How do you decide on a name!?

jezabella · April 2013

How do you and hubby decide on a final name (including mn)? It seems so tough! Did you just know it was the one, or was there a bunch of guessing?

angie244 · April 2013

we havent name battled on this baby yet bc we havent found out gender yet. but with DD we went back and forth for a month before i found the name Gabriella and he actually loved it, middle name was easy bc we both loved Elizabeth but didn't want to use i

staceymack · April 2013

We haven't. I do not like any names enough to give to my LO's, haha. Hopefully, this is just a hormonal phase and I will come up with something along the way.

MrsClaus8 · April 2013

We "just knew" with the first two. This one took SEVERAL weeks and we just narrowed it down to 2 last night.

shill0810 · April 2013

I'm not really a huge fan of the first name we chose for this baby, but since I got to choose our first daughter's ENTIRE name and he went with the first name I chose for our second daughter and I picked middle I let him pick the first name for this baby

Linzala12 · April 2013

We decided on names by just throwing ideas out at each other. We already knew middles names since we wanted them to have meaning to our families. From their we would discuss names that flowed well with the middle and last. We worked from the middle out

C&Csmommy · April 2013

For DS1 we knew his first name would be Cortlandt because it is a family name but it took us forever to come up with a MN but when my husband said Isaiah we knew it was "the" one.

With DS2 we just fell in love with the name Camden and didn't

Nukke · April 2013

When DH and I first moved in together in 2008 we used to go through names for fun when we were falling asleep at night. We had them narrowed down to about 10 favourites (5 girls, 5 boys) by the time we were ready to start trying. Then it qu

magdalina.h · April 2013

What we both agreed on and what sounds good with our name.

kje120 · April 2013

DS's middle name is my father's name, so that was easy. His first name was not decided until after he was born - we had a lot of trouble deciding. We haven't even started talking about this one and we've known it's a boy for 6 weeks already.

Andrea Cohoon · April 2013

I have always enjoyed coming up with different name combos, so when I got pregnant with DS1, I told DH all my favorite first names for boys and girls (we were team green). He agreed to some so we moved forward from there. For a middle name,

ShoeFanatic614 · April 2013

We both had a general idea of names we liked so we'd just toss them back and forth every so often (car rides, over dinner, etc). Anything the other hates, gets vetoed. Some were "maybe". Until we come up with a short list that we both love. Middle names a

Surfergirl013 · April 2013

We had her MN picked out as it is a tradition in my family to use the 2 grandmother's names, had we still been in South Africa that would have been her first name...MH picked her first name out of sentiment: the night we met, him and his friends

LaSraOrtega · April 2013

It was very tough coming up with DS's first name, there was nothing we both loved and we needed a name that can be pronounced in English and Spanish. I had to like how it sounded in both languages too. LOL

DS's middle name was easy as he is named

SweetPeaK26 · April 2013

We have so far gone with names important to us. ie: dd1 is named Kaygan Elizabeth. My moms mn is Kay, mils mn is Elizabeth.

Dd1 had a tough delivery and had to be rushed to the NICU. But, before they took her, the head neonatologist, who was

NeroDoo · April 2013

We haven't decided and aren't anywhere near decided. Even for our first, team green, we still couldn't agree. When DD was born, the midwife liked my choice better so I said majority rules lol. DH and I don't want that to happen again, but neither of us lo

inthelost · April 2013

I haven't decided on a name yet!

MariaKeegs · April 2013

We pick our top three names for each and then wait until the baby is born to decide.

caseyandlizzie · April 2013

H had a girl name that he really wanted, that I like, and I had a boy name that I really wanted that he liked, so it's worked out. As far as middle names, we both decided to use family names, and have agreed on both of those as well.

Pockety · April 2013

We figured out DS's name by each making a list of names we liked, and seeing if there were any in common. We then were able to veto as many as we wanted off of each others' lists. Then we combined the lists and played around until we got one we both liked

heathny · April 2013

I recommend each picking one "have to have" and one "ultimate veto" but not for specific names, more values. Like have to star with a J, named after a family member, sound Spanish, be unique. Or veto weird spelling, names that end in ayden, names too comm

anewmrsS · April 2013

DH and I are early planners. We both have full veto power if a name is suggested that we don't like. We just keep tossing out names and combos, and eventually reached our decisions.

fish000 · April 2013

It's sooo hard! For DD we talked and talked about it for months and even then we were undecided going to the hospital. My DD was unnamed for 1 day. No mn for a week. Nothing really grabbed me although there were several I loved. Now I think we absolutely

waterfall11 · April 2013

We made a list and both vetoed names we didn't like that the other chose. We knew DD's MN would be the same as mine, but took a list of 4-5 first names with us. We expected to see her and automatically know which name was best for her but stil

nickilyons22 · April 2013

Well, the father of the baby isn't really in the picture. But I know if it was a boy I was going to name him after my maternal grandfather and my maternal great uncle the name would Bradley Mark. And for a girl I am still tossing around two different name

kdv77 · April 2013

With dd, we put together a long list of names that we both liked. When we found out she was a girl, we focused on our girl list and one of the names eventually just clicked for both of us. We're kind of doing the same thing this time.

MJHershey · April 2013

Well, with our first we knew our boy and girl names for ages after just lots of chit chatting about it over the years. The middle name is his grandpa's name- which is unisex enough to go either way).

Since we had a boy, we still like the girl

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