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Originally posted by MrsK:
Wil have to go a long way to beat Cory Doctorows daughters name.. Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow. But its certainly something to email for (See, nice first name slightly insane middle names! Yay!)

EDIT: Aim for.. Aim for. Not email for.. Doh my brain!

I thought you meant he could have a cute email address, say gibsonrocks@babymale.co.uk or PoetryDanger@cradlesnatch.com

I really ought to register kradlet@gmail.com ready though should I *laughing*

oyu mean you haven't :-0
that's way up there right ahead of daycare

Help.. help..

Seriously. I am starting to get vaguely stressed that we stll have no real big contender for kradlets name.. people keep telling me "oh, when you see him you will know what to call him". But what happens if they give me shit loads of drugs, and I end up agreeing to Obi Wan Darth.. *LOL*

*goes back to reading the penguin book of names*

Just call him Little Dude for the first 20 years and then let him decide.

Mike

You can never go wrong with Mike.

My sons' names are Jacob, Jonathan and Jordan.

If I had to do over again, I'd name all three of them Mike.

I would.

I like mixing a classical name with a whimsical one. Sends a mixed message.

Demetrius Lufthansa _

Octavian Gumball _

Augustus Vaporlock _

It's good I don't have children.

congrats by the way.

I have 2 girls. When we named the second one it took 3 months after she was born. I wanted something that began with M, the same as her last name...

Alliteration counts.

So do you know it's a boy? How about Kradlum.
Just kidding..if one of mine had been a boy I was hoping for Cedar, since I was living in a cedar forest and was pretty tripped out and I always liked a jazz musician called cedar walton...

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Originally posted by MrsK:
Help.. help..

Seriously. I am starting to get vaguely stressed that we stll have no real big contender for kradlets name.. people keep telling me "oh, when you see him you will know what to call him". But what happens if they give me shit loads of drugs, and I end up agreeing to Obi Wan Darth.. *LOL*

*goes back to reading the penguin book of names*

You don't have to have one ready for when he pops out! I had girl names all lined up (I thought kidlet would be a girl), but no boy names, and for the first two weeks of his life kidlet was called "sugarplum", "sweetpea" and the like!

By the time we registered him, the drugs had (mostly) worn off...

I had two top contenders for the first name (name of dead-grandfather-I-loved and name-of-dead-aunt-I-loved, but the last one defeminised), but was seriously stuck for a middle name, which I wanted to reflect the other side of his family. We went through names of male relatives (I didn't know them and ex didn't like them, so they were out), mythological and historical figures (nothing), and eventually settled on a suggestion from his aunt, which was the Punjabi word for "heart/guts/courage", made into a relatively traditional and nice-sounding name.

I presume you've already trawled the relatives names, so what about Famous Figures You Admire? (A friend of mine named her son after Dennis Skinner, but I don't necessarily recommend that...)

Splitcoil - they, well, interesting names certainly *giggles*

We've done the relatives (My dad is one of 13 brothers.. I am determined NOT to name him after any of those, which rules out a fair few!). I'd love to connect him to my Dad, but Dad said he'd come back and haunt me if I ever named a child Ernie.. *lol* (Dad really hated his name!).. And my maiden name isn't one that sounds at all right as a first (or middle) name!!
Also done the whole famous peeps etc we admire.. Thats how we came up with the possible middle name we have in mind.. Must admit, Dennis Skinner hadn't popped up *lol*
Currently working way through Penguin Dictionary of first names. I must say, we do have one name we like, but I was hoping to go in with a bit of a list to choose from *l* But the one name we have grows on me a little more each day (even if it is shared by a WGBer.. well, he wasn't going to get away with no WGBer influence was he *lol*)

Ohhh - if one name is growing on you, that's a very good sign! Does Krad also like it?

Krads coming round to it *laughing*

My problem is.. people keep telling me "oh you don't need a name prepapred, something will come once he is here".. Out of the few pets I have had in my life, the rabbit was called Bunny, and the hamster Hammy. I'm not good at choosing names *LOL*

So you fear B.B. Kradlum (for Baby Boy), eh?

I'll tell ya something, if Kradlet was a girl, right now she'd SO be being called Alabama! (Yeah, guess what his lovliness bought me on DVD today!! *g*)

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she'd SO be being called Alabama!

What? By God, woman. Your hormones are deranging your intellects. If you'd ever been to Alabama, you would never countenance such a thing. For shame. I would name a child "Stinker" or "Swamprat" before I named it "Alabama".

Heh.

Atalanta Swift ------

Nice!

Have they considered Heracles, I wonder? May as well bolster his self-image.

Speaking of wigber names though, Woodrow is a very fine name. In the US, I'd worry a little about the inevitable teasing over 'woody' (slang for an erection), but I don't know whether that applies in your fair land. I used to be quite a Woodrow Wilson fan (though fast to acknowledge he was terribly flawed and awful in a variety of ways), and part of it was likely due to the name alone.

I just love the way Patricia Arquette says "Alabama Whorley" in True Romance *g* Movie over now, so all is safe *L*

We did go through all the Greek / Latin stuff actually.. and through all our literary heroes (I still want Hiro as a middle name, but Krad won't even consider it because of Heroes.. booo & hisss).

And woody.. not so much.. but, all American culture seeps in over here!

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Originally posted by Splitcoil:

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she'd SO be being called Alabama!

What? By God, woman. Your hormones are deranging your intellects. If you'd ever been to Alabama, you would never countenance such a thing. For shame. I would name a child "Stinker" or "Swamprat" before I named it "Alabama".

Dahling, you DO know that I am from the Mississippi-Alabama border? That I got my first degree in Alabama? That I am dixie as country fried chicken and sweet tea born and bred? And that I just got back from there yesterday?

Truly, I love it when people diss the South. It means more for me, so thanks.

I wouldn't name a kid Alabama. However, Tallulah after the Alabamian Bankhead one? Right at the top of my short list.

Boy: Hamlet
Girl: Ophelia