Share Your Top Ten Favorite Names.

[MrNewportCustom]

What are your top ten favorite names, male and/or female? List each name with the spelling or spellings you prefer. If you have ten favorites of each gender, make two lists.

Personally, I don't have a list of male names. So here is my top ten list of female names, in no particular order:

1) Sara / Sarah
2) Marie
3) Rebecca
4) Cari
5) Rose
6) Jane
7) Catherine
8) Victoria
9) Jessica
10) Susan


Lee
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A Rose by any other name . . .

 

[BegintheBeguine]

My favorite male name is John. 'll get back to you on some others. Cool thread, Lee.

 

[sweetfrancaise]

Ooh, this one's fun! Here are my lists:

Male
1. Ciaran
2. Benjamin
3. Theodore (Teddy!)
4. Nathaniel (Nate)
5. Jude
6. Max
7. Aidan
8. James
9. Julien
10. Kenneth

Female
1. Roisin
2. Rose
3. Ruby
4. Amelie
5. Aurelia
6. Aine
7. Lydie
8. Ursula (yes, yes, I know—but she’s the patron saint of women’s education, and my birthday is her saint’s day, so she’s cooler than the movie makes her!)
9. Lily
10. Grainne

 

[Ada Veen]

We want to name our children 'John Henry' and 'Rosa', after Rosa Parks/Luxemburg. I'd like my daughter to have a strong female role model, and John and Joan sounds a bit strange!

I really love quite Jewish sounding names too, I like Isaac, Moses etc. Very biblical, but the other half is not so keen. His surname is Steel, and I think with the story and all 'John-Henry Steel' is quite a cool name! John Henry was my great grandad's name too.

 

[LadyStardust]

Don't know that I have ten for each, but my top male name is Edward(but not the more informal Eddie), and my favorite female name is Savannah.

 

[Fletch]

Male: No listing

Female:
(in no particular order)
Jean
Julie
Laura
Lisa
Melissa
Marie
Elizabeth
Alison
Helen
Sarah

 

[PeeWee]

Wick
Dorothy
Hilliard
Betty
Audrey
Tal
Staley
Ima
Ruby
Pat(woman)

 

[pigeon toe]

In no particular order:

1. Isabel
2. Clara
3. Theodore
4. Frances
5. Julio
6. Owen
7. Sadie
8. Lisette
9. Jack
10. Nora

 

[pennycarrol]

For a female my favourites are:
F?©lice
Ella
Marie
Louise
Sophie
Ava

For a male:
Adrian
Elliot
Diego
Harold
Simon

 

[Chas]

Mavis
Fiona
Doreen (my mum)
Doug (my dad)
Dunc (short for Duncan-used to be very popular in Canada)
Yvonne
Tom
Ted
Frances
Francis

 

[Bebop]

I think it has a lot to do with whom you've known with these names. If you have had bad experiences with a "John" (no pun intended), you might not favor the name. If you have had grrreat experiences with a "Trixie", you might be partial to that name.

1. Sarah
2. Mary
3. Alice
4. Iris
5. Carol
6. Angela
7. Maria
8. Jutah
9. Susan
10. and my favorite female name that no one in the U.S. dares name their daughter.....
Xochitl, pronounced, Zoe-chill. Rolls right out of my mouth. Easy to pronounce even when drunk.

I don't have ten male names.
1. Aldo
2. Ben or Benjamin
3. David
4. Vincent
5. Bruno

 

[LizzieMaine]

Bud
Biff
Duke
Deek
Slats
Satch
Lefty
Stretch
Mac
Spud

 

[pigeon toe]

10. and my favorite female name that no one in the U.S. dares name their daughter.....
Xochitl, pronounced, Zoe-chill. Rolls right out of my mouth. Easy to pronounce even when drunk.

I know a few people with that name! Take a Chicano Studies class and you'll see! It's a great name.

 

[carter]

Female:
Abigail
Alexandra
Cameron (My Daughter)
Elizabeth
Gwendolyn
Jean (My Mom)
Kathleen
Rebecca
Sarah
Virginia

Male:
Benjamin (My Father-in-Law)
Christian
Connell
Colin
Edward
Jack
Micah
Nathaniel (My Son)
Richard (My Dad, Uncle, & Brother)
Samuel

Female Runners Up:
Elaine
Laura
Madelaine
Nora
Samantha

Male Runners Up:
Grahame
Kenneth

 

[Barbigirl]

Caroline
Emily
Ava
Elise
Claire
Chloe
Susannah
Eliza

Henry
Ethan
Richard (not shortened in any way!)
Stuart
Timothy Andrew (is the name I picked if I'd had a boy)
Ross

Hmmm, that is all I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[Bebop]

I know a few people with that name! Take a Chicano Studies class and you'll see! It's a great name.

One of my first serious girlfriends as a teenager had the name of Xochitl. A marvelous and old name with a Mexican indian background(?) I was raised in El Sereno!!

 

[sweetfrancaise]

Bud
Biff
Duke
Deek
Slats
Satch
Lefty
Stretch
Mac
Spud

:eusa_clap You made me giggle, LizzieMaine. I love all those old nicknames--looking through my great-grandfather's scrapbook from the twenties, in college, everyone had one. Carrot, Socky, Hap...I need to start calling my friends some of those, just to throw everyone off balance.

 

[GeniusInTheLamp]

(Subject to very slight modification, depending on my mood

Male:
Preston
Alfred
Howard
Russell
George
Arthur
Vernon
Lachlan
Walter
Terence

Female:
Victoria
Christine
Fiona
Carmen
Angela
Laura
Brenda
Elizabeth
Diana
Emma

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Female:
Jane
MaryJane
Rosemary
Ginger
Lola
Donna
Lillian
Victoria
Ruby
Joan


Don't know about male names! I like Russell and Lloyd a lot.

 

[Trixie]

Female
Scarlett
Abigail
Amy
Meighan
Lauren
Bryndall
Chelsea
Emily
Hillary
Kimberly

Male
Tristan
Scott
Christopher
Zachary
Colin
Alex
Nick
Josh
Brandon
Shaun