Just to throw some more fun in, my dad says (and see if you believe him ) that in his childhood days he knew of two sisters whose last name was Hogg. Their first names? Ima and Ura, two fairly common female names in those days of the 1930s.

That's unbelievable. And yet I believe you! So, on with smileys.

Thanks, ChristProclamer! I absolutely love that name. For a while, I even went by my favorite shortened version, Tami, whenever I had to come up with a fake name. I even wrote a series of short stories about four sisters: Sashaya (Shay), Tamara (Tami), Jamima Jane (JayJay), and Nylanej (Ny). Nylanej is pronounced NY-luh-nezh.

that sounds cool.sashaya is a nice name.

My favorite names are:
Female
Lara
Senora
Muriel
Sally
Ivy
Male
Arthur
Jonathan
Brendan
Luke
Clark
But if I ever have boy twins, I'm naming them Simon Andrew and Peter Andrew.

Haha Ben, that's one of my favorites too , although I like the spelling "Elanor" better.

Yeah I,m not quite sure what Spelling I like best

Another name............. Jaquine (I,m pretty sure thats the spelling) pronounced Joc-queen

jaquine is a name I haven't heard of! It's very royal sounding.

Wow! I have loads of names at home a paper. . .but sadly the papers is at home. but her are some girl names:
Shannon
Elizabeth
ginny
Hermione
Molly
Martha
Ahna
That is only a few.
Boys:
Tristan
Will
Ben
Jack
Micheal
Daniel.

Here is a kinda different name (pretty, but I had never heard some one name one of there kids it):
Azariah.

jaquine is a name I haven't heard of! It's very royal sounding.

Yeah probably because it sounds like Joc-Queen ........

I have no good names for a boy only for a girl........

Here is a kinda different name (pretty, but I had never heard some one name one of there kids it):
Azariah.

Narniafan#1, I have to say that is a very pretty name! I love it.

Avra, I like your sig. I watched the Sandlot for the very first time today.

Okay, I just barely heard of another strange name, so I had to post it. My cousin said that a girl in her seminary class in ninth grade said she wanted to name one of her kids "Jehosaphat" just so she could call him "Phatty"!! Isn't that just sad???

Okay, I just barely heard of another strange name, so I had to post it. My cousin said that a girl in her seminary class in ninth grade said she wanted to name one of her kids "Jehosaphat" just so she could call him "Phatty"!! Isn't that just sad???

That is very sad.
I also like the name Jence. The nickneame is Jencie. I think it's really cute!

My favorite names...

I would have to say for a boy... It would be Bartholomew... Yes perhaps I am being vain of my username... But I really like the name Bartholomew Rothentrop and I wouldn't care if that was my name to be honest.

My Favorite girl name would have to be Marry... Except spelled like "Merry Christmas" instead of Marry. (Yes, I do have a good friend and that is how her name is spelled).

girl names:

Melyanna
Maisey (this one spells yes I am backward!)
Lynet
Starina
Candace
Marinana
Liberty (yeah, my name. but it's not extremly popular.....)
Lacy
Lana
Lissy
Ara
Piper (I know someone who named their daughter this)
Bianca
Cecil

boy names:

Royce
Bryce
Bryan
Rayford
Cory
Keld
Rudyard
Ace
Frodo (I couldn't resist!)

that's all I can think of for now.....

Girl or boy, I will name one of my children "Ryan."

My sisters universally agreed however, that whoever has a boy first will name him Jonathan Samuel, after the two miscarried babies my mother had before she had my youngest sister. She thought that my youngest sister was going to be a boy and she named her Jonathan Samuel, but when she came out a girl, we switched the names to the two babies that were miscarried, naming one of them Jonathan and the other one Samuel.

I had actually planned on naming my first son Jonathan Samuel, but then my sisters chimed in saying that that was what they were going to name their first sons. So we compromised. Whoever has a boy first gets to name him Jonathan Samuel.

Other names I really like are:

Boys
Luke
Carson
Caleb
Jacob
Peter
Trey
Alexei
Jaden

Girls
Samantha
Alyson
Elena
Madison
Maria
Alice
Juliana

Those are just the few I can think of off the top of my head.

EDIT: Jo, that's one of my favorite nonsense poems. I can't help but laugh every time I read it out loud!

P.S."Brooklyn!"

I like the name Danae. Pronounced with an accent on the ae part