What does your baby's name mean/stand for?

expectingnugget · June 2012

We've been going back and forth between names for our little boy, but I just found out that Isaac means "he will laugh" and that might have sealed the deal.

What do your baby's names mean? If you don't know the gender do you know the meaning of your top boy and girl picks?

Happy HDBD!

expectingnugget · June 2012

Those are all pretty rad. Any ideas for the newbster?

Sprite2012 · June 2012

We're not really into the whole meaning thing. We just picked what we like. His first name is Samuel, which I imagine has some religious "meaning". I couldn't really care less what that is. His middle name is Alan, which is the middle name of all of the men in my husband's family for generations. Since I'm still not sure what the purpose of a middle name is, I didn't argue with Alan. And so, it's Samuel Alan :-)

Lovely Lauren · June 2012

My SO is super into the meanings of things, but I really could care less. Our DD's name is Stori Lynn. Stori isn't even popular enough to have a meaning listed, and Lynn is my mother and his sisters middle names, so we thought it was a nice way to represent the combination of our families. We have such insanely popular names and HATE it. So we like trying to pick unique, but not overly weird, names for our kids and that generally means there's no technical "meaning" listed. Truth is....no matter what you name the kid, they are who they are.

expectingnugget · June 2012

Ooo, a Mosesian feminist, I like.

We're not picking names based on their meaning; I was just amused that the one we liked the most had the most awesome meaning, IMO.

I like Samuel Alan. We were thinking of Sam too.

ChristinaDawn · June 2012

DS's name is Solon Alexander, and we call him Alex...yeah I ended up being "one of those people." here's the story though: Alex is the 7th generation to have Solon in his name, It is DH's middle name, FIL's middle name and was FIL's Dad's first name and so on. So we had to use it. We had our names narrowed down to Alexander and Ian and when I saw his little face I knew he was an Alex. However our last name also starts with "S" so Alexander Solon S___ was out because his initials would have been ASS, yeah not doing that to the kid So that's how we ended up bein those people that use a nickname from his middle name as his name.

As for baby 2, we have no idea really. We're Rossi out all possibilities at this point. We would like to use David because it is my Dad's name and he was an only son that had all girls do I'd like to honor him.

I guess for the most part we just go on family meaning more so than anything else.

BabyMakes 3 · June 2012

Benjamin because we just loved the name. I like Benjamin and Ben, hubby likes Benny. And middle name is Raymond after my grandfather, dad, brother, and nephew.

keiral · June 2012

Our top name thus far is "Dahlia". We love the name &, as we all know, it is the name of a flower. It does have special meaning to us since DH is Mexican and the flower is native to Mexico. He says that she'll be his Mexican flower Smile

CandaceLeigh · June 2012

MandJS:
No clue on the newbies name yet. But my daughter's name, Shirya, means Song of Gd. Her middle name, Mirit, means "sweet wine". (All in Hebrew.) Shirya is to honor DH's grandfather, Samuel. He was spiritual and insanely smart. And DH's whole family is musical. So we are hoping S will get those traits. Seems to be working so far. Mirit is in honor of my great grandmother Minnie (yes, that's how she legally spelled her name). When pregnant, I had an aversion to all wine except the super sweet gross stuff. And we liked the idea of our daughter being sweet. And my great grandmother was a great cook, so the "food" theme worked for us.

Your kid's name sounds like a party! Wine and music! m/

ETA: I never answered the original question! DD's name is Victoria Ann which means "favoured conquerer". DD2.0's name is Malibu Barbie, which in the Greek translation, means "I am awesomer than you".

CandaceLeigh · June 2012

MandJS:
CandaceLeigh:

MandJS:
No clue on the newbies name yet. But my daughter's name, Shirya, means Song of Gd. Her middle name, Mirit, means "sweet wine". (All in Hebrew.) Shirya is to honor DH's grandfather, Samuel. He was spiritual and insanely smart. And DH's whole family is musical. So we are hoping S will get those traits. Seems to be working so far. Mirit is in honor of my great grandmother Minnie (yes, that's how she legally spelled her name). When pregnant, I had an aversion to all wine except the super sweet gross stuff. And we liked the idea of our daughter being sweet. And my great grandmother was a great cook, so the "food" theme worked for us.

Your kid's name sounds like a party! Wine and music! m/

She was also born on Fat Tuesday. No really. It's true. Yeah.... we're SO in trouble when she gets a bit older.

Ahahahahaha! Pray.... starting now.

ni077169 · June 2012

Jude means praise, thanks, praised. We named him that because it took us almost 3 years to get pregnant.

QuintonsMummah · June 2012

Quinton meaning the "Queen's Place" and Daniel(mn) after FI. My first name means "the King's meadow/forest" so we thought it was pretty cool.

As for the new DS...no clue yet

jillc2010 · June 2012

Iris is DH's favorite so far. This is our rainbow baby and Iris is the greek goddess of the rainbow.

JenniferLuvsCandy · June 2012

Melina means honey in greek

SoCoGirl · June 2012

We don't know what we are having yet, but our girl name is Adabelle. It is a derivation of Ada which means noble or honorable.

Our Boy name is Barrett which means bear strength, or bear-brave. We actually chose Barrett because of its association with the .50 caliber sniper rifle.

cali4niagirl · June 2012

We didn't check beforehand, but Audrey means "noble strength."

credcat7 · June 2012

Right now the name we are liking is Dylan Twain (for our little girl) Not sure on spelling of Dillon/Dylan but we want to make she she doesn't become a Lynn/Lin ....

Dylan/Dillon - we like the unisex names on girls

Twain - Our fav place in the world Twain Harte, Ca

xxaliciaxx · June 2012

English: Meaning Free

German: Meaning Strong

This was not even known by us until we looked it up years after deciding the name when we would have a baby. So meant to be.

LollyBug18 · June 2012

MandJS:
expectingnugget:
We've been going back and forth between names for our little boy, but I just found out that Isaac means "he will laugh" and that might have sealed the deal.

What do your baby's names mean? If you don't know the gender do you know the meaning of your top boy and girl picks?

Happy HDBD!
So the story goes, the name came from Sarah because she heard laughter in her old age. Literally, she was like 90+ when Isaac was born, and she had already gone through menopause.

Both Sarah and Abraham laughed when told they would have a son, they waited longer than ever imaginable to be parents. Isaac's story is one of my favorites and one of the reasons I love the name Rebekah but I'm not sure I'll ever use it.

As for DD's names, Emma means "universal", which is nothing special to us, but I found a name book with spiritual meanings of names and it was said to mean "absolute faith". Our faith is very important to us. Mei is her middle name and it is Chinese for "beautiful". DH spent a year living in China while we were still dating. He always liked that word, it has a great meaning, and we wanted to incorporate a time of relationship that was very critical in establishing our commitment to one another.

We have only gotten so far this time around as to agree that we both like the names Thomas and William and that there are "too many" good girl names. I don't have high hopes for deciding any time soon as we went to the hospital last time with 20 names still on our list and that time we could at least narrow it down to girl names!

LollyBug18 · June 2012

keiral:
Our top name thus far is "Dahlia". We love the name &, as we all know, it is the name of a flower. It does have special meaning to us since DH is Mexican and the flower is native to Mexico. He says that she'll be his Mexican flower

That's so sweet!

tasiaceleste · June 2012

Evangeline Aoife. Evangeline means "good news" and Aoife means "beautiful warrior."

zarahelise · June 2012

So we chose the name before we knew the meaning, and after i found out the meaning i thought it was perfect. I, myself have an unusual name and am asked all the time what the meaning is. In hebrew it means "coming of the dawn" and while i have worked in retail i have been told that my name in persian means "princess" and in aribic it means " flower or blosssom". So our daughters name will be;

Aurora = Dawn

Elise = consecrated to God (Also my middle name)

Marie= bitter <------ not to excited about that. (My moms middle name)

mopsie · June 2012

Abigail = "Father's Joy" (Hebrew), named after DH's grandfather Abe.

Lily = "Flower", named after my grandmother Lillian.

Abby's Hebrew name is Amira Chaya - Amira = "Princess" (in Arabic) and "Treetop" (in Hebrew), named after my grandmother Mira. Chaya = "Life", named after DH's great grandmother Chana (my Hebrew name is Chana so we couldn't use the same exact name).

DD2 is Charlotte Harper, named after DH's great grandfather Charles and my grandfather Howard... we also picked Harper because DH's grandmother plays the harp professionally and Harper literally means "Harp Player". Charlotte means "Free". We're not set on her Hebrew name but I think it'll be Shira Leah. Shira = "song", Leah = "weary".

tasiaceleste · June 2012

SoCoGirl:
We actually chose Barrett because of its association with the .50 caliber sniper rifle.

Yes Yes

This makes me so f-ing happy!

shanflan02 · June 2012

Our babygirl is going to be named Aislin Rae. Aislin means a dream or a vision. I think its pretty.

bdunbar · June 2012

Our son's name is Owen Waylon. Owen means well born but thats not why we picked it we both just really liked it. This LO will be Patterson which is my maiden name.

SoCoGirl · June 2012

tasiaceleste:
SoCoGirl:
We actually chose Barrett because of its association with the .50 caliber sniper rifle.
This makes me so f-ing happy!

Awe! Thanks!

chineymachine · June 2012

Her name is Callie Shea....Callie means most beautiful and Shea means admirable. I love these meanings although we picked the names way before we knew their meaning.

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