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December 2012 Moms
How Do/Did You Pick Baby Names?
I'm asking because I can hardly find any I would even consider, let alone like.
I don't like a lot of names for boys or girls and between my large family and close friends using all the names I like before I could even get pregnant (I know...cry you a river lol), people I don't like ruining a name for me, not caring for family names and making sure names/initials don't spell funny things, sound strange, etc, I can't even get a decent list together that I would choose from.
Now, I am being hormonal and feeling a bit bratty about this but it's so long-term a decision and kind of a big deal. I can google "baby names" but then 10,000 names show up and I dont have that kind of time to scroll through them all and try to pick some and then find middle names, etc.
How did you come up with a short-list of names to choose from?
P.S. Sorry to sound like such a crybaby...it's a hormonal thing, I'm sure you understand 
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Re: How Do/Did You Pick Baby Names?
Do you know the babies' gender yet? That will help a lot.
We had a hard time narrowing down names, so we finally decided one a genre (religious names) and that helped a LOT. Now that we already have one child named, this one has been MUCH easier since they kind of need to "match."
GL deciding!
I've been having the same problem as you. I think once we know the sex, I'm going to get a 3 month subscription to babynamewizard.com. You can play around with the free features, which are pretty neat already. The paid subscription let's you put in all sorts of criteria and give you a much narrower list based on your preferences.
You can also check out nymbler.com it's free and fun, but not quite enough for what my needs/wants.
What are your heritages? (yours and dh's) Are you spiritual? Do you like older, classic names? Modern names? Do you want the twins to match or not match?
If you give us some examples, maybe we can help you.
my oldest son is Alexader Reese (Xander)= alexander the great (his dads choice) and reese is his father grandfather and great grandfathers name)
2nd son Gabriel Ryan (Gabe) = after Jonathan gabriel (writer for penny arcade webcomic) and ryan is my mothers last name
daughter Jayna Reed = Jaina Solo (i changed the spelling) from the Starwars book series , she is the daughter of liea and han solo and a girl jedi , and Reed is from the fantastic 4 family name
new baby boy= Benjemin Robert = we just liked the name benjemin and robert is his middle name and his dads first name ......
or..... new baby girl = Kierra Raelynn = a combination of my mom step mom and soon to be mother-in-laws middle names
I'm a mutt mostly Swedish and English and DH is Cuban and German. I tried to sneak in "Gunnar" from my Scandanavian heritage but DH vetoed it. We don't want to use a Hispanic name. We are going to use "Aaron" as the boy middle name as DH had a son named Aaron who died at 2.5 yo and with our last name beginning with "L", it's hard to come up with initals that don't spell something to get him picked on...For example Gunnar Aaron L = G.A.L.
We aren't very religious. I don't want what I consider to be an uninteresting family name like "Robert" or "Charles" but we don't want eccentric names either. That being said, by picking "Aaron" together, I was able to eliminate "Danger" as the middle name that DH chose lol. And we both like the name "Elizabeth" from my mom as a middle name for the girl but I'm not set on that AT ALL. I know...we're creating our own problems with this. Just thought that you all, and I'm right, might be able to contribute ideas of how to go about this. Thanks!
I like this idea though...it has potential. Now if we can find a way to make James/Patricia/Mary/Carl/Charles/Robert/Una/Mathilda or Bruce cool, we could do that lol.
With DS it was rather easy. We kept him initials the same as DH and DH's father MEB. We used the same middle name as DH and grandpa (Edward) and just picked an M name we liked.
If we have a girl this time we decided to do the same pattern and give her the same mn as me Grace and have her first name start with the same first letter as mine. Next it was just finding a girl name starting with I that we liked we picked Isabella.
If we have another boy we aren't following any pattern. And really haven't committed to anything yet.
BFP#1 on 02/14/09 BIRTH to Mason 6lb9oz on 10/12/09
BFP#2 on 5/28/11 EDD 2/1/12 Natural M/C on 6/13/11
BFP#3 on 1/20/12 EDD 9/30/12 Natural m/c on 1/27/12
BFP#4 on 4/23/12 BIRTH to Isabella 7lb1oz on 12/19/12
Maybe you're putting too much pressure on yourself to love a name right away. Keep your mind open and read through names, on a website, on the BN board on TB, or even in a baby name book. Write down all names that sound even just okay. It sounds like you'll have to start with a big list and narrow it down as you get closer. Just because you add a name to the list, doesn't mean you have to absolutely love it.
We picked our name really quickly. We have the same taste, for the most part, and if one of us suggested something the other didn't like, fine. There are hundreds of thousands of names to choose from. For a girl, I've always loved Claire and he loved Samantha. So we picked a combination of the two. For a boy, we settled on Samuel right away. But our other thought was Isaac. We played around with calling the baby any of those names, and eventually, Samuel just felt right. Luckily, we're having a boy :-)
Sorry to ramble! GL!
With DS I was the big ol' nerd with the giant book of names by my bedside (something like 10,000 names in that book). Every night I looked through a couple of pages and highlighted any I found that appealed to me. DH did the same in a different color. By the time I was about 7 months along we had a list of 5 or 6 names we both liked.
I love DHs middle name (Shaw), so I knew that the baby would have that for a middle name from the moment I was pregnant - it did make it easier to know what we were 'pairing' with. We didn't share the name before DS was born, only the gender. It made it a lot easier knowing we had plenty of time to decide before we had to tell anyone.
Good Luck!
SO and I disagreed on names for DS. We were team green so we needed one of each sex. We didn't come to an agreement until about 34ish weeks. What finally helped us was our neighbors. They were over just hanging out and we got on the topic of baby names, they grabbed the 2 baby name books that were sitting on the coffee table and started going through them. It was funny at first, but then we started getting to names that we both liked. There was something about having a third party with no vested interest that really helped us come to an agreement.
This time we are finding out the sex. We have decided that we will not discuss names until we know boy or girl. That way we aren't creating more 'stress' than necessary. We are kinda hoping for a girl, just because we agree much more easily on girl names than boy names. I've flipped through our name books, but I can't seem to 'get into' it, I think that's because we are finding out the sex so I don't want to get attached to a boy name and have a girl and vice versa.
We talked names before we were TTC.
Moira was a name we just liked and loved the NN Mo.
For Maeve, we weren't sure what a good sibset would be with Moira. I had had a student with the name Maeve. She was adorable and the family was lovely, so we thought Maeve went with Moira well.
This time around we're pretty set on our boy & girl choices. We like what we like, and it only took a little bit of time.
Behind the name and Nameberry are also two other good sites to look for inspiration. I also suggest checking out the baby names board. If you offer suggestion of what you like, they can offer suggestions.
FWIW, I love Matilda!