Baby names

Kelley6 · July 2014

Hi ladies, I was just curious to see what baby names you all have in mind for your little bun in the oven? I am still having trouble deciding on a girl and boy name. My husband likes Grace for a girl and I like Sophie or Rachel. For a boy, we are thinking Micah for now.

betsy0792 · July 2014

Tayden Laurel for a girl and Brayden Nathaniel for a boy I like the names to rhyme

jap618 · July 2014

I'm 5 weeks. I'm not thinking about baby names yet.

poobear2015 · July 2014

We always said our first son will be named after FIL. Middle name TBD. For a girl, we haven't discussed. I really love the name Kenna though - and she could be named after FIL then too (his name is Ken).

travelingqueen · July 2014

We've discussed it, but not to any extent. Just in passing. I think it will be a long time before we narrow down names.

Momarazzi007 · July 2014

I know more what I will lot name my child... However- if by some magical happening I have twin boys the will be Fred and George. Boom.

CoozieInMyPurse · July 2014

We're still trying to come up with a belly/ in utero nickname! He likes Bean; I'm undecided. We've had a couple of pre-pregnancy conversations about real names, but nothing is decided.

FrecklesInside · July 2014

jessuhmarie said:

betsy0792 said:
Tayden Laurel for a girl and Brayden Nathaniel for a boy I like the names to rhyme
Oh god.. Please don't. Laurel and Nathaniel are great names.. For the love of god do not use Tayden. Where the hell did you get that one?! Brayden is bad enough, but Tayden..

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I didn't say anything because I usually only critique names on the bnb, but...yes...agree with jessuh. I suggest posting your choices in the bnb so they can help you understand why we say this.

sammyhiya · July 2014

We have our boy name pretty much set in stone... and a few girl's names being tossed around- DH just suggest Finley the other night.
My two year old's name is Harper; so we need something that flows well with that.

janda426 · July 2014

jessuhmarie said:

FrecklesInside said:

jessuhmarie said:

betsy0792 said:
Tayden Laurel for a girl and Brayden Nathaniel for a boy I like the names to rhyme
Oh god.. Please don't. Laurel and Nathaniel are great names.. For the love of god do not use Tayden. Where the hell did you get that one?! Brayden is bad enough, but Tayden..
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I didn't say anything because I usually only critique names on the bnb, but...yes...agree with jessuh. I suggest posting your choices in the bnb so they can help you understand why we say this.
I couldn't help myself.. This is just especially awful

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Thanks for saying what I was thinking. I can't handle these names people come up with. Someone I follow on IG named her son Rockston Krew because his brothers name is Roman and they can be "rock and ro" oh my god. Barf.

Evelyn Diane is for sure our girl name. Boy names are not so in stone yet. We like Connor, Elliott, and Andrew.

antsangel1118 · July 2014

We had a boy and a girl name picked before we even got married in 2011. Briana Elise was used for our DD, and Gabriel Joseph was our boy name, (Joseph is DH's MN), but I'm not sure that I love the name anymore. So I am thinking about more boy names (DH and I both- and seemingly everyone else- think this baby is a boy), but if it does happen to be a girl I like Natalie Grace. But since DH doesn't really like Natalie, my next suggestion was Olivia Grace.

YellowBag · July 2014

jap618 said:

I'm 5 weeks. I'm not thinking about baby names yet.

This.

fleurdlis · July 2014

Haven't even started talking about names yet. We will start narrowing down when we get into 2nd tri

Mrsgclark81 · July 2014

I've always liked the name Ryan for a boy and maybe Jordan for a girl.

But I'm not there yet with the baby names. I probably won't get serious about choosing a name

until I find out the sex of the baby.

lndstrms · July 2014

Signe May (like Sydney but with a g) is for a girl. It's my husbands great grandmas name. She was from Sweden. May is my middle name and I'm the 9th generation with it.

As for boy name we aren't for sure. He wants Tycen Rhen and call him Tyce for short. Rhen is his brother that passed away very young. But we are still way too early to be fully thinking about the names. Only 5 weeks so my mind could change any time.

lalaroller08 · July 2014

With our first we went through lists and lists of names. We love the name for our daughter but weren't stoked about any of the boy names we had. I guess we'll be starting from scratch, but I won't be thinking seriously about any names until we know the sex.

cafecreme · July 2014

DD's name is Claire Elise.

we're pretty much 99% set on these names:

Trevor Vincent/Emily Renee

I really like Trevor, but I don't know if I'm "in love" with it. I've been searching high and low for another name, and I can't find one that comes close to it. We have a thing with France/French names, but we can't agree on another name.

mandi195 · July 2014

katydid2014 said:

janda426 said:

Tayden Laurel for a girl and Brayden Nathaniel for a boy I like the names to rhyme
Oh god.. Please don't. Laurel and Nathaniel are great names.. For the love of god do not use Tayden. Where the hell did you get that one?! Brayden is bad enough, but Tayden..
---- I didn't say anything because I usually only critique names on the bnb, but...yes...agree with jessuh. I suggest posting your choices in the bnb so they can help you understand why we say this.
I couldn't help myself.. This is just especially awful
---end quote--- Thanks for saying what I was thinking. I can't handle these names people come up with. Someone I follow on IG named her son Rockston Krew because his brothers name is Roman and they can be "rock and ro" oh my god. Barf.

I have some friends who named their kids horrible names including one mother who chose Cross and Navy for her two boys, another family who named their daughter Taylor Storm Taylor. Yes, same first and last name. I saw someone else on fb name their son Remingtyn. Seriously?!?! At least spell the poor child's name correctly.

edit for spelling

A former friend of mine named her son (and I kid you not this is his full legal name) Bainbridge Vega Jacobs Tester. To this day I swear it sounds like lab equipment

klax4 · July 2014

YellowBag said:

jap618 said:

I'm 5 weeks. I'm not thinking about baby names yet.

This.
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Yup. I lurk the bnb but that's because I love names in general and hate silly names like OP selections.

Edit: quote box fail. Damn mobile.

BitsyBelle84 · July 2014

We haven't really started thinking about names yet. Though last time we were in the OR still discussing names after DS was born. We had my Dr., the nurse and the tech going over our short list and giving opinions. He was named about 2 mins before rolling out the door back to my room.

Ambethsco · July 2014

I always have a list tucked away in the back of my mind, but I would like to see the baby before officially naming him/her. The problem is my husband. He's a lover of Roman history and always has a few gems that he throws at me.. "Hey, what about Germanicus...". Sure, babe. I'll think about it.

DD is named after my Great Grandma, so we'll probably continue the family thing. A boy will for sure have the middle name James after my FIL. I'm throwing around Annalise for a girl since it combines the names of my other GGs (Anna, Nell and Louisa).

pennypretty · July 2014

@janda426 Evelyn is one of my favorite names but I'm thinking Eva has surpassed it on my list.

@Beary+Ghastly & @antsangel1118 My name is Elise and you both spelled it the most awesome way too ;;) I've met a lot of people named Elise (including one guy) but they all usually spell it differently. I even had a roommate in college named Elyse...she was known on campus as the Evil Elyse, haha. And Gabriel is one my sister's all time favorite names for a boy.

@ambethsco One of my friend's DH was ALL about naming their son Oden or something old and mythical. They wound up naming him Tristan which is super cute.

DH and I had a very brief talk about names maybe six months or so ago while we were stuck parked on the interstate. We have many life discussions in the car. Of course I have a list of names that I really like but he wasn't really ready at the time to make any decisions. One of our friends just named their daughter Zoe and I'm so sad because it was my top name for a girl that I knew DH would go along with. I like a lot of old fashion names and we have a lot of naming traditions in my family. I also LOVE unisex names like Jordan, Quinn, Taylor, Kasey, etc.

I'm still unsure as to whether or not I want to find out if we're having a boy or a girl but my top girl names are Eva Theodora (my grandfather's name was Ted) and Zara Maria. And my top boy name is Logan with a few variations on a middle name.

It'll be quite a while until we actually sit down, discuss, and decide...

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pennypretty · July 2014

@katydid2014 I love Z names in general but I'm also worried DH won't go for it. Darn his friends for naming their daughter Zoe! DH totally would have gone with Zoe because he loves Firefly so much. There's a chance I might get him to warm up to Zara because my great grandmother's name was Sarah Z. and she was the rock of my dad's family....but I have a feeling he'll think it's too far out there.

antsangel1118 · July 2014

Lol @pennypretty I'm not a big fan of Elise with a "y". I wasn't sure of Gabriel recently, but after looking over the BNB and saying it over and over in my head, I think it is growing on me again. But thankfully we have a little time to see if I stay liking if or if I find a name I like better!

SMac85 · July 2014

If this one is another boy we are going to have such a hard time finding a name. Both of my sons didn't have names until after they were born because my husband and I have VERY different taste in names. If this one is a girl we like Milena Grace (Mila for short) or Elena and Ellie for short. But there are a lot more names on my girl list so those could change.

CoozieInMyPurse · July 2014

TikTak said:
Leo Andres or Leo Thomas for a boy. Lisette for a girl. Middle name to be determined. And of course they're subject to change.

Leo is my top boy name. I may or may not have already referred to my uterus as Leo a couple of time.

Irishcurls · July 2014

I'm baby name crazy, but DH and I have such different tastes, we haven't really discussed anything seriously.

jjgrl55 · July 2014

We've had our girl name picked out since before we were married, but boys names are just too hard. We casually throw some around when we go on our evening walks, but I doubt we'll get serious about picking one until much later.

DH keeps telling my stomach that it just needs to be a girl so that we won't have to worry about boys names.

graciesmurf · July 2014

If we have a boy his name will be John (we decided that when I had DD). No idea on a girl name, but plenty of time to decide.

antsangel1118 · July 2014

I'm kind of suddenly anxious about this. (Ridiculous, I know...) We have a gut feeling that this one is a boy, and while originally our boy name was Gabriel Joseph, I have been falling in love with the name Samuel. Especially today I have been thinking about Samuel Joseph a lot. Then all of a sudden I remembered my best friend has had that name picked out for years. She is not married and has no kids yet, but I know she has that name (well, Samuel) picked out as well as a few other names for her future children. Now I want to ask her what she would think if we used it, but at the same time, I feel like she would be upset by it even if she said otherwise. She was married in the past, and has fertility issues, so I am just really worried that she will be super upset if I "steal" her name. I know we have plenty of time to decide, and I may fall out of love with it, or that it may not even be a boy, but today I absolutely love the name and feel sad about not being able to use it.

Julieed32 · July 2014

I'm not certain if we will ever be able to pick out names! Our first puppy was just named "Baby" because we couldn't decide on a name.

honkytonk_kid · July 2014

Beary+Ghastly said:

DD's name is Claire Elise.

I love this. DS was going to be Caroline Elise, H picked it out. I'm not 100% on Caroline anymore but Elise is nice. I'm going to push hard for Claire, I think it's so classic and pretty.

Not sure on boys. I want to use Samuel for the meaning (in the Bible his mother was devout and trusting, and prayed for him for years), but unfortunately our dog is Sammy. Lol. It may still make the middle name spot.

invaderyoie · July 2014

DH and I actually sat down yesterday and started talking about names, with this being number four we have used up a lot of our names from our list. But after talking and joking around, we actually picked our perfect girls name almost simultaneously. We also have two top contenders for boy names too.

FrecklesInside · July 2014

antsangel1118 said:
I'm kind of suddenly anxious about this. (Ridiculous, I know...) We have a gut feeling that this one is a boy, and while originally our boy name was Gabriel Joseph, I have been falling in love with the name Samuel. Especially today I have been thinking about Samuel Joseph a lot. Then all of a sudden I remembered my best friend has had that name picked out for years. She is not married and has no kids yet, but I know she has that name (well, Samuel) picked out as well as a few other names for her future children. Now I want to ask her what she would think if we used it, but at the same time, I feel like she would be upset by it even if she said otherwise. She was married in the past, and has fertility issues, so I am just really worried that she will be super upset if I "steal" her name. I know we have plenty of time to decide, and I may fall out of love with it, or that it may not even be a boy, but today I absolutely love the name and feel sad about not being able to use it.

No such thing as dibs! If you are pregnant and have a boy first, use the name you love. She might not have kids or might not have a boy or might not get pg for years and then she can use it if she wants. I wouldn't base a name for my child based on what someone else wants to use. I get that you want to be a good friend, but I personally think it is silly to not use a name you love because of a friend's hypothetical future son.

copperrose · July 2014

FrecklesInside said:

I'm kind of suddenly anxious about this. (Ridiculous, I know...) We have a gut feeling that this one is a boy, and while originally our boy name was Gabriel Joseph, I have been falling in love with the name Samuel. Especially today I have been thinking about Samuel Joseph a lot. Then all of a sudden I remembered my best friend has had that name picked out for years. She is not married and has no kids yet, but I know she has that name (well, Samuel) picked out as well as a few other names for her future children. Now I want to ask her what she would think if we used it, but at the same time, I feel like she would be upset by it even if she said otherwise. She was married in the past, and has fertility issues, so I am just really worried that she will be super upset if I "steal" her name. I know we have plenty of time to decide, and I may fall out of love with it, or that it may not even be a boy, but today I absolutely love the name and feel sad about not being able to use it.
No such thing as dibs! If you are pregnant and have a boy first, use the name you love. She might not have kids or might not have a boy or might not get pg for years and then she can use it if she wants. I wouldn't base a name for my child based on what someone else wants to use. I get that you want to be a good friend, but I personally think it is silly to not use a name you love because of a friend's hypothetical future son.

Definitely no such thing as dibs. I loved the name Amelia and then my college roommate called to tell me she was using that. I truly did not care and then it blew up and is everywhere so I would never even use it now.

antsangel1118 · July 2014

@FrecklesInside, @copperrose, and @jessuhmarie, looking at your responses and reading my post again, I do see how silly it sounds. I think it is just that we have an odd relationship sometimes, and she already struggles with comparing our lives and that I have the things that she's always wanted, like kids and a family, which I know sounds ridiculous, but for a little there, I just felt like she would feel like it was another thing that I had that she didn't. I don't know. lol But I did mention it to her and I was surprised by her response, which was that she would be honored if I used it. She would love it if someday she can have her Samuel as well! Now I just hope DH likes the name. lol

antsangel1118 · July 2014

haha no, @jessuhmarie, it totally is a bit silly after I came down from the initial "oh crap, that was BFF's top pick!" lol

PHNJenna · July 2014

We have had names picked out for years, I don't foresee us changing our list:

Boys: Jaxon Forrest, Connor James, Bennett Cody

Girls: Eden Eloise, Vienna Diane, Julianne Sommers

All of the middle names are family names. We are going with the plan to have all three names ready and waiting and when the babe makes his/her appearance to decide the name after spending some time the the baby.

jessmock · July 2014

I've created a list, since I'm only 5 weeks we aren't really working on narrowing it down yet. I have 2 boys already Cragen Bradley and Grayson Leo. Here is my list, be honest and tell me what you think:

Boys:
Declan
Emerson
Beckett
Dawson
Lennon
Elliot

Girls:
Alaina
Brielle
Adelaide
Kenna
Evalynne
Layla
Audrie
Sutton
Julianna
Emery
Braylin
Adilyn
Lennon

cafecreme · July 2014

honkytonk_kid said:

Beary+Ghastly said:

DD's name is Claire Elise.

I love this. DS was going to be Caroline Elise, H picked it out. I'm not 100% on Caroline anymore but Elise is nice. I'm going to push hard for Claire, I think it's so classic and pretty.

Not sure on boys. I want to use Samuel for the meaning (in the Bible his mother was devout and trusting, and prayed for him for years), but unfortunately our dog is Sammy. Lol. It may still make the middle name spot.

@honkytonk_kid, we really fell in love with the name Claire even before we were pregnant. Our daughter is named after our Paris honeymoon, where we stayed on Rue Cler (masculine form of Claire). Plus, I really love what it stands for- clear, bright and famous. She's the "light" in our lives. Her middle name is Elise because DH and MIL would play piano together, and they would play Fur Elise to each other. I never 2nd guessed our name. It's beautiful, simple, and classic. Every time someone hears her name their always like "oh, a classic name! So refreshing. I love Claire!". Of course I'm biased, but I say go for it!

cafecreme · July 2014

jessmock said:

I've created a list, since I'm only 5 weeks we aren't really working on narrowing it down yet. I have 2 boys already Cragen Bradley and Grayson Leo. Here is my list, be honest and tell me what you think: Boys: Declan Emerson Beckett Dawson Lennon Elliot Girls: Alaina Brielle Adelaide Kenna Evalynne Layla Audrie Sutton Julianna Emery Braylin Adilyn Lennon

Those are my guilty pleasure names

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