Baby names

[OnlySunshine]

I have always been partial to old-fashioned names since I am old-fashioned at heart.  I am not a fan of these "trendy" names nowadays like Brooklyn or Jaymes (for a girl).  Here are my favorites:

Girls: Elizabeth, Samantha, Rose, Mary, Anne, Catherine

Boys: Henry, Andrew, James, Charles, Michael

If I had to pick only one name (first and middle) for a boy and a girl, it would be:

GIRL: Mary Elizabeth (for the Visitation; I wanted this name if I entered religious life)

BOY: Henry James (my grandfather's name is James, so it would honor him)

[Ancilla Domini]

Well here is...some of my list.

Evelyn

Audrey

Bridget

Veronica

Adelaide (? not sure about this one. I have to repeat it to myself a few dozen more times. )

Timothy

Benjamin

Edmund

James

[Gabriela]

If I had a girl, I'd name her Emma for Our Blessed Mother (Emma sounds like "Ima", which is Hebrew for "mother"—"mom", really!).

If I had a boy, I'd probably name him Emet (Hebrew for 'truth') or Tzedek (Hebrew for 'justice') or simply 'Justice' in English. Nathanael is also a possibility.

I like the idea of naming children for virtues and geographic places, but some of the words for those things would sound just awful.

[Credo in Deum]

Rocco

Bob

Jim

Carmine

Duke

[Amppax]

I think Alex is a wonderful name. 

[tinytherese]

Since I was a little girl I enjoyed looking up name meanings and making lists of favorites. Ha, I'm sure the bookstore lady was concerned by the 11 year old buying a baby name book (and the bridal magazine too). 

What is your favorite baby name for a boy or girl? I have to admit I'm kind of snobby and pooh pooh invented names or spellings. However recently I am starting to love more adventurous stuff for MIDDLE names - like Mercy, Magnolia, Honor, Briallen (not made up, it's the Welsh word for primrose), Posey, Clover, Poet. Basically names that make me sound like an upper class British twit. 

Boy names, I like standard classics, pretty boring there, except for the Irish name Eamon which I think is so cool but confusing for Americans. And for a middle on a boy I like a saint's last name like Campion or Becket or Bellarmine.

What do you like?

When I was 13, my younger brother was born and my mom got me a baby name book to help choose his name. My parents and I all liked Ben for a boy and that's what his name ended up as. I kept that book after he was born and continued to go through it multiple times picking out names for my future children.

 

I'm hesitant to give my kids any J names or some G names that sound like Js because my mom, aunt, uncle, and I have J names and I keep getting accidentally called by my aunt's name. 

 

Boys:

Leo, Ezekiel, Isaac, Adrian, Dominic, Landon, Aidan, Simon, Tyler, Damian, Joseph, Malachai, Isaiah, James, Malcolm, Henry, Charlie (legal name Charles Borromeo,) John Paul,  Zaccheus (nickname Zach,) Joseph

 

Girls:

Tiffany, Heather, Audrey, Cosette, Anna, Aurelia, Ginny, Josie, Monica, Pauline, Natalia, Evangeline, Savannah, Ally, Cecilia, Leena, Louisa, Makenzie, Nina, Rosalie, Vivian, Vivica, Hally, Grace, Elisa, Anastasia, Gianna, Kateri, Lisa, Sophie, Topanga, Galiana, Hope, 

 

Loyola either for a boy's middle name or a girl's first name. 

[DominicanHeart]

I'm debating on whether or not I'm going to be that Catholic mom that names all of her girls Mary something. 

Mary Catherine 

Mary Bernadete

Mary Rose etc.

[Selah]

I have girls names picked out, but not boys. I like Rachel Joy and Kiara Grace.

[Archaeology cat]

I'm debating on whether or not I'm going to be that Catholic mom that names all of her girls Mary something. 

Mary Catherine 

Mary Bernadete

Mary Rose etc.

There's a lady in our parish who has done that. So her daughters all have names like Mary Therese, Mary Clare, Mary Veronica, etc. 

[NadaTeTurbe]

There's a lady in our parish who has done that. So her daughters all have names like Mary Therese, Mary Clare, Mary Veronica, etc. 

My gread-grand-father have done that. My great-aunt are called Marie-Louise (called Marilou), Marie-Françoise, Marie-Thérèse, etc... and the boys are called Pierre-Marie, Jules-Marie, Michel-Marie, etc... But nobody ever said the "Marie", for the boys or the girls. 

[mcts]

Our first is Patrick Kolbe and our little one due in January is set to be Catherine Therese, unless she's actually born on her due date, at which point she'll be Elizabeth Ann since that's her feast day. Other names that we have considered are Michael Joseph and Benedict Michael. I love the name Lucy, but have quite a few friends with little ones named Lucy.