Thank you to every one who has participated: this has been super fun! I’m looking forward to seeing how you finish off because it’s been strong all the way through. Let me know if you’d like another one; I can make a poll from these names to see who goes forward if that’s something people are interested in?
Once again I will be giving you approximately 24 hours to submit your answers (probably slightly more: I predict that I will have selected the final names and published the winners around 13:00 or 14:00 UTC tomorrow).
Family 1
LN: Richmond-Hayes (namelover55 & EagleEyes)
DH: [name_m]Matthew[/name_m] [name_u]David[/name_u] [name_m]Richmond[/name_m] [occupation: archivist] (namelover55)
DW: [name_f]Aaliyah[/name_f] [name_f]Dawn[/name_f] [name_u]Hayes[/name_u] [occupation: [name_f]English[/name_f] professor] (EagleEyes)
DS/DD: [name_u]Mason[/name_u] [name_m]Felix[/name_m] & [name_f]Molly[/name_f] [name_u]Phoenix[/name_u] (lifesaboutmusic)
DS: [name_u]Robin[/name_u] [name_u]George[/name_u] (namelover55)
DS: [name_u]Elias[/name_u] [name_u]Jude[/name_u] (@SuzieKim)
[name_f]Aaliyah[/name_f] and [name_m]Matthew[/name_m] are loving being parents and decide to try for one last baby to round off their brood. Surprise! It’s a final set of twins: boy/girl again. This time, [name_m]Matthew[/name_m] and [name_f]Aaliyah[/name_f] are being less strict on the matchy-matchy nature so as long as the two names sound good together, they’re happy.
DS:
First name: appears in both the current US and [name_u]England[/name_u] & [name_m]Wales[/name_m] top 100
Middle name: is currently outside the top 100 in both the US and [name_u]England[/name_u] & [name_m]Wales[/name_m]
DD:
First name: belongs to a Youtuber you follow
Middle name: is related to happiness
Family 2
LN: Alperton (SuzieKim)
DH: [name_u]Noah[/name_u] [name_u]James[/name_u] [occupation: immunologist] (SuzieKim)
DW: [name_f]Hannah[/name_f] [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] (White) [occupation: paramedic] (EagleEyes)
DD: [name_f]Lydia[/name_f] [name_f]Hannah[/name_f] (namelover55)
DS/DS/DD/DD: [name_m]Matthias[/name_m] [name_u]David[/name_u] (LyricalSquid), [name_u]Rowan[/name_u] [name_u]Cross[/name_u] (EagleEyes), [name_f]Saskia[/name_f] [name_f]Crystal[/name_f] (namelover55) & [name_f]Vera[/name_f] Sadie-Grace (kidpix21)
DFS: [name_m]Alistair[/name_m] [name_u]John[/name_u] (@namelover55)
[name_u]Noah[/name_u] and [name_f]Hannah[/name_f] are still fostering little [name_m]Alistair[/name_m], and are in the process of formal adoption. When he is two, they adopt another little boy who was left nameless in a Safe [name_u]Haven[/name_u] box. They want to maintain separate initials for everyone so they don’t want any names that begin with A, H, L, M, N, R, S, or V.
DAS:
First name: has multiple nickname options
Middle name: honours father
Family 3
LN: Carvans (BeccaRhubarb)
DW: [name_u]Ivy[/name_u] [name_f]Amethyst[/name_f] Carvans (Evans) [occupation: animator] (BeccaRhubarb)
DW: [name_f]Heidi[/name_f] [name_f]Mabel[/name_f] Carvans (Carter) [occupation: forest ranger] (rachelheth)
DD: [name_f]Penelope[/name_f] [name_f]Aurora[/name_f] [name_f]Meabh[/name_f] “Penny” (meganlee2012)
DD: [name_f]Jessica[/name_f] [name_f]Harriet[/name_f] [name_u]Blair[/name_u] Carvans “Jessie” (Tab99)
DS/DS/DD: [name_m]Brian[/name_m] [name_m]Hugo[/name_m] [name_m]Chester[/name_m] “Bran” (@Tab99), [name_u]Michael[/name_u] [name_m]Vincent[/name_m] [name_m]Piran[/name_m] (@SuzieKim) & [name_f]Aurora[/name_f] [name_f]Inez[/name_f] [name_f]Martina[/name_f] “Rory” (@lifesaboutmusic)
Content with their little family, [name_u]Ivy[/name_u] and [name_f]Heidi[/name_f] decide to buy [name_u]Penny[/name_u] three pet fish. [name_u]Penny[/name_u] is given full reign over their names so she chooses three names that are as different as she possibly can whilst reflecting her favourite school subjects: art, science and music.
[name_m]Fish[/name_m] 1:
Name is a colour.
[name_m]Fish[/name_m] 2:
Name is related to the periodic table
[name_m]Fish[/name_m] 3:
Name appears in a song
Family 4
LN: [name_u]Wilson[/name_u]
DM: [name_u]Delta[/name_u] [name_u]Juno[/name_u] [occupation: sign language interpreter] (lifesaboutmusic)
DP: [name_u]Cooper[/name_u] [name_u]Levi[/name_u] Greenfield [occupation: welder] (BeccaRhubarb) (@EagleEyes)
DD: [name_f]Amethyst[/name_f] Eva-Rose [name_u]Wilson[/name_u] (LyricalSquid)
DSD: [name_f]Poppy[/name_f] [name_f]Amaya[/name_f] Greenfield (LyricalSquid)
DD/DD: [name_u]Wren[/name_u] [name_u]Lovelace[/name_u] (@VEL) & [name_u]Sunny[/name_u] [name_f]Rebecca[/name_f] (@EagleEyes)
[name_u]Cooper[/name_u] is settling in well to life as a welder: every day is a little bit different, and still leaves time to be a hands-on parent. [name_u]Delta[/name_u] and [name_u]Cooper[/name_u] welcome their beautiful twins and love twin life so much that they adopt a set of boy/girl twins who are the same age as their oldest girls.
DAD:
First name: a brand, make or model of car
Middle name: from [name_m]Lord[/name_m] of the Rings
DAS:
First name: connected to aviation
Middle name: from Game of Thrones
Family 5
LN: [name_u]Meadowlark[/name_u]
DH: [name_m]Alexander[/name_m] [name_u]Maxwell[/name_u] “Alex” [occupation: HR specialist] (GoldenNebula88)
DP: [name_u]Jasper[/name_u] [name_u]Hayden[/name_u] (Blackwell) [occupation: pilot] (Indilee)
DD/DD/DS: Veralynn Madrid (kidpix21), [name_f]Summerlynn[/name_f] [name_f]Capri[/name_f] (SuzieKim) & [name_u]Thoreau[/name_u] [name_u]Sutton[/name_u] (BeccaRhubarb)
DD: [name_f]Temperance[/name_f] [name_f]Athena[/name_f] (@BeccaRhubarb)
Chinchilla: [name_f]Lavender[/name_f] Boba (GoldenNebula88)
Chinchilla: [name_f]Sunflower[/name_f] Remote (@kidpix21)
To round out their family, [name_u]Alex[/name_u] and [name_u]Jasper[/name_u] decide to provide long-term foster care to four siblings, three boys and a girl whose first names all begin with the same letter. Their last name is inspired by your favourite band or singer.
DFS:
First name: Russian
Middle name: is associated with a Victorian author (ie someone who wrote between 1837 and 1901)
DFS:
First name: Basque
Middle name: a unisex name that leans feminine
DFD:
First name: appears in a song title
Middle name: associated with royalty
DFS:
First name: a saint name
Middle name: ends in Z