QOTD 3/7

[krose]

Growing up, did you have a name picked out for your future children? Did you end up using that name?

[krose]

I had a running list of future kids names in the back of a journal I kept. I remember at one point when I was like 10, I was really into having twins named Autumn and Summer. I actually heard LOs name (Evelyn, call her Evie) the first time in the movie The Mummy when I was a teen, and I've held onto it and loved that name since. After she was born and named, I mentioned to DH that that's where I had gotten then inspiration for the name; he almost died when he found out our daughter was named after a movie with the Rock in it, haha.

[marley629]

I "reserved" Christopher lol meaning I asked my older sister not to use it if she had a boy (she hadn't planned on it anyway and I was much younger) I did not use Christopher. DS's name is Jameson. If we are blessed with #2, we are set on Mattingly for a girl and Jacob or Jace for a boy.

[Deleted]

I've always loved Ashley for a girl and we did wind up using it for Twin A.

I've had Christopher and Michael picked out for boys for as far back as I can remember, but I don't have any boys yet. (My dream boy name is either Christopher Michael - which won't happen because DH is Christopher and he hates his name - or Michael Christopher.)

[sugarkissed]

Haha oh gosh, I can't remember what exactly they were but certainly didn't use them. They were pretty terrible.

[Unknown]

Not that I can recall. DH and I were set on baby names, and we ended up not using it.

[legitsince86]

I remember picking wierd names when I was younger. The only one I vaguely remember was twin boys "graham" and "graham graham"

[fiveohfive]

I was a huge tomboy growing up and always played outdoors or with animal toys over playing with my dolls. I can't remember giving any of them names to be honest. DD1 is named after a game of thrones character and DD2 we are having major difficulties with picking a name out.

[happymama]

Nope. I was never the typical girl who dreamed of my future wedding/husband/family. I was very adventurous and was busy playing things like spy and fantasizing about international adventures, lol. When I got engaged I had to start from square one because I had no idea what I wanted for my wedding, I had never considered it! Same thing when we got pregnant. We considered becoming parents very realistically and not in a starry eyed way. We didn't start dreaming about it or getting our hopes up until mid-pregnancy. We threw a few names around after I got pregnant, but it wasn't until we had the anatomy scan and found out the sex that we nailed down a name. We picked a name that was a part of both of us and had meaning to both of us, so it is never something I could have picked ahead of time.

[annarose]

No I did not have any names picked out. I did like the name Dakota growing up but to many people use it as an animal name.

[zoly1103]

Probably late teens/early 20's I loved the name Matthew and thought I would name my son that. But I grew out of that and named him something else.

[jlprybs927]

I did but the names I liked ended up becoming popular and overused, so I didn't use them.

DD's name is a very unique name my mother in law found. It's a form of my late mother's name.

[lilqt3929]

I know I had names picked out when I was young but of course can't remember what they were. We had a hard time agreeing on a name for DD and it just so happened that we both fell in love with a name that is one of the most popular girls names right now. We still do love it and don't regret choosing it but we hope she doesn't mind being one of a few girls in the class with the same name.

[RedDDD]

Didn't occur to me to ever have kids until I was in my 30's. We picked our kids names pretty quickly with little disagreement shockingly. I do remember thinking if I ever had kids I wouldn't name them something so dang boring as my own name.

[girlonfire]

I wanted to be named Samantha or Jessica but I don't think I ever chose names for future children.

When I was older I liked the names Tristan and Skylar for a boy and Carys and Zoe for a girl. I remember when I was 19 (many, many many years ago) there was a waitress named Carys and I fell in love with her name. I didn't really care for her though. I hadn't seen her in 15 years (which given the tiny size of my island is odd) but when I was 7 months pregnant I ran into her and I knew that it was a sign that if I had a girl (team green) then I'd name her Carys. Plus it was the only girl name that DH liked.

Side note, MIL lives in Canada. When Carys was born MIL and SFIL flew down for a couple of weeks to drive me crazy. The congrat cards from them said 'Paris'. I never realized that Carys and Paris rhymed so all the family in Canada though my daughters name was Pairis! Puke.

[ajaan113]

I probably did have a list of names I loved but never wanted to name my future kids those names.

Once I became a teacher the name thing changed. There are names I never wanted to name a child or even a pet.

The name DS and I both agree on for DS was my grandfather's name. The name quickly got veto because it had two very different meanings in different cultures. It meant "sincerity or truth" in one culture. In the other it meant "a person who stracthes a lot because they have lice."

So DS got a different name. The name DH always like we use as a nickname. I wanted a more formal name which we both agreed. The nickname does go with his formal name.

[af1004]

I always had names that I thought I'd name my kids. They changed every few years though. I didn't use any of them for DD. We had two names picked out for DD when I went into labor. We didn't name her until after I had her.... I'm laying there waiting for a shot of novicane (sp?) so I chould be stitched up. My epidural didn't work well... DH is trying to see or new baby girl and I'm like, "she needs a name!" Then DH told me to pick between the names we had, I chose the opposite of what I thought I would. Couldn't imagine her with the other name though.

[nymama917]

I did have names picked out because I loved to play with dolls. The names changed all the time though and I did not use them for DD and probably won't for a future DD or DS.