Striking out with #3

[amelandre]

DH and I can't agree on a first name for a boy and I am 99% sure I am pregnant with a boy (about 20wks along).

When I was pregnant with DD we loved the name Elliot, but now we have an Emmett and a Violet. Elliot sounds WAY to "intentional matchy sib-set" with those.

I like Germanic names, DH likes British/English names. I swear we have been through every eff-wording name a dozen times and just can't agree! Someone help, pretty please!

[helenahhandbasket]

Orrin
Brahm/ Bram
Thayer
Reid
Alton
Wesley
Conrad
Dorian
Soren
Frederick
Anders
Garrett
Vaughn
Heath
Ronan
Ivan
Ian
Winston

[amelandre]

helenahhandbasket

I LOVE Frederick and Winston, unfortunately both were vetoed by partypooper DH.

[bromios]

Auberon

Arthur

Anders

Ambrose

Anton

Bartholomew

Bertrand

Bertram

Bernard

Carlisle

Caius

David

Dietrich

Edmund

Erik

Francis

Graeme

Godfrey

Harold

Harlan

Isaac

Jonathan

Julian

Lorcan

Laurence

Lars

Leo

Leopold

Linus

Milo

Myron

Mortimer

Niall

Peter

Philip

Raphael

Ronan

Sebastian

Scott

Seth

Thayer

Willem

Wilhelm

[honeylemon]

Ooooo Linus!! I love it with your babies' names!

Dorian is cool too.

Bram is an AMAZING name.

[amelandre]

I love Arthur and Harold/Harry. DH can't get over a bad name association with Harry, even though he's a Harry Potter fan, so that should cancel it out! I can't remember why he didn't like Arthur but that was a no from him too. If I'm picky, he's impossible. He doesn't like ANYTHING, and is the type that finds it easier to say "No" to my suggestions than to make any of his own.

Hadn't considered Leo or Philip but I really like both of those with the middle name we have picked and with the sib names!

Edit: Meant to tag bromios

[seamonster]

Henry
William
George
Phillip
Jonathan
Mattias
Alexander
Benjamin
Ian

[Stormtroopooper]

I love your kids' names! Emmett was on our short list for our little boy. We ended up going with Harrison.

I'll suggest...

Abram/Bram
Charles
Graham
Henry
Ian
Jasper
Lucas
Miles
Nathaniel
Oliver
Patrick
Rhys
Samuel
William

[amelandre]

Jun 7, 2016 9:34:44 GMT -5 Stormtroopooper said:

I love your kids' names! Emmett was on our short list for our little boy. We ended up going with Harrison.

I'll suggest...

Abram/Bram
Charles
Graham
Henry
Ian
Jasper
Lucas
Miles
Nathaniel
Oliver
Patrick
Rhys
Samuel
William

I really like almost all of these, Oliver and Charles in particular, but my party pooper DH said No.

I am not joking when I say I might wait until he leaves the room or falls asleep and fill out the birth cert alone.

[Stormtroopooper]

Jun 8, 2016 20:38:00 GMT -5 amelandre said:

Jun 7, 2016 9:34:44 GMT -5 Stormtroopooper said:

I love your kids' names! Emmett was on our short list for our little boy. We ended up going with Harrison.

I'll suggest...

Abram/Bram
Charles
Graham
Henry
Ian
Jasper
Lucas
Miles
Nathaniel
Oliver
Patrick
Rhys
Samuel
William

I really like almost all of these, Oliver and Charles in particular, but my party pooper DH said No.

I am not joking when I say I might wait until he leaves the room or falls asleep and fill out the birth cert alone.

My H is a total pain in the ass when it comes to naming kids, and I we managed to name our son without any bloodshed and have a working list of names for #2, so have faith. It can be done!

Do you guys have any family names you can agree on? A name of someone you'd like to honor or anything like that?

We decided on Harrison because it was a family name on both sides. His mn is my H's mn, and I love it because it's an animal name which satisfies my hippie, nature-obsession and native American ancestry, and it also honors my nephew that passed away from brain cancer.

All that to say, that perfect name is out there and you'll find it. It may just take a little digging. Instead of asking your H point blank about names, ask him what's most important to him about the name. Meaning? Honor? His favorite book, teacher, athlete? I think once you get the wheels turning in his head, he'll offer a few more opinions.

Good luck!

[ottertails]

Elias
Armin
Corbin
Vincent
Emil
Gunther
Henrik
Ivor
Caspar
Johan/Johannes
Reuben
Alistair
Kurt
Hugo
Luther
Oswin
Casimir
Finian
Ivo
Cecil
Torben
Rainer
Conan
Leon
Grant
Stefan
Victor
Ulrich/Ulric
Roderick
Sinclair
Walter

[amelandre]

Jun 8, 2016 22:43:31 GMT -5 Stormtroopooper said:

Jun 8, 2016 20:38:00 GMT -5 amelandre said:

I really like almost all of these, Oliver and Charles in particular, but my party pooper DH said No.

I am not joking when I say I might wait until he leaves the room or falls asleep and fill out the birth cert alone.

My H is a total pain in the ass when it comes to naming kids, and I we managed to name our son without any bloodshed and have a working list of names for #2, so have faith. It can be done!

Do you guys have any family names you can agree on? A name of someone you'd like to honor or anything like that?

We decided on Harrison because it was a family name on both sides. His mn is my H's mn, and I love it because it's an animal name which satisfies my hippie, nature-obsession and native American ancestry, and it also honors my nephew that passed away from brain cancer.

All that to say, that perfect name is out there and you'll find it. It may just take a little digging. Instead of asking your H point blank about names, ask him what's most important to him about the name. Meaning? Honor? His favorite book, teacher, athlete? I think once you get the wheels turning in his head, he'll offer a few more opinions.

Good luck!

I *think* we may have finally landed on two possibilities. I actually made a list of names based on things I know he is into, so kind of what you suggested, but without waiting months for him to "Think about it a little more"

Marco - after his biggest inspiration as a chef

Edgar - after Edgar Allen Poe who he likes a lot (though I worry we'do be guaranteeing a tortured soul, naming a kid after Poe so close to Halloween, haha)

He actually LIKES Marco, and Edgar was "good" which is high praise coming from him.

[seamonster]

I do like Marco.

[housecarder]

When H was doing nothing but vetoing my suggestions I made him give me a suggestion for everyone he crossed off my list. It helped some.

[cosmicav]

Ahh!! amelandre I really like Edgar and Marco!!!!

Here are some other names (and I apologize in advance if there are repeats):

Samson
Philip
Allen (like Edgar ALLEN Poe, amirite? )
Richard
Wesley
Leo
Ian
Quentin
Peter

[Stormtroopooper]

Jun 9, 2016 13:24:21 GMT -5 cosmicav said:

Ahh!! amelandre I really like Edgar and Marco!!!!

Here are some other names (and I apologize in advance if there are repeats):

Samson
Philip
Allen (like Edgar ALLEN Poe, amirite? )
Richard
Wesley
Leo
Ian
Quentin
Peter

It's actually Allan, but I prefer the Allen spelling myself.

[Stormtroopooper]

amelandre, if he likes Poe, does he like Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, or Bram Stoker?

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Jun 9, 2016 17:45:51 GMT -5 Stormtroopooper said:

amelandre, if he likes Poe, does he like Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, or Bram Stoker?

Love Nathaniel

Not sure if these arerepeats, but to keep in the literary theme

William
Samuel
Philip
Lewis
Marcel (if you like Marco)

[queenbone]

John
Robert
Carl
Walter
Gordon
Raymond
Bradford
Gregory
Wyatt
Wade
Wayne
Flint
Colt