Agree, moms get to choose. This is how I have a nephew named Wesley Fox. Wesley is the first name, Fox is the middle name and no, neither of them are family names. We all said, FOX? And my brother said, hey, you tell my wife that after being in labor for two days and delivering a 10lb boy naturally that she can't have Wesley Fox as his name. There you go.
As the mother of Ingrid, I have to say that old-fashioned is nice. I am pleased as punch that Ingrid is the only Ingrid and not one of the 20 most common names. Only a few Swedish people and one German friend said that they thought it was a name for a 45-year old lady and not a little girl. Too bad, I had that name picked out since I was 8. If we had another girl, she'd be Astrid and there isn't any way anyone could talk me out of it.
Boy names are way harder. I allowed G to have the middle name choice there since it was important to him and not to me. Do not budge on using your name as the middle name, it would be wasted. Either it's the first name or you save for it a future kid, knowing that, like me and Astrid, you may never get to use it.
And I also agree that you can use the name if a friend has used it for their child. You can't steal it if it's already been used.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-03-06 03:37 pm (UTC)As the mother of Ingrid, I have to say that old-fashioned is nice. I am pleased as punch that Ingrid is the only Ingrid and not one of the 20 most common names. Only a few Swedish people and one German friend said that they thought it was a name for a 45-year old lady and not a little girl. Too bad, I had that name picked out since I was 8. If we had another girl, she'd be Astrid and there isn't any way anyone could talk me out of it.
Boy names are way harder. I allowed G to have the middle name choice there since it was important to him and not to me. Do not budge on using your name as the middle name, it would be wasted. Either it's the first name or you save for it a future kid, knowing that, like me and Astrid, you may never get to use it.
And I also agree that you can use the name if a friend has used it for their child. You can't steal it if it's already been used.