Opinions on baby names...

[lady raven]

I am 11 weeks pregnant with twins. We don't know FOR SURE, but it appears at this point that they are identical.

We have settled on our girl names: Autumn and Violet. BUT- Boy names are harder for us.

Two names we like (but it's by no means settled) for boys are Atticus and Harrison.

Opinions?

[Critters2]

1. I like Harrison.

If I had had a son, he would have been Harris. It was my grandfather's name, and I loved it. So, I also like Harrison.

[lady raven]

7. Thank you!

I've always thought it was a very strong sounding name. Also my favorite Beatle, so that doesn't hurt.

[mzteris]

2. TWINS!!!!

And you're worried about names? Think about your sanity!

How about Thing One and Thing Two? :rofl:

I'm sorry - that's the first thing that popped into my head.

Congratulations!

:bounce:

I like them all, but my first thought on reading Autumn and Violet - is that - they are non-related themes. (ok so I'm a bit weird, but still - you can't mix a season with a color! jeesh!)



OMG! TWINS!!!!!!!!!

[lady raven]

4. More of a theme with the middle names...

If they are girls, it will be Autumn Rose and Violet Ann. Not exactly the same, but the same basic theme.

[mzteris]

9. Ok - I'm know I'm probably being

all "weird" about this, but it's how my brain works - I'm not really "questioning you" - you can name your kids whatever you want - and they ARE lovely names! Really - I'm not knocking the names -

but for the love of Daniel (Webster) how in the heck is Rose and Ann part of a theme?

Unless you mean that the Rose part is related to the Violet part, but then - in which case - you'd have to have Violet's middle name be Summer or - er - something . . . Ok - I'll shut up now. :blush:

[lady raven]

11. There IS a method to my madness, I swear

The "theme" is with Rose and Violet. I had picked out the name "Autumn Rose" back when I was pg with my son 7 years ago, so it was a given that if we had a daughter this time around, that would be her name. When we found out there might be TWO girls, we tossed around hundreds of names and kept coming back to the flower theme, eventually choosing Violet. "Ann" was chosen because it's the name of my MIL, who died in February.

[mzteris]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Violet as in the FLOWER! I get it. I was thinking color!




Autumn Rose is a beautiful name. Violet Ann is lovely as well - how wonderful to bestow your MIL's name, too.




But technically, of course, the two flowers should hold the same place . . .


edit cause I seem to be typing random words lately. I think I need a brain scan.

[lady raven]

5. Oh, believe me, I'm worried about more than just names...

I am a worrywart and I'm happy, but freaking out about LOTS of aspects of this. But baby names are taking my mind of the scary stuff right now.

(like having 2 boys- That is scary to me now that I've spent 7 years as the mother of a very busy and precocious little boy)

The Mister jokingly suggested Thing 1 and Thing 2 as well. I just might take that under consideration!

[mzteris]

12. I had one prissy little girl

for 13 years - then along came her little brother. Five years later - another little brother. And along the way - 4 other foster boys....

You should be scared - very scared! :scared:

BOYS are wild. :rofl:


OH yeah, my prissy little girl is now a prissy big girl - almost 27. :sigh: they grow up so fast.

[elshiva]

3. I like these names.

Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird?

Harrison Ford?

Where did you get these names?

[lady raven]

6. Thank you!

Atticus is after Atticus Finch, in my opinion, one of the great heroes of literature, and Harrison, well, we needed a very strong sounding name to go with Atticus and that one sounded really good with our last name.

It's not after Harrison Ford, but I'm happy to let my mom think that. She swears she's going to be his next wife. LOL!

[HeeBGBz]

8. My 6 y.o. grandson named his new brother Cobra Jack

Most everyone thought that was a most excellent name, but his mother nixed the idea. That is his forever nickname however.

Congrats on your twins!!!

[lady raven]

14. That's hilarious!

My 7 yo had a few ideas of his own also... Also nixed. And thank you for the congrats :-)

[HeeBGBz]

18. I like the name Harrison

I also like the name Logan.

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. The boys names will get your kids beaten up..

in a public school.

[lady raven]

15. We thought about that.

Well, thankfully they will go to a private school through high school. LOL. Seriously- the "beating up" factor is what got a lot of our name choices nixed. We actually thought these would work. There are some kids in my son's school (Where they will go) that have some pretty wild names.

[Omphaloskepsis]

19. One thing to think about is Google..

My name is John Powell.. Google it, employers sometimes Google names to find out more info. I am so low on the list they never find the nudie pics on my blog.

Having a generic name can be useful. And yes, your kids will manage to put up embarrassing pics on myspace or facebook.

[lady raven]

22. I hadn't thought about that...

Here I am only in my 30s and I feel like an old fogey- I hadn't even thought about how the names might get them more easily "found" on the internet! I guess since I'm usually pretty private with my own info, it just didn't cross my mind.

[XemaSab]

13. Here is my frank opinion:

Autumn and Violet sound wierd together.

Atticus and Harrison also sound wierd together, but for a different reason. They're going to need nicknames; what would they be? Harrison will probably be Harry.

What part of the country do you live in? :shrug:

If they turn out not to be identical, Atticus and Autumn sounds pretty cool.

[lady raven]

16. We were trying to stay away from sound- alike names

Not sure what nickname we would use for Atticus- We thought we could pick a middle name that would be easily shortened. We had figured on Harry as a nickname if we chose Harrison.

The boys' names are still way up in the air, though. For the last month, we have been at a total loss regarding boy names. It took me my entire pregnancy with my 7 yo to settle on a name for him.

We live in Oklahoma.

We thought Atticus and Autumm would work well together if we have b/g fraternals, though, but it appears unlikely that they are fraternal twins.

[Mz Pip]

17. You've got months to decide!

I think we picked out #1 son's name when I was about 4 months pregnant. We went through the 5000 names for baby books and were able to agree on 'Sean'

Then #2 son; I think I named about a week before he was born. I had a dream that I had a boy that I named Evan Warren (Warren is a family name) so when he came out a boy we sort of had to go with that.

Never did get to use Wendy which was my girl name. :shrug:

I had this thing about having simple names. I didn't want them to be frustrated in Kindergarten. Seriously, that's why I picked short names.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[krispos42]

20. Hmmm... this is hard because we don't know your last name

It has some bearing in the 'flow' of the name.

For example, when figuring out a name for our son, one of the ideas I tossed out was either "Ellis Antonio" or "Anthony Ellis". Ellis is my late grandfather's name, Antonio is my ex's late grandfather's name.

But my last name is not Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or any other Romance-language derivitive, so for the first name we Anglicized it.

We wound up naming him Samuel Ellis, which goes quite well with his last name, but you see my point.

However, Benjamin and Malcolm are nice names.

This might help you:

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.male.first

[lady raven]

21. I'll PM you...

I don't want to put my last name on a board that anyone can read, so I'll PM it to you...

[krispos42]

24. Got it, thanks.

You could still pull off a Benjamin, I think. How about "Adrian?" "Cameron" is nice, as well. Maybe "Timothy?"

I think "Atticus" will work, as well. It's got that Letin sonorousness to it.

Ooo! Adrian and Atticus!

Or is that too cute?





Well, there's my 2¢ worth...

[TOhioLiberal]

23. It's a good idea...

...for your babies to have names. :P Yes, I am a smartass, why do you ask? Seriously though, congrats on expecting twins! Atticus and Harrison sound like excellent names. :hi:

[CC]

25. My son went to school with a girl

named Winter that we have run into again lately. I always liked her name. It would match up great with Autumn.

[Kali]

26. I know I am wierd, but I just could not name my sons until I saw them

and even then if I could have I would have waited a month! God the pressure to fill in that line on that form - people were going crazy! Why do we have to name a person before we know them? arrggg

[JVS]

27. Naomi and Mara

From Ruth 1

16 But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." 18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

19 So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, "Can this be Naomi?"

20 "Don't call me Naomi, " she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. 21 I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me."

22 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning

[VLC]

28. I like Harrison, but sorry, I don't like Atticus.

It just reminds me of prisons. Or Roman prisons.

[ruiner4u]

29. Virginia and Vagina

[BlueIris]

30. Awwww. Those are GREAT names for baby girls. Plus, you have accomplished that most rare of feats

among parents of twins--IMO, your girls names' are both equally "strong." Don't you hate it when you have that feeling that the parents picked one "good" name for one of their twins and then used their second choice or whatever for the other twin? I've met so many twins and thought, "Good name. Too bad about what the other one has to live with."

Back when I thought I wanted to have a child, good boys names were hard for me, too. (Just ask the Lounge.) I like Harrison. One of my friends in VA had a son last year and named him that.

[Skittles]

31. peading the 5th

yes INDEED

[murielm99]

32. Me too.

OP, I am glad that you know how to spell the names you chose for your children.

I have seen classrooms with three little girls, all named Heather, and each with a different, um ... "creative" spelling. I have seen the same thing with Katie, Kaitlyn, Haley and similar names.

They don't seem to twist the boys' names quite as badly. It can happen, though.

[yellowdogintexas]

33. names are a pet peeve of mine and I am a reactionary traditionalist

with names...and before you read further: my most sincere and delighted congratulations on the birth of twins, hope you get girls, since you seem to tend that way in your wishes! Girls are great, I have one.
Her names are very traditional; she is named for her grandmothers and a couple of dear dear friends.: Margaret Suzanne.

I urge you to consider life for these new persons as adults, seeking professional standing with a non traditional name. The boys' names are good and sturdy, although Atticus could cause some bully problems, it stands for so much though considering its source! I love Atticus Finch myself. The girls' names, not so much.

I am not fond of naming children after states, seasons, flora (with possible exception of the name Iris which for some reason I truly do like), gemstones, animals (as in more suitable for a pet than a person) and soap opera characters. Do not get me started on ethnic names that are not really ethnic. I DID WARN YOU I WAS OPINIONATED ABOUT NAMES, DIDN'T I?

don't be angry, I have just seen too many weird names in my many years of health claim review and processing and the very last job I want is the person who registers the baby's name at the hospital. I would be fired over laughing in the faces of some of the parents.

You have chosen names which thankfully can't really be spelled multiple ways and have the beauty of the words corrupted.

and I hate hate hate names with apostrophes and misplaced accent marks in them.


best of luck with this new venture in your life!!!!

[Midlodemocrat]

34. I erred on the side of caution with my children's names

and gave them names which weren't trendy.

I'm not a big fan of your choices, but that's just me. Atticus reminds me of the prison in New York, unfortunately, not Atticus Finch.

[MissMillie]

35. Owen and Leonard

not common, but not too off the wall either

(my dad is a Leonard, and he is w/o a doubt the most wonderful man to walk the planet.... so the name just says beautiful things to me. Besides, it comes w/ great nick-names, like Len, Lenny, Leo, Leon....)

P.S., I like Violet, but I don't like Autumn. It's too "trendy".

[electron_blue]

36. Nice names! My friend's son is named Atticus. He's 18 now and has not been

bullied (to my knowledge). It probably helps that he's over 6 feet tall. He was also named for the Finch character and his personality is well-suited to his name.

Also, I disagree that all kids get/need nicnames. I know plenty of kids with 3 and 4-syllable names who get called that their whole life, without being nicnamed. I think nicnames are nice, but it's not automatic. A few naysayers said I was giving my daughter a name that was too long and nobody would say it. good grief, it hasn't been a problem. Atticus and Harrison are *not* long names.

[AngryAmish]

37. James Westfall and Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

[huskerlaw]

38. I really like Atticus and Harrison

Honestly, not a huge fan of Autumn and Violet. Violet reminds me of Ben Affleck's kid. I believe her middle name is Ann as well. And Autumn? Well...since she would be born in March-ish, ehhhh.

But that's just my opinion...take it for what it's worth, obviously.

...and Congratulations!!