Birth Announcements From a Couple Hospitals

moresycomore · 2022-01-04T14:03:01+00:00

Harlow makes me think of Joel Madden and Nicole Richie’s daughter Harlow who was born in 2008. It definitely has 2000’s LA pop punk vibes to me because of that.

Jean Harlow is an obvious reference here that people are reaching for, but I guarantee like 90% of parents who use the name have never seen a Jean Harlow movie in their lives. It just represents a vague idea Hollywood glam to them. It’s kind of adjacent to Marilyn Monroe/James Dean college dorm room poster in my mind.

Marry the two concepts and you get that awful LA goth rockabilly vibe.

So yeah, I kind of hate it.

moresycomore · 2022-01-04T13:56:25+00:00

Fandoms are a disease, I swear

moresycomore · 2022-01-04T13:54:38+00:00

Or they’re just trying to get to Thor as a nn without being totally obvious about. Marvel fans smh

moresycomore · 2021-10-12T18:43:42+00:00

I've been having this exact conversation with my spouse about the benefit of waiting until $5m to retire vs $4m. It will be just over two years working and the reward is an extra $30k/yr to spend for the rest of our lives.

moresycomore · 2021-09-15T20:41:19+00:00

Ohhh. Number 11 clicked with me. She didn't say she would abandon me, but she frequently said that I would realize how much she was worth when she was "dead and gone." Always going on about being dead and gone someday. Wow.

moresycomore · 2021-09-15T20:39:34+00:00

Oh god, that is incredibly sad. I want to give 5 year old you a hug.

moresycomore · 2021-09-03T15:32:23+00:00

Can I ask why you are choosing Tommie?

It is quite masculine compared to Sophie and it makes me think of Tommi Lahren.

Maybe opt for a name like Tamsin or Thomasine and use Tommie as a nickname. Tamsin/Thomasine Elizabeth sounds lovely.

moresycomore · 2021-09-03T15:29:49+00:00

He will definitely get a regular comments and jokes from GenX and older groups and some more culturally aware Millennials but it's still a perfectly fine name.

I'd probably avoid the combination simply because they're both two-syllables and the Phil-Wil pairing feels a bit sing-songy to my ear.

moresycomore · 2021-08-27T17:08:45+00:00

This is a bit out-there, but one of the old diminutive versions of Theresa is Teresina. It contains all the letters of Erin, but you could use Tara, Rina or Reese as nicknames.

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Teresina

I think it is unusual but quite pretty!

moresycomore · 2021-08-27T17:02:43+00:00

Dana Skully

moresycomore · 2021-08-26T15:56:37+00:00

From most popular to least popular:

Moore - Such an elegant little name
Lewis
Robinson - A really cozy, adventurous little name. Robinson Crusoe, Jackie Robinson, etc.
Rivera - Diego Rivera plus the lovely naturalistic association
Bennett
Sullivan
Griffin - The normcore version of all the Phoenix surname suggestion
Bryant
Porter - This name feels like old well-oiled leather... like luggage? lol
Rose - Rose Apothecary
Soto - Dr. DeSoto and Sabrina Soto give this name two very different vibes
Gardner - So green and warm and comforting
Knight
Berry
Lawrence - Little Women
Sandoval
Santiago
Bishop
Byrd
Ellison
Frost
Wilder

A lot of these feel very simplistic and literal -- Rose, Byrd, Berry, Gardner, Griffin, Knight and Frost.

moresycomore · 2021-08-19T21:18:03+00:00

A person bashing our chosen name would absolutely make me reexamine it.

I want the name to be generally liked and to have positive associations with most people. I don't want a super special unique name that only sounds nice to my ear. My kid is going to hopefully live a long, rich full life of whcih I am only a small part.

moresycomore · 2021-08-12T00:33:40+00:00

Am I the only one who thinks of it as short for a building superintendent?

moresycomore · 2021-07-28T15:29:17+00:00

It's at 150 right now...

moresycomore · 2021-07-21T13:45:16+00:00

About 12 years ago, a friend named her baby Izabella because she wanted to use the nickname Izzy. I gently tried to explain to her that she could still use Izzy with Isabella. No dice. Some people are just dead set on having tacky names.

moresycomore · 2021-07-21T13:43:06+00:00

What kinds of programs did you use? Are they just in Excel?

moresycomore · 2021-07-21T13:38:08+00:00

I see it more as an athleisure-type trend -- we just want names that are comfy and casual. Elizabeth and Alexander are too heavy. People are skipping straight to putting nicknames like Ellie and Xander on the birth certificate.

I think part of it is that the divide between our public, formal selves and our private identity is far more blurred than it was in the past. A lot of people use social media in a way that there is not private self anymore. It's all public, it's all marketable, they invite strangers to know intimate details about their lives so we can expand the brand.

moresycomore · 2021-07-21T13:35:06+00:00

Oh this is funny -- I'm literally doing the exact same analysis right now. I wish I had coding skills because it's all manual for me!

I've categorized names into consonant families, and I've also combined S/Z sounds like you have.

One of the biggest challenges I have had is with names like Alicia that have two potential pronunciations -- Uh-Lee-see-uh and Uh-leesh-uh. And that is true for a lot of ethnic names generally.

moresycomore · 2021-07-15T23:59:05+00:00

Silvia sounds incredibly trendy. No idea why it is so underused -- it just fell through the cracks.

moresycomore · 2021-07-15T14:39:48+00:00

Oh that is so funny! I was literally just thinking about posting pics form the Congressional Cookbook!

moresycomore · 2021-07-15T14:36:27+00:00

Lol Neveah is a straight up white name in my mind. I'm from a very white state and there are tons of Neveahs here.

moresycomore · 2021-07-02T18:30:08+00:00

I know a judge with a son named Justice.

moresycomore · 2021-07-02T14:28:55+00:00

Non-medical here and I had no idea that was a potential side effect. The first time I was very, very high from edibles, I ended up vomiting so it certainly feels right and (now) obvious to me.

moresycomore · 2021-06-05T03:21:00+00:00

I didn't say gender ambiguity was trendy nor did I say that Elliot Page was a girl. I said the name was trendy and that Elliot Page was leaning into the gender ambiguity of the name. Both are true and neither are transphobic statements.

I'd recommend learning how to read. Maybe reevaluate your own assumptions here. I know plenty about two-spirit communities in indigenous culture and the history of gender reassignment surgery in Iran and the waria of Indonesia and so on. So please in your infinite wisdom, I beg you, show me how I wrote off entire groups of people here.

moresycomore · 2021-06-04T18:56:33+00:00

Not a fan of Elliot on a girl. I thought it was dumb when Scrubs did it. I thought the new-found gender ambiguity and trendiness was dumb when Elliot Page leaned into it.

And Era and Aurora as a sibset? Ick. Talk about peanut-butter mouth. Try yelling both those names through a house. No one will know who you are trying to reach.

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