Names!

animalcrckr

freegiraffe said:

animalcrckr said:

foxslaw said:

But that's a really good point @animalcrckr‌

I also have experience having a different name than my own children since I graduated school and my professional license/practice was already under my maiden name.  I had to get IDs made for my first two children when I took them to the doctor and for daycare since our last names did not match.  It was a complete headache.  I ended up switching to my married name 7 years later because I could not imagine dealing with that kind of stuff all through the school years.  It was a hassle but worth it to me.  

However, your SO will have the same problems if baby has your last name.  

Ugh. That's discouraging to here because I kept my maiden name when we got married and our kids will have my husband's last name. I thought it would be easier since different names are more common these days.

It just depends on your personal circumstances.  We were at a military installation that required us to check in to pediatric appointments with our own ID.  Since my last name was not the same as the children we had confusion each time as they could not pull up our kids records with my SS#. They even refused to see them at one point unless DH was there.  .  At the time, DH and I were both providers in the same clinic so the confusion of paging  Dr Same Name several times a day would have been worse, IMO. We now have the same name but work separately. 

dreemkin84

@PeaceofKia‌ I pronounced in my head your second boys name like prison. I'm not sure what you are going for but I would reconsider the spelling to be more phonetic since it is not a traditional name.

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erunstedler

My sister was in that boat too. She used her last name as a 2nd middle name and used her (now ex) boyfriends last name as her babies... Honestly she wishes she just used her last name for the last name.

jennasnipes

Love family names!
If our twins are boys they will be
Christopher Gattis (Christopher is dh's first name as well). And
James Gable (James is dh's grandfather)
For girls we've chosen
Scarlet Elise and
Emery Lorraine (Lorraine is my mom's middle name)

ambz06060

I guess I like the common names:

Emma Sue (Emma from Friends cuz I just love it; Sue my moms name and my middle name).

Levi John (Levi cuz it's something we agreed on, John for his grandpa and uncle).

KMac570

DH and I rarely see eye to eye on names, but DS was named after his late grandfather, so I think I get a bit more pull this second time around. For a boy I am leaning toward Henry. I love the name and it honours an angel baby from my BMB.  DH is coming around.  We are less certain of girl names.  We are thinking of Kennedy (a long time favourite but I'm getting tired of it), Zoey, or Josephine. The lists aren't closed yet.

psychobutthead

foxslaw said:

I am unmarried, and although I like my boyfriend's last name, I am wondering if I should give the baby my last name? Not really crazy on hyphenated. What do I do? I don't want to offend him, or his family, but I want to explore all my options.

If you want to give the baby your name then give it your name. DD has my maiden last name because her bio dad didn't want to sign her birth certificate papers when she was born. I don't regret ever giving her my last name. Do what you feel is best. Its a lot easier when LO has your last name anyways.

dees14

I like the name Tristan if it's a boy.

reneamac313

The names we have picked are family names as well. If it's a girl it will be Aileen Mae and if it's boy it will be Waylon Joseph.

Paleomama

Dang I have not even really thought about names since the last time I was pregnant. I do have some girl names we were thinking of last time. Zoe, Payton, and Tegan. Kind of waiting to see if its a boy or a girl to get really serious

Paleomama

Snickl3fritz said:

We made a solid final decision last night on names, and aren't planning on telling MY family until baby is born. I'm avoiding the rude comments and the fact that I don't want their opinions on names anyway.

BUT, I don't mind sharing with you lovely ladies.

Willow Elizabeth for a girl
Wyatt Hendrix for a boy

Love those names

kaydah

@Paleomama‌ Thank you!

Hernsy

We're going with:
Boy: Harrison (family name) Craig
And
Girl: Ryan Darlynn (family name)

psychobutthead

Paleomama said:

Dang I have not even really thought about names since the last time I was pregnant. I do have some girl names we were thinking of last time. Zoe, Payton, and Tegan. Kind of waiting to see if its a boy or a girl to get really serious

Tegan is my nieces name but they spelled it Teagan. I can't remember which middle name she got thought it was either Harlow or Fallon. I always mix up the twins middle names.

How are you planning on pronouncing Zoe? Like Zoey?

AF9211

Paleomama said:

Dang I have not even really thought about names since the last time I was pregnant. I do have some girl names we were thinking of last time. Zoe, Payton, and Tegan. Kind of waiting to see if its a boy or a girl to get really serious

Tegan (Teagan) is one of our top choices if this baby is a girl, too! Love it!

Paleomama

psychobutthead said:

Paleomama said:

Dang I have not even really thought about names since the last time I was pregnant. I do have some girl names we were thinking of last time. Zoe, Payton, and Tegan. Kind of waiting to see if its a boy or a girl to get really serious

Tegan is my nieces name but they spelled it Teagan. I can't remember which middle name she got thought it was either Harlow or Fallon. I always mix up the twins middle names.

How are you planning on pronouncing Zoe? Like Zoey?

Zoey and I really like the way you spelt Teagan better

psychobutthead

Well I like the way you spell Zoey Zoe

Yeah when my BIL and SIL came out with the names they picked for the twins everyone through a fit and hated them.

Paleomama

psychobutthead said:

Well I like the way you spell Zoey Zoe

Yeah when my BIL and SIL came out with the names they picked for the twins everyone through a fit and hated them.

I hate that. What gives people the right to judge baby names. It's not like you go up to a stranger and tell them their name is stupid.

psychobutthead

Thats just the way my inlaws are. When I mentioned we picked Daniel to call him Danny for short if LO is a boy they start telling me oh well I had a cousin named Danni that committed suicide oh and I had a cousin named danny who went to prison.

Neither of these cousins on my MIL and FIL side had we ever heard of until we mentioned calling it Danny for short. Then they where like I don't like that.

Hmmm I don't remember asking for your opinion after you asked what we picked.

hillarylo

We have a girl name set. But a boy name is up in the air for us.

mamabutt

My husband has had the name Serenity Jade chosen for a girl for a really long time. We would call her Jade, which I LOVE.

And for now, we both really like the name Corbin Dallas. Im probably going to change my mind at some point, but we've kinda been stuck on them for a while so I guess we'll have to wait and see!

mommy2lele

We have decided Ada Grace for a girl. We have a list of about 15 boy names that we can't agree on. We are team green so we have a while to decided on a boy name.

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babycfeb2015

We aren't sharing names until the babe is here but our choices are

Girl: Addison Louise or Norah Grace
Boy: Quinn Robert or Patrick Finnegan

wintersong139

Both of our grandfathers have the exact same name. Exact. Like:
Richard Charles Dean.
Richard Dean OurLastName.
(Names have been altered slightly to throw off internet creepers.)
Anyway, that sort of decided the boys name for us. :-) He will be named after our grandfathers.

If it is a girl, we like really old fashioned names, but I refuse to type them because I have already heard bumpies disparage them on the names board and I love them too much to hear them abused. :-)

digwriter

Are any 2nd, 3rd+ time moms looking for some sort of symmetry when naming the new baby? Not rhyming necessarily or with a shared initial, just something that fits. I don't know how to better describe it. 

DD has an old-fashioned first name, which shares a first initial with DH's first name. I want nubaby to have a classic/old fashioned name as well, but it must start with the same first initial as my name.

Also, word to the wise - people are lazy as hell, so if you give you child a long name, they will do everything in their power to nickname your kiddo, whether you want them to or not. There is absolutely no subtle way to get them not to. If you want your daughter to be called Charlotte and not Charlie or Robert and not Bobby, you have to fully confront people and say so. To this day I am still fighting with relatives about using DD's full name and not a shortened version that I don't like.

bhjones1980

Stephanie2378 said:

If anyone's interested, my husband was reading up on pregnancy symptoms (he totally just does it to win brownie points so I'll put out) and he said he thinks Areola is a pretty name. So that's up for grabs...

NICE, I will add that to my list...

along with Vulva

scahlin

From a person whose parent did this to her, don't pick a middle name that starts with a vowel. A PP talk about MLF as initials believe me it is worse when your initials form an actual word. When initialing things I only use first and last, otherwise I get strange looks.

starbeth51

Stephanie2378 said:

If anyone's interested, my husband was reading up on pregnancy symptoms (he totally just does it to win brownie points so I'll put out) and he said he thinks Areola is a pretty name.

So that's up for grabs...

My sister worked for an outreach clinic in a rural area and took care of a baby girl named Meconium....the mom mentioned she heard the doctor say that while she was in labor and thought it was the most beautiful word. Poor kid.

jennjilljo

KrisTatum said:

My husband has had the name Serenity Jade chosen for a girl for a really long time. We would call her Jade, which I LOVE.

And for now, we both really like the name Corbin Dallas. Im probably going to change my mind at some point, but we've kinda been stuck on them for a while so I guess we'll have to wait and see!

I love everything about those names! Is you hubby a nerd by any chance? Because it would make total sense. I'm a little jealous for not thinking of Corbin Dallas myself. Awesome!

JessicaxLynn87

DH and I had many named picked out, as well as the order we would use them in, while we were dating. If 2.0 is a girl, she will be Madilynn Hope. The Lynn part comes in from my middle name. Hope is because DH's mother is a breast cancer survivor. So, it's a way to celebrate her. If this baby is a boy, he will be Cash Andrew (DH's middle name).

ambz06060

scahlin said:

From a person whose parent did this to her, don't pick a middle name that starts with a vowel. A PP talk about MLF as initials believe me it is worse when your initials form an actual word. When initialing things I only use first and last, otherwise I get strange looks.

My initials were A.S.S growing up :-S
Thank god for married names

psychobutthead

ambz06060 said:

scahlin said:

From a person whose parent did this to her, don't pick a middle name that starts with a vowel. A PP talk about MLF as initials believe me it is worse when your initials form an actual word. When initialing things I only use first and last, otherwise I get strange looks.

My initials were A.S.S growing up :-S
Thank god for married names

That really sucks

Mine spell SAS. I married a man wutg the same first last name inital so mine didn`t change.

missfashionbarbie

BF's family has a tradition of giving little girls two middle names so we will be sticking with that. Other than that we have three girls names and three boys names picked out.
Girls:
Harper Lynn Grace
Presley Lynn Marie
Rhyan Aria Lynn
(Lynn is after BF's mom and Marie is after my mom)

Boys:
Burke Ascher
Hunter Max
Gunnar Bradley

jdonn1023

For a girl we have Harper Grace and for a boy either Jackson of Greyson- middle name yet

Koukonei

We have a few names picked out but so far the top pick for a girl is Vivienne Elyse and for a boy Theodore James.

CogDis

@foxslaw our children will have my maiden name as their last name. My husband is totally on board and proud of the decision. We feel it is the correct first step in raising them to respect women in a world that devalues women in countless ways (naming being one of them). Much social policy and politics depict the work that women put into creating life as a burden on society rather than the actual necessary life source of society that it is. As a highly educated woman (with a highly educated husband) we are committed to teaching our children these things, even if it means dealing with frustration, awkwardness, and ignorance because, frankly, we know making a better world for them to live in starts with us!

That said, I would never judge someone for naming their child after their SO's family. I'm not about forcing my politics on others.

mylazypony

Ruby Lenore
Gabriel Aaron

Maybe Wolfgang, but that's my uncles name and I really like his name not him.

MnM7608

digwriter said:

Are any 2nd, 3rd+ time moms looking for some sort of symmetry when naming the new baby? Not rhyming necessarily or with a shared initial, just something that fits. I don't know how to better describe it. 

DD has an old-fashioned first name, which shares a first initial with DH's first name. I want nubaby to have a classic/old fashioned name as well, but it must start with the same first initial as my name.

Also, word to the wise - people are lazy as hell, so if you give you child a long name, they will do everything in their power to nickname your kiddo, whether you want them to or not. There is absolutely no subtle way to get them not to. If you want your daughter to be called Charlotte and not Charlie or Robert and not Bobby, you have to fully confront people and say so. To this day I am still fighting with relatives about using DD's full name and not a shortened version that I don't like.

I have no idea for this baby...our "style" seems to be unpronounceable Irish names with only one consonant, so I'm at a loss for this baby.  DS is Eoin Peadar, DD1 is Aoife Rose, and DD2 is Aine Maeve.  Even our dog is Mia (one consonant, even though she came with her name).  I like Zoe, but DH said it's not Irish and vetoed it.  To be fair, I vetoed his Ruairi (Rory).    I'll wait until we find out the gender to fight my name battles!