help with baby names!!!

[Maximilianus]

Nikki Rather anticlimactic!

Nikki sounds very climactic to me, really. It sounds as one of those names that give an idea of sweetness/fondness

I'm so not special

Yes you are

But hey, at least my surname is a rare one, and there are no other Annas with the same last name, so maybe I'm a bit special after all

See? There you have it. A good combination of name + surname and you're totally original ... (and surely not just a bit )

[Janine]

Janine, Brooke with an "e" at the end is a small flow of water like a stream.

Brooke Elise, such a beautiful sounding name! I think with first and second names it is important that they sound well together, and this just sounds perfect!

Niamh, how strange; here, in the US, 'brook' does indeed mean 'the small flow of water like a stream', but is spelled without the 'e'. I wonder if this is one of those instances, of letters being dropped in the ocean, on their way over to America...for example 'labour,' 'harbour'....both spelled here 'labor' and 'harbor', leaving out that 'u'...actually I like them both better with the 'u'. Hahaha... I will have to tell my son and his wife that their daughter's name means 'a stream', in Ireland. They will laugh, since she has an very Irish last name. My son's name is very Irish, too...Sean...

[Maximilianus]

Niamh, how strange; here, in the US, 'brook' does indeed mean 'the small flow of water like a stream', but is spelled without the 'e'. I wonder if this is one of those instances, of letters being dropped in the ocean, on their way over to America...for example 'labour,' 'harbour'....both spelled here 'labor' and 'harbor', leaving out that 'u'...actually I like them both better with the 'u'. Hahaha... I will have to tell my son and his wife that their daughter's name means 'a stream', in Ireland. They will laugh, since she has an very Irish last name. My son's name is very Irish, too...Sean...

Here's a detailed explanation, I hope:

BROOK

Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
From an English surname which denoted one who lived near a brook.

BROOKE

Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Variant of BROOK. The name came into use in the 1950s, probably influenced by American socialite Brooke Astor (1902-2007). It was further popularized by actress Brooke Shields.

Source: Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Brooke

This being said, your granddaughter's name MEANS "a stream" EVERYWHERE, only that her name is an American variant of that stream

[Janine]

Here's a detailed explanation, I hope:

BROOK

Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
From an English surname which denoted one who lived near a brook.

BROOKE

Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Variant of BROOK. The name came into use in the 1950s, probably influenced by American socialite Brooke Astor (1902-2007). It was further popularized by actress Brooke Shields.

Source: Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Brooke

This being said, your granddaughter's name MEANS "a stream" EVERYWHERE, only that her name is an American variant of that stream

Max, thanks for all that information. Well, presently, she's a little babbling Brooke! hahah

[Maximilianus]

Max, thanks for all that information. Well, presently, she's a little babbling Brooke! hahah

You be welcome

Curiously there's a verse in Mariana in the South, by Tennyson, that says "She woke: the babble of the stream"

[Janine]

You be welcome

Curiously there's a verse in Mariana in the South, by Tennyson, that says "She woke: the babble of the stream"

hahah....now that would be my Brooke!...that is if she takes after her grannie.

[Maximilianus]

hahah....now that would be my Brooke!...that is if she takes after her grannie.

That can be somehow arranged by Nature contact, which is often not very difficult to accomplish on children (normally they love streams ). You can take her often by the streams and teach her how to listen to the babbles of Nature. I'm sure she'll love it

[Beautifull]

- Bandits at ten o'clock!
- Roger!

....

-Roger that!

[Sheujade]

I had a dream a few years back about a little girl...maybe she is my daughter and I just haven't had her yet, who knows. Dreams are strange.
But in my dream her name was Aeryana Alyssia. Pronounced: (Aireeyana)

I am one of the doomed that cannot have children unless I have the procedure, but of course that will cost 11,000...money we don't have.
So, I'm putting her name out there if your friend wants to use it.

[DanielBenoit]

My sister is having a baby. I suggested Lolita if it was a girl (no, not because of the novel, but because it is a beautiful name, and is fun to say, Lo-li-ta ) and Art for either a boy or girl.