The baby name thread!

[Dogalog]

I could go for an all A's theme for Joy Anna and Austin.

So many good A names. 

Andrew, Aaron, Abraham, Anthony, Arthur, Aidan, Archer, Albert, Alfred

Amy, Ava, Alexandra, Abigail, Adelaide, Alicia, Aria, Azalea, Avery

 

Although, given we are talking about Duggars, she'd probably have twins called Aubrey and Audrey. And other kids called Andrew, Andre and Andrea.

[SeekingAdventure]

I'm gonna give it another try for Joy.. Saturday, 24.2. Still a boy though 

[Carm_88]

Spoiler

Eating For Two: Forsyth Baby One

Names:

Girl

Abigail- Gillyweed

Abigail Faith- nastyhobbitses, Letizia

Abigail Joy- Seren Ann

Autumn Hope- Keyleigh

Autumn Joy- Million Children For Jesus

Ava Joy- Jatalie1996

Bryndle- Yaoichan12

Caroline Grace- Sorena

Charlotte Rose- JoyJoy

Cheyenne- Yaoichan12

Daisey- Yaoichan

Elizabeth- KelseyAnn

Emily Anne- BlondeIdol

Emma Faith- TheLambBeforeTime

Eve- adidas

Faith Jillian- TuringMachine

Gabrielle Christian- albireo

Grace Faith- Marly

Hannah- CarrotCake

Hannah Grace- AtlanticTug

Harper Michelle- manda b

Isabella- Nefernandes15

Isabella Joy- VBOY9977

Jackson Yuanita- nst

Julie Faith- misandry

Katy Grace- tabitha2

Leah Joy- JoylessAnna

Lillian Aurora- AstroNot

Lily Anna- singsingsing, meee

Madison Ruth- Snowless

Mariah Michelle- bananabread

Olivia- Gillyweed

Rachel- aprilx

Roxanna Faith- KeepingChrysanthemum

Ruth-Anna Mary (Ruthie)- Letizia

Ruth Carolina- Scrabblemaster

Sage Anne- Chewing Gum

Samantha- Fullfrontalhugs

Sarah Anna- JordynDarby5

Sarah Joy- meee

Savannah Michelle- VBOY9977

Swoosie Faith- nst

Tabitha Michelle- IReallyAmHopewell

Valarie- Fullfrontalhugs

Willow Anne- Chewing Gum

Winter Taylor- Nice Pair

 

Boy

Aaron Elijah- Scrabblemaster

Aaron Wyatt- Mayluka

Adam- eveandadam

Adam Austin- JordynDarby5

Adam Martyn- JPickleDuggar

Adam Valentino- Markie

Andrew- brogue

Archer Austin- Keyleigh

Asher Martyn- Million Children For Jesus

Austin James – ophelia (“AJ”), Dandruff (“Jamie”)

Austin Jr- Satan’sFortress, HuggleMonster, HarleyQuinn

Austin Martyn Jr- Seculardaisy

Austin Noah - tabitha2

Austin Luke- victoriasponge

Beau Harrison- Yaoichan12

Canaan Zurich- bekkah

Charles- Nefernandes15

Clay Robert- Still have a free arm

Cole Austin- yeahtotally

Colton or River- SportsgalAnnie

Colton Austin- Nashville92

Colton Avery- VeryNikeSeamstress

Colton Elijah-AtlanticTug

Connor Austin- TheLambBeforeTime

Dallas- SeekingAdventure

Dallas Martyn- AstroNot

Daniel Austin- The Wanderer

David Martyn- seashell1025

Denver- Kelsey

Duke Brock- Kjaerringa

Elijah- GuineaPigCourtship

Elijah Robert- HRM1216

Elijah Tristan- GoddessOfVictory

Forrest Harrison- Yaoichan12

Fred- Jinder Roles

Gabriel Christian- Albireo

Gage Harrison- Yaoichan12

Grayson- HermioneSparrow

Gunner/Hunter/River Robert- Chewing Gum (Those are all dog names in my family)

Hunter Austin- ihaveanexamintwodays

Hunter Martyn- Daisy0322,  KeepingChrysanthemum

Isaac Daniel- nastyhobbitses

James Austin- IReallyAmHopewell( Jamie), meee

James Martyn- meee

Jameson Austin- JermajestyDuggar

John Blake Carrington- Markie

Jonah Robert- manda b

Joseph Austin- JMO

Kevin Matthew- nst

Lucas Martyn- HRM1216

Martin James- AlwaysExcited

Martyn Ezra- JoylessAnna

Matthew- Sky with diamonds

Matthew James- JMO

Noah Austin- Fluffypaws, tabitha2

Peter Austin- Gillyweed

Pike Switzerland Galilee- SapphireSlytherin

Remington Dallas- Kaerringa

Remington James- GreatScott

Reuben- aprilx

Richard Charles- new espadrille

Richard Martyn- mizandry

River (Or some other outdoorsy name)- CoveredInBees

River Austin/Martyn- TheMustardCardigan

Rhett- Gillyweed

Sawyer Austin- TheLambBeforeTime

Solomon Austin- viii

Steve Austin- WiseGirl

Terrance James- Carm_88

Timothy Austin- Kangaroo

Wesley Austin- Greendoor

William- Gillyweed

William Austin- Caskett4ever

Woody or Wayne- SportsgalAnnie

Wyatt Abraham- TuringMachine

Wyatt Austin- singsingsing

Wyatt James- SorenaJ, freshlemonade

Some Boring Name- AlternativeVoice

Super Traditional Name- sorchah

No Name Guess- Jenn The Heathen, surgicalmusicalchairs, albanuadh_1, AprilQuilt

 

Unisex:

Aspen, Lake, Hunter, Remington, River, Willow- SportsGalAnnie

 

Date:

February 1st- CoveredInBees

February 12th- adidas

February 14th- Markie, freshlemonade

February 16th- Kangaroo, new espadrille

February 17th- SeekingAdventure, CarrotCake, new espardrille (early)

February 18th- Million Children For Jesus, KeepingChrysanthemum

February 20th- Jenn the Heathen

February 21st- JMO

February 22nd- AtlanticTug, GoddessOfVictory

February 23rd- manda b, AlwaysExcited (early morning)

February 24th- Mayluka, SeekingAdventure

February 25th- AlternativeVoice, JPickleDuggar (6:45am) viii, AprilQuilt

February 27th- Gillyweed, Daisy0322, Fluffypaws, Letizia

February 28th- Nice Pair, bananabread, Nefernandes15, Kelsey, TheMustardCardigan, SapphireSlytherin, Albireo, victoriasponge, AstroNot, WiseGirl

March 1st- VBOY9977, GuineaPigCourtship, Markie, eveandadam, Yaoichan1, VBOY9977, Scrabblemaster, JoylessAnna, HarleyQuinn, Kjaerringa

March 2nd- AtlanticTug, Jatalie1996, Seren Ann, Nashville92, ihaveanexamintwodays, surgicalmusicalchairs, albanuadh_1, Snowless, tabitha2

March 3rd- Gillyweed, Still have a free arm, Satan’sFortress, ophelia, yeahtotally, seashell1025

March 4th- Marly, singsingsing

March 5th- VeryNikeSeamstress, HRM1216, Caskett4ever, bekkah

March 6th- Chewing Gum, JordynDarby5

March 7th- neurogirl, GreatScott, JoyJoy, Jinder Roles, The Wanderer, anaandrade, sorchah

March 8th- HermioneSparrow, brogue, Carm_88

March 9th- Greendoor, BlondeIdol

March 10th- nst

March 12th- SorenaJ

March 17th- frugalitymom

March 20th- Seculardaisy

March 31st- Markie

February- nst

Mid to late January- Sky with diamonds

March- Sportsgal Annie

 

Weight:

7lbs 1oz- Million Children For Jesus

7lbs 3oz- viii

7lbs 11oz- Still have a free arm

7lb 15 oz- Greendoor

8lbs 4oz- Jatalie1996, ophelia, HuggleMonster

8lbs 5oz- GreatScott

8lbs 8oz- surgicalmusicalchairs (3985g)

8lbs 10oz- Yaoichan12, sorchah

8lbs 11oz- JPickleDuggar

8lbs 14oz- Satan’sFortress

9lbs- GuineaPigCourtship, Seculardaisy, HarleyQuinn

9lbs 1oz- SorenaJ, tabitha2

9lbs 2oz- SeekingAdventure, Kjaerringa

9lbs 3oz- The Wanderer

9lbs 4oz- Atlantic Tug, VBOY9977, Jenn The Heathen

9lbs 5oz- Markie, brogue

9lbs 6oz- Albireo, Carm_88, Mayluka

9lbs 7oz- Caskett4ever, Nashville92

9lbs 8oz- Daisy0322, adidas

9lbs 9oz- HRM1216, JermajestyDuggar, Fluffypaws

9llbs 10oz- Markie

9lbs 11oz- singsingsing, nst

9lbs 15oz- JMO

10lbs- Kangaroo

10lbs 1oz- VeryNikeSeamstress, seashell1025

10lbs 4oz- JoylessAnna

10lbs 5oz- bekkah

10lbs 13oz- GoddessOfVictory

11lbs 11oz- SapphireSlytherin

 

Length:

19 inches- Still have a free arm, VeryNikeSeamstress, Million Children For Jesus

20 inches- singsingsing, VBOY9977, JPickleDuggar

20.5 inches- SeekingAdventure, Seculardaisy, sorchah

21 inches- nst, JMO

21.5 inches- AtlanticTug, HRM1216

22.5 inches- seashell1025

23 inches- bekah, Nashville92

 

Where

Home Birth with Jill, Jana, and Michelle- Markie, ihaveanexamintwodays

Home Birth with Jill- JMO, HarleyQuinn (Jill the moronic attendant!), new espadrille

At Home- HRM1216, Albireo, Carm_88, Nashville92

Hospital because she pulled a “Jill”- Ophelia, SorenaJ

Hospital but not a c-section- Kangaroo

Birth Centre or Hospital- Seren Ann

@JMO is the next voted off the island!  Sorry! Well, if it comes out that the baby has been born, we can go back. So no worries about that! 

@SorenaJ I have you down for RJ on the 14th of July for Joken!  

[justoneoftwo]

5 hours ago, Dogalog said:

I could go for an all A's theme for Joy Anna and Austin.

So many good A names. 

Andrew, Aaron, Abraham, Anthony, Arthur, Aidan, Archer, Albert, Alfred

Amy, Ava, Alexandra, Abigail, Adelaide, Alicia, Aria, Azalea, Avery

 

Although, given we are talking about Duggars, she'd probably have twins called Aubrey and Audrey. And other kids called Andrew, Andre and Andrea.

I love A names, but will probably try to avoid it for our second, because email addresses can be difficult if you have the same initials as your siblings.  My sister sent her brother in law a very inappropriate email once, because he and her husband have the same first and middle initials (and same last name).

[rainbowbabycakes]

On 2/4/2018 at 4:20 PM, Caskett4ever said:

Now that Joseph and Kendra have announced that they are having a boy, I am going to change my name guess to Andrew Joseph. I will stick with the baby being born on June 29th

I have a cousin named Andrew Joseph... That side of my family leans towards country/redneck, so as a kid he was always  called Andy Joe

[SapphireSlytherin]

23 minutes ago, rainbowbabycakes said:

I have a cousin named Andrew Joseph... That side of my family leans towards country/redneck, so as a kid he was always  called Andy Joe

I have a cousin with the same nickname... Hmmm....

[rainbowbabycakes]

1 hour ago, SapphireSlytherin said:

I have a cousin with the same nickname... Hmmm....

interesting, lol

 

[Captain Obvious]

OK for Joy I'm predicting a girl, born on the 25th, name Abigail Hope. 

[Kailash]

I have a name picked out for Joy and Austin’s baby if it’s a boy. It’s the name of a character on the show Longmire: Branch. Branch Forsythe, cousin to Spurgeon Seewald.

[Carm_88]

Well no one guessed Gideon! Haha, isn’t that always the way, guess they are going biblical! manda b and AlwaysExcited had the date right. No one had the weight and no one had the length!

[singsingsing]

3 minutes ago, Carm_88 said:

Well no one guessed Gideon! Haha, isn’t that always the way, guess they are going biblical! manda b and AlwaysExcited had the date right. No one had the weight and no one had the length!

I thought I was being cruel by guessing 9lbs 11oz. Man oh man!

[SapphireSlytherin]

Wait what? The baby is here?

[sabeek]

2 minutes ago, SapphireSlytherin said:

Wait what? The baby is here?

http://people.com/tv/joy-anna-duggar-welcomes-first-child-austin-forsyth/

Feb 23rd! 10lb 3 oz, Gideon Martyn. So @JoylessAnna at least had the middle name in there and was close on weight. 

[seashell1025]

man, I was also close on the weight, I was 2 oz. off on it and a Half an inch on the length. got the middle name though, so for finally going out on a limb for my first time actually guessing on a duggar baby, im pretty proud of myself  haha

[Million Children For Jesus]

I guess they won’t be using a name theme of any kind, at least not one that is readily apparent. I can’t see them using G-names as a theme. T for Terry, R for Roxanne, or A for Austin, but not the random G. They could possibly use Old Testament names, which Jill may or may not be using as well. Derick said the -el ending was not an intentional theme, and I do not recall if he ever mentioned if both names being from the Old Testament was a coincidence or intentional. It’s so much easier (and more fun) to guess for Anna. 

Also, wow was I off on birth weight and length. That is one gigantic baby. 

[singsingsing]

Maybe they'll do boys' name's ending in -n (for Austin) and girls' names ending in -y (for Joy). No, seriously, I think they probably won't have a theme, or at the very most it'll be biblical names.

@Million Children For Jesus where/when did Derick say the -el thing wasn't an intentional theme? I'm not doubting you, but I must have missed that, and I'm kind of pissed now. Like you said, it's much easier to guess when there's a theme. When there's no theme it's just like, "I don't know... Oliver? Braxtyn? Methuselah? Tim?"

[Million Children For Jesus]

@singsingsing Derick was talking to his brother and sister-in-law when he mentioned that they chose the name Samuel without realizing that both names ended in -el, and that they chose the names because they liked the meanings they had, not for any theme. It was just a coincidence that both names referenced God and -el is God in Hebrew.

7 minutes ago, singsingsing said:

When there's no theme it's just like, "I don't know... Oliver? Braxtyn? Methuselah? Tim?"

Yes! This! Guessing for Joy... well, they like the Bible, could be a biblical name, they’re outdoorsy, could be a nature inspired name, Austin is traditional, could be a traditional name, maybe a family name, she’s young, could be something contemporary or even made up. So... it could be ANY name at all, except, maybe not a Muslim one. However, they do appropriate other cultures, so that’s not off the table either.

[WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo?]

I haven't made it through the Joy threads since Gideon arrived, so I guess this might have already been mentioned, but here is what popped into my head when I heard that Joy and Austin chose to name their baby Gideon:

Spoiler

This is how I'll think of little baby boy Forsyth for now. 

[DaysAgo]

So Joy and Austin named their baby boy Gideon. Do you think his nickname will be Giddy-Up?

[rainbowbabycakes]

7 hours ago, WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo? said:

I haven't made it through the Joy threads since Gideon arrived, so I guess this might have already been mentioned, but here is what popped into my head when I heard that Joy and Austin chose to name their baby Gideon:

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This is how I'll think of little baby boy Forsyth for now. 

that's what I thought of too, lol

[louisa05]

On 2/26/2018 at 10:33 PM, singsingsing said:

Maybe they'll do boys' name's ending in -n (for Austin) and girls' names ending in -y (for Joy). No, seriously, I think they probably won't have a theme, or at the very most it'll be biblical names.

@Million Children For Jesus where/when did Derick say the -el thing wasn't an intentional theme? I'm not doubting you, but I must have missed that, and I'm kind of pissed now. Like you said, it's much easier to guess when there's a theme. When there's no theme it's just like, "I don't know... Oliver? Braxtyn? Methuselah? Tim?"

I know a weird number of couples who did all names ending in "n". Apparently, that's a thing. And, even weirder, two of those have last names ending in "n" so the names become very rhythmic. 

My in-laws both have names starting with G, so they named both kids "G" names. Mr. 05 came out pretty well, but not so much for SiL. I worried that he'd want us to do the same, but we ended up with no kids instead. 

[JMO]

I have a coworker that chose all Irish names ending in "lan" for their family.  I didn't realize at first since Declan isn't so uncommon but when they got to the 3rd  his name was really obscure and I put it together. 

[WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo?]

The only (*probably) quiverfull family I know in real life had mostly daughters and one son. All the girls' names end in the letter "a". It actually works pretty well, because they found lots of pretty names that fit the theme.

*I said "probably quiverfull", because they have used the "as many children as God gives us" line, but I've never heard them criticize other families for using birth control, and because I've never asked them about their beliefs in detail. We're somewhere between friend and acquaintance. I know them through other people.

[front hugs > duggs]

The last letter of my first name is now the same as the first letter as my last name and it kind of flows together as one long name which I don't love. So no names for my hypothetical future children that end in the same letter! Also, our last name ends in an "N", and I feel like most first names I really like end in an "N", and I'm not sure if I love the way it sounds. Examples like Gideon Upton, Megan Lincoln, Jocelyn Arden, etc. 

[louisa05]

4 hours ago, front hugs > duggs said:

The last letter of my first name is now the same as the first letter as my last name and it kind of flows together as one long name which I don't love. So no names for my hypothetical future children that end in the same letter! Also, our last name ends in an "N", and I feel like most first names I really like end in an "N", and I'm not sure if I love the way it sounds. Examples like Gideon Upton, Megan Lincoln, Jocelyn Arden, etc. 

And I know three families who did that N thing on purpose--with two syllable first names and two syllable last names both ending in "an" or "en". I do not like the sound of it. 

My college roommate has seven kids. They have the weirdest mix of names ever. Two boys have very traditional Bible names, then one has a name that was very trendy in the 80s (he was born in 2007) and one has a name that is pretty trendy now (born 2009). One girl has a common enough name that is common but modern (not traditional or biblical) with a weird spelling that means everyone mispronounces it. The second girl has a weird name that they may have made up. And the last girl (and youngest child) has a name that was super trendy in the late 80s/early 90s (born 2013). I feel like parents typically are attracted to one type of name--either they are traditional or trendy or super unique. But they have some of each.