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  • Moms not pregnant - what would you name new dd or ds if you had another on the way? Me: Serena and Oliver.

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    • Diego and Ada

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      11.03.09, 09:21 PM Flag

      • Just named my cat Diego! Is that getting popular? I've always thought it was a sexy name.

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        11.04.09, 09:57 AM Flag

      • Diego and Dora.

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        11.04.09, 11:55 AM Flag

      • names we loved but just couldn't do: Daisy and Manny (emmanuel) names we would probably use if we had a 3rd: Iris and Lev

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        11.04.09, 05:54 PM Flag

    • Angus and Ivy

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      11.03.09, 09:23 PM Flag

      • Angus and the Cat; Holly and Ivy.

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        11.04.09, 11:56 AM Flag

      • angus was on our short list, but i hate the nn gus and ang doesn't really trip off the tongue, either.

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        11.04.09, 03:49 PM Flag

      • angus beef, poison ivy, or the ivy restaurant in hollywood...don't like either name

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        11.04.09, 04:50 PM Flag

    • Catherine and William

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      11.03.09, 09:26 PM Flag

    • maeve/dean

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      11.03.09, 09:54 PM Flag

    • Veronica and Abraham

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      11.04.09, 03:35 AM Flag

    • Katharine and Alexander

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      11.04.09, 03:56 AM Flag

    • me: o'darn and o'darnit.

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      11.04.09, 05:09 AM Flag

    • Dalton and Spence

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      11.04.09, 05:13 AM Flag

    • Chrystal and Jaden

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      11.04.09, 05:20 AM Flag

      • Cristal and Caden.

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        11.04.09, 11:54 AM Flag

        • aren't yo supposed to spell that with a K?

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          11.04.09, 07:29 PM Flag

      • strippers

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        11.04.09, 06:03 PM Flag

    • 99 and 99x3

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      11.04.09, 05:21 AM Flag

    • Suprise 4 and 5 (since I already have 3)

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      11.04.09, 05:28 AM Flag

    • Jon and Kate

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      11.04.09, 05:47 AM Flag

    • miracle :(

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      11.04.09, 05:50 AM Flag

    • Helena Wilde and Theodore (Teddy) Matthew

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      11.04.09, 06:01 AM Flag

      • I am so sick of the name Teddy

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        11.04.09, 06:04 AM Flag

        • I have never heard it from anyone I know

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          11.04.09, 06:05 AM Flag

          • me neither, old nor young.

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            11.04.09, 06:06 AM Flag

          • I just don't understand why one would name after a teddy bear.

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            11.04.09, 06:10 AM Flag

            • It's just a nn, full name is Theodore. Would call him Theo, but then he would sound like a Cosby kid.

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              11.04.09, 06:17 AM Flag

              • My dog is Theo--fits him perfectly.

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                11.04.09, 07:27 PM Flag

            • My ds is Theodore. It is a family name going back before President Roosevelt freed that mangy bear.

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              11.04.09, 06:53 AM Flag

    • Owen and India (but dh would not agree to these names)

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      11.04.09, 06:18 AM Flag

    • Henry and Jane

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      11.04.09, 06:19 AM Flag

      • love these. so classic.

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        11.04.09, 06:52 AM Flag

        • me too. know sibs named these, so guess they go together.

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          11.04.09, 09:58 AM Flag

          • I have a dd named Jane.

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            11.04.09, 10:01 AM Flag

            • and I have ds named Henry!

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              11.04.09, 04:01 PM Flag

    • connor and aoife or pheadra

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      11.04.09, 06:53 AM Flag

      • if you aren't irish, PLEASE son't do aoife

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        11.05.09, 08:06 AM Flag

    • Caroline/Conrad

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      11.04.09, 06:57 AM Flag

    • Eva and Nathaniel

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      11.04.09, 07:02 AM Flag

      • Wow, my choice is Eve and Nathaniel.

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        11.05.09, 01:20 PM Flag

    • Jane or Lila/Ian or William

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      11.04.09, 07:20 AM Flag

    • william and caroline.

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      11.04.09, 07:24 AM Flag

    • Eliza/Ward

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      11.04.09, 07:26 AM Flag

    • Nevaeh for a girl or Lleh for a boy

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      11.04.09, 07:27 AM Flag

      • LMAO! Don't you dare post Lleh on Babycenter or some trailer park dweller will think it's "unique" and use it!

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        11.04.09, 04:10 PM Flag

        • Thank God someone got it! I waited all yesterday a response.

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          11.05.09, 09:03 AM Flag

    • Ella/Nicholas

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      11.04.09, 07:28 AM Flag

    • We have a DS on the way, but if he was a DD, it would have been either Serena or Summer.

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      11.04.09, 08:32 AM Flag

      • Serena was Bewitched's sister.

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        11.04.09, 08:34 AM Flag

        • sabrina. not serena. and she was her cousin.

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          11.04.09, 11:28 AM Flag

          • I have a friend who named her daughters Samantha and Tabitha - and swears that she didn't think of the Bewitched reference.

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            11.04.09, 11:37 AM Flag

            • I have one with Sabrina and Tabitha.

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              11.05.09, 09:15 AM Flag

          • RIGHT on the cousin part, WRONG on the name. Serena was Samantha's lookalike cousin

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            11.05.09, 10:59 AM Flag

      • My dd name is Summer

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        11.04.09, 12:47 PM Flag

      • LOVE Serena, and love tennis, not Gossip Girl.

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        11.04.09, 04:03 PM Flag

    • Katherine and Kjeh

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      11.04.09, 08:43 AM Flag

    • Andrew and Anna.

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      11.04.09, 08:45 AM Flag

    • Cassius/Sabine

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      11.04.09, 08:46 AM Flag

    • Tallulah and Augustine

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      11.04.09, 08:49 AM Flag

      • Really?

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        11.04.09, 12:06 PM Flag

        • np: I know a little boy named August- very cute name-

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          11.04.09, 05:55 PM Flag

    • Louisa and Calvin

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      11.04.09, 09:40 AM Flag

      • Calvin reminds me of "Back to the Future" & Calvin Klein

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        11.04.09, 10:08 AM Flag

      • Louisa was my first choice for db#4, but I really wasn't fond of any of the nicknames, so we chose something else. I really liked Calvin too, though dh nixed it. do I know you?

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        11.04.09, 10:15 AM Flag

        • Yeah, like "wheezy" :)

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          11.04.09, 06:05 PM Flag

          • I have a Louisa and just call her that. Tried Lulu, but she's really just Louisa (and some other silly names)

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            11.04.09, 07:26 PM Flag

    • Caroline and John

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      11.04.09, 09:46 AM Flag

      • would you call him John-John?

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        11.04.09, 10:18 AM Flag

        • no, I just love classic names and they go beautifully with Elizabeth and Jack, and my dads name is john

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          11.04.09, 11:39 AM Flag

          • I don't understand. John is Jack, right? -np

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            11.04.09, 03:56 PM Flag

            • np: that's a good point. It's kind of like having a Bill and a Will.

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              11.04.09, 04:09 PM Flag

    • Carolyn and Charlie

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      11.04.09, 10:01 AM Flag

    • oh no and oh no really. I mean seriously no.

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      11.04.09, 11:03 AM Flag

    • Quinn and Reese (or Rhys)

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      11.04.09, 11:25 AM Flag

      • which is the boy and which is the girl??

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        11.04.09, 11:32 AM Flag

        • Well it could go either way, but I think Quinn is better for a girl and Rhys for a boy.

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          11.05.09, 07:35 AM Flag

    • Eve and Jeremy

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      11.04.09, 11:31 AM Flag

      • love jeremy. there's an adorable boy in dd's grade named jeremy.

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        11.04.09, 12:47 PM Flag

    • Gemma and Carl

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      11.04.09, 12:07 PM Flag

    • Cecily and Logan

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      11.04.09, 12:13 PM Flag

      • i love cecily for a dd. also fernanda. for a ds, love julian and theo but dh says no.

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        11.04.09, 04:07 PM Flag

        • Thanks for the Cecily affirmation! I've been suggesting it here for years with no feedback at all. :-( Love the name Theo BTW.

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          11.05.09, 01:18 PM Flag

    • Devynn and Omar (after my DH)

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      11.04.09, 12:44 PM Flag

    • Darcey and Owen

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      11.04.09, 03:38 PM Flag

    • I would not do Oliver. Even though it is a long-standing name in my family and apparently, according to some UBers, I am the only one who could legitimately use it w/o being a "poser". What a load of crap.

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      11.04.09, 03:40 PM Flag

      • i can't do oliver because irish-american dh says no self-loving mick would give his dc the same first name as the man who killed his forebearers.

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        11.04.09, 03:45 PM Flag

        • He's right. My Dad is fairly laid back about a lot of things, including what we name our DCs, but he'd never call a grandchild named Oliver by that name - he'd be "buddy" or "little guy", whatever, but never, ever called Oliver.

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          11.04.09, 04:01 PM Flag

          • it's like a jew naming their dc adolf.

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            11.04.09, 04:03 PM Flag

        • Just curious, what about naming a dd Olivia?

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          11.05.09, 07:05 AM Flag

          • I have two friends who have names their DD's Olivia. I personally wouldn't have chosen it but to each her own.

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            11.05.09, 01:01 PM Flag

      • huh? i have an Oliver. why am i a "poser"? what does that even mean??

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        11.05.09, 01:03 PM Flag

        • Ok - *I* don't think you are. But some UBers were saying last night that a person is a poser for using the name Hudson unless it was a family name.

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          11.05.09, 01:12 PM Flag

          • Hudson is a last name /first name (not that I dislike it). Oliver is a classic name that exists in some form in many languages. Bad comparison-

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            11.05.09, 01:40 PM Flag

    • amelia and julian

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      11.04.09, 04:01 PM Flag

    • Giselle or Vivienne for a girl, not sure for a boy. Used my only boy name for DS!

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      11.04.09, 04:02 PM Flag

    • Alison and Willem

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      11.04.09, 04:08 PM Flag

    • lol. My dd is Serena and my dog's name growing up was Oliver:)

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      11.04.09, 04:09 PM Flag

    • Rachelle/Bradley

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      11.04.09, 04:37 PM Flag

    • Damien and Adelaide or Calvin and Dierdre

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      11.04.09, 07:22 PM Flag

    • Adelia and Luca

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    • Erica and Sage

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    • Grover and Big Bird

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