I am my mother's daughter for sure. My youngest sister came home from the hospital without a name and was "Baby Baker" on her birth certificate - she didn't get a name for a week! It took us the full 9 months to come up with "Gabriella" for baby #1, and here we are with another little girl. I have gone over so many options with DH but he has zero interest in any of them
I was loving Brianna or Sophia. At this point, I'm ready to let the board name my daughter!
Re: This child is never going to have a name...
Andrea? Maya? Haylie?
No clue what you like...just a few that go with Baker I guess. :P
Thanks ladies My married name is polish - starts with an L and sounds like Polowski. I really like Lily, Lillian, Lyla - all names that sound horrible with our long last name full of Ls I love Brianna - reminds DH of Brian. Love Sophia - DH doesn't have a reason just, "nah". (Love the family name idea, but he isn't into any of those either). For those of you still looking, here are names I liked but he has crossed off the list (remember, we began this journey 3 years ago with DD #1, hence the long list):
Brienna
Violet
Brianna
Amanda
Arden
Alissa
Noelle
Kaia
Capri
Carabella
Liliana
Adalyn
Katiana
Sailor
Sophie
Sophia/Sofia
Morgan
Cayla
Kyla
Eva
Faith
Charlotte
Catalina
Ava
Austin
Chloe
Annabelle
Augustine
Claudia
Anastasia
Cassandra
Olivia
Violet
Emma
Abigail (abby) - can't do this one now as our DD is Gabby
Harper
Elle
Isabella
Lillian
Ivory
Kalista (Kali)
Calista (Callie)
Victoria
Sienna
Kylie
Katrina
Lilly
Audra
Rosetta (rose)
Sydney
Kendall
Julianna
Savanna
Lilah/Lyla
Avalon
Thank you! Neither name were names we hear often and we wanted to be original but not out there. We just kept reading names out loud to each other and found ones we like. You might just have to say some out loud and see if any click for you and DH. Good luck, hope you find your name soon!
it kind of sounds to me like your DH just isnt that interested in the name choosing =/
we didn't name DS until the 3rd day in the hospital. we had a list and waited until he was born to decide. it's early, but i am guessing this is what we'll do again...
GL with the naming- hopefully your DH will step up and help you name your baby
We had a lot of the same names on our list as yours. We ended up with Kenley Marie. I'm not really sure where I heard Kenley but Marie is my mom's middle name. I really like Sydney and Kendall also.
Aw that's cute I like that Emily isn't an overly common name and Frances is my mom and sister's middle name.
Not sure if this helps, but my husband really likes Abigail, but I am not a fan of the nickname Abby or Gail. IF we go with it - I will likely use the nickname Bee - which may sound different enough from Gabby to use.
We also did a ranking/elimination with a long list. It helps, we are down to 10 (from 50+) and at 33 weeks, I hope to shorten it to 3 or less by the time we go into labor.
Good Luck!
I had a similar problem with my first. They old me that I could not leave the hospital without naming my daughter, whom I thought was going to be a boy! I found in a biblical name book "Raven", it is old world German, and the verse that went with it, was something like..."look to the ravens for they do not question where there food will come from, they know that God will provide it for them". I do not know wour religious affiliation, but that spoke to me. So I have a Raven Lin(means beautifle jade in Chineese).
My step daughter irronicaly has my name Elizabeth, but goes by Libby.
I am again pregnant with a little girl, and my husband and I had a difficult time deciding. We finaly chose Persephone Ava, and we will call her Percy for short. Some of the names that I liked, that my DH did not were:
Brindell, Brielle, Currine, Sadie, Sloane, Piper, and Cadence.
Good Luck
We just named our daughter Kaia Morgan and love it! It took us a loooong time to come up w/a name that we both liked (DH's list looked like the year's top ten and mine were all fairly unique - so totally different tastes).
The way I found Kaia was to look at names from my heritage. Since our last name is his, I figured this could be a nod to mine. Just something to think about, perhaps that method could work for you?
i totally feel you. we are expecting a boy and i only had girl's names picked out. my favs were Clara, Eva & Persephone. Clara Baker sounds awesome btw, like a classic movie star.
DH and I have like 20 names we like, but none we love... I think we're gonna have to see him to really know "who" he is.