The kid names thread

• sportswizuhrd

  Saw a list of graduates from my HS in the local paper and there was a girl named Nirvana. I guess its time we start seeing those types of names pop up, but it sure as hell made me feel old.
• justincredible

  

  sportswizuhrd;780558 wrote:Saw a list of graduates from my HS in the local paper and there was a girl named Nirvana. I guess its time we start seeing those types of names pop up, but it sure as hell made me feel old.

  
  I'd name a kid Pearl/Perle. An old guy I went to church with was named Perle.
• dwccrew

  

  Fab4Runner;780309 wrote:I plan to give my kids names that are not too popular...but they also will not be wacky/weird.
  
  Wildcats and I have a girls name picked out but I hate his favorite boy name and since I am pushing the baby out of my vagina I will not give in.

  
  Wait, I thought you were planning to use a surrogate so you could still binge drink?
• OSH

  

  I think I shared before, my family has a history of [VERY] different names.
  
  My granddad was full-blooded Slovakian. My wife and I talked about honoring that a bit and going with a traditional Slovakian name. We won't go crazy with them (such as Ubomir), but there are some really good ones.
  
  I am just thankful my mom didn't get to name me...or I would've been Xavier. That would've really sucked. I would've been last to get cookies, milk, lunch, etc. ALL the time through school.
• brutus161

  

  justincredible;780238 wrote:My wife and I have agreed on a system for naming our kids once we finally have one. If it's a boy I come up with a list of three names (first and middle) and she picks one of them. If it's a girl she comes up with the list of three and I pick one. We'll see if it actually works that way, though. She doesn't seem to like the boy names I come up with. I'm a big fan of the name Clarence (great-grandfathers name, died when I was a baby) but she can only picture an old black man with that name. If we do have a son his middle name will most likely be Melvin which was my grandfathers name.

  
  My first name is Clarence. You can tell your wife, that you know a guy that is young and white named it.
• Little Danny

  

  sportswizuhrd;780558 wrote:Saw a list of graduates from my HS in the local paper and there was a girl named Nirvana. I guess its time we start seeing those types of names pop up, but it sure as hell made me feel old.

  
  It hit me about two years ago when I was riding my bike by a house with a big sign out front "Congratulations Shaquille, Class of 2009".
  
  I thought about it and realized the young Shaquille was likely born in 1991 or 1992 around the time the big Shaquille was tearing it up at LSU and considering going pro. I am sure we will see a lot of Kobe's, Carmello's, Amare's, Lebron's and maybe even a few Dirk's (wink from another thread) in the near future.
• justincredible

  

  brutus161;781592 wrote:My first name is Clarence. You can tell your wife, that you know a guy that is young and white named it.

  
  Now she can only picture a green shape with blue limbs.
• Fab4Runner

  

  dwccrew;781401 wrote:Wait, I thought you were planning to use a surrogate so you could still binge drink?

  That is my ideal plan...but those things are expensive. So unless I can talk a close friend or family member into it I may have to get knocked up after all.
• fan_from_texas

  Fab4Runner;782948 wrote:That is my ideal plan...but those things are expensive. So unless I can talk a close friend or family member into it I may have to get knocked up after all.

  
  The surrogate route is EXPENSIVE. Two gay friends offered Mrs. FFT $100,000 to be their surrogate, but we declined. I had no idea how expensive it was.
• Heretic

  

  justincredible;781178 wrote:I'd name a kid Pearl/Perle. An old guy I went to church with was named Perle.

  
  And I'd be calling your kid "Pearl Necklace". Yeah. Suck on that!
• justincredible

  

  fan_from_texas;783484 wrote:The surrogate route is EXPENSIVE. Two gay friends offered Mrs. FFT $100,000 to be their surrogate, but we declined. I had no idea how expensive it was.

  
  Daaaaamn! That's a lot of money to walk away from.
• FatHobbit

  

  fan_from_texas;783484 wrote:The surrogate route is EXPENSIVE. Two gay friends offered Mrs. FFT $100,000 to be their surrogate, but we declined. I had no idea how expensive it was.

  justincredible;783498 wrote:Daaaaamn! That's a lot of money to walk away from.

  
  I'll do it.
• coyotes22

  

  We named our son Bryce Logan. With the last name his initials are:
  
  BLT
  
  I thought it was funny. Whatever.
• sej

  

  Baby daddy and I had a hell of a time picking a name. We disliked the names the other liked. We didn't narrow it down until I was admitted to the hospital, and even then we had two names, Mia and Keira, and each of us liked one more than the other. Mine (Mia) won because I had just birthed at 8+ lb. baby without an epidural so I got the sympathy vote. Her middle name is Jade, which I really like but I think it just sounds like a stripper name. I couldn't set her up with that.
• cbus4life

  fan_from_texas;783484 wrote:The surrogate route is EXPENSIVE. Two gay friends offered Mrs. FFT $100,000 to be their surrogate, but we declined. I had no idea how expensive it was.

  
  I'll push a baby out of my penis for $100,000.
• fan_from_texas

  justincredible;783498 wrote:Daaaaamn! That's a lot of money to walk away from.

  
  After taxes, it's more like $55-60k. And there's the whole issue of going through 9 months of pregnancy (with all that goes with it), then the pain of childbirth ... and then giving up the baby. Plus, it's a gay couple, and we weren't sure how we felt about bringing a child into the world to be adopted by a gay couple.
  
  It sounds good at first, but when you actually think about it, it's not a great idea (which is why people pay so much for it).
• Ironman92

  

  As a teacher of a rural district for 13 years I give you the following former/current students:
  
  Kelli Kelley
  
  D' sire Thompson
  
  Motorcycle fans....Harley Davidson
  
  For you Gator fans Miracle Tebow (I swear)
  
  And to top all....Indiana Hoosier
• Hb31187

  

  fan_from_texas;784093 wrote:After taxes, it's more like $55-60k. And there's the whole issue of going through 9 months of pregnancy (with all that goes with it), then the pain of childbirth ... and then giving up the baby. Plus, it's a gay couple, and we weren't sure how we felt about bringing a child into the world to be adopted by a gay couple.
  
  It sounds good at first, but when you actually think about it, it's not a great idea (which is why people pay so much for it).

  Better than the homes with heterosexual parents who dont want anything to do with a child who end up having them IMO.
• justincredible

  

  Hb31187;784202 wrote:Better than the homes with heterosexual parents who dont want anything to do with a child who end up having them IMO.

  
  I agree, but that's a whole other debate I'd rather not bring into this thread. I do agree that the other stuff does make the $60k seem a little smaller.
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  Word...
  
  Do NOT choose a first name that ends in the same consonant sound as the first syllable in the last name. My parents did with me - it usually takes people two or three attempts to figure out the divide between the first and last name.
• Hb31187

  

  justincredible;784205 wrote:I agree, but that's a whole other debate I'd rather not bring into this thread. I do agree that the other stuff does make the $60k seem a little smaller.

  
  Agree, ill drop it so it doesnt turn into a huge debate thread
• Ironman92

  

  Also had a Daquiri and Margurita (that's how they spelled it)....sisters of course.
• justincredible

  

  Cat Food Flambe';784226 wrote:Word...
  
  Do NOT choose a first name that ends in the same consonant sound as the first syllable in the last name. My parents did with me - it usually takes people two or three attempts to figure out the divide between the first and last name.

  
  I have this. Though I changed my last name when I was 16 so it wasn't the case when I was named.
• oberhaus

  

  My wife and I didnt really agree on names, but my son kinda picked his own.
  
  We had a trip planned to Disney World in late September. When we found out she was pregnant, we decided to cancel our trip due to her not being able to ride anything or walk around comfortably.
  
  Well when the time came that we wouldve been in Orlando, that was the week that Central Florida got hit with 2 hurricanes. One at the beginning of the week and one at the end. Both went thru Orlando area.
  
  We feel that our boy was a sent to us to keep us safe. Our little angel. We named him Gabriel. Eugene is his middle name after his Great Grandpa. And with my last name, his initials are GEO.
• fan_from_texas

  Hb31187;784202 wrote:Better than the homes with heterosexual parents who dont want anything to do with a child who end up having them IMO.

  
  Of course, which is an argument for gay adoption, but isn't particularly relvant to gay surrogacy. We dont really have issues with the former, but have some concerns about the latter.