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Conference oass::babynames

Title:A list of All the BABYNAMES (shadow copy)
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Moderator:OASS::BURDEN_D
Created:Tue Feb 13 1996
Last Modified:Fri May 30 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:996
Total number of notes:7139

446.0. "Ideas, ideas, ideas??????" by DALTEX::RESENDEP (Live each day as if it were Friday) Tue Sep 26 1989 19:26

    We're adopting a baby in the next month or two, and we've been trying
    to come up with names for a girl and a boy.  If it's twins we'll be in
    real trouble  (^;}  !  Our last name is Resende (pronounced
    re-SEND-ee).  Its origin is Portugese.
    
    If we adopt a girl, her first name will be Laura after my husband's
    grandmother whom he adores.  Middle name is up for grabs; we haven't
    come up with anything we really can't live without.  My maiden name is
    Mangum.  My mother's name was a double name -- Stora Lee, which I love,
    but it doesn't exactly go with Laura (Laura Stora????).  If we have a
    second daughter, I'd like to name her after Mother, but not this time. 
    My name is Patricia Louise; Patricia doesn't go too well with Laura,
    and I'm not wild about Louise.  Mother's maiden name was Davis, and I'm
    sort of leaning toward that, but I'd really like to hear other ideas.
    
    We have nothing picked out for a boy at all.
    
    My husband's name is Stephen Michael, which I love.  But Steve doesn't
    like juniors, so we won't use his name.  My father's name is Henry
    Bivens, but my brother is a junior and I feel I should leave Daddy's
    name to him if he wants to use it for a son.  My husband's father's
    name is Armando -- he's a nice man, but neither of us wants to use that
    name!  Since we won't have a Stephen Michael, Junior, I'd like to use
    at least one of my husband's names -- either Stephen or Michael.
    
    Ideas to go with Resende???????
    
    							Pat
    
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446.1how about switching the names?AKOV12::GIUNTAWed Sep 27 1989 10:1014
    Pat,
    
    If you like Stephen Michael so much, why don't you just reverse the
    names and call the baby Michael Stephen.  That avoids having a junior
    while still naming the baby after your husband.  My cousin did that
    with her son because she also didn't want a junior.  Also, my brother
    is named after my father, but they have different middle names so he is
    not a junior, and to this day (he's 46), most of my cousins still call
    him "Little Peter."  That's another reason that my cousin went for the
    name reversal instead of just changing middle names.
    
    Good luck coming up with a name, and congratulations on the baby.
    
    Cathy
446.2Never close your mind to the obviousSTEREO::FAHELAmalthea, the Silver UnicornWed Sep 27 1989 10:107
    For a boy, why not Michael Stephen?  Or Michael Henry?
    
    And Laura Patricia isn't all bad.  (after all, it _is_ only a middle
    name.)  As a matter of fact, the more I think about Laura Patricia
    Resende, the more I like it!
    
    K.C.
446.3Stephen by another nameSKIWVA::FSCNOFri Sep 29 1989 11:459
    I wanted to pass along another idea to you. My cousin was having
    problems picking her boys name and came up with this. Her husband's
    name is John Michael and she wanted to incorporate his name into
    the baby's. So what she did was use Ian which is the Scottish form
    of John and used his middle name of Michael. They call him Ian.
    Maybe theres another form of Stephen you could use and he could
    in fact be Stephen by another name. Good luck with your new baby.
    
    Cindy
446.4SuggestionsUSWAV1::POTHIERWed Oct 04 1989 18:065
    Why not use male versions of your name and female versions of your
    husbands?  How about Laura Michelle, or Laura Stephanie (I don't
    like that nearly as much.)  Or for a boy you can use Patrick.  Stephen
    Patrick, or Michael Patrick.  Or you can even use Louis.