Please tell me how you picked your baby name

[h]

May 20, 2012 13:24:06 GMT -5 @septimus said:

My first choices for DS1 were William, Charles, Andrew, Edward and Harold.

Our list for DS1 was very similar--William, Charles, Andrew, Edward, Henry, Samuel, Alexander, James, and Nathaniel. DS1 is Henry; DS2 is Alexander.

[froggy76]

I agonized a lot over DD's name and spent a lot of time making lists and discussing with DH. In the end it didn't really matter, because we just went with an Irish name I've always loved that I always knew I wanted to use. DH had no objections. Her mn is after my grandmother. We didn't officially decide until after she was born.

[mlvmd]

I like family names and so does DH. DS and DH are named after their respective grandfathers but still have the same first name so DS goes by a very common nickname for his first name, Jack. If we have another, a boy would be named after my grandfather and a girl would have my grandmother's first name and my grandfather's middle name (a family name and not gender specific). All of the names are very classic and easy to spell. My name, while not made up, is impossible to spell or pronounce (both first and last) and I have no wish to saddle a kid with a name like that.

[nonsenseabound]

Lorelei Ann is our dd's name. I always loved the name Lorelei and dh was so happy I agreed to get pg that he let me pick the name. Plus he likes our nickname (Lo as in low). mn is in honor of boh our moms. They both have Ann as their middle name

Auden Jerome is our son's name. I suggested it and dh loved the first name. His middle name is my dad's name. It was agreed that I would give our first son my dad's name and in return I agreed to take my husband's last name. His nn is A.J. So if he hates us in 10 years for his name, he has a very easy nn

[minzy]

We were Team Green for my daughter. For years I thought a girl would be Charlotte, and I still really like the name. When I was about five months pregnant, my husband told me he had a new girl's name. It is a little unusual on the SSA list, but I liked it a lot and it had meaning to us, and I immediately agreed we would use it if we had a girl. She was a girl, so that was a piece of cake.

To this day, we are still are in complete disagreement on a boy's name. Potential contenders have included our fathers' names and sports figures.

[barefootcontessa]

Our first son is named for someone important to my DH, which happens to be biblical. We decided to pick other biblical names for the other boys; middle names are for family members, we alter with who picks that. If we ever have a girl, we have a name that is a family name on my side. I personally like choosing a name that has meaning.

[sophie1229]

DH and I went through a baby name book and wrote down all the ones we liked, separately.
Then, we made a list of all the ones that we both liked.
Then, we made a Top 10.
Then, we made a Top 5.
Then, we used each name for a week.
After that, we knew which one we liked the best.

Middle name is a family name. After all that, the MN was easy LOL

[vanillacourage]

Both times we had it down to two and then decided the day of - on the way to the hospital (DS1) and shortly after he was born (DS2).

[baconista]

In the months leading up to our son's birth, we would throw names out to each other periodically until we got to the point of taking 3 favourites into the delivery room. We decided when he was born and I think his name fits him perfectly.
His middle name is the same as my H's middle name so that was easy, I guess.

[6fsn]

With both kids we had a short list of names we liked and figured we'd pick a name when they were born. Both times we forgot the list and picked a name we thought was on it. Both times the name was not there and we randomly ended up with 2 Ms. This baby will have an M.

Oddly a family friend had a baby, named Matthew. Didn't think they could have more so they adopted a Megan and then had a surprise Maureen. When she heard we had a Matthew and Megan she warned us to watch out for the surprise Maureen. I love the name Maureen.

[Girls Own Love]

We named DD after DH since we agreed we didn't want a "jr." if we had a boy. He is Andrew Nicholas, she is Andrea Nicole.

[Deleted]

Our process all three times consisted of me proposing possible names and DH basically vetoing everything I liked

With the boys, their names were literally the only two both of us agree on.

[whitterbugk]

We were 20 years old and had been dating for about six months. On a long car ride to meet my family for vacation, we started talking about "What would you ever name a kid if you had one?" H said that he always liked the name of an old baseball player. I had never heard of it, but loved it the second that he said it.

Five years later, I can't picture naming this kid anything else. Like a pp said, we compare every other name to it and none have come close.

If it matters, it's between 200 and 300 on the SS list, one-syllable, has no (obvious) nicknames and the initials don't spell out anything weird.

Neither of us have any sort of opinion on a middle name. My FIL said that we should give him H's middle name (Allen), so his first two initials would be "B.A., for badass."

[partiallysunny]

LO is a "IV" because H is a "III".

I didn't have a choice, lol.

[BAMFMrsB]

I am having the hardest time pulling the trigger for son's name. I only have one name I like and have told people: Cameron.

I do not like common names for boys: William, Christopher, Jonathan, Eric, James, etc. But I also do not like Euneek names either. No superflous 'Y's thrown in, no stange spellings or anything made up/mashed up.

Its hard naming a boy. Girl names were SO easy.

We'll be using MrB's 1st name for son's MN.

[justjen]

So just a couple of weeks after I found out I was pregnant (I'm due in August), DH woke up one morning and said he had a dream we had 2 kids, a boy and a girl, and their names were X and Y. I was surprised that they were both names I really liked.

Nevertheless, we each independently went through a baby name book and made a list of boys and girls names, then compared. From there we made a list of our 10 or so top contenders for each gender.

Once we found it was a girl, we focused on those, and got it down to 2 names: The one DH originally dreamed, which we quickly came up with a middle name for, and another that was on my list originally.

I still love that second name, but there are a few problems with it:
a) We can't find the perfect middle name

b) It can be spelled 2 different ways; the way that we consider the "authentic" spelling and would want to use is a far less common spelling, which sets her up for years of having to spell it out

c) It shares the name with a product sold in the US -- I highly doubt it would be the first thing that came to anyone's mind, since it *is* a real, regular name, but the association is still there.

So we're leaning heavily toward the "dream" name. It's in the top 100, which I was hoping to avoid, but it seems like it's going top be the best fit. But I'm still brainstorming middle names for our second choice, just to keep our options open.

[Girls Own Love]

May 21, 2012 9:46:40 GMT -5 BAMFMrsB said:

I am having the hardest time pulling the trigger for son's name. I only have one name I like and have told people: Cameron.

I do not like common names for boys: William, Christopher, Jonathan, Eric, James, etc. But I also do not like Euneek names either. No superflous 'Y's thrown in, no stange spellings or anything made up/mashed up.

Its hard naming a boy. Girl names were SO easy.

We'll be using MrB's 1st name for son's MN.

DH and I were team green. We had 3 boys names picked out (first and middle) and only 1 girls name that we both loved. If we were to have another girl, we're screwed on a name.

[nabum]

I was team green.

mH and I had it narrowed down to a top 5 or 6 for each sex and planned to have it narrowed down further, but I went into labor almost a month early.

While I was getting my epi, the nurse and anesthesiologist started chatting with us about our name choices. They were both surprised that we were team green and had not chosen names. Kind of funny, but when we mentioned Derrick as a potential boy name the anesthesiologst said "No. You cannot name your child after Derek Jeter." - We're big baseball fans and this cracked us up (and we took it to heart!)

my H was never sold on my top boy name, but once our son arrived he immediately said that he looked like my top name.

So that's how it went. If/When we have #2 I expect that the process will be very much the same

[bunch]

May 21, 2012 10:35:33 GMT -5 littlespitfire said:

We actually picked the first name we are 99% sure on for this baby long before we were ever TTC. We just happened to be out and talking about names in a "what if" sort of way, and got on the subject of Arabic names, since our last name is of Arabic origin. I pulled a list up on my phone and one of the first names on it was Amira. We both liked it, so it stuck around as a strong contender when we did get PG. The middle name we are likely using, Julianne, came about specifically because we wanted "AJ" as initials.

. That's a really pretty name. I have a young cousin named Mira and I always thought it was unique and beautiful.

[pinkdutchtulips]

We named dd after our moms ... Her first name is h's mom's first name and dd's middle is my mom's fn and my mn as well .... at the last minute we slipped in my paternal gma's mn too ... Very traditional. We wanted family names.

[rootbeerfloat]

It took us awhile to come up with DS's name. We liked Jack, but our last name is one syllable, so we sat on Jackson for awhile. We couldn't come up with anything we liked better. We wanted a Hawaiian middle name, but didn't like my dad's or any other family names. We heard a name at a HS football game that fit our criteria (nice meaning, not too long or difficult to pronounce) and went with it.

DD is Macy, which is a family name on both sides. She has a variation of my mom's Hawaiian middle name.

[liveintheville]

Kid 1 we wanted the same initials as my husband's deceased mother. So that limited us. Her first name was Carol so we went with Caleb. Middle and last initials are the same.

Kid 2 no idea. Came up with nothing so named him Lucas.

[crazygame]

Shortly after getting married, I had a dream I had a daughter named Nora. It stuck with me. When I got pregnant, we agreed that I would pick the girl name and my husband could pick the boy name, although the other spouse did have veto power if he or she absolutely hated the pick. I wanted her to share my middle name, but my husband didn't like it, so I gave him a list of six middle names and he picked Evelyn. Nora Evelyn. We'll use his name if we have a boy next time (if there is a next time).