Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Of Latin origin it means light, the feminine form of Lucius. I have to admit that Lucy has been a favourite of mine for a while. I love that it is so simple and fits in well with a number of different names. Scrolling through my list I noticed that I had a number of different forms of Lucy. Some of the names listed bellow I admit are quite far away from the original starting name Lucy. All the different names though starting from Lucy have different sentiments. Lucy I think of good, daddies girl, with blonde hair, and butter-wouldn't melt-in-her-mouth eyes. Lucianna I start to think of a more outgoing, fun girl, ready for anything. Lucille is very strait laced, Lulu I admit to thinking more of a pet. My point is though they're all different and I find I quite like them all. My favourites being Lucinda and Lucia. Anyone have a particular favourite form of Lucy listed or unlisted girl or boy?

Girls

Lucy

Lucie

Luci

Lucille
Lucilia
Lucilla
Lucia

Lucinda

Lucetta

Lou

Luce

Lucette

Luciana/Lucianna

Lucida

Lucienne

Lucina

Lucine

Lusita

Lulu

Boys

Lucius

Luke

Lucas

Lucien

Lucio

Lucian

Luca

Hester

Hess-ter. Its a new name I've started to think about and I may quite like, if not love it. Recently name wise I've been in a bit of a rut. All my old names I used to love, I'm now close to deleting from my name list, for forever. In the hours in between, when my kids are sleeping, or my husband has taken them out to wear down their energy levels, I discovered (or rather re-discovered) Hester. I really took notice of it for once. At first I simply loved the name Hettie. I'm a big nickname person currently. Loving names like Minnie, Lottie and Artie, but I'm a firm believer that a nn cannot possibly be the first name. By all means call them Minnie at home, but allow them to have some sort of choice of their name in, for example, their professional lives. They may prefer for their boss to call them Minerva and to friends and family to call them Minnie. Its always hard however to love the name the nickname comes from isn't it? You see Minerva, makes my face scrunch up. Hester however is a breath of fresh air. I think teemed with a jazzy middle name Hester could be just right!

Hester "Hettie" Violet, Hester Louise May, Hester Lucille, Hester Tallulah Rose? I'm not sure about the middle names, I'm still mulling them over!

So what is also important is the meaning! I love the meaning of names, I've always found my own name's meaning rather boring "Laurel Wreath" while people, like Sarah's name (especially special when a child) means princess. When I was smaller I was very angry at this boring meaning. Hester's meaning is Star, of Greek Origins and it is a variant of the name Esther. Another variant is Hestia. If hubby didn't like Hester, I think I would then move on to convincing him to like Hestia, the Greek Goddess of the Hearth. Now its funny when I looked up Hetty it had a different meaning again, this time Myrtle leaf, star (as was Hester) and God rejoices.

Some famous Hesters's now Literary: Hester Prynne is the heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlett Letter". I haven't read it but I'm hoping shes a good, gracious and strong willed Heroine?
Hester Thrale was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century life.
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope is remembered by history as an intrepid traveller in an age when women were discouraged from being adventurous.

Other associations, Hester is a place in Western Australia, named after a settler, Edward Godfrey Hester. There is Hester Street in Manhattan. It is a symbol of Immigrant history, used in the film Hester Street (1975).

I'm going to continue thinking about Hester "Hettie". Its close to the top of names I like. But then again on my list there are hundreds of names (especially girls). I had better keep mulling it over and get back to the children, bed night stories, perhaps I'll get some inspirations from them for middle name, or other names to add to the never ending maybe list!

Austen names

Jane Austen character names

Elinor
Marianne
Margaret
John
Fanny
Edward
John Willoughby
Charlotte
Robert
Lucy


Elizabeth
Fitzwilliam Darcy
Jane
Mary
Katherine "Kitty"
Lydia
Charles
Caroline
George

Emma
George
Frank
Jane
Harriet
Phillip
Augusta
Anne
Henry

Catherine
Henry
John
Isabella
Frederik

My favourites Are Harriet, Edmund and Henry. I love Kitty for a nickname for Katherine. Its so much cuter than Kate or Katie! Lucy and Marianne are also lovely!

Austin and Olivia's Brother

I found you through the baby name snob's website. Maybe you can help us!
We're expecting our 3rd child,the second boy, in as few as 5 weeks. We've been looking at names for months, and this child does not have a name. Our other children's names are Olivia and Austin and our last name starts with an A.

We prefer names that are "normal", but not super trendy. We tend to like the status of Austin's name on the charts. Not too popular, but not unheard of.


More than likely, the baby's middle name will be Daniel, after my little brother. But, we're stuck on the first name. Some we like, but aren't sold on are:

Simon
Isaac
Mac
Weston (didn't know if this was too close to Austin)
Max

Any advice or thoughts on our name list?
Thanks! Tracy

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Hi Tracy

I'm loving your brainstorming. My favourite from your list would be Max, but what about the long version Maxwell or Maximilian.
Maxwell Daniel, or Max Daniel.

From your brainstorming I think that Isaac, Olivia and Austin go great. The names really flow. Isaac Daniel sounds great.

I don't think that Weston is to close to Austin, but it doesn't seem to blend as well with Olivia as the other names do.

Some of these names I love though they may be to popular for your liking. I'm going to list them all though just in case, and with them their current ranking.


James/ Jamie (17)
Lewis (640)
Zachary (47)
Jordan (48)
Nathan (29)
Sean (83)
Cameron (53)
Dominic (93)
Evan (38)
Richard (181)
Aidan (59)
Colin (201)
Murdoch
Braden (293)
Mason (35)
Timothy (183)
Jonathan (26)
Andrew (12)
Paul (155)
Adam (72)
Nicholas (29)
Victor (111)
Ian (80)
Jackson (32)
Sawyer (424)
Merrick
Garrison (890)
Pierce (507)
Owen (58)
Lawrence (427)
Anton (832)
Angus (980)
Beckett (480)
Benson (995)
Conrad (758)
Fergus
Russel (888)

My favourite combinations:
James Daniel (Austin,Olivia, James)
Timothy Daniel (Austin, Olivia and Timothy)
Jonathon Daniel (Austin, Olivia, Jonathon)
Pierce Daniel (Austin, Olivia, Pierce)

Make sure you get back to us, with any other name ideas, or names your thinking of

Paper names

Here are some of the births this week from Aus.

The Girls:

• Saskia Gina
• Catalina Isabella
• Summer Mazkenzie
• Eleanor Christina
• Indyana (Siblings Moses and Samson)
• Lexie Alice
• Layla Matilda
• Lilly Benita
• Phoebe Ann
• Eliana
• Elspeth Lucy
• Ruby Peggy May
• Charlotte Valentine

The Boys

• Luca Antonio
• Theo George
• Jed Tiger
• Blake Kevin
• Darcy Ryder
• Jarvin Francesco
• Oliver John
• Lachlan Martin
• Jacob Harry
• Stirling Reuben
• Romeo Giovanni
• Eli Peter
• Cruz William

Melbourne Cup

So in Australia we had the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday 2nd of November. Its a big day of racing and celebrating! So people are always critical of baby names. "Its too popular" "Its a tad bit crazy" "Think of the child!"

Well any child (Gunner, Apple, Story) is glad they didn't get any horse owner/ trainor for a parent. Who knows what there names could have been. They are defiantly very crazy. I thought it would be fun to see, if you had to choose one of these names for your child which would it be?

• Shocking


• Crime Scene


• Mourilyan


• Master O'Reilly


• Harris Tweed


• Alcopop


• Viewed


• C'Est la Guerre


• Kibbutz


• Newport


• Daffodil


• Munsef


• Gallions Reach


• Leica Ding


• Ista Kareem


• Allez Wonder


• Capecove


• Basaltico


• Zavite


• Spin around


• Roman Emperor


• Fiumicino


• Warringah
  

I'm thinking "Roman Emperor" cute nickname of emperor? Maybe Daffodil, one of the most normal. Would be excepted within the botanical themed names.

Beatrix Potter

As a mother, you read thousands of books to your children. Exciting, fun books, goodnight books, time to relax kids!

A childhood favourite of both my children and mine is author Beatrix Potter. We've all read them (I hope). Famous Peter Rabbit is my favourite. As a quick post, I thought that I would point out how cute some of these names were.

Well lets start with the author herself - Helen Beatrix Potter. Helen or Helena are beginning to come into use. Beatrix or Beatrice are names which continue to grow in popularity (though not too much). Its sophisticated and fun, and you have to love the nickname Bea!!

Jemima Puddle duck also has a lovely name. Jemima is a favourite of mine at the moment. Its oh so British I would say. Its great as a first or middle name.

She uses, in her books, distinguished boys names such as Peter, Tom, Benjamin and Samuel aswell. These are names which last through the ages, and can easily be teemed with a lively middle name, if you wish, to jazz them up such as Kingston, or Leif, or maybe Rafael?

What do you think?