Muski
So it seems we have hit the point where the bump is obvious enough for various friends, family and complete strangers to start making subtle hints that we should be sharing our ‘shortlist of baby names’. Only problem is we don’t have a shortlist or baby names… or a long list… or even a single idea!
I am not good with naming things… especially children. It is a majorly big thing… What if you name them a name and then a month later decide that you hate it? Or realise it has some really bad connotation that you didn’t think of before? I don’t know how anyone can choose a name before the baby is born. What if they come out and don’t look at all like a Spud or a Boris?
We didn’t name the girls until they were 6 days old… I had a list of boys names that we’d semi agreed on while I’d been in hospital waiting, but not a single girl’s name on the list. Because, of course, I was hoping for boys, even though that fact alone assured me I’d get girls. So we spent the days after their birth trying to agree on two names that we both liked, that worked ok together and weren’t totally terrible. We’d agreed on Zoe and for some reason that was always going to be twin 2 but hadn’t decided on a name for Twin 1 yet. It was my last day in hospital and I didn’t want to leave them there alone without names so when I went down to drop off milk to NICU at 6am and I was asked for the hundredth time if we had chosen names yet I just blurted out ‘Isabella and Zoe’. Before I could check that the other half agreed the nurses had already made name tags for their isolettes and that was that!
As it turned out afterwards there have been all kinds of ‘connotations’ with their names.. most notably that I for Izzy is like a 1 for twin one, who also for some reason gets one pony tail in her hair and Z for Zoe is like a 2 for twin 2 who gets two pony tails… though I swear that was unintentional! And when they were little – big name – Isabella, for the big baby, and small name – Zoe for the small baby… though that doesn’t work now since they are the same height and weight.
So that brings us back to name ideas for the current child within…. I have no idea. I know what it is not going to be called… Myfanwy for one… sorry Mum and any Myfanwys out there.. just not my idea of fun! I suspect that we may bring this baby home unnamed, much to the horror of some I am sure. But you never know, maybe it will be obvious what to call it the moment it is born!?
A friend passed on this link the other day to a site full of ‘bad baby names‘. You can have hours of fun at this site reading some pretty horrid names… but I have to confess I actually like some of these so called bad baby names… which is a bit of a worry I guess!
I am very sad to say that I can’t find ‘Muski‘ mentioned at this site… Though I guess the girls will be happy to know that it is not listed as a ‘bad baby name’ since they are dead set decided that we will call the baby Muski. They seem to think it is a great uni-sex name and will no doubt be devastated when we eventually do name this baby and it isn’t Muski!
So anyone want to share their best or worst baby names? Maybe I can steal your ideas and make a short list so at least I have something to say when people ask!
Ah, can’t share my names, cause I am in the same boat as you! I have emailed Dh a list of the names that i like, and there are heaps of them, but he a) hasn’t looked at the list and b) I am sure he will dislike them all!
Good luck, but for the record, I like Muski! I also like Myfawny though, so…. what do I know LOL! Dh hates Myfawny though, so doubtful that will be our name LOL!
This will probably sound horrible but my BIL’s boy is named Rhys and although i don’t mind the way it looks I hate the sound of it. “Reeeece” It’s so screechy sounding. So that’s one name I hate.
I generally like older names or simple names. I’m not a real fan of trendy spellings.
Well as impromptu as the choosing of ‘Isabella’ ended up being it must have popped into your head for a reason. They’re both beautiful choices by the way. IMO :) I really like that one name is long and one name is short too.
My only concern with Muski is in terms of the career choices it primes her (?) for ROFL.
An aside, when we where in the hosp last week the nurse asked me how to spell Emma. I said E-M-M-A with a confused look on my face.
She replied “I thought so but we have to ask these days. There might have been a silent H or K in there you know!!”
ROFLMAO
Kate, mother to Ehmmkah
Choosing names is very hard, but fun too.
Leila & Annabelle, or Lachlan & Ronan.
These were my favs that Michael hated.
That site made me laugh! Thanks. Chrrosing names was the worst, my husband hated every single name I liked. A friend here took 10 days to name her daughter, nothing wrong with that.
What about a silent number ie Ka7te?
Tim and I agreed with all the names we choose and in fact Tm did alot of the choosing. We both went through all the things that can make up a bad baby name including what the first initials of each name (1st 2nd and surname) spelt and making sure it couldn’t be picked on. Tim chose most of them and I agreed. I feel for Maddi though as a couple of years after he was born and we named him Maddison of course only being in the all the boys names book and meaning at the time, son of a mighty warrior, that so many mums started calling the daughters the same and only recently has been changed and presented itself in the girls names list/books meaning daughter of a mighty warrior. Good luck with it all Kate.
this is my favourite name site, hope it helps!
http://www.behindthename.com
Im glad my bad (or good) baby name site helped. made you laugh..
i sent you my shortlist, CK hasnt put any on the list and screwed her nose up at most of my suggestions..
and in the replies, ill have to add another to my shortlist
i like annabelle (hope I can pinch it)..
1st OB visit tomorrow, all very scary!..
and your opinion of mountain buggy “urban” and “urban elite” strollers? since you are all knowing/wise on these topics. :) please..
didn’t realise it was going to cost soo much!..
Good luck deciding, it’s a hard task!! We always struggled with a boys name, the one we used was the single, one and only that we agreed on!
Not sharing mine with you, might need them one day ;-) (although I’m pretty sure I told you once what they are anyway!)
Well we thought we struggled to come up with a name for E as his name was the only one we agreed on we couldn’t agree on his middle name until i gave birth and then dh agreed on my choice since I did all the hard work lol
K was even more difficult as we both liked Ezekeial but were worried about having 2 E names so we were going to go with zekeial instead but went cold on it. I love Jonah and Johannes as well but dh didn’t like them.
One thing I did was look through birth announcements in the paper and look at sibling names as well that is where I found Kaeden except it was spelt differently and because I wanted something different I changed the spelling of it.
Names are really difficult I hope you find some inspiration:D
You could keep the Z theme going
Izzy Zoe & Ziggy
only joking!
Jill
hahaha! How about Muski backwards? Iksum?! I loike it! ;-)