What will you name your children?

[penguindude42]

If I have a daughter, she'll be MeganMEE-gan Eliah. "Megan" because that was my mum's choice
of a girl's nameFor me. I was supposed to be a Megan., and "Eliah" just to see what happens between her and other children.

But if it's a boy...James Russell. For a reason that should be obvious.

 

[Beautiful Tragedy]

Girl- Persephone, Daphne or Amaranthia

Boy- Matias, Elric, or Arioch

 

[Gunjester]

Me and my girlfriend said that if we have kids we come to an agreement, I choose the names for boys, and she chooses for girls. Thus, my choices for male names are:
Durante(Dante), Coinin, Bastion and Viktor.
My girlfriend's name choices for girls are:
Melody, Natalie, and Lyla

....Yeah, our kids might be a bit bullied unless we manage to raise them awesome.

Nooooooo. Don't spell your kid's names in stupid ways. Don't do it. It'll just make their life hell, always having to spell it to people, never having it spelled right on school documents because the system will always assume their name is a mistake. Don't. My mom works at an elementary school, and every year she'll send an email to everyone in the family of all the stupid and stupidly spelled names she saw enter the school that year. So don't do it. Don't let your kid end up on a stupid name list. Your kid will never thank you for giving them a name that no teacher or boss will ever say or spell correctly from their first day of kindergarten until the day their death certificate is printed.

Only Viktor was spelt "wrong". The rest were correct. Even so, I don't care, I grew up Thomas and my girlfriend's Louisa, we both have fairly common names and dislike them for this purpose, we want our kids to preferably never have to be bothered by knowing someone with the same name as them, and the whole telling people how to their name thing is a point of pride, not annoyance, my last name needs to be spelled everytime for people, I don't get bothered.

And if you're referring to Durante, that's the original name, Dante is actually a short form.

 

[Gunjester]

Me and my girlfriend said that if we have kids we come to an agreement, I choose the names for boys, and she chooses for girls. Thus, my choices for male names are:
Durante(Dante), Coinin, Bastion and Viktor.
My girlfriend's name choices for girls are:
Melody, Natalie, and Lyla

....Yeah, our kids might be a bit bullied unless we manage to raise them awesome.

Nooooooo. Don't spell your kid's names in stupid ways. Don't do it. It'll just make their life hell, always having to spell it to people, never having it spelled right on school documents because the system will always assume their name is a mistake. Don't. My mom works at an elementary school, and every year she'll send an email to everyone in the family of all the stupid and stupidly spelled names she saw enter the school that year. So don't do it. Don't let your kid end up on a stupid name list. Your kid will never thank you for giving them a name that no teacher or boss will ever say or spell correctly from their first day of kindergarten until the day their death certificate is printed.

Durante is the long form of "Dante".
Coinin is Irish, a lot of Irish names are spelt funny.
Bastion is short for "Sebastian".
Viktor is an alternative for "Victor".

And Melody, Natalie and Lyla are all normal names.

None of those I would class as spelt in "stupid ways", there's just a lot of cross-cultural references going on. Have you never met a Siobhan, an Eoin or a Diarmuid? Now those are bizarrely spelled, but very common names.

Thank you, looks like someone else understood this. I myself do a lot of writing as a hobby, just little stories and what not, and as such I've been becoming more versed in Onomatology, so I've been taking my favourite names from different cultures and languages. My name is Hebrew, Thomas, but spelt with an English variant spelling and I myself have South-American parents with roots in Poland, Spain and Italy predominantly. I'm going to name my kids something that'll stand out, to assume they're weak enough in esteem or sensitivity to allow people to trample them for having a unique name with foreign spelling and a kick-ass meaning is a bit of an insult.(referring to the ignorant douche up there, not yourself, my good sir.)

 

[General Twinkletoes]

Number 1 rule for naming! Don't name them after a character if you wouldn't have named them that even if the character didn't exist. I'm looking at you, people naming their kids after FF characters or random animes. Your kid will not be pleased. Sure if you want, give them an unusual name, those can be awesome, but don't name them something completely ridiculous that sounds like it's coming out of a sci-fi novel. They'll be bullied to hell in school, and won't appreciate being an outlet for your fandom.

Anyway, for girls I like Sam, Erin and Clementine. Clementine is partly because of TWD, but I've always liked it and it's not a weird name that I wouldn't consider without the game (Like a lot of people here saying Winry).

I don't have any idea what I'd name a son. Nick maybe? Honestly, I don't like most boys names. I don't know what it is, but there are none where I think "yeah, that's a great name!". There's a lot less variety and interesting names IMO, I'd give the male naming duty to my partner.

 

[Aesir23]

For boys: Daniel, Stanley (after my grandfather), Joseph or Nathan.

For girls: Elizabeth, Lorraine, Sandra or Adriana.

Judging by my antisocial nature I probably won't have kids but if by some miracle I do find someone who wants to stick around for the next few decades then the kids would probably be adopted (maybe one or two biological kids... maybe).