Share with us your baby's name

stefuge

So, I was thinking about names the other day and thought it might be nice to share our babies names - where the name came from, if it has special meaning or significance, any nicknames? We don't get to hear our child's name enough, and I feel like it still deserves to be celebrated. I love the quote by Nancy Williams "The mention of my child's name may bring tears to my eyes, but it never fails to bring music to my ears." So, please share!

stefuge

Before I was pregnant, I had always liked the name Cole, and when MH and I were talking about names, I suggested It. He liked it, but preferred Colton, so we let DS1 decide - should we name our baby Cole or Colton? DS1 chose Colton. We knew if we were having a boy, he would have DH's middle name, James, and we liked how the two names sounded together, Colton James. It is also special because he and MH have the same initials. I figured his name would still probably get shortened to Cole, although MH insisted he would always call him Colton, and I loved how all of our names sounded together. Picturing writing our names on cards, or when people would talk about us, I loved the sound of our names together, and I loved the name we chose for Colton. It was tough in the hospital, realizing that we weren't going to get to use his name like I had always imagined. I wanted to shout it, to celebrate it, to announce it to the world, not to memorialize it, and there was a moment when I debated about naming him something else, so that I could maybe, possibly, use this name I loved so much on another baby. But that thought was quickly gone, because that was his name. We had only ever had one boy name in mind, and it was his all along. My precious little peanut, my Colton James.

ikrystal

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stefuge this was a great idea for a post!  I love the name as well.  I especially like that your little boy and your husband have the same initials.

aragosta I love the significant of Lucas' middle name.  And I love the name Lucas!  I was actually thinking of that name, but we know too many Lukes and it just did not work. 

For Conner and Benjamin, their names go way back.  Well, Conner's does anyway.  We picked it out when we were still dating.  For some reason, we had three names picked out like 6 years ago (and we've only been together about 6.5 years).  One was a girl's name, one was a unisex name (now turning into a girl's name), and one was Conner. Conner was almost named Noah, but at the last minute, when I was in labor, I demanded his name be Conner because it held so much significance for us.  Benjamin's name was a name I picked from a baby book.  I knew it was really popular, but for some reason I just KNEW that baby "B" was Benjamin.  We actually had Ben's name picked as soon as we knew they were boys, while baby "A" was nameless until I was in labor. 

Conner's middle name is my husband's first name, and Ben's middle name is my husband's middle name.  If we were having one boy, I wanted a little Tim Jr. so we could call him TJ.  When we found out we were having two boys, I still wanted that significance of them having part of their father's name.  

CherryPicked

Caroline Grace : )

We went through baby name books and both loved the name Caroline. We announced it once we got her diagnosis because I wanted more time to say her name.

We chose Grace for her middle name because by the grace of God she was our daughter. It also flowed nicely with her first and last name. We waited until birth to announce her middle name.

DH called her our little princess and peanut. I called her Miss Caroline.

kflynn81

My son is referred to ask Jack but that's his nickname. His legal name is John Patrick after my FIL(John) and my dad(Patrick).

I wanted a son to be named after my father more than anything but Patrick as a first name gave him the initials PP and we thought that would be cruel lol so John Patrick it is. Sine my FIL and BIL are John we decided on Jack so they didn't have a third John in the house

lexusolsen

We struggled to find a name for ds and only settled on his name a few weeks before we lost him. We knew we wanted to use part of my dad's name which is John David. We kept coming back to Benjamin. We decided on Benjamin David to avoid awkward initials.

shandorfml2

I love this thread

My daughter's name is Anastasia Maeve.


When I met MH in college, he had said even before we were dating that his first daughter's name was going to be Anastasia. He loved the Russian story of the Princess Anastasia Romanova. Anastasia grew on me as we dated. I liked unusual names. I knew our first child would be a girl, and it would be Anastasia. I liked the nic-name Ana. MH also picked the middle name. We were stuck between Marie and Maeve. I chose to give up on Marie because it was my friend's middle name and I was mad at her haha. So, it was Anastasia Maeve. So, Anastasia is a princess, and it also means ressurection. Maeve is the name of the faery queen in lore. Fits perfectly.

Her nick names are Ana, Ana-Banana, Ana Maeve, Ana-Mae

BoraBoraBaby

Love this thread so much

Our baby girl is Madeleine Lily. We decided to leave town for the weekend after learning she had trisomy 18. We were certain she was a boy and had a handful of boy names picked out. Now we had to go back to the drawing board

We suggested a handful of names and none felt right, but we both liked Madeleine. I asked DH what her middle name should be and right away he said Lily. I love her name even more now.

Nicknames: Maddie, Mad Dog, and I never got to call her this but she would've eventually been Mandolin

cdale86

DH and I had a boy's name picked out for years. He loved it and I kinda did. My hesitation was that some family members had a cat and dog named this WAY back in the day. I also felt like it was a name that kinda needed to be grown into. Not necessarily a cutesy baby name.

We had our daughter's name picked out 6 years before we got pregnant...that was set. With the fear that our son would not survive given his diagnosis...I wanted a strong, meaningful name. We chose Bennett Dale. It means blessed one. He was our blessing from God after a long road of infertility. It's not a unique name, but not very common. It's also a preppy sounding name to me. His middle name is my maiden name. His twin sister has a family name from DHs side as her middle name. As twins, I also love how Berkeley and Bennett sounds together. We kept both names a secret until delivery because we didn't want any opinions.

I am SO glad we veered from our original boy name. From the moment we found out he was a boy, it just didn't seem to fit him. I love our sweet Bennett boy!

hsabyan

My baby girl's name is Georgia Jeanne.  

For some reason, the name Georgia just stuck with me and surprisingly enough- my husband loved it too (we had a really hard time agreeing on names).  His middle name is George, as was his Grandpa's first name- so it kind of connected him to her in that way too. Their initials were JGS and GJS, and he liked that. 

When I was pregnant, and while she was in the NICU, we played Georgia On My Mind (by Ray Charles) to her. 

Jeanne is my husband's mother's name.  She passed away when he was 18.  I never got to meet her but I really liked the idea of carrying on her name- plus it sounded so sweet with her first name. 

I told my husband, while I was still pregnant, that I figured I'd call her Gigi for short.  After she was born, he told the nurses that was her nickname and they all called her that- sweet Gigi. I never did end up using the nickname- I thought she was special enough to be called by her full name; her life was short enough, no sense in shortening her name too. 

After she passed away and the funeral and everything was over, we took a road trip down south.  Partly just to get away and get some air by the ocean- partly so we could drive through Georgia.  I bought coffee mugs, keychains, postcards, and an I GA tshirt.  It totally makes me look like I'm obsessed with the state of Georgia, but I know the real meaning behind it and I love being surrounded by her name.  

dadalou

We had a hard time coming up with name options. We had his middle name, Willis, picked out as soon as we knew he was a boy. It is after my grandfather who died last August, just a few days before we told our families that I was pregnant. Grandpa's birthday was in February, I was due in February. It was perfect. For his first name it took us a long time to find names we liked that weren't already used in our immediate families. I think we finally had a list in January. We had three options and were going to choose when he was born after we met him. We were both leaning towards Nathaniel, but I wasn't sure about it because I have a cousin who has a son named Nate and I couldn't remember what it was short for. After he was born DH and I decided right away that his name was Nathaniel. It means gift of God.

Manada

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Our twin daughters are named Tavin and Casey. They were born and passed about 3.5 weeks ago.

We chose the name Tavin while we were going through the infertility process. My partner has a short, uncommon, gender ambiguous name and we were both drawn to continuing that with our children, with a few caveats. I found the name Tavin in a list of very old French names - and we decided it would be lovey.

Casey was a bit harder. We had a second name in our books, but it was too "matchy" with Tavin for us to use for twins. Casey is a name I always thought was lovely, and my partner had been trying it out and talking to our babies as "Tavin and Casey" for the last few weeks before their birth. She had a poor association with it from an acquaintance years ago, and so was overcoming it. In the end it feels like a perfect name.

Tavin was our twin who was comfortably reclined in my pelvis. She didn't take up much room, and on all the ultrasounds she was happy there kicking her legs and sucking her thumb. She had a habit of head-butting her sister though when Casey crowded her too much, we took that as a sign of her personality! We envisioned our sweet Tavin as a bit stubborn, more calculated and quiet than her sister, but definitely with big ideas of her own.

Casey took up the rest of the room. From my hips to my ribs was Casey's zone, and she lay transverse and used all that space. I would track her from one side to the other, up and down my belly. She was the one who I felt the little "tap tap tap" from at 15 weeks, and was consistently reminding me that she was there with her movement and shifting around. We like to think of that as part of who she was, and that on the outside she would have been a ball of energy and enthusiasm.

Our babies' middle names are for family members. One is after my partner's very loved and missed Aunt Sara, who passed away from breast cancer and who was a role model and support to my partner in her life. The other is Elizabeth, for both my great-grandmother and my partner's mother's middle name.

Thank you for this thread. It's true, it never gets old to talk about our babies' names and put them out to the world.

TeamWinForever

My daughters name is Fiona Grace. Fiona doesn't hold a special meaning other than it's an Irish name that we loved and thought went really well with our DDs name, Claire. Grace is my grandmothers name. She passed away about a month after Fiona was born.

angelsnight

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Kayla Kathryn.  On our second date, MH said if he ever had a girl he wants to name her Kayla, he loved it so much.  So 6 years later when we found out we were having a girl, it was pretty much a no brainer.  I didn't LOVE the name, but I liked it well enough and I didn't dislike it more than MH loved it, so Kayla it was.

Plus, we had been referring to our future child for six years as Kayla, so going with another name felt as weird as suddenly changing one of our names.  When she was born still at 22 weeks they asked us if we had a name picked out, and we talked about it for a minute.  I feel so awful to think of using it makes it a "wasted name" but those were essentially my feelings.  But we both decided it was her name, and she will always be her daughter so it is not wasted at all.  It still breaks my heart though, knowing how much my husband loved the name and only seeing her name on things like her gravestone and memorial items rather than getting to say/hear it every day.

Kathryn is after my mom.  She passed away 9 years prior to Kayla being born so we wanted to honor her.  My mom's full name was Kathy which I didn't think worked too well for a middle name, so we went with Kathryn and by choosing that spelling, you can "see" her name in it.

ETA: We've toyed with getting a boat someday, and if we do we're going to name it Kay Kat after her.

ikrystal

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I really love this thread.  I read all of these stories and they are all so touching!

PerkyErky

My daughter's name is Alice. We hadn't picked any names but had started narrowing down our list. We didn't know Alice was a girl until she was born. In Jewish tradition you name after a deceased relative, either their name or using their first initial. My maternal grandmother was named Alice and her name was on our list.

When we lost Alice it was so sudden and chaotic. I remember holding her and looking at her super long fingers that are just like my brother's, which we call his "grandma Alice hands" because he got them from her. DH and I decided her name should be Alice as well. She doesn't have a middle name because we hadn't thought of any and didn't want to pick one just because.

stefuge

I love reading these updates - thank you everyone for sharing!

jocie28

Love this thread! 

My daughter's name is Mae Grace. Grace is my grandma's middle name. We had a hard time picking a first name. We loved the name Mae but wanted her name to be longer so had decided on Maelyn Grace. After she was born & the doctors were working on her my husband yelled out "come on Mae!" Right then I knew it was the perfect name. A few hours later we agreed not to add the lyn to it. 

 I love the name because its not very common so when someone says the name I know they are talking about my daughter. 

I'm also glad we stuck with a short name because I had her name tattooed on my finger & it was rough. 3 more letters & I probably would have passed out! 

 **My ticker isn't working...Mae went to heaven on 12/26/13 at 41 weeks 2 days old.**

LyndseyTS

I'm also loving this thread!!

My daughter's name is Serenity Quinn. We had decided on Serenity relatively early on (it was between that an Rebekah) because no matter how our journey turned out (we knew that her chances were not great) peace was something that we focused on and believe that God granted through the journey. I also just love names like that...Charity, Hope, Grace, so Serenity just worked and now I think it just suits her!

We chose Quinn because it was one girls name that DH and I could agree on. We initially thought about using it as a first name (for Serenity or possible future children), but the one-syllableness sounds funny with our one-syllable last name.

I've enjoyed reading each of your stories behind your children's names. Thanks for sharing!

kz's_girlygirl

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We named our son Jesse Ronald.  We were team green, so we picked the the name Jesse (or Jessie if baby was a girl) bc it could be used in either case and we really liked it. For a boy, we wanted to have a jr. without repeating DH's entire name so chose Ronald as a middle name-  Ronald is DH's middle name, and his father's first name (who passed away in 2000).  The initials made up our little junior  

msunshine123

I love this thread! I've enjoyed reading the meaning behind all of your children's names:) We named our son Declan Patrick. We both loved the name Declan for a boy. Declan is an Irish name that means "full of goodness." Patrick is a family name. We began calling him by name once we knew we were expecting a boy.

Maybe Joleisa

I loved reading through everyone's childrens' names. Beautiful.

We didn't start discussing names until after our A/S around 19 weeks at Chipotle. I'm embarrassed to admit that I had a meltdown when we found out it was 2 boys, because my mom passed away in 2012 and I wanted to use her name. (Aaaahhh hormones.) Luckily I have smart friends and they suggested I use her maiden name, so all was well in the world again.

Neither of the names we chose came up during our talk at Chipotle. In pictures and in my belly, we always referred to them as baby A and baby B. Upon birth I asked DH what their names were; without hesitation he said A, first born, is Anthony and B is Benjamin--no significance whatsoever, aside from starting with an A and a B. I added their middle names.

Anthony Boyer (my mom's maiden name)

Benjamin Charles (my pawpaw's first name--he passed away in 2010) 

VyD81

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Our son name is Raynor Rene. MH picked out his name when we found out he was having growth issue, his name means Mightly Warrior from the gods and was hoping he will fight through and grow. Rene is my dad's first name which means rebirth. We call him Ray Ray or Ray bear. 

GymSpaz26

Our son's name is Zedekiah. A few days before our 20 week ultrasound where we would find out the sex we realized we had a couple girls names that were possibilities, but hadn't thought at all about boy names. So I looked online and made a huge list of possibilities. My husband threw out 95% of them. (Granted, we needed a name that would be easily spelled and pronounced by my family in English and his in Spanish, so that added an extra challenge.)

Then we both saw Zedekiah on the list and fell in love with it. We immediately put together his whole name including middle names. We knew, if he was a boy he would be Zedekiah.

The day we had our ultrasound we had dinner with my parents, told them it was a boy and said "so we've been thinking about names". We were going to tell them the name we'd already picked out and had written down on a little card, but my dad thought we were asking for suggestions. So he pulled out his Bible and said, "You guys will probably pick a biblical name..." He opened the Bible at random, ran his finger down the page to the first name he found and said, "Zedekiah". (Chuckling because he thought it was a weird name.) We were in shock and my husband immediately showed my parents the card where his name was already written down.

Zedekiah means God is just or righteous. It was so obviously clear that this was to be his name and it is amazing that every time I remember my son and say his name, I am reminded of who God is.

Zedekiah Eliohenai Silas - "God is just or righteous", "I raise my eyes to the Lord" (Eliohenai), "Man of the forest" (Silas- as an indirect way to name him for my husband who was a boy scout and scoutmaster and loves the outdoors and camping)

MCH77

Timothy. About a week to our loss I added the name Timothy to our list after watching "the odd life of Timothy green." I connected with the parents after 2 losses. I never really thought I would name him that, but added it to the list anyway.

After losing him it just felt right. He came into my life, even just for a short time, to make it better.

EmuTavi

We had not decided on names when we received the news that our baby had a fatal diagnosis. The ultrasound techs could not tell us if we were having a boy or girl because there was not even close to enough fluid to see. After the diagnosis MH suddenly sat down and asked if we could use Emmanuel as the middle name if it was a boy as it means "God is with us". How could I tell him no? So the night before I was induced we sat down and discussed girls names and a first name for our boy. MH was set on biblical names for a boy (he was positive it was a boy) and after 2 hours of going through names I found the name Caleb meaning faithful. Then I read the story of Caleb and Joshua from the bible and it felt RIGHT. Caleb had been kicking non-stop and had such a strong heart, he was a fighter, just like in the bible. Once he was born he just solidified our choice. The doctor expected him to be stillborn. He came out silent but kicking and his little heart beat for 50 more minutes before he joined our Lord. Caleb Emmanuel was a fighter to the end.

Mills0401

We lost our child at 6wks so we don't know the gender. However we named her Allie.

A few weeks prior to any Dr appts I had a dream that I was holding a baby wrapped in a pink blanket and her name was Allie. I was confussed because I knew we were trying for a child but yet we were holding a baby and it was ours. I couldn't figure out why we were trying for another when we already had a baby. Now I know that was my first clue that the baby was not going to make it into this world. I believe that the baby was a girl so I gave her the name of the baby in my dreams.

forevermyfenix

Thanks for this thread. We lost our son one week ago today. He was 36 weeks. His name is Robert Fenix. Robert is a family name, but he was going to go by Fenix.

luckyclover0922

Our sons name was Christopher Anthony. Christopher means "he who holds Christ in his heart" and Anthony is my husbands fathers middle name. If we have a son his middle name will honor Christopher.

soulcupcake

He was actually Steven Lewis Garibaldi until I hit 30 weeks, and then I changed his first name to Duncan. My ex-husband's stepmom's surname is Duncan. Lewis is my ex's paternal grandfather's name, and Garibaldi is my maiden name.

ScienceMama

Our daughter Ryan Wisdom. She Was named Ryan By Her Brother And We Chose Wisdom After She Passed We Had To Trust Gods Wisdom In Her Being A Part Of Our Lives, Even For Such A Short Window Of Time.

Mel&John2013

Lincoln Lancaster

I came across the name Lincoln and loved it. Plus, my husband had an old 1970 something Lincoln that he keeps in storage. A real piece of junk car he's "someday" going to fix up. About a year after we had been dating we had to stop at the storage unit because the covers had come off the car and it was raining. We had to stand in the rain and try to tie down these stupid covers on this stupid car. And I wasn't even annoyed. That's when I realized that I must really love this guy, and I should marry him. So Lincoln's name made me think of that time.

Or sometimes I just say he was named after the capital of Nebraska (nope, we've never been there).

Lancaster is his dad's middle name.

Poppy715

I'm not here near enought but I want to start posting more and supporting the lovely ladies here.

 

My daughters name is Addison Rose.

DH and I wanted something classic and timeless. We also wanted something special that isn't entirely common. It had to be a strong name with an option of a nickname. We would call her Addie for short. DH and I agreed on her name in the car on our way home from a vacation. I had heard it in Grey's Anatomy and always loved the name. Her middle name was plucked out of thin air. We just wanted something femine that sounded good with Addison. I said what about Rose? They make me happy and so does this baby. Addison was the only name both DH and I would agree on. Once we found it we knew it was set.

SummerB0607

My son is Gentry Larry Wayne. I got a lot of hate on the baby name board for Gentry and thought about changing it right up until I saw his face. He looked like a Gentry. It suited him.

Larry Wayne was the name of my boyfriends dad. He passed away in 2005, before I met him. Gentry is buried right beside him.

stefuge

We've had some new moms join us recently, so I thought I would bump this back up. ((Hugs)) ladies for all the painful, tough, impossible days.

smagglebit

I lost my little guy on 8/10/14 (I was 17w2d). I didn't know that I was carrying a boy until I delivered him, and we hadn't even chosen names.

We decided on "Joshua Malachi"

Joshua after his dad

We chose Malachi because it means "My messenger, my angel" in Hebrew

Pehrie

Thank you for this.

Our son's name is Jack Christopher Michael. We had chosen Jack as a name long before we were even married... We both just loved that name. Simple, strong, and would fit any personality. During the pregnancy, we collected books with main characters named Jack because we thought it would be awesome for our son to grow up with stories of his own heroic deeds. Christopher and Michael are his father's and my father's names respectively. I had read that middle names were supposed to guide the child, so we chose the two greatest men we knew.

RheadawnDavis

Our baby's name was Ren Owen Davis but after we found out we lost him it was shortened to just Owen Davis. He was stillborn at 39weeks on 7-21-14.

mrslucid

My daughter was Ava Ruth Marie.  Ava we picked because we both liked it.  Ruth was my grandmother's name and Marie is my MIL's middle name.

Littleowl913

Our son's name is Ronin. Soon after we found out we were having a boy, we saw the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, where the villian's name is Ronin. Even though he's a evil villain, I just loved how the name sounded and my DH agreed so it went on our list. He also mentioned it was a term for samurai fighters. Fast forward to the hospital when the nurse asked us his name, DH suggested we use Ronin because he was such a fighter through this whole pregnany and I couldn't have agreed more.

joolaya

We didn't know that we were having a boy until he came at 17 weeks.  We named him Michael Gideon.  Gideon is my maiden name and Michael just spoke to me.