Names

elsieisamoocow · February 2018

@livinthesunnylife ahh I love that it's a family name for you! I seriously love his name.

calimom2524 · February 2018

I love Hugo too!!! It's my grandfather's name and would love to incorporate it for this LO if it's a boy. Is it weird that he's still alive and we'd be using it, though?

livinthesunnylife · February 2018

@calimom2524 I don't think it's weird to use an alive family member's name. I think it's....is it jewish that don't believe in that? But that doesn't make it wrong for anyone else.

Sooooo weird that we both have Hugos in our family.

elsieisamoocow · February 2018

@calimom2524 @livinthesunnylife Yeah it's Jewish people who believe it's bad luck to name a baby after someone who is still alive. My husband is half Jewish and it kind of made me sad when I learned that during my first pregnancy because I always liked the idea of naming a baby girl Lucie after my grandma Lucille, but she's still alive and kickin' (which I'm very glad about of course lol)

livinthesunnylife · February 2018

@elsieisamoocow ooooh, I like Lucille! I love those classic names that are back. Now that we have a sex I have names on the brain big time. Hugo is probably a middle for us so I need a first.

princesslockness · February 2018

@elsieisamoocow What about Forrest, like Forest green? Or Greyson, nn grey?

xirk · February 2018

I had so many good names for girls but we just found out it’s a boy. We are def going with Robert for the middle name after my grandfather and my husband’s father. So far for a first name Charles is the front runner. It’s my great grandfathers name, but is it too boring? I also kind of like Xavier but I don’t think I can get DH to go for that.

elsieisamoocow · February 2018

@princesslockness I think I'd only think of Forrest Gump if that were the case, but I almost like Forest... I'll Greyson/Grayson I do like too. Have to check the popularity on that one though.

hardlyhannah · February 2018

@xirk Charles isn’t too boring. Charlie is one of my fav boy nicknames but we can’t use it because Charles is my FILs name and that’s too close. I’m not about that life.

fishee333 · February 2018

I love the name Forrest and would totally use it but I always think of Forrest Gump too!

alinafed · February 2018

My mom ruined Evelyn for me, so now I'm thinking Mila Sofia, or DH is really pushing Adelia. However in French (we live in Canada and the kids will be going to school in French) it would be pronounced Adele-ia, whereas I think Anglophones would pronounce it A-delia. Not sure if the two pronounciations would bother me, though I like both. What do you guys think of that name?

Also, Mila was the name we picked for DS1 if he had been a girl (though my family all later told me they didn't like it), and Sofia was the name we picked for DS2 if he had been a girl, so I like that that name has that little meaning behind it, and that Mila works in Eastern Europe too (my background).

legallykate · February 2018

@alinafed Mila is currently my frontrunner girl name, I am obsessed with the 3 year old Mila on YouTube!

calimom2524 · February 2018

@alinafed I love that name. My bestie named her daughter Adalina and I love it, they call her Ada for short.

brzvice · February 2018

@alinafed I think both the pronunciations are beautiful of Adelia!
@calimom2524 What a unique and lovely name of your bestie's DD , so sweet.

elsieisamoocow · February 2018

@alinafed I totally read the name as Adele-ia (I live in the US) but both pronunciations are pretty!

jsnakehole · February 2018

Eleanor has entered the running for a girl name, thanks to 'The Good Place'.

So it's between Eleanor and Eliana if it's a girl, either way her nickname will be Ellie (which is perfect, because of of my favorite badass women in film is Dr. Ellie Satler from 'Jurassic Park').

harleyquinn0621 · February 2018

for a boy we are going with Henry Joseph

for a girl it's a little hard, because I want to use my grandmother's name as a middle name, which is Mary ... and first names that "flow" with Mary are very hard to find.... right now we are thinking Elizabeth Mary, i'm just not certain I love it

riverbed · February 2018

We are still tossing around names, and I refuse to commit to anything. Now that we aren't finding out the sex until the anatomy scan (NIPT is too much $$$ even though I am AMA) we have plenty more time for me to add more options, because I love options!
We will stick with family names for the most part, only exception we have so far is Katherine, but the nn for it is close to my grandmother's name, Kittye. Our pool of boys names is not so great. Think Ernest, Rembert, Earl, Ira. Not that those names aren't lovely, but just NMS.

Top girl names so far:
Katherine Irene "Kit" for nn
Iris Irene

Only boy name I can think of:
Patrick Bradley

starfire080618 · February 2018

Edwin Dwight for a boy..family names

I want something old school kinda vintage for girl...middle name jean. Like Emma jean only not Emma lol
Don't know what we're having

ladygali · February 2018

starfire080618 said:

Edwin Dwight for a boy..family names I want something old school kinda vintage for girl...middle name jean. Like Emma jean only not Emma lol
Don't know what we're having

I have an Edwin

Also a family name for us. Do you like the double “dw” sound in the first and middle name?

@riverbed I kind of love Rembert and Patrick is one of my favorite boy names.

laurad75 · February 2018

@riverbed My top girl's name is Katherine and call her Kit.

H and I are in agreement for boys names. It will likely be Duke and then I would like the middle name to be H's only brother.

We cannot get on the same page for girl's names. I like classic names (Katherine, Melissa, Emily) but H wants something more unique. I suggested Rhiannon the other day (I'm a big Fleetwood Mac fan) and he said 'that's not awful' so maybe we are getting somewhere. We will know the sex in a couple of weeks and then at least we will know if this will be a fight or not.

calimom2524 · February 2018

I'm probably biased but I think Katherine (with that exact spelling) is a great name choice! However I've always been Kate

pghctwife · February 2018

Katherine with a k because Anne of green gables! I really love the nn kit! Spunky and different!

hfooter · February 2018

I think we are leaning towards Luxleigh Marie.

Love the name Lux from the virgin suicides but we like longer names with nick names so adding my middle name to make it Luxleigh. I don’t care how many eye rolls I get for the made up name, gotta start somewhere! And I have a silhouette so I can make her all the things with her name on it LOL

legallykate · February 2018

calimom2524 said:

I'm probably biased but I think Katherine (with that exact spelling) is a great name choice! However I've always been Kate

Same

hezzer78 · February 2018

@jsnakehole Jurassic Park for lyfe. (I dressed up like Dr. Ellie Satler for movie day at school!)
Eleanor is on our short list too - Spelling it the english way (Elinor - like from Sense and Sensibility) is also pretty I think. We're still kicking around a lot of ideas. We may break down and find out the sex just so we don't have to stress about two names

I'd love to name our kid with a nod to something science-y. We have a few in the running, but nothing for sure yet.

jsnakehole · February 2018

So my mom hates all of my name choices for girls. She said it sounds like I go to a nursing home and ask for the names of people on their last limb and those are the names I choose.

Eliana is still a top choice, though. DH likes it.

aj1327 · February 2018

I love the name Eliana @jsnakehole, but I think I liked all of yours. Eleanor was the other choice right? I love that name.

I asked DS tonight what he wanted to name his baby brother. His response was, “Meatballs.” It would definitely be different.

ETA: DH suggested Blake a while back and I love it so DS usually says Blake because I’m currently brainwashing him

dirtanddiamonds · February 2018

We are officially going with Annabelle. My great grandmothers name. Yayyyy. Ordered her coming home outfit today with it embroidered on there.

jsnakehole · February 2018

@amac12999 I haven't told my students yet, but one of my kids asked me if I thought the name 'Lightbulb' is a good name for a kid. Maybe this kid and your son are preparing to be celebrities?

Blake is nice. Have you seen Key and Peele's 'Substitute Teacher' sketch? They make fun of the name Blake (and Aaron, my top boy choice). Definitely good for a laugh.

livinthesunnylife · February 2018

@jsnakehole That's why we don't ask anyone's opinions. Especially parents- they are from a different generation and have weird opinions about names. Once the kid is born they will love whatever name you give them.

@dirtanddiamonds Annabelle is beautiful!

neeraja_k · February 2018

@jsnakehole My husband has a guy in his small office group named Aaron, everyone calls him A-A-Ron. I laugh every time he talks about him. :P

Firemanswife11 · February 2018

@jsnakehole we love that name, it's on our short list. I really like Edith, too. But apparently, that stands for E-xit D-rills I-n T-he H-ome, according to my firefighter husband...and every other firefighter I asked...

mrsbubbles-2 · February 2018

Where we are in the great name discussion...

Image: https://78.media.tumblr.com/0b4ef68729d76bb5ff2e48fb370991f3/tumblr_nkkkoxSNGY1tp42tfo1_1280.jpg

Firemanswife11 · February 2018

@mrsbubbles-2 yup. truth. The only reason we kept our dog's name what it was is because that was already her name. Lol.

mbrowling · February 2018

@Firemanswife11 Edie (short for edith) is currently our #1 pick for a girl! My nonforefighter husband actually loves it lol. We also really like Millie for a girl. We are much more lost when it comes to boy names but yesterday Everett and Ian were our favorites

mbrowling · February 2018

Firefighter* don't know why my phone would make that autocorrect?

jsnakehole · February 2018

@neeraja_k that's one of the reasons I think DH is considering it, so he can yell at him when he's bad.

melbel0824 · February 2018

@jsnakehole You're mom's comment made me laugh because my stepmom said the same thing to my sister when she was pregnant. Her top name was Mildred because she loved Millie. But I also get how frustrating that is. You love the names you love.

We mentioned DH's top boy name to my parents, and both my mom and stepmom made some insensitive comments about it. I'm not in love with the name, but it really made me think that I might not tell them when we finally decide.

elsieisamoocow · February 2018

I love a lot of old fashioned names for girls but DH always complains that they're "grandma names" *eyeroll*

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