Baby name help

[homemaker]

We have four boys and are expecting our first girl. I posted for help with her name and got some great responses. Now DH and I really can't decided/agree. I think we have narrowed it down to Reagan, Paisley, or Payton.

Our boys names are Riley, Avery, Gavin, & Cooper. If this one was a boy we would have used Landon. We like not so common names that can't really be shortened.

Good luck finding a name. I know it's difficult, but you will find one that's perfect.

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

We also agreed on a girl name right away, and then found out we were having a boy. Boys names are HARD!

DH was going through all his favorite movies and naming characters. He said Captain Brodie (from JAWS) and I said I didn't really care for that but how about Brady? And it stuck. So, I feel like I still won but he had some input too

Middle name was a whole other story. We didn't want to name him after anyone and were having a really hard time. Finally I saw Kennedy on a website and liked it. I don't think most of our relatives like Kennedy part, but they all like the name Brady so they forget about his middle name.

We also did not tell anyone what our name was until after he was born. I didn't want to hear the critiquing.

Aww, boy names are EASY! Here, you can have this one, we had girls instead Grant Duncan....

 

[Elmo888]

Thanks for all the replies. We've already agreed to keep the name a secret from our families. We don't need even more opinions to add to our confusion. Also, we have ruled out family names as I don't want to show favoritism to one side of the family versus the other. We already have a middle name picked out too, but it is one the DH picked out the I went along with. That might have to change if we can't agree on a first name. At least we have until October to decide.

Oh, I'd keep the middle name that he picked and use as leverage for the first name!

Here are two ideas...maybe you can compromise on a name that is similar to one that one of you likes but the other can agree on. Like the poster that said that her DH suggested Brodie, and she said how about Brady. The names are similar, and it sounds like a compromise.

The other idea is for both of you to make lists of ten names and narrow it down from there. I can't remember exactly how we did this, but we did this to select a second girl's name (which was so difficult!). I think that we took the top five names from each list, made a new list of ten, and then each of us ranked the new list. Anyway, you get the idea. We narrowed it down until we had three names, and we each ranked the names. We picked the name that both of us had ranked the highest.

BTW, not to side with your DH, but I would lean towards his idea of a name simply because he's a boy having the boy. I always felt that you have more leeway with girls' names, but not as much with boys' names. I'm guessing that your DH probably wants a boy's name that sounds like a boy's name and will always be a boy's name. This is how my DH felt (too bad that we had two girls!).

Here's hoping that you find something unique AND traditional!

Good luck!

 

[Elmo888]

Aww, boy names are EASY! Here, you can have this one, we had girls instead Grant Duncan....

You can have ours since we had girls, too! Calvin Joseph...

 

[lemondog]

Yep...you can have our boy name too

Owen Cooper (Cooper is my maiden name)

 

[Russian-in-Kansas]

Baby naming is so much fun! Congrats and good luck!
We were kind of on another side of it, we looked at our parents for input, and really appreciated it. We wanted names that would go well with both sets of grandparents and would represent the kids' heritage (Cuban and Russian). The middle names we were free to do as we liked.
The oldest is Alexander (great in Russian and Spanish) Leif (For Eriksson, as he was the first one born in the US in both families) and the youngest is Victor (also easy and meaningful for both families) Yossarian (umm, Catch-22 is my favorite book)...
We didn't have too much fighting on the names and both sets of grandparents loved feeling like they were part of it all. We probably won't have any more kids, but if by some luck we do, for a boy we'll use Nikita or Vladimir..For a girl Tatiana (I loooove my name) or Valentina

 

[CampbellScot]

as the previous poster just said...perhaps looking into names that represent your heritage would satisfy you both! A lot of those names are "traditional" but aren't over used so you have the "unique" factor too!!

I'm Irish and my husband is Scottish. We've had fun looking into names from both sides.

There are TONS of websites with "cultural" names!

good luck!!! and Congrats!!!

 

[DevilDuckie]

Just a note on "unique" names...

I grew up in Berkeley. Sorrell, Cloudella, Easter Wrabbit, Demosthenes Jamaica and Tuna all envied me my "Susie". Save the outlandish stuff for the puppy.

Tuna changed her name to Jane on her 18th birthday.

 

[_queenie_]

His name is Rylan. We paired it with a very traditional middle name, so it all worked out.

That's cute!

My DH and I had slight trouble coming to a concensus for each of our kids, but it was mostly because I couldn't decide, he was very good about letting me have the final say. For our last he really liked the name Mallory, after Mallory Square in Key West, and Delaney, after Jimmy Buffet's daughter. I really liked Chloe and Madison as they're both cute names and remind me of my other DD's name, Allison (or Alle, yes that's really how we spell it). I also liked that they were popular in Enlgand/originated there, as my other kids have English names/names popular in England with us being very English. We ended up eliminating Delaney because someone else named their baby Delaney and it just didn't work with our last name or the middle name we picked out, Madison because it was just too popular, and Mallory because it sounds too much like my name (Madison does a bit also, I really wanted my DDs to have similar names, not me and one of them). In the end we could both agree really agree on Chloe anyway, it has a pretty sound and also goes great with the sound of our last name (Chloe Joanna ___ ). My only concern with it was that it may not suit her her whole life, but now seeing her named Chloe I'm really happy with the decision and think she'll be fine.

Good luck!

 

[I Believe n Fairies]

We had our son named before we tried to have a baby. His name is Henry. It is not common in my area and I really liked the name. I'll be honest, though, I loved the name before I found out that I was having a boy. Once I found out he was a he, I tried out several other names. However, the more I said Henry, the more it fit. And, he is SO a Henry.

My dd is Abigail, and, while I love her name, it was not my first pick. There are SO many in our area that when my son came along, I wanted a different name. So far, we've not crossed paths with another one.

 

[LoriMomx5]

We have 4 boy names you can use!
Bryson Charles
Holden Christopher
Jackson Thomas
Logan Robert
then we adopted Hannah Lorin!

Congratulations.You will pick the perfect name for your little guy! Lori

 

[EltonJohn]

DH and I found out we are having a boy.

Congrats!

 

[JennG]

Thanks for all the replies. We've already agreed to keep the name a secret from our families. We don't need even more opinions to add to our confusion. Also, we have ruled out family names as I don't want to show favoritism to one side of the family versus the other. We already have a middle name picked out too, but it is one the DH picked out the I went along with. That might have to change if we can't agree on a first name. At least we have until October to decide.

We started going through names and we couldn't agree on any either. I went and spent the $ on one of the baby name books. We started going through it and picking names we liked - well, he would like one and I wouldn't and vice versa. So, my husband came up with an idea that is going to sound a little crazy. We each had to come up with a list of names with at least one name from each letter of the alphabet. We then came up with a combined list of agreed upon names. Everyone thought we were crazy for having such a long list, and my FIL really did not like the idea of his grandson having the possibility of his name beginning with X. We wanted to wait and see him before we named him to make sure his name suited him. And we also did not want to get into the comments from people beforehand.

BTW, I didn't want family names either for that same reason. DS's middle name is a family name (also my husband's middle name) - I couldn't win on this one. I tried to balance things out with using my maiden name as his first name, but that didn't go over (it's Price BTW).

Good luck! You'll find the perfect name if not now, then when he is born.

 

[chipper10]

We were going to name DS Cillian James, but we told the family the name and they hated it. So it was back to the drawing board.
I was watching A Walk to Remember one night and in the wedding seen they say the main character's middle name. His name is Landon Rollins Carter. I loved it. I woke DH up and told him. He liked it too. He really liked the Rollins, he is a fan of Henry Rollins.
So, it stuck.

Our girl name was Campbell Theresa. DH picked the 1st name and I picked the middle. We kinda had the same intention with the boy name, but opposite. I would pick the first name and DH would pick the middle.

 

[adell557]

I think names should be easy to spell, and not something that you kid will want to change when they get older. Comforting names that are cute when theyare little and distinguished enough to be gwon up later.

We have a Grace Elizabeth (Gracie) and Benjamin Joseph (Ben or Benny).

 

[kokomos]

My favorite boy name is Caine. I wanted to use it as a middle name but got out voted and used my maiden name. I think anytime a woman has been through many months of carrying the baby and long hours of labor you can pretty much talk your husband into anything.
Good luck choosing the right name.

 

[dis75ney]

We had the hardest time coming up with boy names when i was pregnant eight years ago. We had a girl name all ready to go, but couldn't come up with anything for a boy. I had the requirement that our first boy's middle name would be William (after my maternal grandfather), so we had to plan the first name around that. We "fought" constantly until I was about 2 weeks away from my due date, then one day, at McDonald's (I can tell you exactly where we were sitting when this happened!), I looked at DH and said, "What about Nathan?" DH sounded it out with William, then we went home and tested yelling it out the front door (thankfully, one of our neighbors was older and losing her hearing, and the other neighbors were deaf, so no complaints ). It worked, and two weeks later we welcomed Nathan William.

I'm not even pregnant now, and we're already discussing names for our second child. Funny thing is, this time around, we already have a boy name picked out (Alexander "Xander" Eugene - DH got middle naming rights in exchange for my demand the first time around), but are now "fighting" over a girl name!!!

 

[bellebud]

then we went home and tested yelling it out the front door

my dh has done this every time we have to name a dog... he won't yell a "sissy" name across the yard, even if it's a girl dog. So he has to practice before we decide on a name.

To the OP...

when we were naming our ds, I suggested a name, dh didn't like it. 2 weeks later, someone else suggested the same name, he loved it (he even loved it so much he called me at home to ask if I liked it, and of course I responded with "yes dear, I liked it 2 weeks ago when *I* suggested it!!" which of course he denies remembering. Anyway, sometimes having someone else, a third party, saying the names to you, can help.

I also kept in mind teachers reading the names on attendance records and misprouncing a differently spelled name - didn't want that for 13+ years of schooling. I also wanted to make sure the kids didn't go through life having to spell out their names for everyone constantly... when they say their names, people would pretty much know how to spell it.

We have a ds and dd, and we gave them each our first names as their middle names, which I love. My first name is Elizabeth and dh's is Michael, so we gave the kids shorter first names (Erin Elizabeth and Ryan Michael).

I remember a girl in my school had the middle name "Cinnamon" (her first name was Jamie), which I always thought was cute, and this was WAY before anyone named their kids different names (I'm 40 yo). But it's a nice way to have a really different name without worrying about the kid having trouble all the time with it throughout life.

good luck!

 

[Gillian]

Congratulations!

DH & I also have very common names so we wanted different but not strange also. The social security website is helpful in figuring out what's popular now. There's a good chance you can find something that's simple but not in the top 10. http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

Our son's name has been ~#250 for the past 10 years (out of the top 1000) and that's fine for us. Everyone seems to like the name and it suits him.

BUT, my newly born nephew has a more popular name (#150 or so) that people think is a little weird.

 

[Gillian]

Also, this one is fun!
http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager