Baby names?
 

Where did you get your names from? family? celebrity? etc?

still need help picking a name? I love this tool from baby center.

My daughter was named after Bob Dylan's wife (dh is a huge fan) and Elijah is from the Old Testament (in hebrew it means "the Lord is my God") We call him Eli.

Warning: I'm about to get really long-winded. :lol:

Wow, I'd forgotten how much I loved that site! Thanks for giving me the link back. :)

I have three basic criteria for names:
1) Must have a good meaning (like Cecilia means either "blind" or "lame", I don't remember)
2) Must not be too popular. I check out the SSA's popularity site. I really prefer names out of the top 500 or 1000 totally, but has to be at least out of the top 100. But still has to be an actual name, not something made up.
3) Must have a relatively easy pronunciation & spelling. Nothing "kreativ" for me. ;)

I give bonus points for family names, & both my girls have the same rhythm to their names: 2 syllables, 3 syllables, 1 syllable, 1 syllable (last name). But that was coincidence.

My older daughter: Bobbie Catharine Doyle. First name is for her father. Almost no one gets this, & I thought it would be blindingly obvious. In the South, anyway. Catharine is just my absolute favorite name, but it's too common for a first name & the spelling is too odd too. (It's a legit spelling, just a rare one.) Doyle is my grandfather's middle name; he died when I was pregnant with her. It's also the middle name of one of my cousins.

My younger daughter: Linda Margaret Anne. Linda is my sister's first name. I get a great reaction to this name. Fifty years ago, darn near every other woman was named Linda, but you never hear it anymore. Margaret is my favorite cousin's first name. It's actually a second first name, not a first middle name. :) Anne is my other female cousin's middle name, but she spells it Ann, which just looks wrong to me.

For this one, we don't know. If it's a boy, it will be either Randolph ______ Paul or Paul Randolph _______. Has to have three names like the girls. Randolph is, embarassingly enough, for Randolph AFB back home in San Antonio. We were trying to come up with a name that just screamed SA & what we came up with was Randolph Antonio Maverick (the Mavericks being one of the founding families of the city & my church back home); only the first name stuck. Paul is after a very close friend of mine who died my senior year of high school.

LOL Sabra, my baby's daddy is leaving May 17th to go to San Antonio into the air force, but I didn't know the name of the base. We didn't wanna do a family name because he is hispanic and does not want the baby to have a hispanic name :?: And God help me my father's name is Louis Irvin, sorry can't do that to the child :lol: So I went through a long long long list of boy names and picked out my top 30 then daddy narrowed it down to 7 he liked. Right now we are leaning toward Patrick Ryan or Evan Patrick.

We picked for a girl Emma Ann. Emma, we liked, and Ann is my grandmothers name.
For a boy, we picked Gabriel James.... G- for Gretchen and J for Jeremy (my husbands name). Wacky huh?

We have a lot of different types of names. Mostly the problem is running out of one's we like lol. We mostly pick by sound and ignore meaning. I prefer unpopular. Different is ok but not too weird.

Kristy-Ann Margaret, I picked Kristy-Ann before I met dh. He likes most girls names so agreed. Margaret is my mother's and my middle name.

Réjean Alexander (Sandy), Réjean is dh's and dh's father's name. All boys on my fathers side use Alexander. We call him Sandy which is my grandfathers nick. It was the only name dh would agree on. I hate explaining that he is a boy lol

Chloë Elizabeth, At my prenatal class a woman named her dd Chloë. I thought I'd use it. It was my childhood bestfriend's name. Elizabeth was a friend of dh's

Margaret (Margo) Elaine is my granmothers name. Margo was a fun neighbor

Philip Jay, I was reading a book while pg that was written by a Philip J. and it stuck on me. Jay is a nickname of dh's old bestfriend

James Noah, I forgot how we agreed on James. We often call him Jamie. I have a cousin with the same name. Noah is a name I liked but not dh. He wanted me to get over so agreed as a second name.

Rachel May Beatrice, Rachel was just a name we liked. Beatrice is dh's gma that had passed away while I was pg. May just sounded nice to tie them together.

Colin Patrick, Every boy I'd ask for Colin. Dh finally said yes lol. Dh picked Patrick

Holly Robyn, Dh really wanted Holly and I liked Robyn.

Cynthia Cailey, I just liked these names. Dh wasn't keen on Cynthia until he heard the nick Tia

This baby's name is Robyn Hannah. I regretted using Robyn as a middle name. Dh wanted Hannah for Tia but it didn't sound right. Right after Tia's name was decided we also decided next girl would be Robyn Hannah. Made naming this one so much easier lol.

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DH & I both liked Peter, it's not in the top 100, can't be spelled different, or screwed up any other way! :lol: I swore I'd call him Petey, but haven't since he was in the womb! My niece calls him Pete sometimes.

Robby was not named until the day before he was born! We couldn't agree on a name. I love Daniel...tried that for Peter, but our last name begins with D, and DH didn't like the DD thing. There are a few Roberts in DH's family, but none close by, or that we see often. I said as long as we call him Robby, not Bobby or Robert, it would be fine. :lol:

Kate is simple, easy to spell and means "Pure". I don't think there is anything more pure than a baby girl. My best friend throughout Jr High and High School is named Kate as well. I didn't want it to be short for anything, just Kate. My family has a lot of names that can not be shortened, like Kate, Meredith (me), Evan (brother), even my boyfriend's name, Shaun.

Lee is Kate's middle name. It is my last name and it honors my whole family instead of just picking one person.

Kate's last name is Mullett (hence the screen name). I think it all goes really well together.

If we had a boy, he was going to be Beck Lee.

Meredith

Well, let's see -

Our oldest was named Tiffany bcs my g'mother liked it. I was tossed up between that or Valarie. She chose Tiffany.

Our boys, LOL, well - my one son, Micheal Scott, was named after an old boyfriend. Does my dh know? Yes and he knew back then also. My other son was named after my g'mother (justine) and my dad (richard)

My two younger girls - Audrey was named after my great g'mother (and it was the best name for her, she IS the image of the woman) Emily was named bcs it was a name that dh has always liked.

I had other names in mind but ended up with these.

This is what is so weird - all the girls, in this house, have names that end in Y - TiffanY, AudreY, EmilY and me, KimberleY, and we were all born out of state (michigan, sc and ky)

The men are all called by their middle names and all were born in GA

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LOL Sabra, my baby's daddy is leaving May 17th to go to San Antonio into the air force, but I didn't know the name of the base.

Lackland is the basic training base. Boy, when I was a teenager, I sure loved going downtown on the Saturdays the recruits were let out to stretch their legs. :devil: (And then I went and married a sailor.)

I'm driving myself insane right now with my criteria for name #3. The names can't start with the same letter as the girls' first or middle names, and the first name can't end in the same sound as either girl's first name. :dizzy: Right now, the frontrunner is Esther, after a friend of mine from high school.

I have my ultrasound tomorrow... SO hopefully, I will find out the sex of my little one. Now that it's becoming more of a reality, I am getting wishy-washy on the names. We thought we liked Gabriel James for a boy but now we aren't so sure because we don't want him (if its a boy) to be called gabe. My sister also works for "Gabriel Brothers" and -----OH I just cant make up my mind. We have also been considering Carson Gabriel.

Maybe I'll get a poll going.....

LOL glad ya brought this up. Jose and I FINALLY!!! decided on a name he will be Ryan Patrick :D And P.S. Gretchen I think you are having a girl :p

You think I am having a girl.... I thought so at first but I am so convinced its a boy.. I know they say the heartrate really doesn't determine, but my babys heart rate is around 124. "They" say that under 140 boy over 140 girl. I am carrying out front, BUT I am craving sweets and fruits. Who knows.. Tomorrow will tell!!! Why do you think I am having a girl... C'mon, lemme in on the big secret!!

I love ryan patrick... We also considered ryan,...

Just a gut feeling I have that you are having a girl

Gretchen,
Eli's hb was always around 151 - so go figure, eh? :)
Let us know as soon as you can.

I named my son Keyan, my parents wanted me to name him Keagan but i didn't like that name so i did a lil comprimise.

At nearly 6 months, we've finally latched onto a name. We've played around with many many variations. I wanted to go with Michael James. Hubby adamantly refuses to have his child named Michael J. Fox though, so poo on him. LOL But he will have Michael in his name and that's what we'll go by. So we thought of a character in one of our favorite books and decided to go with Valentine Michael. But the more we thought about it, hubby really wants James, after his grandfather. So he's become James Valentine Michael Fox. I don't know if two will be his first or his middle, but I guess he'll figure it out as he he faces the first, middle, last questionnaires throughout life. LOL

I just had a boy in April and I named him Kaiden Daniel Scott. My mom suggested Kaiden, I originally wanted cadence but everyone told me that was a girls name. I actually didnt like Kaiden at first, but then it just kinda felt right. I really like the name Daniel, plus I wanted him to have a name from the bible but it's much too popular to have as a first name and Scott is my boyfriends middle name (also my brother's and my nephew middle name too :P) and he really wanted me to use it. But I couldnt do Kaiden Scott because his other son's name is Torrin Scott and I didnt want to make anyone upset, so I used both daniel and scott. Anyways, I think my baby's name is original, meaningful and just plain cute! :)

My oldest son's name is Zane. He is named after my maiden name Zehner (zaner). My baby boy's name is Tate Ballard, Ballard is after my husband's grandfather. We usually like to keep some part of the name in the family.

Both of my kids first names were picked because we just liked them and were actually able to agree on them. The middle names we agreed needed to have "meaning" to us. My son's was chosen from my x-husbands best friend that was killed in a car accident and my daughters middle name is of course mine, my sisters, mom's and grandma's middle name and if I have a girl this time then it will prob have the same middle name too. What can I say...I like to keep the tradition going.

My kids:

~Jasmine Natane~

We chose Jasmine because it was my husband's favorite scent, and also from a song lyric that my husband played a lot when we were dating. Natane (pronounced Nu-TAWN-ee) is a Native American word that means "daughter". My husband is Oglala Sioux, and we wanted a Native American name for her.

~Raiden Acheta~

When I was pregnant with Raiden, the 20 week ultrasound would not show the sex, he kept his legs tight together. Through the whole pregnancy my husband called the baby "Thor" because it sounded manly, and he thought that if he called him a manly name, he would get a boy, I guess. :lol: We did not know the sex until about 2 weeks before I delivered. In mythology, Thor is the Norse god of thunder and lightening...and we chose Raiden, because it is another mythological name for the god of thunder and lightening. It was a tribute to my husband's little nickname for my belly. :)
Acheta (pronounced Uh-KAY-tuh) is another Native American name. It is a strong, warrior like name...something strong enough to go with "Thor". :lol:

~Saber Phoenix-Tyree~

My husband is a big sci-fi geek, and we are in the 501st Division (the real Star Wars strormtroopers, etc. that you see at Disney World, parades, etc.) and he always wanted a Star Wars name. I would NOT go for Luke, or Anakin, or anything like that....so I came up with Saber.
His middle names are a tribute to my deceased grandmother. Her maiden name was Tyree (Scottish-a variation of Tyre, or McIntyre) and she died during my second pregnancy. I chose Phoenix to go along with it, because of the myth of the Phoenix, dying, and being reborn from the ashes. I would like to think that a part of her is reborn in my children. :)

Baby names
 

My daughters name is

Emma Eliana- I chose this because my mom's bestfriends mother who watched me as a child and is practically my grandma the only one who was really around because all my grandparents died when I was young. Eliana we just fell in love with the name it means My god Answers me. My hubby wishes that was her first name but I couldn't picture her as anyone but an Emma. She is my little miss Emma. Even though I know it's like the most popular name right now in the USA and other countries it just has a sweet and old fashion flare too it. I LOVE IT!

If we would have had a boy it would have been either
Ethan James
or
Christian James

I don't know why I kind of want to do all E's though for my children. Hubby doesn't like that idea though he like Christian James as a name.

Aphil - Do you pronounce Raiden "Rye-den"? I have a friend who named her son Raiden and I told her the only downside is that everyone is going to pronounce it incorrectly (like "Ray-den"). I thought it was cute though when her BIL suggested his middle name should be "Mower"! :lol:

Ooh, one of my favourite topics. :)

I put quite a lot of thought into the names we picked for our kids. We wanted names that could have a nickname...you can't get one with mine. We wanted ones that weren't too popular (at least at the time we picked them) as there were 3 kids with the same first name and same last initial in my third grade class...I hated it. We wanted to make sure though that one of their names, either first or middle, was "normal" in case they turned out to be very conservative lawyers or something...you never know. :) We didn't want made up names or ones spelled wrong. Meaning was important too. We thought about Tristan, but that means "riot" as in trouble, not as in funny.

Our first is William Dudley. William is the name of my husband's great grandpa who was a lord in England then ditched his title to move over here. Dudley is a LONG time family name, and my grandpa's first name. If you know your history you'll remember that Lady Jane Grey who was queen for 9 days before Bloody Mary had her beheaded was married to a Dudley, and the "virgin" queen was extra friendly with a Dudley...all distant relatives. We don't call him William though, we call him Liam which is the Scottish pet name for William. William has pretty much always been popular, but at the time, Liam wasn't anywhere near the top 100 names.

Our second is Tiernan Daniel. Tiernan can be shortened to plain T or Tie. Tiernan means "lordly" which goes well with the fact that Liam is named after a lord. Daniel is my father's middle name and the name of my baby brother that my mom lost when she was 8 months pregnant (severe stress they believe...she saw her best friend get hit in a car accident that broke her back and neck and almost killed her...not a common occurrence, no one needs to worry).

Oh, and our second wasn't named for sure till we were packed and ready to leave the hospital. :) I had a list of 3 names I would have been ok with, but my husband kept not being sure. I finally told him he either had to come up with his own name for the baby or pick one of my three. He decided on Tiernan, so that's what we've got.

My husband and I had a hard time deciding on names as well. For our oldest daughter Olivia Noel, we choose Olivia because it is pretty sounding and goes well with our last name and because it means peace. After 10 years of trying to conceive and finally being blessed with a successful pregnancy we thought peace was a well deserved name. Her middle name of Noel was chosen because we both love the holidays and I suggested Noelle and then we realized that my husband's name spelled backwards is Noel, so her name is after the holidays and my husband.:)

For our youngest daughter, Zoe Isabella, we choose Zoe quite by accident. We actually wanted something from Shakespeare since Olivia and Diana are names in his plays. However, dh was feeling my belly one night and said "wow, Zoe kicks hard" and I was like who is Zoe? We looked up the name and it meant "life" and since she was our second miracle we thought that was a fitting name. Isabella we choose because I liked the name Isabel when I heard it in a television show and Isabel did not sound right with Zoe until we added the a then it flowed with our last name.

Have fun choosing!
Diana