My little girl is going to be nameless!

[kimmylaj]

just wanted to add i have a mia at home turning 3 this week. she is a doll. so my vote is for mia . we call her mimi rosebud. i wanted to name her lucy but i got vetoed. mia is a great name

 

[AshtonsMom99]

Rainne
or Rianne
or Hensley Grace

 

[Sandy321]

WOW - so many choices - I remember how hard, and how special this choice is -

I just made lists top 5 names, put the list somewhere, and a week later made another top 5 list - consulting everyone -

complications ensued with our first born, and we were in the hospital for 5 days - still trying to decide his name, I went thru all those pieces of papers of my top 5 lists - and noticed 1 name was always on the list- so there was ds name!!

 

[design_mom]

I heard a lady call in on a local radio station here that was a nurse in a nursery of a hospital and she said a lady named her daughter "La-a" Pronounced "Ladasha"... ha ha!

I heard of that one, too... only when I heard it, my co-worker said that it was a girl's name at the school where her mother teaches. Turns out, it's an internet rumor. (Thank goodness on that one, eh?) http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

On the other hand, my SIL is a nurse in a mother-infant ward and sometimes calls me with crazy names. Her latest was a little girl whose name was pronounced "Ab-sid-dee" (rhymes with rhapsody). The spelling: Abcde. I'm not joking!

OP -- are you any closer to a decision?

 

[two-foxes]

Well, shoot....now I feel REAAALLLLY behind. We just over two weeks out and still don't have a name officially picked yet!

Good luck to the OP!

 

[jewjubean]

Well we've had lots of babies born at work lately so here are some:
Rhylee
Addison
Brylin (Bry-Lin)
Brookelynn
Madison
Skylar
Hope this helps!

 

[fredflintstone]

If it makes you feel better, we had less than 2 weeks before her due date (she came 9 days early) before we came up with a name. There was not a single name out there that was good enough for my DH's pretty little princess. We finally decided on a name I threw out there MONTHS and MONTHS before! So don't stress, it will come and when it does you will know. I really liked Emma Leigh and Grayson Leigh...my middle name is Leigh...but we didn't go with either! haha We went with Mackenzie Leigh! Good Luck! and Congrats!

 

[Iluvjiminy]

I skipped through so I didn't read all the suggestions.............forgive me if these have already been suggested

Taylor Elizabeth (were gonna name last DD this but nobody liked it)
Haylea (last DD's name)

my cousin has 3 little girls and named them....
Raven
Piper
Sage

her brother has 3 daughters and their names are:
Jordyn
Rhyan
Tristan

I'm sure you will come up with a beautiful name

 

[TXmom2princesses]

Ok I just have to throw some names out there...when I was prego I was obsessed with names. I knew my first born had to start w/ the letter B since my gma, mom, and I all start with B. I liked Riley so I just added a B and now I have a beautiful daughter named Briley Jean(mine and my gma's middle name). My second daughter I wanted a K since my husbands name begins with a K. I liked Kaley and Kendall, but I knew someone else with those names. I played with the name and came up with Kinley Allyn(my husbands middle nmae is Allen).
I also considered....
Keelyn
Kadie
Kambrie
Koral
Kailyn
One of my husbands distant cousins has 2 girls named Korley and Karis and a son named Koy...As you can tell I love K names and so does she...lol

 

[Aunt Flancy]

The girl name I had picked out was Mallory Paige. I never got to use it.

I have nieces named
Kristian
Kindra
Alyssa
Shaila
Ashley
Mariah
Miranda
Samantha
Lainey

I also like
Jaci
Jill
Justine
Delia
Anna
Alicia

 

[*Toadstool*]

I wanted to name my DD Fallon. I love it. I don't know why. My DH knew someone named that and he veto'd it. Now we don't even talk to that person, so it seems a little silly that we didn't just go with the name we liked.
We also liked Chloe, but my DH's parents didn't like it. Thinking about that now I can not believe we didn't pick that just because they didn't like it.
I love that we named her Hannah, but I know at least 10 other Hannahs her age. I had no idea it was such a popular name when I picked it. Hannah Montana did come shortly after she was born. I was clueless..
We call her Bee Bee most of the time though which is cajun french for baby. It just kinda stuck.

 

[stacy6552]

I can't stress enough, give her an unusual name but NOT and unusual spelling. All that does is sentense her to spell her name for everyone her entire life.

 

[Keara'sMom]

I can't stress enough, give her an unusual name but NOT and unusual spelling. All that does is sentense her to spell her name for everyone her entire life.

I sort of agree with this, if the only reason to spell a name in an "unusual" way is to be different. We actually did spell our daughter's name differently than it's typically spelled, and she LOVES it (she's 12, so the fact that she loves having a name that's spelled a bit differently is no small thing). We chose an Irish spelling of Keara (people usually want to spell it KIRA) to honor my husband's paternal grandparents, so there was a reason beyond just wanting it to be different. Our daughter does get called "Kee-AIR-ah" a lot, but it doesn't seem to bother her.

Good luck!

Oh, and I wanted to add, I made a list of names, passed it to my dh, who crossed out anything he didn't like and added to it. We went back and forth until we came up with the name we both liked, which was about two days before she was born!!

 

[*Toadstool*]

I can't stress enough, give her an unusual name but NOT and unusual spelling. All that does is sentense her to spell her name for everyone her entire life.

I totally agree with this.

I sort of agree with this, if the only reason to spell a name in an "unusual" way is to be different. We actually did spell our daughter's name differently than it's typically spelled, and she LOVES it (she's 12, so the fact that she loves having a name that's spelled a bit differently is no small thing). We chose an Irish spelling of Keara (people usually want to spell it KIRA) to honor my husband's paternal grandparents, so there was a reason beyond just wanting it to be different. Our daughter does get called "Kee-AIR-ah" a lot, but it doesn't seem to bother her.

Good luck!

Oh, and I wanted to add, I made a list of names, passed it to my dh, who crossed out anything he didn't like and added to it. We went back and forth until we came up with the name we both liked, which was about two days before she was born!!

My name is Kira. I get called K-eye-rah or Kara(my name looks nothing like Kara!!!) I hate it! I love my name, but just hate it being mispronounced. Now that I am married I get my first and last name mispronounced. That is probably why I went with Hannah. I thought surely people won't say her name wrong.
Growing up I knew a girl named Keara and she said everyone always pronounced her name correctly. I was so jealous.. hehe.
It is definitely one of my biggest pet peeves.
I have to say people are getting it right a little more since Kiera Knightly.

 

[NotUrsula]

I'll throw out a situation for you: a few days ago I picked my DS up from school, and as we were pulling away a group of 4 girls waved to him. <blush, blush> As he turned beet red, I asked who the girls were. His answer was: Maggie, Maggie, Maddie, and Maddie.

DS is 12. These girls are all in his class of 21 kids. Margaret was nowhere in the top 100 for girls the year he was born, but he has 2 of them in his class (he transferred schools this year, and he had had two in his previous class, too.). The other two are named Madison and Madeline; those names WERE in the Top 100 in 1997.

The moral of this story is, pay attention to where you are when it comes to the popularity issue if it is important to you, because the nicknames can trip you up. I live in a very Catholic community where the majority ethnic groups are Irish, German, and Italian. We have what seem like endless permutations of Katie, Molly, Maggie, Ella and Bella. These can come about in unexpected ways: for instance, a neighbor child is known as Molly, but her name is Amalie. (It's a German name in this case, pron. ah-MAHL-yuh. If the person is French, however, it's ah-meh-LEE, with an "e" in the middle instead of an "a".)

Which brings me to the other point I wish to bring up: when spelling ethnic names correctly for their languages, be aware that people WILL decide that the name is properly spelled or pronounced a different way if they know a similar-looking or similar-sounding name from another language, because "it's the same thing." You need to look realistically at whether or not that is going to drive you batty. After two years I have gotten to the point that I can ignore most of the people who call my daughter Ashley, though I'm afraid it still grates on my nerves to hear her called that.

 

[Michele926]

My friend just named her little girl (last week) Teaghan - I call her Tea cup.

I really like the name Bryce for a girl.

Always loved Olivia (big Olivia Newton John fan - same b-day) but I think it is too popular now.

When I had my son, we didnt think of his name until we were on the way to the hospital. The night before I had a dream of the baby and he said I am not coming out until u pick a name, in the same dream I remember the name Gavin. I told my husband about the dream, and that prior night he had a dream of the baby, he had not had one of the baby the entire pregnancy. So we kind of joke and say our son named himself....Gavin James

Now my husband has my sons initials tattoo'd on his chest GJJ - so I say if we ever have any more kids we have to give them all the same initials, so no one feels left out.

If so ...I like Gabriella Jo (Grace became too popular) - or - Grady Jackson

 

[*Toadstool*]

I'll throw out a situation for you: a few days ago I picked my DS up from school, and as we were pulling away a group of 4 girls waved to him. <blush, blush> As he turned beet red, I asked who the girls were. His answer was: Maggie, Maggie, Maddie, and Maddie.

DS is 12. These girls are all in his class of 21 kids. Margaret was nowhere in the top 100 for girls the year he was born, but he has 2 of them in his class (he transferred schools this year, and he had had two in his previous class, too.). The other two are named Madison and Madeline; those names WERE in the Top 100 in 1997.

The moral of this story is, pay attention to where you are when it comes to the popularity issue if it is important to you, because the nicknames can trip you up. I live in a very Catholic community where the majority ethnic groups are Irish, German, and Italian. We have what seem like endless permutations of Katie, Molly, Maggie, Ella and Bella. These can come about in unexpected ways: for instance, a neighbor child is known as Molly, but her name is Amalie. (It's a German name in this case, pron. ah-MAHL-yuh. If the person is French, however, it's ah-meh-LEE, with an "e" in the middle instead of an "a".)

Which brings me to the other point I wish to bring up: when spelling ethnic names correctly for their languages, be aware that people WILL decide that the name is properly spelled or pronounced a different way if they know a similar-looking or similar-sounding name from another language, because "it's the same thing." You need to look realistically at whether or not that is going to drive you batty. After two years I have gotten to the point that I can ignore most of the people who call my daughter Ashley, though I'm afraid it still grates on my nerves to hear her called that.

What is your daughter's name? I don't think you said.
Just wondering.

 

[Jess575]

My girls are Kinsley, Cassidy and Harleigh (her 2 year old brother wanted a motorcycle, not a baby LOL!). If we should have another girl I would probably name her Lena.

 

[dogodisney]

What is your daughter's name? I don't think you said.
Just wondering.

She didn't. I'm curious now too!

 

[NotUrsula]

Aisling.