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12-12-2012 at 7:22 PM
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How did you pick your kids names?

Everything I like is in the top 5 right now...damn it inter-webs. Any good strategies?

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12-12-2012 at 7:39 PM
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I did one crazy thing and one less-crazy thing.

On the Social Security website, I figured out how to call up every name that has been used 5 or more times in several different years (maybe 1900, 1920, 1940, etc.?). I put them all in a spreadsheet, eliminated the duplicates, and then went through that and eliminated everything I wouldn't consider. I gave that to Jen as a starting point.

The less-crazy thing was buying The Baby Name Wizard, which has partly the format of a traditional baby name book, but also 100 pages of "Style Families" to help you figure out what kinds of names you like. (As an example, my son's name fits under "Timeless" and "Antique Charm." My daughter's name fits under "Ladies and Gentlemen.") I found it to be a really helpful book.

In the end we each made lists of our top 30 choices and cross-referenced them. We named our daughter after my grandmother (but we use a nickname for daily use), and her middle name is a synonym for Jen's middle name. Our son's names are just two that we liked. Jen's favorite boy name is #2 in our state, so we used it as a middle name.

Twins are hard. We wanted similar style/feel, but different first initials, nothing rhyming, and no famous pair - especially since we have boy/girl twins and had to avoid romantic pairs. You have to find things that each sound good alone and with your last name, and sound good together. It was a very fun process though - and we absolutely love the names we chose:

Margaret Felicity

Henry Alexander

or, Meg & Henry

(aka Nutmeg & Buddy, Lady Baby & Mister Baby, Meggers and Henny Penny) 


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12-12-2012 at 7:41 PM
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P.S.

If I'd been picking alone, they would have been Octavia and Emmett.

If Jen had been picking alone, they would have been Emmeline and Alex.

Lots of compromise! 

 


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12-12-2012 at 7:53 PM
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Like Leap, we had to find 2 names that were similar, not matchy matchy, etc.

I'd heard Grayson years ago and really liked it. We'd agreed on it way before TTC since the Gray is an anagram of L's father's name. We scoured baby name books for a long time before landing on Carter. We liked the name and admire Jimmy Carter as a humanitarian. We decided to give Carter my dad's middle name since Gray was partially named for L's dad, which left us debating Gray's middle name. Lordy, we went round and round on that. L wanted it to be a name of someone famous we admire and was tossing out stuff like Mandela. Ummm...no. We finally decided on James for Jimmy Carter. In the end we ended up with 

Grayson James and Carter Julian

I do love their names, but Grayson has gotten pretty trendy  - though I do love Gray as a nickname. :)

If we'd of had a girl she would have been Emerson Annabelle.

Thankfully, we both had similar taste in names and naming them was pretty painless (well, except for Gray's middle name...)


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12-12-2012 at 8:21 PM
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We were pretty lucky with name choices.  I had always loved the name Ella and Sue's grandmother's name was Ella and wanted to name a baby after her.  So That was a no brainer.  Middle name was a little more difficult.  Both our mother's names are Cynthia so we considered naming her Ella Cynthia but didn't love it.  We ended up going with Grace which dw's mother's middle name.  Since E got my last name I kind of thought it was fair.  Boys were harder partially because neither of us had very long lists of boys names that we liked and an even shorter list that we both liked.  I blame being a middle school teacher for 10 plus years before having a baby.  Some names were just ruined for me.  Anyway  we decided to go with Jackson for a boy.  S wanted to have her last name as the middle name if it was a boy.  We both secretly wanted a girl so that worked out well.  Also Jackson is very popular and about 6 months after E was born we both realized we didn't love the name.  We have already chosen names if we have another baby. Lucy for a girl and Leo (my grandfather's name)

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12-12-2012 at 9:25 PM
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While I haven't even gotten a BFP yet, we love nameberry dot com - it's been way more fun and informative than any other resource we've found.  Being named Jennifer in 1971, I have always had an aversion to having the same name as half of girls born that year. And that decade. But we want to avoid the "wow, my parents were trying too hard" names that are chosen just because they seem weird/different/'interesting'... We found a few names very early on we loved and we're watching them crawl up the charts! It's a great site for giving names related to others if you want to do a honorary name without doing the exact same name.

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12-12-2012 at 11:24 PM
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I don't know about anyone else but I am hoping Will and Kate stay far away from our names - whatever they pick is going to get big, and fast.  


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12-13-2012 at 6:54 AM
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leapgirl8:

P.S.

If I'd been picking alone, they would have been Octavia and Emmett.

If Jen had been picking alone, they would have been Emmeline and Alex.

Lots of compromise! 

 

For the record, I LOVE Octavia and Emmett. Wifey would nix both in a second, though!

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12-13-2012 at 7:19 AM
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For us, the meaning of the name was important.  One strategy that hasn't been mentioned is perhaps you could think about what meaning would be important to you? For example, meanings like miracle, joy, blessing, strength, love, etc....then search what names go with that meaning.

Luke means "light."  I apparently didn't originally want to name him that (pre-conception), which I have no memory of (!), but by the time my wife was pregnant, it was at the top of my list.

We knew it would be the name when the night before the anatomy scan, my wife pulled out her "word of the day" cards and the word she pulled was light.  There was no question for us after that!

 His middle name, Nathaniel, means gift; it honors the incredible gift our donor gave us. 

 

 


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12-13-2012 at 7:24 AM
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DS has an "old man" name. His name was at peak popularity in the 1910to 1920 years. He is named after DPs grandfather. It was very important to DP that we use this name so we did.

It was ranked 520ish the year he was born and it close to 600ish now. I am not worried about a sudden spike anytime soon as it has been decreasing in popularity for 80 years.

I'll be honest that it took awhile for DSs name to grow on me. I loved it by the time he was born and I couldn't imagine him with any other name. It suits him perfectly.

ETA: His name is Carl Joseph.

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12-13-2012 at 7:53 AM
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We had only been together for 1 year or so and we had heard the name Kylie and loved it. We played with different spellings to come up with what we have. Ann is A's middle name, her mom's middle name, and her grandma's middle name so we could not break the tradition of the first girl on the mother's side have that middle name. So Ky had her name for almost 4 years before she was even a thought....and in that time the name became popular and she is far from the unique name it was when we picked it.

We had a hard time with boy names as we both have different styles. I like the old fashioned/funky names, A like the more classic (popular) names. We somehow decided on Brody Alexander but I was not in love with it. Thankfully we had a girl and it did not matter.

When I was 32 weeks pregnant (and we were on a road trip to NC) A said to me, "Do you really like the name Kylie? I mean we could always change it?" Of course we spent the next 3 hours of our trip debating girl names and clearly decided she had to be a Kylie Ann.

Oh and if I had named Ky alone she would have been a Gwenivere, Emmeline, or something of that nature. A boy would have been Xavier.

 


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12-13-2012 at 9:18 AM
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I had always loved the name Gwenivere, since I was very young, and Trav liked it and had no strong feelings about girl names, so it was an easy decision. I love it because it is Welsh, like me, and very unique without being- well- made up, purposely misspelled or trendy. For her middle name, I wanted something classic, short and simple (since her first name is long). My name (Megan) is related to my mom's name (Margaret) since they both share the nickname Meg. I like that Mae was almost a shortened version of that. So she became Gwenivere Mae.

For a boy we had decided on Jack William. I loved the name Jack and it was Trav's grandfather's name. William is his other grandfather's name, and I agreed to it as a middle since I didn't like it as a first and it sounded good with Jack.




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12-13-2012 at 9:23 AM
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We have a list of names we have come to through our relationship and discussions. One of our baby names we got through thinking about different configurations of family names one day, and over discussion one of them stuck and stood out.

My partner love has a family surname as her first name and its a great name for her, so we looked at family names first.

We also decided early on that we want a genderneutral name for our kid, but NOT a typical boys name we just give to a girl... So we have gone back to heritage names, often from places we have connection to.

I have an affinity for older French names I was an exchange student to France when I was a teen so many of my suggestions came from those lists, we also are really drawn to Celtic names. We have a small list of obviouslygendered names picked out as well, but our top two names are pretty genderneutral, and aren't too unique as to seem odd.


I think we both have a list of names we individually LOVE that the other has veto'd, but we didn't have a hard time choosing names that feel good for us both.

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12-13-2012 at 10:10 AM
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Alila was originally supposed to be Isabella but I decided in the end to go with a name that I chose myself. Alila means She Weeps in Swahili and I thought it fitting because her dad and I weren't going to be together, dumb reason for a beautiful name. I chose Jade as her middle name because I liked the color and the symbolism of the stone.

J and I heard the name Itzana on a show and later decided to use it after researching the meaning, it's a temple in Mexico. We chose Grey as her middle name because we love Greys Anatomy and we wanted to continue the color middle names.

Owl will be named Bentley Sunshine. I like boy names for girls and Bentley fits her well, Sunshine because she is our little sunshine and it's a color.

Apple will be named Adelaide Apple. I wanted to name one of the girls after my grandmother but prefer the old fashioned sound of her middle name so Adelaide it is. Apple because, well, that's been a nickname from the very beginning and it's a color.

My name choices are all over the board, we both like out of the box names and I love old fashioned names.
12-13-2012 at 10:15 AM
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When we first started ttc we had a boys name and girls name picked out.

Boy: Samuel Jacob

Girl: Emma Riley

Those names were fairly easy for us to come up with.  Samuel is in honor of my grandfather that I was incredibly close to (more like a second father to me) and Jacob was a name that M loved.  For the girls we both loved Emma and the mn was a complete compromise.  We both love traditional names in the since they are classics and we felt they age well with a child.  My biggest fear was picking something cute that would not be suitable for an adult. 

When we found out it was twins we tabled the name conversation until we knew the sex as we thought it was pointless to have two girls names and two boys and not use them.  When we found out it was two boys, things got a little more complicated as we couldn't find a name we loved as much as Samuel Jacob.  We ultimately decided to split the name and have Samuel and Jacob.  For middle names we went back to family names as I didn't want one child to have a family name and one child to not.  We used our brothers middle names for the boys mn so now they will be born as Samuel Glenn and Jacob Reynolds.  The other easy part about the middle names is Reynolds is M's mother's maiden name as well. 

Our boys will be known as Jake and Sam growing up but we love they have the choice to go by Jake and Same or Jacob and Samuel as they get older.  We also felt they were strong names that would look good in any career etc.  Yes we thought that far ahead. 

On a side note, we really didn't care about popularity as I grew up with a very popular name, sometimes having as many as 5 of the same name in a class with me.  In my opinion it wasn't really a big deal to have several kids of the same name in the same groups, teams, class etc.


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12-13-2012 at 10:55 AM
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Ahh I swear those of you starting these threads have been in our house this week. We are in prime baby naming mode right now, and have completely opposite styles (as I might have mentioned earlier).  LolaBelle, I absolutely love the reasoning behind Luke's middle name, and now I might go in search of some girl names with that meaning.  But we already have the middle name picked (after M's grandmother) - so it would have to be perfect for a first name that we both actually like.  I'm just going to assume that in the next 4 months something will come to us that is both classic and slightly trendy, and goes with our last name (which ends in -eee sound so rhymes with half the girl names on the planet).
 
12-13-2012 at 11:13 AM
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Ahh I swear those of you starting these threads have been in our house this week. We are in prime baby naming mode right now, and have completely opposite styles (as I might have mentioned earlier).  LolaBelle, I absolutely love the reasoning behind Luke's middle name, and now I might go in search of some girl names with that meaning.  But we already have the middle name picked (after M's grandmother) - so it would have to be perfect for a first name that we both actually like.  I'm just going to assume that in the next 4 months something will come to us that is both classic and slightly trendy, and goes with our last name (which ends in -eee sound so rhymes with half the girl names on the planet).

 

Thanks!

Here is a website with a long list of names that mean gift, in one way or another. Some are a bit of a stretch, but it's what matters to you that counts!

http://www.daystogo.com/baby-names/gift.asp

 


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12-13-2012 at 11:28 AM
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Our girl name and boy name are V's grandparent's names. I love the girl name and like the boy name enough to live with it :)

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12-13-2012 at 1:14 PM
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Not that we are in ANY way close to picking names, I have been in love with the name Alexander for a boy for the longest time (also love that it means "protector"), and Chase Hope for a girl (First/middle).  I also like Gabrielle for a girl.  We'll see when it gets closer to that stage.  We haven't really discussed whose last name the baby will have.

 
12-13-2012 at 2:41 PM
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Our names are a secret, but her's a bit of our strategy.

I make a running list of names and then periodically share them with C, who vetos most of them. Tongue Tied

I like unique (but not Uneek) names that have some basis in English language, like my own name which is not super unusual, but it's rare to meet another. I also enjoy what C calls "old-fashioned" names and nature names. I like looking through the SS lists and the website nymbler. When I share a name that C doesn't veto outright, or that I really love, I add it to the list. The few names we've agreed on so far have be "yep, that's it" for both of us, which feels really good.

Our kids will have a hyphenated last name (which I've used for the past five years). C's family has a tradition with initials, so she's pretty set on names that begin with C (many of which I don't love). We know if we have a daughter her middle name will be Anne (it's my middle name, my mom's middle name and my nana's first name) to carry on that tradition. If we have a son he won't have a middle name -- to carry on the three letter initial tradition. Our top first names are both short, 4 letters for "our boy name" and 5 letters for "our girl name," which is good as the hyphenated last name is long!

While we're pretty set on those names, we do have a gender-neutral name and I'd like to have a few other on a short list in case baby doesn't seem like those names when born. We won't find out the sex, so it feels better to me to have options.


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12-14-2012 at 6:35 AM
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If I'd been picking alone, they would have been Octavia and Emmett.

If Jen had been picking alone, they would have been Emmeline and Alex.

Lots of compromise! 

 

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12-14-2012 at 7:03 AM
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We had a JUST one girls name picked out and it was based off our grandmothers names.   Lilka ( polish for Lilly) Mae.  She is named after my grandmother and DW grandmother. It was a no brainier however people have trouble with the NON-English name and it pretty phonetic so we did not think it would be an issue.  Pronounced LIL' KA oh well ... people cant get it right mainly because they dont pay attention.  Oddly we were going to call her Lilly but she really is not Lilly and def a LILKA. (just like her Grandmother)  The story behind her name is when my Grandmother was young and had a brother before he was thrown in the air and used as target practice by the SS agent during WWII he could not say my grandmother name GITLA (Geet'LA)  so he called her LIL'KA  and thus her name while she was in Concentration camp that she told people was LILKA.  She was the only survivor of her family Mom/Dad and 2 brothers killed. UGG... M's Grandmothers middle name was Mae and it sound beautiful to me Lilka Mae also known as LILKA MUNSTER  ( ha)  and then there is the translation of LILLY and the hebrew meaning so it was just  Handed to us

We had a LIST - of names for boys and we were certain that our twins wer B/G  (we did not find out and were surprised)  so had names and finally settled on a boys name - I am very in to traditional hebrew names and cant share the chosen one because if we have a boy we will use it ...

The dya before we were scheduled I freaked and was like  we better pick out a another name just in case its 2 girls ... it was tough ...

M and I are huge Pipi Long stocking fans but knew we would get flack for naming our child Pipi hough Pippa is popular now ... I was in love with SIMONE but M veto'd it.  I also likes the name Stanley for a girl ( i am a big boys names for girls or ambiguous names)I know i will get flack for that -  M like charlie but her mom wears that perfume and I cant stand it ...  So S was a popular letter for us but nothing was 100% 

Then I thought of SLOAN its a more masculine name but could be spelled fem but i dont like  SLOANE so we gave her a fem middle that pay homage to our PIPI.  Sloan Annika (pronounce On'ika)  so that how we did that ... We were playing with Danica (pronounced Don ''ika but looks odd spelled DONICA and DAN well eh ...

ironically the girls names both mean some form of Strength and Warrior

M loved old old names like Ruth and Ester- i like them but not enough

 i love names... people can be so judgmental  about them - its lame and really its your child you can name them what you want.  Someone asked me if i am upset that people dont get Lilka's name right and I said no .. I just correct them and i have no prob doing so and they came back and said well how do you think she will feel having to correct her name all the time ...

I have name trama or had  my name is masculine both First and Middle and my last name is super Jewish  but my first name can be mistaken for a latin name which if you look at my last name you know that they dont necessarily go together ...   but its was annoying as a kid and teen and i changed spelling got aka and it was a mess still is today sometimes but now I just accept what my legal name and spelling is .. took a bit but i got there... no major trauma

 

 

 

 


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