If all your children are one sex

[cobber06]

Thankfully I had an easy time coming up with girl names. I love Silas for a boy, but probably would have chickened out on using it.

[londoncalling]

Yes. We easily populated the boys names and we agonized to find just two girl names that we agreed on. And to be honest we only agreed on 3/4 of our kids' names. I won dd2's middle name.

[chedifuen]

Yes but ironically they're more boy names. I have a very hard time with girl names but I have a bajillion boy names I would use.

I think I struggle with girl names because we have hens and they all get a name so now I associate almost every name I used to love with a chicken. Good thing we're done having kids!

[brooklyn]

We had a perfect girls name picked out, and then we had a boy. And now if we ever have a girl, we can't use our original name since I feel like our age group would think we're going for a Titanic theme

[bunch]

nope.  my boy name is my dad/fil. i'd much prefer to name another girl

[noodleskooze]

Tangentially related--I accidentally deleted my baby names list and there's no back up

[bunch]

ps Hazel is a fabulous name

[penguingrrl]

We had no trouble naming the girls, but naming our son was damn near impossible. We had had a girl name lined up for him and probably could have named 4 more girls after him, but naming a single boy was terrible. There were few names we liked and even fewer we liked that sounded good with our last name.

[212]

We could name an entire ballet company of girls. So of course we have boys. Because LIFE.

[barefootcontessa]

No, we had the same girl for each of the boys and what we eventually used.

[dcn]

Yes! We have the loveliest girl names that we won't get to use, and have a hard time choosing boy names we love.

[Deleted]

We had a girl name picked out but are having a boy. We don't love any boy names and are having the hardest time even coming up with a list.

[heygrey]

The next kid will be hard regardless. We LOVED R's name and we batted around a few others, but nothing came close. We agreed on exactly zero girl names. I think I'd rather name another boy because we would at least agree on something, but I'm afraid I won't ever love kid 2's name like I love kid 1's.

[shamrockshake]

No. We never really had a boys name that I LOVED, I was happy I never had to force one

[SJ]

Aug 7, 2015 19:14:29 GMT -5 hermione said:

We could have easily named a dozen boys. One girl was hard.

I am he opposite. I have millions of girl names and struggle for one boy name.

[undecidedowl]

Yep, a DD would have been Lena.

[erbear]

One perfect one. ::Pours one out for William Paul::

[SJ]

Aug 7, 2015 21:03:35 GMT -5 212 said:

We could name an entire ballet company of girls. So of course we have boys. Because LIFE.

You've been missed!!!!

[212]

Aug 7, 2015 22:15:59 GMT -5 SJ said:

Aug 7, 2015 21:03:35 GMT -5 212 said:

We could name an entire ballet company of girls. So of course we have boys. Because LIFE.

You've been missed!!!!

Sorry to go totally MIA!

[Brie]

If for some reason we wind up with four boys I am screwed by #4. We have used grandfather names as middles for C and P, and would use the third grandfather (Harris) for a third. Grandfather 4 is kind of a mean old coot and I would either have to suck it up and use his name OR break the pattern which would kill my type A instincts.

And of course Grandfather 4 is the only one still alive and kicking.

[SJ]

Aug 7, 2015 22:22:48 GMT -5 212 said:

Aug 7, 2015 22:15:59 GMT -5 SJ said:

You've been missed!!!!

Sorry to go totally MIA!

I want an update! How are you? How is DS#2?

[212]

Aug 7, 2015 22:44:06 GMT -5 SJ said:

Aug 7, 2015 22:22:48 GMT -5 212 said:

Sorry to go totally MIA!

I want an update! How are you? How is DS#2?

Just trying to finish this mothereffing apartment before he arrives! The last of the construction is the next two weeks, and then we get our asses in gear to organize before H goes back to work 24/7, J starts school, and oh you know, we have another baby. In the midst of the crazy I got certified as a CPST and I'm working on starting a non-profit with a few partners.

You know. Just laying around eating Bon Bons.

[Deleted]

I think we would have more trouble naming another girl than if we had a boy next time.

[minzy]

No, we never could agree on a boy's name (which made me nervous since we didn't know sex until birth each time). My default was a combination of the grandfathers' classic names, which I considered tolerable, but my husband really did not like it because there was some obscure lousy football player with that name and he thought everyone would think of that guy. He really wanted to name a boy Randall, which (no offense to any Randalls out there) was in "no way, no how" territory for me. Fortunately, we agreed on names we both love for our girls.

[kangaroo11]

I can't imagine trying to name another girl. We had a great boy's name picked and then had a girl and no name chosen. We then gave her a boy's name anyway. And if we ever have a boy, we can't use that great name because we already honored that relative and we'd have to choose another relative to name after. 

[isabel]

We better have a girl next time. It took us a couple years to come up with a boy name we both like. Poor hypothetical second boy would be nameless for quite a while.