Alice writes:<\/p>\n
we need help! obviously. I’m going to give birth NEXT WEEK to our 5th child. It’s a boy. we don’t have a name.
our other kids–oh wait. our names are Alice and Ethan Bond. Bond is a surname we just adopted because we are both estranged from our families. i don’t exactly suggest being estranged from your family but after seeing what some friends went thru to honor every single person on their family tree, well..
anyway.
When I was preg with our first child we had NO idea what to name her. Then one day we came across the old folk song little Liza Jane” and in one of those awesome moments we just glanced at each other and grinned really widely. So our first daughter is
Liza Jane Bond
(in retrospect i might’ve picked a different middle, not in love with the 1-1-1 flow of her name)
When i was preg the 2nd time we LOVED having a special song for our girl. Liza asked for the song ALL the time–at 8 she still does–and her room was\/is decorated with a super artistic print of the lyrics, and we just loved it. we wanted the same thing for our 2nd child. we knew it was a girl, we thought about carefully and we came up with
Matilda Clare Bond
Waltzing Matilda, obviously. Clare is just a name we like.
in between M and her sister we lost a baby in the womb. Before we knew she was dead we’d named her Susannah Rose. we consider Susannah our daughter even tho we never really met her which is why i say we’re on our 5th kid–kind of our 5th, kind of our 4th!
Our youngest is–and this took a LOT of thought but obviously we’d decided to continue the pattern–
Clementine Louise Bond
so the problem is this: we LOVE having daughters named after folks songs. and we love that they have very traditional mns just in case they need them-Jane, Clare, Louise. all 3 girls LOVE having their “own” song, and love singing them, and its just a great system.
this will be our last child. and its a BOY. and we are stuck! for middle names we like:
Alexander
Elliot
Graham
Miles (our favorite, will use if it works with the first name)
But we cannot come up with a first name! we feel like if it was a girl we’d have an easier time and also HAVE to stick with our pattern but with a boy maybe he could have something else special about his name? the thing is our girls LOVE their names and the whole song tie in. the other day we were talking about it and Matilda (our classic middle child, so sensitive) got really upset at the idea that the baby might not have a song name.
but we can’t think of ANY folks songs, aside from John Henry which is we don’t really like, that have boys names. there are some more obscure songs, but they are REALLY obscure…and we just can’t find anything that carries on the tradition from our girls in the way we want. so, um, HELP????<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI suggest Daniel\/Danny or Jude or John(ny).<\/p>\n
Danny is from Danny Boy<\/a>, and it’s a little morbid, but so are Waltzing Matilda<\/a> and Oh My Darling, Clementine<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Jude is from Hey, Jude<\/a>, a slightly cheerier choice in that it deals with divorce rather than death.<\/p>\n
John(ny) is in many, many songs, but the ones that come to my mind are Who’s Johnny?<\/a>, Johnny B. Goode<\/a>, and Johnny Angel<\/a>. I’m not sure John Bond works, though.<\/p>\n
I’m not familiar with many folk songs, but you could also see if there’s anything here: Songs with Boys’ Names in the Title<\/a> or Baby Names Inspired by Popular Songs<\/a>, or Names in Song Titles<\/a>, or Boys Names From Songs<\/a>, or Boy Names From Song<\/a>, or Traditional and Folk Song Titles<\/a>, or Song Names<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Name update!<\/span> Alice writes:<\/p>\n
thank you SO MUCH for all the help and thanks also so much to all of your commenters! that was SO helpful and actually i was reading them all while i was in labor! well, ethan was reading them to me.
anyway, they were great, thank you! we did like the james idea but naming the poor kid james bond seemed a little unfair. but we loved so many of the suggestions. other faves were Louis, Jude, Jeremiah, Henry…we liked a lot of them.
But in the end, we went with:
Daniel Tucker Bond
And we sing Old dan Tucker ALL THE TIME. the girls love, love love having a baby brother and we adore him, and his song has become a regular part of our day. only downside is the girls want to wash his hair in a frying pan…
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