Naming Baby

sparkman-to-be

How tough was it for you? Did you wait til you met baby to choose a name? Or was it something you knew all along?

DH and I tend to really like more girls names than boys. We have several picked out for baby if, in fact, it is a girl. But none for if it is a boy. It hasn't really bothered me, not having a name yet, but at the same time...I would rather have a few to choose from. I keep thinking that this is God's way of telling us that we're having a girl...but DH says it's going to be a boy for the reason that we don't have a name we both really like.

TexasSmith

We had names picked out by the big ultrasound. We wanted to announce a name when we told friends and family the gender.

I'll be honest and say I don't get waiting to see the baby. Brand new babies pretty much all look the same to me, and don't really "look" like one name or the other. I think your baby's personality will grow into whatever name you choose and you won't be able to imagine him or her as anything else DD was almost Charlotte and I just absolutely cannot imagine her as that! I still love the name, but it's just not Natalie

aprilprincess

we had ours when she was born but only because it was the single girls name we could agree on. Oddly we had thought we had it earlier, but both changed our names about it and agreed on Addison.

I do think there's something to seeing them first, but also that whatever name you choose will probably be the only one you can imagine them having later in life. 

good luck!

tzrbug

Good for you for not finding out!! We did that too and it's awesome the moment they say "its a..." And no we didn't peak ever at the ultrasound or 3-d, you can do it Its tough!

 Like you we had tons of girl names and not a solid boy name til about 7 months along then even that had to grow on us... Austin Michael. Don't worry it will come to you

kat.in.the.hat

We had a list of names, some we'd discussed publicly and gotten feedback on, others we'd kept to ourselves.  We had kept an open mind about it, because we did want to wait until we met her, but we were 99.9% sure that she was going to be Poppy Marie.

Until we met her.  Her personality was evident from the moment we first laid eyes on her and we just knew that the name Poppy would not fit her.  She was nameless for the first seven or eight hours of her life and then, Josh was like, her name is Marion.  And it just fit.  We tried it out for a few hours before we told anyone, and it was just her.

We'll continue to wait until we meet them to name any of our future children.

tzrbug

You're kidding, MARION!!! Wow, nobody else I've ever come across in my entire life has that name, it's my middle name From my great great grandfather who's 100% irish How did you come across it?

kat.in.the.hat

It was my grandfather's middle name - he passed away when I was 35 weeks pregnant and it just really seemed to fit her and a good way to honor him.

houcoog

We had a couple of boy names picked out but H and I could never agree on one.  It really did take seeing ds for us to decide on his name.  We are still unsure on either boy or girl names for this baby.  It will probably be a wait and see thing again.

KelleyA

We didn't talk about names until we knew we were having a girl.  DH suggested her name in the car just after leaving the ultrasound and it stuck.  We went back and checked our list, but Amelia was hands down our favorite.  The middle name was chosen later that week.  We were on vacation and DH took me into the middle of the lake on the canoe and told me we weren't going back in until I picked a middle name. 

Until that point I had boy name in mind, but no girl name.  I think it's easier to pick a name when you know something about a baby, their gender or even the way they look.  If we had met Amelia and she didn't look Like an Amelia we would have changed her name. 

CareBear01

I would def. figure out a choices for a boy name beforehand!  We had a girl name all picked out, then we went to the u/s and found out it was a boy.  We had to start from scratch!  So, now I think we have it down (but I thought that a month ago, too).  I think we are going with Zachary (Zack) Joseph - but we had been tetering on Benjamin Alan for a long time - until one day, DH just said - I like Zack Joseph better - and that was pretty much that.  I liked it, too, so I think that will be the name.

 I don't think there is anything wrong with naming him/her after you see them, but I would probably have some choices picked out beforehand just so you don't stress out the day of trying to think of something.

AggieDee

We had the boys name picked out before we were pregnant.  We always knew that he would be named after DH's grandfathers.

mom2ll

we knew that we wanted an Italian name...  we talked, but didn't really focus on a name until we found out what we were having....  Luca just seemed origional and it stuck..  we got lots of flack for our name choice, but we didn't care....

this time..  we are stuck...  I know what name "feels" right, but Dh doesn't agree...  our list is long...

melrrr

Like you we have to come up with one of each. Our girl first name was settled on before I was even pregnant, and the middle came a bit later. As for the boy name, it has been very tough. I believe we have a name now, but it was not one of my top picks (we had very few picks though). I suggested the "wait and see" idea and rrr flipped out! He doesn't want to have to make a game time decision.