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-Yes I know that the "named after his mom" statement sounds sexist - whatever
-yes I know that I am going to get weird responses from people (I would be surprised if thispego and latarian milton/rogue/whatever doesn't make an appearance)
My wife and I are about a month or so out from having our second child. This time around, she did not want to find out what the kid's gender is so we have to double the work on baby names (inefficient in my opinion, but I got to make the call on our first so it's only fair). My father and I have the same name, but in different languages (Sean, Ian). I kind of wanted to carry on that tradition so we looked at all the variations of John and then spotted the name "Jovan" this is a boy's name which is a slavic/greek version of John. It is not an uber popular name, so that is another plus. It also happens to be my wife's middle name. I find this idea interesting, but I also think "a boy being named after his mom??" (when in fact the boy would be named after his dad and mom). I don't know that we would consider the name Jovan if it wasn't for this fact. Anyway, I am really on the fence with this so I wanted to find out y'alls thoughts, if any about the situation, or even the name in general.
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-Yes I know that the "named after his mom" statement sounds sexist - whatever
-yes I know that I am going to get weird responses from people (I would be surprised if thispego and latarian milton/rogue/whatever doesn't make an appearance)
whats your last name?
Pecker
Sigh . . . . I didn't think about that. This is absolutely a valid question, I cannot fault you for asking it. It is, however, one which I am unlikely to answer since I don't want people trying to post on my facebook, or even worse linkedin. I guess disregard the OP...
just tell us your last name.......and change the first letter.
how about Dirk or Dirika?
Name him Actaeon
LOL, neither of us are greek so there isn't a specific affinity for greek names. This was kind of an outlier.
Well, we have a girls name already so I won't need dirika, but maybe I should put dirk in the ol' rolodex (it sounds familiar though).
If you don't mind your son growing up constantly getting ridiculed all the way up through high school then I don't see anything wrong with Jovan. If you do mind and want to actually think of the kid's sake then stop being a pretentious bag and pick a common name
Marek
Gianni
Ifan
Ivan
Jaxon
Johan
Juanito
J'Wan
That last one I made up to represent lol
Oh yeah, I know, there are a ton of them (most popular name in the world - lol). We considered Johan/Johannes (I am mostly german) and it is still in the running. She loves Giovanni, I don't. I think Jean/Jehan sound very effeminate. Juan is just too plain as is John....
do it like Palin.
trigger
grenade pin
launch code
nuke
But she shortens them
Trig
Gren P
Laun-Cod
Nu
Me and the wife did the whole don't find out the gender thing on our youngest and we also had a hard time with name we agreed on a girl’s name but could not come up with a boy’s name the poor kid did not have a name for the 1st 3 days of his life lol
Also the grandparents really wanted to know the sex so when we went for a sonogram we gave the lady 2 cards that had boy and girl written on them and had the nurse leave the room circle one and put them the envelops. We mailed out the envelops with one rule the grandparent could not suggest names or show us anything they bought for the baby it worked out great.
1st: Stay away from gay names like Tristan and anything that makes a natural lisp when pronounced.
2nd: Don't try to be too original. He/she will spend the rest of their lives trying to spell it for others.
3rd: Names are for the baby who is also a person, not a possession. While we like to have cool names for dogs, they couldn't ing care less, but one day a baby will hopefully grow up and be an adult, and then they have to deal with the stupid, cute and otherwise meaningless name. So give them a name that means something to the family, something with a history. That way they cannot blame it on you for randomly picking it from a book or an internet forum.
Wow, I guess the word "no" is obsolete.
Tyrone
jonah
Seven
Can we get back on topic please?
1. got it, I also stay away from names that are cities (austin), and frat boy names (brett, Chad)
2. My name is Ian, i know about spelling it for people.
3. I got it, and I am trying to balance that. We are trying to pick a name which does mean something to the family (variant of john). Also the middle name might be "Liam" (My dad's and maternal grandfather's middle name was william). certainly not doing random picks because "it sounds cool"
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what kind of re head doesn't know how to spell Ian? I actually love that name. If I ever have a son that's actually my first choice.
IF
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