I came to this topic to see if anyone else thought of asking God what they should name their children as I will. Olga is the only one that said that she will ask God for the same reason that I will. My mom and dad were told my name would be Joel before I was born. TinkHeartsJesus mentioned that it would be up to Jesus in the end. If God leaves it up to my future wife and I for some of my children's names, I won't think of cute baby names but how they will have names in highschool.
A tradition in my family has started (I don't know when) that the first name of the father is used as the middle name of one of the boys. I want to continue that tradition making one of my boys middle names Joel.
I am afraid of what I'd have to deal with if I had a girl or girls but I also feel like I really want one. I like the names Alexia or Zalexia, for a girl. I have noticed that women named faith, hope, cherity etc. tend to not have a large amount of that trate but that might be just because we expect more from them because of their name... My mom's name is Faith and my Dad has a more of it than she does. I might give faith for a middle name of a girl and love for another... if I had a third I would give her hope for a middle name. (the three that won't pass away but the greatest of them is Love) heh. that might cause a problem with them thinking I would be partial to the one with love for a middle name. I really think that my future wife would have first say for their first names but then agian, I would have the last say (I'm a good comprimiser... heh)
for boys I'd try to make it so their initials would roll off the tongue easily or make a 3 letter short name ending with M (my last name is Manahan)
Jonathan Adam Manahan would work well for a JAM, heh probably won't do that one though... my brother (second oldest to me) is Jonathan and my youngest brother is John-Mark... MAM... no... DIM, DAM, DUM, no... David doesn't work for me... AIM heh Adam Iam Manahan <--I mean Iam NOT Ian because I have known two Ians... and the I am is God.
BAM, BOM, BIM, BEM... hmm first name with B... ooo it could be a girl Betty ana Manahan, CAM, COM, CIM... Canan Able Manahan... the truth is that I am serious about these and they just pop into my head and then after I type them and read them out loud in my head (if that makes sense) they make interesting connections to the Bible. anyway I already ruled out D so on to E... I'll skip to F... FEM> Faith Elli Manahan... Some of you may have thought of this as an interesting read and some of you may think it is too long but I have the rest of the alphabet to go and I'm going to church in the morning so perhaps another time.