Baby Names

thescarletmom · July 24

I know it's early, but if you're like us, me and my husband will probably need the full nine months to name this baby! What names are you loving, names you love but won't use, need advice or polls? Let's go!

fifilala516 · July 24

We pretty much have settled on a girls' name - but we cannot agree on a boy's name. This happened with my daughter too, so she was lucky she's a girl because otherwise we'd still be trying to name a boy.

lizdiane456 · July 24

For boys we have Cody and Kacey
For girls I really love Audrey but DH doesn't like it

thescarletmom · July 24

We have two sons and a daughter, and we have a lot of naming "rules" for ourselves (though we broke several naming our daughter lol) and it makes it haaaard chosing a 4th baby's name when we feel like we've run through a lot of our material lol. The rules are basically, we won't repeat the first name initial for the kids (we already have a J, E, and V), DH doesn't love long names because our last name is long, and we generally speaking won't pick a top 100 name because DH hated having 3 kids with his name in his class at school (so sorry daughter, who's name is like 17th for last year). We also have two kids who's names are sort of the same nature-y vibe but in different ways - so we can't do another naturey name. We want the names to flow together but not too matchy... I know, we make things hard for ourselves. Names I love but we won't use because of ✨️rules✨️ are Juniper, Laurel, Ivy, Olivia, Henry, Beau, Will, Riley. I love Ambrose for a boy, but when we were choosing names for baby #3, DH only liked it as a middle name. I'm crossing my fingers he changes his mind if this baby is DS3! I also love Adeline for a girl but apparently DH says the very-popular-on-tiktok dark romance book has ruined the name for him.

lizdiane456 · July 24

@thescarletmom as someone who works with babies, can confirm Adeline (and all variations Adaline, Adelynn, Adalaide, etc) is very, very popular right now. Has been for the last 3-4 years. I also love it as a girl name though

thescarletmom · July 24

@lizdiane456 ugh I know it! And we already gave our daughter the 16th most popular name the year she was born. We just both couldn't get over loving it, and since we had never met anyone with the name personally we went for it. But DH will not let another extremely popular name happen in this household 😂 for reference our other two children have the 209th and 158th most popular in their respective years. Hopefully Ambrose being the 741st most popular last year will be enough to convince DH. He lives and dies by the SSA baby name popularity lists when we're naming babies.

fifilala516 · July 24

@thescarletmom I love the name Beau but my husband…does not.

thescarletmom · July 24

@fifilala516 sigh. Same. My husband and I have mostly very different taste in names and it can be very frustrating.

emeraldcity603 · July 25

My husband won’t discuss names until we are weeks from the birth. One of our kids didn’t have a middle name until after he was born. I have a hard time naming a boy but I have several girl names I love.

knottie6f55c2cdcd00affa · July 28

Can’t use it, but I’ve always loved the name Elio. It just sounds so warm and bright to me.

beachmama14 · August 4

We already know this baby is a boy. Boys in our family all have J names. My husband and son have J names, as well as his 2 brothers and dad. With that many, all the ones I like are already used up! l I want to give the baby a J middle name and use a different letter first name. Husband isn't on board yet but Im hoping he will come around lol

emeraldcity603 · August 4

@beachmama14 that’s very limiting. Boy names are already so hard, I couldn’t imagine being tied down to names with a specific letter. Hopefully you can get hubby on board. I think your idea is a great compromise.

thescarletmom · August 4

@beachmama14 We have a bunch of J names that we love, and can't use because our oldest's name starts with J and we don't want to reuse first initials. Hopefully he comes around! I agree that it's a good compromise, and I personally don't like to be held to naming regulations created by other people (your ILs in this case).

knottie210c943f9d078bc9 · August 4

I love talking baby names! Some I love but won’t use: Hazel, Jude, and Arlo. Either taken by friends or don’t flow with our last name.

fifilala516 · August 4

I knew I wanted an M name for my first child after my grandfather. This time we’re looking at B and R for our grandmothers, but will probably do that as a middle name this time so we don’t limit ourselves.

thescarletmom · August 4

I don't know if any of the nerdy moms will know what I'm talking about, but my husband keeps trying to convince me to name the baby after a Magic the Gathering character if it's a girl 🙄 he's been weirdly non-commital about any name I suggest so far this time so I'm nervous what this means for our baby naming adventure.

bdl4349 · August 5

My first sons name is Beau! Its a great name ❤️

robinj716 · August 5

I’ve always like the name Sophia for a girl. This time I chose Lexi or Alexis for a girl. Lo and behold it’s another boy 😆 which is always hard names for me. I have a Jacob and an Isaac. My spouse likes Eli. I like Eli also, but my friends son is Eli and my cousin has an Eli too. My spouse doesn’t care, he says we like the name and it doesn’t matter who else has an Eli. I liked the name Mateo, but he quickly said no. So now he’s saying it’s probably Eli and I just don’t know how I feel since others close to me have an Eli! I don’t want them to be offended.

thescarletmom · August 5

@robinj716 he can't just veto your names because he's stuck on his pick! If you are pretty close with your friend and cousin, I personally wouldn't re-use the name, not because it would be offensive but because I've never met anyone who *likes* sharing a name with someone else, especially if they see them often. It can also be confusing yelling at two different Elis in the same room lol. I definitely agree that boys names can be so hard. But this time around I'm pretty confident on a boy name and have nothing for a girl! So it's definitely going to be a girl now 😂

robinj716 · August 6

Luckily my cousin is in Germany and my best friend I see maybe 7 times a year. I told him “you’re going to have to come up with something else to get stuck on” but I know I’ll be back here announcing the birth of “Eli” because he will get his way. I’m going to keep making a list of names though.

fifilala516 · August 6

@robinj716 I love the names Jacob, Isaac, and Eli!

thescarletmom · November 18

Help 🫠 we have a name conundrum to sort out. DH *really* wants the name Luna. I don't dislike it, but I have two issues with it. 1. I feel like the name has the strongest vibes of possibly any name ever. Like when I hear the name, it practically comes pre-ordained with a whole personality in my mind and it just feels so specific and I'm afraid of her being born and not looking like a Luna? And 2. I feel like it does not go AT ALL with our other kids names. I had a friend agree with me (without knowing which was my opinion) but also has very different taste in names than I do. I might just post my older kids names to get some opinions and delete it later, because I'm very torn. DH also agreed to let me choose any middle name I want if I agreed to Luna lol but the name I really love is Ruby, and I feel like Luna Ruby is off with the double U sounds.

lizdiane456 · November 18

@thescarletmom I agree Luna has strong "vibes", definitely a you-have-to-meet-them name maybe to have in your back pocket for the hospital but not to be set on just in case. We had to switch my son's name in the hospital from what we had planned because it just didn't suit him at all. My personal opinion on the sibling names going together -and this might be a hot take, I don't know- is that it really doesn't matter. They are their own people and have a whole lifetime as individuals vs a handful of years being introduced together. I do agree that Luna Ruby doesn't really go together but it's not bad by any means.

thescarletmom · November 18

@lizdiane456 I definitely agree as far as the kids individually! It's not something that they're likely to care about. And I do think if we only wanted 2 kids, "going together" is something I wouldn't care about as much. But with our bigger bunch, it feels more noticeable when only one stands out. And I personally am going to be talking about my children as a group, to friends, coworkers, chatting generally, for the rest of my life! I just would like them to mesh well when I will be talking about it.

I do think I'm going to tell DH we can have Luna as an initial name, but need a back up in case it doesn't fit. His worry is that if we leave it up to the day she's born, neither will fit? And I get that, I would probably overthink it too in the pressure of the moment. How did it feel for you guys to switch gears at the hospital?? Did it seem there was a "right" answer?

lizdiane456 · November 18

@thescarletmom it wasn't too much pressure I wouldn't say, he just came out and we both were like...oh nope that doesn't feel right at all. We had a few backup names and one of them just felt right for him

RoseShadow873 · November 20

@thescarletmom I agree with others that sibling names don't have to go together really. I named all my kids whatever we liked and I don't think they necessarily match or anything in any way. I don't think Luna Ruby sounds bad really either. And how often do you even use a middle name? I have never fully decided a name until after the birth so I think it totally makes sense to meet them first.

crizz13 · November 21

It may sound silly, but ChatGPT has been my best friend for naming this baby. I gave it my other kids’ names and the middle name we are going to use (it’s a family name) and it gave me such good options!! I also asked it to compare some names that I was debating and it gave solid advice.

RoseShadow873 · November 25

I'm struggling with the baby name dilemma. Do you think Zoe is just too popular? I get the idea between the two spellings it might seem popular to the point of boring but I don't know. We also like Alice but that seems maybe too vanilla and also a bit popular. Then we like Imogen, which is like totally unheard of practically in the US and I'm worried that is too weird! Also I like Cecilia but DH is a little less keen on that one. Thoughts anyone on Zoe vs Alice vs Imogen?

midnightatsunset · November 25

I feel like some more vintage-y names like Alice are coming back in style and personally I think it's a cute girls name (though I wouldn't personally see myself using it). My gut reaction to Zoe is it seems more like a Millennial name, your little girl might not meet other girls named Zoe that are her age. Imogen certainly seems more unique out of the mix, but that might count as a vintage style name that is coming back in style. Just my thoughts

emeraldcity603 · November 26

@RoseShadow873 I love Alice. It would have been this baby’s name had he been a girl. It’s been on my list of names for a very long time.

lizdiane456 · November 26

@RoseShadow873 Alice was on our list, I love it and my husband's grandma is Alice and she is the biggest sweetheart. She asked though if we were going to name the baby for her if we would consider "Elisa" which is/was her real name, when she immigrated as a small child immigration changed it. Which was a crazy lore drop because she never gone by anything but Alice except I guess to her mom. Anyway if it makes you feel better, in my neck of the woods at least I have not seen many baby Alices recently. Lots of Lily, Liliana, Lillian, Lily Anne, etc

emeraldcity603 · November 26

@lizdiane456 I would use both of those names. They are very pretty.

lizdiane456 · November 26

@emeraldcity603 we have so many names, we gotta start narrowing down. Elisa, Audrey, Sierra, Rosalie, and Pipper we all like. With either Adalie or Grace as a middle name.

emeraldcity603 · November 27

As of right this baby isn’t going to have a name. I like Nolan but DH likes Isaiah. My in-laws adopted a dog named Isaiah and I refuse to name our child after the dog. 🙄 I also like Patrick, Neil, and Marcus. We have very different ideas on what to name this baby. He may be born before anything is decided.

winniebobinnie · December 1

I had a 'tester' list of names that I bounced off of my mom to see what the general reaction would be. So glad I did. We nixed all of those names and, bonus, my mom now thinks it's one of those original names. Keeping it a surprise until he's born.

Original list:
- Arthur
- Jeremy
- Ross
- Dean
- Jacob

emeraldcity603 · December 1

We may have decided on the first name Ethan. Which is so far off of what I was originally thinking. I have always struggled naming boys but this time has been really rough.

midnightatsunset · December 1

@emeraldcity603 Ethan is a nice name! It's on our list as well

emeraldcity603 · December 2

@winniebobinnie My mom has always been super negatively vocal about baby names and even trying to tell me that I should name my daughter after her instead of my beloved grandmother. With my first, she convinced me that my name choice was horrible and pressured me to name my son the name she chose. Then my second child (12 years later) she told me she hated the name I picked and when I named her that she tried to call her something else. Luckily it never stuck but the audacity of the situation was unnerving. So we keep all of our name choices secret. I do share with my best friend because I couldn’t keep anything from her, she is like my sister. I told my mom our short list for the 3rd baby and she hated them all. No pleasing her.

On another note, my BIL and SIL were having a baby around the same time as me and DH and they were telling us the name they picked out. Then they asked what ours was and I told him we don’t share names until the baby is born and he got super mad. 😬😅

thescarletmom · December 2

@emeraldcity603 wow, that is such a bummer. We don't share names anymore either, and my mom always acts so odd about trying to "help" us... we have never once asked for any family's help or opinions on names. She has suggested the exact same girl name for all of our kids (before we knew our boys were boys), even though she knows I won't use it because we won't reuse first initials and our oldest's name starts with the same letter. I tell her this every time and every time she acts confused and alarmed and like I've wounded her personally. When I was pregnant with either our 2nd or 3rd, she texted me like 3 or 4 names in a row, and when I said we were okay and didn't need any help, we had already chosen our name, she threw a very big tantrum. Then the other night she called me in the middle of bedtime with the kids, and I ignored it because I assumed it was about what she wanted to bring to Thanksgiving dinner. No, just a 10 second voicemail telling us to "consider this really unique name she just heard"... and then proceeded to say a name that was literally just an ugly mash up of multiple names (don't want to say it and hurt anyone's feelings though just in case 😅 ).

midnightatsunset · December 2

what is it with these women trying to get hyper-involved as if it's their baby?!? That's awful and I am so sorry you have to go through that @thescarletmom @emeraldcity603

fifilala516 · December 2

We have told some people our name to mainly positive reactions (a few eyebrows raised). Luckily it’s not their baby.

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