Does Your Kid *Fit* Their Name?

I SHOULD HAVE named my son 'RIOT'!! ;)

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Yes. Her name means "free" and when she was five, her totem revealed itself to her. It was a dragonfly. Care to guess what a dragonfly totem symbolizes? If you guessed freedom, give yourself a gold star.

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I think it's all about perception. It's kind of like a daily horoscope. We can take bits and pieces of our day and make it fit, even if overall it's not really an accurate assessment of what is going on in our lives. Names have different connotations for every person (you may not like the name 'Mark' if you dated a Mark who cheated on you- or you may love the name Debra if a Debra was a role model for you growing up, etc.), so it is all relative. We can take bits and pieces of our children and match them up to the connotations we think that certain names have, and it can appear to be a better match than another name. At the end of the day, a name is just a name.

Before my youngest daughter was born, her name was to be Adrienne Gabrielle. We had decided it long before I was ever pregnant with her. At the last sonogram, I looked at her and started crying because she just did not look like an Adrienne to me. I confessed to my husband that her name was not Adrienne, so we spent the next couple of weeks trying to figure out exactly what her name was. We had considered all kinds of other names- Allison, Alyssa, Lilly, but nothing sounded right. One morning, Natalie Claire popped into my head and I looked at her sono picture and realized that that was definitely her name. People tell me all the time how they think her name fits her SO well. I agree!

My oldest nephew is Dennis and when his parents picked that name we kind of scoughed at it, but now he looks so much like a Dennis- he has a line of freckles across his nose and the sandy blonde hair, I couldn't imagine his name being anything else.

Fun question!

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Alex IS an ALEX!

We're REALLY good at names at our house. (We had a lot of animals before we had our son.)

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my youngest definately we named him storm and couldn't have given him a better name. He destructs my house quick. he is very loud and boy does he thunder. everyone who knows him said we named him right. :)

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My son's name fits him to a "T"!

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2 out of 3 fit and the 3rd fits her nickname, but not her given name. If I could change it, I would name her Landry. She is so bossy I call her Coach And the greatest coach of all time is Coach Landry. Go Cowboys.

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My middle guy is Gieger(guy-ger)....Even though I really have no clue what a Geiger counter is....He is unique through and through....Which I love.

My youngest is Zephyr(zefer). Which is a type of wind, a skate board company and all together amazing...He is wild and crazy and a dare devil....When people ask me his name and I tell them the older folks knod and say yep...he is a Zephyr! He is so fast.

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My daughter has "grown into" her name, but it took about a month before I felt it really "fit." The first month after she was born, I kept telling my husband "I think we gave her the wrong name!" I even refused to call her by her name (instead I called her "the baby" or used nicknames) because I didn't think it fit her. :) After about a month or so, she started growing into her name (although I still call her "bug" a lot), and her name is a total reflection of who she is!

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Sydnee was named after her cousin who passed away during childbirth...I knew from the moment I found out I was pregnant she was a girl and that her name should be (Sydney, we changed the spelling)...she is as beautiful as the pictures of the city, as mysterious as the city and just so full of life. So yes...she is a perfect fit.

Cael (pronounced Kale), means warrior. And that he is, from conception to today. He is a fighter, whether it was fighting for his life before delivery or fighting for his opinions as a three year old. He is my warrior.

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yep...my son's name fits. It was a name my husband picked out and I didn't want AT ALL...but knew it was important to him. I agreed, and now I couldn't imagine anything else. People all the time tell us that his name fits him sooo well. In the end it worked out very well. BTW...my family couldn't stand the name when they first heard it...now I think they accept it.

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Yes, but not sure how objective I am.....

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We had a name picked out for our third. When she arrived her name really did not fit her. We took a day calling her 2 different names. Name 1 she cried everytime we said it. Name 2 she was quiet as could be. We left the hospital with a name we did not plan on naming her.

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My girls are named "Gwendolynn" and "Lilly" I really dont know how to figure out if they *fit* those names, but i was always concerned about that too. Thats why i decided to let them pick their own middle names. It becomes official and notarized on their ss cards at age 12.

However, the technical meaning of Gwendolynn is welsh meaning beautiful, light skinned and fair haired. ___whILE she is certainly beautiful and extremely light skinned, fair haired she is NOT.

My other daughter Lilly- meaning simply "flower"- not sure how someone could live up to that but she certainly lives up to her nickname...Silly Lilly

But i have never fit my name, so it did concern me.

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1st child: my DH was insistent on our son's name, I wasn't too enthused ....but did not have another boy's name which I preferred. In the end, I chose the girl's name & he chose the boy's name. The name we chose still fits him perfectly (24 years later)!

2nd child: sad, sad story....for the life of me, I cannot remember the boy's name we wanted to use. Our daughter was born w/ multiple heart/lung defects....& the next 3 weeks we sooo emotionally traumatic that all misc is a blur. I was adamant on our daughter's name....naming her for my Great Gma whom I had adored all of my life. A perfect fit & 18 years later, friends/family still honor her name.

3rd child: we had a boy's name all picked out....until my best friend's stepdaughter linked it with "grody". Once she put "grody" with Brody....I knew we were in trouble! Our son was 24 hrs old before he was finally named & the nursing staff kept teasing us about it. Our final name followed the pattern of our older children....using family names for the middle names...& his first name was a shortened version of my Great Gpa's. It suits him perfectly!

My cousin named her daughter "Nathalie"....a very beautiful name. It became so much of a burden - having that "h" in there - that my cousin legally changed the spelling prior to KG. :)

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My daughters names are Samantha - The Witch from Bewitched & oh boy is she a witch & the other Haley - a bundle of hay!!!!!!! Neither name really defines them - their personality defines them. I think what is the hardest is when you are thinking of names, you think of all of the negative that you associate w/a name. The honest reason I named Samantha that was to have something to go w/my mother's middle name Joyce. We were orignally going to name her Sidney from Melrose Place but then my mom died unexpectedly right before she was born and my husband loved the name Haley.

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I am not sure that the name I gave our daughter is "fittable".
I honestly have never met or scene anyone online or in baby naming forums who have used my daughters name.

It's not like a "Jessica" or a "Lindsey" or a "Peggy"...
I have no idea how to determine if she "fits" her name because no one has this name, so I can't compare personalities or traits.

Her name is Natania.

It's a very traditionally Jewish name. One with a lot of meaning that links her to her Daddy's Tribe from Israel. Netanya was a man in the tribe of Levi, my husbands ancestry.
It is also a city is Israel, and a Russian sounding name, which is also perfect as his relatives are Russian Jews.
It also means "Gift From God".
I did the traditional Hebrew spelling instead of what would probably be more American.
And now she gets her name mispronounced all the time, LOL

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Oh God yes. I was pregnant with twins. During pregnancy one was very feisty, moved all over the place, the other one was so mellow, we would have trouble finding her heartbeat because i guess she was just content. I wanted to make sure the feisty one baby A got the name I thought was perfect for her, which means wood princess, forect princess, the one who helps you find your way if you get lost. The other one was named a very mellow name. It's so sweet to say it, and she is a sweetheart. Perfect names for both. It would have been sooo wrong if they got each other's names.

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Yes, it fits my son perfectly! A few people in our family didn't care for his name, but now he is a toddler they love it. Because, it's so him! My name never fit me. In fact, just about every person I meet says I don't look like my name. I have always wanted a different name. I'm SO glad his name fits.

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Yes, my daughter's name suits her well. All along we had another girl's name picked out (we both loved it) but at some point I decided that the name we had picked out just wasn't going to work for her. I suggested another name and, luckily, my hubby eventually agreed. Her name fits her perfectly and I just can't imagine her with the other name we had originally picked out. Funny thing is that she had her legs crossed at every ultrasound so my OB/GYN said that he thought she was a girl but wasn't sure. He even warned me not to paint her room pink, which I wasn't planning on doing anyway. Somehow I just knew she was a girl. We never even bothered to pick out a boy's name at all.

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We named both our boys a day or two after they were born. Neither one ended up with the name we thought we were going to give them; I'm so glad we waited. Even though you hardly know them by day one or two of their lives, it's amazing how you can get a feel for their personality that quickly!

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yes with all 3 I named them while they were in my womb they came into this world & they are who I named them

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Micheal is 100% a Michael :-) we call him Mikey ~Perfect for that gorgeous, sweet little 'beast' of mine !! LOL

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Yep! For all three! Love their names.

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Yep, it sure does!!!

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What a deep and probing question. My older daughter's name came to me on the way to the hospital. I don't know if the name fits her. It's an exceptionally beautiful name not in common usage. But until she was 8 years old she had a nickname. Her father didn't want her to keep it and so she gave it up. About five years ago she took it back and seems to thrive with it.
My younger daughter has a classic Nordic name which suits her totally. When she was in school she played around with her name a great deal. Choosing her middle name and variations on her first name.