A baby name thread

ricecakes1216 · January 2014

First, this isnt a thread to get opinions on my son's name or have you ladies give me suggestions. I'm just curious how you knew your little one's name was right? Was there some overwhelming feeling you had? Did you just always know that was going to be your kid's name?

I'm worried I won't *know* it's the right name and I'll always wonder if I settled. I am terrified to make the wrong choice and regret it later on.

cMichelle0423 · January 2014

With my son, DH and I could not agree on any name! Finally we came up with his name and we both fell in love with it. Now that we're expecting baby #2, we're stuck with the same dilemma. We haven't found out what we're having yet but have decided on a few names (a girl name and a couple boy names). My husband doesn't care as much as I do, so for me once we have a name picked out, I sit on it for a couple days and see how I feel about it then. We've already picked two different boy names that I loved at the time, but after a few days, they just didn't seem to fit. We have a girls name picked out and I am in LOVE with it and haven't changed my name about it yet! Lol

noryang · January 2014

We hung out with our favorite for a while. We used it in conversation and kept checking in with each other about it. We each love it more with time and it felt better with time - when it was the "right" name. "Wrong" names started to get annoying or lose their appeal pretty quickly.

flerlgirl · January 2014

We always knew that DS would have the MN Michael, after both of our dads and DH. We tried a few different first names and finally settled on Joshua. It's hard to explain but I just felt right about it. Like when we thought of the name it gave me a sense of peace and I knew it was right for him. Joshua means "God is my salvation" and considering his circumstances at birth, it wound up fitting perfectly.

If you think of a name you love and your SO loves, then that is the perfect name! I have honestly never regretted Joshua's name. We're having a harder time with this one but whatever we pick will suit her. So don't pressure yourself too much! The name will be perfect, whatever you choose.

ricecakes1216 · January 2014

Naming a person is hard! H thinks I'm crazy because "I can't just settle". No! I'm not settling on a nane. I think that we have a name and then it just doesn't feel right. I'm so glad we have plenty of time. I think we might take a list to the hospital and decide when we meet the little guy.

wtfisup · January 2014

noryang said:
We hung out with our favorite for a while. We used it in conversation and kept checking in with each other about it. We each love it more with time and it felt better with time - when it was the "right" name. "Wrong" names started to get annoying or lose their appeal pretty quickly.

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Pretty much this.

It was pretty easy for us -- we have similar aesthetics and go for the same kind of names. So we have a long list and one seems to be "the one." We use it sometimes, but it won't be official until we meet her and know it fits.

becomingmommyagain · January 2014

DS#1 - Nathan Michael - was named for a close friend of mine. He was such a great support and mentor. My DS, has always been Nathan and I cant imagine him being anything else. He goes by Nate with his friends, but he's Nathan to me. He's 17.

DD - Celina Michelle - her dad wanted Celine (like Dion) because she was the artist of the month in April. I thought it felt unfinished...but with the "a" on the end, its lovely. Not too common and a beautiful name it fits her well. She's 15.

DS #2 - Joseph Ronald - FN after his dad and MN after his dad's brother. He goes by Jojo with his siblings, friends, dad's family, etc...but he's Joseph to me. He's 14.

chloephoebecali · January 2014

DD's name didn't sit well until she was six months. We decided after she was a day old or so, looking at the Social Security name list in the hospital and all. I actually begged Dh to change it two weeks after having her. Ds felt fine (a compromise with Dh) although I would sometimes look at him and think he'd make a better Nicholas (my name pick). He's all Alex, though, now. This one is really undecided. We clearly have serious issues trying to name our kids.

dragonfly711 · January 2014

My husband was sure we were having a boy. He had a boy picked out that he liked Kylie Joseph. He wanted Kylie Nicholas after his first name but since his middle name and my dad shared Joseph we decided on Joseph since my dad passed, then it would be for both of them.

We each had a girl name but he did not like mine and I did not like his so they were out. I started looking at girl names and Hailey popped up. WHen we found out we are having a girl I told mentioned Hailey he though about it and was ok with it. Hailey Lynn. ( Lynn is my middle name.) Funny is it is also his sisters and her two kids middle names and was his grandmothers.

When we talk about her he always uses her name and a few times he asked is this it for the name? We still like it.

Could always change but I believe this is what we are going with. I have not second guessed yet!! ( I wanted Rachel and hubby wanted Vanessa) lol

babygabe614 · January 2014

I worry about this sometimes, too. We have a girl's name picked out and are both 100% on it, so I know DH & I *can* feel right about a name.

We have flip flopped on boy names from the start, though we keep going back to the one we started with and will probably end up using that one if we have a boy.

It's so hard to pick just one name that will "work" and feel right and suit a little person whose personality you don't even know yet. It's nervewracking and I'd hate for them to grow up with a name they didn't feel fit them. However I don't know anyone who truly feels that way about their name, and if they did - they could always change it when they turn 18.

Savvy122 · January 2014

We took three names to the hospital but I wasn't truly in LOVE with any of them... they were more compromises that both DH and I could agree on. Once we chose Cole, it took a while before I fell in love with it... but now I adore his name and couldn't imagine DS being called anything else. It will work out. I stressed over names for months but once DS was here, it just all fell into place.

MrsP419 · January 2014

With both kids, I named them as soon as we had our anatomy scan. The first name was set in stone practically and we told everyone. With DD, I knew. There was no doubt in my mind that she was Lorelei. The middle name, Rose, was special to us because my DH gave me roses a lot when we were dating and we had a song about roses and stuff.

With DS, we originally wanted the name Oliver, but my sister had an Oliver in her life who was a real jerk (like a terrible ex bf), and out of respect for her we said we would not use the name. We easily chose Asher Allen as his name (Asher I just love, Allen is DH's name) and again had the set in stone. When we had him, I remember distinctly thinking in the hospital "Aww…he kind of looks like an Oliver." But we stuck with our choice. Now, I think he looks JUST like his name and I love it for him.

This time, I hope to have both babies named before they come out, but we are taking more time to mull over things :-)

katekat8721 · January 2014

ugabamafans said:

One day, it hit me that I could shorted "Jonathan" by taking off the "JO" and that leaves "Nathan." Boom, DS is still named after DH (DH is happy), and he has his own identity and an infinitely better MN (I'm happy). His name fits him perfectly.

Damn that was a good compromise! Good job! =D>

I have always loved the name Scarlett. I did the coffee bar test like joules as well which was kinda fun. Hubby loves the name Violet and has ever since American Horror Story (which I will not tell my darling daughter she is named after haha). We put them on our short name list for awhile and when we found out we were having two girls decided to use them both! I think it's normal to second guess some days. Naming little humans is hard.

hollygb22 · January 2014

With my daughter we were so far apart on names. My husband never offered to much up and just vetoed everything. We finally just started a notepad on the fridge. Either one of us would write one day and if we particularly hated one, we'd cross it off. When we went to the hospital I think we had a list of 4.

We picked her name maybe 3 hours before she was born. I can't imagine her being named anything else. My husband just wasn't sold on the name but said since I loved it so much it must be right.

I'd venture a guess that if you wait as long as we did..once you're in labor your husband will probably cave to just about anything

LilyGracesMommy · January 2014

With DD and DS as family tradition we named after family members that passed away

With DD we chose Lily after my aunt Linda and Grace in honor of both my grandma gertrude and then my grandma Harriet we used the hebrew name hannah- which translates to grace...

looking back DH and myself prefered Grace as a first name, but being young ( I was 18) I let my mother sway me to name for her sister as a first name. No regrets now, because Lily fits my daughter to a tee, but only that I would feel weird using Grace as a FN for this LO since it is DDs MN

With DS he is James after my DHs Papa and his MN is Michael which is DHs MN... both pf us loved James ( always been on my list before I met DH) so it was truly a perfect fit

With this LO we don't really have anyone to name for and honestly that made it more difficult, I know I posted about being between Eve and Rose and at this point DH has folded on Eve and given in to his families dislike. Rose has really grown on us, and at this point "Rose Sophia" is the name, but we will see once we get closer... I know when I asked many felt it was too cutesy with DD being Lily ( which was a negative for the name) but at this point, it is the only name we both like and are growing to love and that's what matters.

If I could do it over again I would not share my name choices with anyone other than DH because that has been where most of our issues have popped up...

Lynnja616 · January 2014

With DS it was a name I had loved literally for years and years. It just so happened to be a family name on DH's side so it was perfect. There was never any doubt.

With DD it was just a name we both loved, middle name is a family name that I knew I would use if I had a daughter.

For me, a name has to go through my own personal vetting process and has to be one that I absolutely LOVE- not, "I like it", "it's okay", or "it's on our list". I think when you find it and you love it, you just know.

MNOpea · January 2014

We went to the hospital with 5 first name/middle name combinations. However, it was really between 2 names (DH's favorite and my favorite) although somewhere along my pregnancy DH had changed his mind on his favorite so an hour or so after baby was born DH said "I think he is an Owen" I have never regretted his name. This time we have not really discussed names very much yet, but our A/S is on Thursday so hopefully we will then. I would like to take at least 2 names to the hospital with us.

Pepper6 · January 2014

We actually had a relatively easy process, which was surprising. Once we found out it was a girl, we sat down that night and I started reading names off the SSA list that I sort of liked and H would either say yes or no. We had it narrowed down to two first names right away and sat on them for about a week, trying them both out a little bit. Then finally we both realized we were leaning towards the same name, so just this weekend we made it official. I said "I highly doubt we'll come across anything we like better, so I'm going to call it. This is her name, I'm done looking" and he just said "Yup" and there ya go. It's only been a few days, but I've been calling her by her name and now I really can't imagine her being anything else.

Shineoncrazy · January 2014

DH and I started talking about baby names ~5 years ago, when we first started trying.

We like names that honor people who are special to us, so a DD would be named after my great-grandmother and step-mom and a DS after our dads. No doubt that the names are right, and we've started calling her by name.

I love the idea of going to a coffee shop and giving them her name. I'm going to do that today!

dmizak · January 2014

Our compromise with being team green the first time around ( I didn't want to know, husband did) was that my husband got to name the baby Kash if it was a boy. I didn't hate the name, but I didn't love it either. After calling him Kash for about a week, I realized it fit him! Or he just made the name.

Now, I LOVE it:-) We have 2 names now, and I'm sure whichever it ends up being, it will just "fit".

rainbowdashh · January 2014

For our daughter, I suggested her name and he agreed. We never gave it another thought. The name definitely suites her. Stella James.

This time around it will be much more difficult, especially if it's a boy. But I will definitely not use a name that we both don't like (hopefully love). It has to feel right, as cliche as that sounds.

coffee-saur · January 2014

With Ean Cyril, we had it picked out almost immediately. Cyril is DH's grandpa, who is a very sweet, gentle person and very loved in the family. We decided on using Ean instead of Ian for a couple reasons. First, I liked how it looked spelled out better, and second a lot of family and people we knew would pronounce Ian as EYE-an. It just fit, as PP's have said, and we haven't regretted it since.

Alexis Shizuko was a bit harder to come up with. I really liked the name Lexie but DH thought it didn't look finished. So we were decided on Alexis Lynn. On the way to the hospital, I got to thinking about if she decided later to go by Lexi, that she'd be Lexi Lynn, which is fine, just too rhyme-y for me and NMS. While I was on the operating table, they let DH in and we finished up deciding on Alexis Shizuko. Shizuko is a family name on my side, my grandmothers middle name and mine (Japanese).

All that to say that I think when you know, you'll just know, as weird as that sounds.

good luck!

LaurenS865 · January 2014

We don't find out the gender till tomorrow, but we picked our boy's name in a pretty cool way. Earlier in my pregnancy, when hubs and I hadn't even really started discussing names, he came home from PT and woke me up. When I rolled over and opened my eyes, he kissed my belly and said, "Good morning, _____." It wasn't a name I had thought of, but when he said it, it felt right.

ricecakes1216 · January 2014

This is fun. I really like reading how everyone has come up with names.

MissBHaven1024 · January 2014

With DD#1, her name came to me while at dinner one night, and it was like a lightbulb went off. I instantly loved it and just knew it was for her. DH chose her middle name and it fit.

With DD#2, choosing a name was horrible because we never got that same feeling. We liked the names we chose, but we didn't "love" them the way we had previously. We didn't even commit to them until the nurse came in with the birth certificate paperwork.

This time around, his name was easy for us! We loved it right away and it fits well with his sister's names (it didn't matter too much to us; it just worked out that way). Had this baby been another girl, the name game would've been very hard again.

MollySm · January 2014

I can be very indecisive, and worry a lot about making the wrong decision. So for me it's important that once we pick a name, I use it all the time. We decided on Viviana when we found out she was a girl. H adored it, I liked it. But now that I have used it for awhile, it's just her name. There's no right or wrong about it. For me it's the only way to do it. If I brought a bunch of names to the hospital, and tried to find the right or perfect name, I would be a disaster worrying about picking tge wrong thing. Instead I will have used this name for 4, 5 months, and it will be the perfect name because it's her name.

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