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For a girl I was thinking of naming her Quinlynn or Quinnlyn or something spelt similar. I can’t find it in any books. What do you think of this name? Does it sound feminine?

No, it sounds like a 19th century cure for malaria.

I think nameing your own child is very personal. It also is passed down from your parents. For example, My mother always tried to give us orginal names, My younger sisters name is Beaudra. Yet my husbands family gave practical names, his name is Reed, Becky, and Elizabeth are his sisters. So our children are Gabriel James, Darrian Reed, and we are expecting a girl her name will be CrystalLynn Elise.

Do you think CrystalLynn, with it’s double L and intra-name capitalization is the real spelling, or, based on this woman’s “original” grasp of spelling and punctuation, that it’s a terrible, terrible mistake? Or it’s just a terrible mistake, period.

(Added joke for people old enough to remember the jingle: “I believe in CrystalLynn ’cause it believes in MEEEEEE!”)

I didn’t have this much trouble naming my first three kids either~~they are: Michelle Kaye, Kathleen Cierra, and Abbey Julieanna. What do you think of Kaylyn Arriana? Also, do you like the spelling Kaylan or Kaylyn better?

Observe the evolution from sanity to madness. First the middle names are spelled funny, then are odd names spelled funny, then creeping into strangely spelled but normal first names, then all hell breaks loose.

I have a 7 yr. old daughter named Mariah Carrie [last name] … as you can tell my husband really likes the singer and we even have a picture with the real Mariah Carey and my Mariah Carrie together. So we are expecting our second child in April and i think we should stick with a singer/star name since we started it with Mariah, yet we call her maya. Sex is unknow so if its a boy I like: Marc Anthony and if its a girl: Aaliyah Marie. What do you guys think? any suggestions? any star/singer names?

[No comment, just the sound of muffled weeping.]

Jaden Christopher Brandon Thomas Reign (girl) Syre (boy)

Reign? Syre? Hmm, somebody’s been playing too many anime vampire dragon warrior video games.

we are having a girl. we want to name her altum rose. there are a few problems.the baby is do in march?.my mothers name is rose. we had i rose around the house bloom in autum..so i thought that would be good name.

Well, I don’t see how Altum conflicts with March……Oooh, I see. You’re a mutant who can’t even sound out words before you spell them. Greaaat.

My mothers name is Stella. Her mother was Gertrude. Mom’s grandmother was Sylvia. Feel free to use any of these family heirlooms.

“We decided to name her Gertrude Stella Johnson.”
“Oh, that’s nice. Are those family names?”
“No, they’re the names of some total strangers’ relatives and mean absolutely nothing to us.”
“Oh.”

You just know this lady’s gonna name her kids Ruger and Ashelynn and needed some Yuppie Absolution. What she really needs is a dictionary, to help her with that really, really complicated “heir” part of “heirlooms.”

Well here is the problem my husband and i are having, I am due any day now and like the rest of you wondering what to name our daughter. I like the name Cicely and my husband wants the name Ticely. I have mixed emotions about that and my parents don’t like it. But then I found the name Taybree and I think I really like it. … My oldest is KaeLeigh Brooke and our son is Terrell Jay and we call him T.J anyways, suggestions are always nice

How ’bout name her Shmicely and beat bullies to the punch?

Here are a few names for girls that I like a lot.

Autumn Dawn Autumn Grace

Cyndal, Shelby, Bethany, Shayna, Kendra, Leah, August, Alayna (Laynie for short),Gracey, Madelyn, Summer, Mara, Sable, Sadie, Anna, Hillary. I like old names.

Yeah. There are lots of Kendras in the Bible. And Shelby was a popular Elizabethan name.