My son went to school with a girl named Formica. We are big on family names and tradition. Since before the Napoleonic Wars, the oldest male of each generation is named Louis.

I have to admit I have always wanted to name a daughter Anastasia. I have loved that name since I studied Russian.

I kinda liked Lysander after a Jilly Cooper character, but it seemed mean...

Ripley is an awesome name btw. Jim, did you see that article about terrible names of 2013 and kids name Cheese? Two of the allegedly worst names were Rocket and Ripley -both for boys. I know a girl called Rocket irl and she is also awesome. And feisty ;)

(still can't get with calling your kid Cheese, though. Bacon, I could understand ;) )

I knew a guy with a dog named Cheese. It's an awesome dog name, but for a kid not so much. I don't know why they'd say Ripley is a bad name for a boy, though. Nouns-as-names are always going to be worse than last-names-as-names.

article http://www.thedatereport.com/dating/...wi-and-tintin/

I do question the judgement, though, and am not holding up as something I agree with, I just noticed Ripley and rocket on there. probably because they are next to each other, are names of kids I "know", and are the other gender from the kids I know. I think they're great names :D

Ripley is definitely feminine. She's proud of her name. Her friends are all jealous. Her 5 friends named Hannah. Small exaggeration.

Just in case she hated it, though, we gave her Jane in the middle.

She's always gonna be Ippy to me though.

I meant the judgment of the people deciding which were "odd" names, sorry if that wasn't clear!

Names are funny. You try to go for what you think is an uncommon but still traditional name, like Isabel, and it later turns out there are two of them in the same class with your kid. And then you figure what the hell, and name you son Adam, figuring it's still a good name, even if it's popular, and he winds up being the only kid in the county school system with that name. [/only a slight exaggeration]

You can't worry too much about what other people are doing when you are coming up with names. ymmv

Yah. We were not going for unique ness... Just a strong name that also sounds pretty. As though naming her after a survivor of a nightmarish sci-fi catastrophy had any bearing on who she will become in life...

But, I really think that if you name your daughter Raven or Cinnamon.... She's going to be a stripper.

I was named after Colonel Terry Lee, of the Terry and the Pirates comic strip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_a...s_(comic_strip)

One of the UnclesDigr, and myself (my middle name, uncle's first) were named after the same doctor that Grandmadigr lived beside when Momdigr was a little girl.

ETA: Popdigr and I share first names, also.

Do we know your first name? We could have fun guessing if we don't

I think it's Luciano. Luciano Giovanni Diggaro.

My name is Inigo Montoya...


I'll take Luciano. Beats the real thing.

Albert?