Naming your kid(s) - GTKY

[laurski81]

Because I am now convinced that my H and I are the most ridiculous people on earth when it comes to just picking a name for their kids...riddle me this...

1. Did you have your LOs name picked out before you delivered?

If you did; is it your LOs name? Or did you look at your new bundle of joy and decide that it just didn't fit and then you had to come up with something different?  Or maybe it didn't fit and you just kept it because you had a bunch of stuff with the baby's name already embroidered/mounted on your walls/etc?  Did you learn to love it or are you still just so-so on it?

2. Or did you have a list of names and then decide amongst those once you finally met your LO?

If you did; did you use one of them?  Or did you throw the whole list out and pick something else entirely?

3. Or are you just a very SS?

[cbear]

We had both their names picked out beforehand and stuck to them and still love them
Although I didn't have anything embroidered or anything haha

[jodielyn10]

We had our names picked well before delivery both times. I will say naming Eli was much harder. With Ingrid it came really quicly and easily. We started talking names and as soon as my H mentioned Ingrid, be both knew right away that was it.

[trixi282]

1. Did you have your LOs name picked out before you delivered?

With J - yes, we had 1 boy and 1 girl name picked out - and the girl name we had selected is her name - and I LOVE it... it was after all my pick and it grew on H. I'm kind of glad she was a girl, because I liked our boy name then, but I don't love it now... well at least not with her name for a sibling.  So we scraped that one early on this pregnancy and started over completely with boy names...  1 of our 2 names was on our original girl list, but the 2nd is completely new.

2. Or did you have a list of names and then decide amongst those once you finally met your LO?
This time we obviously found out when we weren't planning to, but although I think we have a 'favorite' we have 2 names right now and I still hear H saying both on and off kind of 'testing them' if you will. I like both names, and I'm torn honestly. I think we might have to meet this LO before we decide 100%

If you did; did you use one of them? Or did you throw the whole list out and pick something else entirely?

I have an acquaintance from HS who had a baby girl (after 3 boys) and she was unnamed for a few days and just Baby LastName until they left the hospital because they couldn't decide... so you're certainly not alone.

[Riverdong11]

We had the name picked out well before my due date. I was worried that the name wouldn't fit, but felt silly after his birth because I don't know how to tell if a name goes with a brand new person. So Liam it is!

[paddyb]

Names picked out before delivery, and stuck with them. It took a little longer with Greta than Henry. although even for her we had it narrowed down to two pretty early, and had settle on Greta before delivery.

[bliz1712]

For Hanna we did. With Hanna we narrowed it down to 2 names, but Hanna Mae was the name. I just wanted to have that second name just in case Hanna didn't seem to "fit" her. H thought I was crazy.

Elizabeth was a different story. H and I sound like you and your H, we have a hard time agreeing on names. She wasn't named until she was over 24 hours old. We didn't even have our list fine tuned when I went into labor. Granted, I was 4 weeks early so we thought we had some time. With Elizabeth, when I was settled in the delivery room we took out our long list and started cutting it down. Being rushed I threw out names that I probably would have fought harder for if I had a few more days to think about an argument for them. Honestly, I wish we had more time to name her or it would have happened like with Hanna. I still don't 100% love her name but it's better than the alternative, Zoey.

[traceyt07]

With Asher we were team green. We had narrowed it down to a a few, but I wanted to meet him first. We used the Jewish tradition of using the first initial of someone who has passed. Asher is named after my great aunt, Anna. It means "happiness" in Hebrew.

With Amelia we knew she was a girl, and again, we had it narrowed down to a few. I was really pushing for Penelope, but we were watching Big Bang Theory right before I went into labor and DH couldn't get over "Penny."

[mommymadness]

With Benjamin we had his name picked out before and only told a few people. With Abby we had two girl names that we liked although we were leaning toward Abigail and then decided for sure after she was here!

[sarasansh]

We had a boy name and a girl name picked out. We did have a "back up" set just in case our names didn't fit, but Robin was Robin from the first moment we met him.

This time we're planning on finding out so we'll most likely go in with just one name.

A friend of mine was set on naming his son Jonah, but when his son was born he took one look at him and said "He's not a Jonah." It took them 2 days to pick a new name (Colin.)

[junkytrunk]

We had Matthew's name picked out 2 years before he was born! We obviously stuck with it and I still love it.

If he would have been a girl, we were more torn on girl names and probably would have been close to him being born before we would have settled on one.

[meow84]

With both kids, we went to the hospital with 2-3 names that we liked. For both kids, they are named MY number 1 choice....and I would have been set on it well before the hospital, but my husband is super weird about committing to a name before they were born. Logan was almost Noah or Camden and Kiera could've been Lia or Elise.

[mightythorgi]

Mar 30, 2015 13:05:05 GMT -5 laurski81 said:

Because I am now convinced that my H and I are the most ridiculous people on earth when it comes to just picking a name for their kids...riddle me this...



2. Or did you have a list of names and then decide amongst those once you finally met your LO?

If you did; did you use one of them?  Or did you throw the whole list out and pick something else entirely?

We were team green with S. So we had about six boy names and six girl names and we chose after I got to hold him for a while (which seemed like a long time since it felt like I was under those blankets in "recovery" post c-section for days).

We did choose a name from our list but I thought he would be a Soren (which translated from Severus, meaning stern-yikes!)

This time we have four boy names picked out--H is definitely leaning towards one, and my two favorites are not the one he likes, of course. But they are names we agreed on. I don't mind sharing, either, but I am putting in the periods for the sake of my paranoia

Ans.on El.vin/Hen.ry
An.gus El.vin/Hen.ry
O.din Er.ik
Ori.on El.vin/Hen.ry

El.vin was my paternal grandfather, Hen.ry and Er.ik were my paternal great-grandfathers. S' name is essentially James, which is my dad's name. I like having a familial connection. My boys will both have my H's last name so I like to keep some of the Scandahoovian links in the name.

Oh, and my favorites are the O names.

[bantyrooster]

We had Gage for years ( family name). Ellison was picked but not in stone. If she would have come out and it didn't fit we would have changed it.

[ThePinkSuperhero]

In each case, we had a favorite name picked out in advance. For Oliver, it stuck at birth, and for G, we looked at him at birth and said AHHHH HE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A GEORGE. I told DH, I think he looks like an Aaron, but he said nooooo. We went through all our other choices again and decided George was the best choice. I'm glad because he truly is a George (he didn't start looking like himself for about two weeks; his trademark big creepy eyes became noticeable around then).

[aimeefarrahfowler]

For Alex, we had his name totally picked out when we went to the hospital.

With Tyler, we were still talking baby names on the drive there. We had it narrowed down to Jack or Tyler. When he was born he was so mellow, he just seemed like a Tyler and it fit him.

[jennmm]

Mar 30, 2015 13:05:05 GMT -5 laurski81 said:

Because I am now convinced that my H and I are the most ridiculous people on earth when it comes to just picking a name for their kids...riddle me this...

1. Did you have your LOs name picked out before you delivered? Yes both times

If you did; is it your LOs name? Or did you look at your new bundle of joy and decide that it just didn't fit and then you had to come up with something different?  Or maybe it didn't fit and you just kept it because you had a bunch of stuff with the baby's name already embroidered/mounted on your walls/etc?  Did you learn to love it or are you still just so-so on it? Both of their names fit them when they were born.

2. Or did you have a list of names and then decide amongst those once you finally met your LO?

If you did; did you use one of them?  Or did you throw the whole list out and pick something else entirely?

3. Or are you just a very SS?

[laurski81]

Thanks ladies...with Henry we had a list of 5 boy names (one was Henry), and one girl name; Claire. The funny thing is while I still like the other 4 boy names on our list, I nor my H really care for them anymore so they aren't even in contention this time around. Same with Claire. We both seemed to really like it last time but now we are both just 'eh" about it (and since Henry was born, I know about 6 different people that have used it) so that one is no longer in contention either. I feel like we come to these agreements, like with Cecilia, but then my husband has sent me 3 different texts today with new girl names that we haven't discussed before. I know it wasn't his first choice and I want him to like the name too but that is why I was asking if you needed to "meet" your child first because for me I felt like it helped with Henry. It is just extremely hard when you don't have any names to put on a list.

I also kind of feel like mightythorgi in that both of these kids will have my H's last name and I am set on using something from my family in there even if it is just a middle name. I do like the fact that if this is another boy my last name will be his middle name, and originally we were going to do the same if it was a girl, but I'm not feeling that anymore and therefore would like something "family" as her middle name.

At the end of the day this kid will have a name, I know this, and getting so crazy about it IS ridiculous. I'm sure once I'm getting even less sleep then I am now I will laugh that this was my biggest concern a few short weeks earlier

[summergirl1211]

We picked out Riley's name a few weeks before she was born and stuck with it (although I could barely remember it once she was born because I was so exhausted and loopy from the pain meds). I really like it, but I really liked Kayley too (and still do). I can't imagine her being anything else at this point.

[britbratjf]

We had Dagnys name picked out before we even conceived. We both read and loved the book Atlas Shrugged & after H read it he said if we ever have a girl we should name her Dagny. I was sold.

[starfishy]

We were team green and went to the hospital with one boy and girl name. Thomas has always been a favorite for both of us, so it was a pretty easy decision. H and I are usually on the same page for names.

[bliz1712]

laurski81 none of the names that were in contention for Hanna were even considered for Eliza. So I feel you on that note. I hope you guys can figure something out, you really do sound like my H and I. Mainly it was my H vetoing all of my names.

[cookiesandwine]

Did you have your LOs name picked out before you delivered? Or did you have a list of names and then decide amongst those once you finally met your LO?

We had what we thought was her name picked out three times through the course of pregnancy. About 36w, H suggested Sadie and I was very meh about it then so we just kind of went in with a short list. I saw her and knew she was a Sadie.

This time we are pretty sure we have a name. We've stopped talking about it (though I obsess over it roughly 48 times a week, usually motn) but it feels strange now to have "decided" after we waited until Sadie was born to decide her name. There's definitely a #1 contender right now and a couple close seconds so we'll see what happens when he arrives.

[bantyrooster]

PS I can't wait until this baby has a name. I feel like its the end of a good TV show .

[junkytrunk]

Mar 30, 2015 16:59:02 GMT -5 cookiesandwine said:

Did you have your LOs name picked out before you delivered? Or did you have a list of names and then decide amongst those once you finally met your LO?

We had what we thought was her name picked out three times through the course of pregnancy. About 36w, H suggested Sadie and I was very meh about it then so we just kind of went in with a short list. I saw her and knew she was a Sadie.

This time we are pretty sure we have a name. We've stopped talking about it (though I obsess over it roughly 48 times a week, usually motn) but it feels strange now to have "decided" after we waited until Sadie was born to decide her name. There's definitely a #1 contender right now and a couple close seconds so we'll see what happens when he arrives.

You can't keep us hanging like that! Spill! If you want...

[origamimommy]

We picked a girls name immediately. Boys were harder. We fought for 30 weeks over it. Then we both conceded on tyler, but I had planned to bring my favorite name back up in the delivery room, because the baby just felt like a Benjamin. The second I saw him I knew he was a tyler and let it go. His name suits him, and even though it was never on either one of our short lists, we love it!

[somethingcleverer]

With both kids we had a list of about 3 names we agreed on but we were pretty sure which name we would choose. I didn't want to have a name that we had completely decided on because if I thought the baby didn't look like that name and wanted to change it h would flip. He doesn't like last minute changes when his mind is set on one thing!

[tribute17]

We were the couple that had two names picked until about halfway through labor. Then I vetoed one and DH vetoed the other one after googling it. It was the name of a serial killer or something. So we came up with a couple more. Two days after he was born we picked Patrick. But we still didnt know if it was going to be first or middle but we knew we were going to call him that. Then we found out he was going to be released in day four so we picked his first name and used Patrick for the middle name. It definitely felt right after we picked but didn't have it right away. All of his hospital thugs say Baby Boy last name.

If you don't have a name it will come to you. If not then you will feel pressure when you have to fill out the birth certificate.

[huskiefanuw]

Kinsley was named about 2 months before she was born. There was a Kenley on Project Runway, I wasn't even watching the saw but I liked the named and looked in up in one of the big name books and found Kinsley right by it as a similar name and liked it more. I had about a month when She was about a year old that I wasn't sure if it was the right name for her, the crazy in my head went away and I went back to loving the name. It was about the time I kept hearing about other Kinsley's.

[starfishy]

Mar 30, 2015 18:18:41 GMT -5 tribute17 said:

We were the couple that had two names picked until about halfway through labor. Then I vetoed one and DH vetoed the other one after googling it. It was the name of a serial killer or something. So we came up with a couple more. Two days after he was born we picked Patrick. But we still didnt know if it was going to be first or middle but we knew we were going to call him that. Then we found out he was going to be released in day four so we picked his first name and used Patrick for the middle name. It definitely felt right after we picked but didn't have it right away. All of his hospital thugs say Baby Boy last name.

If you don't have a name it will come to you. If not then you will feel pressure when you have to fill out the birth certificate.

Wait! Patrick is not his first name? What is his first name. So curious.