Names thread, anyone?

nopegoat

I know its early but anyone thinking about names yet? 

warriorprincessstan

No specific name yet. But more just general angst about figuring out a name. With our first l, it was always going to be a family name (the 6th) so it was easy. We just had to figure out nicknames and even those we waited until he was born to settle on one. But this time, there is no long-standing family name. So we just have to pull a name out of thin air! Stressful 

bridgiebee82

My husband has very specific "rules" for names. Like, if the name is already used in the family, he doesn't want to use it. Ok, but I really like some of the names in our families and I don't think it's fair to just completely nix them. I grew up with a brother Michael, and 2 cousins on my mom's side named Michael. We all knew who was who. It's not difficult. He says it is tradition, but really, he says that about a lot of stuff that isn't really family tradition, it is just stuff he likes to do. Lol

That said, I have no idea! 🤪

KayMayEmmAyy

For the past few years I had started a running list of names that I added to everytime I saw one I liked. Now that there's a real baby involved, I looked back through the list and said nope to them all 🤦‍♀️

nopegoat

We tend to lean towards more traditional family names but our only real name rule is that we can't have any repeating initial, first or middle. 7 boys and haven't broke it yet. If its a girl, we are 100% breaking that rule 😅 as we've had our girl name picked out 4 kids ago. 

Girl name is Sibyl Susan after my husband's grandmother. 

Our boy names are 
James Mathieu 
Everett William
Charles Gregory 
Russell Albert
Henry Luke
Samson Boone
Nikolai Isaac 

If this one's is a boy we are thinking of going with Vincent for a first name. We haven't decided on middle name yet. 

thatbaintforbetty

We agreed on a boy name before DD1 and it’s still the winner: Oliver

not 100% on a middle but probably between 2 family names. 

We had the hardest time with DD1 and went into labor with 2 options. With DD2 DH only ever had 1 girl name option (which I also liked thankfully). 

This time we have a nickname we wanted and that narrowed down the full name options. So it’ll be Olympia if a girl. About 90% there on the middle. 

For girls the names had to be feminine, have a natural nickname, a nature meaning and ideally end with an a. 

We wanted Oly/Olly/Oli as a nickname but didn’t want to do Olivia/Olive. (It’s a great name but too popular for our taste) 

brookejay06

Have have one girl and one boy already. If this one is a girl I think it will be Sadie. If it’s a boy I like Bennett but my husband isn’t sold. We also like Reid and Beau. 

Sadie June?
Sadie Blake? 
(No relevance to either middle name- we just like the names)

Another option is Sadie Cinta, which is an Indonesian name meaning love. My MIL is Indonesian and we’d love to do a tribute to her. 

alm52386

My FIL’s name was Robbin and he went by Rob. He passed away in July 2020 and I always said we should have a third and name it after him! So Robbin for a boy but would call him Robbie. Robin for a girl. I also would love to use my Grammie’s name somehow. She will be 100 in November! But her name is VeNeta Lee Taylor (Norrick) and my brother and niece already have Taylor as a middle name. I joke that if it’s a girl the first name will be VeNeta 😄

nopegoat

@brookejay06 I love Sadie! Pardon my ignorance,  how do you pronounce Cinta? I automatically want to say with an S. What a beautiful meaning and beautiful way to honor your MIL. 🥰

nopegoat

I think we are leaning towards Vincent Douglas. 

brookejay06

@nopegoat I had to look it up haha. It’s pronounced sin-tah, I think. But I asked my MIL if it meant “love” in her native language and she said no lol. I guess it’s the name of someone from their mythology though. 

So … might rethink that. Still want to do an ode to MIL but not sure how. 

nopegoat

@brookejay06 aww. I think that sounds lovely together. Boo that it doesn't mean what you thought. 

bridgiebee82

@brookejay06 at least you found out early on that it doesn't mean that. Still stinks, though. I love the name Sadie. 

@nopegoat the two names I love right now are Vincent and Nora. Except one of my really good friends has children with those names. Would that make it weird? Lol I think it might. 🤣 I alsonlike Noreen. That's my aunt's name. She passed away about 20 years ago, and she was absolutely the sweetest woman on the face of the planet. We do like traditional Irish names, too.

nopegoat

@bridgiebee82 definitely a fan of Vincent and I looove Nora too! Ehh... how close are we talking? Like see them pretty frequently? 

Noreen is beautiful too! 

bridgiebee82

@nopegoat we hang out when I come out of hibernation in the spring and summer. Lol 😆 

ur_mom222

The deal for my husband agreeing on another baby (our 3rd) was he gets to pick the name so pray for me 😂

bridgiebee82

@mamakeeg oh Lord! 🙏🏻 

baileeann409

I worked with someone who let her husband name their boy ESPN pronounced espen. As long as you have some vedo power and a husband with some common sense you should be okay!😅

knottie8019d12b2e9f40ca

😂😂😂 literally from an Adam Sandler movie - “Blended”

knottie765b1013afa65533

alm52386 said:

My FIL’s name was Robbin and he went by Rob. He passed away in July 2020 and I always said we should have a third and name it after him! So Robbin for a boy but would call him Robbie. Robin for a girl. I also would love to use my Grammie’s name somehow. She will be 100 in November! But her name is VeNeta Lee Taylor (Norrick) and my brother and niece already have Taylor as a middle name. I joke that if it’s a girl the first name will be VeNeta 😄

Robin Eta (Etta) is pretty! Uses those last few letters for your Grammie. 

knottie765b1013afa65533

We have an Olive, Milo, and Briar. Any ideas for baby #4? I just received a bad diagnosis and so we aren’t sure we can keep this pregnancy, but I’m holding out hope and still want to think about the good things like names ❤️

knottiee3747767865b4d95

We’re leaning towards Caroline if it’s a girl, Carter if it’s a boy. We were pretty set on Charlotte as a girl name, but it’s so common that we’ve decided to switch to Caroline

cindy10104555

I want to be excited about names. But it was such an exhausting challenge to find a name my husband and I both loved for our first. So I’m not too excited to jump back into wading through, what feels like, every name in existence to find something we can both love 😭

rosie122125

So far we’ve only been able to agree on a girl’s name: Aramí Elizabeth. My husband is Paraguayan, and Aramí is guarani for “little sky.” The middle name is after both our moms. We’re split on a boy’s name! We’re considering Camilo or Francisco or Emilio. 

iwantcookies

My fear is choosing a name that’s all over Booktok 😂 between that and having bad history with people of various names it’s been tough to agree. We just found out the gender and I can’t even wrap my head around how we are to give a child a name that’s sticks with them their whole life. 

My sister told me to look up the top 25 names and avoid them if possible (assuming there’s no family relation for why you want a name) my poor niece grew up in the era where twilight was huge and her nickname was Ella. Well her and like 6 other girls in her homeroom 😅

philosophyw

We're lucky in that we only have to pick one name--in my family we don't change our last names when we get married, so one person's last name goes in the middle name space and the other person's goes in the last name space. So we just need a first name!

Our girl name was going to be Sadie, after my husband's great-grandmother whom he adored as a very young child. But our NIPT results came back with XY chromosomes, so I think this baby will be Asher. It's a pretty common name these days but it's the only one we both like and it works for us on a few different levels (my husband's family does a lot of "A" names, and it's ancient Hebrew in origin, which is one of two languages I studied in grad school). It's also gender-neutral, which is important to us because my eldest ended up being nonbinary.

ur_mom222

So we found out it’s a girl! Which I’m so excited cause my husbands boy name was wild 😂 we are leaning towards Raegan Allyce (which is my middle name spelling, pronounced Elise), Raegan Hattie (his grandmas name she’s 98) or Hattie Lou (his grandmas full name.) I love them all honestly! 

If it was a boy his name would’ve been rowdy lol 

brookejay06

@mamakeeg love all those options. Congrats!!

bridgiebee82

@mamakeeg I love all of those! 

We are looking at Aoife Jeanne (Ee-fah Jean). Aoife is Irish for beauty and radiance. Jeanne means God is gracious. Jeanne is my middle name, for my grandmother. I'm 100% Irish and my husband is Ukranian. Our sons are Jacob Wasyl, Benjamin John, and Sebastian. We wanted something to reflect our Irish heritage, and Aoife is such a beautiful name. I also love the name Saoirse, meaning freedom (sor-sha). We aren't sharing the name with anyone because I know people will try to talk us out of it, but we won't change our minds. I just don't want to hear it for the next 27 weeks. 🙄

thatbaintforbetty

@bridgiebee82 I love Aoife! 

Also my mom hates our boy name and it’s a nightmare. It’s been the favorite for all three pregnancies, we haven’t changed our minds and aren’t going to, but she still tells us how much she hates it. We had to take Artemis off the list for our first because she was so adamant she would never use it and only call her “Missy” which I hated. We pretty much had to tell them point blank we don’t want to hear opinions because it’s so annoying. 

rebecksah

I've had my girl name picked out for as long as I can remember. I've told my whole family they can by no means use that name or I'll be really devastated. I have 5 sisters and a brother, 3 of my sisters have kids, and all 3 have had girls. So far no one has used my name, Charlotte, middle names Ann Marie. If this one is a girl we will finally get to use it. My mother's middle names are Ann Marie, and my husband's mother's name was Mary Ann. We thought it would be sweet to honour them both. 

However, we decided we're having a Charlie no matter what. I don't love the name Charles, but I do love Charlie and will likely call him that all the time. Middle name hasn't been decided. 

My oldest is Oliver Percy; Oliver was by far our favourite boy name and Percy is after my husband's maternal grandfather. He died before my husband was ever even thought of, but I've always loved the name Percy. 

My 2nd is Owen Arthur. My husband really wanted Arthur for the first name but I didn't love it. I sold him on Owen because both boys have the same initial, but also his maternal grandmother's maiden name was Owens, and he was very close to her, so it was a nice way to pay homage. Arthur was picked definitively as the middle name the night before my scheduled c-section. 

knottief027d276c64f82ae

We are having a boy and his name is Jeremiah Paul 🩷. 

hayhay1230

I could use some advice! We are having a boy and my husband loves the name Warren. It's hard for me to get him to hear any other names. My nephew's name is Watson. He is only 7 weeks old so they will be very close in age. Is Warren too close to Watson for cousins? 

brookejay06

@hayhay1230 I don’t think it’s too close. Just both W names. The potential nick names for each don’t really overlap either. 

My nephew is Walter and I loved the name Walker but thought that sounded wayyyyy too close haha. Yours are not this close! 

brookejay06

Very sad we won’t get to use the name Sadie  

So I need help with a name for baby boy! Since we found out the gender I’ve been feeling the name Reece. But I also love Miles and Mason. 

Miles seems to be up and coming- do you guys think it’s super popular right now?
and Mason WAS super trendy back in like 2010… do you still think it’s toooo trendy?

I like classic names, I don’t mind if they’re top 100 popular but I don’t really want top 10, if that makes sense. 

thatbaintforbetty

@hayhay1230 I don’t think they are too close. 

I have a sister and a cousin we saw all the time as kids, who both have names that started with B. They were like a year apart in age, both had nicknames that started with “Br” and I never thought they were too close/similar. 

@brookejay06

Definitely love Miles the best out of those 3! I do feel like Mason is dated. I’ve never been a fan of Reece (or most unisex names). Miles feels classic, and timeless. 

rebecksah

@hayhay1230 I have an Oliver and my sister literally named her daughter Olivia. It happens! LOL I wouldn't think those two are too close, though.

bridgiebee82

I have a brother named Michael. And 2 cousins on the same side of the family named Michael. It happens. Lol

Melissa112009

Having a girl and I am completely stuck in love with the name Calloway - Callie for short. 

My husband is hung up on Calloway being too masculine , but he loves the nickname of Callie. 

Calloway is a gender neutral name - but something about it…. I just can’t get it out of my head. 

thatbaintforbetty

@Melissa112009 while I think Callie is cute, all I can think of is golf when I hear Calloway(Callaway). The spelling might be different but the sound is not really changed. 

Gender neutral is not my style at all (and I say this as someone with a gender neutral name). But having such a well known/recognizable “namesake” or popular same sounding brand that immediately makes the brain associate a product/item/sport/theme would be off putting to me and is definitely something to consider. 

sugarcrisp890

Hi!  I loved reading through all the previous comments to see what everyone is thinking

@Melissa112009 love Callie! Calloway is very different but Callie feels very familiar and if you are going to go with something unique it’s nice to have a more familiar nn option I think and I do think of golf as well! Not a bad association necessarily,

@hayhay1230 not too close!  They share sounds but have different “vibes” to me , and so many boy names end with “n” so I would ignore that similarity altogether lol. They might love having W names together as they grow up!

@brookejay06 I really like Miles and Reece, I don’t know if it’s still trending or not, but Mason feels trendy to me, fwiw. As a Sadie myself, I am also sad you won’t get to use it but your boy names are also great


I’ve been massively obsessed with names for years and finally getting to choose one is a lot of pressure! Plus DH is so fussy, haha. 

We are having a girl, and our top two names currently are Winifred (Winnie) and Dahlia , I’d love your thoughts as I’m feeling very torn. DH’s current favourite is Winifred but we both love both names . I thought of bringing two to the hospital but I’m afraid of decision paralysis ! Does anyone have experience with this?