r/Names • • 58m ago

Evaline?

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I’m expecting boy / girl twins. Looking for vintage girl names that go with Archer. I don’t want two A names. I dreamt of a girl named Evaline, and was wondering what you all thought of that, or similar names that ARE NOT Evelyn, Adeline, Amelia, or anything like that. Evaline seems vintage enough, and I could call her Eva or Evie. Her middle name is going to be Jade.

ALSO looking for boy middle names for Archer. Thanks!


r/Names • • 3h ago

Husband's family is treating me like a monster because I refuse to name our daughter "Bertha". Am I actually in the wrong?

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I feel like I’m losing my absolute mind and my pregnancy hormones are definitely not helping, but I desperately need a reality check.

I’m 26 weeks along with our first baby, a girl. My husband’s grandmother passed away last year, and she was admittedly a wonderful woman who practically raised him. Her legal name was Bertha. For the past two months, my husband and his mother have been relentlessly insisting that we have to name our daughter Bertha to "carry on the legacy."

I told them very gently from day one that I think giving a child born in this generation that first name is basically handing her a lifetime of schoolyard bullying. I offered to use it as a middle name, or find a modern variation like Birdie or Beatrice, but they treated that like a slap in the face.

last night at Sunday dinner, my MIL literally started crying, saying I’m "erasing his grandmother's memory" and my husband went completely quiet instead of backing me up. He told me on the drive home that I’m being shallow and that "names grow on people."

am I genuinely being a horrible person for putting my foot down on this? I dont want our kid to spend her whole childhood hating her legal name.


r/Names • • 3h ago

Help find 4 or 5 letter Korean name

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I want to open a cafe Korean kitchen and I want easy 4 or letters word name


r/Names • • 7h ago

Alina or Olivia

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r/Names • • 7h ago

Thoughts on this

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What are your thoughts on the name Remi Rose ?


r/Names • • 8h ago

Stuck between names

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Barrett
Abbott
Abel
Iver

Love the nn Bear/Abe

My other two have names that start with A


r/Names • • 8h ago

Boy's names with Co in it?

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Any boy's names with Co in it? Because I'd lile to have his nickname "Co" (read: Co like in coconut).

Colin? Colby? Jacob? I love Constantine but too long for first name.

It doesn't matter English, French, Greek, etc.

TIA!


r/Names • • 8h ago

Dalton or Levi?

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Was for sure wanting a Dalton but when I got pregnant I started to like Levi a lot!! Idk!


r/Names • • 8h ago

Boy's names with "Co"

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r/Names • • 9h ago

Boy names that go with Penelope and Sebastian

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r/Names • • 9h ago

Lydia or Irene?

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ive been debating between cecilia, lydia or irene for a character but im leaning more towards lydia and irene but i cant really choose between them

the characters last name is Lim! korean descent ^^
(also other name suggestions are always welcome)


r/Names • • 9h ago

Bennett or Remi

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Bennett is my maiden name. My dad passed 10 yrs ago this march.

But I didn’t change my last name when we got married. Neither did my sister and we both love still having the family name and tie to dad <3 But baby will take my husbands last. And for Christmas cards and return address etc. we’ll go by the ______’s as a family unit.

My husband loves Bennett for a baby girl. And call her Bennie.

I love it too but I’m just hung up on it being confusing if my legal last name is still and also Bennett.

Pickups from school? Doctor’s Apt’s? Could this be an issue like hi I’m Mrs. Bennett here to pick up Bennett. Or do I just in those scenarios go by my husband and kids last name??

The other name we are loving is Remi.

No lore, explanation or hesitation with Remi. Honestly surprised my husband likes Bennie more than Remi… thoughts?!!! And June will be middle for either option.


r/Names • • 10h ago

A double standard in naming?

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I've always wondered this: for a long, long time, it's been perfectly OK to name a girl a traditionally masculine name. In fact, there are a host of names that are considered girls' names that started out as boys' names: Carol, Leslie, Lauren, Taylor, and many others. It's considered edgy and cool now. Yet somehow no matter how progressive they are, those same parents don't think it edgy or cool to name a boy a traditionally feminine name. like Sophia or Olivia or Daisy.

Why is that?


r/Names • • 10h ago

Madison or Marilyn?

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Let’s say the last name is Smith


r/Names • • 10h ago

Unique name

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So I’m a girl named Lazer, but I go by Laz. I personally love my name and how I’ve never met another person with it. I do get concerned looks at school sometimes, especially when there’s a substitute and they’re doing attendance. People often tell me that it’s a “boy name”. What do you guys think?


r/Names • • 11h ago

Try to guess the name chain!

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"Anne Frank Sinatra", "Benjamin Franklin Roosevelt", a name chain is a chain of two overlapping names. Try to guess the chain in as few clues as possible:

Clue Number Person 1 Person 2
1 She's an American athlete She's an American actress
2 One could argue that she is at the peak of her powers She's been consistently working since the '90s
3 She made her acting debut in A House of Dynamite in 2025 She won an Emmy in 2017 for her performance in Big Little Lies
4 She won WNBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2026 She won the Best Actress Oscar for Walk The Line in 2006
5 She won the NCAA Women's Basketball title at LSU in 2023 She's blonde, legally speaking

For the answer, go to https://name-chain.org/2026-10-15

There's a new puzzle daily, and over 100 existing puzzles to play!


r/Names • • 12h ago

Thoughts on the name Olympia and Titania for new twin girls (Greek mythology)

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r/Names • • 13h ago

Is Wynn/ Wyn an annoying name to live with?

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r/Names • • 15h ago

Vintage girl names

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My husband and I are due with our first baby and we need help with a girl name! We are a Swedish American couple so names must work in both. I generally love vintage names that are not fussy and have a nice rhythm to them.

Some examples:

Iris Elizabeth
Eleanor June

Other names I like: Josefine, Beatrice (husband doesn’t like this one), Vera, Esther (Estie), Margaret

Eleanor and Elizabeth are both family names. It would be sweet to use one but not a dealbreaker.

Please share all your vintage name inspo! 💗


r/Names • • 15h ago

Rural New England names

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r/Names • • 15h ago

Baby girl #2 name help?!

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I’m looking for name ideas for baby girl #2, who is due in December! Her big sister’s name is Kendall, and I’d love to find a name that sounds good alongside it.
Please share your favorite girl names, especially ones that you think pair well with Kendall! I’m open to all styles and would love some inspiration.


r/Names • • 17h ago

Thoughts on Beau

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Thoughts on Beau (for a boy!) .

I like Beau / Bo but won’t be using it because my partner is from an area where everyone calls B.O (body odour) “bow”. So the same as Beau lol. Now that I live here with him I hear the word a lot (like “he smells like bo” etc)

Just wanted some other thoughts on the name tho!Little sad I’m not able to use it.


r/Names • • 17h ago

Name regret

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I had a really hard time picking a name for my beautiful baby girl- I stalked this page relentlessly for ideas and eventually settled on Ava as my husband loved it and it’s been on my list for years.

Now I feel slightly regretful that I didn’t name her Lila. Maybe because Ava is so popular / feels slightly overdone? Or because people tend to give sweet “awws” to the name Lila and not so much to the name Ava given its level of saturation.

I ended up with Ava as it felt it would age better on an adult but will I always look at her and think “Lila”? Parents who have experienced something similar would love to hear from you.


r/Names • • 17h ago

Figuring out the nickname "Lou"

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r/Names • • 18h ago

Storm

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There's this guy in one of my classes named Storm; I think it's so freaking cool and I've never heard of it before

How common is it?