Naming your baby is one of the most important choices you make for your child. It is shocking how many of you are blowing it.
Here is my handy-dandy guide in baby naming.
There Is No Such Thing As A Uni-Sex Name
There are baby boy names, baby girl names, and baby girl names that used to be baby boy names.
I’m calling it: Ashton, Peyton, Hayden and Taylor are all girl names from here on out.
I have a boy cousin named Taylor and he has to go by his middle name now to escape the taunts of his peers.
I call this the “John Wayne Effect”.
John Wayne, manly man, was born Marion Morrison and had to change his name to escape the beatings. If John Wayne was teased over his girl name, how will your little Hunter escape it?
The girl-ification of boy names seems to creep a little every generation, because Marion, Ashley, Evelyn, Lindsey and Stacy used to be very masculine names.
Now, you’ve got to explain Ashley Wilkes to every kids seeing “Gone with the Wind” for the first time. And with all that wavy, primrose hair, it’s difficult enough already.
No Kid Needs Two Middle Names
Unless they are in the line of succession to the throne, knock this off. The lives of Americans are ruled by official forms and bubble sheets, and there is no room for the foolishness that is four names.
You want an individual first name and two middle names to honor both grandmothers or grandfathers? Flip a coin, pick one, and promise to catch the other with the next kid.
Stop It With The Obscure Old Testament Names Already
Nobody loves a Bible name more than I do, But if you are deep in the “Begats” you are signing your kid up for a lifetime of sorrow, Old Testament style.
Little Ginath will not thank you.
A Nickname Is Not A Name
The justification for this is “But that’s what we are going to call him,” but little Joey will grow up one day and may need a big-boy name to be taken seriously in business.
Sure, we call former president Clinton “Bill”, but when he’s announced at state functions, it’s as William Jefferson Clinton.
Some nickname-names are so common, people have forgotten they are only nicknames. Jack is from John, Liam is from William and Amy is from Amelia.
Why limit your child’s choices? Call her Betsy at home, but let her have Elizabeth for her business card when she is CEO, if she wants.
Using The Same First Letter For All Your Kids
You’ve seen big families like this. All J-names. All K-names.
Unless you are the first kid, you are just getting leftovers, and who likes leftovers? And if you are the baby, you know your parents were scraping the bottom of the name barrel for you.
If you have enough kids, you have to start making things up at the end. Jinjer? Really?
Let each kid have a fresh shot at a good name. It’s a person, not the next installment in your personal brand.
Changing The Rules of Phonics
Let’s just get this straight now, if you spell Christopher with a Qh, Qhistofr will call in to a radio language show when he’s 40 complaining that nobody spells or pronounces his name right.
There are certain exceptions to names following American expectations. Gaelic names like Sean are certainly understood to be pronounced “Shawn”, but more obscure names will give people pause.
If you or your parents are the first generation to this country and you are honoring your heritage, it’s probably worth the hassle, but if you are 16th-generation American, your kids might find explaining Sorcha is pronounced “sorr-kha” a billion times tiresome.
I’m calling this Part 1, since I have a whole list of things people are doing wrong.
Please know that my tongue is firmly in my cheek as I write this and I have fully violated at least one of my own rules.
What are some of the worst baby naming mistakes you’ve seen? C’mon, you know you’ve got one.
I’ll select the best ones for inclusion into Part 2.
When I held my first internship, I had to do a lot of cold calling. Thus, I saw a *lot* of names. The worst offender was BY FAR ‘Quakena.’ As in, quake-eeena.
As in, the worst name I have ever heard.
I hope he or she really likes it. Some people love their unique names.
My daughter has an unusual name (regrets, I have a few…), but it’s her middle name, and she likes it.
If she grows up and hates it, she has a “normal” first name.
I love this post! Having been saddled with the name “Dwija” my whole life, I have serious opinions on the naming children and how people are being super selfish when they don’t think about what the CHILD will like or be able to tolerate. How about names that are nouns? Apple? Sparrow? No thanks, folks!
And for the record, we named our kids Kathryn, Elizabeth, Paul & Cecilia. Boring? Maybe. Strong and good and easy to pronounce with a historical context that gives them a place in this world? You bet!
Our children have similar names. They are known names, but not common.
I think your name is cool, and it probably has a great story behind it, but I know what you mean by being “saddled” with a name.
Very interesting read! I love the name Taylor for girl but my husband wasn’t haven’t it. I guess I never thought about how the boys with the name Taylor feel about it. Interesting!
Kids are very basic and not really flexible.
I never forced strict gender roles on my kids, but they seemed to want them!
“Boy colors” and “girl songs”? I don’t know where that came from, but it really mattered to them.
My mother-in-law named both of her sons after their father. In other words, they both have the SAME first name. She claims she couldn’t think of another name in time. I’m thinking she did have NINE MONTHS to work on it!
Anyway, both of her sons go by their middle name. This is a HUGE pain when you have to fill out forms, file tax returns or do anything else in life. It drives my husband crazy to this day. Every time I pick up a prescription at the pharmacy, I have to try to remember which variation of his name he might have used on the form… his real first name and middle initial… his middle name… his first initial and middle name…
To make matters worse, our last name is a common first name. So, my husband has three first names!
“Bobby, stop hitting Bobby. And go tell Bobby dinner is ready!”
That’s pretty bad!!!
Peyton Manning is going to feel so emasculated when he reads this post.
And you KNOW he will.
Peyton Manning is one of my biggest fans. He wears MY jersey.
We have five kiddos…The first one was named while we were on a date just before getting married. Then came the hard part.
My husband dislikes nicknames.
I dislike “unisex” names. I insist my children are named names that if seen on a piece of paper, whoever reads it, will see what kind of person they expect.
I kinda like the “all same letter” deal.
I also insist upon spelling names the old-fashioned way. Making up spellings always causes more trouble than not.
It’s good to have rules. That way you get what you want.
My husband tried to veto a baby name because it was his high school girlfriend’s middle name.
Oh, honey, if we are banning first and middle names of exes, we can’t have a boy.
Love this!!! I have an old Finnish first name (not my bloggy name) – impossible here in the States, unusual in Finland. But it is a family name. Here I have to introduce myself with my both names as my middle name is common, and some people cannot pronounce my first name. Sooo, our five kids all have very common boring names, lol.
I think people with names they consider plain or boring name their kids very unusual names, and vice versa.
It’s a generational pendulum.
This is really good.
I failed and gave my son four formal names, and we call him a nickname.
Well put.
I would never call it a failure. It is a learning process.
As I said on twitter, I have a kid my dad calls Aslan. She’s a girl.
I laughed so hard reading this!!! I’ve violated nearly every rule. We have a Skyler that is a boy. It was not a girls name when we named him that. All of our kids are saddled with four names. I figured if they hated one they had two others to choose from. Our youngest Zahra is constantly called Zahara (thanks to Angelina Jolie) but it is NOT Zahara, it’s Zahra. None the less all of our kids names fit them perfectly…..so I’ll pay for their therapy should they need it as adults.
I say the Skyler thing was done to you, not something you did. How were you to know?
One of the names we considered for one of our sons was Morgan, a family surname. THANK GOODNESS we didn’t use it, because it’s a girl’s name now.
I’m so glad you guys “get” what I meant and are in on the joke. I was worried there would be some torches lit and the mob would be lead by Qhistofr.
I love the name Skylar…I wanted it for my son- my husband didn’t…so we have Max. Dont second guess that name- its awesome!
That one made me laugh…..I know someone who always did double consonants in all their kids’ nameswhich included Jaxxon. Need I say more? I think the worst though are nature names like Cedar or current movie rage names like Cullen.
Ding, ding, ding! Cullen will be in my next post. It was already on the list.
There are two variations of this phenomenon that seem to me to be simply cruel. The first is naming your kid a joke name–I went to high school with a kid who was named Meyer–his last name was Oscar and his middle name was Weener (sic) so that when he was listed by last name, first name, middle it came out Oscar, Meyer Weener.
The second is naming your kid for a celebrity simply because you share their last name–I’ve known throughout the course of my life a Jack Parr, a Billy Martin, and a Gwyneth Paltrow, all named for the celebrities. Worse yet, I also knew a Samantha Stevens who was named for the “Bewitched” character! That’s just not cool.
This is a great topic. Thanks for bringing it up!
The actor Rob Morrow named his daughter Tu.
Tu Morrow.
Joke names and celebrity namesakes are going on the list. Thanks, Bruce!
There’s a dad at my sons’ school named James. James Bond. I have no idea if it was deliberate or his parents just didn’t consider the first and last names together…
Having grown up with a name my parents simply pulled out of thin air, I can say that unique or unusual names CAN work well but you need to consider the potential for taunting during school years. My name is pronounced ‘niece’, so the worst I got were some ‘aunt/uncle’ jokes and ‘nice Kneace’. I dread to think what poor Meyer Weener went through!!
It’s the taunting during the school years that’s the worst!
Grownups have learned rules, but kids just love to make fun of anything different. Often the don’t even do it to be mean!
Don’t name your child after a disease. Heard on the soccer field last season: “Shoot, Malaria, shoot!” Really?!!
I’ve heard there are children named Chlamydia, but it’s probably an urban legend.
How about “Chlamydia”?
I have known a few oddly named people but the most annoying, imo, was the family of girls who all had names that ended in “eigh” but pronounced “y”. Example” Beverleigh instead of Beverly.
“Anthoneigh, it’s time for your accordion lesson!”
I always hated having a made-up name. The What?s got old. My aunt tried to tell my parents (she has a similar, made-up name — I’m supposedly named after her, even though we don’t have the same name), but my parents wouldn’t listen to her. She goes by Jen now. I guess that works for her, she’s 18 years older than me. For me, that’s going from one extreme to the other. There were eight Jennifers in my third grade class. Then a book on classic African names was published, and my name was in there (a boy’s name), and now there are all these guys in the NBA with my name in all sorts of inventive spellings, which doesn’t help.
We also went for classic, but fairly well-known names. And purposely picked names that had a variety of nicknames, so that our children have the option of re-inventing themselves without completely re-naming themselves. One dd decided that the nickname we started her with was a middle-aged woman’s name (she also wasn’t pleased that it can be a short form of a boy’s name also). Instead of picking one of the other several variants of her name, she made up her own variant as well. So now she has to deal with spelling, but when it gets old, she can go back to her real name, with its standard spelling, or she can pick a different nickname. My boys’ names are usually in the top 10 or 20 or so. The one I thought was more common, we don’t run into too, too many other boys. My oldest has a few friends with the same name. There’s a boy on our block 15 mo older with the same name. He’s really big for his age. My ds is really small for his age, so in the neighborhood, people use ‘Big’ and ‘Little’ descriptors and it works.
I wanted to use the T name you used, but I didn’t like any of the nicknames.
And it would have made my mom’s grandkids’ initials “NASTE”. Imagine that on a grandma necklace.
I’m hanging on to this series because my husband insists that we name our first son Johnathan Danger, because “Then he can really say that his middle name is Danger!”
And that’s a good thing, why?
Oh, honey.
I agreed with you up to the point where I realized you maybe weren’t entirely serious
Other than that, I loved it! You hit on some of my naming pet peeves. Although, I don’t mind unisex names, and I like it when family names all start with the same letter.
Of course, I completely messed up naming my children, but I’m blaming that on my husband.
Carrie, serious on some. But I won’t say which. :bats eyelashes:
I have a trick for getting the baby name you want. I’ll give it in the sequel.
My daughter and I call each other every single time we come across someone with a name that needs discussion. I can’t even believe some of the stuff people dare to name their children.
My English teacher in HS told us once about a mom who named her two girls (and I’ll write it in a sounded out version) Si-FILL-us and Gah-NOR-ia. Can you believe that? So much mom love there.
Baby names are so fun. We talk about them and are talked about in our turn. So Austen.
My mom and dad got heat from two different dirrections when they were naming my sister. She’s lucky she’s still not officially “Baby Girl”.
I’ll just say it again. Chlamydia. Yes. Chlamydia.
Lol! And the worst part of that name is not how difficult it is to spell.
My parents gave me two names I loathed all my life, and then, being born Catholic, I had to pick a saint’s name for my confirmation name when I was in the seventh grade. I picked a basic name just to make everyone happy. When I was in my mid twenties and my mother had died, I had my name legally changed and dropped the confirmation name altogether. The names I chose, along with my married name, suit me much better than the names I was saddled with all those years, and they’re also symbolic, for me, of shedding a very unhappy past and a religious tradition I wanted no part of.
I’m super original. My confirmation name is the same as my first name. She’s the patron saint of mothers and homeschoolers, and I like that symbolism.
Also, I meant to say I have a friend who changed her name as an adult.
I think this is a great idea since some parents give whack names.
David Bowie named his son Zowie Bowie, but now he goes by Duncan.
Ladasha. Only it’s really spelled La-a. That’s right. You sound out the “-” as “dash”.
Perty, isn’t it??
This is a true name of a student of a friend of mine.
Sometimes I think teacher make up these stories, like the Lemonjello and Orangejello names.
But then I remember they have eightteen kids in their class named Aiden, Jaden, Hayden and Cayden and anything seems possible.
I don’t think I can reply to this post without breaking federal HIPPA laws (I think I already have), but it is a problem. The bizarro spelling trend is really the worst of it. Having a name that I have to spell out is a PIA. Parents needs to knock this one off.
I’ll tell you the most important thing to a six year old is finding their name on a personalized key chain.
This is true. I am still waiting to find my personalised key chain. Someday… 🙄
See! It’s strangely important, even to people who like their unusual name.
Wow…you don’t have an opinion at all, do you:)
As a previous teacher, yep, gotta agree with all of them.
And, yes, the bizarre spellings are the worst. (please see note of my name, which isn’t nearly the worst offender, but there really isn’t a “right” way to spell it).
And, totally with you on the unisex names, too. What’s funny is my hubby is totally against them, then he threw out the name Morgan for a boy, and I said it’s a girl name. Off the list for that one, too.
Eh, mostly I’m just making stuff up. 🙂
We are very particular with our names. Naming mistakes I see, initials. Please please please double check those initials people. Children are so mean. I had a friend who refused to write her initials on papers in schools (when we were required) because they were an abbreviation for a dirty word. Also, make sure to double check nicknames with your last name. I helped my sister avoid a name disaster. Oh and remember, in some areas of life, your last name gets said first and then your first name. Be careful with this also. If your last name is Down, don’t name your child Ward. Down, Ward, bad bad bad.
Susan
Initials are so important. My mom’s initials are PAW and her aunt’s was MAW.
Yah, we flubbed this one up. We’d already picked out the names Eric & Emily for our first two kids…guess it’s lousy to have your son (and daughter, esp!) have the initials “E.Z.” as a teenager, eh?
I like their names and they each got your first choice name for their gender.
Ooh, the initials. At least monograms aren’t a big deal anymore.
My initials were ABJ.
My ex-husband wanted to name our first born SKEET. I know SHE would not have appreciated it, and I think we just explained why I might now be divorced…
Skeet? Was he high?
Grounds for divorce, in my opinion.
Thought of this thread in the drop off line for the middle school today (my eighth grader went in for free testing). It’s popular to have stickers with the child’s name and sport/activity on the back of the car. We saw Kynedie and Da’Shan’Te and a football player named Kelly (this was popular in my generation for boys in the corner of TN where I went to college, but even those guys felt saddled by a girl’s name, 10 years before these kids now were being born!) My ds was trying to spice up his name. I offered to throw in a few periods and make him a Black Eyed Pea or something. He said that we at least gave him a harder to spell, Gaelic, variant for a middle name to make up for the boring first name. LOL
Give him a cool nickname, like Blade or Anakin.
My real name is very phonetic, but no one can EVER say it. It’s annoying. I wanted to make sure that my daughter had a simple easy name that would be hard to mess up. Sadly, people still mess it up. Even more annoying.
If people can mess up Anne they can mess up anything.
Oh, I love this! I gave myself 2 last names when I got married and I regret it every time I sign something. So I was never in danger of giving my kids 2 middle names. Plus, they have an unusual Eastern European last name so we went simple with the first names.
My son has a Marion and a Courtney on his (all boy) soccer team. I have to stop myself from turning around when their parents cheering them on and saying, “Really? What were you thinking?” Who knows, maybe it’s a trend and those names are going BACK to being boy names. I can’t think of any little girls with either name.
I think those old names are coming back because people having babies now are honoring their grandparents.
My mother-in-law told me not to honor her that way. Her name is a popular one for babies now, but she told me she always hated it and thought it was a “waitress name”.
Another excellent post, and your readers comments were icing on the cake! Naturally I have to respond to a few of those.
We named our first child Ryan. At the time it seemed like this was going to be a very unique name. However, when we moved into our new neighborhood there were 4 other Ryan’s on the street. So much for originality! You think you are head of the curve and you are merely smack dab in the middld of it. Despite the plethora of Ryan’s these days I am glad we eliminated Skyler and Bo (which were two soap opera names at the time.) What was I even thinking?
Child number two was named Stephen. I thought (stupidly) that if I spelled it the old-English way he wouldn’t be called STEVE. How naive of me. Of course that “ph” really threw people off and many tried to call him Stefan.
Child #3 was definitely unusual – Kinsey who we named after a character created by Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone). Initially my mother was HORRIFIED at my choice as she associated that name with the “Kinsey Report.”
As was the case in child #1, there are now a ton of Kinsey’s. Funny thing, now people want to call her McKinsie (or other spelling variations.) I don’t even bother correctly people – unless of course they want to call her LINDSAY.
As to your comment about cyclical or biblical names. It’s funny how things come and go. I remember when my friend named her son “Max” and I thought, “Why do you want to give him such an old-man name?” Clearly she was on the cutting edge, because there are plenty of Max’s and Oscar’s and Henry’s out there now and they don’t seem so “old-fashioned” to me now.
OMG, this is so funny, so true, and such a riot! HOWEVER, at the core it’s not AT ALL funny.
Yes, give your kids a good name rather than some silly one like the celebs do or some made up name like certain ethnic groups do that no one understands or can spell!
Way to go Anne!
Thanks, Bruce!
While I think celebrity baby names are ridiculous, I’m actually cool with ethnic names.
This made me laugh!!! With a name like Hatton, I’ve been spelling it and pronouncing it and repeating it my entire life!! My only tip is: don’t hyphenate if you have a double name… it will kill you on the forms. Government forms (social security… driver’s license…etc.) don’t like the hyphen!!!
The thing is, it’s probably worth it if you really like your name, as it seems you do.
My husband is Dutch and it’s very very common for them to have two middle names but his parents decided to take it one step further and give him THREE middle names, which is ridiculous. To further compound this problem, his “given” name isn’t actually what anybody calls him… and I confess I have booked plane tickets with the wrong name for him before! Lucky for me it’s close enough (Martinus and Martijn) that the airline was kind and changed it for me without a fee but I know some Dutch people here who’s given names aren’t even CLOSE to what people call them! DRAMAAAA!
I never thought of the Dutch as such high-drama folk. At least life is never boring!
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I agree with your rules! Hubby and I had many a discussion about names for our girls. He’s gone by his middle name since he was about 6 months old, because his mother got tired of correcting people that while “Tracy” is a pretty name for a girl, her Tracy was actually a BOY. As someone mentioned, it’s a pain when filling out forms… he always has to double-check and verify how he’s supposed to sign his name. So he was adamant that our kids be named whatever we were going to call them, they wouldn’t go by their middle name or any nickname.
I went to school with twin girls… one named Tuesdee, the other named Wednesdee. And yes, the ending is pronounced -DEEEE.
A couple on our block has a dog named Chloe- my daughters name. I think dog owners shouldnt be able to name their pets real people names…what happened to scout and barky? This is coming from a woman that named her son Max- probably the most popular dog name in American history!!
This is probably one of my favorite blog posts I have ever read, mostly because it is one that I myself have wanted to write for a very long time, but am still too chicken to actually write! LOVE IT! 🙂 Happy SITS day!
P.S. One of the main reasons why I did not pick OB/GYN nursing when I was in nursing school was because I *knew* I would not be able to keep myself from telling people when they had clearly picked the WRONG baby name!!
So funny 😉 and so timely as I’ll have to name another child in the next few months! Unique attempts at spellings just make me giggle!
The one that makes me crazy is when the parents try to pick clever first names to go with the last name. The Woods family — ChaiDee (pronounced Shady), Hunter, and Autumn. Say each of those first names with Woods as the last name and you’ll get what I mean.
Mom and dad feel clever for a while after naming, but the poor kid has to live with that name.
I have a whole post about this too. It’s one of my pet peeves. My mom let my grandmother pick out a first name she detested – Elaine, so I get to be called. Y my middle name of Adrian, which is fine, buts it’s the male spelling. Thanks Mom! I do get mistaken for a boy online, a lot. My youngest son is Blake which used to be a perfectly respectable boys name, but will probably be a girls name by the time he grows up, sigh. I think we should make a law that they HAVE to leave boys names for the boys. There are plenty of great girls names but not that many boys names and most of them start with a J. Not a great option when you have a 10 letter bizarre last name that starts with a G. So my choices were pretty limited. Oh and my nomination for worst baby name. Twins named Crystal and Fallon from Dynasty! Sincerely hope they have since changed them. Coolest name, my co-worker Daniel D Daniel. What does the D stand for, you guessed it – Daniel. We call him 3D. Quirky but memorable and he pulls it off just fine.
Agree, agree, agree! We named our son Brooks – I love the name but sometimes I second guess it since if someone forgets to pronounce the “s” on the end, it immediately becomes a girl name. So far, he has been unscathed by our choice.
SO glad you are featured today! This post made me laugh out loud – and I don’t think anyone has it worse than little Apple Martin – except for the kids whose parents followed Gwenyth’s example.
Happy SITS day!
I found this post hilarious! I had a friend in high school named cafeteria….really?!? An awkward celeb baby name is Beyonce’s baby, Blue Ivy? I get the “meaning” behind the name (I just googled it) BUT COME ON! Oh and Jessica Simpson’s girl, Maxwell? It reminds me of an eighty year old butler… or coffee for that matter. My sons name is Sterling…my husband picked out the name and fell in love with it. It took me QUITE some time to get used to it (all nine months and then some) but it seems to fit him well 🙂
Enjoy your SITS day, it’s your day to shine!
I love what we named my son – it’s unique for Canada but apparently common in Greece. Unfortunately people just think I misspelled the common “Ethan” name – but his name is not Ethan!! Different name, different meaning, just sounds similar I suppose.
I have to say I agree with all of these rules, except one (of course, right? LOL)
Everyone in my family has the same first initial – me, my husband, and my daughter.
And my parents & siblings. And my SIL. And my brother’s cats.
I hated the alliteration (is that the right word?) growing up, but once I became an adult, I don’t know, I loved it. I loved having that tie to my family that no, didn’t change when I got married.
Isn’t everyone somewhere in line to the throne…? 😉
I LOVE this post!! I hate how everyone feels they have to be creative with names!!!! All it does is cause confusion and irritation. The one you missed is how some people randomly combine syllables to create some totally new name that no one else has ever heard of. It’s a name!!! You’re not creating a new sports car that has to sound different to get new buyers! You got one of my major pet peeves here! Happy SITS day by the way!!
Agreed! I just wrote a post about our naming process: http://tragicsandwich.com/2012/05/30/baby-names/
And congratulations on your SITS day!
I agree! My girls passed you test LOL. We do have two middle names, but only one is legal. The other is a Vietnamese name for Peter’s family 🙂
Around 15 years ago, I was walking with a friend of mine and a guy stopped us. He wanted to holla (talk to) my friend. To be polite he asked us both our names. When I told him that my name was Jasmine, he laughed. I asked him what was so funny he says, why did your parents give you a guys name. My friend and I both looked at each other and I said WHAT? He repeated his statement again and I told him, “Hon, I don’t know how to break this to you, but Jasmine is a female name.” So I asked him his name……………………………..It was Jasmine.
My friend and I busted out laughing. I told him to stop playing and sure enough he produced his driver’s license and why did that sucka say Jasmine for his first name. I had to look away but my shaking shoulders were easily giving away that I was wanting to bust out laughing. He became offended and asked why we were laughing. I told him that his momma wanted a girl. REAL BAD. He gets upset and calls me ugly and monkey and some other names. I told him, he needed to go home and slap his momma for giving him a GIRL’S name.
Afterwards while my friend and I were walking away I yelled back to him, for future reference he might just want to go by Jaz or his middle name until he could legally change it himself. Haven’t seen him since. lol
Omg you are too funny! I did not mean to name both of my kids with “C” names, but the only 2 names my hubby and I happened to agree on are “C” names! I’m pregnant with number 3. ‘What should I do! Lol.
You are hilarious! THANK YOU for saying what all of us have been thinking for so long!! 🙂
This is great! I have violated the two middle name rule but it’s understood that my daughter will just put the first two on forms. The third was to honor my mom but it didn’t go well right behind the first. So she is Summer Grace Margaret. And it doesn’t look like I will have any more so it was a one shot deal. I am definitely sharing this on Facebook. I think others will get a kick out of it. Hope you enjoyed your SITS day!
I just go by the ole’ I just choose names I like.
Great post! Could it be that I’m about to follow a Mommy Blogger when I don’t have kids? Yep!
So what’s your take on pet names?
Dogs: Rodrigo (boy), Sydney Australia (girl), and Blue (boy)
Cats: Jaffrey (boy) and Cosmo Kramer (boy)
Loved this post!
Kimberly
I love really fun, imaginative pet names. Isn’t it funny that pets have people names and people have strange names that would have only been for pets 20 years ago?
I feel bad for kids named Max and Molly, America’s most popular dog names.
That is such an interesting point about all the former boys names that are now girl’s names! We ladies keep stealing them and I wonder why! This is a great post 🙂 Visiting from SITS!