So thankful I found this site! You all are amazing! My husband and I are currently TTC. (I’m not yet savy with all the acronyms that you all use, but I do know what TTC means!) I’ve started coming up with a few combinations for boy and girl names. Let me know your thoughts or suggestions:
We like boy names that sound like boy names, and that age well. My husband isn’t crazy about [name]Finn[/name], but may like it for a middle name. I haven’t personally ever met a [name]Finn[/name], but am surprised to find out on here, how popular it is.
My husband loves ships, nautical anything (I love me some nautical as well), [name]Moby[/name] [name]Dick[/name], pirates…so if you have any wearable boy names that go along with that, that would be awesome!
Girls:
[name]Olive[/name] [name]Rose[/name] (I love the nickname [name]Liv[/name] and [name]Ollie[/name])
Louelle
Any other name suggestions? I’m still trying to figure out our naming style…
These are great! [name]Both[/name] of you pinned some of my other names that have been on my mental list. I’m liking [name]Crew[/name] and [name]Iris[/name] from your suggestions. We aren’t aiming for biblical names, however [name]Jonah[/name] just came on our radar with kind of the nautical feel of it. I can’t help but think of the [name]Jonas[/name] brothers for [name]Jonas[/name]. Thanks for your input!
For boys, I like the suggestion of [name]Hudson[/name]!
Some others, kind of nautical-y
[name]Drake[/name]
[name]Caspian[/name]
[name]Lochlan[/name]
[name]Lee[/name]
I like [name]Jonah[/name] as well from your list. [name]Finn[/name] is one of my favorites, but it keeps popping up in the birth announcements in my town. The names [name]Flynn[/name] and [name]Josiah[/name] remind me of [name]Finn[/name] and [name]Jonah[/name]. [name]Just[/name] some more ideas for you
here are some of the names I like…
[name]Lucille[/name] (nn [name]LuLu[/name])
[name]Violet[/name]
[name]Sylvie[/name]
[name]Iris[/name]
[name]Juniper[/name]
[name]Solomon[/name]
[name]Sebastian[/name]
[name]Chester[/name] (my new crush courtesy of someone on here)
[name]Arlo[/name]
[name]Milo[/name]
[name]Henry[/name]
[name]Edward[/name]
[name]Phineas[/name] is a very nice name with the nickname [name]Finn[/name]
I thought I’d just mention some of my favourite girl names, since you just had two names on your list: [name]Fiona[/name], [name]Adele[/name], [name]Rose[/name], [name]Lydia[/name], [name]Eliza[/name], [name]Viola[/name], [name]Adelaide[/name], [name]Isobel[/name], [name]Vera[/name], [name]Verity[/name], [name]Annabel[/name], [name]Stella[/name], [name]Elodie[/name], [name]Mary[/name], [name]Lucy[/name], [name]Molly[/name]. Anyone strike your fancy?
There’s a character from a show called Pretty Little Liars that always pops to mind when I think of “nautical”, she dresses preppy - often including nautical themes - and her name is Spencer.
Some nautical names: Cliona/Cleona (f) - In Irish legend this was the name of a beautiful goddess. She fell in love with a mortal named Ciabhan and left the Land of Promise with him, but when she arrived on the other shore she was swept to sea by a great wave.
I agree with you veggiemama, [name]Knox[/name] isn’t really our style. My husband just randomly placed a check by that one, so I kept it on our list, but it doesn’t feel right for us.
[name]Lochlan[/name], [name]Sebastian[/name] and [name]Iris[/name] have made it to my list. I like [name]Elodie[/name], but can’t help but thinking people may mistaken it for [name]Melody[/name], which isn’t for me at all. [name]Lucy[/name] has always been such a sweet name to me.
Thanks everyone for your input!! I really appreciate it!
Aw, and thank you samantha_bianca! Didn’t see your post till now. I’m liking [name]Windsor[/name] a lot, and [name]Spencer[/name]! These are awesome suggestions, thank you!! When I first started to think of nautical names, I kept thinking of the obvious like [name]Sailor[/name], [name]Moby[/name] and [name]Gatsby[/name]. lol…you guys have helped a ton. Thank you!
Historically, most of our seafaring forbears were Quakers and Puritans, which is why – also, when you mentioned [name]Moby[/name]-[name]Dick[/name] – you got the preponderance of Biblical names.
[name]One[/name] name that was very common among the seafaring and whaling families of Nantucket, New [name]Bedford[/name], and Noank was [name]Owen[/name], and this ties in with [name]Moby[/name]-[name]Dick[/name] as well. The first mate of the [name]Essex[/name], the ship that really was stoved in by a sperm whale, was a witness to the whale’s attack and wrote the book about it that [name]Melville[/name] read. His name was [name]Owen[/name] [name]Chase[/name]. Later [name]Melville[/name] met [name]Chase[/name]'s son [name]William[/name] [name]Henry[/name] when he was in the South [name]Pacific[/name] and [name]William[/name] [name]Henry[/name] gave [name]Melville[/name] his father’s journals to read. The other authors associated with [name]Moby[/name]-[name]Dick[/name] are [name]Thomas[/name] Nickerson, a cabin boy and survivor of the [name]Essex[/name], and the two authors [name]Nathaniel[/name] [name]Hawthorne[/name] and [name]Nathaniel[/name] Philbrick. In the Starbuck family – you may remember the first mate of the Pequod – the most common name was [name]Obadiah[/name].
The other famous Nantucket family are the Benchleys, of [name]Nathaniel[/name], [name]Robert[/name], and [name]Peter[/name] fame.
There are some real gems for female names in those times as well, such as [name]Lucia[/name], [name]Celinda[/name], [name]Mahala[/name], and [name]Constant[/name].
For the nautical love, what about [name]Marina[/name], [name]Sirena[/name], [name]Oceana[/name], [name]Season[/name] with Sea as a nickname, [name]Pacifica[/name], [name]Adrian[/name] or [name]Adriana[/name] (close to Adriatic), [name]Dylan[/name], [name]Caspian[/name], [name]Kai[/name], [name]Morgan[/name], [name]Perseus[/name], [name]Indigo[/name], [name]Sapphire[/name], [name]Azura[/name], [name]Nautica[/name].
You mentioned you want the name to age well, but in my opinion I don’t see [name]Knox[/name], [name]Finn[/name] or [name]Jonah[/name] on an old man.
[name]Olive[/name] is cute, Louelle not so much. [name]Do[/name] you like [name]Eloise[/name], [name]Louisa[/name] or [name]Luciana[/name]?
Great info, miloowen! We aren’t opposed to Biblical names, as there are many good ones. I do like your suggestion of [name]Owen[/name]…
And thanks for your input, cristinamariane. I like [name]Kai[/name] and [name]Eloise[/name] from your suggestions. My husband would agree with you regarding [name]Finn[/name] not aging well. I think if it ever is used, it would be for a middle name. I’m still feeling [name]Jonah[/name] though…lol…can’t let it go…
I’ve started coming up with a few combinations for boy and girl names. Let me know your thoughts or suggestions:
I can’t help but think of the [name]Jonas[/name] brothers for [name]Jonas[/name]. Thanks for your input!