Rusti writes:<\/p>\n
I’m 37 weeks pregnant with our first child (due in 21 days!! YIKES!) and the gender is unknown (well – to me! my husband and sister know, but they’ve both been threatened that if I find out – there will be consequences!!) :) Anyway – we have narrowed down our boy name choices to two boy names – with variations on each middle name, although the girl name list keeps changing… and I was hoping for some outside help :)<\/p>\n
Our last name is Sidel (long “i” sound – like “sigh-dell”) if that helps!<\/p>\n
The names my husband and I both like are as follows:<\/p>\n
BOY<\/p>\n
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- Clay Allen (his choice)<\/li>\n
- Clay Adam (my choice)<\/li>\n
- Cole Allen (his choice)<\/li>\n
- Cole Thomas (my choice)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
GIRL<\/p>\n
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- Jemma Jean (we would call her JJ)<\/li>\n
- Emma Grace (only girl name that was on BOTH our lists, but is a little more popular than we like)<\/li>\n
- Addison Jean<\/li>\n
- Alex\/Alyx Jean<\/li>\n
- Allie\/Ally Jean\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Other names we like for a girl but haven’t made it to the short list for one reason or another include:<\/p>\n
Maggie (my favorite!)
Summer (his favorite, not for me)
Bailey (both like it – but a girl with the initials of BJ??? not sure on that)
Abigail\/Abby
Olivia, Aubrey & Mara (he hates all three)
Hailey, Katy, Amy, Jessie (his picks, not for me)
Anna (his pick – I prefer Annalise – he hates it though)<\/p>\nOther boy names we liked (to get a better idea of our tastes)<\/p>\n
Me – Grady, Owen, Grayson
Hubs – Kyle, Casey, Austin, Mason, Parker<\/p>\nA little background on the family names which have us debating still… Jean is both my mom & sister’s middle name, as well as my husband’s deceased grandmother’s – it’s not his favorite, but he’s compromising with me :) Clay is my mother-in-law’s maiden name, we lost her last September to cancer, and I thought it was a nice way to honor her… Allen is my husband’s middle name – and he often goes by “Al” (which is also his father & grandfather’s – hubby is a III, but if it’s a boy, we’re not having a fourth) Adam is my deceased cousin’s name, and was actually a front-runner for first name on hubby’s original list… Thomas is the most passed-down middle name on my father’s side – although not his middle name, it was my grandfather’s and great-grandfather’s – as well as several cousins’…<\/p>\n
So… that’s what we’re dealing with – I hope y’all can help us!! We’d even be happy to get it down to two each to take to the hospital in the next few weeks!! :) Thanks in advance!!! Oh, and sorry it’s sooooo long!!! :)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
All right, we’re going to use two separate polls here, one for girl names and one for boy names! Form two lines, please, and vote one time in each poll! [Polls closed; see below.]<\/p>\n
Girl name poll results<\/span> (289 votes total):
Jemma Jean: 70 votes, roughly 24%
Emma Grace: 93 votes, roughly 32%
Addison Jean: 78 votes, roughly 27%
Alex\/Alyx Jean: 14 votes, roughly 5%
Allie\/Ally Jean: 34 votes, roughly 12%<\/p>\nBoy name poll results<\/span> (277 votes total):
Clay Allen: 46 votes, roughly 17%
Clay Adam: 47 votes, roughly 17%
Cole Allen: 37 votes, roughly 13%
Cole Thomas: 147, roughly 53%<\/p>\nName update<\/span> 01-22-2009! Rusti writes:<\/p>\n
Our sweet Emma Grace was born on January 6th and we couldn’t be happier with her! I want to thank you & all your readers for their help! Hubs still loved Jemma, but after watching me go through delivery, when I said “babe, we aren’t naming her Jemma” he said “what do you want?” and we agreed that Emma Grace was perfect!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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