naming your children

My husbands family has a tradition of the first boy is to have the grandfathers first name as a middle name. although my husband and I broke that tradition, we are planning on the 2nd boy to have his fathers name as the middle. If we have a girl next, she will have a name with an "M", our son also has an "M" name. But if it's another boy, we won't keep the "M" theme going.

Good Afternoon Modestah, When my sons were coming along, I wanted only good strong names. I wanted their names to command respect and stand for the things I had envision for them as adults. So thats how I choose them. As it turns out my husband and I could not have done a better job with the choosing as each of their personalities fit the name. Or the name seems to blend so well with the personality. Funny how that happens.

We chose our daughters names because we like them. However, our oldest daughter has my middle name. It has been passed down for generations. I have a Uncle who named all five of his kids with names that started with "C"

In my family's case... we three sisters were suppose to have Maria as a first name... but the records person made a mistake with mine... so i am the only one without the name maria... when my brother was born... it would be odd to give him that name so my parents opted for the Mario... even my daughter and niece have a Maria in their name...

My oldest daughter was supposed to be Amy Jo....she is Dawn Marie....my second daughter was going to be Christopher Michael...oops...and my son was always going to be Joshua..I had not theme...just looked at them and decided who they were...I knew a family when I was growing up that named their daughters..faith, hope and charity....I thought that was beautiful!

I do have some friends who were named by their parents all with the same beginning letters like our neighbor whom all their children started with J, Jason, Jassel, Jonas, Joy, and I also have some friends whom their name were a combination of their parents name. Well, from what I think people are getting creative nowadays with names. As a Christian, I have notice before that people were named from a book that is mostly a guide for names or perhaps names from the bible like Joseph, Mary and so on.

All four children in our family begin with A. There was an unsuccessful attempt to break with tradition by naming the youngest Thomas Adrian. He is always known as Adrian, however! I am reminded of the story of the single mother who had ten sons, all called Kevin. It was useful, she said, when calling them in for dinner. She just had to call "Kevin" and they all came in! "How, then, do you manage if you only want one of them?", the curious social worker wanted to know. "Oh that's easy!" said the mother, "I just use their surnames!"

We didn't find out if we were having a girl or boy so we picked both names. I wouldn't say we had a theme but we did want to give our kids names that mean some thing. Chase Edward would have been our boys name Edward being my husband middle name and his grandfathers first name. Since we had a girl we named her Luann Grace. Lu being from my great grandfather Ann being from my Great Grandmother and Grace being from my husbands grandmother. My husband has 2 kids from a previous relationship. His son is Patrick Edward. His daughter is Brianna Shawn - Brianna being the girl version of Brian and Shawn being for an uncle that passed away. Its funny becuase before we even met I always loved the name Patrick and wanted to name my first son that. I didn't get to have Pat but I did get the name.

In my family, maternal side you give your daughter's middle name as your first. For example, my mother's name is Dianne Elieen. Her mother's name is Elieen. My namr is Martina Diana. My daughter's name will be Maya Martina, I think. I like the name Maya.

All of George Foreman's kids are named George... including the girls... I think that is a little over the top Great site http://www.zelo.com/firstnames for names and the such Thanks Zelo

My inlaws came up with csw for initials. clinton shane wheeler, cory slade wheeler, clayton ? wheeler, christine shea wheeler, and chad ? wheeler...middle names missing all start with s.

I have 4 'children' - Shawn, Shannon, Valerie, Shane. The 3 'sha's' are all boys the only one I didn't name was my daughter :( or she would have been an Sha also. It's makes it so much easier when upset with them I just yell 'shaaaaa' and they all run. Of course it is common for people to confuse which is which but Val has been known to be called Shawn, Shannon, or Shane so oh well.

I named when kids name when I was still a kid..I mean no kidding.. I named my daughter after a cartoon character, KIARRA.. the daughter of legendary Simba.. When I was a kid I was watching this series and decided to give this name to my daughter to be the princess of the Jungle. Hahaha No wonder she roars like a lion.. a bit naughty like the charACTER but very affectionate kid..

im still young to have babies and i dont have a baby yet.. but, me and my boyfriend got plans already of the names we are going to give to our kids.. his name starts with letter H so we decided to name our future children starting with letter H too.. then all of them will be given a second name followed in both our second names too..

I think my mother and father followed a theme..for all of our names starts with letter R, my 2 sisters named thier children too starting with letter R, my only brother named his 3 kids all starts with letter Y. Now, I don't have kids yet but I think I'm gonna follow through letter R. :) because me and my hubby's name both starts with letter R.

Stick with the names that are in the family. Keep tradition going on and on and on and on.