I would love to hear what kind of names you like. We don't know what we're having, but we think we like Silas for a boy. What do you think?

I am such a baby name fanatic. We are definitely into uncommon yet strong names. You know, legitimate names. (Not weird spellings or just out there names)

When we had our babies, we wanted short names, because our last name is really long -- 9 letters and is hard to pronounce! We wanted names that weren't real common but not so uncommon either. We didn't want names that rhymes with bad words or could be mistaken for a bad name. We also didn't want names that could be a boy name or a girl name.

With dd we had a short list of 4 or 5 baby names. We broke the tie by me, DH and DS all picking which 2 names we liked the best and Autumn was the one we all three liked. I knew her middle name was going to be Faith because I love that name but had a hard time deciding on her first name. Now with ds I knew I loved the name Trent but could't decide on a middle name and so me and husband had a long chat about it and decided on it, finally!!!!

Best of luck with picking out names!

Stephanie

I also like uncommon names but me and dh wanted to use biblical names so we named our daughter Hannah Elizabeth and our son Ethan Elijah.

And we love the name Hannah.

:wink: :D

With us, there are quite a few nieces and nephews in our family plus our two, and so it was quite hard to pick names given that a lot of the ones we like are already taken!

I love the name Justin, but we already have a Justin, Benjamin has been taken x2 over - it goes on. SO we came up with the name Beau if we were having a boy (which we aren't)

We struggled to find a girls name for AGES and couldn't agree on any names! We at first had picked Ellie, which was the first girls name we had agreed on - and then we went off that and went onto the name Matilda and that has stuck.

We like to have unusual names because we felt we kind of went down that track by calling our twins Paris and Jackson... so we didn't feel we could just give the third child a run-of-the-mill name.

We like originality and good meaning (I mean originality without being stupid, as in celebrity stupid ROTF)

With both my kids, I had first thought of names of people close to me- I wanted my son to be Ivan after a dear woman in my life, Ivy (Ivis); his middle name came from Lance Armstrong and I was set on that from the beginning. His dad and I watched a lot of basketball that year and went through many names that way as well. When it was time to name him, his dad really wanted Kobe so he was named Kobey Lance; I wanted to name my daughter Eunice (after my grandmother) but my mom didn't like the thought of my baby having her mom's name- it took me a long time to let go of it in respect for my mom because I had told my grandmother I would name my first girl after her- anyway, once I let go of Eunice, I went through several K names to go with Kobey, then began looking at other E names... Their dad's name is Eugene so I thought Euncie would have been nice for that reason too, but with another E name she could still have daddy's initials. Again, I had already decided that Lyne' (pronounced like Renee) would be her middle name; When I came across Eva, meaning "life" in Hebrew, I knew that was the right one- So, Eva Lyne' it is----

Aussiemom, I think Paris is a beautiful name, but in the States you could never do that, speaking of a stupid celebrity!! :lol:

It's cool to hear what's common and uncommon in certain areas. Like here, Ethan and Hannah are sooo common. But, all of the trendy names are common here, like Madison, Aidan...

We chose biblical first names and used our names for their middle names. My husband's first name is first son's middle name and hubby's middle name is second son's middle name. Same for both of my names for boys 3 and 4! Coincidentally my first name and hubby's middle name are also our grandmother's maiden names! I do think it is neat to carry on family names in someway if you can! ( we did change my middle name from Ann to Anthony for boy number 4! )

It's cool to hear what's common and uncommon in certain areas. Like here, Ethan and Hannah are sooo common. But, all of the trendy names are common here, like Madison, Aidan...

We have an Ethan and we absolutely love it, the meaning is so appropraite for our little guy! When we used it, we did know other Ethan's but not in our area.

We tried to pick names that were not names of people we knew. Other than family of course. For our first, we picked Aaron. He was going to be named Ethan until about a week before he was born, then I just felt that Aaron was right. For our second we were so sure it was going to be a girl that I wanted to name it Elaina (after my mil Elaine who has passed) and Ruth for my gma. But...we found out it was another boy and we had a problem. The 3 of us could not agree. Everything we would pick, Aaron would come up with a nickname. I liked Evan, then he started saying "revin' Evan" from Jay-Jay the Jet Plane. So that was out. We also liked Matthew Michael, then Aaron says "M & M". So we finally decided on Ian. Nobody in my family really liked it at first, but then he is definately a "Ian"! :D

I really like the name Silas. It's different and a strong name. That was one I thought about. I had a list of boys names I loved, but couldn't seem to convince DH on them. Since I teach school too, there is a lot of names I couldn't use because they reminded me too much of students I taught and definitely didn't want to name my son after. We did finally agree on Austin. So we're naming him Austin James (James was my grandfather's name and a good biblical name.)

we were drawn to celtic, biblical, and family names. I have a HUGE family and didn't want to use the same name so we were a little limited.

we picked
Aiden Jacob
William Karl (after grandfathers)
Robert Ethan

Ok ...

1. Each child has names starting with different initials eg we have Abby Mariah and soon... Sophie Charlize
2. No boys names on girls or vice versa
3. Name must have nice meaning ... Abigail means "fathers joy". Mariah means "wished for child". Sophie means "wisdom". Charlize is a form of Charlotte and Charlotte means "women".
4. No names that are already in our family.
5. No last names as first names eg McKenzie

I think that's it...

Edited: Oh yeah I forgot... I like Naomi and am considering it as the middle name for Sophie instead of Charlize... but my sister says it makes her think of Naomi Campbell :roll: :lol: So who knows...

when i was pregnant with first we both liked the name quinn. when we found out she was a girl we changed the spelling to look more like a girls name and we wanted something diferent that not alot of other kids have so we have:
KWYNN ELYSE
our second was a boy and by dutch tradition it should be named after family, our son is named after both of his grandfathers

JAKOB KORS ( jakob is a fourth generation name and kors is a seventh generation name)

our last was a girl her middle names are from family

GRAYCE ANNE MARIA ( anne from me, mom, grandma, and mil is annette, maria is from a very important person in my dh family (she passed away 07/25/06)

if we have any more children there names will be BENJAMIN JARROD JOHN ( for daddy, uncle and great opa) and helena catharina ( catharina is my grandmother's name, and helen is from my great grandmother

naming after family is important to us

we wanted to name our children's middle names after someone special. my dd middle name is after my Grandmother and then we wanted a pretty first name to go with it. When we heard the name, we new it was the one, and it means Cheerful! Perfect! Allayna Rose is my dd.
My son we had his name all picked out if my dd was a boy! we liked it prior to the name ever becoming real popular. We liked Jake. But it did not really go with Timothy, which is my husbands name. We named our son Jacob Timothy. We call him both Jacob and Jake.

Ok ...

1. Each child has names starting with different initials eg we have Abby Mariah and soon... Sophie Charlize
2. No boys names on girls or vice versa
3. Name must have nice meaning ... Abigail means "fathers joy". Mariah means "wished for child". Sophie means "wisdom". Charlize is a form of Charlotte and Charlotte means "women".
4. No names that are already in our family.
5. No last names as first names eg McKenzie

I think that's it...

Edited: Oh yeah I forgot... I like Naomi and am considering it as the middle name for Sophie instead of Charlize... but my sister says it makes her think of Naomi Campbell :roll: :lol: So who knows...


Well, Naomi reminds me of Ruth's mother-in -law and Charlize reminds me instantly of Charlize Theron. :lol: Since it is a middle name, I would be less concerned, though.

Your list sounds like ours. We definitely didn't want to do all same letter names like some families. I've heard of some who like a name but since the other kids have a different letter, they don't use the one they really like.

Rachel - I love celtic names also - but DH isn't really into them...!!!

I have an irish spanish heritage and he has a scottish french heritage but we never derived names from our original intercontinental origins.

Although honestly, his mother and grandmother are speculating even now that we will have another baby (mm not even got this one out and everyone is planning our next LOL LOL) and they are quite keen for a boy next time and want me to call him William because... somewhere down the line they are related to William Wallace. I find it quite funny rather than offensive.

Ok ...

1. Each child has names starting with different initials eg we have Abby Mariah and soon... Sophie Charlize
2. No boys names on girls or vice versa
3. Name must have nice meaning ... Abigail means "fathers joy". Mariah means "wished for child". Sophie means "wisdom". Charlize is a form of Charlotte and Charlotte means "women".
4. No names that are already in our family.
5. No last names as first names eg McKenzie

I think that's it...

Edited: Oh yeah I forgot... I like Naomi and am considering it as the middle name for Sophie instead of Charlize... but my sister says it makes her think of Naomi Campbell :roll: :lol: So who knows...


Well, Naomi reminds me of Ruth's mother-in -law and Charlize reminds me instantly of Charlize Theron. :lol: Since it is a middle name, I would be less concerned, though.

Your list sounds like ours. We definitely didn't want to do all same letter names like some families. I've heard of some who like a name but since the other kids have a different letter, they don't use the one they really like.

Yeah you mean Naomi in the bible? I kind of wanted both kids to have one biblical name. So it might end up the middle name... and I love the meaning "pleasantness". :wink: I have to :lol: about you mentioning Charlize Theron. That is how we came up with Charlize LOL We were watching Sweet November and I think it's the first movie I've ever watched that has Charlize Theron in it. And I had no idea who she was... I just saw her name in the credits and said to Paul "that's a nice name" and he agreed. But anyway, now he reckons he doesn't really like Sophie or Charlize :roll: even though he told me he liked Sophie when I asked him. So I think he is just being difficult because he wants to pick the name all by himself because I picked Abbys name myself because he likes all really common names like Anna and Sarah etc... I told him our kids had to have names that aren't too common. And Anna is the name of one of his ex girlfriends so that's definitely out of the question!

I know a lady with 7 boys and they all have names starting with J. :roll:

I have such an odd name (Nicoleen) actually never heard it before, so wanted to stick with something different and unique. To tell the truth about my sons name.. if you all remember Lacey Peterson and that tragedy, well her unborn sons name was to be Connor. DH & I agreed !
DS has hubbys middle name & DD has my middle name. I guess that means I have to stop - although I do have one more boy name picked, but we will trust God's will!!!!!

I have such an odd name (Nicoleen) actually never heard it before, so wanted to stick with something different and unique. To tell the truth about my sons name.. if you all remember Lacey Peterson and that tragedy, well her unborn sons name was to be Connor. DH & I agreed !
DS has hubbys middle name & DD has my middle name. I guess that means I have to stop - although I do have one more boy name picked, but we will trust God's will!!!!!

That's a nice name! You could spell it Nicolene as well.
I love French names... Jacqueline, Madeleine, Genevieve, Antoinette, Sebastien, Andre....
This is probably because both my sister and I have French names. My sisters name is Monique.
Charlize is French I guess... it's a pet form of Charlotte which is French. And apparently Sophie is a common name in France. It's not originally French though I don't think...

I love the name Genivieve when it's pronounced in the French way

(as in Jenna-V-EV), it sounds so pretty.

It's cool to hear what's common and uncommon in certain areas. Like here, Ethan and Hannah are sooo common. But, all of the trendy names are common here, like Madison, Aidan...

We have an Ethan
...and we're going to have a Madison. :lol: Maybe I haven't been out much, but Madison isn't as common over here.

Our style is pretty much the same as everyone else's: unique names that won't bring about ridicule. Names of fruits and veggies, celestial bodies, and animals aren't exactly our style. :wink:

I found that girls names were so easy to find, but boys were tough. We had a couple boys names picked out: Hayden Arbor and Logan Taylor (LT for short). Different, but not outrageous.

Well, I don't think anyone wants to use an overly common name. I think alot of times parents find one they like and then when the kids are in school, they find out that they have classmates with the same name. It has to happen with the ultra trendy names. Like, everyone knows by now that "Emily" won't be alone. But, Madison won't be either, even though it hasn't been used very long.

I think at the end of the day it is what you personally like and for whatever reason you chose the name, whether it be after a relative, friend, for the meaning etc.
I wanted to say that I prayed a lot about the names I chose for both boys as I personally feel that it is important. My dh would have called our 2nd son Ethan too if he had a chance as he just really likes that name!
Micah is a name I have liked for a long time and it wasn't dh's first choice but he was happy to go along with it! It means "Who is like God?" And Micah really suits his name too.
I find it so interesting that Aiden is so popular in the US as it is an Irish name, but I have met more Aiden's here! I also love that name too & Connor :)

Anyway I love the baby naming stage and I wish you all fun with it!!

I love the name Genivieve when it's pronounced in the French way

(as in Jenna-V-EV), it sounds so pretty.

I always pronounce the French names right! :wink: I used to get sooo annoyed with people that couldn't even pronounce my name right. Or spell it right for that matter... probably thanks to all the new spellings for names. Like Renée ... there is now Renae and Rene'e. Oh and not to mention my aunties (fathers sisters) that spell it René which is the boys spelling. :roll: