Comments on Berni, still pondering but a lot further South: Why did you choose your children's names

Our third child was nameless for 6 weeks!

2009-05-22T10:55:32.500-07:00

Our third child was nameless for 6 weeks!

When my son was born he was the seventh grandson i...

2009-05-21T00:26:32.696-07:00

When my son was born he was the seventh grandson in my husband's family and they had used almost all the decent male names that I liked. However I did find one I liked and used one of theirs for his second name.

When I had my daughter it was a surprise so we had to scrabble. I thought her name was not too common but when she got to kindergarten there were five of them in her class!

I think you got quite a few good Biblical names in...

2009-05-20T13:57:13.277-07:00

I think you got quite a few good Biblical names in with your boys. Stephen, James, David and Michael.

Thanks for doing this post. I'm enjoying reading the story behind the name.

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Joy

Initially, I had thought I was going to name older...

2009-05-20T05:32:31.018-07:00

Initially, I had thought I was going to name older daughter Elizabeth Joan -after my Dad's sister (Elizabeth) and my best friend, Joan. But my Mom's oldest brother died six weeks before daughter's birth and the day after my uncle died, we got word that the last of my Grandmother's siblings (Aunt Carrie) had also died then. So I started thinking of some way to kind of name my daughter, when she arrived, after my great-aunt, as well as my uncle. My Mom suggested "Ethelbert" as a way to name her after her older sister but that name didn't appeal to me at all. However, I did like the name "Carrie" so I ended up taking the "Carl" from my uncle's middle name, adding "yn" to it so it was sort of a cross between Carl and Carolyn and made "Carlyn" and gave her the nickname then of Carrie!
My son, I wanted to name David but his dad didn't want that and so, while reading through the baby names book one night, I happened to read "Clayton" and asked his opinion on that. Giving it a bit of thought, he decided if we named him Clayton, we could then call him "Clate" after a local well-known race car driver and I was happy just to reach an agreement on a name I liked. I don't remember now how we happened on the name Amanda for the younger girl, but there was no major drama with the selection and she isn't really named for anyone in particular -just a name we both liked.