Baby Names

[PeacefulMom]

How did you come up with your names? Did you change it ever after you met the baby? Did you make lists? Ask family and friends?

We aren't finding out the sex with this one so I want to have several names picked out but be very open to naming the baby after we meet. Also, our fist has a family name, my husband's and my maiden name so I want this one to be different and funky. Maybe... still deciding!

[Mary_Mary]

We decided on a boy name after much conflict. My first choice had been rejected immediately. So we got to delivery with ONE boy name and a couple of options for girl names.

Surprise, surprise...we got to the hospital when they had a two for one sale and ended up with TWO boys.

So first boy got the name we'd picked out. When the man I was married to at the time got to the hospital in the morning I told him that we were naming boy #2 the name I'd wanted originally. Considering that I had no time to really consider the matter I think that the boys names 'go together' pretty well without being too 'matchy'. The only thing was that their dad rejected the middle name I had picked out in favor of a different one that is okay but I don't like it nearly as well.

First daughter - I rejected a lot of names my husband suggested because they were too mainstream for my tastes. Names that I DO like in and of themselves, but wasn't interested in using them - Jennifer, Jessica - beautiful names, but I knew tons of people with those names already.

We ended up taking the baby name book with us whenever we went out to eat and my husband would read through it and tell me the ones he liked. Lots I rejected but there were a few that I'd contemplated myself. We ended up with two options - Liana and Melina - after the baby was born the nurse asked what we were going to name her and I looked at my husband and asked which it was going to be. He said, "I think the 'L' name" so Liana she is.

Second daughter - Around the time I got pregnant my older daughter started hanging out with an imaginary sister named Audrey. She persisted with it for so long that I finally told my husband that I thought if we ended up with a girl she would have to be Audrey. We both liked the name, although I still have concerns that it's so much more common and mainstream than Liana. Even so, I think the names go together fairly well.

(With both girls we had a couple of boys names picked out as well as we didn't opt to find out the sex ahead of time. However both times I was pretty convinced that I was having a girl and didn't really stress much about boy names.)

[Stephanie]

With ds, we were stuck on one name for a long time (Matthew). About 36 weeks into the pg, I decided I didn't like that. We liked three other names: Ian, Jackson, and Noah. There were 2 co-workers who had just named their child Ian, so we threw that one out. We decided that if it rained the day ds was born, we would name him Noah, if it didn't we would go with Jackson. It didn't rain, so Jackson it was. It suits, and I couldn't imagine him named anything else.

We were joking around with dd, we were joking around about using state capital names. So we did and named her Providence. She was also a surprsie, and it we felt her birth was rather providencial (sp?).

This next one, I don't know. If it is a boy, I am not sure he will get named. Ds and I can't agree on anything. If it is a girl, I think we will go with Trinity.

[camille97]

My daughter is 11. I think I chose between Alexis and Alyssa. I don't remember even asking her dad for his input. I know, probably not good. Weeks before she was born, I decided on Alyssa. If she was a boy, she would have been Christopher Allen.

Alyssa and I named ds together. First, I started with a list, narrowed it down, added more, narrowed it again. It was between Lucas Aiden and Ashton (either Christopher or Michael). In the end, Ashton Christopher seemed to be too big of a mouthful with my last name.

I always wanted a Michaela AnneMarie (nicknamed Mia) if I was to have another girl. Pronounced like Mi-kella, not Mi-kayla. But, since my mom recently changed her name from Geraldine Anne to Anne Geraldine, I decided this one (due 3/27) should be simply Anne Marie. We'll call her Mia, anyhow. lol. Oh, and I let my kids think they had a say. I only gave them one choice.

[gamrgrl]

Names are a bit of a hobby of mine actually. We have been decided as to the name choices, one for boy one for girl before each of our children's births. The 'unused' girl name (as our first two babies were boys) stayed the same each time and was finally bestowed on our third. We were not really sure of a boy's name with my daughter's pregnancy. We had one, but just weren't 'in love' with it, so it did not hang around for this baby's pregnancy.

All of our children have a family/important friend name for the middle name. We like to keep the consistency of that so that one child doesn't end up being the 'odd man out' who wasn't name after anyone. We also just think it is a nice touch.

[cbreeding]

We picked out a few we like and then waited until we saw DD. Picking out girl names was really hard because there are not many that we both like. Once we decided on a first name, then we picked a middle name that went with her first and last. We really enjoyed that so I think we'll do that with any future children since we don't plan to find out the sex beforehand.

[hotlama]

We went to http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ and chose a name that was on the top 100 list in the year 1900. We wanted a classic name that hadn't been heard in a while. It's a really pretty name and we get a lot of comments on it.

[amynhailey]

DH and I made lists and narrowed down from there, what we both liked and agreed upon. We told nobody until the baby was already born and officially We never found out what we were having before the birth, so we had to come up with two names each time.