Let's talk names

[mrsp121308]

What are you ladies thinking? Have you decided?

[mrswillie]

Not yet. We should really start thinking about this. I think we're set on middle names. With both DS's we announced the name after baby's arrival. Who would know people could go so batty trying to find out the name before the birth. They tried asking DS1, but we were way ahead of him. He didn't know the name either.

[Deleted]

We've had names for years. Everyone who knows them likes them, people who don't know can wait until baby is born.

[mrsp121308]

We are having a terrible time coming up with a name. I think already having 2 DDs is why we are struggling. It's like we used up our favorite names already and all we have left we just don't LOVE.

[mrsp121308]

Anyone care to share baby names here?

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Jul 23, 2016 22:03:32 GMT -5 mrsp121308 said:

Anyone care to share baby names here?

Benjamin for a boy and Abigail for a girl. Not 100% sure about middle names. Benjamin Franklin is actually a family name on both sides for many generations. We might actually go with it, we've actually had several people suggest it. Not sure on a middle name for Abigail. A lot of stuff makes weird words with our last name.

[mommytoava]

We have our LO's name picked out. We decided on Amelia Karina.

[sheepish]

I think we've narrowed it down to Neil, Owen, or Samuel, but haven't made a decision beyond that. When we were first talking names before we knew we were team blue, we had a much easier time agreeing on girl names, so it took us quite a while to get down to those three. Middle name will be after FIL unless we go with Neil, in which case baby will get a different middle name that we like that will give him the same initials as FIL.

[Becca]

Jul 23, 2016 23:06:13 GMT -5 @cahistoryteacher said:

Benjamin for a boy and Abigail for a girl. Not 100% sure about middle names. Benjamin Franklin is actually a family name on both sides for many generations. We might actually go with it, we've actually had several people suggest it. Not sure on a middle name for Abigail. A lot of stuff makes weird words with our last name.

Those are the exact names we have picked out currently for the twins! 

[fikafairy67]

We are using the same name we had picked out if DS had been a girl - Kristina Jane. DS's first name is a family name from DH's side, and Jane is from my side.

[littlelion]

My top favorites are Lucas and Maximo. Dh is meh about both. Although he seems to be coming around to Lucas. I'm trying to teach DS to say Lucas and then be "oh, ds has decided". It's almost a nightly ritual to talk thru a list of boy names. Also, I found out my cousin is having a boy too. We're due almost the same day so now I worry we'll choose a name and she'll magically name her son first the same.

[Lucy]

We're naming her after a lot of grandmas. We figured this is our last one for sure, so we might as well squeeze in all the names!

We're going with Cora Pauline Frances

Cora -- my great grandmother and aunt are both named Coralee
Pauline -- H's grandmother and great great grandmother (who grandma was named after)
Frances -- My moms first name and grandmothers middle name. It's also my middle name.

[Lucy]

Jul 24, 2016 11:45:04 GMT -5 littlelion said:

My top favorites are Lucas and Maximo. Dh is meh about both. Although he seems to be coming around to Lucas. I'm trying to teach DS to say Lucas and then be "oh, ds has decided". It's almost a nightly ritual to talk thru a list of boy names. Also, I found out my cousin is having a boy too. We're due almost the same day so now I worry we'll choose a name and she'll magically name her son first the same.

Your due date is the day before the new Star Wars premiere! Be prepared for a lot of "Is that why you named him Lucas?"

I love both of those names, BTW. 

[fikafairy67]

littlelion, Lucas was our boy choice this time! So obviously I love that one 😄

[harfamilyof3]

We're naming our DD2 Nora Matilda. Our first DD is Paige Jillian (Jillian after my mom and DH's sister). Love how Nora and Paige sound together. This time around I pushed for Matilda and it grew on DH (and now he loves it) It was the first Broadway show we saw together and I have a special spot in my heart for Roald Dahl books.

My mom and mother in law love her name as much as DH and I do, however my most annoying comment by far was made by a co worker who told me "Matilda sounds like a witch."

[Lucy]

We've been mostly holding off on sharing our name choice with people to avoid crappy comments. DD had a name picked out until I was 34 weeks, then one a-hole comment made H change his mind. I'm also hoping that with a bunch of grandmother names, no one can really make a-hole comments anyway!

[requiressnacks]

I love seeing everyone's names!

I'm 99% sure the twins will be Gianna Lee and Gabriel Paul. I hope having two G names isn't too lame, but that wasn't really planned. Luckily they have different G sounds.

[lastnamewithheld]

Lucy, I LOVE Cora! That's definitely at the top of my girl name list.

We've decided on Thomas Patrick for our LO.

[kaydee0402]

We always wait until the baby is born to name them. IMO, it is weird to name someone you haven't met, especially since that name might not fit them. My mom tells a story about how she swore she was going to name me Lindsey. She loved the name and was bound and determined to name me Lindsey. I was born, and she took one look at me and said, "Not a Lindsey, that's Jessica." She did that with my two sisters as well. Three girls and not a single one named Lindsey So that's why DH and I always wait to name. Also, I don't like sharing names because as I found out with my first, everyone has a damn opinion. We wound up keeping our final two choices to ourselves

For girls, our top two picks are Catherine and Sarah. She will have the middle name Beatrice after my Great-Grandmother, whom I absolutely adored.

For boys, not too sure. Benjamin was in our top two last time. We also like Tyler and I'm starting to love the name Thomas. His middle name will be Aaron, after DH's brother who passed away.

[kaydee0402]

crimpgirl, +1 for using family names! DS's middle name is family name that just so happens to run on my DH's and my dad's side.

[requiressnacks]

kaydee0402, we aren't telling anyone either! Now I'm thinking we may need a couple backup names in case we meet our babies and they don't fit their names!

[kaydee0402]

requiressnacks, that's just my mom's story. All of my friend's have named their kids prior to meeting them and it's worked out fine, so don't worry too much about it

[fikafairy67]

lastnamewithheld and mrsp121308, DS's middle name is Thomas! I wanted it to be his first name, but DH was insistent on Brian, named after his late uncle. I love that name!!

[WineNChocolate]

SOOO late to this lil chit chat we have William Joseph Albers III - however we are calling him Liam for short. My FIL is Bill and my hubs is Billy/will so we went with daddies irish roots and using the irish nickname for William, Liam. I am actually totally STOKED cause I love that name! So Dh and both get what we want.

[Winnifred]

Lucy, very cute and what a nice way to honor the fab ladies in your family!

littlelion, I think you should just get to go with Lucas since you're carrying him GL with getting DS to help you! lol.

harfamilyof3, how sweet! And major throat punch to your idiot coworker. How rude!

requiressnacks, love them! I can't imagine having to pick two names at once. Nice choices!

We've been settled on a first name for a few years now, but we're keeping it a secret for now. I think we'll only tell our immediate family before she's born - everyone else can wait. Since I think I'm pretty anonymous here, I'll let it sneak out - We're naming her Lena after my great grandmother. We can't decide on a middle name. I'd love to honor someone on my H's side of the family to even things out, but none of their names really go with our first name.

Also, it's really hard to keep it a secret because sometimes I almost just let it slip out... H and I call her by name all of the time at home. I almost accidentally let it slip during our u/s (my mom was there), that would have sucked!

[lastnamewithheld]

Jul 25, 2016 10:48:49 GMT -5 fikafairy67 said:

lastnamewithheld and mrsp121308 , DS's middle name is Thomas! I wanted it to be his first name, but DH was insistent on Brian, named after his late uncle. I love that name!!

It's definitely a family name; Pretty much all of the men on H's side of the family are named Thomas and have named their first born sons Thomas as well. Usually they alternate middle names from generation to generation (for example, Michael for one, Joseph for the son etc) but since H's cousin, with whom we were all so close passed away suddenly last December, we decided to go with Patrick as the middle name to honor him.

[lastnamewithheld]

Jul 25, 2016 11:06:45 GMT -5 WineNChocolate said:

SOOO late to this lil chit chat we have William Joseph Albers III - however we are calling him Liam for short. My FIL is Bill and my hubs is Billy/will so we went with daddies irish roots and using the irish nickname for William, Liam. I am actually totally STOKED cause I love that name! So Dh and both get what we want.

I loooove Liam! That's such a cute nickname for William! I also love that it's a win/win for both you and your H! Nice job!

[tbonequeen13]

90% sure we're going with Owen Keith for a boy and Lyra Claire for a girl...I like the name Jude for a boy more, but DH and I can't agree on that so Owen is my 2nd choice

[achromia]

We have first names that we like quite a bit, and are more or less squared away if LO is a boy - DH's dad passed away three years ago and we'd like to use his name for a middle name. However, I have little quandary when it comes to girls.

I have the same middle mame as my mom and grandma (Marie), which is a variant of my great grandmother's (Mary). So I feel like I have a tradition to uphold... my mom will be sad if I break a four-generation chain. But I'm not a huge fan of Marie and neither it or Mary flow well with the first name we would like to use. I do love names that honor family members so I've considered my g-gma's first name, which I think is lovely (Josephine), but I wasn't close to her (she died when I was a baby) and I don't think even that will totally pacify my mom.

What would you guys do? What are your thoughts on double middle names?

[emilie]

Everyone's names are so cute! We have a first name but we are keeping it under wraps. Still working on the middle name.