Who's still struggling with names?

MandMLeona · June 2014

Naming is so hard for me. I had hoped that knowing the sex would make it easier this time. Somehow it just added more pressure. Everyone assumes that since we know we should have a name to share...hahaha...NOT!

Who's with me?

tabaskoa · June 2014

Me too! Naming DS was super easy, this time around, not so much. We had a long list, then narrowed it down to a short list by voting. We are now at 2 names. I guess. I kind of feel like any name "could" work but none of them feel like "the one". And I am not one of those people who want to wait until I see her face...that gives me anxiety.

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dogperson11 · June 2014

30 weeks here and our daughter is nameless still. We had a boy name picked and ready at 10 weeks. I've got one I really like (Clara) and my husband has one he really likes (Mackenzie). We each like each others name choice, just not as much as our name choice. She has a middle name that's a family name, so at least we don't have to worry about that. I'm kind of thinking we'll decide last minute, which annoys the crap out of the planner in me.

ETA: We joke that we hope she comes out and tells us her name

KittyMisha · June 2014

dogperson11 said:
30 weeks here and our daughter is nameless still. We had a boy name picked and ready at 10 weeks. I've got one I really like (Clara) and my husband has one he really likes (Mackenzie). We each like each others name choice, just not as much as our name choice. She has a middle name that's a family name, so at least we don't have to worry about that. I'm kind of thinking we'll decide last minute, which annoys the crap out of the planner in me.

I had a friend who really wanted to name her daughter Mackenzie, but her husband hated it. They ended up compromising and naming her Kinsey instead, which I think is darling.

tabaskoa · June 2014

dogperson11 said:

30 weeks here and our daughter is nameless still. We had a boy name picked and ready at 10 weeks. I've got one I really like (Clara) and my husband has one he really likes (Mackenzie). We each like each others name choice, just not as much as our name choice. She has a middle name that's a family name, so at least we don't have to worry about that. I'm kind of thinking we'll decide last minute, which annoys the crap out of the planner in me. ETA: We joke that we hope she comes out and tells us her name

This is totally how I feel. Everyone keeps saying to me "Oh you'll just know when you see her face" which I hate. I want to know now so I can order the decal I want to get for the nursery and so we can start using her name and get used to it.

KimApt · June 2014

I'm 30 weeks as well and we don't have a name yet either! It's starting to make me nervous because nothing really sounds right to either of us.

We want something "normal" but not too common. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack!

herecomesthesun · June 2014

Hmmm yes, we probably fall into this category. I'm trying not to think about it.

Allison7 · June 2014

DH refuses to talk about it since I refuse to use his grandma's name for her middle name. His grandmother hated her name, so why would we pass it on? And he knows he is going to lose, so he says we can talk about it in August. At least they give the birth certificate to me.

MereDe3 · June 2014

Me! This is our 3rd and it's torture compared to the last two. We are still basically totally without options. :-(

ashlou21 · June 2014

Same here, we had the name Elsa picked out for a girls name, then frozen came out and ruined that for us. It's the only name we both can agree on at this point, so who knows we may still keep it, but I'm still on the hunt for more. I didn't think naming would be this difficult!

dixielee05 · June 2014

We are team green and we have 2 girl and 2 boy names picked out. We'll decide after baby is here. I still feel the need to look up names constantly so as not to overlook "the" name. DS is the 5th so he was named as soon as we found out we were having a boy. When I agreed to the 5th the deal was I got all naming rights to #2 with DH only having veto power if he hated a name. I didn't realize naming people was so hard!

IvyMagic828 · June 2014

32 weeks and no name picked out for our boy. We don't even really have a list, either. I guess I need to go through a baby name book but I find that so tedious as there are so many names I dislike or don't even consider to really be names in there. Hopefully he'll have a name by the time he's born...

Familyhugs922 · June 2014

32 weeks and nothing. It was hard with my first but this time it's even harder.

rainbowwillow · June 2014

Team green at 32 weeks is having a tough time agreeing on a boy name!

GinnyJ2012 · June 2014

We are no closer to naming this little guy than we were months ago when we found out he was a boy. DH won't agree with my name choice

I have a few names that I love, so I'm hoping that I can get him to change his mind on at least one soon. I'm a little tired of calling this guy "the new baby" it feels so impersonal.

shaylagirl · June 2014

We had a boy name narrowed down to like 3 choices, but NOTHING for a girl.

Found out it's a girl a few weeks ago, and I'm still going "Nope. Nothing. I've got NOTHING for a name!"

This poor child's name on the birth certificate is going to be WeeNut, I swear. Because naming is HARD!!

SLMckinnon · June 2014

We are! Team green, so we need options for both! And my husband and I wanted to have 2 names we loved for boys and 2 for girls just in case LO arrives and one name doesn't fit! We're using family names for middle names so that's easy. If it's a girl, we have 3 names we both love. If it's a boy however...we have 2 names we both are ok with, but don't love. We need to figure it out soon, it's starting to worry me!!!

jendem8 · June 2014

When people ask if I'm ready for her to be here, my immediate response is, "No name, no nursery." We do have a middle name, but no first... UGH this is tough!

workmm01 · June 2014

We're stuck on the same three ideas for names that've had all along but I don't feel like I know which one is "right". I keep checking differnt sites for new ideas in the hope that something will stand out and DH and I both love it, but it just isn't happening.

jgilesslp · June 2014

We are! We had both boys named by now. It seems with each boy (this is our third) it has been harder because we want the names to go nicely with the others AND we don't want them too similar to the others either. We were considering Wyatt but then my coworker just had a boy and named him Wyatt so I am not sure about that anymore and we liked Noah but then we found out in 2013 it was #1. Now we are considering Eli. The middle name will be Anthony after my husband. We can't seem to decide either and I keep thinking he will be born before we do, which as someone else said, frustrates me.

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MandMLeona · June 2014

jgilesslp said:

We are! We had both boys named by now. It seems with each boy (this is our third) it has been harder because we want the names to go nicely with the others AND we don't want them too similar to the others either. We were considering Wyatt but then my coworker just had a boy and named him Wyatt so I am not sure about that anymore and we liked Noah but then we found out in 2013 it was #1. Now we are considering Eli. The middle name will be Anthony after my husband. We can't seem to decide either and I keep thinking he will be born before we do, which as someone else said, frustrates me.

The bold is our problem...only with girls.

ungraceful13 · June 2014

Naming DD was so much easier than this time. I just felt it was the right name and I loved it. We have "picked" a name this time but it is more like settling than being thrilled with it.

mmsweeney1 · June 2014

dogperson11 said:

ETA: We joke that we hope she comes out and tells us her name

This would be so helpful!!

ColeyJ88 · June 2014

We don't know what we're having this time around, and so far we have no ideas for a boy name. I feel like I picked the only boy name that I truly loved last time around! I'm just hoping that it's a girl so we don't have to compromise on a name.

kcm3 · June 2014

With both my boys I decided their names almost immediately and then spent the rest of the pregnancy second-guessing myself. I'm keeping up the same tradition. We have our names, but I'm still second-guessing...