How DO you decide on a name?

[aimee-lou]

We're finding it very difficult to settle on a name. I don't think we will until we meet the LO for the first time in a couple of weeks.

Just wanted to see do the names you picked have any special significance? Or did you just really like the name?

I don't want to give a list of names as I tend to get put off my people's comments...hence my aversion to the name Jake now after my Mother said something lol (no offence to any Jake's out there!)

Thanks for the help everyone....finding this really difficult!

 

[expecting09]

I was umming and arring for months about names. I had a list of names that I liked, then one week I'd really like one more than the others, then I'd go off it and it would be the same for the next week. But I've settled on one that I really like (no significance), not what other people think, it may have been easier cos I don't have an OH to have to agree with!

I just hope she looks like a Kacie when shes finally here, otherwise I'm well and truely stuck hehe

 

[aimee-lou]

It doesn't help that my memory is bad and I keep saying to hubby 'what was that girls name?' lol.

I've written out all our 'ok' names for both boys and girls so that we can refer to it (it's going into my hospital bag) which I know is a bit geeky, but seriously, my memory is shot! lol

 

[Kota]

we made the decision pretty early on that we weren't going to use other family members names, no naming after, or honouriing anyone, Don't see anything wrong with it, just for us it wasn't something we felt we had to do.
Once that was decided we quite literally just would randomly throw names at each other, we didn't ever sit down for 'naming conversation' but would be on the bus, watching tv, doing shopping, down the pub, whatever and if a name came to either of us then we'd just put it out there. When something was said that wasn't completely veetoed it went on a 'maybe' list, and then edventually names were said that we both just really liked.

Good luck with your choices!!

 

[JayDee]

We also decided that we weren't going to go down the naming after family members route, even though DH's dad keeps trying to get us to change our minds. To me, it's not fair to name after one family and not the other but it depends how you feel about it I guess.

We got a baby name book and picked out some names that we both liked, wrote them down and now keep looking at them to decide if any jump out at us. We though we had one and after a couple of days of calling him it went right off it! Think we might have another one now, but won't decide for certain till he's born.

Also, not telling anyone our choices because we don't want them to put us off, it's hard enough as it is, without having to take into account other people's thoughts on names as well. Obviously I wouldn't choose a name that I knew someone disliked for a real reason (e.g. someone's ex who was horrible or something like that) but other than that, I think it's up to us.

 

[Samemka]

We started thinking of names early on and Emma was one we both loved. There'd be lots of girls names I'd like, or OH would, but the other one of us wouldn't.

 

[HouseOfBlue]

I had always loved the name Ethan, id first come across it on a film i really liked called 'she faught alone', i always said that if i had a little boy that would be his name and luckily Kev loved the name too. As for Josh... we didnt have a clue what to call him, we kept throwing names at eachother but neither of us liked them, then towards the end of the our pregnancy we settled on the name Fin... It was the night before we had Josh when we were snuggled up on the sofa and the more we said the name 'Fin' the more we began to hate it! Then we got our laptops out and searched the top baby names website... We both read out the top ten and Kev picked 'Josh'! As for their middle names - Ethans being Thomas and Joshuas being Eric, they are from Kevs dad. Thomas is a middle name of all the first born men on Kevs dads side, so we had this for Ethan, and for Josh sadly Kevs dad died a month before we had him, so Kev wanted him to be named after his dad 'Eric Thomas'.

 

[mrsadair]

We're naming my son Jaxon because it means "son of Jack" and obviously that's daddy's name... lol. And his middle name, Jett... I was just driving down the road one day with my hubby and I said, wouldn't Jett be an awesome name? And I thought he would hate it but he loved it and it stuck!

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

I have no idea...it's a nightmare xx

 

[MUMOF5]

We couldnt agree on one name, so we've compiled a list of 5 (really 4 as one of them I really dislike ) and have decided to wait until we meet her to give her the one that suits her best. xx

 

[whiby]

I went through the books and wrote down names I liked, then gave it to hubby and he systematically crossed every single one off except for Ethan and Alexander. Alexander I decided was too long with a 3 syllable surname so hey presto we got Ethan. (We didn't decide 100% though until he was born, and he looked like an Ethan so that sealed it).

 

[jlosomerset]

We can't decide either Aimee, I have our short list of 6 packed in my hospital bag and we are hoping that when we see him one of our names just feels right!!

 

[Rebaby]

Before i was pregnant i had a girl's name and a boy's name picked out in my head, but once i was actually pregnant and told OH what my choices were he completely vetoed them

I was horrified at first, but it was actually really exciting starting the name search afresh, we also did the random, eating dinner and suddenly "what do you think of the name x" but we also went on a baby name's website one night and got a couple of suggestions from there.

I eventually started to compile a list, one list was names i liked, one was names OH liked, and then a much shorter list of ones we both liked. Gradually the list has been added to and then whittled down and we finally now have a short list, there are 7 boys names and 7 girls names on a piece of paper but truth be told we both have a "favourite" boys name and favourite girls name and thankfully they're the same so although we're keeping the list (just in case we change our mind at the last minute or he/she doesn't look like a x/y/z) then we're pretty much decided on a first name for a boy or girl. We're also keeping it all top secret though, nobody but nobody knows our choices!

Not definite on the middle name though, that's a problem for another day i think! Lol.

 

[BradysMum]

I made a huge list from the internet when I was pg with DS and I gave it to DH to look at and he liked about 2 names on it lol. We didn't come up with a name from our DS until about 2 weeks before he was born. We have just been kinda 'what about this' to each other for ages. We now have 2 names picked for this baby and are just hoping that it suits. The middle names of all our children will have family significance from DH's side