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So what are your childrens names?
If you have no children, what are you going to call them when you do?
If you do not intend to have children, what do you wish other peoples children were called?
And if anyone is expecting, I think we should have a vote on its name .

So here we go - I am going to call my children:

Sebastian
Bellerophon
Gabriel
Saraqael
Persephone

and optional names, depending on numbers

Evelyn
Charybdis
Phaeton
Ezekiel

what are your choices?

Carli III...

...is my son's given name, thus his nick is Trey.

If I had a daughter, I'd probably choose Anna Catherine (Katy), another son would likely be Nicholas Kristopher (Nike).

BTW, I would just like to add a bit of news for you...

ROME - An outraged mother has gone to court after her husband named their newborn son after a prize-winning horse.

The man registered his son as Varenne Glampaolo, Varenne is a seven-year-old horse considered the greatest racer in Italian history. Glampaolo is his jockey's name.

"He said his wife agreed," an official at the records office said. When the mother found she couldn't change the baby's name to Chrisitian, she went to court. "She just wouldn't accept that the name isn't embarrassing or insulting," the official said. - Reuters

My daughter's called...Umm, I don't have a child, what are you talking about?

I've always liked the names Rebecca and Jennifer for a daughter, not so sure about names for sons. Definitely no middle names.
I doubt I'll ever have more than one child though, no idea why.

Christina (6 y.o.)
Monika (3 y.o.)

No worries,

Beldin

My son would possibly be Raymond Neil, I might remove the Raymond though and just have Neil something.

I'm thinking of calling my future daughter Ivory.

And I'm definately braking a tradition in my family. The male side has been called "Laurens" for over a century. I will never call my son that, I HATE it when they confuse me and my father over the phone.

Frogus, those kids are gonna catch hell at school.

When picking children's names, the first question you should ask yourself is, "Will someone ever beat my kid up and take their lunch money because of their name?"

This is why you don't name a kid something like Leopold or Wolfgang, even if his middle name is something like Ricard and you call him Rick. One day, his friends are going to find out that his name is Leopold and he's going to be ridiculed (or worse!) for it. I know this because I've done it (not that I'm proud of what I've done to people because of their names, but it happens).

My wife picked biblical names for her children: Luke, Elizabeth, and Matthew.

I don't have any kids of my own, but if I did, I've always liked the names Stephen, Terra, Jason and Maureen.

My daughters are Alexandra and Olivia - both family names - and it seems that these two names are making a comeback - at least in America.

Names tend to come and go and then come back again - funny that...

Originally posted by smass
My daughters are Alexandra (Snip)

If the child on the way is a girl, this is the name my wife and I had decided on. I'm not sure if the spelling is going to be the same though..I believe my wife has added an 'i' Alexandria.

@Weasel:
Are you going to call her Alexandra/Alexandria or something like Lexy or Alex?

McMcBane and McBaneson are more commonly known as Ian and Nathan

It really depends on the nationality of the person I get married to and have children with... if I ever. There's no way naming my children with non-Japanese, if I'd marry to a Japanese man; while I don't let them suffer by insisting on Japanese names, if I'd marry to non-Japanese (and live away from Japan), though I will consider giving them middle name.

That reminds me, there's a boom in Japan that parents give children English (or other European)names with Chinese characters, such as Maria, Lisa, George, etc. instead of common Japanese names. I think it's bizzar... Naming their kids English doesn't automatically make them the bilingual internationalist.

I've always wondered about people who give their children one name, but call them something different. To me it doesn't make a lot of sense. For instance, a woman in my office just had a baby and named her Megan Abigail, but they're calling her Abby. Why not name her Abby?

I think with some polysyllabic names, parents shorten them so that they can let their children know when they're angry. My brother's name is Andrew, but my parents called him Drew, so when every he heard them say "Andrew", it usually meant someone was in trouble.

My middle name is Nguyen, which is the family name I had at my birth. When my parents (white, middle-class Americans) adopted me, they gave me a white, middle-class American name (David) but they kept my old Vietnamese family name as a tie to my birth heritage, even though personally I feel no connection to my former country or family.

Originally posted by HighLordDave
I've always wondered about people who give their children one name, but call them something different. To me it doesn't make a lot of sense. For instance, a woman in my office just had a baby and named her Megan Abigail, but they're calling her Abby. Why not name her Abby?

This is beyond my knowledge.. I was always called Michael..my first name...my sister on the other hand was always called by her second/middle name.

Originally posted by HighLordDave
My middle name is Nguyen, which is the family name I had at my birth. When my parents (white, middle-class Americans) adopted me, they gave me a white, middle-class American name (David) but they kept my old Vietnamese family name as a tie to my birth heritage, even though personally I feel no connection to my former country or family.

Another off-topic question, is Nguyen a fairly common Vietnamese surname @HLD?
If you don't know then no worries, but Perth has quite a large Vietnamese population and it seems to be a common name down here.

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
Another off-topic question, is Nguyen a fairly common Vietnamese surname @HLD?

I believe it is; mind you, I know very little about Vietnamese culture.

The name I was given at birth is actually four names, and as is typical in Asian cultures, the first (in order) name is the family or clan name and the last is the personal name. I think that Nguyen is the most common surname in Vietnam, followed by Tran (sort of the Smith and Brown of the Siamese Penninsula).