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[leviathaen]

Well, yesterday was the cut off for when we had to sign baby girls birth certificate. We put it off as long as possible because Dylan and I just do not mesh well when it comes to picking out a girls name

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[leviathaen]

Dylan doesn't like "J" names. lol So I got veto'd.

That does stink your MIL thinks it's after her. You don't really have a year to change a name though, more so just a year to put a name on the certificate. Right now she is Baby Girl Daugherty. lol

I like Cera, Sarra (or maybe it was Serra?) not so much though.

[rainbow_slinky]

It is a huge responsibility and judging by how many people hate their given names, something that I've often questioned, yet there's no easy fix.

I like Mila Claire. No one has any right to make judgements on her name, she's yours...especially after you gave birth to a baby that big. ;) I say you get all naming rights on that factor alone.

I think we're going to go with Anya for a baby girl.

[leviathaen]

I know, I have never been fond of my name. I hope she doesn't whine at us when she is older. haha

Anya is pretty :)

[rainbow_slinky]

She probably will, regardless of what you name her!

[annimal]

Is Dylan opposed to a "J" middle name? Why not Mila Jocelyn? Or is that just a no go?

Is it said with a long I or an E sound? I am assuming Miiiiiiiiiiiiila, but I could be wrong!

I think it's pretty! My name was unique for when I was born, I was named for my mother's mother who died when my mom was 12. So for the longest time, the only Anna's (so it seemed) were me and 70+ year old women. Now it's following the trend of using old-fashioned names... but my point is... my sister? Jennifer like every other girl born in the mid70's. It was so bad that in kindergarten she was Jennifer Mu. on paper.

We have a combo, Taylor became quite trendy after we used it (and for GIRLS to my son's horror), Robert is after my g-pa, Aaron went well with Jason (his namesake) as a middle name, Bailey was named by her brothers and Alex went with the unisex sounding clan- and I was so tired of trying to get a good name that he was either going to be Alexander or Alexandria depending on the plumbing! :)

[leviathaen]

It's MEE-lah. Similar to the actresses Milla Jovovich and Mila Kunis. :)

Yeah, my name jumped in popularity when I was named it. In 1st grade there were 8 Amber's in my class. I was just dubbed AmberLou (last name Lewis)

Now granted that was kind of a freak incident at my school I think... Though Amber is quite popular for my age group.

5 names... I think I would go nuts picking that many out. lol I think you did a good job though. Despite your sons horror to girls having his name ;D Once girls no longer have cooties, I doubt he will care.

[mayna]

I love the name Mila or Milla... but I would say that if you name her that to spell it Milla because I thought Mie-la and not Mee-la, and I prefer names spelled easily phonetic (which is why I spelled Maylie's name like that instead of Meili). You don't want to have to correct everyone under the sun if you can help it. :-)

I say go for it, everyone here lovves it and we're who count, right? ha ha

[leviathaen]

Yeah my biggest concern has just been wondering if people will be able to say it right. Though, Dylan's name is in the top 10 (or atleast top 20, I forget now) and people constantly look at his name as say "DIE-Lan". I mean really! You can hardly go anywhere that has a bunch of kids and not here multiple people screaming "DYLAN!!" from across the room. (Why is it all Dylan's seem to be incredibly rotten? lol)

[leviathaen]

I don't mind it with his last name, but I agree it is kind of awkward of a name in general. Layne has his though, so I would feel kind of bad giving her something different.

[neuraltube]

I *love* that name.

It's so hard to choose names, I can totally sympathize! We made sure we were pretty set on Blue's name BEFORE telling anyone else, because we knew we were going to get all sorts of reactions. But even now it's a huge thrill when we get a positive reaction--and we get more of those than we ever thought we would.

I was on the other side of the fence as you re: unusual names. I hated having a boring name and figured that my kid would be made fun of for *something* unless he happened to be BMOC (which it looks like he might be) so I was more interested in naming him something with flair and zip than for it to be normal. Anyway. I do tend to run on, don't I? :-)

[leviathaen]

I'll give you another, I love the name Blue! ;D

We didn't want something overly common by anymeans (sarah was too common in my eyes, but I was willing to compromise). I just didn't want something that everyone would need sounded out and reminded about all the time either. I mean in the end I now have Layne and Mila. They are both legit names, but definitely not at all common.

[neuraltube]

Aw, thanks. :-) I think I told you before, Layne was the name my grandfather chose for himself when he immigrated from the Netherlands (he was Libbe before), and I love the name Mila, so you're 2/2 as well. And yes, not common. I was just responding to what you said about hesitating because the name is not at all common.

[mayna]

Do people think of Blue's Clues when they hear the name Blue? (Maylie gets a lot of "Is that Chinese?" when some people hear it). What does BMOC stand for if you don't mind me asking?