@catem07 and @pirateduck that's kind of what I was thinking. But honestly, my name is mispronounced ALL THE TIME and while it's sometimes annoying, it's not that bad. We did consider Mya too, so we'll see what we decide.
Today is day 2 back with students after break, and they have already suggested the names Trevyr (my husband's name is Trevor and they were trying to feminize it) and Britneigh (with that spelling).
Ahh guys send help. I think MH and I agreed on a first name, but he's being a PITA about a middle name. The best one he's suggested so far is Brady, which sounds good and works well with the first name we picked and our last name, buuuuut the issue is we live in New England, where it's super common right now because of Tom Brady, so people will inevitably ask me if it's after him, which it's not, because........ it's our former dog's name. So that's a no-go, obviously, but it's the best of the names he has come up with so far, and I told him he could (mostly) pick the middle name this time around.
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@mamaj1220 hahaha, we're Pats fans too. My point is that people will assume it's after Tom Brady, which would be less embarrassing than the fact that it would actually be after our late dog. MH and that dog had a bond like no other two living creatures have ever had or ever will have. But I'm not naming my kid after the dog. @pirateduck We really want to use a family name that has meaning to it. His two ideas were Francis and Brady. Francis was his grandfather, who I never met, and I also had a huuuuge drawn out harassment case with a coworker named Francis (as did 8 other women) at my last company, and so I just can't bear using it as a middle name.
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@soprano19 I immediately pictured a horse after reading “Britneigh” 😬
So much this, and a stuck up nasty tempered mare at that!
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Now that we found out baby is a girl I really don’t know what to name her? We have a couple names we are considering but I wouldn’t say I love them. I love DD1’s name, Arabella, and I am hoping to find a name I love just as much. I would love to hear any suggestions. I am trying to stay away from another A first initial and tend to prefer names that are feminine and elegant. We also have a lot of Spanish speakers in our family so it would be nice to find a name that also sounds pretty in Spanish.
@pb0801 what about names like Camilla, Celia, Carmella, etc. there are a bunch with that sound. That’s just what came to mind based on what you said. We’ve been hitting the girls names in the book pretty heavy lately. We’ve got a bunch we both think are ok, but aren’t in love with any yet either.
@pirateduck thanks for the suggestions. Camila is actually one of the names we have been considering. I also like Catalina but not sure if I am completely sold yet. We need to start hitting some baby name books soon! I have mostly been looking on list online and just downloaded an app.
We haven't thought about names much until we found out we will be having a girl and, after just a few minutes of thinking of great people in our family, we got stuck on *Anita*. And I feel we are so stuck on it that, even though we are declaring out loud to everyone that we are still considering other options, deep down we are quite certain this will be it...
Again with the names I have yet to tell my husband, but I think I decided baby girl's middle name is going to be Theodora. My grandfather and uncle were/are Theodore, and this is the feminine version, additionally my husband's grandmother was Dora, so it combines the names of our late grandparents as well.
@momma2oneofeach37 we keep looking at Greek names too, but I haven't been thrilled with most of them. My latest, Theodora, I believe is Greek as well, though that's not how I ended there. I'm not sure we've looked at Viking names, maybe that is next... hmm...
Boy or girl? Boy here we have Tadhg, Bjorn, Aric, Aros and Olin on the list. But I think Torin is a front runner at the moment. I also love Tate/Tait, Gage and Dax. I tend to go for the irish/Gaelic names.
We are tentatively thinking Emilia Rhiannon (nn Emmy) and Tzipporah Adalia (nn Tess), but I really don't feel like I can name them for certain until they're here. DH is okay with that but really wants to have a "default" so we're not just staring at them going "uhhhhh..." for like a week.
We had a really hard time naming DD and didn’t settle on Eleanor until after she was a few hours old, so I knew we would struggle to name another girl. DH hates pretty much everything. We got a baby name app where you can swipe names, and after 20mins or so he had over 700 ruled out and maybe 5 possible okay names. The only name we really have agreed upon is Amelia, and while we both like it, I just wish it were a little less popular. Because DS also has an E name, everyone asks if we will go with another E name, but I never really meant for it to be a theme and don’t really want to do another E
@louessbee how do you pronounce those names? And where are they from? And I totally agree with going in with a couple choices “just in case” haha your never know how you’ll feel after the babies have exited! 😄
For those of you worried about name popularity it is nothing like it was for us 80s babies. You can go to the social security site and look up your state and a year. It gives you the top 100 names and how many babies were named that. So for example my state in 1988 the top boy name was Michael with 1,113 and Ashley with 1,062. In 2016 when my daughter was born the top names were Oliver (331) and Olivia (349). You can see by the numbers that the popular name is nothing like it was when we were kids and there were 5 Ashleys in your class.
@m6agua Hah that's a really great point. I was born in 88 in NJ. 1485 Jessicas. In 2018 the most popular name was Emma but there were only 500. Would be interesting to know how many total births for each year (which I'm sure I could find and probably will look for later)
DD #1: April 2017 DD #2: May 2020 Baby #3: EDD May 2023; MC October 2022
We had two Siobans in my high school. One spelled Sioban and the other Shivahn if it wasn't for those two I would have no idea how to pronounce it either.
@shamrocandroll MH wants to name baby after his dog as well.
We are team green and we toss names back and forth while we drive to appointments. We were lucky DD was a girl because we had a girl name we were certain of. 6 months prior to her birth my cousin had a boy and took the name we were certain of for a boy so then we got lost on boy names.
We don't share our names with anyone especially family because they are so judgmental and I find once the baby is here and named they won't say anything.
Girl names we're tossing around: MH loves Emma - I don't because it's so popular right now and his father had a french maid statue that he called Emma and I don't like naming our daughter after that.
We both like Maggie - We'd name her Magnolia, but MH is concerned we will have a Maddie and a Maggie - I like Magnolia because it's the tree that my grandmother had in her front yard and we played on it as a kid it reminds me so much of her - For middle names I liked Magnolia Marie (My middle name is Marie and so are many of my cousins because it's my greatgrandmothers name) but MH just informed me he wants Marie because it's his mothers middle name (legally she has no middle name, but he said she picked this for herself at some point?) and I don't want to name my child after his mother. MH threw out the middle name Ruth in honor of my grandmother also my favorite cousin is also named Ruth but I feel greedy naming baby Magnolia Ruth when for me both names honor my grandmother.
Boy Names:
Russell will be the middle name after FIL who passed 5 years ago, MHs middle name is his paternal grandfather, and FILs middle name is his paternal grandfather so he wants to do the same.
DD was going to be Finnian (Finn) Russell if she was a boy, MH still likes this but is leaning away from Finnian but really likes Finn, I don't like names that don't have a long name for the nickname so I suggested another form for Finn but he didn't like any of those.
Lukas (Luke) Russell - After our (my husbands) dog we had to put him down when DD was 8 weeks old and it absolutely destroyed MH. He's a little weary on the name though because he's thinking he might want to name another dog the same thing.
Theodore (Theo) - MH just likes it
Archibald (Archer) - His family tree started with an Archibald coming over from Ireland and many generations after had the name. I think it's pretty cool but MH thinks that people will call him Archie and he doesn't like that.
Anyone have any suggestions for longer girl names that can be broken up? I really like names like Annabelle (husband doesn't like this one). I like the versatility in that she can go by her full name or Anna or Belle.
We're pretty stuck on Gwendolyn right now but I am not completely sold. I again like the go by her full name or Gwen or Lynn.
Right now I think our top three are Diego, Isaiah, and Asher. The middle name will be Rosario (after my grandfather). I'm all in on Diego but our last name ends in an 'o' so I feel like triple 'o' sound it a lot to handle. DS has a strong Hebrew name and I really like Asher to stick with another Hebrew name, but I'm not 100% sold - think Asher is MHs favorite right now
@jhysmath my mom has the middle name Ann that she apparently gave herself at some point as well. I'm not 100% clear on this, but I think it had something to do with being raised Catholic (I was not, so again, not totally clear) and taking the name of a saint as a middle name at catechism.
@mokay19 For Tzipporah, it's like the start of 'tsar' or 'czar' - a Z sound with a soft S. Tzipporah is Hebrew, it's a biblical name. Emilia is like Emily but a different ending. Adalia like 'a-day-lee-uh', and Rhiannon like 'rhee-ann-non' (I'm bad at phonetic spelling, sorry).
DH wanted the girls to be Emmy and Ada (for Emmy Noether and Ada Lovelace, important scientists). I wanted at least one biblical name because that's a thing in DH's family, and Rhiannon is a nod to my love of Fleetwood Mac. We basically each get a first and a middle name in this scenario.
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Married Sept. 2013
DS1: Nov 11, 2016
MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
BFP! 8/24/19
DS2: May 10, 2020
Married Sept. 2013
DS1: Nov 11, 2016
MMC: 11/16/18 (9w6d)
CP: 2/3/19 (5w3d)
BFP! 8/24/19
DS2: May 10, 2020
Raven
We don't have any personal associations with the name, so that's a start.
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Married 7/18/15
1st born at 35+4 on 6/6/16
Team green turned BLUE!
2nd born at 38+6 on 8/30/18
Team green turned PINK!
Due with #3 on 6/6/20 Team Green
And I feel we are so stuck on it that, even though we are declaring out loud to everyone that we are still considering other options, deep down we are quite certain this will be it...
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Baby #3: EDD May 2023; MC October 2022
We had two Siobans in my high school. One spelled Sioban and the other Shivahn if it wasn't for those two I would have no idea how to pronounce it either.
@shamrocandroll MH wants to name baby after his dog as well.
We are team green and we toss names back and forth while we drive to appointments. We were lucky DD was a girl because we had a girl name we were certain of. 6 months prior to her birth my cousin had a boy and took the name we were certain of for a boy so then we got lost on boy names.
We don't share our names with anyone especially family because they are so judgmental and I find once the baby is here and named they won't say anything.
Girl names we're tossing around:
MH loves Emma - I don't because it's so popular right now and his father had a french maid statue that he called Emma and I don't like naming our daughter after that.
We both like Maggie - We'd name her Magnolia, but MH is concerned we will have a Maddie and a Maggie - I like Magnolia because it's the tree that my grandmother had in her front yard and we played on it as a kid it reminds me so much of her - For middle names I liked Magnolia Marie (My middle name is Marie and so are many of my cousins because it's my greatgrandmothers name) but MH just informed me he wants Marie because it's his mothers middle name (legally she has no middle name, but he said she picked this for herself at some point?) and I don't want to name my child after his mother. MH threw out the middle name Ruth in honor of my grandmother also my favorite cousin is also named Ruth but I feel greedy naming baby Magnolia Ruth when for me both names honor my grandmother.
Boy Names:
Russell will be the middle name after FIL who passed 5 years ago, MHs middle name is his paternal grandfather, and FILs middle name is his paternal grandfather so he wants to do the same.
DD was going to be Finnian (Finn) Russell if she was a boy, MH still likes this but is leaning away from Finnian but really likes Finn, I don't like names that don't have a long name for the nickname so I suggested another form for Finn but he didn't like any of those.
Lukas (Luke) Russell - After our (my husbands) dog we had to put him down when DD was 8 weeks old and it absolutely destroyed MH. He's a little weary on the name though because he's thinking he might want to name another dog the same thing.
Theodore (Theo) - MH just likes it
Archibald (Archer) - His family tree started with an Archibald coming over from Ireland and many generations after had the name. I think it's pretty cool but MH thinks that people will call him Archie and he doesn't like that.
We're pretty stuck on Gwendolyn right now but I am not completely sold. I again like the go by her full name or Gwen or Lynn.
Jacquelyn --- Jackie or Lynn
Elizabeth ---- Eliza, Liz, or Beth
Annmarie
Gabrielle - Gabby, Bri, or Birelle
Vada Thais. Thais pronounced Th-ay-is
DH wanted the girls to be Emmy and Ada (for Emmy Noether and Ada Lovelace, important scientists). I wanted at least one biblical name because that's a thing in DH's family, and Rhiannon is a nod to my love of Fleetwood Mac. We basically each get a first and a middle name in this scenario.