What's in a Name?

We're doing the baby name dance over here. Neither one of us is showing his or her hand. It's a fine line to tread. I went online to look up some meanings and found a site that analyzed the names, first middle and last all together. Pretty interesting read!


If you know our girls, I'd be interested in your opinion about how accurate you think these descriptions are!


A E Phillips

The name AE Phillips inspires trust, confidence, and security. This name is grounded and practical, and promotes steady progress and consistent effort. AE Phillips makes one feel that everything will be taken care of; you are in good hands. Not a dreamer and lacking imagination, this name represents integrity and stability. It is comforting, a strong foundation, and the bedrock of society. It also reflects strong organizational skills and an eye for detail. It has a strong sense of structure. Family-oriented.

The name AE Phillips reflects a rigid, inflexible atmosphere, which, however, is good for some businesses, such as insurance, banks, accounting, and brokerage firms.

AE Phillips's most positive characteristics: Reliable, trustworthy. Structured and disciplined. Makes steady progress.

AE Phillips's most negative characteristics: Rigid. Lacks passion, creativity, and tolerance.


HJ Phillips

Powerful, a conqueror, devours the weak and rules the strong. The name HJ Phillips reflects money and power. It is a carnivore, a winner at all cost.

HJ Phillips has the power and potential to achieve great things. Whatever the enterprise, it strives to be the best and most successful in its field. Extremely competitive and not afraid of challenges or challengers. A visionary, a realist, and a planner. Discipline and perseverance. Dynamic and efficient.

Rewards the faithful and hardworking employee, but has no tolerance for the incompetent.

HJ Phillips understands the balance between giving and taking, generosity and greed. When it loses that balance, it self-destructs.

HJ Phillips's most positive characteristics: Strength, perseverance, potential for greatness.

HJ Phillips's most negative characteristics: Financial ups and downs. Lacks compassion. Can be self-destructive.


"Name We Are Considering" for Baby C Phillips

The name ________ ________ Phillips induces a sense of freedom and adventure, risks and rewards, gambling and daring acts of courage. The name has passion and excitement.

One senses that ________ ________ Phillips can do anything, is extremely capable, and a true survivor. It is also highly flexible, can adapt to new circumstances quickly, and has excellent reflexes; often, important decisions are made in seconds, seemingly impulsively even. But due to sharp intuition and even sharper intelligence, those decisions are almost always right on the money. Youthful, dynamic and energetic, this name draws people who want things to be "different," and don't like the tried and proven.

Social, outgoing, something skirting the acceptable - or even pushing the envelope of what is legal.

________ ________ Phillips's most positive characteristics: Productive, dynamic, adaptable. Good at promoting self.

________ ________ Phillips's most negative characteristics: Can be unorganized, scattered. Lacks direction. Needs maturity and discipline.


Whew! That was a lot of reading! Here's something cute:

AE and HJ at the Atlanta Zoo

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