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June 2011 Moms
baseballcr8zd
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Picking Names...
baseballcr8zd
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How did you come up with your LO's name?? With Connor we both liked the name, and his middle name is after his godfather. We decided with this LO his middle name will be Neil after my grandpa. However, coming up with a first name we agree on is becoming a super pain. DH seriously comes up with the worst names. If you ladies have any suggestions for a first name I'd LOVE to hear them. I think I've given DH every name I could think of and he hates them all.
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Re: Picking Names...
We were having a hard time coming up with boy names we both loved (our girl name has been picked since we got married - Gwyneth), but DH and I had different ideas for boys. DH loves the NN Ty and kept suggesting Tyson. I do NOT like Tyson, and Tyler never came to mind for some reason. After going over LOTS and LOTS of names we planned Brendon (My maiden name as a MN). The day we found out we were having a boy I said "So, should we start calling him Brendon?" DH and I both were like "What, that's definitely not his name". No idea why we both thought that. Then, that night we were watching TV and someone was called "Tyler" on whatever we were watching, and I was like - WAIT, Ty is a NN for Tyler!
Long story short - we really have no idea how we landed on Tyler, but it fits him perfectly!
It took an act of congress for DH and I to agree on a name. How we ended up doing it:
Both of us created a list of our top 10 name choices. We then went out for a beer with our lists.
1. We looked at each other's lists and narrowed each other's lists down to 5 (he narrowed mine to 5, I narrowed his). That got out the ones we pretty much hated from each other's.
2. Then, we took the 5 that were left from each list and pulled our top 3 from each (our own, then each other's). We ended up having about 2 in common on each list at that point.
3. Then we went down from there to our favorites from what was left on each list until we had one from his and one from mine. We both ended up liking the top one from mine better than the top one from his.
4. We took it as a tentative name and tried it out by referring to him by that name for a few days. It was perfect
On his middle name: It's DH's brother's middle name. My only stipulation was that it was one syllable in order for it to flow. We now have Carter Scott with fits him perfectly
Oh, forgot to mention the MN part. We knew we wanted a family name, and DH didn't want it to start with J because he didn't want him going by TJ. I wanted August or Michael (grandfather's name/brother's name) and DH wanted Frank (his Grandfather and Dads name).
We both agreed that Tyler Michael sounded "generic" so we weren't sold, but DH vetoed August because we like that for a girl's MN. He was pushing for Frank. We went to the hospital still undecided and when he was born on FD I figured Frank was fitting - that's what his daddy wanted. He looked like such an old man that Frank was fitting there as well!
I had fallen in love with the name Maya years ago. So although DH kept coming up with names, I was pretty stuck on Maya- he came around. I like it b/c it has the same spelling and pronunciation in English as it does in Polish, so it satisfied all my family members.
I also have fond memories of the cartoon Maya the Bee from my childhood- and my mom remembered the cartoon from Poland so it was something special for us. I wouldn't go so far as to say Maya is named after an obscure 80's cartoon, but it is one of her nicknames.
Her middle name is Serina, which I let DH pick out. Since I was so inflexible about her first name I figured I'd give him that. He wanted Serina to be her first name, and I was actually considering it. But we had told our moms that Maya was our first choice and they ran with it- told all the family that the baby's name would be Maya and wrote her name on baby shower decorations and the cake, etc- so that sort of made the final decision for us.
We had talked about names when first finding out, when we knew we were having a girl it took us a little while. I knew I wanted to use Florence as her middle name (my great grandmothers name). We just needed to find a name we both agreed on that worked well with it.
One day I was reading a book and there was a charecter names Florence and her sister was Olivia. When I said the names together they worked really well and DH agreed. That is how we came up with Olivia Florence.
I love hearing how you all named your LOs.
I was convinced DD was a boy and was so happy at our 20 week u/s to learn we were having a girl. We had a girl's name picked out since before she was even a twinkle in our eye. She is named after my mother who passed away....Elena. Ironically, my mom never went by it and was always called Lu as a nn. But Elena, to me, is my mom and it is just beautiful. Her mn is Josephine after DH's grandmother (whom he was named after...his middle name is Joseph) and my mom, whose given name was Elena Jo. I love her name. I have never been more sure of any decision I've made in my life as I am about naming her.
If we are blessed with another child in our future, not sure how I can top it!
We wanted his initials to be the same as my DH's (JME)... We both agreed on Jameson as a first name since I don't even know when. His mn is Mitchell, which is my MIL's maiden name.
Coincidentally, a friend of ours also pointed out that if you take the first 2 letters of my DH's first name (Ja) and then add the first 2 letters of my first name (Jame) and he is our son (Jameson)... Kind cool!
I'm not sure how we're gonna top this LOs name, because we think we hit a homerun
If the next LO is a boy, I'm hoping for Adrian (my dad's mn)... If it's a girl... God help us! 
I went through a baby book and wrote down all of the girls names that I liked. Then my husband went through and crossed out the names that matched or were too similar to girls he had slept with. Then we had 3 names left that were our short list. We used the one we did because it went best with the middle name we chose (it's the name of a deceased family member). The other two are banked for future daughters.
I'm not joking. My husband was a manwhore.
With DS1 we litterly fought over what his name would be until 2 weeks before I had my emergency c-section...perfect timing right? Since we couldn't agree on names (and I wasn't about to call him Loki like DH wanted that would just be asking for trouble) DH said we should just call him Richard after him, but I wasn't going for it. I didn't want anyone calling my baby junior. So I was on a baby name site and found Ryker....a german surname version of Richard....DH kinda won and I still got to set him apart. His middle name Joseph Lee are after my father (Joe) who passed when I was 13 and DH's father (Lee) who passed away after when he was 18.
With DS2, I had made a list of names that I loved and DH made a list of names he liked. Max was on my list, Maximilian on his...so we went with Maximilian, Max for short. For middle names we gave Charles Frederick, Charles for my grandpa who passed 2 weeks after I had the chance to tell him what DS2's full name would be and Frederick was the middle name of the grandfather DH was named after...would have done Richard but it didn't flow right in either spot. Max;s name was finalized within 2 weeks of us finding out we were having another boy. I wish it had been that easy the first time.
I don't know why my family memeber always ends up coming up first, but it just ends up flowing better.
If we ever have a girl (and we do want a third child) using Mary for a middle name will cover my MIL, my mother, and my paternal grandfather...lol. Having all three of them in a room just gets confusing.