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What's a good name for a boy? We've pretty much settled on Mary Elizabeth if it's a girl.


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Default 12-06-2008, 11:10

Robert or Alexander have always been my favorites but unfortunately they can both be shortened...

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Default 12-06-2008, 17:52

A "friend" of mine has just named her son Odin. Does this mean you are asking this for the obvious reason? If so, congratissimo...

I can quite imagine Grace wanting to call him Apostrophe, and Garner insisting on Cthulu...


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Default 12-06-2008, 18:25

We, of all people, had a thing for traditional and biblical names you find in every European language, only with spelling and pronounciation variations. Elias, Jonathan, Jakob, ... etc. I threw in a few, mostly North German Dialects and others, names like Hannes, Tjaden, Silas, Tonda, Henry(k), Harm, but got a veto on most of them...
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Baby-Vornamen.de - Ostfriesische Vornamen - Beliebte und seltene Babynamen, Jungennamen und Mädchennamen aus der ostfriesischen Sprache

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Default 12-06-2008, 21:12

Cthulu is a good middle name!

I also like Alexander. Alexander Cthulu...has a nice ring to it

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Default 12-07-2008, 00:44

Ba. Ba is a good name.
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Default 12-07-2008, 01:06

Pterry. I'll continue insisting upon it until Garner stabs me.

Btw, here are some of our own vetoed boy-names: Kurt, Curtis, Padraig, Maxim (NOT after a magazine!!!), Ruslan...


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Default 12-07-2008, 02:13

I have always been partial to the name Geoffrey. That would have been my choice for a boy's name, since I won't likely use it feel free


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Default 12-07-2008, 17:11

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Pterry. I'll continue insisting upon it until Garner stabs me.

Btw, here are some of our own vetoed boy-names: Kurt, Curtis, Padraig, Maxim (NOT after a magazine!!!), Ruslan...

...language question, vetoed means one parent ruled them out, right?
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Yup...


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Default 12-07-2008, 22:43

Congrats you two, soon to be three

I always had a thing for Sebastian, can't be shortened and it was from that great kids cartoon of the boy going aver the Swiss Alps to find his family with that really cool big dog... Buggered if I can remembered what it was called abd Google is giving me no love.

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Default 12-08-2008, 04:17

Actually, Sebastian CAN be shortened to Bastian - which I've been partial to since seeing The Neverending Story - and I even had a dream of naming our son Sebastian a few weeks ago (on top of everything, pregnancy gives you REALLY weird dreams!!!)

Oh, and the show was apparently called Belle and Sebastian!
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?q...6122233AAuW3FX

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Default 12-08-2008, 06:05

Thats so weird! Google did give me the answer but I though it was talking about the band. There you go Sebastian is a great name on all levels.

There's still Nevel though.


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Default 12-08-2008, 09:45

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Cthulu is a good middle name!

I also like Alexander. Alexander Cthulu...has a nice ring to it

Congrats!
Alexander Cthulu...that is an Ace name


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