[name]Hi[/name] Nameberries,
I’ve frequented [name]Laura[/name]'s site at the babynamewizard the last few years, but now that I am expecting my first child I figured I’d introduce myself here, too. Can’t have too many name communities on the radar!
I’m due in [name]October[/name] and we are not finding out the baby’s sex. We had a long-ish road to get to this point and I’ve been a name enthusiast for many years-- all of which means we had our boy’s and girl’s name picked out before we even conceived this pregnancy. It takes some of the excitement out of “talking names.” But on the upside, no fights! And we both 100% love the names we’ve chosen.
If the baby’s a boy (and I suspect it is), we’ve chosen [name]Simon[/name] [name]Kelly[/name] Lastname. The middle is a surname in my family.
If a girl, we’ve chosen [name]Josephine[/name] for the first and are still debating middles. DH’s grandmother was named [name]Edith[/name], so [name]Josephine[/name] [name]Edith[/name] is one possibility. Sometimes I love the way it sounds and sometimes it rubs me the wrong way–too many consonants. But I like that it’s quaint and old-fashioned.
The other option is [name]Josephine[/name] [name]May[/name], for no reason other than it’s pretty. DH heavily favors this choice. I like it too, but don’t like that it has no family significance. (We also have a niece–on DH’s side–with the middle name [name]Rae[/name] after his other grandmother. I wonder if it’s too similar or if cousins having similar-sounding middle names is no big deal). And I fear that “[name]May[/name]”, while not a terribly common name, is too filler-middle-name-ish, like [name]Rose[/name] or [name]Ann[/name].
Names DH has rejected as middles for various reasons: [name]Henrietta[/name], [name]Isadora[/name], and [name]Rebecca[/name] (he wants two syllables or shorter since [name]Josephine[/name] is long), [name]Iris[/name], [name]Maud[/name], [name]Maeve[/name], [name]Mabel[/name] (this was what led to [name]May[/name]).
Finally, I only like [name]Kelly[/name] as a boy’s name so I wouldn’t do [name]Josephine[/name] [name]Kelly[/name].
Would love opinions and suggestions! Thanks!