Naming a baby for me has got to be one of the most important yet stressful things a parents does. The name you choose to put on a child will be with them forever and I don’t take that responsibility lightly. We aren’t overly critical of names to the extent of analyzing every possible teasing scenario, but we do rule out obvious teasing triggers. Honeybun’s name came to us fairly easily but Sugarplum took a bit more discussion. The next baby (due in 12 weeks or less!!!) had been even harder. We still have not settled yet on either a boy or girl name (since we don’t know the sex we like to be prepared with one of each).
We have chosen to use family names as middle names for our children (though we did change the spellings) and even this part for baby #3 has been hard. I’ve spent many nap times perusing our family trees (which my sister and grandmother have spent many hours on) and thought I would share a few of the gems I found:
We have a very “old-lady” stigma in our most recent female names which include:
Bernadean
Mildred
Gertrude
Martha
Olive
Judith
Agnes
We also have quite a few very ethnic names (hubby is very Scandinavian and French and I have a good bit of Lithuanian and German in both male and female) such as:
Ona
Juozas
Hilja
Loiva
Helge
Odilon
Hawey
Guillaume
Coutere
Jacques
Some very historical, but not relevant to modern times on the male side such as:
Archibald
Ebinezer
Ichabod
Cuthbert
Leopold
Some downright strange ones:
Thedosia
Almira
Experience
Thankful
Ephraim
Eulalia
Hopestill
But these ones just make me laugh and are absolutely not in consideration for our next child:
Dorcas
Marmaduke
