r/NameNerdCirclejerk

So we are pregnant with a girl and we are so excited because we never thought this could happen for us. Because of that, we have 8 cats. My partner and I only like names that begin with S and end in A. The problem is, we have already named our cats Serena, Selena, Samantha, Susanna, Sasha, Shana, Sara, and Shiva (we are not Hindu). We had already run out of ideas by the last one but now we need as S name for our baby! Our names are Sandra and Seneca. 

Shawna is too close to Shana. We’re thinking maybe we could alter a boy name into a new one, like Sebastia? Or maybe a regular word like Semolina? Is it too late to change one of the cats’ names and use that? Please help!!

Here are some of the names on my baby name list. I have a tendency of writing them down, never reading them again, and planning to just look over them when I need names. I was looking over and adding names today and I found some that I have no idea why I added, and some, I had to applaud myself on. They had nice middle and first name combos. Going through the whole list may take a while so I'll just give yall the first ten I have for each gender. This list has been compiled over years, and I forget about it often, so there won't be too much, but not super little either. I want your unfiltered opinions on them, and rank them however you like. I have many honor names or variants on here. Feel free to recommend more names based off of what yall see if you think I'd like it. And I am a Christian, so idc if names have Biblical connections or meanings. As long as it's not something like Lucifer.

Girls:

1. Alice (honor name)

2. Alina (It's Leena with an A in front, I saw it written somewhere, and didn't know exactly what would be the right way to spell it)

3. Sloane Dahlia

4. Evolet (I don't remember ever writing this, have no idea where I heard it. Maybe I wrote it while I was super tired, and have just translated from my own language. It's not terrible, though. Kinda sounds like a bird species)

5. Grace (loved this name since forever, and so has every girl in my family. Also my cousins middle name)

6. Willow (way too popular now)

7. Xena/Zena

8. Claire

9. Lorelai (I actually learned this from H20:Just Add Water. I've never watched Gilmore Girls and only learned this was a characters name in it recently)

10. Zinnia

11. Rune (remember having this edgy phase as a teen, and this and Raven were one of my top favorite names)

Boys-

1. Jameson ( to honor my friend James who died, and coincidentally my grandfather has this name too, though I wouldn't name a kid after him. He's not that great)

2. Samuel (Sammy, middle name: Grant. Honor name. There are a lot of dead guys I was close with or admired)

3. Montana (also a name I liked a lot as a teenager)

4. Addison ( I don't know why. I've always known a good amount of Addisons, and they're all my friends, and all girls)

5. Gideon

6. Finnegan

7. Ozias (interesting)

8. Nicholas

9. Zarek (I was also really into Z names at one point)

10. Edgar

My girlfriend told me to give it a name, so suggest some, it is 7.4 inches and fat.

Note: It should be one word name, not long.

Should sound good.

I love when celebrities give their kids weird names and I got inspired to make my own (really long) list, but I was able to narrow down my favourite names.

Boys:

Wrexin

Cruella

Doeye

Ozias

Coordynate

Cerulean

Blurr

Karaoke

Armadillo

Wingit

Oslo

Mowgli

Western

Koazy

Girls:

Tuesday

Ottilly

Bermuda

Orca

Coachella

Delrey

Capulet

Malibu

Calico

Irish

Eurasia

Larue

Busy

Toulouse

Neutral:

Bristol

Lyric

Cupid

Milan

Rhys

Phlox

Cysi

Citrus

Musiq

Novel

Capri

My kid is 12 years old and he isnt posted publicly anywhere, and there's no reason to post your kid publicly when you can send photos to your family privately. Theres pedophiles on every single website these days unfortunately, and atleast one person will do inappropriate things with those photos. Stop posting your kids online.

Edit: The reason I'm bringing this up in this sub is because people find photos of public posts and are posting them to show us their stupid ass names. Thankfully the people who post these on here cover the baby's face, but it's worrisome that people post their children publicly and freely like this. I'm just suprised considering the large amount of creeps online. Don't assume something about someone from one post.

I feel like more people want to give their kid a name where they aren’t one of many in their class, and are in fact the only person with their name in their grade or their school. Especially if the parents themselves have a super common name for their age group.

I didn’t consider popularity with our first kids names, and we didn’t fully decide on our twins names until they were born but they were perfect, Phoebe and Diana. Both names are common and I know a few other kids with those names.

Then with my second pregnancy, we spent more time considering names and came up with names honoring important people in our lives. When we found out we were having another girl, we announced her name and we got sooo much backlash, and right before she was born we chose a new name that was common but had a more unique spelling. Well, nobody calls her by her name. They call her a nickname that is a name I don’t love. (Le pronounced ELL-ie but they call her Lee 🙄) Names are gifts, NOT identities, and gifts are best when the receiver loves it! We are in the process of changing her name to something SHE was able to help choose, Sharkie. She’s so proud to introduce herself to people and I love how confident she is! It means so much that she gets to have a say in something she’ll carry for the rest of her life. We haven’t submitted the paperwork but we call her it and she loves it.

So my third daughter has a more unique name than her sisters. I am pregnant with our first boy, and we have both classic and unique name options we love. We are considering Astronaut and Willyum, leaning more towards Willyum because it’s familiar without being overused. I doubt he’d be the only Willyum in his school so I don’t think it will stand out as much as people think.

My husband says it doesn’t matter because siblings don’t have to match, but my mom thinks people will judge us for having Phoebe and Diana, then Sharkie and possibly Willyum. I really never wanted to be a family that names their kids Jane, John, Jean, and Joan, so while I want them to flow I don’t think I I want them to match!

AITA for giving some of my kids classic names and others more unique names?

okay so to clarify i’m not having a baby, i just couldn’t sleep last night so i was thinking of baby names and what nicknames they could have

for some reason i thought of the name elliot but couldn’t think of any nns except maybe eli? then i was thinking “the name james has so many nicknames that are only loosely related to the actual name, could elliot go by leo?” and “there is that kid christopher who goes by topher instead of chris”

so that there is my question; how viable is the nickname leo for a kid who isn’t name leonard, leonardo, or any typical other leo name?

also, out of curiosity, what other names have standard nicknames that are only small chunks of the full name? off the top of my head maybe richard, william, and anthony?

As a devout Christian, I obviously wanted to name my daughter after a biblical character to reflect my faith. After endless hours of poring over the bible, I have finally settled on Salmon as her name. I think it reflects grace and beauty, seeing as it means "clothing", and I heavily doubt it could be misconstrued for any other meaning.

What do you all think? Is this a good name? What other biblical characters should I consider?

Edit: I have just realised, in order to differentiate our daughter from the other Salmons in the world, we can call her Salmynn to stand out. What do you all think of this change?