Share Your Top Ten Favorite Names.

[MrNewportCustom]

:eusa_clap You made me giggle, LizzieMaine. I love all those old nicknames--looking through my great-grandfather's scrapbook from the twenties, in college, everyone had one. Carrot, Socky, Hap...I need to start calling my friends some of those, just to throw everyone off balance.

I was ready to ask Lizzie how many yuppies and wiseguys she knew! lol


Lee

 

[BegintheBeguine]

You want nicknames? Shorts, Flowers, Star Wars Figure, Drugs, Dumpster, Creature, Thing, Slinky B.O., Mercury, Mexican Shirt, Janitor, Queen, Darkwave Junior, Mad Hatter, Chicken Wing.


I thought of some more favorites:
Lisa
Tom or Thomas
Jim or James
Solomon or Sol
Buddy
Frank
Peregrine
Kevin

My brother and sister and I all have unisex names so here is a favorite:
Lytton

 

[LizzieMaine]

I was ready to ask Lizzie how many yuppies and wiseguys she knew! lol


Lee

Well, funny you should ask that -- I have two cousins (twins) named Biff and Bing, another cousin named Chip, and my brother-in-law is called Butch.

On the other hand, my brother's nickname is "Pantleg." That's one I don't think I've ever seen anywhere else.

On to female names (all of them from my own family) --

Winona (my grandmother)
Winifred (my great-grandmother)
Clara (my other great-grandmother)
Hazel
Edith
Florence
Bonnie
Ruthie
Mildred

 

[BegintheBeguine]

We had a Buddy, Junior, Butch, Pinky (for Pinckney), Coolie, Sister, Dot, Dee, and Diddle.
Please explain Pantleg, I'm curious.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Please explain Pantleg, I'm curious.

Well, it actually started with a guy I was seeing back in the early '80s -- we walked into the local pizza joint one afternoon, and my brother was in there, leaning up against the Space Invaders machine trying desperately to look cool and dangerous -- but he had one leg of his pants tucked into his sock, I guess to keep it from getting tangled up in his bicycle chain. And he had forgotten to un-tuck it. And the guy i was with saw him, gave him a look, and announced in a loud voice, "GET A LOAD OF LITTLE PANTLEG."

And forever after, that has been his name. He had to move halfway across the country to escape it, poor kid.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Oh, that's good.

Thanks! I'm still laughing!!

 

[deadpandiva]

1. Caitriona
2.Aideen
3.Aoibheann (pronounced Eve een)
4.Muirne (pronounced Mir ne)
5. Morna, Myrna or Moyna
6. Nazanine (I'm not sure how to spell it)
7. Saro Jane (I wouldn't actually name anyone this)
8.Virginia
9. Finn
10.Ottalie (again I wouldn't actually name anty one this)

I like celtic names and old names.

 

[TheDutchess]

Jay
Aiden
Ava
Angelo
Naima ( I love John Coltrane)
Brooklyn
Victoria
Naomi
Gabriella
AJ

I just realized I have a lot of A names going on there *shrugs*

 

[Twitch]

Hmmm?

Larissa
Carmen
Louise
Terry
Margie

Larry
Jim
Tony
Gunther
Don

 

[katiemakeup]

I LOVELOVELOVE

Montgomery
Mortimer
Nigel
Argyle

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Sophie,
Imogene,
Christabel,
Jake

 

[Joie DeVive]

Male:
Michael
Peter
Severine
Bay
Gabriel
John
David
Jacob/Jake
Claude
Andrew

Female:
Alice
Elizabeth/Betty
Viola
Mary
Samantha
Anna
Katherine
Bobbie
Maureen
Johanna

As to nicknames, we have Bus, Bay, Butch, Cap, and Slim in my family.

 

[BigLittleTim]

My sister has four kids... boy, girl, boy, girl.

When they're with their Uncle Tim I call them:

Peter
Susan
Edmund
Lucy

C.S. Lewis fans among you will know why.



-BigLittleTim

 

[GwenLake]

Female:
Abigail
Alexandra
Cameron (My Daughter)
Elizabeth
Gwendolyn
Jean (My Mom)
Kathleen
Rebecca
Sarah
Virginia

Heh, both my real and my screen names are on your list.

 

[Viola]

Boys
Henry
Ari
Nathaniel
Hezekiah (I would probably call him Zeke though)
Nehemiah
Parker
Daniel
Mattathias
Anthony
Jacob

Girls
Rowena
Tovah
Penolope
Caroline
Vivian
Abigail
Yael
Gabriella
Theresa
Naomi

My boyfriend thinks some of the more Biblical ones on this list are "downright frightening" though. (He favors Liam for a boy and Siobhan for a girl)

 

[imoldfashioned]

Roughly in order:

1. Elliott
2. Paul
3. Stephen
4. Claude
5. Joseph
6. Charles
7. James
8. Arthur
9. Edward
10. Raymond

1. Alice
2. Isabella
3. Charlotte
4. Rachel
5. Anna
6. Emma
7. Grace
8. Rose
9. Marie
10. Margaret

 

[Dixon's Dame]

Hee! This thread has perfect timing, as my sister is due to give birth to her first in less than a month and she and her husband have not settled on any names. I can let her browse these lists, see if something jumps out at her.

For me, my favorite names are:

Male:

Fletcher
Eric
David
James
Victor
Sean
Christopher

Female:

Raina
Suzel
Leah
Rachel
Claire
Mirielle
Erin