Inspiration for children's names?

[sheenalane]

My son's name is Raymond Pakelika:

Raymond: Named after my older cousin who was like a brother to me, who passed away at 22 when he was killed by a drunk driver. This was 3 years ago this thanksigiving

Pakelika: Means Patrick in hawaiian. Patrick is my husband's name and it's tradition in my family to give children a hawaiian middle name.

[couponmamaoftwins]

Brent Ray(2/8/90) We both liked the first name and Ray is my ex's middle name.

Brittany Rashel (2/8/90) Again, we both liked the first name. Rashel is after my sister Rachel.

Gabrial Law (6/5/02) Hubby picked both names and liked them because they are strong names (if that makes sense).

Harmony Jewel (6/5/02) Hubby picked the first name. Her middle name is my mom's middle name. Mom passed away 14 years ago and I wanted to use her middle name.

EDD 12/5/06 Found out we are having a girl but we haven't picked a name yet.

[hotcouponmama]

We wanted the boys to have unusual names, but names that were strong as well. All of the boys have odd letters in their names. The first two, we knew for awhile, the baby we figured him out in the hospital.

Maxwell Alexander - has 2 x's
Tucker Quinn - has a Q, and not many kids named tucker out there (we were hollering for him somewhere and someone remembered us several weeks prior hollering for him at a movie theater because his name was unusual).
Gage Izak - has the Z and Gage isn't a very popular name either.

A funny story about Tucker's name though - we were on the way to the hospital to have him induced. We had a few hours to kill. DH was sick and was going to have major surgery in a few days. We had just spent $1K to bank the baby's cord blood and didn't really have it at the time, but the oncologist thought it was a good idea.

So we stopped at a casino out of the way and we were playng a blackjack game with a side bet to match 10s, particularly queens of hearts.
So if you had $1 out on the bet, and you got the Queens of hearts, you won $150. DH never plays that and I was kicking him to do it cause he lost some along the way, $4 here, $20 there for not betting.

So he bets it and a few hands later, he gets the Queens of Hearts. Well, if you got that hand, but the dealer had an Ace showing and rolled a blackjack for the dealer, you got 1000 to 1. Sure enough, we won.

The pit boss, when we told her we were on the way to have a baby, she said we should name it "queenie" if it was going to be a girl. We told her the name was already picked, and his middle name was "quinn". So it wasn't lady luck, it was baby luck. And it was a sure sign we'd picked the right name!

[MissChele]

Annaliza Jane

Annaliza after my gr grandmother (and DH gr gr grandmother Anne Eliza and his Nana Elizabeth)

Jane after a Scottish born lady who lived in Jackson MS during the Civil War. We have copies of the letters her husband sent her while he was off fighting. Her brother was mortally wounded at Munfordville KY. We ended up doing extensive research on the family. We both have "Jane" ancestors, too


MissChele/KY

[lanichan]

We didn't know the sex of baby so we had 2 ready:

Shane XXXXXXX

Shane was this boy in my 4th grade class, real sweet and nice. I still remember hearing his unusual (at that time) name and thinking how cool it was. I've always wanted to use that name for a boy.

The middle name wasn't picked out because Mr. lanichan insisted on a variation of his and his father's Japanese name. I hated it. Not only was it difficult to pronounce and spell, it was very, very old-fashioned.

Keilani Akiko

Wanted to use Hawaiian name (Mr. lanichan is from Hawaii) and didn't want to use Leilani because it was common. Keilani means "glorious chief". Akiko in Japanese means "girl born in fall" in layman's term.

Don't know why but most Japanese-Americans I know (including half kids) have Japanese middle names. Both Mr. lanichan and I do too. Do other ethnicities do this too?

[HUDSON21]

Elijah Adoniah

Elijah - "The Lord is my God"
Adoniah - "God is my Lord"

---Just a little play on words. Plus, I like unique names and significant meanings.

[sscrgi-6]

Connor Thomas - We just like Connor (wasn't common 10.5 years ago!) and Thomas is after his grandfather.
Ramsey Nicole - Just liked Ramsey and Nicole is after a dear friend of mine
Griffin Patrick - I loved the show "Party of Five". I said if I ever had another son, he would be Griffin...thank goodness DH liked it! Patrick is after his grandfather.
Irelyn Gwenn - Dh loved this name. Gwenn is after my father (his middle name was Glenn) who passed away 3 weeks b4 Irelyn was born.

[jonnysmomma]

Jonathan Patrick

Hubby and I have loved the name Jonathan for years and years. Patrick is my hubbys first name. The irony is that "Jonathan" means "gift of god" and he was born after 7 years of trying and being told that Id never get pregnant. He was also born on our 5 year wedding anniversary!

If Jonny would have been a girl he would have been Miranda Rose Marie. Miranda i heard on a ER episode in 2004 when i was preg and LOVED it, Rose is the first half of my first middle name, and Marie is a tradition in hubbys family.

[Jusk]

Justin Lee 1/4/90......DH loved the name Justin and so did I but I was so concerned that it was so common at the time. He insisted that he had only heard of one other kid named Justin recently.....so he was born early...he spent 8 days in NICU........there were 8 boys in there......5 of them were named Justin!!!!!!!!!!! Lee was because his mother, sister, niece have Lee as a middle name. I loved it because in 1st grade I was madly in love with the cutest boy in the school and his name was Lee....and I always had a crush on Lee Majors.

Kailey Nikole 9/13/92.......I can't really remember where we got Kailey. I think I saw it in a baby name book and liked it....there are a ton of different spellings. DH wanted Kaylee but I said no because we already used Lee for DS. Nikole was after my "little sister" in big brothers/big sisters..........She was a sweet kid......I spent a few weeks with her and figured out that she was being abused by a "family friend"......I alerted the mother that this situation seemed strange to me....she confronted both of her children and it was true....they guy was a sex offender and ended up in jail.........I always had a sweet spot for that little girl!!!

If second child was a boy....I wanted Brandon Dewitt....dh picked Brandon ( I didnt like it)...Dewitt was my grandfathers middle name and I loved it. I went to school with a guy named Witt and thougth it was a cool name....As we drove to the hospital we were still at odds over this name....ended up not mattering.........

We did not know the sex of either child before delivery room.........we wanted a boy first and then a girl and we got exactly what we wanted!!!!!

[cutenirish]

I LOVE the name JUSTIN and I only have come across three of them, 31 yrs, 24 yrs and 8yrs. I'm 28 so that's not to many :)