If you know what you are having, how did you do it?

candacek31 · October 2011

How do you even begin to pick a name for your LO? I just started the search last night since we know we are having a boy. I haven't really found any names I like. Where did you ladies start with your search? I hesitate to go to the Baby Names board. Things get pretty crazy over there sometimes!

TIA!

SockMonkeySam · October 2011

I went thru a baby book and found Zachary.. I feel in love with it. I asked my hubby and he was like it's ok.. the more and more I used the name.. Jay warmed up to it and now loves it.

Eris-Alexis · October 2011

We actually talked about names for quite a while before we were even trying. If we were on a long car ride we would discuss different name options and eventually we narrowed it down to our top 2 choices for each gender. We knew that we wanted to go with an Irish boy's name (our last name is Irish as well), so I did look a little on some baby name websites to get ideas. I also looked up the historical meanings of the ones that we liked.

williams4me · October 2011

We were looking at a few websites, and my sister gave us a name book...mainly we were only looking at girl names though because our boy named had already been decided! Smile

orourjes · October 2011

Eris-Alexis:
We actually talked about names for quite a while before we were even trying. If we were on a long car ride we would discuss different name options and eventually we narrowed it down to our top 2 choices for each gender. We knew that we wanted to go with an Irish boy's name (our last name is Irish as well), so I did look a little on some baby name websites to get ideas. I also looked up the historical meanings of the ones that we liked.

We did the same! We knew we wanted an Irish name, and I was partial to Irish Saint names so we started our search there and ended up falling in love with a girl name we found.

Izabella22 · October 2011

I wish I had some advice, we still haven't settled on even a pool of names. But I suggest a book and some of the online sites. There are a few that will let you save a list of names that sort of spark your interest and suggest others.

walkerb4 · October 2011

I used a mix of babynames.com and a baby name book. But I will tell you, it's tough!!!

BritanyV · October 2011

Baby name books to try to find names I like. I made a list...dh is being difficult this time around and is mulling over my list to yay or nay names.....*sigh* I don't think this LO will ever have a name!

dnhosking · October 2011

DH and I were already talking about names before we knew the sex of the baby. We wanted the middle name to be my DH's first name, so that was picked out. We just went through some name lists and put it with the middle name. One of our favorite baseball players - Ryan Braun- we saw play one weekend, and a lightbulb just went off. We didnt name our little guy after him but we like his name! When we put the name together, it sounded great, and we never had any doubts.

kymberleyd22 · October 2011

Before we found out that we were having a girl, we looked through anout a million books. We wrote down the names we liked for both sexes, & went from there. Each list ended up with about 5 first names & 3 middle names we really liked. We kept eliminating until we had one boy name & one girl name.

ColleenS629 · October 2011

We still don't have names picked. We have one that's pretty definite but we still don't have a second. Boy names are really hard for us. On the other hand, we've had two girl names for years.

MissAutumn · October 2011

Estella is the main character in my favorite book & movie Great Expectations. June is my grandmothers middle name whom I was very very close to. I would have given her first name June but mine is Autumn and that might look like were trying to hard Im all about passing a family name down through the generations.

Junebug060609 · October 2011

I made a list I called "Names that Don't Suck". Then DH and I went through the list and he veto'd a bunch of names. Narrowed it down to two fn's that we both were definite maybe's for. The one we picked seemed to suit DS's personality best (he's laid back and the rejected name to me was for a Type A) and would allow us to continue a naming trend on DH's side. MN was already set (named after someone in my family).

candacek31 · October 2011

Thanks ladies! I have been looking on BabyNames.com and am just not having much luck. I know I have a lot of time still but naming your child is a big deal! Plus I had girl names that I loved picked out even though my intuition was boy all along!

pottermommy · October 2011

My husband's name is Michael and Michael is the leader of Archangels, he is the head of the army, his second in command and top warrior is Gabriel we have a Michael we need a Gabriel, his name means this:

Gabriel is known as the "messenger" Angel and is one of the four Archangels named in Hebrew tradition and is considered one of the two highest-ranking Angels in Judeo-Christian and Islamic religious lore. Apart from Michael, he is the only Angel mentioned by name in the Old Testament. He is a powerful and strong Archangel, and those who call upon him will find themselves pushed into action that leads to beneficial results.

Gabriel can bring messages to you just as he did to Elizabeth and Mary of the impending births of their sons, John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth. If you are considering starting a family, Gabriel helps hopeful parents with conception or through the process of adopting a child.

It seemed to fit so many things that we needed and wanted after both a m/c and the loss of a daughter, we need a "fighter" baby one who is strong and true and Gabriel fit perfectly

His full name mean Hero of God, who is like God. Fell in love with it!

Froggy76 · October 2011

I've been jotting down names I like for a couple years, so I continued doing that to have a starting point of names to consider. Then, I looked at baby name books and websites for more idea and info. I did post to the Baby Names board a couple times to get their reactions.

I really like the website babynamesworld.com. It has opinions from people with each name, so you can see if they like their name or if they got teased a lot, etc.

With all that said, I still haven't officially picked a name... but I have a definite front-runner, although it's not one I "discovered" by doing all this research.

authorofdreamz · October 2011

Wellll I knew the middle name I wanted because it is after my grandmother who passed away a week before I got my BFP and then I just started randomly thinking of names and trying to find one that sounded good with it and I landed on the name Caitlyn which I just fell in love with and then later when I looked it up on babynames.com I liked the meaning and I liked that it's origin was Irish as both my FI and I are primarily Irish and he has an Irish last name so it was just the perfect name.

THEN around 20 weeks when we were going to find out the gender and people started asking if we had a name picked out and all that we found out that his 5 year old cousin had the exact same name (first, middle, and last) and for a number of reasons I decided to find a new name. So we started looking at names on babynames.com and making a list of one's we liked and finally came up with about ten that we liked and then just worked on narrowing it down to about three names and decided we would wait until after the a/s to choose the final name. After finding out it was a girl and seeing her my FI just really liked the name Taylor (one of our top three) so that is the name we went with. I like it but I don't love it the way I did Caitlyn but everyone else really likes it and I know people named Taylor and they like their name so hopefully she will like it and that is all that matters.

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