Babies Named After Animals

Anthony and I were talking the other day and an odd conversation came up... it went a little something like this:

Me: I like the name Taz or Gio if we have another baby and it's boy
Anthony: Taz is cool, but not Gio. You know... all of our other kids are going to have to have unusual names now or else it will be weird. (Because our son's name is Bear)
Me: Yea you are probably right.
Anthony: We should name them all after animals.
Me: ... that would be neat.

 I had a few names in mind that I was storing away that I REALLY like for when we do have more kids, some of them are Taz, Gio, Ace, Archer, Lionel, and Rocky. I guess the only ones that would really apply to the whole animal thing would be Taz and Lionel.

I got to thinking about other animal names. I didn't think extensively or do any looking up or anything just a few light thoughts and I also think that Rhino would be cute or even Ram. Maybe Shark, but that is pushing it because people sometimes call others a shark as an insult. I do LOVE Hawk but Anthony refuses to let me use that name because it rhymes with something that can be used in a profane way.

The problem seems to be, I can not think of any cute girl names! I do really want a girl but I would be so lost as to what to name her if I did have one. I think Swan is ok-ish, I don't love it, but I could live with it. I also like the name Layla but that's not an animal lol so I don't know that that would work.

Hmmmm, only the future will tell how this will go.... I feel so silly thinking about names of children that will likely not even be born until 2 or more years from now lol.

Choosing the Name "Bear"

Bear is not your average baby name. When we tell people our son's name we get mixed reactions. Some like it, some love it, some hate it, some say we are immature. A few even tried to talk us out of it. A lot of you may be wondering just how we decided on this particular name.

Let me first of start by saying, it has not a thing to do with the fact that we call our selves bears for fun. I came up with a list of about 40 names and presented them to Anthony, he did not like a SINGLE one! He also refused to come up with a name that he did like, so it was up to me to come up with something that he also liked.

The name we were thinking about using before we picked Bear was "Mykah" I tried and tried and tried some more to get Anthony to say okay to this name but every time it was a no go. At first he said it was a girl's name, and then he went on to say it was much too "white" lol. So I scratched that idea and went back to the drawing board.

We call Bear panda a lot, and Anthony has suggested naming him Panda before. At first I thought he was joking but it soon became clear to me that he was not. One day we were in the car, he was driving me to the train station to go back home after spending the weekend together and he said that we should just name him Panda for real. I then suggested Bear, I was only half way serious when I suggested this. I thought he would never go for it. But to my surprise he actually said yes! He said he liked it and it sounded "manly" lol. And then it was decided.

I did want to spell it "B-E-H-R" though, and he would not go for that, so we ended up going with the traditional "B-E-A-R". After we started telling people, we came to realize that we are not the only ones who had chosen that name for our son. I actually talked to at least three people soon after that knew someone that was legally named Bear as well. This made me happy and kind of sad at the same time, as I thought I had come up with something unique when it really turned out that many people before me had all ready thought if it.

Some other names that I like and may use in the future (I know these are all boys names, I am screwed if I ever get pregnant with a girl lol):

1. Lionel
2. Hawk
3. Taz
4. Gio