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Baby Names
Happy Friday ladies!!!
Casey & I are really getting down to the wire with the baby stuff, and we realized we don't have a girl name picked out. We're *pretty* sure its a little lady in my belly, but since we've had 3 inconclusive ultrasounds, we're not committing to either gender. We have a boy name, but we cannot FOR THE LIFE OF US find a girls name that we both love.
Soooo how did you choose a name? Did you use a book, website, family name, etc? Any recommendations would be hugely appreciated. I'm on day two of name research, and have had zero luck so far.
Re: Baby Names
Not that I'm much help, my son is named after my husband BUT before we knew if he was a boy or girl we discussed lots of names. We knew we wanted to choose a middle name that was a family name so that was easy. We looked through books and wrote down all of the girl names we both liked and then matched them with family middle names to see what flowed well with our last name. We never really settled on one we both loved and then we found out we were having a boy so we were saved!
Good luck, it's a big decision!
We have the opposite problem. We know what our girls name will be, even middle name but no clue what to name a boy.
I first wrote down all the names of my aunts, cousins, friends, friends kids to make sure no one else had our name. Like I can?t name our kid Anthony, Christopher, or Michael since we have like 6 of them in our family, well mine. In the end, our girls name make sense, DH actually helped picked it out but we are lost when it comes to a boy.
I would look online and see what you like and what flows.
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girls were easy for us.
Boys on the other hand , we went on name sites and I would read off an entire list and DH would say No, no, no, no. no. no. etc and there would be a maybe in there and I'd write it down.
Needless to say we only have 2 names we agreed on so we can't have any more boys than that!
I have never named any of my pets I couldn't come up with a "good name" so other people usually named them. The idea of naming our child was sooo daunting!
We used family names for middle names. We both looked through books and a few online websites for inspiration. I had a girls name picked out but it was a lot harder to pick a boy name. We were even watching scrolling movie credits to see if a name popped out (not just actors but also among the stunts/extras/makeup/etc). We picked our names about a month before we found out what we were having and never looked back. I have to give hubby the credit on finding A's name though and suggesting it, I liked it as soon as I heard it and flowed well with the middle name we had and our last name, so it worked. And now that he's here, it's "his" name. (even if it is one of the more popular names nowadays).
I do have a couple friends who have been pregnant that didn't know what their babies name was going to be until they were in the hospital having them but they did have lists of possibles at the time.
Good luck!
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we looked at a ton of different name books. but in the end, i've been in love with dominic since i saw kindergarten cop since it came out in like 1990. don liked it too, and we couldn't agree on anything else. we had a huge issue with boy names and if this one's a boy we are pretty much screwed. we've had a girl name picked out for a long time but i doubt i'll ever be able to use it!!
we also didn't officially name him dominic until i saw him. we had a few names in our minds but dominic was our favorite. i was so worried he wasn't going to look like a dominic i didn't want to name him till he was here. i think it fits him perfectly.
Our girl name was by far the hardest decision. I got to pick the boy name, and DH got the girl name - as long as the other agreed to it of course!
We don't like common names, or pretty much anything anywhere close to the top 100 names list. The two of us would sit down and search baby name sites on our own computers, suggesting names as we went. We came up with a handful of names we both really liked. Our of nowhere, my brother suggested a name which ended up fitting every one of our requirements. So on the list it went.
Then DH spent a lot of time playing with the different options, nicknames, and ultimately decided on the name he couldn't live without. It was my favourite on the list too. It ended up being the name my brother suggested
So her Uncle actually named her in that sense!
I guess my suggestion is to look everywhere you can think. Books, the web, but don't just think of names there. Think back to favourite books/movies etc for inspiration. Family names are a great way to honour someone - or think of a different way to honour a family member (we're honouring my Dad with the astronomy middle names). One of the names on our list was actually the name my Mum wanted for me (but Dad hated).
You have plenty of time to pick something out!
for Boys I've had my heart set since jr high. luckily my hubby loves the name so I let him pick the middle name. Girls were much harder for us. Every name I liked he shot down. so one night while sitting around the fire pit and searching name websites on our phones my SIL randomly suggested a name and we love it. So it's currently on the top of our list
i didn't want any common names or overly popular names because I was saddled with Jennifer so theres lots of us. example: here on the phx board theres how many? I just don't want my child to have to come up with a nickname, or be "Jennifer W " like i was all through school.
My husband, while having a lot of choices on his 'like' and 'love' lists (we both made these) pretty much nixed all my choices. ? How that makes sense in reality I don't know.........We both looked at a large book of names and wrote down our love choices, like choices and then circled the top 3 max. You can also write down your like list and circe your love ones.
In the end we couldn't agree but then I heard a name on the radio and it hit me hard and we ended up with that. Since hearing at that time that no one knew it, blah blah blah, we hear every once in a while about someone knowing a girl with that name. So there!
Incidentally I gave DH the choice of the middle name, within reason. It couldn't be one I didn't like at all.
We've had a girls name picked out for-evah. Way before we were even ready to have kiddos. It's my grandmother's name, and the middle name is the feminine version of his grandfathers name.
As for boys names... there are two names we really like, just because (no family importance, or any story behind them). One was not that popular when we first talked about names way back when. But now it's pretty close to the top 10. Not so crazy about that. We don't have a middle name picked out yet. May use his grandfather's name, but I don't know.
i've only named pets, but usually something in my life just struck me.
like with kade (kaaa deeee) i was learning about elizabeth cady stanton at the time. i just changed the spelling of cady. i liked what she did (suffragist), but not how she did it according to my teacher at the time.
with my dog patriot, i was walking around the mall after 9-11 with the now seperated husband and we saw a tee with a pup on it that said patriot. it was meant for inspirational stuff for 9-11 of course, but i turned to him and said wouldn't that make a cool dog name? he remembered it and so when we got our golden retriever that's what he named his dog. (who is now my dog)
what's weird was that when i was in college i decided if i had a kid i would name her laura anne. never had a name for a boy. when i started dating seperated husband he told me how he had a 3 year old that didn't live with him. and guess what her name is? laura ann. the only diff was the spelling of our names! it was so weird.
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