Georgia Babies
ally-cat
member
When did you decide on a name for LO(s)?
ally-cat
member
We still don't have names. We need a boy and a girl because we are team green, but this time around it is so hard! I don't like anything. Ugh.
Warning
No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
This discussion has been closed.
Re: When did you decide on a name for LO(s)?
Names were hard for me. For me, it had to "mean" something, or be tied to something, which is totally unnecessary I know. I went through every single name as far back on both sides of the family tree as we could go looking for inspiration and went from there.
I had Emma's whole name picked out pretty early on, around 6 or 7 months. I wasn't 100% sure on Tess's name until we had to sign the birth certificate.
nymbler.com is a pretty good site for coming up with some ideas. What names do you kind of like? Oh, and please, if it's a girl don't name her Ruby
Marlowe's name was rough because we were convinced she was going to be a boy. We came up with her name and then found out it was a family name (my great-great grandmother's). I wanted it spelled Marlo and DH wanted it with the -we, so I said we'd use whatever the family spelling was never imagining it would have been spelled his way back in the 1800's. All of this came about when I was about 25 weeks, but don't worry, I have a friend who's being induced next week and she still hasn't decided on a name.
For this one, it's a boy so we're just re-using the name we'd already picked out last time, which is Jude, but the middle name is giving us lots of trouble.
Abigail Taylor 09.18.2008
Haha! What about Erma? ; )
With the boys we knew before the nt scan at 13wks what are boy names were. We never had any girl names.
This time around dh doesn't want to think about names until the 20wk u/s. I have a girl's name I want to use and we'll see if he goes for it.
Names were very hard for us. We never really considered girl names because we found out the sex with ours. We always went to the hospital with two names and decided there. With Ethan, he was either going to be Ethan Walter or Nicholas Ryan. We named him when he was around four hours old. He looked like an Ethan Walter to me so it just fit.
Jack was much more difficult. He was either going to be Benjamin Ryan or Jackson Ryan. We did not name him until the day we left the hospital because I was so torn. Neither Benjamin or Jackson seemed to fit him so dh rolled him down to the nurses station and had the 8 nurses vote and all 8 liked Jackson better so that's what we decided on. True and crazy story.
Good luck!
With Benjamin, we had a boy name and a girl name picked out even before we were married. With Noah, we finalized our girl name the day before the gender scan although I was leaning towards using our girl name from Benjamin. I was so sure Noah was going to be a girl that I didn't even want to discuss boy names until after I found out.
We found out the Thursday before Memorial Day weekend that he was a boy and I cried and cried until that Monday because I couldn't for the life of me pick out a name that I liked and I *needed* to name him so I knew who I was dealing with. DH finally put a list together that Monday of names that I liked at one point and told me to choose. We narrowed it down to two names, slept on it, woke up the next day and DH asked BIL which name he liked better and went with that because we still liked both names equally.
Naming #2 was so hard for us (or rather for me). Good luck with your decision!!!
Almost the same thing happened both times. The first time, the name Cadence popped into my head randomly before I even knew I was pregnant and DH liked it. We debated back and forth and second guessed ourselves and finally decided on a middle name that went with Cadence. It was definite around 25 weeks or so.
With Trevor, I picked out the name after I knew I was pregnant, but before we knew it was a boy. We went back and forth and finally settled on the original name and a middle by 32 weeks or so.
DD- 9
DS-6
c/p- April 2016
missed m/c- 6w5d; discovered 8w2d- September 2016
Since we were Team Green, we had a boy and girl named picked out the first go-round. We liked the boy name so much that we kept it and just had to decide on a girl's name for kid #2. I loved our girl's name. I'm sad we won't be able to use it. But Cecil Jay was our original boy's name.
The debate raged on for P's name the entire pregnancy and we eventually went with a "P" name bc it was clear Polly was sticking and DH wanted it to be a nickname not her real name although I wish we had just put Polly on the birth certificate. I liked her middle name from a TV show I was watching at the time. It was a nice touch that PM are my Dad's initials (her name is Penelope Marin). Since it took forever to name P and I wanted Isaac to have a name, when the US drama settled and it was a boy I let DH pick, I approved, end of story. It happened to be the name my sister had picked for a boy if she ever had one but since she is getting a divorce that seems to be a non-issue now. I have a boy's name picked if we ever (unlikely) have #3. I had a girl's name but then someone else in my family picked it for their little girl. Which is fine, DH wasn't wild on it anyway. I have another idea anyway. But again, unlikely.
If you need an idea for a girl name, I was going to use Brooklyn if I ever had another girl but someone else in my family picked it. Another pretty name that is already being used in my family is Ruth. A boy's name being used that I like is Knox. I also like Tristan for a boy and DH has nixed it. I also considered Ruby for a girls name for Isaac since he was born in July. I like Pearl and Jewel (great great aunts for me), too but those are all pretty old school. Not sure if that is your flavor. I've also considered Louise and Ann, MIL's and my mother's maiden names. Boys names in my family are pretty white bread but tried and true great boy names, Patrick, Daniel, Thomas, Sydney, Charles. My Dad's middle name is Mathias if you like old school Gaelic.
Just some ideas for you....
At our NT scan at 12 weeks the doctor was pretty confident he was a boy, so although we had discussed some girls names before, we really just started to talk about boys names. Once we had it confirmed that we were having a boy at 20 weeks, we narrowed it down to two names--Camden and Max. We went back and forth and I think we finally decided on Camden at about 26 or 27 weeks.