GTKY - your baby's name POST-Partum

ichamommy · July 2014

Which option BEST describes your feelings NOW (post-partum) about the name you chose?

If you comment, please include the name you chose!

ichamommy · July 2014

My squish is Jonah and I don't know anybody by that name so that part I really love. I've second-guessed if my friends and family think it's left-field but I'm still happy with it. I chose it after seeing a Sight & Sound theatre production in Branson called "Jonah" which is, obviously?, the story from the bible. I went to Branson with a couple friends as my "babymoon". I saw the story as a tale of disobedience to God and how you have to trust that God has your best interests at heart and will never steer your wrong. I should have done more of that 3-4 years ago... But I don't regret my squish. Nope.

ETA- I also love that since his birth, I and other family members have started picking out a lot of whale items for him. He has a super soft blanket with a whale on it that is my favorite. I'm also already brainstorming his toddler room with a big cutesy whale painted on the wall in blue/gray and red accent colors.

emy730 · July 2014

We named DD Coraline "Cora" Abigail and I'm still happy with our choice. So far everyone has commented on how pretty her name is and how much it suits her.

Soon2BMrsN · July 2014

DD's name (Amelia) seems to be popular on this BMB, but I've never known anyone IRL with her name. Love her name!

January Bride · July 2014

Claire has been my favorite girl name for practically forever and it still is.

She is named after family. My Dad's middle name is Clair (he is named after his Gpa Claris) and her middle name, Anneliese, is after my sister Anna and my Mom (middle name Ann)and my MIL (middle name Anne).

LenaLove · July 2014

I love his name. I chose traditional in the poll, but I don't know anyone named Edmund. We call him Eddie most of the time, and it suits him perfectly.

jensavicci · July 2014

Max's name means so much to us and it just kind of came to us on it's own. I doubt I'll ever regret it. I actually love all my kid's names. They don't all have meanings but, I love them all.

Sean Patrick is my oldest. I've loved the name Sean since forever. I always knew that'd be my son's name. Patrick is my brother in-laws name. He's been a close friend since high school.

Emma Maddison Anette is my girl. Emma is just so pretty!!! Lol Maddison is equally gorgeous and modern. Anette just sounds like a great classic European name.

Nicholas Jay Madden is my second son. Nicholas is just so strong and yet elegant. Jay was taken from Jaylen which is what DW and I thought about naming a son a looooong time ago. Madden is my other brother in-law who is also very very special to me.

Maximilian Ace put together means "the greatest unity" and I mean come on. How perfect? Plus, it also just sounds so strong and rich (robust rich not money rich)

So that's a little name history for ya

LOL I know you didn't ask for all that but, you get it anyway.

Skeemer · July 2014

DD is Eve Juliet. Eve was on the baby name list for when we were pregnant with DS. DH fell in love with it again & gently insisted that would be DD's name. I wasn't sold 100% BUT there was no other name I liked any better than Eve. We were also having trouble finding a middle name for her. I had always loved Julia but never considered Juliet until someone suggested it. I knew right away it was "the name" & was nervous DH wouldn't like it. When I told him he said, "It's perfect. I love it."

People seem to mostly like the name Eve although a few people have tried to call her Evie, Ava, Eva & other variations. We just correct them immediately. I feel like Eve is a classic Biblical name that you don't hear very often but it isn't so different or too trendy for our tastes.

ETA: Now that she's here, I feel like the name really suits her.

Huahine · July 2014

2 weeks postpartum and we are still working on Number 2's name. Naming a tiny human is hard y'all.

INmommy871278 · July 2014

SS because it's a combo of the options. Dana isn't all that popular now days, the one person I know with that name was a year ahead if me in school. Her middle name Kaylee is after DHs mom whose middle name was Kay and Lee is after DHs dad, myself, my aunt, and my great grandma whose middle names are all lee. DS's middle name is Michael after my dad and the males on that side of the family, so I wanted DD's middle name to be after family too.

SuperTinkerham · July 2014

Milo Elliot is just right for him and us. I luff him.

kwh33ls · July 2014

Sadie Lynn's name fits her perfectly. I don't know anyone with that name (which is hard to do - I teach high school), although I know there's another Sadie Lynn on this BMB, because she has awesome taste like us!

Her middle name was my mother's name who passed away three years ago tomorrow (which was also LO's due date), so the name has all sorts of layers of meaning.

I tried to find a shrek gif. Fail. But here's this.

BBColt78 · July 2014

We loved Brielle and still do. Lots of compliments from friends, family and randoms

MississippiCatfish · July 2014

LenaLove said:
I love his name. I chose traditional in the poll, but I don't know anyone named Edmund. We call him Eddie most of the time, and it suits him perfectly.

@LenaLove‌ My DS1 is an Eddie and we've only met one other Eddie since he was born!

We get funny looks if we introduce DS2 as "Howard," but when we call him "Howie" (which we do 90% of the time), we get mostly positive responses. I didn't expect it to be the most applauded name on the block;)

Huahine · July 2014

LenaLove said:
I love his name. I chose traditional in the poll, but I don't know anyone named Edmund. We call him Eddie most of the time, and it suits him perfectly.

Love this name. Ds1's middle name is Edmund, named for a relative and Sir Edmund Hillary - explorer and humanitarian. DS1 hasn't shown any humanitarian tendancies, but every time he scales a piece of furniture, he gets called by his middle name.

LenaLove · July 2014

MississippiCatfish said:

LenaLove said:
I love his name. I chose traditional in the poll, but I don't know anyone named Edmund. We call him Eddie most of the time, and it suits him perfectly.
@LenaLove‌ My DS1 is an Eddie and we've only met one other Eddie since he was born!

We get funny looks if we introduce DS2 as "Howard," but when we call him "Howie" (which we do 90% of the time), we get mostly positive responses. I didn't expect it to be the most applauded name on the block;)

Eddie and Howie, too cute! I love it!

Is Eddie short for anything?

missilini · July 2014

We stayed in a hotel on Audrey St. in Las Vegas years ago and put Audrey on our list. Originally we wanted to name a girl Elliott and call her Ellie but soon as we found out we were having a girl we both decided we didn't like it. We tossed names around forever. My husband loved Audrey but I wasn't 100% on board until she was born. Her middle name is Lilly because that's my maiden name and Iove it. Audrey Lilly doesn't have the best flow but I don't care. I am coming around to Audrey.

mcvgal · July 2014

We were team green with both boys. When pregnant with DS1, I told DH that if it's a boy this would be the only time to have a Jr. because I wouldn't like a second son to be a Jr. and nit the first. We were pretty set on Vicente for a boy. Then one day my uncle told my husband that he never got a chance to have a boy and name him after himself- Manuel. When DS1 was born, DH decided immediately that he was a Manuel. We call him Manny. And I've loved the name from day 1.

The week of my birthday, DH suggested Pablo as a boy name. I loved it and thought of how traditional yet strong it sounds. That same week, Pope John Paul II (Juan Pablo in Spanish) was canonized.

Both names are very traditional in the Hispanic community and I love how strong they sound together

JuniperGaze · July 2014

Gemma fits our DD perfectly! She is our little gem for sure. I think we ran across the name in a baby name book along the way, but it wasn't until my DH suggested it out loud that we fell in love with it. We usually call her Gemmy for now the same as we did while I was pregnant. I chose Starling as her MN, but we both adore it. We wanted nature names for MNs. We thought of River or Forest, but I'm very find of birds. I have also always found comfort in the Bible verses that talk about how God cares for the birds and how much more he should care for us since we are more valuable. So I wanted to give her a constant reminder of God's compassion and love for her. People side eye the crap out of the MN, but we don't care!

abundancenow · July 2014

My father was William, he passed away about 15 years ago. William is my first born's middle name. My daughter is Willa. Most people did not like it when I told them prior to her birth, but I am happy with her name. I don't know any Willa's. I know the author Willa Cather and an actress Willa Ford. Willow is very popular, but I hope my daughter doesn't have other girls in her classes in school with her name. I don't classify it as unique, but not so common. There seems to be various meanings of her name, but I feel the word 'will' as defined as 'purpose' is fitting. I love my Willa!

Jbosarge85 · July 2014

DD is Annalisa Ruth, I've loved Annalisa for a long time and Ruth is Dhs grandmothers name. Before I got pregnant I had a dream that I had a son named Aric. When I told DH the next day he said since he was a little boy he wanted a son named Aric but I had vetoed it (before we knew DD was a girl and we were talking names). We decided Aric with an a because DH is Nordic descent and its the Nordic spelling. I love it, the names fit both my children perfectly.

bluejeanbaby1217 · July 2014

We also have an Annaliese, Annaliese Jane, and we call her "Anna". I really liked her name before she was born and I absolutely love it now. We came up with Annaliese because mil is LeeAnna and my mom is Lisa, Jane is my grandmother.

Our DS is also named after family. Locke is my maiden name and Michael is my DHs middle name.

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honeybee434 · July 2014

I loved her name since before I was pregnant (Scarlett), but once she was here I realized there weren't any great nicknames for me to call her. Not that I wanted a permanent nickname for others to refer to her as, but just something that I could call her "for short" and it made me second guess the choice for awhile even though I still love the name. I've started calling her "S" and DH will call her Scar, but that doesn't sound as feminine as I would like. I'm still happy overall, though, because she will grow into the full name as she gets a little older.

loulou1212 · July 2014

We had a difficult time picking a name, but I like it now. Ruthie seems to fit her. Her given name is Ruth Mae.

emineminem · July 2014

What's funny is that I rejected Olivia immediately since its so popular, but paired with Madeleine I love it. As for her first name...the only regret I have is the spelling. Everyone and their mother spells it Madeline and pronounces it mad-a-linn. I just love the French spelling and calling her mad-a-line! I also never liked the nickname Maddie but of course we call her that, or just Mad.

jensavicci · July 2014

@missquela‌

I always pronounced the french spelling ma-de-lein. Like "rein" in reindeer. I always thought it was spelled that way to sound extra French lol I love mad-a-line though!

taylorjeanne84 · July 2014

@litera I LOVE his name!

DS2 is Crew Robert. I realize it is pretty different, but we love it and IDGAF if anyone else does. Robert is my granddaddy's name. DS1 is Rowan Jack, and I love his just as much.

Lola825 · July 2014

We still love her name (Adlee). It's different without being too you-neek and I don't know anyone with that name. We've gotten a great response on the name too, which we kept quiet until she was born.

Her middle name (Grace) I still love, but, it's crazy popular now. I'm not thrilled with that but I love it and it goes well so whatevs! And, she is definitely an Adlee Grace so it's perfect.

helloblueeyes · July 2014

DD is Sylvia Paige.

We went to the hospital with 3 names, Virginia is a family name on DHs side that I love. Indiana is a guilty pleasure name that we both loved since before I got pregnant. Sylvia was a name I brought up early on and DH vetoed.

Somewhere around 5 or 6 months he brought it up again. It took me awhile to get on board with it as I has already given up on it in my mind.

When she was born, she had this full head of black hair. It was wild and reminded me of trees and the forest. Sylvia means of the forest and woodlands. This kid has been full of life from th very beginning and i love that her name means a place teaming with life. DH actually agreed that she was Sylvia right away. Paige was a name we loved and can't use as a first name due to our last name.

dobbyisfree · July 2014

abundancenow said:

My father was William, he passed away about 15 years ago. William is my first born's middle name. My daughter is Willa. Most people did not like it when I told them prior to her birth, but I am happy with her name. I don't know any Willa's. I know the author Willa Cather and an actress Willa Ford. Willow is very popular, but I hope my daughter doesn't have other girls in her classes in school with her name. I don't classify it as unique, but not so common. There seems to be various meanings of her name, but I feel the word 'will' as defined as 'purpose' is fitting. I love my Willa!

FYI - Willa Ford is actually named Amanda Williford. Random factoid that I know, probably because she's yet ANOTHER Amanda. :-)

DH, his brother, his dad, and his Grandpa all have the middle name of Michael. (there are some Mikes in my family too) DH really wanted to continue the tradition. I am not a fan (seriously there are SO MANY MICHAELS) but I gave in.

As for the first name, my favorite name of all time is Nicholas, which was vetoed right away by DH because he has a lot of friends named Nick. I'm still mourning. Since he got the middle name, I wanted to pick the first, and I picked Logan, because of the cute guy in the Baby Sitters Club series. Here in Buffalo we have a juice drink called Loganberry, and that made DH hesitate, but eventually he agreed. Of course his brother and his fiancé call him Loganberry all the time, which is a little irritating (they also take pictures of signs that say Loganberry and text them to me) but other than them it's been good. Everyone likes it (at least to my face) and he definitely looks like my little Logan Burrito

mrscurlygurl · July 2014

We learned the name Arya when I was pregnant with DS...yes, from Game of Thrones. Both DH and I thought it was a pretty name and put it on the back burner for girls names should the need arise (which it didn't in that pregnancy). This time around, we decided that would be the name...nothing else caught our fancy in the two years since DS. I never second guessed the name while pregnant, but we also told exactly ZERO people (not counting the etsy lady who made a hat for me :P ). After she was born and we started getting people asking how to pronounce the name I thought, "seriously, what is hard about this name?" Oh well. I know we probably get some side-eyes since it's from GoT, but I don't care...I like the spelling with the y over the more traditional Aria.

Her middle name is my mom's name (she passed away 14 years ago this coming Sept) and my middle name. Never a question that it wouldn't be Lynn.

FTR: my all time favorite girl's name is Brielle. My step-sister named her daughter Brianna 4 years ago, thus killing my chance of using my name (they have the same nickname...I wasn't going to go there). I'm still bitter...

bunkgirl · July 2014

I was so relieved that we had a girl because DH and I knew we would name her Helen after DH's grandmother MN is Elizabeth after my grandmother's MN. We love the name and like that it isn't overly popular. If we would have had a boy this time I'm pretty sure I'd be hating the name right now.

mdaniels4813 · July 2014

mrscurlygurl said:

We learned the name Arya when I was pregnant with DS...yes, from Game of Thrones. Both DH and I thought it was a pretty name and put it on the back burner for girls names should the need arise (which it didn't in that pregnancy). This time around, we decided that would be the name...nothing else caught our fancy in the two years since DS. I never second guessed the name while pregnant, but we also told exactly ZERO people (not counting the etsy lady who made a hat for me :P ). After she was born and we started getting people asking how to pronounce the name I thought, "seriously, what is hard about this name?" Oh well. I know we probably get some side-eyes since it's from GoT, but I don't care...I like the spelling with the y over the more traditional Aria.
Her middle name is my mom's name (she passed away 14 years ago this coming Sept) and my middle name. Never a question that it wouldn't be Lynn.

FTR: my all time favorite girl's name is Brielle. My step-sister named her daughter Brianna 4 years ago, thus killing my chance of using my name (they have the same nickname...I wasn't going to go there). I'm still bitter...

I really love that name! That was actually the name we were going to use if we had a girl, DH had learned it from GoT as well and loved it. I think that Lynn goes really well with it, and being it's a name that runs through my family it just makes me love your choice even more. ANYWAYS, I didn't want to only comment on how beautiful of a name that was, I was also commenting on how I thought it was kind of funny that both of us enjoyed the name and if our baby would have been named Arya she would have also ended up with my mother's middle name, who passed away 5 1/2 years ago. Great minds thing alike.

glitterclaws · July 2014

I don't know anyone IRL with the same name. I don't use LOs name too much around here in case Alygoo is still checking in, but I still love it.

LO is Micah Franklin. We picked Micah just from a list because we wanted something a little different to go with our boring last name. Franklin is the name of the building where we met in college.

Ecomom17 · July 2014

I chose the "traditional" option in the poll although I don't think of it as a particularly traditional name, but LO's name is Nathan William.

Nathan has always been one of my favorite boy names (and there aren't that many that I really love, not to mention that DH and I could agree on). For the last couple months of my pregnancy I just really felt like that should be his name and thankfully just before delivering, DH started saying he was liking the name more and more. Since DS1's middle name was after DH's grandfather it was pretty much a given that this one's MN would be after one of mine. William was my mom's dad's name and he was very special to me. One of my dad's brothers is also William (although both he and Grandpa are/were called Bill) and it's also my brother's middle name.

We haven't gotten any negative reactions, everyone seems to love the name.

TwizzyG · July 2014

We chose the name Cora Elizabeth. Cora was one we both just loved and thought was beautiful and wasn't really popular. And Elizabeth is my first name as well as my grandmothers, so I really wanted to use it as the middle name and DH didn't fight me on it.
But, I don't know anyone with the name Cora...however I did find out that my grandma's great aunt was named Cora, which I thought was neat (we didn't share the name until she was born). I'm glad we got to use it now since it seems to be gaining popularity.

emineminem · July 2014

@TwizzyG‌ Cora was #1 on my list but got vetoed by DH. My great great aunt was a Cora! Beautiful name.

@jensavicci‌ I don't mind mad-a-lein! I just think people would find me pretentious for pronouncing it that way lol. I forgot to mention that we chose the traditional French spelling as a tribute to my mom who died last February. Her middle name was Michele spelled the French way and everyone always added the extra L.

AMcLaws · July 2014

kwh33ls said:
Sadie Lynn's name fits her perfectly. I don't know anyone with that name (which is hard to do - I teach high school), although I know there's another Sadie Lynn on this BMB, because she has awesome taste like us! Her middle name was my mother's name who passed away three years ago tomorrow (which was also LO's due date), so the name has all sorts of layers of meaning.

I tried to find a shrek gif. Fail. But here's this.

I have the other Sadie Lynn. Her name also fits her perfectly

HairBossMama · July 2014

My LO is Ezra Theodore. We kept his name a secret until he was born.
We chose Ezra because we loved the shortness, I didn't want to make easy for him to have a nickname.
I still love his name, but someone pointed out to me his initials. Whenever I thought of the initials I always had my last initial in mind not E.T. alone. Now some family members have tried to call him that, I just give them bitch face. He's not an alien!
I've also gotten a lot of people saying that his name is you-neek and weird.
Uummm hello it's a biblical name, thanks.

Athenanolen · July 2014

Leeanne is named after her paternal grandparents. All of the girls on MIL side have the middle name Anne. So we used FIL middle name lee and added the Anne. But for her middle name we went with DH's mn which is Rory (Irish). Leeanne Rory. It fits her well and people seem to enjoy the old-timey-country-ness of it.

I also thought this was about nicknames and I call her squeaker.

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