Sunday, March 19, 2006

Help us name our new baby girl!

We've barely got a list of names for Baby Girl X yet. Our criteria are, the name should...

  1. not be hard to spell, for the kid, or for other people (McGreivey is hard enough)
  2. not be fadish or cutesy (no! McKenna or MacKenzie or Bailey or Hailey and definitely no Baili or Haili)
  3. not be too dischordant, linguisto-ethically, with McGreivey. Olga McGreivey or Michiko McGreivey might be too weird.
  4. not also be the first name of very close friends (or former girlfriends :) ) or of close relatives (unless the name happens also to be a traditional family name).
  5. not sound like you first heard of it on a soap opera.


Our list so far (in no particular order):

  • Claire (trad. first name from Michelle's family)
  • Ann(e) / Anna (trad. first name from John's family)
  • Hope (trad. first name from John's family)
  • June (John's mother's middle name)
  • Alice
  • Katherine (trad. first name from John's family)
  • Mary (Michelle's grandmother's name, and John's great-grandmother's name)
  • Laura (somewhat violates rule #4, but it's a nice name)
  • Emmeline
  • Ellen / Helen
  • Rose
  • Elizabeth
  • Lydia


I guess those are all old-fashioned or common names.


We have rejected:


  • Siobhan (nice name, but violates spelling rule)