[blparent] Baby names

Sat Apr 28 01:56:24 UTC 2012

I like the name Vance.  It has a nice ring to it.

I read in a book someplace that when you are picking out a name for your 
child, you need to go to your back door and yell it several times in a row, 
the full name, as loud as you can, because that's how you'll end up calling 
the kid eventually.  It was all in fun, but the book said the name needs to 
roll easily off your tongue.

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: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 5:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names

> My mother's maiden name is Vance which we loved and were going to name our
> son.  Then I looked up the meaning which can mean marsh land which we 
> didn't
> mind so much since he was conceived in the state of Oregon.  Then I came
> across an addition to the meaning which was, dweller of the bog and I knew
> right then that I couldn't look my son in the face and tell him that we
> named him Vance knowing that meaning. LOL
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Tay Laurie
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:27 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] Baby names
>
> 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>
> To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> 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>
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>>> 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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