Posted by: neschria on: July 25, 2009
Summer has been much busier than I had anticipated. It hasn’t left me a lot of time to mull over names that I may or may not use. It’s mostly been good busy, though, so I am not going to complain. I’m not pregnant and won’t be for a minimum of 6 months at this [...]
Posted by: neschria on: June 13, 2009
My Top 5 changes frequently and without notice. That’s my disclaimer. The #1 combos are Henry Stuart and Tova Leocadia (still), and that puts Henry and Tova in the top spots for individual names as well. The other four for girls, in no particular order: Daphne, Phaedra, Tabitha, Audrey. The other four for boys are [...]
Posted by: neschria on: May 7, 2009
I did a quick list of a few pairs, starting with boys and matching the girls to them. Here are a few going the other way: Tabitha and Felix Tabitha and Sebastian Tova and Marcus Tova and Laszlo Miranda and Stephen Miranda and Desmond Eleanor and Charles Eleanor and Henry Ruth and James Ruth and [...]
Posted by: neschria on: April 26, 2009
This evening I spent a lot of time down in the shop with my husband, and I happened to have my name notebook with me, so I used that time to add a few new names to my lists and to work out some new combo ideas. Here’s a few for boys. I’ll try not [...]
Posted by: neschria on: April 12, 2009
My first husband gave me carte blanche when it came to naming babies, as long as they got his last name, but my current husband is a lot more particular. The way it works for us is that I make lists and fret and match and re-match names, and my husband vetoes most of them. Here [...]
Posted by: neschria on: April 10, 2009
I have three sons now: Nicholas (20), Geoffrey(18), and Liam(12). I tend to name boys relatively ordinary, or even popular, names. A lot of the names on this list are just “regular guy” names or popular, up-and-coming names. A few are just names that I like, which might be a little further out on a [...]
