Thanks to my inability to filter this mouth of mine, it is now known that the Powell Pack will be bringing a baby GIRL to this world in November ?. While we are beyond excited (who doesn?t love ruffle buns and bows?), I am totally stressing about one of the most important parts of having a baby: choosing the name!
I am asked on a daily basis if we have names picked out yet. I feel bad answering NO each time, but let?s be honest ? there is some pressure to this decision! A name is important. Once we choose this name for our little girl, she is stuck with it for life ? or at least for18 years, at which point she can go change it if she doesn?t like what we chose. LOL.
Let?s face it: humans are judgmental creatures. If a name is tease-worthy, you better believe that little 6 year old is going to get teased on the playground. What parent in their right mind wants to give a child a name that might add to their risk of getting teased or bullied?
As adults, we also judge based on names. Before we get to know a person, the only bit of info we have to judge by is their name. Some names sound powerful, some sound weak. Some sound prissy, and some sound sassy. Some are boring, some are wacko. As a parent, how can I be sure that the name I choose for this little innocent bundle of joy helps her more than it hurts her?
Oh the joys and stresses of parenthood.
I need your help with some suggestions! Please, please, PLEASE comment here with your baby names. Heck, I?ll even throw in a prize of some sort?I don?t know what yet, but if you throw out a winning name, and you’re the first one to suggest it, I will contact you after the baby is born and send you something awesome ;). Be sure to suggest a first, middle and last name!
Other Things to consider:
Matix and Marley both start with M. Cash is a C (obviously). Does baby #4 need to start with a C? If her name starts with an M, will Cash feel left out?
Marley and Cash both have names that come from famous musicians ? Bob Marley and Johnny Cash. Poor Matix is left out. Will we need to make sure NOT to give baby #4 a name that can be related to a famous musician?
So much to think about. When you share your name suggestion, if there is a significance in why you picked it, be sure to let me know!
Comment away!!!!
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I am in love with the name “Corinne” (with the “koh-RIHN” pronunciation, emphasis on second syllable. I hope to give a daughter that name, one day (possible as a middle name, right after “Audrey” as a first name, which was my grandmother’s name. Feel free to use either or both: “Audrey Corinne Powell” sounds nice, I think). Both are nice, classic, throwback names that I don’t believe drudge up images of old ladies. Finding that name sort of came about from not wanting to stick a child with a “filler” middle name, but still finding something that flowed nicely as a middle name. My middle name is “Marie”, which, along with “Anne”, I have seen a lot of as middle names. They’re not bad names, they’re just terribly common and “blah”.
I also very much like the name Hannah (or Hana, or Hanna, the latter being a short form of a recurring name in my family’s history, “Johanna”, which is pronounced with a “Y” sounds, because we’re Dutch).
Also, not to toot my own horn, just that I’ve been told I have a nice name, which I know isn’t terribly common (or recently invented), you can have “Celina”, which has a couple different meanings and origins. It has a “moon” meaning in Greek, I think, derived from “Selene”; the specific “Celina” spelling is also a short form of the Polish “Marcelina”. Other spellings include “Selina”, “Selena”, and I happen to know of one “Salena”. “Celine” or “Seline” would also flow nicely as a middle name, with a lot of popular 2 and 3 syllable girls names I know of.
Anyway, I hope that helps. Best wishes!
Miryam Powell.
Savannah Nicole
Emma Lee
Kirsten Leigh
My husband and I chose our daughter’s name from a TV show we both loved. We wanted a name you could not have a nickname or it be shortened. We went with LYLA MARIE and she is spunky and pretty blonde 3 year old : )
I like the idea of a “C” name to go with Cash. How about Camilla? It is unique like your other children’s names and you could always call her Cami for short. Camilla Grace Powell has a nice ring to it.
If you’re looking for a unique name, I’ve always loved the Irish name Saorise, pronounced seer-sha. It means freedom – how cool is that?
I think your new baby should begin with H, my suggestion is “Hailey”. Two M names two C names and two H names!
Erin Saunders
Callie Lane Powell (to keep with the m,m,c,c theme and because all your kids second letter in their name is “a” and it is made up of letters from everyone’s first names in your family)
Laney Christine Powell (after your maiden and Chris’s first name)
Camden April Powell (to go with cahs’s C name, a since all your kids 2nd letter in their name is a and April in honor of the month your dad was born)
Cammi Lane Powell (ca for cash (and Chris) double m for matix and marley and I to end in the same letter as your name ) 🙂
If I had had children and one was a little girl I would have chosen from one of these three names:
Gemma Jolene
Jolene Ethelynn
Carrissa LeeAnn
Good luck and congratulations. She will be daddy’s little princess for sure.
I have two boys and each time choose a girls name hoping to have a girls. It never happened but I always loved Sarah. It’s a strong, feminine name and a little old fashioned. My husband and I also liked Noell. We always got pregnant around Thanksgiving and Christmas is definitely a favorite time in our house. Whatever you choose let it be uniquely yours and be ment for your child. They are so precious and beautiful!