Levi was almost called...
There has been a lot of talk about baby names lately and it's been making me think about how hard that process was and how many potentials we went through before we landed on Levi (1 day after he was born). I really love the name Levi now and think it fits him well, but I don't even think it was a forerunner until the day we decided. Anyway, when we were pregnant, we made a list of some names we liked and had our friends and family vote on it. Today, I found one of the pieces of paper with the list on it. How fun. We distributed the same list on different pieces of paper to different people. This particular one was voted on by Aunt Leah, Uncle Peter, Swennie, D, Marisa, Trevor and Cate. Here are the names we liked and how many votes they got (just from these people, since it's the only paper I found):
Aiden (6)
Alden (2)
Alexander (0)
Antony (1)
Baily (2)
Benjamin (1)
Caelan (1)
Daniel (0)
Dorian (0)
Eagan (2)
Elliot (4)
Ephraim (2)
Graham (2)
Grant (1)
Hadley (1)
Harrison (1)
Hayden (2)
Ian (2)
James (2)
Jonah (1)
Judah (0)
Kieran (2)
Lachlan (2)
Levi (1)
Marcus (3)
Max (1)
Milo (2)
Oliver (1)
Oscar (3)
As I got to the end of the list here I realized that this list was made at a point when we had only gotten to the O's in the baby name book, so there were a few more on subsequent lists. The ones that come to mind now are Rueben and Welton. Some of the favorites before we decided on Levi were Harrison and Milo. The one person that voted for Levi was Trevor. The 6 people that voted for Aiden were everone but Trevor. Also, it's interesting that the name we chose happened to be one of the 4 tribes of Isreal that are included on this list. Rueben was later included as well, I guess we just like those tribe names. Zebulun was never included.
Aiden (6)
Alden (2)
Alexander (0)
Antony (1)
Baily (2)
Benjamin (1)
Caelan (1)
Daniel (0)
Dorian (0)
Eagan (2)
Elliot (4)
Ephraim (2)
Graham (2)
Grant (1)
Hadley (1)
Harrison (1)
Hayden (2)
Ian (2)
James (2)
Jonah (1)
Judah (0)
Kieran (2)
Lachlan (2)
Levi (1)
Marcus (3)
Max (1)
Milo (2)
Oliver (1)
Oscar (3)
As I got to the end of the list here I realized that this list was made at a point when we had only gotten to the O's in the baby name book, so there were a few more on subsequent lists. The ones that come to mind now are Rueben and Welton. Some of the favorites before we decided on Levi were Harrison and Milo. The one person that voted for Levi was Trevor. The 6 people that voted for Aiden were everone but Trevor. Also, it's interesting that the name we chose happened to be one of the 4 tribes of Isreal that are included on this list. Rueben was later included as well, I guess we just like those tribe names. Zebulun was never included.
posted by Maggie | 4:26 PM
7 Comments:
Very interesting ... you have LightGirl's middle name there. Hmmm ....
Well, c'mon, what is it?
Oh my gosh. We had Antony on the list? Who voted for that??
That would be Deezy.
Hey Maggie, the Flying Spaghetti Monster will be so pleased with your new photo! Good job, and thank you for appeasing the Noodly Lord, who pays special attention to blogger profiles.
:-)
She takes great delight in trying to trick people with it ... so you'll have to ask her. But trust me ... it's on that list. I'll give you a hint ... you should remember that we love things Gaelic.
Thank goodness you didn't go with Aiden. We were going to name Lizzy Aidan if she were a boy. It's atop the most popular names for boys now... I think it's cool that there aren't that many Levis out there (that I've run into, anyway).
Zebulun would've definitely been unique!
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