What's in a name?

brookepdavis · April 2018

You all have given me such good ideas to think about. We have a short list for this baby, but nothing seems to jump out as "the one" yet. We need to find out boy or girl first. We decided on DD's name around 20 weeks, but kept it a secret from everyone until then. She's named after my beloved great aunt, so we kind of want to stick with family names if possible. However, that severely limits our options.

EM0704 · April 2018

@vicioustrollop I had the same issue with our #2. #1 was just so easy....But that second one...ugh. And he's still difficult... HAHAHA

mockingjay1 · April 2018

pink_polkadots said:

I’ve always liked the name Avery for a girl, but I would spell it Averie, it seems more feminine.... is that too yooneek (be honest!!) ??

I think Avery is fine, but IMO that spelling is too yooneek. I'm a big fan of traditional spelling though. As a child or adult I'd appreciate not always having to spell out my name.

EM0704 · April 2018

Y’all are all cracking me up with this term “yooneek”!!!!

goldie987 · April 2018

I have a top 5 name for my birth decade and always hated being one of many, always identified by my last initial. My name choices for DD and this one are common enough that (hopefully) people don't eff them up by uncommon enough that there isn't a high chance of always having another in their class.

For a girl, I love Leona Josephine but DH doesn't like first or middle of that combo. I also like Liana and Lila but that starts to tred into the super popular Lily zone. For a boy, I like Jonah for a first name and have no idea for a middle name. Girls names are much easier than boy names to me.

marfi236 · April 2018

We've been discussing this for a while and are fairly set on boy names but not 100% on girls names!

Boy:
Tristan James (James is my dad's name)
Aiden William (William is DH's dad's name)

Girl:
Caitlyn Elizabeth (Elizabeth is my sister's name)
Clara Amelia

eaogle · April 2018

So far for a girl we seem pretty set on Juliette Faith. For a boy, we think we want the first name Lincoln, but are struggling to come up with a middle name that we like.

nervous0220 · April 2018

My husband and I have all baby names picked out in sequence, but part of me wants to name the baby Dagmar if it's a girl. No one thinks this is a good idea, but I think it's really pretty and it means "day maiden".

nervous0220 · April 2018

Oh, and Ivan if a boy, but no one likes that idea either, including my husband.

MNM 2451 · April 2018

:Di love those!- Piper and Seraphina but my DH also vetoed!

phoenix870509 · April 2018

Zadie is Yiddish for grandfather. That's what my cousins called my step-grandfather.

DH and I have had names picked out for years. A girl will be Sarah Elizabeth and a boy will be Eric Michael. Sarah Elizabeth for my grandmother, great-aunt Sarah and my great-grandmother. Eric Michael has been slightly altered, it was going to be Eric Stanley since Stanley is a family name in my family, but then DH's uncle Michael passed, so Eric for DH's best friend who died years ago and Michael for his uncle.

Edited to add DS is Benjamin Edward, named after DH's paternal grandfather and my paternal grandfather.

mama1824 · April 2018

No clue for baby three but if this helps others my girls are

Savannah Marie (Savvy)
Madelyn Jean (Maddy)

Mayday31 · April 2018

Names are sooo hard for DH and I. We currently have a Theodore Thomas (nn Theo) and a Clementine Cate (Cate is for my great grandmother). Now with baby #3 we are planning on another 3 syllable first name with a middle of the same letter.
Current Favorites include
Luella Lucille (Lucille for DH grandmother) nn Lou
Juniper
Juliette

boys:
Gideon Gabriel (Gabriel is my grandfathers middle name)
Edison Edward (Edward is my fathers middle name)

Honestly none of these feel right yet. Our daughter was nameless for a week, so I’m anticipating another difficult naming experience!

kecoff01 · April 2018

I love name threads! We have our names picked out for the most part, but DH likes to change his mind often.

For a boy we like Johnathan Everett. Johnathan is my husband's name and he goes by John, so we would call the baby Everett, which is the name that I absolutely love! Everett is not DH's middle name though, but I might cheat and still make him a third.

For a girl we like Lorelei Lillian. Our last name starts with an 'L' though, so it's a LOT of L's. But I kind of love it. Lorelei is just a name that I love, although DH also likes Caroline, which I'm not a huge fan of. Lillian would be for his mom.

DD1's name is Avery Deanna. Deanna is for my maternal grandmother.

DD2's name is Callie Elizabeth. Elizabeth is my middle name, but also my paternal grandmother's name.

So I really can't win on not using my MIL's name for a baby girl's middle name since I've been using names from my family for the last two

bqtmom25 · April 2018

We'l this is our 4th and we haven't announced so I'm nervous to post previous names between the little we've discussed so far we have

Boys:
Charles
Warren
Otto
Forest

Girls:
I just realized we have none because DH refuses because he wants another boy. Oi!

We have a few lingring from our last list like
Violet
Audrey
Eva is a family name
But....most that I like a ton of people also like and I'm trying to at least avoid the top 10.

CopperBoom86 · April 2018

H and I batted around some girl names yesterday. We both like Claire. I have coppery red hair and I made him promise that if this baby is a girl and has red hair, I can name her Scarlett, so that's in the running, too. We also both like Alice, but he says it reminds him of Alice from the Brady Bunch lol.

TheSouffleGirl · April 2018

We went yooneeque on accident the first time around, so we're looking to compensate with names that register as normal but are actually not frequently heard.

DD: Freya Mae
Girl ideas: Jane, Marian

I'm currently hoping for a girl, just because I don't want to get in a fight with my husband about boy names.

He's always wanted to name his first son Peter, after his grandfather and a few literary figures, but I don't like it. However, the sheer lameness of my reason (it's too popular and too boring) makes me feel like I should cave in and respect his family sentiment. In short, I don't think we'll be crossing this bridge until we get to it...

@middleschoolmommy: I LOVE the name Tess!

I also love all @lurvleybunchococonuts's reject names and @prairiemomma82's whole family. I too am a big fan of the less-frequent traditional names, in case you can't tell.

vrj0522 · April 2018

Our kids' names are:

Tyler Ashton
Candice Leigh
Bryson Eric

If this baby's a girl my top name is Sydney, but I don't think H loves it. He agreed to it for DD and then changed his mind. When I was pregnant with DS2 he said we should go with it if DS2 was a girl but obviously that wasn't the case so now it's up in the air if he would go with it or not.

For a boy I have no clue. We had a short list when DS2 was born but I'm not sure how much I'd consider any of those names right now.

Last time I refused to talk names for awhile because I hated the drawn out process the first 2 times, but it took us no time and only a handful of discussions to decide so I might try the same thing again this time.

roehllove · April 2018

We love Arthur Cory (Husbands name) and Violet E (my maiden name) we're not finding out

Our 2nds are Walter Timothy (I love Walt) and Imogen Ann (middle name still in the works)

roehllove · April 2018

We love Violet. I think I've loved that name for 15 years! Lol

bkosy · April 2018

@nervous0220 My husband is all about the name Ivan!

runwmusic · April 2018

If we have a boy he will take my husband's name and be 'third'. Girl we decided on Mae but am struggling with middle names! What do you think of Mae Belle (loved Mabel but decided on Mae). Then I think her name would be Mae B.
Also thought about Mae Jean to use my grandmother's middle name.

lurvleybunchococonuts · April 2018

knottied4dcf41d4b26474d said:

If we have a boy he will take my husband's name and be 'third'. Girl we decided on Mae but am struggling with middle names! What do you think of Mae Belle (loved Mabel but decided on Mae). Then I think her name would be Mae B.
Also thought about Mae Jean to use my grandmother's middle name.

If you're planning on sticking around you might want to change your screen name from knottie123xyz to something we can associate you with. All the knottie's blur together.

runwmusic · April 2018

How do I change it? Sorry I am new to this app and posting on it!

offtoneverland · April 2018

@ftm_jen Looks like it worked as I see your new screen name now.

lifesabeach85 · April 2018

@ftm_jen I like Mabel or Mae Belle

middleschoolmommy · April 2018

@ftm_jen Mae Belle is cute!

therealfrizzle · April 2018

@Mayday31 One of my friends has a little girl named Clementine and is pregnant with DD2, Juniper. I think that's a great sibling combination!

We've had our names picked out since DS was a few months old. Boy will be Josiah James, nn JJ. Josiah has a Biblical meaning for DH and James is after family. Girl will be Amelia Anne, nn Ami or Molly. I have loved the name Amelia ever since Amelia Pond graced the screens of Doctor Who fans everywhere and, despite it becoming so popular, I can't shake that love. Especially if we end up with a little redheaded girl (I'm a redhead, it can happen!! FX). Anne because I want to keep the alliteration going. DS is Edward Eli (my grandfather's name and middle name to honor family). His name also has such a great meaning - protector from on high. I still need to look up the meanings of our other names.

runwmusic · April 2018

@middleschoolmommy thanks! "Maybe" I'm overthinking the initial showing as Mae B...

middleschoolmommy · April 2018

@ftm_jen I think the "maybe" part is cute as well, but apparently DH and I like to have fun with initials. DS is AKA and the plan is from this little one to be ETA

scarlettoctober · April 2018

DH won't even talk names until we find out what we're having. With DS, it still took us until 36 weeks to make a final decision!

runwmusic · April 2018

@middleschoolmommy those are great initials haha!

@scarlettoctober you can still think up names for fun until the hubby is ready to chat!

StacieandJesse · April 2018

I love Mae Belle! So beautiful.

We have an Emma Marie and an Abigail Kristine. If LO is a boy we are leaning towards Levi Douglas, if we have another girl I love Sadie Inez.

ginny_203 · April 2018

Loving all these names!!

For a girl, I love the name Bellamy - so many nickname possibilities (Bella, Ella, Belle, Amy) but husband is not really into it. He likes what I'd consider stripper names... hmm!

For boys, my husband is the second Michael in his family (different middle names) and it has caused a lot of issues for him - things got messed up between their credit histories, etc. so I'm hoping he won't do that to our child. I would love to have the middle name be Aaron after my brother who passed away at 27 from a brain tumor

scarlettoctober · April 2018

@ftm_jen Oh, I know! I have a very short list right now. I have Megan Renee, Maren Grace, Declan James, and Luke James as my top two names for each sex.

prairiemomma82 · April 2018

@PMForbie Anne (especially with an “e”!) is also a great red-head name, after Anne of Green Gables! She’s the reason I started dying my hair red at age 13 lol Two red head fandoms in one name. Perfect!

runwmusic · April 2018

@ginny_203 that is very sweet to include your brothers name. My husband is very traditional and doesn't go for anything too unique either.

@scarlettoctober I love Luke James!

therealfrizzle · April 2018

@praireiemomma82 I never even thought of that! I've never read (or watched) Anne of Green Gables. I need to.

rmg85 · April 2018

Husband and I are set on our first choices for both boy or a girl:

Orin Royce for a boy
Odette Jacqueline for a girl

Not that it was a determining factor but our last name ends in a G so baby's initials will be OG hehe

Our second choices are:
Heath William for a boy
Evangeline Marie for a girl

firsttimespartanmom · April 2018

@rmg85 I think Evangeline is adorable!

We keep changing our mind on girl names. Currently our top two are:
Sloane Isabel
Brynn Gabrielle

boys are still Lucas James or Max James.

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