Where did you find your favorite name?

candr09 · August 2010

DH and I have went through books and websites and made lists of all names we like, but the more we talk and think about them, the shorter the list gets and we end up almost not really loving ANY names. We're lost at this point.

Anyway, I've just wondering where everyone "found" the right name for them. Naming after family? A name you've loved your whole life? Favorite characters from a book/movie? Just browsing name books/webesites?

missamERICA · August 2010

I was obsessed with "Sleeping Beauty" as a child and fell in love with the name Aurora.. and still love it. And when I was in high school, one of my old boyfriends had a brother named "Wesley" who everyone called "Wes" and I just loved it..That's where our 2 choices came from....I got lucky that my DH is perfectly fine going along with them... he got to choose the middle names.

BlueRidge8 · August 2010

I vacationed in Adare, Ireland and fell in love with the name (though we used the Adair spelling for various reasons)

sunnyday016 · August 2010

Back when DH and I were dating, we had said that we'd use the name Hailey if we ever had a girl. When we found out I was having a girl, Hailey just didn't seem right. I guess my naming style had changed over the years. He said "I love the name Sophie, let's name her that". I loved it too, so that's what we went with. We actually named her Sophia because we thought it sounded a bit more grown up and she may want to go by that later in life. She'll always be our little Sophie though

Allie30 · August 2010

My favorite names are all names of literary or historical figures I admire, OR family names. My husband's favorite names are names he's loved his whole life, followed by names of literary and historical characters he admires.

I don't think I could just pick a name out of a baby book. I work with names as part of my job, and it's really important to me that they mean something.

dana1318a · August 2010

DH suggested it, I don't really know where he heard it..I didn't ask. But we just used a couple names in everyday conversations for a while, and one stuck out.