Baby names!

[AvaD]

Hello, i'm expecting my first baby, a boy, in MAy. Just wondering peoples thoughts on the names Harley Jack, Jaxon, Braden or Zac?

[horseshoes]

Stuart, Dylan and Osian are my favourite boys names.

Incidently, Tesni is a beautiful name for a girl. It's Welsh and dosn't translate into one word, but it means the warmth from the sun.

[boxtops]

I work with someone named Osian, and he spends a lot of time telling people how to spell it.

I've posted this before, but there are kids round here called MAXYMILLION and ELLAWEEZ ... what's the matter with Maximilian and Eloise?

[welshlibranr]

Love the name Tesni horshoes, my last grandson was going to have that name, had he been a firl. which he wasn't, so now he's called Osian!......

[horseshoes]

...and my grand-daughter was going to be Dylan if she's been a boy!

[welshlibranr]

ha ha, horseshoes!..........that's the way it goes!........as long as they are healthy and happy!...............

[Brinjal]

I also know a Merlin. He is always called wiz. I like Lylie for a girl.

[welshlibranr]

Oh I like Lylie too!.......new to me,but really like it, having a new great grandaughter in the Summer, so will suggest Lylie!.............

[Charlotte77]

A friend of mine called her daughter Emma-Liegh. She will have to spend the rest of her life correcting people on the phone who think her name is Emily. Girls can get away with cutsey sounding names like Pixie, Peaches or Harper Seven (really, what were they thinking) even into adulthood but it's a different case for boys. Please, I implore you to think about your son and give him a proper name, not a contrived 'chav' name. By the way, Jack is not a name in its own right. It is a contrivance of John or James.

These 'celebrities' have a lot to answer for.

[sherrardk]

Charlotte77 - had a big discussion about the whole John/Jack thing (he was pro John), we now have a Jack.

[erin-x]

I really like the name Harper... It's just because they paired it with Seven. Dave Grohl and Eddie Vedder both have girls called Harper :-)

[Charlotte77]

That doesn't make it right though.

[ummmm]

I think Harper is nice.

[LoftyLottie]

My father was John, always called Jack. But Jack is still a name in it's own right has been for decades. I nearly called my son Jack, but I didn't.

[LoftyLottie]

Knew a girl who was called Tarnya - they spelt it just like they pronounced it!! I think they meant it to be Tanya!

[ummmm]

I thought John was the English version of Sean.

[welshlibranr]

I like Nia for a girl, sadly my Oh didn't want to call our daughter Nia, but it would have been my first choice!....

[LoftyLottie]

They are loads of variations of John ummmm. Ian, Sean, .............

Well all these anyway

http://nameberry.com/...ernational-Variations

(My son has one of them!)

[Smowball]

How about Harvey? Ben? Kerian,Nathan?

[rowanwitch]

Zac is Zachary or Zachariah

if I'd had children I'd have gone down the odd names route too but never had the chance..

I quite like Marek, which is the polish version of Mark
other names I've heard recently that didn't make me cringe.. York but beware of the Yorkie adaptation, Byron, and Rhodes I think he might have been concieved there...

[FredPuli43]

Named after place of conception? Well, our daughter Charlotte is allegedly that because the birth was in Queen Charlotte's hospital and that name was what Mrs Fred saw most.It could have been worse; Royal Free Puli lacks a certain something, and "I'm Free" could have given quite the wrong impression to boys.