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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
What an interesting thread! Wifey and I are not trying to stop a pregnancy anymore. If a girl, wifey is considering "Rohan..." as the given name. While I like the name, it's that damned "h", it's supposed to be soft, but you know that everyone is going to say "Row-han" instead of "Row-en." If this thread progresses nicely, I'll show it to wifey.
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We have written our favorite name, Jacqueline, off for the 1-2 punch of being too hard to spell and having multiple common pronunciations. So sad!
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Originally Posted by ASU2003
And parents really don't want to consider how 'screamable' a name is during sex, but I would factor that into it.
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Are you kidding? No matter how, er, 'friendly' children end up being, with the most vocal crowd, I have a hard time believing that any person's name will be screamed in orgasmic glee more often than a parent will have to yell it over the course of childhood! I rejected the name Alice for the reason that my surname starts with a sibilant S, and doesn't flow well when yelled.
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Originally Posted by levite
Personally, I like a lot of our traditional names. Mrs. Levite and I are now starting to try to have kids, and we've been tossing around names like Jeremy, Zachary, Elijah, Shoshanah, Tamara, and Keturah....
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Shoshanah and Keturah might be a stretch for people to spell, but if the significance is great enough, at least they aren't spelled *wrong*, and the others meet all of my rules nicely! I see no problem!
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Originally Posted by filtherton
We named one of our kids after a greek letter and the other's name means lion. Each name has significance to us, lots of nice nickname potential and they are both fairly unique.
That said, I originally wanted to name the kids after dead physicists and mathematicians, a la Feynman, Sadi or Pascal. Gauss was a little too much.
I guess my rules aligned with yours tele (though we kind of botched #1 with one kid), with the exception of #3. I don't know that we got that systematic about finding unique names.
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I am trying to talk my wife into Antimony for the second one...to her credit, she said "We might as well name her Strontium!"...I'll still try to talk her into it, though