How did you decide on a name?

We are pretty positive we are having a from my ultrascreen visit but should hopefully find out on the 1st.

In any event DH is cool with basically any girl name. But EVERY boy name I suggest he HATES.

He is part Italian so every name he is suggesting sounds like the kid would've come straight off the boat. I don't think we will ever come to an agreement in time!!!

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We went through the books and narrowed it down to 3 of each sex.

We didn't know what we were having until d day.

We chose Amelia Grace b/c we both loved that name.

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We are having the same problem with boys names... but we cant even find any that either of us really loves.

Ugh

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We decided on family names.

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Put names in a bowl and drew. Honestly.

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we agreed on the name pretty quickly - he picked out a baby name book and within the first 5 minutes of looking thru it a name just popped out at us.

the middle name was a little harder b/c we wanted to use a particular letter, but still not too bad.

i think what really helped us was that as soon as we found out it was a boy i decided i really wanted to name him after our paternal grandfathers who are both deceased... so we had those initials to work with and it helped us narrow down our choices.

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We flipped a coin

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When we figure it out, I'll let you know.

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I picked them, told dh and he agreed.

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We first talked about baby names before we were even married while on a long drive away for the weekend. We just started saying baby names and yelled "VETO" if we hated the name said out loud. When we got to the name we chose, we just knew it would be the name. Sounds so silly, but it's true.

For the middle name, we chose a family name. That made things much easier.

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Since we are both Jewish, we knew we would name for deceased relatives in Hebrew. Many times, people use the initials of the deceased to guide them in a name choice. It is NOT a requirement. That is a VERY common misconception and NOT Jewish law.

We had planned to name the child for my father and DH's grandfather REGARDLESS of gender in Hebrew. When we found out we were having a girl, we found female equivalents in Hebrew to the Hebrew names of those two men. Then we TRIED to match initials to the English names of the same people, but did not like any names with those letters so we chose English names we liked.

Then sadly my mother passed away 3 months ago and since I am the only one of her children having any more children, we decided to give our daughter a SECOND Hebrew middle name to honor her. Should we not have a second child, Mom wouldn't get a name til my nieces and nephews have children which may not be for another 20 years.

The English first and middle names we chose are based in the Old Testament and both have a great deal of meaning to us. They were not chosen based on popularity, but in our faith. We each made a list of names from the Old Testament that we liked, compared the lists, knocked off all that we didn't like from each other's list and chose from what was left.

So if anyone is REALLY dying to know, break out your Pentateuch, make a list and try to guess. DH and I are tight lipped - havent told a soul.

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We let the family help us with the name picking.

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We both suggested names. He hated some, I hated some, we finally agree on some, and so it is.

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Dylan was my favorite name pretty early on. DH did not want to talk names until the pregnancy was further along. I suggested several, including Dylan. He hated the other names. It was actually easy because we had the same favorite. I admit, I originally came to like the name in the 90210 days.

I went to college with a weird guy named Dillon (different spelling) but I still liked his name. That was where I first heard it.

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I'm in the same situation. But neither of us LOVE anything. 6 days to go and no name yet...poor

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All of the boy names we liked either were names of his brothers or close male friends. In Italian tradition the 2nd boy (he already has a son) is supposed to be named after the mothers father but we don't like Robert, so we skipped and are naming him after my DH. I'm not 100% thrilled, but it will work and it means something to DH

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this was not an obstacle for us
we both like the same names and picked them out before we were married LOL

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Posted by Katie111806

When we figure it out, I'll let you know.

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27 days to go and STILL don't have a name

Dh is very unooperative

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We decided on my husbands middle name. Andrew. I don't like many boy names so its tough, its a good thing I like his middle name!

Here are some names that are in our family:

Dante
Marco
Anthony
Lucas
Michael

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we tried a variety of names but none clicked with me-dh was pretty easy going.. his name is raymond and he wanted at least one name that started with an R..

we started off with if its' a boy name it after him, a girl name her after me..

then it was a girl, and i think he got a little jealous.. (never admitted it but all of a sudden it became an issue to him for a child to not have their own identity and be named after a parent..yeah okay..)

so then we picked some other names, and i finally realized that none of them really worked for me because I had no connection to them. I"m not a pull a name out of a hat/book kind of person. I need the name to have real significance and mean something.. my dad passed away in 2005 and his name is kenneth, so i began looking for names that would memorialize him.. didn't like kenya or kenyatta, so I came up with Kennedy!

The middle name was pretty easy, both dh and I have a grandma Rose, and there was his R name..

The second middle name is my last name to once again align her with her maternal legacy..

and then his last name to seal the deal..


So it's Kennedy Rose Clay D*

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Posted by Katie111806

When we figure it out, I'll let you know.

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For now, one if our names is originally from a book that I read. I finally got my DH on board with that one.

Our second name we found on a wine list and it is unusual without being weird, we think.

We decided not to discuss them for a while.