Baby name thread

[sandandsea]

A lot of us are stuck in the name game now so let's share!

1. What are your top boy names?
2. What are your top girl names?
3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names?
4. What type of name are you looking for?
5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)?
6. Anything else?

[sandandsea]

1. What are your top boy names? Lucas or Leo as the first name. Middle name contenders are Cristian, Tomas, Alejandro, or Tadeo (very close sounding to DS's name otherwise I would push for this as a FN). Marco was also a FN contender but I think we've decided it's too matchy with DS's name.

2. What are your top girl names? Talia Elizabeth - I would have fought hard for this but we are having a boy so it really doesn't matter.

3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names? yes and no, we both veto a lot

4. What type of name are you looking for? A bilingual Spanish/English name that is easy to pronounce and sounds decent with MateoDavid (nn Teo) as a sibset. Biblical names and a great meaning are also pluses.

5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)? We are not overachievers.

6. Anything else? Names are hard. We've been through every list in the world and still aren't sure. The problem really is that we LOVE Ds's name and all other boy names now feel like runners up.

[Flair Underwood]

1. What are your top boy names? DH and I keep the "real name" close to the chest. BUT - I have always loved Carson, Foster and Werner.

2. What are your top girl names? We were both SET on Evangeline Claire.... but as I"m getting more and more excited about team blue, I'm "mourning" it less. The other girl names I loved were Jane and Clara.

3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names? For the most part. Every once and a while one of us throws a curve ball. Yesterday I suggested Whittaker for a boy, which he promptly vetoed. And he mentioned Matilda once for a girl. Sorry, nope.

4. What type of name are you looking for? Classic, grown-up, solid, but not one of the top 50 standards (William, Andrew, Matthew, James, etc, etc)... I can't define it, but I know it when I hear it

5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)? We're 75% sure we've chosen one.. I'll let you girls know in June!!

6. Anything else? I don't know if I'm picker with boys names, but I swear they are harder.

[sandandsea]

Jan 27, 2016 13:03:20 GMT -5 mladerri said:

I'm just going to to write a paragraph instead of filling out the questions. My ds's name is Felix. We wanted a name that worked in Russian and French and English. We also wanted it to be a strong name and unique (I've since met sooooo many Felix's). Now not only do we want another name that goes with the same criteria I want it to sound good with Felix. I'm on a struggle bus. These are our current names on the list (opinions are welcome good/bad).
Remy #1 as of this second
Griffin (dh thinks it sounds evil)
Jasper
Miles
Finn/ Finley
Rohan
Gavin
I love Luca but it's my cousins name and Xavier but that's another cousin name.

Yes, ignore the questions if that's easier! 

I also love Luca and Xavier, but Luca is more Italian than Spanish and Xavier is super confusing for anyone to pronounce (4-5 different ways in the 3 countries that make up our family).  We are also avoiding family names so I totally get that.

I like Remy and Rohan best from your list.

Other names that come to mind - Nico, Nicolas, or Max.  DH really loved all of these and I was eh.

[mladerri]

sandandsea I like nicolai but dh vetoed. I like both your top boy names and I think my fave combo is Leo Christian.

[nitecheese]

1. What are your top boy names? - Oliver Grayson
2. What are your top girl names? - Nora Elisabeth
3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names? - We;ve narrowed it down to our picks, so yes.
4. What type of name are you looking for? - We like English/traditional
5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)? - See above
6. Anything else? _ I just want to know if we have a boy or a girl. I'd also love alternate suggestions, because I clearly like to waffle.

[soultrane]

1. What are your top boy names?
DS is Graham and our top choice right now is Calvin. We've also thrown around Isaac as an option and lately I've been kind of digging Alexander.

2. What are your top girl names?
My top girl name was Julia Alice. I LOVE the name Julia and Alice is for a family member who was amazing. I'm kind of sad that I won't get to use it.

3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names?
Definitely. We both lean toward classic, recognizable, easy to spell names. Our tastes are really similar and we've only disagreed on a few names ever.

4. What type of name are you looking for?
Something solid that he can grow into, and that doesn't have a cutesy nickname. I don't mind nicknames but I like for them to be names that would work well on an adult too.

5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)?
Haven't chosen yet, and we'll probably take the same approach as we did with DS. Take a few options to the hospital and make a final decision once he's here.

[2dogs2kids]

1. What are your top boy names? I love the name Everett. DH said absolutely not. So we both like Calvin and Nelson. We also like Bennett but don't like Ben.
2. What are your top girl names? Eleanor, Alana, Lucy Middle name will be Theresa or Theresa and Rose. I am worried that Eleanor is becoming too popular.
3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names? We are usually pretty much on the same page I'm a little pickier than him.
4. What type of name are you looking for? Not popular, not trendy, not completely crazy off the wall. Just something that my kid Noah G because there are 3 other Noah's in his class. Also I'm not a fan of nicknames and I purposely chose DS name because I thought it was nickname less but or course people have nicknamed him... So this time we are choosing names that we actually like the nickname because inevitably it's going to happen..
5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)?
6. Anything else? I am a teacher which makes it incredibly difficult to choose a name. Every name has a child attached to it in my head and one bad seed can literally ruin an name and any names that even slightly resemble it.

[2dogs2kids]

sandandsea we were having the same problem with boy names we liked that sound way too much like DS name. I also feel like they are just not as good because we love DS name so much!

[soultrane]

Jan 27, 2016 13:42:55 GMT -5 2dogs2kids said:

1. What are your top boy names? I love the name Everett. DH said absolutely not. So we both like Calvin and Nelson. We also like Bennett but don't like Ben.
2. What are your top girl names? Eleanor, Alana, Lucy Middle name will be Theresa or Theresa and Rose. I am worried that Eleanor is becoming too popular.
3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names? We are usually pretty much on the same page I'm a little pickier than him.
4. What type of name are you looking for? Not popular, not trendy, not completely crazy off the wall. Just something that my kid Noah G because there are 3 other Noah's in his class. Also I'm not a fan of nicknames and I purposely chose DS name because I thought it was nickname less but or course people have nicknamed him... So this time we are choosing names that we actually like the nickname because inevitably it's going to happen..
5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)?
6. Anything else? I am a teacher which makes it incredibly difficult to choose a name. Every name has a child attached to it in my head and one bad seed can literally ruin an name and any names that even slightly resemble it.

Bennett is at the top of my guilty pleasure list, but DH vetoed it and wouldn't compromise on Benjamin either. I'm determined to have a dog named Bennett at some point! Dammit, I'm going to use it somehow!

Also, the teacher thing has ruined a few names for us. DH is a teacher and I work in the education field so we've both encountered students along the way that have helped us very easily rule out their names. 

[frecklesnbrains]

1. What are your top boy names?

Ian (my first choice)
Blake (DH's first choice)
William (we both love this name, but we agree it's more common that we'd like)
Simon
Dylan
Alexander
Logan

Middle name will probably be Paul or Colin (after one of our fathers)

2. We have a lot of great family names for girls that I'd have loved to have used. Our top pick would have been Alice Elizabeth. Also considered Lilian, Ruth, Gwendolyn, Sarah, Virginia.

3. I tend to like classic names, while DH has suggested some more unusual ones. We do both agree that we don't want a name in the top 10 (Otherwise I'd be ALL OVER Liam, Noah, and Owen)

4. I've noticed our name choices are consistently British-sounding! This is probably because my parents are British, and I lean toward family names.

[mymilkshake]

1. What are your top boy names? Jack. We both had agreed on jack since the beginning. George also quickly became a contender as we found out we were pregnant 2 days after H's grandfather (George) passed away.
2. What are your top girl names? Evelyn Claire was set for a girl. We both loved it. A lot!!
3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names? We both have had a fairly easy time agreeing. I've mentioned a few that he turns down, but then a month or two later he'd suggest that name he vetoed?!?! I think he's done that twice. I just smirk and say I like it! He's such a nut!
4. What type of name are you looking for? I'd say we gravitate towards the classics. Hopefully not too too popular though.
5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)? I'm handing over the reigns to my husband and am letting him choose between Jack David or George David. I like either name and I would feel bad swaying him either way about honoring his grandfather. (His grandfather raised him and they were very close)
6. Anything else? I agree boys names are hard! We had a few girls names we liked from the get go.

[soultrane]

frecklesnbrains, Alice Elizabeth is the name of my family member that we would have been honoring. Love that combo!

[frecklesnbrains]

Jan 27, 2016 13:58:35 GMT -5 soultrane said:

frecklesnbrains , Alice Elizabeth is the name of my family member that we would have been honoring. Love that combo!

Cool! Yeah, I'm a bit sad we don't get to use it. Alice Ruth was DH's grandmother who was his mother figure growing up (he is more or less estranged from his real mother). Elizabeth is my mother's MN and I've always loved it.

[babyzebra]

1. What are your top boy names?
Logan
Luke
Lucas


2. What are your top girl names?
Amelia
Lila
Cora

3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names?
Yes for the most part

4. What type of name are you looking for?
A good one

5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)?
Cora Jane

6. Anything else?
Most people have been surprised by our name choice. Not a single person has said anything negative though. They know I don't put up with that!

[nitecheese]

Jan 27, 2016 13:50:34 GMT -5 soultrane said:

Also, the teacher thing has ruined a few names for us. DH is a teacher and I work in the education field so we've both encountered students along the way that have helped us very easily rule out their names. 

This is why I'm so set on the names that we've picked. DH and I are both teachers, so we've ruled out so very many names.

Oh the unexpected cost of working with at-risk students. 

[Flair Underwood]

babyzebra, I have always loved Cora! Beautiful name!

[soultrane]

babyzebra, love Cora Jane!

[manybellsdown]

babyzebra big fan of Cora!

[txmommy14]

nitecheese, I LOVE the name Nora/Norah...it was our other top option!

[txmommy14]

2dogs2kids, LOVE the boy's name Bennett-seriously one of my favorites! soultrane, LOVE the name Calvin, and Graham is such a good name too-strong boys' names!

[txmommy14]

babyzebra, I LOVE that name!!! I also like your other choices-Lilian was on our list, as well!

[txmommy14]

1. What are your top boy names? Bennett, Elliot, boy names are harder for us in general. My DH vetoes everything. He wanted Andrew but I feel like it's too common.
2. What are your top girl names? Adeline, Lilian/Lily, Norah, Amelia, Addison, Caroline
3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names? Not really, especially not boy names, girls are easier. We had such a hard time naming DS (Grayson).
4. What type of name are you looking for? Hmmm, one we both like, haha?
5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)? Adeline Emily. Addison and Caroline are our fav girls' names-can't use Addison because we don't want both kids ending in -son, and one of our best friends just named her daughter Caroline, so Adeline it is. Emily is my twin sister that has Down Syndrome-I really wanted to name a daughter after her.
6. Anything else? Nope, we feel committed to our name, but I still feel nervous that we'll change our minds in the next 18 weeks now that we've told people!

[microworm]

1. What are your top boy names? Mine are Brendan, Owen, Christian, Evan, Casey. DH has vetoed most of those.

2. What are your top girl names? I'll never have a girl but I like Isabelle, Summer, Hayley, Claire, Lucy, and Brooke.

3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names? We did for DS1, but for DS2 not at all. He likes traditional English names like Charles and Henry and those are NMS. Liam was our #2 name for DS1. I still like it but am not as overly excited about it as I was 2 years ago.

4. What type of name are you looking for? Something strong and simple. DS's name is Jack.

5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)? We are having a very hard time agreeing on names to even consider.

6. Anything else? As you can see, I like names that end in -an, -en. Our last name ends in -en and rhymes with Faylen. Would those boy names above sound weird with our last name?

[twobananas]

mladerri, Felix is on my short list! One of the things that's holding me back though is nicknames, do you use any nicknames for your son? I also love Remy, but if I were to use it I'd name my son Remington and use Remy as a nickname (I'm a big fan of longer names with nicknames obv... I also love Finn aka Finnigan ).

2dogs2kids, we started with Eleanor, then moved to Eloise and finally settled on Elodie for our girl name. There are so many great 'El' names if you're worried that Eleanor is too popular (other ones are Eliana, Elsie, or you could use Norah/Nora..)!

microworm, I don't think those names would sound weird at all with your last name, there's a nice ring to them together!


1. What are your top boy names? Theodore and Jackson are the current favorites. Other ones that we are throwing around are Felix, Elijah, Elias (nm Eli), Graham.
2. What are your top girl names? Elodie and Annabelle.. another name I loved but my husband vetoed is Hadley.
3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names? Yeah. I love thinking of names so I throw out a ton, but I've never had to convince him too much on the ones I really cared about. Our first two kids have pretty unique names, so I'm actually surprised he went for them.
4. What type of name are you looking for? This go around, I want classic but not often heard of names. If I could find something akin to 'Elodie' for a boy, I would be ecstatic.. that's why Felix is still on the short list.
5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)? At this point, we're pretty set on Elodie/Annabelle if I have two girls, most likely Elodie/Theodore if it's girl/boy and our biggest question mark will be the 2nd boy if it's boy/boy.. at this point, Theodore/Jackson, but I do love Felix and Eli. I find out next Thursday.. cannot wait!
6. Anything else? I got nothin'!

[mladerri]

twobananas my dad calls him the f man, fifi, filou. My husband calls him booger ha! We actually are the opposite and like names that you don't need nicknames. My name is 4 letters and I've never really had nicknames. I love Theodore or théo in French and Eli! I know someone with both names so they aren't in my list. I like elodie for the girl name.

[bighair12]

1. What are your top boy names?  No need we are having a girl.

2. What are your top girl names?  Lucy, Harper, and Ainsley

3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names?  Not particularly.  He is coming over to the idea of Lucy.

4. What type of name are you looking for?  None really.

5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)?  I really like Lucy.  But the other two choices are up there as well.

6. Anything else?  Names are hard.  

Edited to add.  DD's name is Elliot and we call her Ellie.  But, we don't have a problem matching names or anything.  What our issue is is that we have a Spanish last name and trying find names that sound good with it have been difficult.

[csat]

@soultrain that's so funny, my DSis also a Graham and Calvin was one of our top boy names.

1. What are your top boy names? If this baby had been a boy he would have been Elliott. I also like Calvin, Theodore
2. What are your top girl names? Willa, Cecily but I really had very few.
3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names? He is more in the veto camp rather than coming up with ideas but he hasn't vetoed many of mine and I've had a very short list.
4. What type of name are you looking for? I don't mind nicknames or shortened names for other people but for no real reason other than personal preference I wanted to avoid that with my kid's names. With DS we both loved his name and there were no contenders. If this one had been a boy it would have been the same. I had a really hard time with girls names.
5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)? 99% set on Willa!

[shan]

I can't wait to have some free time to read this thread. I love names.

1. What are your top boy names? N/a. We didn't discuss names until we knew the sex.

2. What are your top girl names?
some of My favorites: Evangeline, June, Seraphina, Magnolia, clementine, Camille (Millie), Alice, Emilia, and many more.

DH's favorites were... Well... Awful.

3. Do you and DH/SO agree on types of names?
Not at all. Naming babies takes a lot of time and a lot of compromise from both of us. It makes me sad I won't be able to use a favorite name - but having DH love it is more important.

4. What type of name are you looking for?
Classic. Feminine. A name with history.

5. What name have you chosen for your LO (if you're an overachiever)?
I *think* she will be Violet Mae (we haven't announced in real life)

6. Anything else?
My dd1 is Evelyn - so it has to work well with that style of name. Mae is my grandmothers middle and great grandmothers first name. We didn't realize it when we first wrote it as an option -- but now I love it more.

[mladerri]

bighair12 Lucy was our girl name, but we're having a boy. I love it and it's a family name for us. Would you want to name her Lucille? Or is that too old lady? Or Lucia?