys names. 4. [name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
I try and stop myself updating them regularly so I can learn to love them before I shake them up, but it’s usually every few days where I find new loves. 5. [name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
Nope, very stressful. It’s fun and I enjoy it, otherwise I wouldn’t do it, but it’s very stressful.
1. [name_m]How[/name_m] many lists do you have? One for boys, one for girls? Or do you have more than that?
I have 6 lists. Girl names, Boy names, GPs, Pets/Others, Frilly girl name collection, and Serious combinations. 2. What are your lists called? [name_m]Just[/name_m] “[name_m]Favorite[/name_m] Names” or did you come up with something more creative?
[name_m]Little[/name_m] lady, [name_m]Little[/name_m] [name_m]Man[/name_m], In my dreams (GPs), Dropped off by the stork combos (serious combinations), Overly frilly, and [name_f]Pet[/name_f] Possibilities. 3. [name_m]How[/name_m] many names are in each list?
[name_m]Little[/name_m] lady has 30, [name_m]Little[/name_m] man has 30, In my dreams has 47, Dropped off by the stork combos has 25, Overly frilly has 209 (if I counted correctly), and [name_f]Pet[/name_f] Possibilities has 53 right now (haven’t finished filling that one yet). 4. [name_m]How[/name_m] often do you update your lists?
Not that often. I did recently because there was too much overlap between my GPs and my other lists, but before that they hadn’t been touched since [name_u]June[/name_u]-[name_f]September[/name_f] of last year. 5. [name_f]Do[/name_f] you find making lists easy?
Yes, but my list are primarily focused on what I can realistically name children, so they remain pretty small. My overly frilly list is big just because I wanted a reference list since girl names are much harder for me.
One for boys and one for girls, and a third where I have names that work together in a sibset. What I like tends to be a wee bit different when I’m actually thinking of “favorite name combos” vs. “If i have a boy named [name_m]Harlan[/name_m], I wouldn’t use [name_m]Hector[/name_m] as it’s another H name for my next son” etc. It eliminates some possibilities that way.
Nothing too creative, just Boys, Girls, and Sibset Names.
Varies from list to list. The main two lists are a mess, the sibset names tends to only have up to 3 combos per gender because I’m pretty sure I’ll only have 2 or 3 kids.
I add the odd name regularly, and take off ones I’ve sat on and decided I wouldn’t use. So they’re usually pretty updated!
Finding single names I like is easy, making combos is difficult. Girl names are more difficult than boys’ for me! I like a lot of girl names but when it comes down to “would I use this name” I usually end up thinking NO.