Our son has to have the middle name Duryea...every male in my husband's family has the middle name Duryea...they are descendents of the Duryea brothers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duryea_Motor_Wagon_Company

3/8/2009 8:55:33 PM

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"Bianca > blanca"

I like Bianca too, but, at least to me, it comes off as pornstar-ish. And I am trying to be very aware of such names. Perhaps some on my list are pornstar-ish. If so, please do point out (not just you, anybody..!)

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"Most of those names don't seem to lend themselves to such ease of mockery, so you're probably safe."

Ok, good that you inserted the 'don't'. You had me royally confused there for a little while!

*******

Samantha Yoshiko Fujimoto... hmmm, very interesting. I love it! You know what Yoshiko means, right? I hope you live up to your name!!!

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"I like something like Fhqwhgads just suggested. I feel like Luciana needs a short simple middle name."

Very good point. I feel like Zara now. Or Eva. Or Vera. Or Marie.

BTW, what do you guys think of the name Matilda, or Mercedes, as first names? (yes, I am fully aware of the "can I ride you baby?" teases for the car name)



[Edited on March 8, 2009 at 8:59 PM. Reason : ]

3/8/2009 8:58:20 PM

I think Matilda would be excellent, as it is a very English name

[Edited on March 8, 2009 at 9:00 PM. Reason : I wouldn't choose vera.....vera bradley....assumptions on others behalf]

3/8/2009 8:59:41 PM

Eva

like I said before, my mom's name

I'm 1/2 Japanese and 1/2 Austrian

3/8/2009 9:01:28 PM

I have never, ever liked Mercedes as a name. I think my opinion has been biased by attending some schools with a high minority population though

If you all wanted to be cruel, you could do Luciana Lucinda
Seriously, though: go simple with the middle name! Matilda is not simply enough. Two syllable max.

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"can you get a more generic name? i think not. "

Sure: John [something even more bland]
We like it, and we have good reasons for choosing that (did I mention that my dad's dad is a Thomas, and my fiance's paternal grandfather was also a william? )

People tend to forget that a good name doesn't have to be exotic or attention-grabbing.
^luciana eva isn't a great combination, since that's three ahh sounds across two names.

[Edited on March 8, 2009 at 9:03 PM. Reason : ljd]

3/8/2009 9:02:24 PM

what ME culture is the wifey?

3/8/2009 9:02:42 PM

He's already said she's english.

3/8/2009 9:03:15 PM

^^^I was suggesting that as her first name


Eva Maria

[Edited on March 8, 2009 at 9:03 PM. Reason : f]

3/8/2009 9:03:44 PM

I was under the impression, per the first post, that Luciana is already decided.

3/8/2009 9:04:26 PM

Quote :

"BTW, what do you guys think of the name Matilda, or Mercedes, as first names? (yes, I am fully aware of the "can I ride you baby?" teases for the car name)"

I'm sure his wife is set on the first name but he can always try out another name and see what happens

3/8/2009 9:05:30 PM

A wise man wouldn't even consider doing that

3/8/2009 9:05:52 PM

So OEP is ME'rn?

3/8/2009 9:06:08 PM

espically w/ suggestions such as Mercedes

3/8/2009 9:06:15 PM

^^Yes.

3/8/2009 9:06:31 PM

Matilda is actually a German-origin name (Mahthilda), meaning 'powerful in battle'.

The French version is Mathilde.

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"I wouldn't choose vera.....vera bradley."

Shit. It is a shame that such a good name unfortunately has a bad rep to it. It means 'truth'.

Quote :

"what ME culture is the wifey?"

She is an English country girl from Wiltshire

3/8/2009 9:06:33 PM

Suggest Keira as a first name

3/8/2009 9:06:56 PM

But I thought Matilda was common in the UK....


I'm full of fail tonight...

3/8/2009 9:07:43 PM

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/40874017.html

3/8/2009 9:17:52 PM

Quote :

"But I thought Matilda was common in the UK...."

It kinda is. It is climbing up, currently about the 60th commonest name. See what some woman says on that name website:

Quote :

"Matilda is steadily climbing up in popularity in England... it was off the top 100 chart when I was pregnant 4 years ago... The next year it was on number 83 and it's up to 60-something now. Watch out for it getting popular in the US too, now with Heath Ledger's death (more mention of his little girl, called Matilda.)"

For the US, wow, this is very interesting:

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html

Put Matilda, and say check for last 150 years.

You will see that it was in the top 100 or so most popular names in the late 1800's/early 1900's, then in the top 500 to 700 by the 1940's, top 900 in the 1960's, and then after 1964 it has not been in the top 1000 names. (new birth registrations, not names of all living people).

Check out the site, it is cool to see trends. Also, top 1000 baby names in the 2000s decade:

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/decades/names2000s.html

And you can choose any decade all the way back to the 1880s.

OK, just for fun: (names from all SS card applications in the US)

Top 10 female/male baby names of the 2000's (USA)

Emily.......................Jacob
Madison.................Michael
Emma....................Joshua
Hannah..................Matthew
Olivia.....................Andrew
Abigail...................Christopher
Ashley.....................Daniel
Samantha..............Joseph
Alexis......................Ethan
Elizabeth..............William


Top 10 female/male baby names of the 1940's (USA)

Mary.....................James
Linda.....................Robert
Barbara.................John
Patricia................. William
Carol....................... Richard
Sandra...................David
Nancy....................Charles
Sharon...................Thomas
Judith....................Michael
Susan.....................Ronald


Top 10 female/male baby names of the 1880's (USA)

Mary.....................John
Anna.....................William
Emma.................James
Elizabeth............George
Margaret............Charles
Minnie...................Frank
Ida....................Joseph
Bertha...................Henry
Clara....................Robert
Alice.....................Thomas


And then it is fun to look up any of those names and see how popular they have been (yearly) since 1880. I looked up

BERTHA

1880: #9
1940: #140
1985: #958
Since 1985: not in the top 1000




And this is interesting:

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/top5names.html (top 5 male and female baby names since 1880)
And http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/namesbystate.html

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"I'm sure his wife is set on the first name but he can always try out another name and see what happens"

Haha, I am the one who actually came up with that name ages ago when she was pregnant. I have known only one Luciana ever, and she was a friend/classmate years ago at http://www.hamilton.edu (1998-2000), and she was Romanian. That's how I know the name.

Yeah, we are both pretty much set on it, and he have been calling the bump/fetus Luci Puci (Loochy poochy) as a pet name for the past few months, so we are attached to the name.

In Spain, it is pronounced the way it is written (Loo-see-ana), but in Italy Loo-chee-ana, and that's what we prefer/want. Although, the problem with that is that 100% of the people we ever tell the name to, we will have to tell them the pronunciation because without fail, everybody would pronounce it with the 's' sound.

Quote :

"If you all wanted to be cruel, you could do Luciana Lucinda"

Haha... and actually both names are the same, origin-wise (including Lucia, Lucy, Lucca, Luscius etc). All come from the Latin lux, which means light.

Quote :

"So OEP is ME'rn?"

I was born in and grew up in the ME (and spent 6.5 years in the US getting my BS and MS... the best time of my life ), but that's not what I am. I am South Asian. But more importantly, culturally speaking, I am neither. I am more international in outlook and habits than most people I know. I get comments like "Wow, I don't know anyone from [my country/region] who does/says/eats/etc this" quite frequently.

MUST SLEEP.



[Edited on March 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM. Reason : ]

3/8/2009 10:03:54 PM

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/40874017.html

WTF???

Marijuana Pepsi Jackson???

Now that's just straight-up insane and cruel.

And y'all thought my list was bad?!

Quote :

"Sawyer's mother, Maggie Johnson, picked her name. Her father objected but lost the argument. To this day, a lot of family members and best buds call her Pepsi. "She said that she knew when I was born that you could take this name and go around the world with it. At the time as a child, I'm thinking yeah, right. You named my older sister Kimberly. You named my younger sister Robin," Sawyer said. I've tried several times over the years to find Marijuana - the person, that is. When I was a cub reporter at the Beloit Daily News in the early 1980s, there was a rumor around town about an elementary school girl named Marijuana Pepsi Jackson or maybe Jones. Some people swore that pot and Pepsi were her mother's two favorite things. Others claimed a mix of both coursed through her bloodstream when the child was conceived or born or both. You'll find chatter about this on the Internet. Sawyer's aunt, Mayetta Jackson of Chicago, clearly remembers when the name was picked in 1972. The newborn's mother and father were products of the post-Woodstock era when reefer was rampant. "And they would cool off with a Pepsi," she said, which makes you think it's lucky for Sawyer that it wasn't Coke instead. "I thought it was crazy," her aunt said about the name, "but they were such fun-loving people that it suited them.""

[Edited on March 8, 2009 at 10:09 PM. Reason : ]

3/8/2009 10:07:15 PM

Quote :

"Although, the problem with that is that 100% of the people we ever tell the name to, we will have to tell them the pronunciation because without fail, everybody would pronounce it with the 's' sound."

Don't worry, it's not the name that you picked. It's people in general.

I never thought that ANYONE would EVER have a problem with pronouncing Silas. It's a little old fashioned, but St. Silas. . .Silas Marner. . .hell, Silas on Weeds. But I have heard my son's name pronounced "See-laus" instead of "Sigh-lass" a ridiculous number of times.

3/8/2009 10:09:26 PM

^ ha, even i know the correct pronunciation!

3/8/2009 10:10:32 PM

I like Serena

3/8/2009 10:17:34 PM

Maxime

Luciana Maxime

I win.

[Edited on March 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM. Reason : You're welcome, by the way. Anybody else who needs my services, just PM a playa.]

3/8/2009 10:18:51 PM

^ YOU KNOW HER???

HOW do you know her??? (or you just did a simple Google search... and it is Maxim)

Man, she was/is a cool girl! Tell her I said when/if you talk to her!



http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/40874017.html

That's an awesome and inspirational story. All wannabe gangsterz and thugz 4 lyfe need to read that.

Funny:

Quote :

"Sawyer's aunt, Mayetta Jackson of Chicago, clearly remembers when the name was picked in 1972. The newborn's mother and father were products of the post-Woodstock era when reefer was rampant. "And they would cool off with a Pepsi," she said, which makes you think it's lucky for Sawyer that it wasn't Coke instead. "I thought it was crazy," her aunt said about the name, "but they were such fun-loving people that it suited them.""

Wow... imagine if her name was Marijuana Coke!!!

Also funny:

Quote :

"In 1998, she got a job teaching elementary school children in Atlanta. She also sold real estate there. It was the one time in her life that she went by MP Sawyer professionally because the name Marijuana was freaking out the customers and causing her for-sale signs to be stolen as souvenirs."

[Edited on March 8, 2009 at 10:32 PM. Reason : ]

3/8/2009 10:26:53 PM

Quote :

"Luciana Maxime "

this sounds like a disposable feminine product

3/8/2009 10:33:16 PM

It does have "max" in it.

It's also the greatest name of all time.

3/8/2009 10:37:54 PM

FINALISTS FOR 2nd NAME!!!

I thought about it, and my wife and I agree that since the first name is long, the second has to be short -- 5 letters or less. My brother suggested:

Luciana Noor

They both mean light, 1st in Italian--a Western language, and the 2nd in Arabic--an Eastern language, signifying her mixed Western-Eastern heritage.

What do you good folks of TWW think about that one? I would actually prefer:

Luciana Roshni, because 'roshni' is light in my mother tongue, but it is long as well, so from that point of view, 'Noor' is better.

Here are the other finalists for the 2nd name:


Ciara (means black-haired one in Irish; English version everybody knows: Kira/Keira... and my daughter is famous in the hospital for having black hair and the most hair )

NOTE on pronunciation: In Gaelic, pronounced 'KEER-ah', but in the US, see-EHR-ah

Elise/Elyse
Eliza/Elisa
Elsa
Eva
Eve
Evie
Fiona
Frida
Hayfa
Heidi
Katia/Katya
Klara
Maria
Marie
Neve
Nina
Perla
Sara
Selma
Soleil
Sofia
Sofie
Vera
Zara
Zoe/Zoey/Xoey
Zoya


I am travelling on early Sunday morning, and over there I won't have much access to the interWebs, neither will I have the time I guess, so please give suggestions by then! Thanks.



[Edited on March 13, 2009 at 2:24 AM. Reason : ]

3/13/2009 1:57:09 AM

really, just pick a name already

3/13/2009 2:06:58 AM

I feel bad for anyone who wants tww advice on naming their child

3/13/2009 2:23:52 AM

unless its [attention-whoring]

3/13/2009 2:24:40 AM

exactly

3/13/2009 2:26:48 AM

^^ I feel bad for anyone who sincerely wants tww advice on naming their child .

Better?

3/13/2009 2:29:49 AM

why so?

i respect few ppl's words around here.....i would take their advice at least for some stuff

3/13/2009 2:32:20 AM

umm, believe it or not, TWW is made up of thousands of real live people.

what difference does it make if i ask TWW, or a baby-naming website, or hundreds of my co-workers, or my friends, etc?

people are people, and everybody has some unique perspective to offer. i am asking TWW because where else could i have access to thousands of people at the touch of a button with almost no effort?

just because it is TWW or the internets doesn't make it any less real compared to live flesh and blood humans i see around me.

and yes, i have gotten some excellent advice and suggestions here (length of names, names which are brand names as well, to avoid the same syllable in the 2 names, etc).

3/13/2009 2:36:29 AM

Quote :

"i am asking TWW Chit Chat because where else could i have access to thousands dozens of people crazy assholes at the touch of a button with almost no effort?"

3/13/2009 2:46:21 AM

ALL I CAN SAY IS "BIG BLUE COCK"

3/13/2009 3:16:10 AM

Luciana Elizabeth

my name is Laurel Elizabeth....Luciana would have been a much cooler first name choice

3/13/2009 3:29:41 AM

congrats on your child my brother from another mother

[Edited on March 13, 2009 at 4:12 AM. Reason : .]

3/13/2009 4:00:32 AM

Quote :

"and yes, i have gotten some excellent advice and suggestions here (length of names, names which are brand names as well, to avoid the same syllable in the 2 names, etc)."

Dude, that is like basic naming stuff that you should have known already. I assumed that you wanted to have two long names packed with a's because you really liked it in spite of the fact that it was ridiculous, and I thought you were kind of cool for that.

I'm surprised neither you nor your wife realized how fucking absurd (and awesome) by American standards it would be to name your kid, "Luciana Alana." Shit, just go all out, combine them, and tack on your second fave--Lucianalana Allegra.

Or just max it out:

LUCIANALANALLEGRA ELENA

[Edited on March 13, 2009 at 6:54 AM. Reason : Seriously, Luciana Alana is on par with Marijuana Pepsi.]

3/13/2009 6:46:24 AM

If you go with Elise/Elyse, go with the one with the Y. Everyone read my name as Elsie, we almost had it legally changed to Elyse.




interesting tidbit: I had black curly hair when I was born, but it all fell out after a month or so AND my birthday is Sunday.

[Edited on March 13, 2009 at 8:15 AM. Reason : beware the ides of march]

3/13/2009 8:14:24 AM

How is this urgent? You had like 8 months to think of this

3/13/2009 8:57:14 AM

I quite like Luciana Noor

3/13/2009 11:20:19 AM

^^ Yeah, I was wondering that myself. Seems like the sort of thing most people have pegged by the third trimester.

3/13/2009 11:19:50 PM

So...what is the baby's name? The suspense is killing me and you have gone a good week without giving your kid her first label.

[Edited on March 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM. Reason : I very much like Noor. ]

3/17/2009 11:34:13 AM

Quote :

"Nicoletta"

would have been great

3/17/2009 11:51:10 AM

nicklepickle is a good name

3/17/2009 11:54:52 AM

Quote :

"I quite like Luciana Noor"

I like it too...espically since you are going to give her two very long last names

3/17/2009 11:54:53 AM

*Moor

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

3/17/2009 11:55:22 AM

MOAR

[Edited on March 17, 2009 at 11:56 AM. Reason : f]

3/17/2009 11:56:01 AM