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Help us name our baby! - DH is having commitment problems
I have concluded that DH has a commitment phobia. We have named this baby a couple of times and he comes back a couple days later unsure of the choice we made. The hardest thing that we are running into is that we like a lot of one syllable names that he feels are too plain with our one syllable last name. We aren't sharing with people IRL but I think having some opinions might help him feel more secure with our choices. I'm putting down our top 4 boy & girl names (in no particular order) so comment/suggest away!
Boys
Leighton
Nolan
Layne
Lyndon
Girls
Carolyn
Laurel
Delaney
Lauren
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Re: Help us name our baby! - DH is having commitment problems
Of those:
Nolan
Lane w/o the y would be ok
Carolyn
Lauren
My DH has a one syllable first and last name. I don't think it sounds weird.
Of those names, I like Carolyn and Lauren. The boy's name are NMS.
Uh, Kimberly, you best be saying you like the name Nolan!!!!
So yeah, I'm partial to Nolan.
We have the plainest last name! (white) Nolan has a family middle name so it works well, too, with the last name.
I love the name Laurel. Love it. I think it would sound really pretty with your last name.
It just seems like Nolan is getting to be so popular! Maybe it's only a popular name on the bump?
Of those four boy's names, I do like Nolan the best.
I have a friend/former student who just named her daughter Leighton... I like Nolan, I like Lane with no Y and Lyndon is NMS
I like Delaney, Laurel and Lauren (in that order), Carolyn is also NMS
I'll make sure to pass that on to DH, I was fine with it as well. I figured Nolan would be fairly well received on this board.
I considered Lyndon because it's where DH went to college... otherwise, it probably wouldn't be my thing.
I like Laurel & Nolan... naming a kid is really tough! I had a hard time pairing names up to our last name too.
I LOVE the name Laurel; for the girls' names you listed, the only one I thought did not work well was Delaney.
None of the boys names really caught my fancy with your last name, although I do like Nolan. Of course, I think Noah works even better with your last name-- I think it's because Nolan, Leighton, etc. all have "N"s at the end and it sounds so much like your last name, then...
But what the heck do I know? So far, I've only had to name my animals!
Warning: I have been known to be very opinionated about baby names, to the point of harsh, so keep that in mind and know that it doesn't REALLY matter what I think because your child isn't MY child and at the end of the day, I dont' really care. :-)
I think Nolan is the only boy name I really like of your choice, and I think Daniele makes a good point about the ending in N thing with Nolan and your last name. Layne makes me think of that party-pooper, foppish British guy from Mad Men, Leighton seems like a last name, and Lyndon is just a little strange and reminds me of Lyndon Johnson, who I have the impression was only a mediocre president.
For the girl names, I really like Laurel (though I do think Laurel and Hardy in addition to the plant), and Lauren is nice. Carolyn is nice, but it and Caroline are both pretty popular now- or so I get the impression. Delaney is a last name to me and too masculine.
It is funny to hear someone say it is too masculine. I really tried for awhile to convince DH that it would make a great boys name (with the nickname Del or Lane) because I had read it in a book and loved it. Most people use it as a girls name and thus it was a losing battle from the start.
I like Nolan and Lane ( with the y it makes me want to say Laney)
Girls
I love Delaney and Laurel
Nolan works, because we have a Nolan
Leighton and Layne are last names to my and when I look at Lyndon, my brain says Landon (and we had/have a Landon here too, just not sure where his mommy has been!)
Carolyn reminds me of Caroline. Laurel and Lauren are NMS and too plain. I love Delaney with your last name though!
This is why we considered Lyndon, we like Landon but the popularity of it bothered me.