Looking for votes on names

Okay.... so here's what we've got so far for our boy/boy twins:

Nathan Patrick and Micah Allen

The Nathan is because we like it. The Patrick is because we have a LOT of Irish. The Micah is a sound tribute to Michael, which is my favorite name and one grandfather's name. The Allen is our peri who saved our first daughter's life in utero.

The concerns: Nathan has a much longer name than Micah.... does this matter really? Micah's name, all said together, sounds like he sells furniture.

The biggest concern is our last name, which is VERY feminine (lacey), so making strong boy names is hard!

Any advice is welcomed!

Dominique

 

Love them both.

I have considered many times using the name Nathan but I can not accept that people will probably call him Nate.

but I adore Nathan!

 

Ilike those names. they both sound very strong! I wanted to name my son Nathaniel, but my last name is McDaniel and Nathaniel McDaniel was a little too much!!-LOL

God Bless and have fun coming up with those names!!

April

 

I love both names!!! I laughed when you said that Micah's name sounds like he sold furniture! I didn't even think of that until you said it!! so I think you will be fine!! I think the names you have choosen are very nice!!!

 

QUOTE(april mcdaniel @ Aug 21 2008, 09:29 AM) [snapback]940603[/snapback]
Ilike those names. they both sound very strong! I wanted to name my son Nathaniel, but my last name is McDaniel and Nathaniel McDaniel was a little too much!!-LOL

God Bless and have fun coming up with those names!!

April



HaHa I am so sry but this made me think of a kid that was in my fourth grade class. I know it is off topic but his name was Patrick Kirkpatrick.

By the way, I love the names! My dh middle name is Alan and I have an Uncle named Allen.

 

We're having b/b twins too and both Nathan/Nathaniel and Micah are on our list of boys names. I think they both sound perfect. Oh, and about the furniture funny my first thought was well then just switch the middle names but then I realized that would make Nathan Allen and that REALLY sounds like the furniture store LOL. I think Micah Allen sounds very nice.

nikki_0724 - it's funny how different tastes can be. The reason I have Nathan/Nathaniel on my list is because I would love to call him Nate.

 

I like both names. It doesn't matter that Nathan's is longer than Micah's. They'll barely use their middle names anyway.

Since you are working so hard to find strong boy names, I just wanted to bring up that Micah is also a girl's name. I believe it is used more for boys than for girls but it's something you might want to consider.

 

I think they both sound great. My dd has a long name Camdyn Whitney and ds is shorter Kyle James. If you are concerned with length you could swap middle names. Just a thought. I think they are fine the way you have them though. GL

Jen

 

I think they are great names and sound good together.
Not sure why Micah's name sounds like he's selling furniture though?

 

Also, it took me a second to figure out why you said Nathan had a much longer name than Micah. I guess in terms of letters for both, Nathan's is a few letters longer, but they both have two-syllable first and middle names so I see them as comparable. Doesn't jump out at me like, say, Luke and Alexander would. (Although I think that would be fine too. )