[name_m]How[/name_m] did you know when you found thee name for your son or daughter (or future baby)?
Was it a moment during pregnancy, or holding the little one?
When naming my son, I was obsessed with finding names, and got soooo frustrated with DH for not liking my favourites. And when I finally found [name_m]Maddox[/name_m] and we both decided we liked the nn [name_u]Max[/name_u], it just felt right. That was around 36 weeks and I am so glad he suited his name.
What about you berries, how did you know when you found “the one”?
We always knew with our first daughter what her first name would be. The middle we were a little more indecisive on, but my husband didn’t feel as strongly about the middle name so he pretty much gave me free rein on that. With our second, I never had that YES moment. It was much harder to choose a name for her because we had to consider our first daughter’s name (which eliminated a lot of favourites for our second). The name [name_f]Indira[/name_f] was recommended on nameberry & grew on us slowly, and eventually my husband liked it so much he stopped considering anything else. Again he basically let me choose whatever for her middle name. Her name seems to suit her so far but I think it will really kind of click & feel right once she can say her own name. I’m sure DH will be more demanding I’m sure if we ever have a boy (since he loves family names) so we will have to wait & see if that’ll be an issue.
With my daughter I just knew two months before she was born. We had picked out names, [name_f]Rosalie[/name_f] and [name_m]Henry[/name_m] and a short list as back up but at that time I just had this feeling of connection with her and the name we had chosen was too soft and sweet. Nothing from my lists seemed to be right so I went back to reading through the name book when I came across a name I had previously just skimmed over, [name_f]Sylvia[/name_f]. That was my yes moment for her. I asked the husband and he liked it, the more we thought about it, the better we liked it and when she was born it just seemed to suit her so well. [name_f]My[/name_f] son I also tried to find a name at the pre-two month mark because I didn’t feel as certain about his name either but I never felt completely satisfied with his name, although my husband loved [name_m]Alexander[/name_m] so that was the plan going in. I didn’t feel very strongly about it but I figured I had time. As soon as they brought him to me and I looked at him and he looked at me and I felt this connection with him, and I knew he wasn’t an [name_m]Alexander[/name_m]. I only had to ask myself what his name was and I just knew, only one name came to mind, [name_u]Theo[/name_u] (full name [name_m]Theodore[/name_m]) which had been dropped from the medium list to the short list. That was my yes moment. While in the recovery room I discussed it with my husband and we both agreed that was his name. He also thought [name_m]Alexander[/name_m] was a mismatch. We love their names and feel that they have the right name. I feel about names like I do for relationships. There are tons of fish in the sea, there are a number of names that would work, I’m not a believer in one soul mate, but there aren’t very many names that make a good match between the parents, the child, the siblings, the culture, the language and the time. I research like crazy and analyze but when the moment comes, I’m very intuitive about it.