Lil
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If I was young and pregnant and the person I am today, I would name a baby girl Serenity.
If I had ONE rule I could impose on new parent's (If I were the god of baby names) it would be NO "unique" spelling! We have a friend who's got a granddaughter named Serenity (which is a VERY pretty name)....but it's spelled Cerynity...or something like it. I HATE that every single day I have to ask people, "and how is that spelled?" Because David is Daaved or Rebecca is R'beca. Makes me INSANE! Don't they care that NO ONE will every spell that poor child's name correctly?
Jasmine Breeze
Is it terribly rude of me to say that sounds like an air freshener?
I don't mean to be mean. I had a coworker once who was planning on naming her child Carrington, which is a perfectly nice name. Her last name was Green. I told her it sounded like a racetrack or a cemetery - Carrington Green. She was not amused.
I liked Emma and Emily when they first became trendy again but when I worked at Head Start there were so many I got tired of the name. Ditto for Jaden, a name I once loved and both Taylor and Tyler. Too many.
We actually had someone jokingly make a "hearing bingo" sheet (that little office game was scrapped when the bosses heard about it) but it had things on there like "Someone says "deadbeat", or "allegation of hidden income". Our center square was Jaden...because we have it in SO MANY hearings. It has to be one of the most common names now.
If I were to do it over again, I would NOT name my son after his biodad...which I did. I always intended to, and still do, use his middle name. But at about 13 he decided his middle name was too common (and no, it isn't Jaden ) and decided to use a shortened version of his first name. Luckily NOT the version that was used by biodad...that would have stunk!
My mother's first name was Emma. She hated it and used her middle name. I love Emma. Had I had a daughter instead of a son, she would have been Emma. I also like names with meaning - like Faith and Grace. For boys - I like Richard, despite the unfortunate nicknames. In fact, Richard Andrew was one I had picked out for years.
My parent's believed in naming children something that wouldn't seem silly when they were 85 and in a nursing home. They hated the thought of a little old lady named Buffy or a old man named Skip. They named my brother and I accordingly. My brother got the best end of that. Jabber and I share a middle name. I do not like my first name...which is NOT Lil or any form of Lil. I use Lil on-line because that's short for the name I chose for medieval reenactment. I love the name Lillian - Lilly - Lilliana etc. I would love to be a Lil in real life. Heck, Jabber doesn't even use my real first name (He doesn't call me Lil either, I'm basically Honey or Hey You)...it's not a horrible name - it isn't Bertha or Hildegard or anything - but it's just blah.
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