My personal favorites are Elizabeth and Shane and Seth.

If you want to look at the popularity of names, check out this link.

http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

Really, people have always been doing that. My MIL's name is Janett & her sister's name is Sherrian. My own mother's middle name is Rissilla. Not that that excuses people these days doing it. ;)

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The strangest name I've heard/seen was Snow White. She went to my high school well after I did, and was quite an athlete so her name was in the paper all the time. She was from American Samoa.

I like Celtic names, too, but nobody can pronounce them. I like the name Siobhan, and I've noticed people are spelling it like it's pronounced these days (like Shavon). And I once named a foster kitten Seamus O'Neill. Everyone (well, a few exceptions) pronounced it See-mus instead of Shay-mus. Quite annoying. And I'm sure Niahm would be pronounced Nee-ham or something like that.

heh, you're right. I typoed the name. It's Niamh. Oops.

Also like Aisling.
I don't know if I'd be able to give my kid a name that nobody could pronounce correctly. Seems kinda mean. Also gotta pay attention to initials... don't want your initials to be PMS or *** or something.

My kids are Marian Dale, Leo Wisdom, and Sophie Jane. I love all those names. Ella and Daisy are favorites, too.

Lizziness :rofl:

I like unusual names. If I had kids, I would want to give them names that it is unlikely their classmates would have. I've always liked Camilla for a girl. I also like girls names that sound like boys names. My college roommate was named Brette. Can't think of any others right now but I like the idea of giving a girl a strong name. For a boy, I like Cody, Sam, or Max.

I also really like the idea of family names. I would love to use my mother's maiden name as a first name for either a boy or a girl, but my SO is flat against it. But I've definitely claimed it for the middle name. Not that we are ever going to have any kids to name--I don't know why I've put all this thought into what I would name these kids we aren't ever going to have.

One thing I would never do is give my kid a name that starts with the same initial as his/her last name. I've had to deal with that all my life and I hate it. Totally ruins the effect of signing things with my initials and it makes my name that much harder to pronounce (and my last name is already a doozy).

Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing

One of my favorite bad baby names websites. ;) She goes after just about everybody in it, so fair warning.

See, I'm all about giving my kids unusual names too. Every time I am pregnant, me and the Social Security Administration's popular baby names website become very good friends. None of my daughters have names in the top 200, only one is in the top 300 (Esther, and it's barely there), and one has been off the charts for 10 years now. ;) So they're not too likely to run into another kid with their name (and on a practical level, in school I knew one Bobbie, one Esther, and no Lindas), but at the same time everyone recognizes their names. Now, I seriously doubt my old friend Shantillia ever met another person with her name in class, but she had plenty of other issues to deal with because of her name. (For one, it never fit on the computer printout of the class rolls, so her name got mangled just as often as mine.)

That is one hilarious website! I didn't have time to read it all, but 3 pages sure had me laughing! Thanks!

Actually I like having the same initials. It makes buying/getting things with the intial C on it always appropriate for me. I also think that initaling things CC looks nice. At least to me.
My cousin is also a BB and I think that that is cool as well.

:lol: Lizziness! When I was in fourth grade, we had to put our initials on some projects and put them on a bulletin board. I was so afraid people would notice that my initials read backwards spelled ***. So, people, make sure your kids' initials don't spell anything bad forward OR backward!

I knew a girl named Kim. Her initials were KIM! She said her mom did it on purpose.

My next door neighbor is a teacher and last year she had 4 ashley's all spelled differently (ashleigh, ashlee, ashley, ashlie). She says it's no more original if you spell it differently!

I grew up on an Indian Reservation in NE Montana and still live nearby. The names are always interesting (Freedom, Sunrise, Cobra, Viking, Suprise, Feather.....) I could go on and on and on.

That reminds me of this:

"Native American" Names That Don't Have the Meaning They're Supposed To

My favorite:

Of course, I'm sure the NA on the rez knew what they were doing. :lol: