@mizzmeg love the name Emmalyn!! My maternal grandma was Emma Jean & Lynn is a family name so I’ve always wanted to put them together as Emmalyn!! DH has had heart set on Bella as DD first name so we’re doing Bella Lynn if this is a DD. Want Emmalyn though for future daughter first name 💕
@1stbabe719 Bella is cute! It used to be on my list as a kid lol. Your headband has good taste. My niece’s name is Grace Lynn and I usually call her by both names so anything ending in or beginning Lyn/Lynn is off the table to me because I want them both to have their individuality. She’s not my kid but we have such a tight bond and they’ll grow up together so a I’ve vetoed it.
@Bear14+ I work with a man named Gray and I think that's his full first name. I've only worked with him over email and phone, so I don't know what he looks like, and I always imagine he has a full head of gray hair @nolemomma14 My MIL did monograms on my wedding favors using DH's and my first initials and our new last initial. We're in Cleveland and the monogram spelled out LBJ...as in, LeBron James. They were a hit!
@nolemomma14 Middle name twins! IF I can get hubby on board. Our other middle name is a family name, so I may lose, but it's also one of the stereotypically common girl middle names, so I'm not 100% in love.
@hestia14 the more people I talk to, the more it's becoming acceptable! haha I love Gray so much... but I'm still trying to come around to Grayson... my H keeps saying Grayson and I'm still on the fence.
The only female middle name I like with our #1 first name is Jane. I don't really like that name. Every time I consider it, I think that our daughter is no Plain Jane.
My son's name is Camden and I'm having twin boys this time around. We stick with names somehow related to baseball. Camden for Camden Yards in Baltimore.. not my team but a city I love ❤️
@cb123391 And one of the cooler parks in MLB. What are y'all thinking for these two? I think Kauffman. Not really, but it's probably my favorite park in MLB and one of the few that still isn't corporate (Wrigley, Dodger, O.Co, Yankee)...
@cb123391 love the baseball names! We’re big Atlanta Brave fans and I tried to get my husband on board with naming our first after Braves players. I wanted to go with John Maddox, but he never got on board
I read online that Colin comes from Cole and Cole comes from Nicolas. Does that make it too weird to use Colin as a middle name when the first name is Nicolas (Nicolas Colin)?
I like the sound of them together. I didn’t want to be that person that gave their kid names that were too close to each other. My husband told me it was fine too! Thanks for your opinions. 😊
@cindler 😂 I didn’t even notice. My autocorrect is super not my friend.
@Bear14+ I get wanting to come around to Grayson. But if you like just Grey, that’s ok too. I had a friend name her son Jax almost a decade ago and her husband wanted to go with Jackson to give him a ‘proper’ name but she planted her foot down and honestly it fit him better. I’d worry more about when you look in your precious babe’s eyes and what you feel when you say their name out loud (especially yelling at them to knock it off 😂) over what’s expected. I’ll also say, the longer I sit with Grey, the cuter it is to me. 😊
I just realized I never shared our name! We’re having a boy, so we are naming him Ethan Gregory. Ethan because I have loved the name since my teen years, DH’s middle name is Gregory, so we are keeping that tradition.
If we were having a girl, we discussed and agreed on Lily Anne. Lily because (mostly HP) but we both think it’s gorgeous. Anne for my grandma. In her later years of dementia, she would talk about her Anne (she had 3 boys, no girls). I think she had a miscarriage between my dad and one of his brothers and she thought it was a girl and named her Anne. So it would be honoring her, and if we ever wanted a 3rd, and it’s a girl, this is most likely what we would go with.
@cindler An option for a unisex name could be Tristan. Most times I see boys with the name but I have run into other girls with it on occasion.
For our name choices we went with Adrian Gray for our first. I chose the middle name and DH found the first which we both loved. With the second, a boy, I found a first name we both loved at first but middle is still being worked on. DH gets choice of middle name and the options are currently Max or Eugene, both for his grandpa. Eugene is also his middle name and we had agreed to use my middle name for a girl so I'm trying to work with Eugene but it has some bad history on my mother's side.
Ours will be an Ava, chosen by our 5-year-old daughter about a month after we found out. Back in November, my daughter brought me a piece of paper that said Aralyn (her name), Lukas (brother) and Ava. We asked her who Ava was and she said: "That's the baby". My husband and I just stared blankly at each other, and both said we really liked the name. We also both had Ava Rose come to mind, so that is most likely our final decision.
We were a little disappointed to find out just how popular Ava, but we love it and love the story behind it.
@key33 I love that story! We actually had a final list and were debating about what to pick. We asked ds which name he liked best. We liked what he picked so we’re going with that!
@jenniferjoy37 I love the nod to your grandmother if you had a girl. My grandmother past a year ago this month and suffered from Alzheimer's as well. Horribly sad disease.
We're considering these atm... can't think of any other names we particularly like still. I liked Oliver but apparently that's super popular right now and another friend just had a little boy named Oliver sooooo that's nixed.
Eric Naveed Tyler Naveed Alexander/Alexavier Naveed (DH doesn't like Alexavier...)
@Leylea I'm half Iranian, so our kids all have Persian middle names. M's means royal falcon, Naveed means good tidings. We're just so uncertain about what first name we can agree on. We're not fond of Evan or Devan, but thanks for the suggestion.
@foodislove all good. Oh! That’s such a cool way to honor your heritage. I’ve been looking at African middle names but none have felt right yet. I have both girl and boy first names though. I think it’s hard when you have one name picked to find the one that feels right going with it.
@key33 Aralyn was my #1 name for DD. But my BFF's daughter is Ireland and they sounded too similar (we ended up naming her for FIL as he passed before she was born). This LO's middle name will be Ava. Obviously I'm a fan of your choice of names:)
We started talking boy names about a week ago again after picking our girl name, Sybil Lucille.
Here's our list for first and middle names. "?" are iffy
-Lucius (love it but not a fan of the HP reference)
-Henry
-Luke
-Bowen? -Beau?
-Lawson?
-Hayes?
-Heath?
-Logan?
I working on H to add
-Lincoln
-David
-Issac
Now that we have made it this far H is absolutely refusing to discuss names again till after the anatomy scan. Dude doesn't understand I need the distraction. 😂😂
Wife. Boy mom x6. Expecting #7. Wannabe homesteader. , 💙💙💙💙💙💙
Re: July 2019 Baby Name Thread
My maternal grandma was Emma Jean & Lynn is a family name so I’ve always wanted to put them together as Emmalyn!! DH has had heart set on Bella as DD first name so we’re doing Bella Lynn if this is a DD. Want Emmalyn though for future daughter first name 💕
@nolemomma14 My MIL did monograms on my wedding favors using DH's and my first initials and our new last initial. We're in Cleveland and the monogram spelled out LBJ...as in, LeBron James. They were a hit!
, 💙💙💙💙💙💙
, 💙💙💙💙💙💙
I like the sound of them together. I didn’t want to be that person that gave their kid names that were too close to each other. My husband told me it was fine too! Thanks for your opinions. 😊
@Bear14+ I get wanting to come around to Grayson. But if you like just Grey, that’s ok too. I had a friend name her son Jax almost a decade ago and her husband wanted to go with Jackson to give him a ‘proper’ name but she planted her foot down and honestly it fit him better. I’d worry more about when you look in your precious babe’s eyes and what you feel when you say their name out loud (especially yelling at them to knock it off 😂) over what’s expected. I’ll also say, the longer I sit with Grey, the cuter it is to me. 😊
If we were having a girl, we discussed and agreed on Lily Anne. Lily because (mostly HP) but we both think it’s gorgeous. Anne for my grandma. In her later years of dementia, she would talk about her Anne (she had 3 boys, no girls). I think she had a miscarriage between my dad and one of his brothers and she thought it was a girl and named her Anne. So it would be honoring her, and if we ever wanted a 3rd, and it’s a girl, this is most likely what we would go with.
For our name choices we went with Adrian Gray for our first. I chose the middle name and DH found the first which we both loved.
With the second, a boy, I found a first name we both loved at first but middle is still being worked on. DH gets choice of middle name and the options are currently Max or Eugene, both for his grandpa. Eugene is also his middle name and we had agreed to use my middle name for a girl so I'm trying to work with Eugene but it has some bad history on my mother's side.
We were a little disappointed to find out just how popular Ava, but we love it and love the story behind it.
Eric Naveed
Tyler Naveed
Alexander/Alexavier Naveed (DH doesn't like Alexavier...)
Here's our list for first and middle names. "?" are iffy
-Beau?
Now that we have made it this far H is absolutely refusing to discuss names again till after the anatomy scan. Dude doesn't understand I need the distraction. 😂😂
, 💙💙💙💙💙💙
, 💙💙💙💙💙💙
I think Henry is such a cute name, but DH vetoed it immediately!
Edited to add that the reference would only be a problem because of the particular character. I’d be all about a good character reference. 😁
, 💙💙💙💙💙💙