Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Girls

Top loves & current crushes:

  • Adair
  • Adaline
  • Amanda
  • Amelia
  • Avie
  • Blair
  • Bridget
  • Brynn
  • Caroline
  • Celie
  • Clarissa (a huge favorite)
  • Delaney
  • Dorothy “Teddie” (loving this right now)
  • Eden
  • Elaine
  • Eleanor
  • Eliora
  • Eloise
  • Eve
  • Frances
  • Georgia
  • Holly (wouldn’t use because, well, I’m Molly)
  • Ivy
  • Jane (for my maternal grandmother’s brother, Jay)
  • Jean
  • June (my maternal grandfather’s mom’s name)
  • Kate
  • Katharine
  • Kennedy
  • Lainie
  • Layla
  • Laura (for my maternal grandmother’s brother, Laurence)
  • Laurel (honor for my late great-uncle, Darryl)
  • Leann
  • Lila
  • Liv (middle only)
  • Lorelai
  • Lorraine
  • Lyra
  • Madeleine/Madeline
  • Maeve
  • Maia/Maya
  • Mallory
  • Meredith
  • Mila
  • Naomi
  • Nellie
  • Noelle (probably wouldn’t use unless I marry a non-Jew)
  • Nora (as a NN for Eleanor)
  • Olivia
  • Orly (as a NN/Hebrew name for Eleanor)
  • Phoebe
  • Piper
  • Riley
  • Rosalie
  • Sadie
  • Samantha
  • Shaina
  • Shoshana
  • Simone
  • Sloane
  • Sophie (my Poppy’s favorite grandmother’s name)
  • Sydney (my estranged cousin’s name)
  • Sylvie
  • Zoey

Nickname notes: Nora and Orly for Eleanor make me giddy; DorothyTeddie is peak cozy-retro. I also love Mila for Amelia.

Boys

Top loves & current crushes:

  • Acker
  • Adair
  • Adlai (#1 fave)
  • Alistair
  • Allen
  • Asher
  • Askell
  • Asten
  • Auden
  • Brighton
  • Bruce
  • Camden
  • Clark
  • Dakota
  • Davis
  • Dayton
  • Dean
  • Derek
  • Dov (my baby brother’s Hebrew middle: Mason James / Matan Dov)
  • Eden
  • Eli
  • Elliot/Elliott
  • Errol
  • Ford
  • Galen
  • Geoffrey
  • Grant
  • Hal
  • Hank
  • Harrison
  • Hartigan
  • Henry
  • Holden
  • Holland
  • Ian
  • Ira
  • Jack (only family tie is to my Poppy’s grandfather, who abandoned his father)
  • Jonah
  • Judd
  • Keagan/Keegan
  • Kellan/Kellen
  • Knox
  • Kohl
  • Laird
  • Lane
  • Leo (for my dad’s grandpa, Leo Leonard “Lenny”)
  • Levi
  • Lincoln
  • Locke
  • Logan
  • Loren (also for Laurence)
  • Lucas
  • Mackenzie
  • Mark (for my dad’s cousin, Mark)
  • Merrick
  • Oren
  • Phineas
  • Pierce
  • Reed/Reid
  • Rhett
  • Riley
  • Samuel
  • Scott
  • Sebastian
  • Shawn
  • Sloane
  • Soren
  • Stellan
  • Sterling
  • Sullivan
  • Sutton
  • Taylor
  • Theodore
  • Timothy
  • Todd
  • Truman
  • Tucker
  • Ward
  • Warren
  • Wells
  • Zachary

Nickname notes: Hal and Hank for Harrison are some faves; Hart for Hartigan. Also some more obvious ones, Sam for Samuel, Mack for Mackenzie, Theo for Theodore, and Zach for Zachary.

Current Dream Sibset

Adlai Mark, Lane Mackenzie, & Eleanor Clarissa (“Nora/Orly”)

These are also the names of my alias’s fake kids over on my Nameberry scenario—because of course I have one.


P.S. Want the full pretend-parent saga? Visit my fictional Nameberry scenario (Claire’s blog): The Connell-Goldmans.

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