Fun but random poll....

jiffy-pop

When people are trying to decide on names they always say things like "Boy names are hard!" or "Girl names are hard!" So which do you think are hardest? Boys or Girls?

[Poll]

plunderb

I think names for boys are tough. I find it harder to find the right balance of good sense and whimsy.

jiffy-pop

For me, girl names are harder than boys. I don't know why but I've always had a long list of boy names but could rarely come up with fitting girl names. And of course, I had to have two girls! Ha! ...And naming them has been SUPER hard!

mtm0109

 I thought boys names were hard. I think I thought this because we only liked about 5 names and that is what we went to the hospital with. And narrowed it down after DS was born. If we were having another boy, It would be down to 2 maybe 3 names.

Now that Im pregnant with a DD. We have 28 names on our list and it continues to grow daily. So now Im certain girl names are harder.

Sunshine05

Girls names, for sure.  I have plenty that I love, but finding one that DH & I agree on is the hard part.  He has bad taste. 

PepVeroni

I think it depends on how each person defines "harder".  Some people say boy names are harder because they like SO many that they can't pick just one, others say boy names are harder because they can't find ANY that they like.

For me, I picked girl names because I like a fair amount but don't LOVE any at this point.  With boy names, I like fewer, but the ones I do like I like a lot and am excited to use.  So that makes boy names easier for me, even though I have fewer on the list.

MrsJ723

For me, it is girl names.  They either remind me of someone I know/knew (usually in a negative connotation) or they sound "prissy", "slutty", etc.

AmandaAndTj

With DD1 we had her name picked before we got pg. We also had a boy name picked both pregnancies. Now with baby2 being a girl, we have been so clueless. Our one and only girl name is used lol. So we are stumped.

Helenahhandbasket

For me it's boys names.  I could name 20 girls.

BlindysWife

By myself, I don't have a hard time with either side. I love a multitude of boy's and girl's names. 

With H mixed in, it's harder depending on how you look at it.

He and I have a greater similarity in taste for boy names. So we have a hard time narrowing down our choices for boys. But, on the flip side, it's not hard to come up with the names. We've got boy names aplenty! 

Girls, on the other hand, we have a harder time agreeing on what we like. Our tastes are a little bit different. However, that makes it easier to decide as far as, "oh look, we've got one name in common that we both really like, I guess that's our girl name!"  

Amanda&EricB

PepVeroni:

I think it depends on how each person defines "harder".  Some people say boy names are harder because they like SO many that they can't pick just one, others say boy names are harder because they can't find ANY that they like.

For me, I picked girl names because I like a fair amount but don't LOVE any at this point.  With boy names, I like fewer, but the ones I do like I like a lot and am excited to use.  So that makes boy names easier for me, even though I have fewer on the list.

This exactly. I have a long list of girl names that I like, but none that jump out at me saying ME ME ME. I have a shorter list for boy names, but I like each one of them a LOT.

BLPL101

DH and I agree on way more girl names than boy names so it was pretty easy to decide on DD's name because we were on the same page! So, boy names are harder for us.

banannapeach85

Girls. There are many more boy's names I love than girl's names. Although we are lucky enough to have already decided on a girl name if we have a daughter. It's a family name, but if we had to start from scratch it would be hellish.

ariaforte8

Girl's names are darn near impossible for us. We have a bunch of boy's names we love, but have a very hard time finding a single girl's name we love.

[Deleted User]

I voted "boys are harder" only because there are few boys names I like. I seem to like traditional names with familial ties or strong meanings.

LadyXaverian

For me, girl names are harder, but that's probably because I've had a solid boy name picked out since I was a teenager (after my Dad) that my husband agreed to.

But there are so many lovely girl names out there to choose from...

austenreader85

For me, girl names are harder to decide on.  I love so many and like hundreds.  And it's much harder to agree with DH's style.  Boy names our tastes are more similar and I don't like as many so I don't feel the need to fight for something that he doesn't.  But if we're going on just which is harder to get a good list going, I guess boy names by far for me but in my case that's a good thing.

Spacebunny19

Girls names are harder for us because I feel that you have a lot less leeway with boy names.  We wanted something traditional but not stodgy, masculine (not unisex), and for pregnancy #1 we very quickly picked a name we both liked.  It took months and months after that fateful ultrasound to pick a girl name when we found out we had no need for that boy name at that point.

Now it's even worse because we shredded so many girl names for DD#1 that now that we're having DD#2 we have nothing we both really love.