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Name poll

1) what did you almost name your LO(s)?

2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)?

3) did you decide the name before or after they were born?
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Maxine Elizabeth

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Sweetie Pea

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before, we had many long, in depth "discussions" - needed to watch the nicknames as our last name is O'Reilly and so many nicknames end in "y" so we didn't want anything to rhyme. I loved Maxine but DH said she would be called Maxi Pad in school, so that became her middle name.
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)?  Nothing specific

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Bug, Mas.

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born?  After, W had no name until about 12ish hours old.  Since we have surprises we just have a list of acouple for each sex and see what fits.
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    1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Jackson.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Bear, Little Bear, Booboo.

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before. We had our names chosen by the time we had the gender ultrasound both with Collin and now with Bean.
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Tristen Michael (Instead of Tristen Wyatt)

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Tristiano, Boog Boog, stink butt, bug, T.W.

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before. I was mostly certain that I was having a boy before the ultrasound told me so, but as soon as we confirmed it we started calling him Tristen. 
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? With Max, it's a good thing we both loved Maxwell, because we had nothing else! With Anna we thought about a lot of names but nothing jumped out to both of us until we hit on her name and that was the clear choice.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? DS: Max, Bug, Bugaboo. DD: So far Anna Boo and Punkin.

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? With Max we had it picked even before we knew boy or girl. With Anna I think we were settled on it by the time I was 7ish months.
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? We could never really come up with a girl name and were dead set on our boy name.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Buddy and Ed

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? We were set on Jackson. No other names.  Malia was going to be Ke'ala until my niece was born and it sounded too similar to hers.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Jackson - Baby Chunker and Monster.  Malia - Honey Girl.

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before -for both
  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? She was always going to be Lucia, but middle name between Anne, Adeline, and Jane (we went with Anne).

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Lucy, Lulu, sunshine, babe, sugar

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before. Once we found out she was a girl, we started calling her by her name.
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)?  Didn't have any close seconds.  We had a really hard time agreeing.


    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)?  In utero we called her Nougat.  I thought it would stick after she was born, but not so much.  Now I call her monkey, munchkin, punkin, baby girl? nothing too original.


    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born?  We decided way early? we knew going into the anatomy scan that if she was a girl she would be Lila Avery.

  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)?   - Ben was almost Ryan.   Cooper I guess might also have been Ryan. We pretty much had nothing planned for him and Steve had rejected Cooper originally... but then my water broke in the middle of the night at nearly 34 weeks and on the drive to the hospital he said "I think Cooper is good now"

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)?   - Mostly just stupid things.. nothing that really sticks.  Ben gets called Ba Ba because that's what Cooper calls him.  We call Cooper "Cooper Duper".   I call them both Sweet Boy, Sweetie, etc... 

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? - Neither of them was really named til after they were born.   Ben it was like 9 hours later before we picked.  Cooper like I said was sort of on the way to the hospital but I still was leaving it open til he was born.  We didn't pick a middle name til later though - we had no ideas for that.
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Madison

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? M, mads, maddie

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Yep!!
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)?  Jackson, or Lane

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)?  Buggy, Boo

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born?  After, he was nearly 8 hours old before he had an official name. 
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? We didn't have any alternates.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Bugaboo is the main one.

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before, but not officially discussed and decided until 3rd tri (worried about jinxing ourselves).
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? It was down to Camden, Jordyn and Leighton

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Noodle, bug, kid and any combo of those

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? After (and went with none off of our list...)
  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Didn't have any other contenders.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Mads, Boo-Boo (or Boo-Boo Butt), Baby Butt, Boogs/Booger/Booger Butt (I like to add "butt" to things, can you tell?).

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before she was born, heck before we knew the sex even. I feel like her name really fits her though, so I'm glad it's the one we chose.
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)?   DD was going to be an Corine or Adleigh and I REALLY wanted Adam or Ian for DS, but DH veto'd...  After he was born, we agreed on 3 names, Garrett, Gavin and Ryan.   He was 25 hours old before we named him...or I gave up and let DH pick.  Wink 

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Otter Pop and Rye-Guy

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? AFTER with both.  Both we went to our compromise names. 
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)?   Laurel was always the girl name.  For a boy we liked Lance for awhile but we got a lot of grief for it and then Lane came to be the #1 boy name. Some names for #2 if it's a girl: Lucille, Livia, Violet, Melanie.  I really DON'T want to have two L names.  I'm willing to stick with Lane if it's a boy, but I'd rather do something different for a girl.  I think DH already has his heart set on Lucille (Lucy), though.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Laurel's nicknames are Bugga, Sweet Girl, and Go-wuhl (what my nephew calls her).

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before.  
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Emmeline was almost Emily and Penelope's middle name was almost Marigold.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Sweet Pea, Munchkin butt, little one

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born?Before she was conceived for her first name and 12 hours for her middle.
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? With Syd I fought really hard for Megan, Sarah had several names before we settled on Sarah: Penny, Charlotte, Megan, Natalie

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Soooo many! The top ones are Curly Girl for Sydney, Sister and Cheeks McGee for Sarah

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before
  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)?  Our runner up in the name DD#1 contest was Fiona

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)?   We call Jillian "Monkey".  And Hayden will probably be called "Baby" for the rest of her life at the rate we're going.

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Oh yeah.  I'm a pick a name early and stick with it sort of gal.

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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Mason was our first choice for a while, but we decided on Hudson around 24 or so weeks

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Monster, Baby, Huds, Buddy, Monkey, Stinky butt .. and so many more :)


    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born?Before he was born :)

  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Team green - I really wanted Stella or Harper for a girl, he wanted Acoralena (either Cora or Lena or Lane for short). For a boy, I wanted Jude or Jakob, he wanted Grady or Orion or Wyatt. Middle name is after a dear deceased friend so that was pretty set. 2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Monkey butt, Grady Pants, Monkey Pants 3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? I named him about 12 hours AFTER while DH went home feed the dog. His choice fit better - and now I love it!
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    1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Brady

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Boo Boo Jr. 

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before he was born
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  • 1) Amelia (no MN had been decided on)

    2) E, Em, sweet pea, monster girl, having a hard time settling on one that actually stems from her name, though

    3) I had wanted to name a girl after my grandmother for as long as I could remember, so that was settled almost as soon as we knew we were having a girl, even though we entertained some other names for a bit.  Her MN wasn't chosen until about a month before she was born, and even then we were waffling until she arrived.

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    1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Max was always Max(well). There was never an alternative. He was Max 8 years before he was ever conceived.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Too many to remember. Geez: Max, Maximus, Maxipotamus, Maximillion, Maxibillion. beebo, bubbus, bubby, bug, bugs, buggy, Mister-Mister, manzy, manzo, doodler, doodles, Maxidoodle, Maxwellington, Maxling...

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born?

    See above.
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? It was always going to be Cooper as we couldnt decide on any other boys names

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Coop, Coopie, baby boy 

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before - around 20 weeks
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Family name meant the choice was made!  Finding out it was a boy made that easy!!

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Ghengis (it's funny with our last name), babyhead

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before he was even concieved, we would have had more trouble if he'd been a girl (although we'd discussed it and had a girl's name picked before the big ultrasound)

     

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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? - Jacob was always our only boy name. We were always 100% on it. Originally it was going to be Jacob Ryan, but we decided we also liked Ryan as a first name, so we went with Jacob Michael so we could use Ryan for a potential 2nd boy.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? - Jakeopotomus, Jakey, bubba, buttercup

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? - We decided on Jake's name before we even started TTC. If we have a boy this time, we've already decided on Ryan. We won't come up with a girl's name until the anatomy scan because we currently have zero names and there is no way I could come up with something unless I know it's actually a girl.
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  • 1)For #1,  Julianne/Juliana/Anna, Jillian, Paige, Vivian

    For #2, Gabriel, Wesley, Benjamin, Caleb

    2) For #1, Monkey, Ju-Ju-Be or just JuJu

    For #2, Little Man, Monkey or Asher Dasher

    3) No - we had it narrowed down pretty well but not firm.

  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)?   Holden was almost Parker, Preston, Weston or a slew of other names.  His middle name was always going to be Shaun though.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)?  He has SO many nicknames!  But most often I call him Bubba, Bubbas, and Bubbs.  He actually answers to that more often than Holden...

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born?   Before!
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Madelyn Grace or, if she was a boy, Jackson Thomas - we were team green with Em.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Em, Emmy, Bug, Lovebug, Pea & Sweetpea

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? We went into it knowing our top names and then decided after she was born. Although I wanted to see her before we named her Emma, DH blurted out her name before I could say anything.
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  • 1- K would have been Liam if she was a boy. We didn't have another girl name that we both liked, but if it were solely up to me she would have been Katherine. G was almost Camden.
    2- K is my little "love bug" (aka love, lovey, bug) and G is "G Man"
    3- Both were named before birth and had their name on the nursery wall by the 3rd tri. This one will not be named until after birth since we are team green. We are pretty certain on our boy name but still don't have a girl name picked out.
  • Name poll 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Austin was going to be Austin, DH family name. Lil bro was almost Patrick. 2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Punkin and bug 3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Eli, never had a other option. may have kicked a few names around but Eli was always the top runner and the others just didnt do it for me. Kai was almost a River or a Wade

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Eli is just E, and Kai is goo goo

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Eli name means elevation. Brian has a pilots license and came up with that name after looking up meanings.Brian loves flying so much and  I loved it so we went with it. When we found out we were having a another boy we decided to name this oine after something I loved, water. So we looked up names meaning water and River and Wade were the front runners till I stumbled on kai. kai it was. It sounds great with Eli and it was 3 letters ending in I also. Perfect!

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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Kaelyn was my second choice

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? Pumpkin

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Before, but her middle name wasn't decided until we were at the hospital.
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)?
    Alice or Eleanor. If she had been a boy she would have been Elliot or Dexter.

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)?
    When we talk about her to others we refer to her as the Wee One or Lillian. When we are talking to her she's Lily, or Lala (since that's a sound she makes frequently), Sweet Pea McGee, Lily Pie, Sugar Pie etc.



    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born?
    We had our girl name picked out right before we found out she was a girl.

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    1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Had either been a girl they would have been Savannah.  Thought about Jonah for Jagger

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)? turkey, peanut, jagger baby

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born?
    yep  for Cruz is was years before he was born
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  • 1) what did you almost name your LO(s)? Tristan

    2) what nicknames do you give your LO(s)?

    Hannah- Han, Lynne Lynne, cutie, love bug

    Gavin-Gav, Gav Gav, cute cute, love bug

    3) did you decide the name before or after they were born? Both of them were surprises.  Hannah was our #1 girl name so that was easy.  Gavin was 24hrs old before we decided on his name.

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