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I like more traditional names, rather than cute or trendy names. I personally think a name that is or can be shortened to 4 letters or one syllable is strong and masculine, if that matters to you. Consequently, both of my sons have 2-syllable names that cannot be easily shortened. So you can tell that mothers have a strong influence on baby names. :)
 
LogGrad98 said:
I like more traditional names, rather than cute or trendy names. I personally think a name that is or can be shortened to 4 letters or one syllable is strong and masculine, if that matters to you. Consequently, both of my sons have 2-syllable names that cannot be easily shortened. So you can tell that mothers have a strong influence on baby names. :)
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Oh and please, for the love of all that is holy, stay away from creative name spellings. It just needlessly complicates things and guarantees that the kid will spend the rest of their life saying "no that is with a Y...no at the end....I know it sounds like an E but it is a Y....no spell it like this....no I said at the end". This happens more in girl's names I think, but I have a friend who change her name legally for this reason, but kept it the same name (her name is Emily, but her parents, for whatever reason, thought it was cute to spell it Emeley...I guess they thought "E"s are feminine). It is still the same name, but she normalized the spelling because she got tired of the rigamarole. Sure it looks nifty on the papers you fill out for elementary school, but gets really old the 1000th time the "kid" has to re-spell it for somoene over the phone or in a store or whatever.
 
Archie-

You could name it after your late brother. Just an idea. Not sure how you feel about that. I don't think I would for my brother. Maybe as a middle name but a first name is doubtful. I also like Octavius. A kid from HS (years before me) was Octavius. Octavius Gould. Sick RB. He went to the University of Florida and was a frosh rb the same time as...um..Emmitt Smith...sucked for him so he later transferred.
 
SalmonHobo said:
Archie-

You could name it after your late brother. Just an idea. Not sure how you feel about that. I don't think I would for my brother. Maybe as a middle name but a first name is doubtful. I also like Octavius. A kid from HS (years before me) was Octavius. Octavius Gould. Sick RB. He went to the University of Florida and was a frosh rb the same time as...um..Emmitt Smith...sucked for him so he later transferred.
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His middle name will be after my brother (Clinton/Clint). We are still thinking about names, but as of right now, the front runner is Merrick or Merik. Yeah, I know, old school.
 
Sirkickyass said:
I basically made this exact same thread approximately 5 years ago when I was having problems finding a job while in law school. Things do get better even though they are depressing right now.

The best advice I can give having gone through this experience is to be totally openminded about the opportunities that present themselves even if they're not the opportunities that you wanted. My law school roommate really wanted to live in Charlotte after graduation and didn't get a job there, eventually moving to Milwaukee. Blessing in disguise as the Charlotte legal community promptly imploded and everyone we knew who lives there got laid off. I had no intentions of going to Northern California but my first choice law firm in Phoenix has since revealed itself to be something of a cesspool that I would not have survived in. The point of this is that sometimes the options that are handed to you are better than the ones you would have chosen for yourself.

Life will never be perfect but all indications are that you have some nice support structure and family money. This too shall pass and you're in a better position to ride it out than many of your peers. Be thankful for what you have and eagerly accept the next thing that you get.

Good luck, and congratulations on your child.
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Kicky, thanks man. I do appreciate it.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I like more traditional names, rather than cute or trendy names. I personally think a name that is or can be shortened to 4 letters or one syllable is strong and masculine, if that matters to you. Consequently, both of my sons have 2-syllable names that cannot be easily shortened. So you can tell that mothers have a strong influence on baby names. :)
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I have the most traditional name....errr... most popular boy name in US history (Mike) for the past century so I think we may give him an nontraditional name that's not too far out there.
 
I met a guy named Mordecai recently. Everyone immediately commented how badass a name it was.

Personally Mordecai Clinton McKell sounds to me like the kind of bad mother****er you shouldn't mess with.
 
Sirkickyass said:
I met a guy named Mordecai recently. Everyone immediately commented how badass a name it was.

Personally Mordecai Clinton McKell sounds to me like the kind of bad mother****er you shouldn't mess with.
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I just told my wife that and she said, "That would make me mortified."
 
Sirkickyass said:
I basically made this exact same thread approximately 5 years ago when I was having problems finding a job while in law school. Things do get better even though they are depressing right now.

The best advice I can give having gone through this experience is to be totally openminded about the opportunities that present themselves even if they're not the opportunities that you wanted. My law school roommate really wanted to live in Charlotte after graduation and didn't get a job there, eventually moving to Milwaukee. Blessing in disguise as the Charlotte legal community promptly imploded and everyone we knew who lives there got laid off. I had no intentions of going to Northern California but my first choice law firm in Phoenix has since revealed itself to be something of a cesspool that I would not have survived in. The point of this is that sometimes the options that are handed to you are better than the ones you would have chosen for yourself.

Life will never be perfect but all indications are that you have some nice support structure and family money. This too shall pass and you're in a better position to ride it out than many of your peers. Be thankful for what you have and eagerly accept the next thing that you get.

Good luck, and congratulations on your child.
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This is almost spiritual for kicky.

All he needed to do was grab a few tissues and repeat, "I know that....."

But very good advice nonetheless.
 
Plan ahead. While growing up indoctrinate him to believe that basketball is the end all, be all of existence. Put a basketball in his crib, give him b-ball bed sheets, b-ball pajamas, put him to bed at night watching b-ball videos. Hell, paint your wife's boobs to look like a b-balls so that's what he sees when breast feeding. Surround him with b-ball sights, sounds, smells and taste. If the god's are smiling upon you he'll be 6'5" like his daddy. And most importantly name him Hammer. That way when he is drafted into the NBA he'll be one hell of a badass.

Then again, if he ends up short and devoid of all athletic ability he could get a Vegas act as the white version of MC Hammer.
 
Sirkickyass said:
I met a guy named Mordecai recently. Everyone immediately commented how badass a name it was.

Personally Mordecai Clinton McKell sounds to me like the kind of bad mother****er you shouldn't mess with.
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The psycho killer in a Stephen King novel instantly jumps to mind. That or the future leader of the FLDS church.
 
Max Power
Hercules Rockefeller
Rembrandt Q Einstein
Handsome B. Wonderful
 
Archie Moses said:
His middle name will be after my brother (Clinton/Clint). We are still thinking about names, but as of right now, the front runner is Merrick or Merik. Yeah, I know, old school.
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Seriously?

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Archie Moses said:
Yeah, it's our first kid. My wife said no to Archie.

Any name suggestions?
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because Kicky gave you such nice advice, and because in a few months that's what he'll be doing, I'd suggest that his "in utero" name be Kicky!

Kicky McKell has a nice ring to it too :-)


once he's born, well, that might not be such a great choice. How about Daniel? I think Daniel Clinton McKell sounds pretty good.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Oh and please, for the love of all that is holy, stay away from creative name spellings. It just needlessly complicates things and guarantees that the kid will spend the rest of their life saying "no that is with a Y...no at the end....I know it sounds like an E but it is a Y....no spell it like this....no I said at the end". This happens more in girl's names I think, but I have a friend who change her name legally for this reason, but kept it the same name (her name is Emily, but her parents, for whatever reason, thought it was cute to spell it Emeley...I guess they thought "E"s are feminine). It is still the same name, but she normalized the spelling because she got tired of the rigamarole. Sure it looks nifty on the papers you fill out for elementary school, but gets really old the 1000th time the "kid" has to re-spell it for somoene over the phone or in a store or whatever.
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neighbors of ours named their daughter Emily but spell it EMILE - now that she's in school, it often gets mispronounced as E-MILE. It's good advice to avoid overly creative spellings.
 
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