👶🏻👶🏼 Baby Names 👶🏾👶🏿

excitedlyexpecting · January 2022

Does anyone already have names picked out for both genders? Thought this would be a fun place for inspiration and feedback if requested (like deciding between two names).

kboydbowman · January 2022

Nope not yet. Won't until second trimester at some point

theblondebump · January 2022

Yep, we do. We use family names so we’re all good to go.

If it’s a boy it will be Michael Owen (Michael for my DH, Owen for my late father). If it’s a girl, her name will be Lily and still figuring out middle name but possibly Grace. Our first daughter is named after my paternal grandmother and if we have a second girl, she will be named after my maternal grandmother.

magnolia209 · January 2022

We will find out the gender at 12ish weeks. Last time we said, ok, we have months and months to pick a name. But the moment we found out we were having a boy, we couldn’t help brainstorming! Ok. I discovered I hate all names. Definitely the only good boy names are my husband’s name and my son’s name. There are no more. And there are clearly no good girl names. That’s my feeling right now. Although my husband’s grandmother had a very interesting name that I’d want to consider if we have a girl. My husband’s father passed 2 years ago and if we had a boy I’d like to honor him. But he had THE STRANGEST name ever! I don’t know how we’d pull that off. But, we’re not thinking about it for real until we find out.

jhysmath · January 2022

@magnolia209 I hate all names too. My husband and I are both teachers so it makes it extra hard. We already started brainstorming. We'll use the boy name we've had picked out for awhile now, but a girl name we both can't agree. Hopefully we get a boy and it makes things easier, but because we're team green, we will have to figure out a girl name we like eventually.

kboydbowman · January 2022

I like a lot of names, but what the boy person likes tends to be completely different from what I like...since they will have my last name, what we agreed on last time is that the "initials" are his - since he is Christopher Joshua, our last one was Clementine Justice. We'll probably do that this time, too.

beccaneu · January 2022

@magnolia209. I also struggle with hating all names! We named my son after my late father which made things a lot easier but I have no clue what to do now when it comes to names.

jhysmath · January 2022

@kboydbowman I really like that idea for naming. It helps focus in on names and gives him part of the name too.

whitta1015 · January 2022

@kboydbowman Aw I love that idea.

I'll save myself the sanity and just figure out a name once we know the gender. DH hates all boy names so we are gonna struggle if it's a boy. My little girl now is Liza Carlysle (DH's middle name is Carlysle and that was also his grandaddy's first name).

trapperkeeper87 · January 2022

Team green this time around, just like last time. We looked at names ahead of time, but wanted to see the baby first. Nearly 40 hours after her birth, we finally landed on one that fit her, and it wasn't one either of us considered (though the middle name was my mom's middle name, which was the plan). Turns out it actually has the same meaning of my late mom's name, which we didn't discover until a month later. I like to think it was my mom's way of saying, "I'm here." 🥰

mokay19 · January 2022

I have the problem that I *like* a lot of names, but love about 2… which my kids are named haha. So I’m at ZERO options right now. Hopefully in 9 months that’ll change!

But I need DH to think better. He just always says “give me a list and I’ll veto what I don’t like.” And I say “how bout we just both make lists?” 🙄

kboydbowman · January 2022

@mokay19 the boy person does exactly the same thing. I make the list, he says "no" to nearly everything lol

jhysmath · January 2022

@mokay19 my husband has names he really likes, but I hate them so it's not helpful. I'd much rather him look at my list and pick one from it.

maple1422 · January 2022

We're pretty well set on names. I decided this one's a girl. We all three are hoping for a girl - Reagan Pearl. There are two contenders for a boy right now. Clayton and Zig. Both have meaning to us. Clayton is easy to find a middle name for. Middle names we like are Lee, Ronald, and Glynn; these are all family names as wwell. Zig is a bit trickier.

laj0217 · January 2022

Each of our families has a traditional middle name for the oldest boy/girl. We agreed on Vada Anne for a girl, but it turns out we both hate all boy names lol. Considering Augustus after my grandfather, but I don’t like Auggie as a nickname and my husband does. I prefer Gus. Also thinking of Beckett, Beck for short, or Ephraim with Remy for short. Middle name for a boy would be Lee. Just hoping on the name front that we’re having a girl - so much easier😂

jamiesc58 · January 2022

Boy names were much harder for me than girl names with my kids. I have a secret list on my phone for now that I will share once we find out the gender.

magnolia209 · January 2022

@leannechristina Aww. My middle name is Pearl. It’s a great middle name! If you have a girl, tell her that a fun game is to ask people to guess her middle name that starts with P. No one has ever ever ever guessed mine!

@laj0217 My good friend’s little boy is August and goes by Gus! It’s a great name and not overly common.

mokay19 · January 2022

do people want this to be pinned at the top for quick reference all pregnancy?

kboydbowman · January 2022

I don't think it needs to be, but it can be if other people want it to be.

alimunder · January 2022

So funny you are may be choosing Zig! My husband is German, and wants to incorporate some sort of German name into our family. Sigfried/Sigmund are two names that often get shortened to Ziggy in Germany, so we now may be using that as our go to boy name! Ziggy Grey will most likely be his name if it’s a boy!

channas20 · January 2022

@jhysmath I feel you! I'm an elementary school principal and my husband is a (former) HS chemistry teacher. Every name has been ruined or taken by some child already.

kibeth84791 · January 2022

For a girl we have these first and middle names:
Lillian Alexandra
Freya Elise
Selene Astriel
Autumn Aster
Luna Lux (this one is mostly the husband)
Stella Theia

Boy names were harder but we have:
Lucien Alistair
Herschel Silas
Joseph Garand
Jack Octavian
Carter Orion
Oberon Atlas
Ignis Altair.

Not sold on any one name but Freya Elise and Lillian Alexandra at the moment but that’s our list.

knottie169a3f5ff9a2a516 · January 2022

Boy: Tom Marshall or Marshall Tom (My husband grandfather and my great grandfather)

Girl: Irene Mavis (Both our grandmothers and I just thought Mavis was old school pretty).

knottie169a3f5ff9a2a516 · January 2022

laj0217 said:

Each of our families has a traditional middle name for the oldest boy/girl. We agreed on Vada Anne for a girl, but it turns out we both hate all boy names lol. Considering Augustus after my grandfather, but I don’t like Auggie as a nickname and my husband does. I prefer Gus. Also thinking of Beckett, Beck for short, or Ephraim with Remy for short. Middle name for a boy would be Lee. Just hoping on the name front that we’re having a girl - so much easier😂

I don't know if this will help any for an idea, but before my husband and I agreed on our names, we were going to use Briggs as one. Since you're leaning towards the B's, it could also be a good optional middle or first name.

laj0217 · January 2022

I do like Briggs, but my cousin used it with her last one! I have 25 first cousins and most have kids now, so we might need to get over “reusing” a name lol

lucyg00cy · January 2022

We have a girls first name picked out, but are struggling to agree on a name for a boy. My boyfriend wants to name them after him as a “Jr” but I honestly hate the whole “Jr” thing and always have. I feel like they will already be taking his last name so I should be able to have a say in the first name. Middle name I care less about so he can pick that for both genders. I love him but I don’t want an Anthony Jr running around, even a nickname like “AJ” for that would kill me. Reminds me of a boy band 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

jhysmath · January 2022

@lucyg00cy the number one reason why I hate Jr is because it means MIL picked the name. Now if it was a 4th or long tradition, maybe that wouldn't be as bad.

Amphibious22 · January 2022

We already have our girl name we didn't use for our son: Juniper Raye.

For a boy, I'm liking Owen Wilder or Nathan Thaddeus. It's still in flux though. I like to have the name picked out early, like by the time I find out the sex, but that still gives me a few months to commit.

lucyg00cy · January 2022

@jhysmath LOL also true. This would be the first junior and he wasn’t even named after any family member previously so the hunt for a boy name continues!!

jamiesc58 · January 2022

@Amphibious22 I love Juniper! 😍

mamamoomoo12 · January 2022

We have our top names for each gender. (Although I have a strong feeling it’s a boy). My husbands family has the tradition of two middle names and we have chosen to keep middle names family names.

For a girl we would go with Honey Bea (short for Barbra) Hudson or Honey Hudson Marie. Hudson is my maiden name.

For a boy we are set on Wyoming Timothy James. We would call him Wylie which is my best friends middle name. 😊

magnolia209 · January 2022

@mamamoomoo12 I mean, how can you resist Honey Bea Hudson? That’s so freaking cute!

wiseh · January 2022

We’re team green again. We already decided if it’s a boy we’ll use the same name we had picked out if our daughter had of been a girl. If it’s a girl we will go with a traditional Irish name

mamamoomoo12 · January 2022

@magnolia209 Thank you! We have been stuck on the name Honey for years!

costaricamom · February 2022

I have a list of names I like that I’ll share with my husband once we know gender. I’m sure if I share now he won’t like any of them 🤣 That said, I’m struggling with name association because one of my top girl names was the name of my paternal grandmother whom I didn’t have a great relationship with. I can’t help but think my family would all assume I was honoring her.

esspeluso · February 2022

Liam Rudolph for a boy, Ava Marie for a girl (My bfs dads name was Rudolph, my grandmas name was Marie).

aopfer · February 2022

Lillian Alexandra sounds great!

mokay19 · February 2022

I know my name style preferences when I find myself googling “popular baby names from the 1910’s” 😂

costaricamom · February 2022

@leannechristina Zig is my first choice boy name also and I’ve never heard anyone else consider it! My husband and I are both big Glenn Danzig fans.

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