[blparent] Baby names

Fri Apr 27 22:27:02 UTC 2012

Thankfully my middle name isn't Glover. Now having one of my kids have 
Laurie (my maiden name) as a middle name might be ok, as it would be a 
salute to my grandpa laurie, recently deceased. But naming them Glover?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names


> Sometimes people use their middle names in addition to their first names. 
> Most of my extended family calls me Jo Elizabeth, which I like a lot 
> better than just plain Jo.  I always got teased in school for having a 
> boy's name, even though my name is spelled like Jo from "Little Women." 
> Also, people ask me all the time if Jo was short for something like 
> Josephine or Joanne, which it isn't.  It just so happens that my dad's 
> brother, Joseph Ernest, died while my mom was pregnant with me, so my name 
> was as close to his as my parents could get, since I wasn't a boy.  I just 
> think Jo Elizabeth sounds much more feminine and pretty than Jo.
>
> Also, a lot of forms and applications ask for a middle name or middle 
> initial.  Interestingly, Harry S. Truman (President of the United States 
> after FDR died) added the letter S. to his name for convenience, but it 
> didn't stand for anything at all.  He didn't have a middle name.
>
> A lot of people use the wife's maiden name as a middle name, particularly 
> in the South.  We're not from the South, but my sister didn't change her 
> name when she got married, so both of her kids, a boy and a girl, have her 
> maiden name as their middle name, and her husband's name as their surname. 
> My favorite aunt, Martha King, has Patterson as her middle name, which is 
> her mother's maiden name, and both of her kids have King as their middle 
> name.
>
> Okay, done with trivia.  I just get fascinated with names.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
> of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been 
> all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>
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> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:06 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names
>
>>        Middle names are great. It's a warning system to your kid that you 
>> are really pissed about something they're doing.
>> Also middle names can be special if say you want to honor someone in your 
>> family but don't want to use that name as a first name for whatever 
>> reason.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Bridgit Pollpeter
>> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:03 PM
>> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [blparent] Baby names
>>
>> I don't believe in middle names unless they have some meaning. It just
>> seems pointless-- simply my opinion. I have nothing against them, and I
>> have one, Bridgit Chantel, but I personally don't think middle names
>> have a point unless some reason behind it. Since we are having a boy, we
>> plan to use my husband's name, Ross, as the middle name. Otherwise we
>> wouldn't have one.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
>> Read my blog at:
>> http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>>
>> "History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
>> The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>>
>> Message: 9
>> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:19:15 -0400
>> From: Sirena Carroll <samararaine at gmail.com>
>> To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names
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>> Those are great names.
>>
>> If I have a girl, she will be Ayla Rose. If I have a boy, he will be
>> Sean Alexander.
>>
>> Samara
>>
>>
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