Comments on: Naming Your Baby

By: Janay

Janay — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:49:33 +0000

I think giving your child a unique name is something special you do for your child. It shows how much trouble you went through to find the perfect name for them. Two of my daughters have unique names. Erris (pronounced heiress) and Avea (pronounced Ah-vey-ah). I will be using Irelyn if I have another girl in the future. I love unique names. By the way I love Khylen, what a pretty name!

By: delish

delish — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:19:04 +0000

well am sort of sure that my son’s generation would know Rubeus from the Harry Potter books… what I am worried about is his second name (Iakob), which people often mistake for Lakob

and i don’t want my kids to have common names either… but i also don’t want to cause future problems for them in case all their legal documents end up with misspelled names

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:34:16 +0000

My mother gave me a unique name as well. It is also butchered but nonetheless, I love it. She thinks she stole it from her best friend when they were in high school but the friend doesn’t remember ever hearing it! Go figure…anyway, my name is Jaisette (jay-set) and I have yet to find my name on any personalized coffee mug, key chain or magnet in any souvenir shop. My nickname, Jay, I see all the time. Though Jay is more of a guy’s name than a girl.

By: MrsH

MrsH — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:24:22 +0000

My daughter’s first name is Sabine…I thought it was unique but simple enough that people wouldn’t have a hard time pronouncing it like they did mine (don’t ask)….you guessed it, they still do…It’s Sah-Been but for some people it becomes Sah-Byne.

By: Trish

Trish — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:46:35 +0000

A very unique name was very important to me too, wanted nothing in the top 100 for either gender. But I didn’t want her to have to spell and pronounce it for people all the time since her last name, Gruswitz, is hard enough. My husband just wanted it to be a biblical name- which was hard for me because the pretty ones are too common. We found a perfect name that wasn’t even in the top 1000 (though was in the top 25 a hundred years ago)

“Olive”

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:44:46 +0000

I totally agree with you, Tamsen. My mom named my brother Cody in 1979, and had only heard it one other time. Now, it is a named given to both boys and girls, and PLENTY of them! I also gave my children unique names also. Don’t get me wrong, I love some of the more common names, but I just wanted my children to enjoy being the one of the few with their names. I have heard my oldest daughter’s name (Khylen) a few times, same with my son’s (Laithan), but my youngest daughter’s name I haven’t ever heard on anyone else but her. Ok, and my mom’s family, because it is my mom’s maiden name, only spelled a little differently. Her name is Ensley. I love all three of my children’s names, and hope they grow up liking them also! My kids have also had a few mispronunciations, and plenty of mispellings (don’t ask me WHY I put that h in Khy’s name!!!!), but overall, I think they are relatively easy to figure out.