r/Names

Self explanatory. I feel like I hate/don’t connect with many boy names but I love girl names. My top ones are: April, Clementine, Verona, Scottie, and Fern.

Would you instantly think of O'Brien or Gray if you met someone named Conan, or only if you had to think about an association/not at all?

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I need help!
I am 35 weeks pregnant today with my third boy. I still have yet to fall in love with a name. Everything I see I don’t like. For reference my son’s names are Jayce and Braxon. I liked the names Hayes & Saiden but my husband doesn’t like either. I look at names daily but keep seeing the same names over and over. I want to have a name picked out before I go into labor. Help😭😭

I like Kimberly but Kim just doesn't give me the same vibes & that's almost always what it will be nicknamed to. I do like Kimmy though

Chloe, Jenna, Kylie, Mia, Nicole, Olivia

Hi everyone! I’m considering using the Chinese character 霏 (Fēi) as a middle name for a girl after a Latin first name.

From what I understand, 霏 can describe falling snow, mist, or something soft and delicate and it seems poetic. I wanted to ask native speakers or people familiar with Chinese names: does 霏 work well as a name on its own? Would it sound natural, pretty, or unusual as a middle name?

I want to name her Rosalia Fei but I don't know if it makes sense or not and my husband can't also help since he was adopted and can't speak his mother language Chinese...

I’d really appreciate any thoughts on whether it makes sense culturally and linguistically. Thank you!

let's ignore the gender names and all stuff. Just a experiment or something like that, so why don't we try to call

a woman : John or Stefan or any manly name

a man : Amelia or Marissa or any feminine name

I'm just curious, like I could go in public and call a girl " hey John, why don't you shave your eyebrows" and same like " hey Amelia, why don't you try swimming in methane lake", I mean I don't see anything wrong with that.

plus how does my name sound like Stefan Eswell Grey.

Husband and I are stuck on our baby girl’s middle name. Our families come the Dominican Republic and Ireland. Her first name rhymes with ‘Eye-ah’ and last name rhymes with ‘Owling’. I’m leaning against anything short ending with an A, but something with 3 syllables like Camilla sounds better to me. Or maybe it’s just pregnancy brain? Haha. I don’t know. Hoping to get some inspiration from you lovely folks. :)

I recently asked a friend of mine if he likes the name Phillip, and he said he would much rather name his child Philip with one L, basically giving Phillip a hard NO. I also have a Brazilian friend who named his daughter Gabriela, and he said he would much rather spell it that way than Gabriella with 2 Ls.

Many other people say similar things, and my question to u is: do these minor, or "minor" differences matter to you? And would u even notice?

Why on earth would you want to take a decent name like Caylee/Caley/Kaylee and spell it “Cayleigh” or even a name like Beverly and spell it “Beverleigh” that “-leigh”subffix is gaudy and quite juvenile. There is nothing wrong with “lee”, “ly” or even “ley” “leigh” is just god awful.

​We are having a girl this month! We’ve settled on Valentina, but we're struggling with a middle name. Because of our last name, we want to stay away from names ending in "A."

​We’re a Spanish-speaking family, so we’d love something that sounds great in both languages. What sounds pretty and elegant with Valentina?

Edit: thank you

Hey guys, I just adopted this spaniel mix to be my ESA dog as I go off to college for my music degree. I’d really like the name to be music related. If it helps she’s a girl, I play trumpet and like Tchaikovsky (I know it’s basic). I’d also prefer not to name it after a persons other than fictional.

Some names I’ve thrown around:
Clara- from the ballet
Viola
Caprice
Tchai

Thank you for any help

Jasmin

Stella

Junie

I'm quite confused about choosing one of the following names, please help me.

It seems to be a rarity to find someone or a family who has a unique/created name that nobody outside their own family has. It seems like different clusters of unrelated families shares the same name in some form but rarely do we see a name that only one family has.

Kirsty

Give me your ideas. All of my children have this as their goal. We have a Hugh, Ingrid, and Arthur. We have a Peter (more common, but named after someone).

Isaac or Adrian?

Which name do you like best? What vibe does it give you?

Of course, most people know what bat mitzvah is, which is what Jewish girls become when they turn twelve, or thirteen in some groups. As part of it, most families will hold a celebration for them. Three of my siblings, and myself, have had one, and my mother is very meticulous with recording, so there are a lot of lists, including who we invited. So I thought this would be interesting, as there is a lot of variety. I excluded family members, since there would be a lot of repetition, and you would be sick of seeing great-aunts Goldie and Henriette over and over again 😅

You will notice that there is repetition with the number of people.18 is a very lucky number, because it is the numerical value for the word for life in Hebrew. Because of that, it was like a family tradition that you invite 18 friends to your celebration. Excluding family, because otherwise you would be very limited. I haven’t really heard of other people doing this, but it’s what my family does. One of them did not have 18 people, that was mine, and it was because it took place in 2020, and my parents did not think it would be a good idea, so I had a smaller one. I also included our own names, just for fun, although obviously we weren't really guests at our own celebrations 💀

2020

Aviva, Bracha, Elsa, Feiga, Leah, Maya, Mehetabel, Keziah, Yetta, and Zoe

2021

Ahava, Amalie, Chana, Elizabeth, Emma, Eva, Gittel, Hedva, Leiba, Lielle, Melody, Miriam, Naomi, Nessa, Ruth, Sarah, Yael, Yaffa, and Zoe

2023

Alma, Asenath, Bina, Breindel, Esther (x2), Evie, Keren, Keturah, Liora, Malka, Noa, Rivka, Rosa, Shaina, Tova, Tzvia, Yocheved, and Zelda

2024

Aliza, Aviva, Bluma, Chaviva, Chaya, Eden, Elisheva, Elka, Hadassah, Hallel, Kinneret, Klara, Noa, Nechama, Rachel, Shira, Shoshana, and Yuval

Heres our boy list

Enzo

Kosta / Kostas

Remy

For girls we are having a hard time. Any ideas appreciated! We can’t use Nico. We kind of like Romy or Maya but don’t love. We like short, spunky names. Bonus points if they are greek, french or italian, but they don’t have to be. Thanks!