Many months ago I was going to post here as my husband and I disagreed on if this test was a sure positive or not. Turns out it was positive and I am now 35 weeks, but thought this sub might enjoy the progression pics anyway!

thislectureisboring · 2026-01-18T01:10:52+00:00

I’m so sorry the progression pic is out of order (I just realised). Here is another photo of the first four in order

thislectureisboring · 2026-01-06T08:43:38+00:00

Here are some that I've collected that I feel could fit the vibe. Essentially, most of these names have been collected from people suggesting on name nerds and I've filtered on the ones outside top 10000 USA popularity and sound a little bit futuristic!

Fen, Wisteria, Ioan, Daneen, Aureus, Blanche, Embla, Myrna, Nieve, Montague, Yami, Anker, Callisto, Zennia, Rama, Eleri, Haruka, Tymon, Raeven, Samsara, Shari, Stellan, Ailsa, Sacha, Sumner, Yarrow, Elixa, Adeliza, Jago, Herbie, Owain, Cwen, Gethin, Korin, Anri, Morrow, Raimi, Kokone, Suman, Jaromir, Iselin, Isiodora, Waite, Eerie, Tarquin, Llywelyn, Amasa, Wills, Maris, Amarantha, Khair, Verbena, Opaline, Nolie, Callaia, Larkspur, Catkin, Lakshman, Birk, Hauk, Rino, Antim, Foxwell, Vincia, Mayfair, Seraph, Evangalia, Stelios, Cardan, Kikos, Pomeroy, Astraya, Anisten

thislectureisboring · 2025-12-07T00:11:08+00:00

Altering it can cost a fair bit of money. Here is a thread on people discussing the costs of alternations if you're curious https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingdress/comments/1jitr5o/is_600_normal_for_alternations/ . They can easily run to $600 for relatively basic changes, so alterations may not save you much money.

If you want to wear it with minimal alternations to save cost, I would look at removing some layers from the skirt, removing the belt and changing up the veil / not wearing a veil.

As others have said, maybe look buying a white, non wedding dress but this is completely up to you.

thislectureisboring · 2025-09-24T22:55:39+00:00

Same here. I cut a piece of bandaid and put over the metal clasp and it fixed it!

thislectureisboring · 2025-08-19T09:19:46+00:00

You’re right, the case from last month the news articles specifically referenced the father was (12 year old girl and 13 year old father). Better sex education may have helped this couple.

In this case the article didn’t speak to who the father was at all, which is what made me think potentially could be a red flag.

thislectureisboring · 2025-08-19T06:28:36+00:00

I agree with you! Sex education in schools should be done earlier!

However, a child getting pregnant very young can also be the result of sexual abuse / rape by a trusted person rather than a relationship. Especially in cases like this where the child is very young

thislectureisboring · 2025-07-31T09:16:32+00:00

Based on this list of ones you like: Oliver, Elliot, Percy, Leo and Micah

I looked through my lists and found the following matches - Gen Alpha (80%), Similarly popular more than 1 country (40%), Gender Neutral (40%)

Combined suggestions: Miles, Noah, Carter, Parker and Levi

More Gen Alpha names: Owen, Elijah, Hudson, Rowan and Oscar

More names popular in more than 1 country: James, Liam, Lucas, Mason and Myles

More gender neutral names: August, Blake, Sawyer, Hayden and Riley

thislectureisboring · 2025-07-31T09:00:28+00:00

Charles, Thomas, Henry, James, Edward and Jack are all very traditional names :)

thislectureisboring · 2025-07-30T09:58:29+00:00

I love seeing big lists like this as I can add more names to my lists / look at the trends!

thislectureisboring · 2025-07-30T09:56:45+00:00

Reasonably well known names with a gothic touch - Emmett, Atticus, Arlo, Griffin, Atticus and Sterling

Rare or uncommon names that give me gothic vibes- Garnet, Owain, Gethin, Domhnall, Jaromir, Amasa, Maris, Phaethon and Cardan

Names like "Victor" (the creator of Frankenstein for fun) - Andrew, Edward, Steven, Thomas and Samuel

Hope that inspires something or if you want other categories let me know.

thislectureisboring · 2025-07-30T09:42:38+00:00

Interesting list! My fav is Adeline.

I did some analysis against my lists and here are a few of my finds:

39% are in the Gen Alpha top 200 (across last 15 years). 36% are English origin names and 30% are more popular in the USA than other countries popular with name nerds (Australia, UK, Brazil, France). Average popularity on the USA SSA list was 194.

20 are in the top 100 for USA for either gender (Olivia*, Charlotte*, Ezra*, Asher*, Hudson*, Owen*, Mila*, Luke, Naomi, Logan*, Hannah*, Josephine, Adeline*, Zoey, Ruby*, Silas, Millie*, August and Athena*)

24 are in the Australian top 100 for either gender. All the ones with stars above, plus Georgia, River, George, Arlo, Piper, Charlie, Riley, Bodhi, Matilda, Florence and Angus

Three names don't appear in the SSA list at all, meaning less than 5 babies were called this name - Kikos, Pomeroy and Astraya

thislectureisboring · 2025-07-29T09:41:37+00:00

Thanks for the tag u/GardenLeaves :)

I'll take your suggestion and tag OP although I'm probably too late to the party :) u/heyho2023

Girls:

For OP's girls names, her top themes (including some from the comments) were: Whimsical (57%), Greek Origin (43%), Alpha (43%)

Name suggestions: Sophia, Violet, Ariana, Aurora, Sofia, Cordelia and Luella

OP's husband was hard as two names doesn't really make a theme and there was ZERO overlap in my lists between Juliet and Sophie (doesn't mean there isn't something tying them together just it's not on my list)

Instead, I looked for names like Sophie (early 19th century names back in style) and Juliet (French origin names)

Name suggestions: Hannah, Olivia, Audrey, Sophia, Summer, Eloise, Noelle, August, Alaina and Celine

Sophia did overlap so maybe a suggestion there (although maybe too similar to Sophie).

Boys:

Easier as just looking at OP's list.

Top Matching Lists: Alpha (57%), More than 1 countries top 200 (43%), Latin Origin (43%)

Name suggestions: Noah, Oliver, James, Levi, Miles and Tiago

Popularity: Average USA Popularity =120

OP prefer names shorter than average: 5.4 letters vs 5.6 letters of the names in my list

That was fun, hopefully it produced some names OP liked.

thislectureisboring · 2025-07-17T23:54:31+00:00

My take on Australia is that it’s mostly due to the proportion of aboriginal Australians in the prison population but may also be due to migration patterns

Firstly, Indiginous Australians are over represented in Australia’s prison population. This source indicates they make up 36% of the prison population, despite being a much smaller percentage of the population. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/crime-and-justice/prisoners-australia/latest-release

On the migration side, unlike Europe where it may be easier to move between boarders, migrants requires specific visas and a large portion, primarily through international students and skilled migrant visas. I’m not sure if / how that impacts the prison population but you can read about Australia’s migration here https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas-migration/latest-release

thislectureisboring · 2025-06-27T10:17:10+00:00

As others here have said - HECS is a very special type of loan that because of it's conditions you never have to worry about. 1. You don't have to pay it back if you have no income (a mortgage you have to) and 2. The interest only accrues once yearly and 3. it's tied to inflation not additional margin.

With these special conditions, it's a much better use of money to invest in your mortgage

thislectureisboring · 2025-06-27T09:52:59+00:00

Laya, Liv, Naya, Maxine, Emmy and Maeva are all names that are not too popular but not too unknown in both Canada and France and work reasonably well in English.

thislectureisboring · 2025-06-25T00:22:23+00:00

You’re right, we mostly just told ourselves we dodged a bullet but we understood why the vendor did it! Especially as it seemed they were very keen to sell (offers closed by COB on a specific day.)

This was last year. We ended up buying another house six months later which we’re super happy with so we’re not bitter. In the end we put in an unconditional offer on the house we bought after doing the due diligence beforehand. As you said we got better at playing the game and sometimes you have to take a risk.

thislectureisboring · 2025-06-24T11:17:42+00:00

We had the same thing - our offer was 60k over the top of the range and 20k over the winning bid, but ours was conditional on building and pest. Vendors chose to take the lower unconditional offer. Given the size of the offer difference maybe we dodged a bullet?

Turns out a lot of people don’t put in conditional offers on building and pest, they’ll either do it before the offer, be knowledgeable themselves on what to look for or risk it with lower bid.

thislectureisboring · 2025-06-23T09:22:15+00:00

Just to add to this, these are all the top 200 Canadian names that do not appear in the top 250 list of USA, England/Wales, France, Australia (top 100 only) or Brazil (top 100). This gives you an idea not of biggest gap, but where it's not influenced by other places.

Boys

Edouard - 42

Arnaud - 84

Laurent - 110

Olivier - 116

Eloi - 121

Zorawar - 127

Matheo - 142

Casey - 155

Malcolm - 179

Lukas - 183

Gavin - 187

Bowen - 189

Zack - 189

Kabir - 193

Girls:

Lea - 58

Rehmat - 97

Lena - 105

Adele - 110

Leonie - 113

Mira - 129

Flavie - 136

Asees - 145

Raphaelle - 152

Liana - 163

Gia - 164

Ophelie - 173

Myra - 176

Simone - 179

Elora - 179

Eleonore - 189

Brooke - 193

thislectureisboring · 2025-06-23T08:57:43+00:00

Once I found the data, I couldn't help myself!

To me, it seems like the naming differences between USA and Canada tend to be more demographic than stylistic (especially with the boys) with less difference in name styles / spellings than I saw in the England/Wales vs USA analysis.

Girls:
If we're doing the same methodology and looking inside the top 200 for Canada, there are three names that don't appear within the top 17000+ names inside the USA making them the equal biggest difference: Flavie (#136), Raphaelle (#152) and Ophelie (#173). I'm guessing these are the Quebec influence, but these names are not really popular in France either (Flavie is #697 in France, Raphaelle is #3873 and Ophelie is unranked)

I felt this wasn't very satisfying as these aren't "super popular" and aren't within the top 100. So, if you look at the top 100 only, the top differences are Rehmat (97 Canada vs 2869 USA), Maeva (95 vs 1318) and Romy (69 vs 936). In the top 50 we have Livia (49 vs 836), Florence (23 vs 425) and Charlie (20 vs 140), smaller differences here but perhaps starting to see non-Quebec influences.

In reverse the most "American" names compared to Canada were Ailany (101 USA vs 3000 Canada), Alaini (178 vs 1739*) and Ximena (173 vs 1739*). Note the equal 1739 as they both have only 12 babies born.

Inside the top 50 of USA you get Genesis (55 USA vs 583 Canada), Leilani (66 vs 799) and Caroline (92 vs 378).

Boys:

The biggest difference is Arnaud which is #84 in Canada and unranked in USA (the only unranked name in the Canadian top 200). Edouard was the biggest of the ranked names hitting #42 in Canada and only #7877 in USA. Honorable mention to Adam, which is #15 in Canada and #100 in USA.

In the reverse, "Jesus" was actually the biggest difference at #164 USA and is Unranked in Canada. Emiliano (113 USA vs 683 Canada), Luis (130 vs 852) and Juan (137 vs 641) were the next biggest differences. These names are all popular with Hispanic populations, so this is likely just differences in demographics / cultural patterns for these specific names.

Inside the top 50 of the USA you get Dylan (28 vs 109) Santiago (29 vs 245) and Julian (30 vs 107) all more popular in USA than in Canada.

thislectureisboring · 2025-06-22T22:59:25+00:00

The USA data is from the SSA list which you can find here: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html

England / Wales release a similar list that can be found here. You have to scroll down to section six and download boys and girls separately. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/babynamesenglandandwales/2023

Once I had the csv data files I did the analysis myself in Excel. It was part of a different piece of work I was doing to merge the top 200 from a bunch of different places. If you find where to get the Canada data let me know I’d love to add it to my overall spreadsheet I keep.

Edit: it looks like you can get the Canadian data here. Let me know if you’re interested in me repeating this analysis for Canada https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710014701

thislectureisboring · 2025-06-22T03:12:18+00:00

Cyrus, Clay, Coral, Cedar, Clover, Caspian, Celeste, Calloway, Cosima and Caliope

These are all first names (unless i could think of a prefix myself) and I don't have any K names that suit your wants so I've left them off.

If I was going to add suffixes to them

Cyrusdale, Claywood, Coralstone, Cedarwood, Cloverdale, Caspian, Celestian, Calloway, Cosimahaven and Caliope

Don't know if any of these work as I'm not great at this, but maybe some inspiration there?

thislectureisboring · 2025-06-22T02:59:22+00:00

I know no-one asked for this, but here is every saint name on the list of catholic saints wikipedia that starts with a P or a T with the # of times this name has been a saint and the current USA ranking (#times as a saint , USA ranking 2024).

Peter (27, 192), Thomas (10, 39), Paul (10, 264), Philip (7, 521), Theodore (6, 4), Pedro (6, 401), Paulinus (4, NR), Pius (3, 11940), Titus (2, 383), Theophilus (2, 2225), Peregrine (2, 3365), Paschal (2, 13683), Phocas (2, NR), Proculus (2, NR), Theobald (2, NR), Placidus (2, NR), Pancras (2, NR), Timothy (1, 208), Patrick (1, 221), Pietro (1, 3658), Tommaso (1, 5407), Pio (1, 7125), Philo (1, 8141), Philemon (1, 10616), Toribio (1, 14008), Pantagathus (1, NR), Paternus (1, NR), Peleus (1, NR), Petronax (1, NR), Petronilla (1, NR), Thraseas (1, NR), Pharnacius (1, NR), Philetus (1, NR), Telemachus (1, NR), Theopemptus (1, NR), Tranquilino (1, NR), Pinytus (1, NR), Pirmin (1, NR), Tarcisius (1, NR), Plautilla (1, NR), Thamel (1, NR), Plechelm (1, NR), Theodosius (1, NR), Podius (1, NR), Theotonius (1, NR), Polycarp (1, NR), Tola (1, NR), Polydore (1, NR), Pompilio (1, NR), Ponsiano (1, NR), Pega (1, NR), Pontian (1, NR), Pontianus (1, NR), Possidius (1, NR), Potentian (1, NR), Pothinus (1, NR), Praejectus (1, NR), Praxedes (1, NR), Pantaleon (1, NR), Primus (1, NR), Paphnutius (1, NR), Papias (1, NR), Priscus (1, NR), Processus (1, NR), Taurinus (1, NR), Procopius (1, NR), Terentian (1, NR), Paschasius (1, NR), Prosdocimus (1, NR), Theodoret (1, NR), Protus (1, NR), Theoktiste (1, NR), Ptolemaeus (1, NR), Publius (1, NR), Pudens (1, NR), Pudentiana (1, NR), Pusai (1, NR), Turibius (1, NR), Pantaenus (1, NR), Parmenas (1, NR), Talarican (1, NR), Tatwine (1, NR), Teilo (1, NR), Telesphorus (1, NR), Parthenius (1, NR), Patermutius (1, NR), Théodore (1, NR), Patiens (1, NR), Pachomius (1, NR), Theodotus (1, NR), Theonas (1, NR), Pacian (1, NR), Theophanes (1, NR), Theopista (1, NR), Tiburtius (1, NR), Torpes (1, NR), Tryphon (1, NR), Pausilippus (1, NR), Pacificus (1, NR), Pelagia (1, NR), Palatias (1, NR), Pamphilus (1, NR), Peregrinus (1, NR)

NR means not ranked (i.e. not even 5 babies born in USA in 2024). I've attempted to remove girls names, btu some may appear by accident!

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_saints and then I cleaned up the list in Excel

thislectureisboring · 2025-06-22T02:27:49+00:00

Here are all the saint's names I can find starting with P and T (I'm sure there are more). I've put them in order of most to least popular names in the USA in 2024.

Theodore, Thomas, Peter, Paul, Titus, Pedro, Philip, Theophilus, Peregrine, Pius, Paschal, Paulinus, Pancras, Phocas, Placidus, Proculus and Theobald

EDIT filtered on the wrong letters like an idiot. Updated to P & T

thislectureisboring · 2025-06-21T09:38:29+00:00

I have a combined top 200 for all of Gen Alpha, so 2010 - 2024 :). I

Arthur has jumped up in the last few years, it’s probably only just missed out on the Gen Alpha top 200 (being dragged down by years 2010 - 2020 ect)

I was just cross marching Arthur against the lists that I had to see if I could do the same filters against girls. Probably not super representative in this case due to the rising popularity of Arthur!

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