Need creative, yet tasteful names for a baby

[GURUving]

The mother's name is Anne
The father's name is Adam

They want to somehow incorporate both their names into the child's name. I was thinking maybe look into the history of where their names came from and go from there, but I'm lazy today.

Any ideas?

[VelmaD]

1. Deanne or Diane

Incorporates the D from the father's name if it's a girl.

For a boy...maybe Adain.

[GURUving]

3. Adain - that sounds good!

I like that!

[Breezy du Nord]

2. I love the name Aidan

I would name my kid that.

[lucidmadman]

4. Grady....

...or Siobhan. Or Honduras...

[lucidmadman]

5. Or Aube...

...or Link.

[liberalhistorian]

33. Siobhan, I've always

LOVED that name, along with a lot of other Irish names. If my son had been a girl, that's what I would have named her.

Audrine, maybe, for a girl, or Andrea? Andrew for a boy?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

6. Meander

[GURUving]

7. that has some potential

good choice.

[rumguy]

8. Adam-Annt

[dolo amber]

9. Mann

:evilgrin:

[Lady Freedom]

10. Amber or Flint ?

[TeeYiYi]

11. Amanda

TYY

[aQuArius]

36. I second this name, just seems to fit.

:)

[DS1]

12. Nam

[chaska]

13. What about Andie, like Andie MacDowell, the actress/model?

From the Tarzan movie, "Greystoke". http://projekt.pinknet.cz/AndieMacDowell/

[DemExpat]

25. I love this solution!

This is a perfect mix of the 2 names IMO.

DemEx

[arwalden]

14. Creative *AND* Tasteful? -- Sorry, you can't have both. It's Impossible.

:-)

[arwalden]

15. Madaenna is "Adam" and "Anne" spelled backwards and joined.

Like it?

[styersc]

17. You can never go wrong

with Rufus for a boy, but before you are tempted to go with Rufuseena for a girl- I would ask you to consider it long and hard.

[GURUving]

19. yeah

I like it. :)

Sounds like maybe some medieval witch/warlock name.

[arwalden]

24. You're Letting My "Samantha" Picture Influence You... :-)

but you do have a point... the name does sound a bit mysterious.

I'm not sure how it would be pronounced though.

Madaenna = Ma DAY na
Madaenna = Ma DEE na
Madaenna = MAD in na

-- Allen

[IronLionZion]

16. Damian or Damianne

[Ellen Forradalom]

18. Damne

or Damnit

[IronLionZion]

21. haha

that would be cruel. The poor kid will never make it past middle school

[AngryAmish]

20. Busty McGiggles

oh, you said tastefull. Nevermind.

[brainshrub]

22. Cthulhu (nt)

[SheilaT]

23. Keep in mind

that the kid will have this name for life. Don't go with anything that always needs to be explained/spelled/pronounced. Meaning you may need to limit the creativity part.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. Exactly, SheilaT

Think of these factors:

1. Imagine a fifty-year-old and an eighty-year-old with that name. If the thought makes you wince, don't use that name. There were kids in my high school class with names like Patty Sue and Tommy Bill, which is not so bad when you're a child or teenager, but ridiculous when you're an adult.

2. Avoid the unisex names. Do you want your child always assigned to the wrong gym class or having magazine subscriptions addressed to "Mr" when she's really a "Ms" or vice versa?

3. Stick to traditional spellings and pronunciations, or your child will be spelling "Eric, A-R-I-C" or "Wyone Y-V-O-N-N-E" for the rest of his/her life.

[HEyHEY]

26. Simple : Annam!

SOund unisex soundds good

[GURUving]

27. maybe combine

Damne Annam

It has rhythm. It has a good beat.

hmmmmm

[DS1]

28. They could follow the god-awful name-your-kid-after-a-city trend

Annapolis.

Ann Arbor

Dan Antonio

[arwalden]

31. DS1 Kids You Not... In My Family We Have Savannah, Austin, Dallas...

and Paris.

It's embarrassing.

-- Allen

[Lydia Leftcoast]

32. Note that no one never names a child

Schenectady or Nacogdoches or Puyallup.

[LWolf]

35. LOL

You never know. I am amazed by some of the names that end up on our enrollment lists each year. At this point, nothing would shock me.

Here are a few more choice cities for future American kids:

Accident (MD)

Zzyzx (CA) I've passed this one on the way to Vegas many times.

Square Butt (MT)

Experiment (PA)

Nimrod (AZ)

Peculiar (MO)

Belcher (LA)

Noone (NH)

Drain (OR) I've been here before.

[proud patriot]

30. Mandy

:hi:

[Dogmudgeon]

34. Dakota. Madison.

Tiffany. Lakeisha.

Jason. Justin. Michael.

--bkl
Arrgh.

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. Mada Anne

n/t