How did you come up with your LO name?

smilingjb · April 2011

DH and I are still going back and forth about a name. He wants an Irish name and I want some unique name, but can't figure out what. I want to have some kind of reason on why we gave our LO his name. Just curious on how you decided which one was the one!

TIA

itskacie · April 2011

We didnt decide on one until she was born but went to the hospital with a couple favorites. She ended up not being named either though! She went from being a Camden or Jordyn to Cambryn! So I guess its kind of a combo

Dont put too much pressure on yourself, you'll know when you see him I think! GL!

mertense · April 2011

My DH made a list of names he liked, I crossed out the ones I didn't like. At dinner one evening he said her first and middle name together and I loved it! We didn't tell anyone her name until right before she was born.

DAWNNA76 · April 2011

we knew what we wanted the names to mean. Eli's name means elevation in hebrew and DH loves to fly so we named Eli after his love.

My family loves the water so I wanted a name that meant water. Kai means ocean in Hawiian.

and I just thought it was to perfet that they are both 3 letters loing and end in I

braveangel2 · April 2011

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Seattle_JiLLn · April 2011

For Ben, dh had always wanted that name. But I still made a spreadsheet of the top 100 boy names (I didn't want An out there boy name) and we separately rated each name as hate it, like it, love it. And so any hated ones were vetoed immediately. Then it left like ten names and most of them just weren't right. And we got down to two or three before we went o the hospital. I thought we were going With Ryan but Ben looked like a Ben. For Cooper we did the same thing but we really werent liking any choices. I had liked Cooper but steve didnt. So I thought we might just do Ryan. But then when my water broke at 34 weeks we talked in the car on the way and steve said "I think I like Cooper now" and so we jut did it. We didn't think up a middle name til later that night and we picked my dads name. Bens middle name is Dhs name.

LauraLynneC · April 2011

DD was Tyler after the girl in the movie Point Break (LOOONG time ago...). But then my best friend named her boy Tyler so we switched it to Taylor. I had hyperemisis with her pregnancy so we joked that I was pregnant with an Alien - so she was Taylor Alien - my g-ma's middle name is Ayleene so we honored her and used that instead of Alien.

DS is named after his dad - historically the first boys are Thomas with altenating middle names - Allan and Alvin. My ExH was Alvis so DS should have been Thomas Allan - but with ExH Tom, and 2 grandpa Toms, we knew we'd call him by his middle name and I didn't like Allan. So we used my brother's middle name Andrew and VIOLA! Andy it was.

DS #2 is named after his father - his father is Jr. so he'll be III -- we'll have to figure out a nickname. Trey or Trip (or Twerp! LOL)

Nancy_Drew · April 2011

We didn't name either baby until after they were born. At least with # 1, we had an idea of a name we could both agree on. (we both had our #1 picks and went with our "alternate".

for DS, we didn't agree so he wasn't named until he was 25 hours old. All the hospital staff thought our last name was his first name! (our last name is in the girls top 100 list). We scored baby name websites yet again at the hospitL and polled some family as they came to visit...finally I just gave up and let H pick his number one pick all along. I still love my picks.

Did you mention you are having a boy? Dh is from Ireland, so having Irish names was top on his list and for our nieces. And newphews names as well. His niece is Caitrin and I love it! Different, but not "out there". I think it's Irish for Catherine which is DH's mom's name and my DD and another nieces middle name.

good luck! I think naming is super hard! It is something they will have FOREVER. You don't want to. Go super popular, nor crazy. It's tough!

iHeartHimMore · April 2011

We had been shooting down each other's suggestions for a few months (since we started TTC really) and then both fell in love with the name Lila while watching the second season of Dexter. Not sure how we'll break it to her someday that we chose her name based on a fictional psychopath. Stick out tongue

Her middle name is Avery, which is one that I had been pushing as a first name but DH wasn't sold. Now that it's gotten so much more popular I'm really glad it's not her first name.

We didn't really care about the meaning so much, but... Lila is Arabic and means night (though I've also seen that it means play or amusement in Sanskrit, which is cool) and Avery is English and means nobility.

preston18 · April 2011

We went through the alphabet. Got to N and i was done. Sadly we kept going all the way Z and DH was sold on William, which was on my auto veto list. He still pushed it for months. And I'm still bitter.

The name had to pass the supreme court justice test.

We also joked about Boaz. The more we joked, the less crazy it seemed. I suspect we'll have a dog name Boaz some day.

kristalovesjared · April 2011

We decided if it was a girl, I got the final say and if boy, he got the final say. I worked at KinderCare in high school and there was a little girl named Bella. I really liked the sound of it, but not necessarily Bella, so I came up with Ella. Who knew that 10 years later the name would be so popular, but I'd always loved it.

StellaZ · April 2011

I obsessed on baby names. Kept a list since I was a teen. I think names are very important. DH shot down nearly all my names and I was crushed. Since baby (team green) would not have my Irish last name, I really wanted an Irish first name, but not too popular. Middle name was set for our recently deceased good friend. It also had to sound good phonetically and have nice initials. I was super particular.

DH came up with Grady and at first I dismissed it (old man name? sounds like Brady which I am not a fan of) ...but it looked really good written down and it was on the (much too long) list when we went the hospital. A Boy! Once DH went home to shower and walk/feed the dog - I really concentrated on the baby's fair round face and the answer was clear. I filled out the birth certificate when he was gone and waited til he noticed it on the marker board. I knew he'd approve and he did. I love love love his name now and couldn't imagine it any different.

Ciaram22 · April 2011

Our sons name is going to be Edmund Michael. We chose to name him this after 2 important people from our families. Edmund was DHs grandfathers name and he was his hero. He passed away in 2007. Michael is after my moms late boyfriend who also passed away in 2007. He was very special to the family. They were together for 10 years and he just brought so much to family gatherings.

doublem · April 2011

I'd known for a long time that I wanted to name a girl after my maternal grandmother. Luckily my H was on board with that name when we were surprised to be having a girl (his family claim is: "we only make boys"). We had such a tricky time TTC that we gave her the middle name Hannah, after the woman in the Bible who prayed to God for a child and was blessed after many years of being barren.

ckmommy · April 2011

H's initials are CCK, FIL's inititials are CCK and we knew C's middle name was going to be Clifford (same as H and FIL) as it has been tradition that the first born son have it as the middle name. We needed something that would sound good with Clifford and I wanted a C name to keep up the trend. We had Corey Jr, Connor, Callum and Carter as our top contendors then one night it just clicked, he was Carter. We never waivered on his name.

kaskade · April 2011

I made a spreadsheet of all our family first and middle names - grandparents, aunts, uncles, parents, siblings. It is important to me to follow my family's tradition that every baby is named after someone [first, middle or a variation]. I love traditional names and strong names, and I like nicknames. So we picked a first name that is traditional, can be strong and has a couple good nickname options. I wanted her to have something that sounds good on a playground and later when she runs for president

For her middle name, we did a variation on DH's father's name, as he passed away a few years ago and we wanted to honor his memory.

So....Katherine Dawn. The funny part is I have always hated the name Dawn, thought it was hillbilly...but now I like it

stacylu · April 2011

preston18:
We went through the alphabet. Got to N and i was done. Sadly we kept going all the way Z and DH was sold on William, which was on my auto veto list. He still pushed it for months. And I'm still bitter.

The name had to pass the supreme court justice test.

We also joked about Boaz. The more we joked, the less crazy it seemed. I suspect we'll have a dog name Boaz some day.

My cousin just named their LO Boaz. Indifferent I thought they were joking at first!

We made a big list of names we liked and just whittled it down and discussed why we liked or disliked it, usually when we were in the car for long drives. For Julia we had settled on the first name before we went to the hospital but not her middle name. We both just liked the name. We use family names as the middle name - her middle name is Annabelle (we both have a grandmother named Annabelle).

For Asher we wavered a lot on his name. 2 months before he was born we decided on Asher but the day before he was born DH wanted to revisit the list. We were settled on his middle name for months though - it's my maiden name.

jcyahne · April 2011

I always joke about how our girls are named after actresses, because...well...they kind of are.

My DH has always had the hots for Gillian Andersen from the X files. He wanted to use the "G" spelling but I wanted to use the "J". Obviously I won. We went with my name Carol, so she became Jillian Carol.

We were having a harder time naming #2. One night we were watching Heroes and we saw Hayden Panatierre's name flash across the screen in the opening credits. DH said how do you like the name Hayden? I said I like it. And that was that. For a middle name we used my sister's middle name and ended up with a Hayden Catherine.

dawnies79 · April 2011

kaskade:
So....Katherine Dawn. The funny part is I have always hated the name Dawn, thought it was hillbilly...but now I like it

Hey, hey now. Well actually I have a ton of very "hillbilly" family in Tennessee so maybe you weren't too far off. LOL! Stick out tongue

kaskade · April 2011

dawnies79:
kaskade:
So....Katherine Dawn. The funny part is I have always hated the name Dawn, thought it was hillbilly...but now I like it
Hey, hey now. Well actually I have a ton of very "hillbilly" family in Tennessee so maybe you weren't too far off. LOL!

Hee...mostly it was because of some Dawns I knew growing up in my rural hometown.

blueLu25 · April 2011

Ds's name is one I saw on a list of names.. I just really liked it for no real reason, and it was one of the first names we agreed on. His middle name is after my dad.

DD is named after dh's mom who died when he was 12. Her middle name is the same middle name as my best friend.

I love the tradition of keeping family names going.

pinktulips · April 2011

We really liked the name Luke from the get go. At the time it was when the new Star Wars movies were being released, so were hesitant about using the name. No matter what, we always kept coming back to it.

I had fallen in love with the name Ella from a book ages ago. DH agreed to it, although he was more keen on her middle name, Audrie, for a first name. Her middle name comes from my 101.5 year old Great-Grandma. The spelling is the same, she is from Sweden. She says that her mother always told her that the "ie" ending of her name is the girls version, the "ey" is the boys.

With Thea (Tay-uh) we had lots of names on the list. DH got to "pick" and he suggested Thea. I jumped on it right away - 1) The pronounciation is the scandinavian version, so it ties to my side of the family. 2) It's only four letters, like Luke and Ella. Four has always been my favorite number. 3) Thea is the Greek Goddess of Light. Luke means bringer of light, and Ella means light, so it tied in perfectly. 4) It isn't crazy popular, which was more important to DH then me.

stellablue1972 · April 2011

We scoured baby name books and kept a running list of boys and girls names that we liked.

Once we found out we were having a boy, we could focus on those names and we just both kept coming back to "Flynn" as a name that we both liked. And the baby name book we had said that Flynn was "a natural-born leader on the playground" or something like that and that stuck with me. :-)

For middle name, we chose a place name - a place that meant something to both of us. Since we met and got married in Ballard, that was it.

"Flynn Ballard S......"

heather318 · April 2011

My favorite movie has been Sixteen Candles ever since I was younger and I always liked the name Jake Ryan. DH was on board with that name from the beginning. However, somewhere along the line we decided that if we had a second boy, we like the name Ryan as a first name. So we went with Jacob Michael. I chose Michael as a middle name because that's what I would have been named if I had been a boy.

adylina · April 2011

My mother is from Belfast and I always felt left out, being the only one to not have a traditional name in my family (my dad is very American and still refuses to say my mother's name correctly), so I knew that my child would have one.

My husband didn't have any particularly strong opinions, but also didn't particularly love any of my family names. However, we have a good friend named Ronan and both loved him name, so we decided to just un-Anglicise it. Now we're having a little R?n?n and couldn't be happier about our 'little seal.'

Easy Irish names that Anglicise well are things like Seamus, Brendan, Rory and Patrick for boys and, for girls, Fiona, Moira, Brigid, Ethna or Orla. You could also go bold and use the original names or just names that are more 'ethnic' like my mother's (R?is?n). They're all lovely and teachers/strangers eventually catch on to them.

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