Baby Name Dilemma

BabyCZ · April 2012

So my husband and I had 2 names, one boy, one girl, that we liked and I use the word liked loosly. He wanted Zoe for a girl and I wanted Connor for a boy. And after 10 weeks, he decided that he isn't sold on Connor and quiet frankly, I'm not a fan of Zoe. This isn't news to him, he has always known I wasn't a fan of Zoe and he was always okay with Connor till yesterday. So this leaves us with no names. Oh and I forgot to mention, my husband doesn't think the baby needs a middle name... which makes me what to hit him upside the head. Our baby will have a middle name. I really want to have a name picked out so when we go to our 20w appointment, I can walk out with a named baby growing inside. And if you think about it, that leaves us only 9 weeks to come up and AGREE on a name.

So, fellow Momma-to-be's, where are you getting your names from? I promise I won't steal your name, I just need some help. Looking through a baby name book makes my head spin!

Trish11278 · April 2012

DH and I have always butted heads about names. At first he really wanted Max. All I thought was that it was a dogs name. Although through the years, the name has started to grow on me. Now he wants Jackson for a boy, which I am ok with but I like it spelled Jaxson and he doesn't.

For the girl, I love the name Allie. DH doesn't but would compromise by naming her Allison and I could call her Allie. He jokes around saying that if I call her Allie, he will call her son (the last half of Allison).

DH wasn't a fan of middle names until I mentioned that I wanted family names as middle names. I want to use my grandmom's name for the girl and he could use a family name for the boy. He liked that idea and wants to use his step-fathers name as a middle name, as he never had any kids of his own.

danienross · April 2012

I'm that odd person who named my kids when I was in middle school. They've changed a little over the years though.

DD is Emberlynn Nicole. Emberlynn I really did find on a baby name website in middle school while doing a school project and I just loved it. Nicole is my middle name.

Our first son (assuming we have at least one boy) will be Jacob Nicholas. Both DH and I like Jacob and Nicholas is DH's middle name.

Our next daughter will be Zoe Madelon. We got Zoe from the song Zoe Jane which we both love. And Madelon (I know it's an odd spelling) was my grandmother's middle name.

mdsharr · April 2012

Good Luck, my husband and I can't agree on a boys name as well. I wanted to have a name at our ultrasound in 6 weeks, but it doesn't look good for us. We do have a girls name, but I am thinking it is a boy. I haven't found any good sites, so I am ot any help on that.

kmitch0303 · April 2012

We have decided not to really discuss names under we find out the gender. With DD we had a horrible time agreeing on a boy name and never did, so we have decided to just wait and see if we need a boy name or a girl name so we don't have so much to think about (and agree on).

mabma80 · April 2012

Names come pretty easily for us. A few hours after we found out we were expecting #4, DH already had a girls name, and I had a boys. LOL!!

We've agreed that the boy will be Oliver Wayne (Wayne is DH's middle name). And the girl will be Sabrina Beatriz (Beatriz is my middle name). Now it's just waiting for our u/s. : )

Vegasbb · April 2012

DH wanted to wait until AFTER 20 weeks when we find out if it's a boy or girl, and honestly I'm on board with that way of thinking now. What is the big deal about having the baby named before the anatomy scan? It's much easier to get excited about names when you KNOW what you are naming, imo

It's a waste of time/effort to pick a boy AND girl name if you are only having one or the other.

sassenma · April 2012

Vegasbb:
DH wanted to wait until AFTER 20 weeks when we find out if it's a boy or girl, and honestly I'm on board with that way of thinking now. What is the big deal about having the baby named before the anatomy scan? It's much easier to get excited about names when you KNOW what you are naming, imo It's a waste of time/effort to pick a boy AND girl name if you are only having one or the other.

This. My husband hates my #1 girl name, and I can foresee us getting into a screaming match about what he wants for our boy name. I'd rather know we're fighting with a purpose. ;-) Ah, the joys of parenting...already.

sjgurl784 · April 2012

danienross:

I'm that odd person who named my kids when I was in middle school. They've changed a little over the years though.

DD is Emberlynn Nicole. Emberlynn I really did find on a baby name website in middle school while doing a school project and I just loved it. Nicole is my middle name.

Our first son (assuming we have at least one boy) will be Jacob Nicholas. Both DH and I like Jacob and Nicholas is DH's middle name.

Our next daughter will be Zoe Madelon. We got Zoe from the song Zoe Jane which we both love. And Madelon (I know it's an odd spelling) was my grandmother's middle name.

This song makes me bawl my eyes out. Love, love, love Zoe.

Mrs.G123 · April 2012

kmitch0303:
We have decided not to really discuss names under we find out the gender. With DD we had a horrible time agreeing on a boy name and never did, so we have decided to just wait and see if we need a boy name or a girl name so we don't have so much to think about (and agree on).

This is us, too.

tatercater · April 2012

We're starting to run into more of an issue on deciding whether or not to choose family names or names we like.

And for names we like, we have a pretty big list of names we BOTH love! This is going to be a tough call!

hamiltks10 · April 2012

I think it's fun to use babynamegenie.com....just to see what they come up with.

DH and I have been throwing out names here and there, but we haven't found anythign that we love yet. I know it'll come in time. But we don't hvae a set time where we want to have a name. Really, I'd be ok with having a small list of favorites and then naming the baby after it's born.

watkinae · April 2012

Vegasbb:
DH wanted to wait until AFTER 20 weeks when we find out if it's a boy or girl, and honestly I'm on board with that way of thinking now. What is the big deal about having the baby named before the anatomy scan? It's much easier to get excited about names when you KNOW what you are naming, imo It's a waste of time/effort to pick a boy AND girl name if you are only having one or the other.

This is totally us. We're pretty set on 2 full boy names actually, but up in the air with our girl names. We casually throw out ideas, but I'm not tackling that big baby name book for girls until we find out what we're having. What a waste of time and energy for us to figure out a girl name when we don't even know what we're having yet.

MrsRabb · April 2012

Names came very easy to us too, we had talked about names before even getting engaged

Beatrice Marie for a girl (after my GGrams) Harrison Stephen for a boy (DH loved Harrison from Dexter, and Stephen is his and my FILs first name)

BananaBlitz · April 2012

BabyCZ:

So my husband and I had 2 names, one boy, one girl, that we liked and I use the word liked loosly. He wanted Zoe for a girl and I wanted Connor for a boy. And after 10 weeks, he decided that he isn't sold on Connor and quiet frankly, I'm not a fan of Zoe. This isn't news to him, he has always known I wasn't a fan of Zoe and he was always okay with Connor till yesterday. So this leaves us with no names. Oh and I forgot to mention, my husband doesn't think the baby needs a middle name... which makes me what to hit him upside the head. Our baby will have a middle name. I really want to have a name picked out so when we go to our 20w appointment, I can walk out with a named baby growing inside. And if you think about it, that leaves us only 9 weeks to come up and AGREE on a name.

So, fellow Momma-to-be's, where are you getting your names from? I promise I won't steal your name, I just need some help. Looking through a baby name book makes my head spin!

Hmm

It is okay if you don't have a name at 20 weeks. This is not a dilemma. 9 weeks is also a lot of time. And, you may change your mind too.

tryingagain36 · April 2012

DH and I have had names picked out since before we started trying to have this LO. Hayden Bray for a boy and Addasyn Neyland for a girl. Now he likes Addasyn Grace which I do too but I also would love to name a girl after my mom who passed away 5 years ago. I was trying to incorporate his mother's name in as well but honestly just not a fan of her name. Her middle name is Ann and so I like Annalynn Katheryn (Katheryn is my mother's name).

nealbl · April 2012

I can just give you some family names maybe one fo those will help

Annika Grace

Gunnar John

Thomas Wade

Dane Taylor

Olivia Marie

Kylie Ann

Ila Reece

Ava Shay

Addison Reece

Amelia Lane

Brianne Laine

John Brock

Michael Keiser

Nancy Ann

OnTheLanai · April 2012

We have our names picked out, with an alternative name for each gender JUST in case we decide at birth we like the other better.

Girl: Lucy Mae, with the alternate name being Scarlett.

Boy: Henry Miles, with the alternate name being Broderick

We will walk out of the gender u/s with a name, BUT we wont get anything monogrammed just in case

hboo2011 · April 2012

Ok this may sound weird, but it worked for us... Before DH and I even got engaged, we talked about baby names. And we started with boys. We randomly threw out names we liked, and when that didn't work, we decided to go through the alphabet and each say a name we liked beginning with that letter. A- I said I liked Anthony, he said he liked Adam... and so forth. It wasn't until we got to R that we both said the same name. Maybe that idea could work for you guys?

Tmakes3 · April 2012

I know this will sounds incredibly idiotic to some people, but H and I used bracket-ology to find a name. We both picked 16 boy names and 16 girl names and drew randomly out of a hat to put on either side of our big bracket (boys side & girls side). Then, the names "played" each other and whichever name we decided we liked better moved on to the next round. At the end of the game, we had a girl and a boy name, and went into the "championship game" ,aka 20 week u/s, ready!

BabyG_ · April 2012

meganole25:
You still have time - don't force it with your DH. I was all gunhoe about picking out names from day one and DH wasn't all about it. One day we were just talking and came up with a boys name we LOVE. Totally casual, not forced at all.

This. With DD we worked really hard on coming up with solid boy or girl names and got nothing. We decided to drop it until after we knew whether we were having a boy or girl and one day while hanging out on the couch throwing around names, we came up with the perfect one. Evelyn Juliana is her name and we love it!

MichelleL1118 · April 2012

We don't even talk about names until after the anatomy scan - DH doesn't see the point of arguing about names we won't need. DS didn't have a name until I was 36ish weeks pregnant with him, and he was born at 38.5w. It's really not a big deal to not have a name yet.

jennypasadena · April 2012

Nameberry is a great website. Probably my favorite for baby names. They have lots of lists, and you can even browse other users' lists. You can also sign up for a daily email. Today's was all about using character names from Game of Thrones! Not something I'd do, but entertaining, nonetheless.

We have another name book we really like (we don't like the big name compendium books) called Bring Back Beatrice! It only has about 1100 names in it, but it goes into great detail about potential nicknames, pop culture uses of the names, related names, etc. It's really great and not at all overwhelming.

newMomToBeSOS · April 2012

My husband and I are movie fanatics, him more so than I. We are naming our baby boy Logan, after Wolverine...haha Big Smile and his middle name will be Jacob, yes, Team Jacob (Twilight). We didn't realize this but both of these characters are or are like wolves. So our son will be named after a wolf. Short for Jacob, is Jake, and I think of Jake Ryan from 16 Candles too.

For the girl (which we aren't having), it was Hannah Olivia. Hannah because it began with an H like my stepdaughter, there aren't many names like that we could think of. Olivia, I just picked it randomly, love the sound it has to it.

Hope that helps.

pinkclouds25 · April 2012

Tmakes3:
I know this will sounds incredibly idiotic to some people, but H and I used bracket-ology to find a name. We both picked 16 boy names and 16 girl names and drew randomly out of a hat to put on either side of our big bracket (boys side & girls side). Then, the names "played" each other and whichever name we decided we liked better moved on to the next round. At the end of the game, we had a girl and a boy name, and went into the "championship game" ,aka 20 week u/s, ready!

Frankly, I think this is a brilliant idea and I might have to steal it. How fun!

Cynthia1207 · April 2012

I've had baby names picked out ages ago and H is on board with both my top girl and top boy name so it was fairly easy for us. We had talked about this years ago before even being serious about having a baby. It's come up again recently and the names have stuck. We're not doing middle names.

camillicat · April 2012

kmitch0303:
We have decided not to really discuss names under we find out the gender. With DD we had a horrible time agreeing on a boy name and never did, so we have decided to just wait and see if we need a boy name or a girl name so we don't have so much to think about (and agree on).

This exactly!! We figure it will be easier to agree when we can eliminate one whole gender!!

alikat07 · April 2012

My DH and I had a hard time picking my DD's name. After we found out the gender we ended up writing lists and comparing, eventually we found a name we both really liked.

This time he's already accepted my girl's name (of course he's convinced we are having a boy) and we are trying to agree on a boy's name.

Ms.Starry · April 2012

This is weird to me.

To answer your question, nymbler.com is awesome.

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