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alibee09
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boy names make me cry
alibee09
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We are having such a tremendously difficult time coming up with a boy's name for Sprout. I am actually having NIGHTMARES about it now, which is amazing, considering that I'm only 31w. Ugh.
Someone name this kid for me, otherwise I'm going to default to DH's "Diggory Douglas" :P
How did you find your kid's name if you were struggling?
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Re: boy names make me cry
we started by considering family names.
then, since our last name is Irish, we looked up traditional Irish names and found a few we liked that are on our list.
If it was up to only my husband, the name would be Xavier or Robert after the Saints who established his high school.
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ditto Alison, started with a family middle. one day logan just sort of sprung up and it happened to be a very common scottish name so it slid right in. Bought the wall letters, and well that was that!
We struggled with DS#2's name. So we decied to match the same first letter of DS#1. Then I brought out the book of names and started "naming" them off. Hence we came up with Collin to go with Cooper!
Good Luck
We struggled with girls names! Boys names were easy because I love old jazz musician's names (that's how DS got his name... after Dexter Gordon). Other cool jazz names that loved were Desmond, Cole, Porter, Oliver, Louis, Quincy, Benny, etc.
But DD (the one we struggled with) kind of named herself closer to when she was born. Don't ask me how I knew what she was going to be like but my mommy senses told me that she was going to be energetic, artistic, musical and love dancing. The only name that would fit that personality that I could think of was Emily. I picked her middle name out of my past. I had a friend in high school named Grace. She was nice to a fault. I wanted my daughter to have a little of that so in hopes of that, I named her middle name after my friend.
Freakin' LOVE that! HA!
DS' name was mostly chosen before we got married. I wanted to name a son after my g'pa's middle name, Everett. G'pa's fist name is widely used in my family so I wanted to skip that, or leave it for my brother to use for his kid since he shares the same name.
DH's family has a very long line of men with the same middle name and as he is likely the last in that line (his dad was an only child of only children and DH's brother is a bachelor), we wanted to use that too.
So we thought we'd name our future DS my G'pa's middle name as first name, then the family middle name.
My older bro used our G'pa's name for his first kid's middle name and then DH's sister used their family middle name for her first kid.
So we chose a new first name and used the other's as a middle name. I was partial to old fashioned names that had kid friendly nicknames. So my shortlist included Maxwell, Alexander, Samuel and Charles. Charles was a family name and won the day.
with Orion , we struggled like crazy. and i was seriously considering naming him my girl pick Summer Lynn. DH would not let that fly. I didnt want him to be named after DH becuase then he would be a 3rd, and then just choosing a name his father goes by, would cause drama with my family. I had considered naming Orion after my uncle, but his birth name is Micheal Stacey, and Micheal didnt sit well with me, and i couldnt imagine another STace in the family. I was really hung up on Jaxson, for a long while, but DH didnt care for it. Finally as a joke DH said we should get real into Greek Mythology (my middle name is Athena) and name our son Orion Poisidon. I was hooked! I loved it. And that lasted for month, and we went to Oz Fest and there was a band there called Atreyu, and i rememberd the name from NEver Ending Story, one of my favorite movies. Orion Atreyu just flows. so we went with it!
Sorry so long, hopefully this shows you are not alone in the name search!
We really struggled with DS's name for a while. Each time we hit a road block we threw out the list and started fresh with names. Riley kept comming up and we soon realized that while it wasn't perfect it was something we both really liked. I am so glad we didn't waver now and stuck with it.
We didn't have any naming problems, but we did sit in the car one afternoon, trying it out in different contexts; President Maxwell James P, Dr. Maxwell P, Oscar winner Max P, Home Run King Max P...
We had a really hard time with #2. in the end it was a name that painted a picture in my mind (Forrest O'shea) for a boy. This made me realize that only one girl name ever painted a picture for me and that was WinterRose.
I do sometimes wish we had used Tallulah though (DH hated it) so I could call her Lula.
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We had a lot of "rules" for his name. It couldn't start with J (every name on DH's dad's side, except for DH, starts with J), It couldn't end in 'er' (last name ends in 'er', so we didn't want his name to rhyme), we wanted it to be something other than 2 syllables, and we didn't want it to be in the top 100 names on the Social Security list.
The 'er' rule really eliminated a lot of names that I liked. But, once we found Elliott and both loved it, we stopped thinking of names for him.
His middle name is DH's name since we couldn't agree and I finally just made that decision on my own and said that's it.
We did this, too!
Sebastian is FIL's saint name (for Catholic Confirmation.) Henry (bunny's mn) is my maternal grandfather's first name. Every name on our list was a family name - I have us back into the 1500s so there were a lot to choose from!
Do you want suggestions?
YES I WANT SUGGESTIONS!!!
Since you asked. 
Katie's name is actually my mom/grandmother/great grandma's name on my maternal side, and her middle name is my husband's mom's middle name. So, I like familial names... but when I started to investigate my dad's family names (since we'd taken care of my mom's side) I got things like Coleman, Alvin, Theodore (no Simon), Max, Jerome, Charles, Archibald, Mervyn, and Abraham. None of these work for me, really...
So the second route we went was... hub is named after his mom (Brandon/Brenda) so he thought it would be cool for DH to be named after me. The only name we could really think of from Alison is Alistair, which I am not 100% into, especially because I hate the nickname Ali and B likes "Lister" which comes from Red Dwarf. Blech.
So, now I'm thinking... hm, how about just ... names that I don't dislike? Heh heh. Clearly, I lean towards the more classical styles. So if anyone wants to chime in, I wouldn't say no
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Ooh, you want suggestions?! Okay
Here are some that I either love or liked enough yesterday during my lunch break to put on a list to show to T to see what he thought...
Also, I have an uncle named Asa, and I've always liked that too. Or Ace. Your connection of Alison to Alistair made me think of Asa (Alison is one of my favorite names, and my middle name, but b/c of family "stuff" we'll never use Alison or Asa.
GL!!
Also, you've probably tried nymbler? Alison as an inspiration gives boys names of Alexander and Alec and Aric (I have a friend with a son named Aric and daughter Alison...funny
). What about Alan? Or Alton? Or Aiden? Austin?
that was my first thought, too. It's my father's middle name. he's mark alan. i also like alexander and atticus and andrew - my mat. grandfather's middle name - he's henry andrew.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Tallulah, DH wont go for it though. Same with Atticus, I love DH< not so much.
But both your kids have GREAT names.
I like but am not adoring of "Alexander". I really liked Nathan/Nathaniel but husband isn't sold.
Dude, naming people is too much responsibility.
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We had a hard time agreeing. Finally we had our list and decided to marinate on each for a little while. Char's was #1 and it just stuck. DH veteod more difficult names to spell and also ran the resume name test.
For boys, we planned to name after both of our dad's...Dominic Jeffrey. I still like it although I don't know if I am 100% sold if #2 is a boy. I don't like Dom, but do like Nick and Niko as n/n.
I also really like the name Travis. That sounds cute with Katie
and has the same "a" sound as your name.
Boys names are AWFUL to come up with! And I have two!!
With Alex we had a short list, and Alexander was on it, but then I literally dreamed of him and in the dream he was about 5 and he told me his name. I know that sounds stupid but it was so, so true it freaked me out. I woke up and told DH and he said, well, that's it, he told you his name! And there we were.
Simon was another story. So hard to name. Every night I hoped I'd dream his name but I never did. It really was the one that was least objectionable to each of us- if I had my way he would have been Taylor, if DH had his way he would have been Wesley. But, now that he's here, he fits his name and I don't regret it, in fact, I love it.
Both boys' middle names are family names from my side, John, after my dad, & Masters, my Gran's maiden name. I said since they have DH's surname I got to give them a maternal family name for their mn.
Our short list for Alex was Miles, Elliott, Alexander, Taylor. For Simon it was Simon, Judd, Wesley, & Taylor. I also always wanted Nicholas but you can't really be Nick Frick now, can you?
Oh and as far as the resume thing... one of my male fb friends told me he has this test for a name: Would you want to go on a blind date with a person with that name, and also, would you hire a person with that name to be your lawyer?
Good test, I though.
Naming is SO hard.
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How are you 31 weeks already?!?! That's probably easy coming from the person who hasn't been pregnant for the last 31 weeks, but I can't believe you're getting so close!
We didn't name DD until 4 hours before we left the hospital; and even now I sometimes wish I would have gone with the mn I loved. DH hated it, but now that she's here, it's never used, and he wouldn't care. Maybe for the next one...
We had to make a name work in English and in Swedish. Not really that easy, and since the hubby nixed Wolfgang, I was not happy for a long time
We did find a happy first and middle name we liked. My sister took all the family names on my side, and the family names on his side, don't work well for English.
I loved looking at name websites though
Try to relax about it and make it more fun.
We also had to find a girl name too, since we kept little dude a surprise until he came out
I really have a problem with boy's names. I was going to do Maxell for #1, since my grandfather called himself Max (not his real name), but it was a girl so we used Maxine for a mn.
Now I would be a little lost. I really love the name Daniel, but it's quite common. I have to say though, not as big of a deal for a boy as for a girl, I don't think.
I like a lot of other names, but I would be a little afraid to give a boy a name that may single him out. I know that sounds lame, but I think, is this a name that will get him beat up on the playground?
I also love Christopher a lot but it would be weird to use that because I am Jewish which really bugs me because it's my favorite boy name of all time.
DH's uncle died recently and was named Bradley but I don't like that with our last name. too many B's.
I like Graham but it means gray pebbled area which seems a little lame.
I like Nathan/Nate, but it is a tongue twister with our last name.
DH"s mn is Edward so that is a possible, but I dislike Eddie. Always sounds like a small time criminal to me eg "fast Eddie".
I like Eric, so that is a possible.
I am leaning toward Daniel if #2 is a boy.
This was my basic philosophy:
1. Had to be Irish (we are both of Irish descent).
2. Had to be easily pronounceable
3. Had to be somewhat unusual
4. Had to be unique to our family
For the middle name, I really wanted to use Gannon. It is a family name and the Gannon's emmigrated in 1906, Fudgie was born 100 years later in 2006. But no, dh wouldn't go for a last name as middle name. I still disagree but oh well
So if it wasn't Gannon, I really wanted it to be a name from my side of the family so we chose my dad first name which is also my grandfather & great-grandfather's name.
We basically made lists of our choices and quickly got it down to our favorites, a list of about 7 or 8. Then, over time, it just got boiled down to our 2 favorite names. We didn't really work at it, we would just look at the list from time to time and say 'eh, let's take that one off'. Then we waited until he arrived. We wanted to meet him first
Anyways, that's our story. Good luck. I think it works itself out and the name comes to you, at least I hope that is the case for you. Hang in there
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Yeah, boys' names are ridiculously hard. I agree it's too much responsibility and I kinda wish the government just stepped in and declared a name for each new baby.
Ok, not really, but...
Our first was either going to be William (Will) or Wyatt. We decided we liked those two names and we'd wait and see which one he looked like. Will it was (and still is - that child is seriously willful).
Our second was either going to be Samuel (Sam) or Tanner. We were going to do the same thing, wait until birth, until we were having dinner with our best friends and it randomly came up that one of them had dated a gay porn star named Jake Tanner. Tanner was immediately off the table and Sam he is.
I have a godson Alastair - love the name, but he's definitely been Al his whole life so you have to like that as a nickname.
I have NO CLUE. Time has flown by this time! My ticker says 60 days left and all I can think is O_O
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Girls names were so so easy for us, but when it came to a boys name we were in serious trouble!
L is actually named because we saw it on a key chain at Disneyland and both put it on the table as a maybe.
When no other name came as a "for sure" first name L it was...lol
Now of course I couldn't imagine him being called anything else, but I feel your pain!
Haha, this is one of my issues, I don't want to name my child after anyone i have dated, which, since I got married so late, counts out a lot of nice names.
We had to come up with a name that works in German and English. We knew it was a girl early on through the amnio so that made things easier. We had two names shortlisted: Sarah and Julia. Everybody told us we would know which name fit as soon as she was here. So the baby is born and DH and I look at each other wondering if she looks like a Sarah or a Julia. We both didn't know, she looked like a newborn. So we had her choose her name - we put a coin on her head and then slightly moved her so the coin fell off, and it was heads=Sarah.
For boy names, we were thinking of Markus or Sebastian, both work in both languages.