My first baby is due in 10 weeks. The gender is a surprise, and my husband and I cannot agree on a girls name. We have a boys name picked out, but are really struggling when it comes to girls names. We like unique but not unheard of names. Some names that I love:
Paris | Piper | Tanna | Mia
Hubby's favorite names:
Peyton | Charley | Cayden (yes, all for girls. I like them, but don't see my child being named any of these)
We both agree that we like the name Anden, but we don't love it. We have a huge family (on my side of the family alone, there are about 80 grandchildren) so you can imagine that lots of names are already taken.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!
Re: Need help picking out unique girl name!
My picks for a future girl are:
Leighton, Avery, Sierra, Payton
Of course DH is not crazy about any of them
What about Keegan or Kenan?
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Of all your names, the only ones that I like are Mia & Piper. The rest are NMS. The name Anden sounds really awkward to me.
I prefer more traditional names - my top picks are Rachel, Anna, Caitlyn, Hannah, Kate - so that probably won't help you:)
Mia and Piper are super popular right now at least around here, so I don't know that I would classify them in the unique category.
Paris is NMS, to trendy and makes me think of Paris Hilton.
Have you bought a book of baby names? That might be helpful to see them written out and next to other names.
I agree with the others, until you are out on the playground or in a preschool/school setting you don't realize how popular names are. All the names you think are unique, most people name their kids!! I can't tell you how many Aubrey's I've met and I wanted to name DD that, and I thought it was super cute, but now I am so glad I went with something more traditional/non popular/non trendy.
It is hard to understand all that until you on on the playground and there are 15 moms all screaming the same name, or people can't pronounce your childs name because of odd spelling. My suggestion would to narrow it down to 2 or 3 and wait until you see the baby before deciding.
What about Delaney or Darcy? I also like traditional names like Mary or Catherine or Elizabeth. Somehow the traditional name just sound so classy and ladylike to me.
If I ever have a little girl it's a toss up between Delaney Elizabeth or Mary Caroline.
If we were to have another girl, we would consider Leia, Darby or Teagan,
I've always like Payson but since we named DD Preston, using both would be too "cutesy."
Very true. My DD is Aubrey. I had no idea how popular it was/going to become when I named her. I still love her name though. I like Piper & Peyton from your list. Some other ones I like:
Avery, Blakely, Camryn, Emory, Emerson, Everly (my favorite), Hayden, Kenley, Finley, Braelyn, Devon, Carson, Rylan, Blair, McKenna, Ansley, Ainsley, Reese...but some of these may be too "cutesy"/trendy though...
Good Luck!
nymbler.com is a great site. . .it's where we found our name for our son (who'll be born in 6 days!).
I'll just throw this out there for a girl: Melora
ok, it's my name. a bit strange (but very similar to normal names: Melanie, Laura, etc), barely anyone on the planet with the name, but I get tons of complements on it. I didn't like it until I was older. We used it for my daughter's middle name.
Piper~ I like this one.
Paris~ Run far away from this one
Tanna~Not a fan
Mia~ I know a couple and it is a good choice
Peyton~ My favorite of your choices
Charley~ For a girl?
Cayden~It could work
So out of all your choices Peyton is my vote.
Also, Anden makes me think of And Theeeen. No And Then! So yea, not a fan.
Camryn is a great name We also didn't find out the sex and if we had a boy we were going to name him Cameron.
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As in Nancy Kerrigan or Jennifer Aniston only spelled like a toddler decided on the spelling?
LOL! I was sitting here looking at Anystin and could not figure out how to pronounce that one! I can't imagine a professional having a name like that