Hebe is the Goddess of Youth, Cupbearer to the Gods -in Greek mythology. It's also the name of a beautiful shrub with white or purple flowers. Hebes are getting very popular in the UK, but cannot take the Michigan weather. Very gutted to leave my garden of Hebes I was, when we emmigrated. :(

Still.... at least I get to laugh at people called Randy over here..... :p

wow three good post on my first day :)

My daughters names is Grey Autum Hill
(no i don't mind that i gave her full name)
and the weird thing was i didn't realize the scheme of it till
after we decided on the name My wife wanted to name her
autum green but I didn't like it but I though grey would be a
nice name then to please my wife i said how about
grey autum then our last name being hill i only realized
about a few days later the whole scope of the name
I get alot of she is going to be a rock star or artist with a name like that
(although she is an awsome artist for 3)
like somehow if you have a diffrent name other than the normal U.S. set you have to be an artist or musician
on that thought I'm making it my lifes work to make sure my daughter ends up as an accountant or claims adjuster just to prove all those weird Sons Of Bitches wrong

that would be cool if his last name was Jeebie.

max is going to be very common when he is in school.

caleb, jacob, michael, matthew, too

I need to know your last name to really be of any help, though. a lot of n's isn't working.

brennan?

why not embrace the n? ned, nanook, Ivan, noah

i like Magnus, but didn't have the balls to do it.....so....Spencer .....fits perfectly (i guess this is mainly true, as you always know a child by their name)

be cognizant of potential nicknames and abbreviations, too.

read the Illiad for some pretty groovy old names. Uripedes, Achilles, Agamemnon

nevermind

Baloney! Common-ness is possibly my number-one concern, you can bet I've researched it. In 2004 (2005 data not being 100% compiled yet), Max was the 73rd most popular boys' name, behind such notables as:

68. Isaiah
64. Hayden
58. Liam
35. Brayden
23. Jackson
15. Jayden

I can live with 73rd.

How about just plain, old "clodfobble jr."?

What the hell kinds of names are Brayden and Jayden? Those are just damn stupid. They are not even names, dammit.

Be careful going by those lists of common names. They are drawn from the nation as a whole, not from your community, or the social circles you will be travelling in. A name that is number 73 on that list may very well be a top ten name in your community.

In 1999, we didn't want our daughter to have a common name. We researched the lists. We wanted to name her after my grandmother, Isabel. Isabel, the year before she was born wasn't even in the top 100 names. But Isabella was something like number 98. We figured it would be fine. The only Isabel I knew was the next door neighbor's ten year old daughter. Well, after naming her Isabel, we have found out that it's a faily common name around here. She's already been in classes with other Isabels, where the teachers had to use their full names to call on them. And they named a freakin' hurricane after her. She didn't like that.

I laughted at this, until I checked the UK list for 2005 - and there at #84 was Jayden. Bizarre - I've never heard of it before.

Delighted to see that the names I'd like to inflict on any boy-child of mine aren't there, although it's the reverse with girl's names. Just have to hope that by the time I decide I want babies, the names have dropped off the list again....

Use the name generator on World of Warcraft or a similar RPG.

Aggramaxxoneith or something

Congratulations! Be prepared for the ride of your life. First, one of the best books out there is Natural Childbirth: the Bradley Way by Susan McCutcheon. I read EVERYTHING I could get my hands on the first time around and still felt as though I didn't have enough info. I found this book my second pregnancy and felt as though I had found the light. Lots of good stuff on nutrition, nursing, physical and emotional aspects of labor. Be warned that there are lots of pictures of labor with no clothing. So, if you are squeamish about that, sorry. I had an OB nurse tell me she got more in depth info from that than from her training.

Names are fun and oh so personal. Just find something that resonates with you and "daddy". Your little boy will fit into whatever name you pick. Although, you might want to steer clear of fruit names.......

There's a very cool name page here. It shows the most popular names in the US over the last century on a dynamic graph. Lots of fun.

What an awesome page!

Check out "Susan," which I always think of as a common name. It was number 3 in the 1960s and fell to 565 in 2004.

Check out Adolph. It really drops off in the 1930s and 1940s. But is seems to start its slide in the 1920s. So maybe it has nothing to do with the famous one after all.

Look at the results for Farrah. What a hoot. Courtney had a big push in the 90s. What does that tell you about American society?

I can't think of any instances like that for guys names.

Because guys, unless you are one of the Phoenixes, tend to have normal sorts of names.

Oh I like this!

My real name peaked at number 19 in the 1950s and dropped sharply from there - it wasn't even in the top 1000 by 2004.

My name was most popular when I was a teenager. Coincidence? I think not! :lol: (actually it wasn't popular at all in the UK -quite miffed -I was- to move to the US and find out I'd become common :cool: )

Hebe is a girl, btw, and yes, we call her Hebe Jeebie. If we'd've thought about it and known what we know now, you can bet your bottom dollar we'd have made her initials Hebe G. B. :lol: But we didn't. She was our first born and we really thought we'd never take the mickey out of her. How wrong can you be? Hector became Hex and we came soooo close to really giving Thor "Trouble" as a middle name (and boy do I wish we hadn't chickened out at the last minute, now, it would have suited him perfectly)

My glucose (looking for gestational diabetes) and iron (looking for anemia) blood tests both came back negative last week. Hooray! No restrictive diets for me! I'm officially in the third trimester now, and so far I think I'm doing pretty damn well in the "not being one of those psycho pregnant ladies" department. :)

My stepson's new favorite game is to run up to me, say something in the general direction of my stomach, and then cackle madly and shriek, "He doesn't understand what I'm saying!!"

I just discovered this thread. Congratulations, Clod! Sounds like things are going well with the pregnancy. I am happy to hear that!

On the subject of weird names....My husband is Dakota who has 2 brothers, Darqel (notice the lack of a "U"), and Quinton and a sister Wesinda. Yes, when we were dating, I told a few of my friends about him, forgetting to mention he was a "he" and then a lot of shock when they realized Dakota was not how they had pictured "her". Somehow he makes a much more handsome male than he would a female. I have also heard people tell me about a million times that they had a friend/relative with a dog named Dakota. He has heard the old question too many times to count: "North or South?" Just like the jokes about "Justin Case" make me want to barf. (Yes, I do have a brother named Justin. No, I don't think my parents have a great sense of humor, nor did they ever. It was purely coincidental and was a result of lack of forethought on their part. Dammit.)

:lol: How old is he?

Very happy to hear that there haven't been any major issues with your pregnancy. It can be scary enough seeing what a normal body does during the whole process, without having to worry about additional health concerns. I suspect you are feeling the little parasite move quite frequently. For me that was by far the best part, especially late when she was moving all the time, not just when I was lying down. She had the most powerful hiccoughs, it was crazy. I actually felt pretty lonely once she was here, sort of like losing a friend or something. I missed having that constant companion. And no more excuse of "just talking to the baby" when I was really just talking to myself :)

Is your husband (and/or his siblings) black or multi-racial, or are naming trends just really different in the Western United States?

He's four, and he's definitely a strange one... as an example, the kid can read, but he's not even close to being potty-trained yet.

Case, my husband's three aunts are Thirza Lou, Lorna Rae, and Lura (rhymes with "stir-uh") Jean.

I too just discovered this thread

Congrats to the Codfobbles

We gave my son an Unusual name, that everyone seems to like

Hugh

Not that many Hughs out there

The only problem was stopping people with "Baby Huey", but most did not try. As my son is a MAJOR character - He often is called by his FULL Name "Hugh Armand G....." - EVERYONE in school and after school knows he is HUGH ARMAND

Thanks case, Charlie, and marichiko in the H5N1 thread... speaking of "Pebblefobble," how sad is this: it has genuinely occurred to me more than once that I have to figure out how to refer to him on the Cellar once he's born. I mean, how can I compete with such cool names as "smoothmonikette" and "inchinchinch"? "Clodfobble" just doesn't lend itself to miniaturizing.

Anna (Child #1) was for a LONG time "Peanut" as that is what she looked like in her first sonogram (Wife hemmoraged, we though we lost her- she's 9 now)

Hugh is "Hugh"

Together they are "The Piglettes"

I work with a guy named Hugh. There are also two relatively famous actors, Hugh Grant and Hugh Jackman. Hugh is a great name for a kid, unless his last name is Jass.:rolleyes:

Well, you have the best minds available and ready to put to work. While we're waiting for them to weigh in, I'll toss out the following.

You have a multiplicity of choices, when he tells a lie, it could be "clodfibble" or if he displays minor character flaws it could be "clodfoible" if he turns out to de a daydreamer it could be "cloudfobble".

So you see, you have a lot of choices. As for miniaturization of "clod" We could look at the progressively smaller fobbles right on down to "femtofobble"

As for particle sizes we have this from pocket ref:
boulder >256mm
cobble 64–256mm
pebble 4–64mm
granule 2–4mm
very coarse sand 1–2mm
coarse sand .5–1mm
medium sand.25–.5mm
fine sand .125–.25mm
very fine sand .0625– .125mm
silt .0039–.0625mm
clay <.0039mm

Sorry to go off on a tangent here, but does this mean that a boulder is anything >.256 meters (0.256 meter = 10.078 inch)? I just call that a 'rock'.

Clod's-able. ;)

May I humbly suggest "CFMinor"? That way, it encompasses ClodFobble, as well as having a certain suggestion of musicality, which not only elevates the cool factor to almost that of Smoothmoniker, but reflects your career path in audio.

"And I shall call him... Mini-fob."

Dakota's family is of Norwegian/German/Irish descent. He was born in Texas and grew up in Kansas. His extended family and many of those in the same religious organization as his family had unusual names, too (although his mom and dad have common names.) Many of the people in that particular religious sect name their kids with names that start with the same letter, as well so all of their initials will be the same.

You married into a cult?

Kidfobble?

or Kibble?

I know, I know, no "n"s, but...

Rubin has always struck me as a great name.

...Or Yngwie (yes, there's an "n", but its pronounced ing-vay)

Some Things I Have Learned
 

1.) It is possible for a fetus to get the hiccups. It is possible, in fact, for him to get them for up to twenty minutes at a time, roughly every other day, for weeks on end.

2.) It is NOT possible for a fetus to have an allergic reaction in the womb (which one might worry about if there is a family history of potentially fatal peanut allergies.) This is because an allergic reaction is essentially nothing more than an immune response (to something it shouldn't be responding to) and the baby's own immune system doesn't kick in until after it's born.

3.) It is possible for your feet to swell not JUST so large that you can't get any of your regular shoes on... not JUST so large that you can't get your goddamn flip-flops on... not JUST so large that your ankle is literally a dimple inward instead of a nice protruding bone... but so LARGE, in fact, that the pressure is strong enough to break all the surrounding blood vessels, and your feet become two bruised and bloated water balloons.

4.) It is profoundly embarrassing to have to re-park your car somewhere else because you were estimating in old-school mode about what would be "enough room" for you to get out of the vehicle door.

So clodfobble, are we talking "any minute now"? Have you gotten past the stage of a ten minute drive taking twenty five minutes because you ahve to stop and pee three times?

What's the count down?

Supposedly the countdown is two and a half weeks from now, but I'd personally put the big money on more like a week and a half. Or at least that's what I'm telling myself. I've transitioned pretty much everything at work to other people, and the house is as ready as it's going to get. It's worth noting that I'm not a very patient person... :)

Picked a name yet?

Nah. It's down to two, but beyond that I think I have to see him before we can settle on a final choice. My husband has decreed that I'm not allowed to tell anyone the two remaining possibilities, since I'm very easily influenced--he doesn't want one person who hates both names to convince me we have to start all over.

Is your belly button really sticking out? It's like the turkey timer that pops out when it's done.
If everyone can clearly see it when you are wearing a sweater, then it's time!

Ugh. It's been sticking out for about two months. I hate it.

My stepson informed me awhile back that it looked just like a little volcano. :headshake

Well, now I'm all excited. I feel like we've been there for the entire process...well, except for the conception, of course.

Pity the photos didn't work out... :redface:

Good luck, CF. Babies are fun for the first couple of weeks or so. :)

Awwwwesome CF!

Here's hoping the hiccups are Krakatoa's opening act and that the main event is just around the corner. Man, I laughed out loud at that one. Sorry about the ankles, though.

Yay Clodfobble!! Yay Baby C!

Do the two names work as a first and middle name?

No, each one has its own accompanying middle name. I've never really cared much about middle names, as long as they sound good with the first name. I figure, if I really really like the name, then I don't want to waste it as a middle name, I want to save it for the next kid. :)

Good luck with it all.... :)

Good luck, CF! Any day now, right?

The most unusual name for a child I ever came across was a Navajo boy whom his parents had named Jensen for their stereo speakers. His little sister is named Jaydah (not sure why - I know of no stereo equipment by that name or Navajo traditional name either).

My new next door neighbor who is Zuni is named Rick. Go figure.

The Japanese dude who runs the best pizza place in the WORLD (Chicago Pizza, downtown Taipei) is also named Jensen... I'll have to ask him if that's a traditional Japanese name or if he named himself after speakers too...

Whenever I deal with someone named "Tercel" I wonder if that was where they were conceived.

My brother in law's name is Jensen!

Yes, any day now. Certain (relatively disgusting) things (that I will be kind enough not to describe here) have begun to happen, which indicate labor should start sometime in the next several days or so. It would be nice if it were today/early tomorrow, since my stepkids are here with us for the weekend and would really like to see the baby right away instead of waiting until the next time they're with us, but no contractions yet.

Well, good luck!

Was he named after his folks' stereo or is he Danish? :D

You don't have to be a preacher to be preachy
 

I found my winner for Most Presumptuous Person. Every pregnant lady has at least a few contenders (and unfortunately they are usually all relatives) but I am honored to present this award to the new blonde waitress at my favorite Mexican restaurant, where I eat at least a few times a month.

As I sat down, she attempted to take my drink order. More specifically, she asked, "Can I get you a Sprite, or a decaf iced tea?" (Now this was not grossly out of line, since it's a commonly-held myth that pregnant women are supposed to avoid caffeine, though the reality is that they should simply not have ridiculous amounts of caffeine, on the order of 6-7 sodas a day. And even then, there are conflicting studies.) I told her Coke would be fine.

I'll give her the benefit of the doubt, and assume that her eyebrow only twitched because she's got a facial tic. Christ, it's not like I was ordering a damn margarita.

I knew what I wanted, so I went ahead and ordered what I've gotten every time for at least the last 8 years, the Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas with Queso Verde Sauce.

"And would you like to substitute a fruit cup for the rice and beans?"

...

Uh, no. I'm not in the habit of going to greasy Mexican food restaurants for their fresh fruit, lady. I'm surprised she didn't drop off the check with a few pre-natal vitamins in place of the mint. :rolleyes:

Please tell me you managed to leave her a ripe one as you left. :p

When SWMBO was about 87 months pregnant there was a flurry of unsolicited advice/alien encoutners that came our way.

As a side note, SWMBO is somewhat humor impaired due to childhood trauma rather than missing humor genes, however when the humor surfaces, it is vesuvial. Anyway,

We were out at a restaurant and some crazy doting waitress was getting all in her face in a "I'm going to win the helpful award of the year today",
SWMBO mentioned that she felt a little dizzy, and the waitress countered with some nutty inappropriate thing (I wish I remembered) and SWMBO looks at her and says "No, it was probably the five rum and cokes I had."

I'm not sure she ever came back to our table after that.

Relax, Cfob, the helpfulness hasn't even begun...

[/scaring the passengers]

So it's gonna happen in about... 14 hours, then? Good luck!