Incredibly soon to be thinking of names but......?

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• Jolli

  Jul 9, 2009 3:18AM

  OMG - thats so funny - i liked the name isaac but discounted it because zach and izac sound so similar!! maybe use it as a middle name if your oh is so set on it?

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• Star11

  Jul 10, 2009 3:26PM

  how strange... thats on our shortlist and its hubby that really likes it - i wasnt soooo sure but def a possibility!
  
  well it is true that they would both be shortened to zach but if you bith loves names sooo what! perhaps have it a possibilty and keep looking and then if it's still fav later on then just go with it!!!
  
  god its hard isnt it???
  
  i brought an up to date book other day and have gone through every single name about 10 times and only found 2 boys i like and a girls name i love but hubby unsure!
  
  

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• xxxxBOOxxxx

  Jul 10, 2009 3:39PM

  Omg I'm dreading names we struggled so much with rhys (that was the only one neither of us hated it was just ok) lol so dreading it second time round. Is it just my oh that comes up with stupid nicknames for every single name I mention drives me crazy!!!!

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• Jolli

  Jul 10, 2009 4:00PM

  lol becki - my hubby is really difficult to please. its definately harder second time not sure why. i guess cos you pick your favourite name for the first one and also the second one has to kind of fit in with the older one if you see what i mean!
  would you pronounce it iss haah? would anyone esle ever get it right?
  we really liked the name jacob but we knew someone in the town called jacob and his brother was called zach so that would have been just too wierd!
  no 2 was impossible to name and we had not even pinned down any possibilities when he was born. he was called joshua for the first 24 hours but it didn't sit right which is a shame cos i love that name but i insisted we change it to noah. hubby was cross cos he'd told everyone already!
  i still reckon it must be harder for teachers cos they must have known a kid named all the names to be thought of!

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• alioli123

  Jul 10, 2009 4:17PM

  Lol Julesy, you've hit the nail on the head! So many names I simply had to avoid due to far from darling kids in school!
  Isaac is Charlie's middle name (hubby named him that after Sir Isaac Newton, only told me after! weirdo!) and my friend's boy is Izak. Saying that, there's an Izak in Charlie's class who is a right pain in the butt so I'm glad ours is the traditional Isaac spelling!
  Alfie was either gonna be Archie or Harry up until he was born.

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• Jolli

  Jul 10, 2009 4:29PM

  just aswell you had a girl last time round other wise you'd be really stuck!! do you reckon biys names are harder than girls?? we had loads of girls names that were lovely but no boys names!

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• alioli123

  Jul 11, 2009 2:57AM

  For Charlie we had one gil's choice, Ella, had 3 to choose from for Alfie and Gracie was Gracie May from early on. So yes, much easier!

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• Star11

  Jul 11, 2009 6:44AM

  girls are def easier as there are soooooooo many nice ones and only a handful of nice boys that dont sound chavy or like a dogs name!!!hehehe
  

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• waiting4baby

  Jul 13, 2009 1:18PM

  Lol julesy, well.... I don't get middle names as hubbies culture makes them the childs fathers name AND the fathers fathers name which I think is a bit mean as my family names get no input bur luckily my family are easy going with that, apparently a girl would have them as middle names too so I can see I may have sone rather heated debates on my hands eeeek!
  Iss-hah is how hubby and ils would pronounce it, I certainly wouldn't expect anyone else too so may well pronounce it as isaac just so when out not so confused. Although tbh this is why I disregarded it last time.... With zachariah, hubby and ils pronounce zaka-Rrrrayer which is really annoying but at least not so confusing its not like he has 2 names! Eugh so just when you're all struggling finding boys names remember me and think how easy you have it lol !
  Girls names def easier ESP as you can have a wierd one and noone bats an eye!
  
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• Star11

  Jul 14, 2009 7:12AM

  my god w4b - all confussing!!!! i think you should be allowed to choose a different middle name if girl - do you mean the girl would have a boys middle name??? surely not?!! hehehe
  
  hope you dont mind asking where is your hubby and family from?only ask as you say they pronounce names different?
  
  well i'm still set on Mason for boy and Freya for girl at mo but hubby needs convincing on Freya... all may change!
  
  

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• waiting4baby

  Jul 14, 2009 10:00AM

  Lol star, yup a girl would have boys names in the middle, as my mum pointed out though their names sound quite girly so it wouldn't be quite such an issue for 'her' but omg if my children kept up the tradition I'm not so sure dil would be much impressed haha! They're Egyptian
  
  ..... Mason and freya are both lovely, I'd liked freya anyway as my gran is called freda and freya is like a more modern twist lol.
  I've got yasmeen or amelia for a girl ATM but like you said, we're bound to change our mind closer to the time and so far for boy we have Isaac/iss-hah, Gabriel (same pronounciation so good but not sure if people think it's to feminine?), Joseph/you-sef or 'abrahim' (I hate that-sorry- and didn't even like Joseph until this was a name put fwd by oh, I just think it's too old fashioned!)
  

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