I Love unusual names. Girls: Tatyana, Nova, Lucia, and Natalia (the last two are Spanish)

Boys: Zane, Peris, Micheal Zane and Matthew Rhys.

What do you think of them?

at the moment i like adam (boy) always in fashion.

lacey or lucy for a girl, just like , as you can add a second name to it quite easely

When I was pregnant with my first child, my husband and I consulted a 'baby name book' and became captivated by the meanings and origins. So we considered relative's names, heritage, birth order and spiritual meanings.  We chose our boy's name Christopher Robert, which means to us: Son of the Father, Christ-like  and first-born. The Robert was for my father who had passed away a few years before.  We also considered shortened names, and knew he could be called Chris, and/or CR.

When I was pregnant with twins 5 years later, and suspected they were both boys, we again went to the baby name book, but waited until they were born.  I was in spiritual counseling, and I had gotten pregnant after a two year separation and near divorce.  We had to go to arbitration, and the counselor told us she thought we still loved each other and should try to work on the differences.  My second pregnancy ended in a miscarriage at 8 weeks, which brought us closer together.  We decided to try again, and then it was twins.  Richard's dad had died a few months before, and we joked about how a baby seems to 'happen' when someone dies, and that God knew it would take 2 to replace his dad!  

They were born at 32 weeks in an emergency C-section, within a minute of each other.  So we named the first boy Timothy Karl, which means "honoring God", which to us was a sign that we should still be together and celebrate with an addition to our family; Karl was in honor of Rich's dad.  We named the second boy Matthew Patrick, which means "gift of the Lord", which signified my spiritual direction, favorite Gospel with several parables about family and children; and Patrick for the Irish ancestry of Rich's mother.  Both would have easy nicknames, Tim and Matt or TK and MP.

As it turned out, Matthew died at 9 days of age due to a congenital heart defect which would have taken numerous operations with no guarantees before age 5.  We handled our grief with the realization that I lost a baby, but I was still coming home from the hospital with a baby in my arms, and God didn't want to burden our family of 4 (Chris, Tim, Rich and myself) with a sick baby needing a lot of attention.  

About 6 weeks post--partum, my spiritual director came over and I was having a really bad day.  I asked him, "Matthew died.  So where's the gift?"  He told me the story that Matthew was really named Levi and was a tax collector and was the last of the chosen disciples, so Jesus renamed him Matthew, and as it turns out his gospel is the first in the New Testament.  God gave us our last born child, but took him home to Heaven as the first angel from our family, who could intercede for us when we prayed, and that certainly seemed like a pretty awesome gift!!!

I apologize for the length of this, but thought it would be an interesting account of our favorite names, and why.  By the way my name is Karyn Anne, which was chosen based on my Scandinavian  heritage; Karen is shortened from Katherine (with an E-Swedish), Kathryn (Norwegian- with a Y) so my mother chose the Y spelling to honor her mother who was Norwegian, and she liked Anne, which is the way the Danish would spell it, which covered all of my ancestry.

i love my own name adrienne, and my sisters marion jeanette, my grandchildren are james ,george, emily florence. chay, luke, jake and zoe.

sam is a name that is a girl name but it is a boy name too