...So feel special. :]
Yes, I already have my kids' names picked out, if the Lord sees fit for me to marry and have children. And if He doesn't? Then these are my future horses' and cats' and dogs' and chickens' names. Okay, scratch the chickens. Scrap the entire animal names idea, actually--if these names aren't destined for my babies, they are destined for no one. :) And that is a fact.
So what's in a name? A lot.
..Especially since this particular girl is extremely picky with names. I can tolerate all names (okay, besides Philomena and Wilma and Artemus, etc.), but I can't like all names. There are very few names I seriously like, as in, "I am so naming my kid that." This doesn't mean I don't like your name, my dear reader, on you. I simply am picky about what my children will be named.
As I was saying--what's in a name? And as I also was saying: a lot. Because besides me being choosy about them, names are really, really special. For instance, have you ever really truly thought about the fact that God gives parents a wonderful gift when he allows them to name their children? He writes our names--not code names, not numbers, not Latin mumbo-gumbo, but the names out parents gave us, in His book of life. And someday, be it His will, I will have that privilege...to name a child permanently. To give him or her the title which God will identify them with, which everyone they meet will know them as, which they will have for eternity.
How awesome--how truly awesome is that?!
Thus, I thought it would be fun to show you a little list of names I love (or even adore. The asterisks are by the names which I adore).
Girls:
Laylee*
Lora
Emilee
Emilia
Autumn*
Olivia
Jourdann*
Violette
Rebekah
Julia
Analise*
Michele
Lucy
(yes, I know this is close to my own name--but even if I weren't named "Lucia," I love this cute little name. :)
Boys:
Joseph
Joel
Nathaniel (I really like the nickname 'Nate')
..looks like I'll only be having three sons! Haha. :) No...I know I have more than this--I just can't remember anymore! I think about the girls' names more often than the boys. ;) And don't worry. I have wayyy more favorite names than this--these are just some of my tops. :) So don't take it to heart if your name isn't on here. ;)
What are some of your favorite names?
Favorite girls names?? Hmm. Eden, Faith, Brianna, Elizabeth, Charity, Liberty, Helen...
ReplyDeleteHow cute! Hey you stole two of my names! Julia & Olivia... haha! Oh well, I guess I can share (smiles)
ReplyDeleteawwhh,you have my name on that list:)
ReplyDeleteI love the name Madison and Quinn..I actually would love to name my child Madison Quinn=)
Oooh, nice names! =D Hmmm... for girls I like the names, Guinevere (okay, maybe not :D), Jane, Elizabeth (yeah, I'm a Jane Austen fan!) Moria, Lucia {hehe I like your name}, and Emma for now! For boys...hmm...this one seems to always be a hard one! I like Nathan too, William, Edward, Zachary... and who knows how many more I will have later! =D
ReplyDeleteOh I love that spelling: Violette! My little sister's name is Violet and we like to pretend that it is spelled the former way even though it isn't ;-)
ReplyDeleteLove Emilia, Olivia, Autumn, and Julia.... I have a LOT of favorite names... my friend and I always conspire about what we are planning on naming our children when we get married... sometimes I wonder if we will even really end up using the ones we always say we would DEFINITELY use :-)
I love Artemis! haha! But, I'm a rare one.
ReplyDeleteI have an Aunt Michele! *feels so special*
AND I know a Emilee, Olivia and Autumn! *feels doubley special*
Oh, I'm glad you like my name! :) ;) I love yours! My favorite girl names are...
ReplyDeleteElisheva (Elizabeth in Hebrew)
Scarlet
Devora
Lilian
Liberty
Rose
Anna
Miriam
and that's about all she can think of for the girlies! ;)
Now for the gentleman!
Levi
Asher
I love the name Nathaniel too!!!
and I will admit that I haven't spent as much time on the boys' names as I have the girls, but I'll tell you that I'd like my first child to be a boy. :) Love all of your names! ♥
Love the names you picked out! I have way more girl names than boy names, too :)
ReplyDeleteI love Lucy, too. and I know someone named Rebekah, but she goes by Reki!
I love those names! I have a brother named Joseph. :)
ReplyDelete~Bri {Diamonds and Pearls}
Fun, Luci! :) I have a lot of favorite names and I just couldn't begin to list them all. :) Actually, some of your favorites are also mine, though. :) Such as Michele (I'd spell it Michelle) for a girl and Joseph for a boy. :)
ReplyDeleteI also, like the thought of calling my girls by their first and middle names, like mine: Martha Joy, and my sister: (who we sometime call by both) Maggie Ree.
Thanks for the fun posts! ;)
Blessings,
Martha Joy
Psalm 42:1,2
I adore the name Violet. A lot. was beginning to think I was the only one! Even if you did spell it a little differently :)
ReplyDeleteIs it pronounced differently, too?
For guys I will always love the name Edward :)
Joseph was on my list for a long time, but my parents stole it from me and named my youngest brother Joseph :)
I would have to say Mackenzie is my favorite girls name. haha i have way more guy names that i like, Trevor, Trent, Conner, William, Tyler, Justin, Reuben...
ReplyDeleteI always think of baby names! I think of more girl names than boys. Haha!
ReplyDeleteGirls:
Katelyn
Michelle
Mckenzie Nicole
Boys:
Jacob
Anthony
Andrew (Drew)
Emmett
I have more than these. But these are the only ones I can think of right now.
I want four kids - two girls and two boys. ;)
ReplyDeleteGirls: Crystal and April.
Boys: I have no idea.
LOL!
Oh cool! I'm not the only one who has names picked out. ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking classy names, like..
Juliet
Lucy
Anna
Angelina {this one's still a maybe..}
Then for boys I only have one name...
Philip! :D
Those are all lovely names you have picked out, I pray that if you have children at some point, the Lord will bless them all with wonderful lives! :)
-Grace
Awesome names!
ReplyDeleteI agree about what you said about parents having the special privilege to name their kids. It's one of the most amazing things parents can do for their child. :)
Honestly, if I get married someday, I'm kinda hoping for triplets. :D Two boys and a girl really. William Douglas, Caden Mathias, and Holly Marie. Don't anyone steal!! ;D I claimed them first!
Have a good night!
For me girls names are easier to pick! I like Trinity, Esther, and Jasmyn.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I'm not the only person who has started thinking of baby names =)
ReplyDeleteI like unusual names, but I also like the olad fashioned ones. I adore,
Brielle, Emily, Grace, Elizabeth, Analise, Colette, Jane, Lucy - My list is pretty long!
My first boy is going to be called Lorcan =D
xxxx
This was such a sweet post! Loved it. :D
ReplyDeleteHmm, I guess my favorite names would have to be:
Rayvn
Autumn
Olivia
Kristine
Nicole
Lucy is a cute name! When I was little, I really wanted my name to be Lucy. XD
Hannah
Great choice of names!
ReplyDeleteThis is kinda funny. Yesterday, the youth of my homeschool group had a wait training seminar (purity/True Love Waits seminar), and two of the incorporated activities had to do with writing to your future mate and naming your children. And when I came home, I found out Miss Raquel made a post about letter writing to her future husband. And know I saw this post. "Coincidental"? :P
Anyway, here are some names I would love to give my future children...if ever.
Boys:
Daniel
Darcy
Brandon
Tilney
Knightely
Edmund
(Jane Austen-inspired...and Narnia-inspired)
Girls:
Hadassah
Lucy
Brielle
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
(is it obvious that I like seasons?)
Wow... you choose my name! And spelled the same way I spell it! :D
ReplyDeletewow! that is cool :) i love the name Autumn for a girl, but my especial name i have picked out is 'Amythest Joy' it means 'beloved beatiful jewel who is joyful in the Lord' Amy would be her nickname. And then I'd have Autumn Fairlight :) for a boy i've always said Levi Emerson...:) i have a baby name book and love to flip through it looking for definitions! please pen pal!-Oriana
ReplyDeleteAww, I love thinking of kids names. :) I want to have a house full of boys if its Gods will! :)
ReplyDeleteNathan
Luke
Peter
Anthony or Andrew
James
Ryan
John
Michael
and I want to nickname one of them 'bubba' <3 I think its SO cute! :)
Aww I love your names!I love the name Emilia!! For Girls I like:
ReplyDeleteRebecca Lynne, Juliet Elizabeth, Ingrid Marie, and more that I can't think of right now... I have a list :)
for Boys I like: Levi Emmanuel, Loren Conrad, Elliot Mitchel.
xoxo,
Madeline
www.Flameinthedarkness.com
Hey Nela, you better hurry up, get married and have triplets... cuz if you don't, you'll have to guard those names carefully! :):)
ReplyDeleteI love....
Girls: Serenity, Rachel, Genesis (nickname Genny), Adar (I think it is Hebrew, meaning illustrious).
Boys: Timothy, Titus, Thadius, Exodus (nickname Xody)
Seriously, I would love to have a little boy nicknamed Xody!!! :):) Yeah, I like kind of strange names but who cares- they're original! :):) Thanks for sharing, Lucia!
I LOVE names! lol. This was a fun post to read - and all the comments. My girls name list is a lot longer, but I think thats just because the boy ones I like never change.
ReplyDeleteGirls: Mackenzie, Jordyn, Annalyn/Analiese (I like compound Anna- names that can be shortened to Annie), Grace, Evelyn, Elizabeth (Ellie), Hannah
Boys: Charlie, James, Josiah, Ty, Noah, Jack
Be careful though....my favorite girls name for a long time was Brooklyn - then I started dating my boyfriend and he vetoed that right away! I also had Rachael, Rebekah, and Charlotte on my girls name list and he had nieces with ALL those names! lol. Always fun to make lists though :)
Awww, that is so sweet, Lucia! That is a wonderful thought, the privialge the Lord has given us to name our children one day :). Some of my favourite girls' names are: Esther, Sarah, Ruth, Mary, Abigail, Elizabeth, Talitha, Julia, Violet, Emily, Missy, Erywin, Carliss, Rachel, Leah, Rebecca, Olivia, Hadassah, Lucy, Amy, Bethany, Cassia, Katrina, Claudia, Florence, Heather, Ida, Jerusha... oh dear, I'll take forever writing all my favourites but I have written down a lot more :). I haven't started out my fav. boys' names but some are: William, Justin, Walter, Joshua, Joseph, Daniel, David, Jacob, Isaac, Timothy, Marcellus, Peter, Andrew, Francis, Jeremiah, Josiah :)... and so on!!!
ReplyDeleteYay, my name is on your list (Rebekah)! And I have a brother named Joseph, too. I've also thought about my future kids' names (if the Lord decides for me to get married and bless me with children). I've always thought it would be neat to name my children with names from the Bible, or at least have a middle name from the Bible. I really like names with "l", "i", and "e" in them! :) I think my favorite letter is "L". So far, for names, I like...
ReplyDeleteGirls:
Lydia (I love this name! It just sounds so pretty and feminine, even though I guess it could be associated with the Lydia from P&P.)
Abigail
Elizabeth
Grace (short and sweet)
Boys: (hmm...haven't thought about these as much)
Joshua
Caleb
Now that I think about it, I do like Nathaniel and Phillip too.
~Rebekah (sorry the comment is so long!)
I've always been a lover of names! They are very interesting and beautiful. :)
ReplyDeleteI just looked through the meanings of a ton of names the other day...these are some of my favorites. I didn't mean for them to be, but they're all Hebrew, except Neil and Declan, of course.:)
ReplyDeleteFor girls- Susannah (or the Hebrew, Shoshanna), Annabeth, Naomi, Eliana (Ellie:), Abigail, Jemima
For boys- Micah, Nathaniel (seems a lot of us like that one!), Peter, Jonas, and I like the meanings of Neil, Asher, and Declan, but I don't think I'd use them, at least not for first names.;)
I've kept a running list of names for the longest time ever. I find it easier to think of girls' names too! For girls I like:
ReplyDeleteFidelia (means "faithful one" in Spanish),
Bryanna
Rose
Anna
Lorena
Navarra
Margaret
Boys:
Riley
Travis
Gilead
Covenant
Alex
And a couple names that I'm not sure which gender they should be for:
Shiloh
Shenandoah (if a girl's name, then nickname "Nan")
Glencoe
I was just reading through all these comments and saw another name,I forgot that I love-
ReplyDeleteI got it off a TV show and have loved it ever since:)
-Ingrid
-Madison
-Quinn
I love names... naming your characters is the best (well... maybe not best) part of writing a story. My children will probably be named after some characters in my stories :)
ReplyDeleteSo, my favorite names for girls: Lysbeth, Katurah, Talitha, Starlee, Anne-Marie, Mary, and Selah
and for boys: Beckham ("Beck"), Riley, Jack, Luke, Jeff, George, and Micah.
Well, I kinda want to have 6 boys, I know it’s a lot, but I think it would be great. But anyway, for girl names:
ReplyDeleteAlyssa Juliana, Rosalie Lillian, Jade Treasure, Jazira Kiara.
Boys: Jasper Charles, Lorenzo Luca.
But if I got my six boys…Christopher Robin (okay, I know this sounds really dumb, but he would be called Kit, and with the Robin I could name him after my daddy, and the Christopher would make my grandmother happy. And just think what a great punishment it would be, to call him Christopher Robin and watch all his little siblings start giggling. Yeah, I’m already conspiring against my future kids.)
Anyway, Christopher Robin (Kit) , Adam Thomas, Nate James, Bryan Kyle and Quinn Ryan (twins!), and Jacob (Jake)…something. I haven’t decided yet.
And I know I probably won’t get six boys, but I’m sure I’ll find the right names for the kids I do get.
I'd have to say that my favorite girl names are
ReplyDeleteVera (for my great-grandmother)
Cora
Elizabeth
Grace
My favorite names for boys are
Micheal
Benjamin
Thomas
Jackson
Levi
I tend to lean towards the more traditional names.
haha, I am SO picky when it comes to boy's names. :P So yeah, only about 2-3 sons for me too. j/k You know, the really bad part of it all is that I rarely, rarely like Biblical names--is that wicked? :P They just aren't--me. So bad. But true. ;)
ReplyDeleteFor girls I like almost anything Italian--ending with "a", of course.
Monica
Dominica
Lienna
Keslie (not Italian, but so cute!)
Justina
annnddd...more. ;)
Boys:
Michael (hey, a Biblical one!)
John (another, and so simple and masculine.)
Nico (Italian for Nick. I just love the name Nick in general.)
I'll come up with a few more one of these days. You thought YOU were the picky one? ;)