baby names...

i swore i wouldn't even talk about baby names until the end of my pregnancy. and even still, i would choose the name after the baby was born. but last night, jae was on the website looking up whats going on with the baby at 7 weeks. it is now the size of a blueberry. hmm then why is my tummy so big? oh yeah, im just fat.

so i guess he wanders around the site and starts looking at name links. he starts going through all the years, like even back to 1995 to see what the popular names were. this sparked this whole conversation where he started reading out like 400 names.

VERY surprisingly, i think we agreed on a lot of things. of course we could only find like 2 names out of both boy and girl section we would even consider. not because we didn't like any, but because we would already know somebody with that name.

coming from a large family, a lot of the good names are already taken. if i go through the list of what's taken (this is just my generation and below..theres more on higher levels! I added Jae's family as well, even though there are only 7 names to add hehe):

BOYS:
Brandon, Evan, Andrew, Philip, Michael, Eric, Kenneth, Adam, Aidan, Benjamin, Christopher, Kevin, Matthew, Timothy, Jeremy, Tyler, Aaron, Jonathan, Ethan, Steve, Eddie, Jerry, Jason, Craig, Daniel, Peter, Ryan, Philip, Jake, Nathan

GIRLS:
Emily, Lauren, Mackenzie, Morgan, Teresa, Eileen, Alice, Cindy, Lisa, Diana, Vanessa, Cordelia, Erica, Jennifer, Chloe, Rachel, Meeya, Leila, Sammie, Kristen, Julia, Janice

Add on Friend's baby's names that can't be used:
Lucas, Evan, Penelope, Cadence, James, Avery

I know there are tons of names left.... but still hard after so many have been used. Also, you have to eliminate names of friends too right? Like Dave, Judy, Julie, Amy, Anna etc... this doesn't include any of my aunts and uncles, like David, Thomas, Maureen, Sue, Raymond, May, Gary, Lily, etc etc.

see how this could be difficult for us? thats why i didn't want to think about it!