One month...Cole, Beckett, Dominic or Declan

Dolcezzaom · September 2012

We have exactly one month to go until our DS is here! WDYT of our short list? I need to start narrowing it down somehow. We both REALLY love Liam, but our home state has is as #2 in popularity. Ugh. I can do below the top 10, but no matter how much I love the name I can't do it when it is ranked so high. Anyways...

What are your thoughts:

Cole

Beckett

Dominic

Declan

g8trkim · September 2012

I like Cole and Declan. I would go with whichever of those flows best with your LN.

lovebug33 · September 2012

Love Beckett!

bumpuser5823822 · September 2012

1. Beckett

2. Declan

3. Cole

4. Dominic

Leah&JP · September 2012

g8trkim:
I like Cole and Declan. I would go with whichever of those flows best with your LN.

These are my two favorites on your list as well! Good luck.

Dolcezzaom · September 2012

So good to see most of you like Beckett. I was thinking it might be to "out there".

queenbone · September 2012

Love Dominic. Declan is really great too.

I'm "eh" on Beckett.

Cole isn't appealing to me, it sounds like coal and I have visions of disappointed children on Christmas morning.

ames71 · September 2012

It's not usually a favorite on here, but I've always really liked Beckett. It's my favorite on your list. Declan would be my #2 pick.

If you both really love Liam, but not it's popularity, have you thought of Ian?

Dolcezzaom · September 2012

Love, love, LOVE Ian. My hubs won't even consider it because of some kid he went to high school with that gives him a bad imagine when he says the name.

sleepingbeauty825 · September 2012

I've always had a soft spot for Dominic.

IrishEyes0530 · September 2012

Love Declan, that's my number one choice if we have another boy. I also love Beckett too! Dominic isn't bad and neither is Cole although I'm not too fond of it. You really can't go wrong with any of these.

JLGY · September 2012

I really don't like Declan at all. The other 3 are tied for me, any of them is a good choice!

ADub09 · September 2012

Beckett

magsugar13 · September 2012

Dominic by a mile

orleyl · September 2012

Love Dominic

alohamora · September 2012

I like Dominic a lot. I don't like the other choices.

mom2b22013 · September 2012

I love Declan, I wanted that name this time around but DH was not a fan. Dominic is also super cute!!!

BUT I LOVE Liam!!! Might be because we have a Liam ourselves!! I debated at the end of naming him Liam (my cousin had a Liam 3 weeks before ours) and I am SO glad I stuck with the name. I still love it and he is completely a Liam. Yes its a popular name and there was another little boy in his daycare in MI with the name. When we moved to WI he was the only Liam at that daycare. I say if its a name you both love and you aren't both completely in love with the other names go with your first choice!! Good luck!!

aascaha · September 2012

love Cole and Declan

rels09 · September 2012

Cole by a mile for me! Beckett is too on-trend (it's a last name), Declan to me is hard to pronounce and super trendy. Seems like it will scream 2012. Dominic is just ok. Love Cole.

zaramarie81 · September 2012

love Beckett and Dominic... Cole is great too. is there one that sounds best w/ your ln?

ps sorry for horrid grammar and punctuation... holding sleeping baby

jburdet1 · September 2012

Beckett always draws my mind to a bucket and seems so trendy as well as Declan. Dominic I like. I love Coal!

Zimger · September 2012

I'm partial to Liam.

Out of your list I like Beckett.

Zimger · September 2012

ames71:

It's not usually a favorite on here, but I've always really liked Beckett. It's my favorite on your list. Declan would be my #2 pick.

If you both really love Liam, but not it's popularity, have you thought of Ian?

That is a good idea! Another name that sounds similar is Cian/Kian.

Dolcezzaom · September 2012

SuperDeDuper:
AlyssaRoseKeane:

Also, I LOVE Liam so much more than those 4

Same here. And while I appreciate that you don't want a top 10 name, I hope you realize that name popularity is so spread out now that a top 10 name isn't as overwhelming as it used to be. (For example: in Minnesota there were 325 Liams born in 2011...it was #4 for popularity here. There are 337 school districts in MN. Therefore, on average, there is less than one Liam per school district born last year.) I say use the name you love.

My worry is that when we named my now 7 year old daughter Lilia nn Lily...Lily was ranked 20th. I hear "Lily" everywhere now and it really irritates me. I am happy that she has a full name that is less common, because had it been just "Lily" her name would have been everywhere. On top of that, she has 2 Landon's in her class currently. They go by Landon Owen and Landon C. I would hate to have my kid be Liam P. his whole life instead of just Liam.

With that being said, I have yet to meet more than 1 Liam and I have actually also ran across 1 Beckett. I suppose it's just the luck of the draw.

moaks514 · September 2012

Love Declan. It was one of my top choices too!

tlh03 · September 2012

Love Declan and Cole. Dominic is okay. Beckett is NMS at all.

mamainseptember · September 2012

Dolcezzaom:
We have exactly one month to go until our DS is here! WDYT of our short list? I need to start narrowing it down somehow. We both REALLY love Liam, but our home state has is as #2 in popularity. Ugh. I can do below the top 10, but no matter how much I love the name I can't do it when it is ranked so high. Anyways...

What are your thoughts:
Cole
Beckett
Dominic
Declan

Hands down Beckett. It's on our short list for a boy. I know like 5 Cole's under 3 and not a fan of Dominic or Declan.