Baby name help

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

Almost as much fun as what your porn star name would be.

Take the name of your first pet and add it to the name of the street you grew up on and that's your porn star name

Mine is Sooty Poquanticut. Wow, no wonder I picked another employment field...

 

[Nnett]

Maybe you can go for a unique first name and old faction second name.

 

[jennilouwho]

We've been having the same problem. I am PG with a boy and didn't really have any names we both loved. I like the more "modern" names, like Logan, Mason, Griffin, etc... My husband is stuck on Henry. I have finally decided to go with it. No matter what name I come up with he has a reason he doesn't like it (but my second cousin twice removed's child is named that!) So he wins this one. He's called the baby Henry so much now it's grown on me. I guess it's kind of a brainwashing technique. You could try that....

 

[T. Lynn]

Here is what we had chosen: Brendon Owen

 

[F1Julie]

Update: After a few days of scouring books and websites, DH shot down every other suggestion I made. We had already made lists. In the spirit of compromise (and because I am very bored at work), I researched the names on both of our lists by meaning, origin, and popularity. I narrowed both our lists down to 5 names total - 3 of his and 2 of mine. We've been emailing back and forth. He just replied back to my list of 5 and said he likes 2 of his best and is on the fence about the 3rd one of his. I guess I'm just venting, but it's like he is just completely dismissing any of my choices. We'll be talking about this tonight.

 

[puffkin]

Simple.

He gets the last name, you get the first name and compromise on the middle

 

[Elmo888]

Simple.

He gets the last name, you get the first name and compromise on the middle

I LOVE that! I wish that I had the sense to use that argument!

Picking baby names is not fun. I thought that it would be, but it was not.

 

[DevilDuckie]

Simple.

He gets the last name, you get the first name and compromise on the middle

I like it! Especially since my husband and I have different last names.

 

[JillPTFLA]

My dh and I couldn't agree on our second son's name. We referred to him as "Mookie" while he was in utero (and before we knew he was a he) and there were a few months that it looked like that was going to be his given name because we couldn't come up with anything else!
Anyway, another suggestion that a friend of mine used...they didn't make lists or anything, they just waited until each of their kids were born (they have 3) and named them what they felt fit. It works because once the child was born, the name "arguments" were kind of trivial and they found it much easier to agree. Personally, I couldn't do it but it worked for them!
Congrats on having a boy (I have 2 and they are tons of fun!) and good luck with the decision.
Jill

 

[dis-happy]

I didn't read all the responses so maybe someone has mentioned this...

DON'T FORGET: it's the MOM who fills out the birth certificate!!! So, pick whatever name you like!

 

[shelly3girls]

Simple.

He gets the last name, you get the first name and compromise on the middle

DH and I decided on the first two together. What really happened was that I suggested names until he found one he could live with. I love the names now but they were not my first choice. DH loves traditional names so when I named DS (part of my negotiation in agreeing to have a 3rd child that DH really wanted) I found a name with meaning he liked and a name I liked. This pleased both of us. We ended up with Caleb.

I have to agree with you, I like the shorter names with longer last names.

 

[BuzzandAriel'smom]

With both of our kids we gave them a family middle name. With dd we named her Alicia (uh-lee-see-uh) and everyone pronounced it Alesha. I almost changed it to Ava. But DH said you can't change her name because people are stupid and can't remember how to say it. So Alicia Rose is her name. With DS, my DH came up with the first name Marshall and I gave him the middle name Lee. So Marshall Lee it is. Luckily we didn't have a girl because we were going around and around with a girl's name before we found out it was a boy.

BTW we get alot of compliments on our names but even if we didn't, so what! It's your kid.

 

[CHEK]

I liked the name Lucas , but I was blessed with an Alexandra and Georgina

 

[princessalexis]

DS's dad and I could not agree on names at all. He couldn't be serious when discussing names, but also did not like my suggestions (I wanted a non-obvious Disney name - Peter). So I suggested naming our son after the two of us. So his first name ended up being Alexander, and his middle name is the same as his father's. I thought it was a nice compromise.

 

[lntsmom]

I had a friend who solved this problem by waiting until she'd gone into labor, then after a few hours, announcing that she just didn't have the strength to go on...and when her husband asked her what he could do to make things better, she suggested that if the name issue were resolved she just might have a bit more energy to focus on the delivery...and thus their son is named Zachary instead of Leonard or Eldon.

 

[CastleCreations]

Yes, very good advice to first time parents: DO NOT TELL YOUR FAMILY what you've named your kid before it comes out. Keep it between you and your spouse. Trust me, I've seen some of my friends give up their favorite names because a parent pooh poohed it, and then wish they had gone with it.

My parents HATED what we named both our kids, and y'know what? TOO BAD! My DH and I love the names (and they're not unusual names, either-we wanted to find names you could buy personalized stuff for at Disney). They just weren't to my relatives "taste" .

I made the mistake of telling my parents the name I chose...BIG MISTAKE!! I had to hear about it until I delivered her, and then of course they thought it was their idea, to hear them boast about her...
I decided on Ireland for my daughter...and when daughter number 2 was coming, I really wanted Sydney..but they thought 2 place names was too much, but I don't think of them as place names...they are just names I liked. Well I decided against Sydney and have regretted it ever since..I was so angry from listening to them, I refused to pick and name, and the day before I was induced, I decided just to pick something out of the "A" section of the baby book..so she's Alexis...and you know what...she hates it

 

[lntsmom]

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.

Funny how people can use the opposite reasoning without having either's logic be invalid!

My boys have very unusual spellings...Uilliam and Teiguen. I tell everyone that they will never be fooled by a telemarketers...nobody can guess the way to pronounce their names!

Uilliam is a family name, but I changed the W to a U because this is a traditional Irish spelling...and it was during the Clinton era. I never wanted my son to be called Willy or Bill...thus, the Irish spelling and nickname...Liam.

Teiguen is a tribute to CS Lewis. It means poet or philosopher. I used the spelling from Yeats. Most Americans have no idea that the name is actually Teague...except those who have it as a surname. But, our last name is one syllable and I needed a 2 syllable first name. Little did I know that the girls' name from Australia...Tegan...would take off like it has. So far my son doesn't mind have an ambisexual name.

To be honest, a big factor in their names is that I am a teacher. By the time I had kids there were a lot of names that had been ruined for me. Ask any teacher about J names, lol! Anyway, I figure that the likelyhood of either of my boys being in a class with another kid with the same name is highly unlikely!

 

[ajh88]

I haven't read through all the responses, but before DD was born, we didn't know her gender. We had a boy's name ready, but struggled with the girl's name. We knew the middle name (Joann) and we wanted Mae somewhere, but Mae Joann or Joann Mae just don't sound right.

Anyway, we took the initials of all of our grandparents (first and last names) and re-arranged them until we came up with a name - her name is Maeleah Joann.

Good luck and congratulations!

 

[tinker&belle]

Our boy's name was Noah Lee (Lee is given to the boys in DH's family). We both loved Noah...but we got a girl.

 

[juliana_sd]

My ex was deployed to Iraq when I was pg with DS. They had spotty internet access and were leaving to a place with NO access the same day as the big ultrasound. We'd been going back and forth via email on names and weren't really getting anywhere. I finally sent him a short list of names for each sex. I emailed him as soon as I found out it was a boy, and he emailed back with his choice from my list. That was the last I heard from him for about a month!! (Luckily he made it back about 6 weeks before my due date and we picked the middle name then.)