Conference oass::babynames

    Christina,
    even though you may not connect Hillary with Mrs.President, a lot of
    other people will, so if you decide on it, be forwarned that there will
    be plenty of people who think you got the idea from the Clintons. 
    (what's more is that there may be other people who DO think that the
    1st lady's name is wonderful and will name their daughter Hillary. 
    
    Monica
    
    P.S. I've kind of liked this one for sometime as well. 

    I like the name, but have always preferred the spelling with one "l": 
    Hilary.  
    
    For some reason, I just think it looks better with one "l."
    
    Just an idea.
    
    
    Lorna
    

    Also, I very briefly thought of naming my daughter Hilary, when I was
    pregnant.  Very briefly, because I decided I just couldn't do that to a
    kid:  Hilary St.Hilaire    :-)
    
    
    Lorna
    

    Lorna, That would have been a mouthful! Hilary St. Hilaire!!   Very
    nice if St. Hilaire were your maiden name though! :)
    
    Monica,  You are right,  my mother's name is Shirley, and yes - she was 
    born in the SHirley Temple ara just like every other SHirley who are in 
    their 50/60's.  SO Hilary will most likely become VERY popular.  My 
    husband voted against it just for that reason also.  Well,  I wasn't 
    set on it either, it was just one of those names in my head.  I do 
    like Jillian still (pronounced Jil-lee-an NOT JILLION), and am still 
    thinking of others.  
    
    Well, MONICA is very NICE too!!!   Monica Phelan ..... 
    
    humm,   sounds good,  we'll see! 
    
    Have a good one! 
    C

    
    My dad's name is Hilary.  My grandmother is from England and
    in England, Hilary with one "L" is male and two "LL's" is
    female.  Back then, a lot of people named their child (we are
    Catholic) after the saint that shared their birthday.  My
    dad was born on St. Hilary's Day so that's why they named him
    Hilary.  If I had a little girl, her middle name would have
    been Hillary.  But I've been blessed with 2 boys!
    
    FWIW, we call my dad "Bud".  ;-)
    
    
    -Chris  

    Chris, 
    
    What are your two boy's names? 
    
    - Christina

    
    
    My boy's names are:
    
    Nicholas Brian (Brian is my husband's name)
    Joshua William (middle name was supposed to be Michael 
                    but my husband's pepere' passed away 2 days
                    before I had Josh.)
    
    -Chris (hey, we almost have the same name! :))

    re .5, wow, I didn't know there was a St. Hilary's Day!  I wonder when
    it is?  I feel like maybe I should celebrate it.  :-)
    
    Lorna (St.Hilaire)
    

    
    Re:  Chris, I noticed the similarity in our last name too!  I like your
    son's names.  My husband Ed, now likes (for boys): 
    Patrick Edward, Michael Edward, James Edward,
    
    I like those and also Gary Edward, Gregory Edward, 
    
    For girls: we really don't have a list going yet, he mentioned 
    Amanda Christina, Amanda Leigh, Diana Rose, Shaina ....  but nothing is 
    really striking yet.  Same thing happened when I had our son!  We had 
    our boys name pretty well set and still were not sure at all on a name
    for a girl.  I had a boy, so we didn't need to worry.  Maybe this is a 
    sign!
    
    C 

    I love the name Vincent!  And it would sound good Vincent Edward
    Phelan.  Not too many of those, I don't think. I also like the
    name Anthony. Also Vincent Alexander Phelan, Vincent Daniel Phelan,
    even Daniel Mark Phelan.
    
    For girls, I knew a Shelley Phelan. I don't know her middle name. But,
    I like the sound of Shelley Louise Phelan, Shelley Elizabeth Phelan.
    Also my cousins name is Shelby, and one is Ashley.
    Ashley Marie Phelan, Ashley Elizabeth Phelan, Ashley Rose Phelan (or
    Rosemarie).
    
    just my two-cents :)
    
    Karen
    

    Hubi is not to keen on Vincent Phelan, I doo like Ashley Phelan, but it is
    rather common in my parts.  For a boy we are still happy with 
    James Edward Phelan, but a name for a daughter is still in the thinking 
    process.  Tara is still in there along with Michelle....  but we'll
    see.  Gina?  Maria?  
    
    Thanks and keep the ideas coming.  Feb. 27th is getting closer!  
    
    Christina 

    
    
    I love the name Tara, I think it's so pretty.
    Well, I might as well write down what my girls names where since
    I probably will never have one :)   I was planning on having
    the middle name Hillary but I did have other names too:
    
    Meghan Elizabeth
    Lindsay Olivia
    Jessica Lynne
    
    My nieces names (since Pelland sounds like your last name) are:
    
    Cassandra Lee   (love this name)
    Kaleigh Isabella
    
    
    I may try for a 3rd (can't believe i'm saying this!) and I'll
    probably have another boy.  If it is we're going to name him
    Jonathan Michael.  I love the name Michael too!  So many names!
    Good luck!  (p.s. My son was born on Feb. 28th! Boy we have a lot
    in common!  My middle name is Marie and all the Christine's I
    know have the same middle name!).
    
    -Chris

    Chris,
    
    I can't believe this,  Cassandra was one of our choices if my son we're
    a girl along with Caleigh!!!  My Mom's maiden name is Gailey so is was
    to be sort of after her, maybe spelt Cailey.  Cassandra Mary was in 
    there to, but we were not definate on any!!  Mary for a middle name
    because that is my Hubi's mother's name and the baby was on it's way
    and was born on her birthday (8/11/92)  (THat was the only thing we were 
    sure of if Eric were a girl, was the middle name)  But, we had our 
    wonderful son who is now 16 months old!
    
    Lindsay is on our list too.  Cassandra Phelan, wonder is Ed wants to 
    put that on the list this time around too?  We'd call her Cassi once in 
    awile.    Hummmmmmm 
    
    decisions decisions!!
    
    
    Keep you posted and Have a WONDERFUL HOLIDAY everyone!!!
    
    - Christina

    Earlier in this note, someone suggested that in England 
     Hilary with one l is male
            with two is female
    
    
    Sorry ... but wrong ... both forms are used for male and female.
    And if anything, I know of more male 'll' than male 'l' Hilary's
    
    We liked the name that our second was called Hilary (long before
    Mrs. C. came on the scene.  There should actually be another
    note on Hilary somewhere in here.
    
    Lorna, I like the idea of Hilary St. Hilaire.  !  Rather like
    John St. Jean!
    
    There is a hill , actually a 'mountainlet' if you will, just east of
    Montreal on the south side of the St. Lawrence called Mont St. Hilaire.
    We called it Hilary's mountain for our daughter ... she thinks it's
    neat to have a mountain as a namesake!  It's kind of unique because
    it suddenly appears almost out of nowhere in the St. Lawrence
    river plain. Really quite neat.
    
    Stuart
    
    Stuart