How did you name your baby?

General Name Discussion
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“[name_m]How[/name_m] did you name your baby?”. This question has intrigued me lately. It seem as if most (if not all) mothers feel that the name they choose for their baby determines their child’s life, like it seals their fate. I’m am 100% part of “the most”. I remember at the beginning of my first pregnancy feeling that if I didn’t pick the perfect name for my son that he would end up a murderer or homeless, or just have a horrible life. I knew that those thoughts are irrational, but that is really how I felt.

A brief story of how I named my 3 children:

[name_m]Charles[/name_m] [name_m]Ethan[/name_m] [name_m]Wood[/name_m]:
[name_m]Charles[/name_m] used to be a name that I hated with a passion. Of course I love it now. I was kinda forced to name him [name_m]Charles[/name_m] though, and I probably would not have chosen that name if it was not for my DH. For 9 generations
my husband [name_m]Charles[/name_m] family has been naming their first son [name_m]Charles[/name_m]. I really hated it up until he was almost two. After that it really seemed to fit him, and I just loved it. As for his middle names, I always loved the name [name_m]Ethan[/name_m] and [name_m]Wood[/name_m] ever since I was a little girl.

[name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] [name_f]Winifred[/name_f] [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] :
I knew I was going to name my first daughter [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] from the day I knew my name was [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f]. I always thought I would be o fun to name my daughter after me, my mom, and grandmother. Witch is were [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] [name_f]Winifred[/name_f] come in. [name_f]Winifred[/name_f] is my grandmother’s name and [name_f]Katherine[/name_f] is my mother’s name.

[name_f]Clarity[/name_f] [name_f]Opal[/name_f] [name_u]Lake[/name_u]:
[name_f]Clarity[/name_f] was the hardest child to name, because [name_m]Charles[/name_m] and [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f]'s names were already picked out way before I was even pregnant with them. I tossed around the names [name_f]Opal[/name_f], [name_f]Olivia[/name_f], [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_u]June[/name_u], and [name_f]Hannah[/name_f]. I was almost positive I would name her [name_f]Opal[/name_f], due to the cutest book I’ve ever read “Because of [name_u]Winn[/name_u]-[name_f]Dixie[/name_f]”, but my DH just was not loving it. While I was pregnant I lacked a lot of mental clarity, I was not focused. [name_m]Just[/name_m] all over the place, it was terrible. I was so stressed, because the doctors didn’t think that [name_f]Clarity[/name_f] was going to make it. I always thought that naming your child something like [name_f]Hope[/name_f],[name_f]Faith[/name_f], [name_f]Clarity[/name_f] or any name like that after a hard pregnancy was really stupid. But I felt that I really needed to name my daughter [name_f]Clarity[/name_f], because clarity is one thing I really wish I had while I was pregnant.

So, I would like to hear how you named your baby. [name_m]How[/name_m] did you complete the daunting task?

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When I was talking to my fiance about names, he mentioned the name [name_f]Xochitl[/name_f], which means flower in his Aztec language. Since we live in [name_u]America[/name_u], I knew it would be too difficult for her teachers as a first name, so we made it the middle name. I made a list of girl names I liked, and my fiance picked which ones he liked. We ended up choosing [name_f]Noemi[/name_f], which I had first heard on a girl I worked with. If we had a boy, we were going to go with Cenon after my fiance’s grandfather.

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I had a long list of names when I was pregnant. I knew if he was a girl she wouldve been [name_u]Winter[/name_u] nn [name_f]Winnie[/name_f]. I had a long list of boys names and was dead set on the name [name_m]Darwin[/name_m]. [name_u]Sage[/name_u] was one of the names on my list but I had set it aside for a while. Then the closer to the end of my pregnancy I got the more he seemed like a [name_u]Sage[/name_u]. I didnt give him a middle name out of tradition.

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My son is [name_m]Christopher[/name_m] [name_m]Jacob[/name_m] and we have a pretty boring story, lol!

We had a long list of boy names but [name_m]Christopher[/name_m] stood out for us from the start and it is also my husbands middle name, and his fathers middle name so we liked that it was a family name. [name_m]Jacob[/name_m] is a family name too on my side which we both liked a lot. We did consider it as a first name but we decided it was too popular for us… [name_u]Chris[/name_u] has 2 Jacobs in his class at school so I’m glad we used it as a middle name!

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Wow Cenon is really cool, is that an Aztec name as well?

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My daughter:
[name_f]Freya[/name_f] [name_f]Marilynn[/name_f]
[name_f]Freya[/name_f] was born [name_f]Sadie[/name_f] [name_f]Jane[/name_f]. After 12 hours I changed it. I could tell that [name_f]Sadie[/name_f] was not [name_f]Sadie[/name_f]. My dear cousin who’s name is [name_f]Freya[/name_f] actually died 8 days before [name_f]Sadie[/name_f] was born. I was looking at [name_f]Sadie[/name_f] while I was on the phone with my mom, and she said something about [name_f]Freya[/name_f]. When she said I sill had not told her I was going to change the name, and I said “Oh my fucking God!” (sorry for the language, but I want to give you exact words) “I know what I’m going to name [name_f]Sadie[/name_f]” my mom then said “you already named her [name_f]Sadie[/name_f]”. I then explained it to her, and decided I would name her after my cousin and I.

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It took quite awhile to nail down my son [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_m]Joel[/name_m]'s name. [name_m]Joel[/name_m] is his dad’s name, which I wanted if it at all fit with the first name choice.
For his first name, originally I wanted [name_m]Henry[/name_m] (my dad’s birth name), and my husband and I both liked [name_m]Hamish[/name_m] but were skittish about him getting called “ham.” [name_m]Asher[/name_m] was by husband’s favorite.

I had been aware of the name [name_m]Asher[/name_m] since high school, and was the one who suggested it originally. I’d heard it in the book My Name Is [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_m]Lev[/name_m] - and while he’s not_named after that [name_m]Asher[/name_m], that book was formative for how I interpret arts… And also the character seems to be on the ASD spectrum and I work with and dearly love several adults with autism. It also means ‘happy’ or ‘blessed’ and in the Old Testament [name_m]Asher[/name_m]'s birth is greeted by someone saying that he’s made her the happiest among women.

Anyway! I still wasn’t sure I wanted to use it, but I decided that either we could compromise on one of the names we both liked but not loved, or one of us could have a name we loved that the other still liked, so I said we should keep our shortlist until he was born but that I’d probably go for [name_m]Asher[/name_m].

So then… My labor was very long, complicated, and intense… And I knew that if we talked about it my husband would try to give him the name I wanted just because of everything he’d seen me go through over the weekend I was in labor. So I announced to the whole room that guys name was [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_m]Joel[/name_m], so he wouldn’t do that and regret it. :wink: I really do love it now, and he’s definitely not a [name_m]Henry[/name_m]!

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[name_m]Ad[/name_m]èle [name_f]Josephine[/name_f] - She was pretty easy to name! We agreed from the start that we wanted a [name_m]French[/name_m] name. My DH is [name_m]French[/name_m], moved to the UK when he was 15 and we know that one day we want to move to [name_f]France[/name_f] (hopefully within the next couple of years). We wanted a name that would still be well received over here and wouldn’t cause too much hassle, so we made a long list of names we liked but [name_m]Ad[/name_m]èle really stood out from the start. It was also my DH’s Grandmothers name, so it honored her which was really the selling point for us. [name_f]Josephine[/name_f] was just one we really liked, to be honest. We love the way it sounds together with our surname.

Léo [name_m]Bastien[/name_m] - He definitely harder to name. Léo ([name_m]Lay[/name_m]-o) was one of our favourites from the start. It’s really popular in [name_f]France[/name_f] so we knew it would be fine there, and [name_m]Leo[/name_m] is popular here ([name_u]Lee[/name_u]-o), so we do have some trouble with pronunciation but the accent throws people off so most people hesitate before pronouncing it the same as [name_m]Leo[/name_m]. We didn’t have a name for him when he was born, we had a top 3, Léo, [name_m]Louis[/name_m] or Frédéric but he suited Léo the best and it just felt right! [name_m]Bastien[/name_m] took a while to agree on, but we just liked the way it sounded with Léo & our surname.

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OK, this was a long time ago HA

[name_m]Patrick[/name_m] [name_m]Alexander[/name_m] was supposed to be [name_m]Alexander[/name_m] [name_m]Hugh[/name_m], [name_m]Alexander[/name_m] because I liked it and [name_m]Hugh[/name_m] was my Grandfathers name. I looked at him when he was born and he was a [name_m]Patrick[/name_m]. Kept the [name_m]Alexander[/name_m] because I thought it went well with [name_m]Patrick[/name_m] and as a side my sister in law [name_f]Patricia[/name_f] thought we named him after her :slight_smile:

Second son [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] [name_m]Ivan[/name_m]. Loved the name [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m]. One of my brother in laws was [name_m]John[/name_m], so the [name_m]Ivan[/name_m] was a nod to [name_m]John[/name_m]. Last name t that time was Rosansky so I thought the whole name went really well. My DH at that time wanted to spell it [name_m]Nicolas[/name_m] but either I messed it up filling out the Birth Certificate or they could not read my hand writing so he was transitionally spelled.

I was obsessing over [name_f]Starr[/name_f] for a name (I was not a teenager when [name_f]Autumn[/name_f] was born I was a month away from being 30) and set pretty strong on it. My mother wanted [name_f]Janessa[/name_f] and I was never going there! Someone mentioned [name_f]Autumn[/name_f] and all of a sudden I was in love with it. [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] was just in case she did not like [name_f]Autumn[/name_f]. There was so many ways to come up with nn for [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f]. I thought the name sounded classy also. My grandmothers ([name_f]Blossom[/name_f] and [name_f]Myrtle[/name_f]) both had names they disliked and both used nn as a way to get around them and I did not want [name_f]Autumn[/name_f] to hate her name. My daughter is extremely grateful I did not pick [name_f]Starr[/name_f].

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I don’t have kids yet but I got my name because [name_f]Ireland[/name_f] is my grandmother’s favorite place so I became [name_f]Erin[/name_f]. [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] was for St. [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] because my grandmother is Catholic so I “had to have” a saint’s name.

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I’m going to back way up for this. We had three miscarriages before our older daughter was born. The last was in the second trimester, and we found out she was a girl. I chose [name_f]Alyssa[/name_f], in honor of my grandmother, [name_f]Alice[/name_f], who died young (30s from leukemia). My husband chose [name_f]Mary[/name_f], because it was his mother’s and sister’s middle name.

When I got pregnant again, I posted my list on the fridge. My husband studiously ignored it. I tried putting a baby name book in his brief case. It he left it on the table, unopened. We went through several scares - unexplained bleeding, an amniotic fluid leak, and low amniotic fluid, plus gestational diabetes. I think he’d convinced himself I was just getting fat. The doctor told me that I needed to rest, push the fluids, and [name_f]Monday[/name_f] PM, come to the hospital for induction. Over the weekend, we got last minute things done - bought the playpen and put it on my side of the bed, … and he kept delaying putting the car seat in or looking at the name list. I spent [name_f]Monday[/name_f] resting, pushing the fluids, and going over my preparations. I had put the list in his briefcase again that morning and told him that if he didn’t have an opinion, other than to veto things, then he wasn’t going to participate in naming this child. He came home that night, and as we were getting ready to leave, he told me that [name_m]Joshua[/name_m] [name_m]Oliver[/name_m] was the name for a boy. He hadn’t looked at the girls names.

My induction didn’t work, and they moved me to the post-partum unit to get some sleep. Before he left to go home and get some sleep, I handed the list to him and told him to choose a girl’s name. He chose [name_f]Jessica[/name_f] [name_f]Alexandra[/name_f]. I had a c-section on [name_f]Wednesday[/name_f], and greeted our fiesty little girl by name when my friend called out to me that I had a beautiful baby girl.

Fast forward a few years and miscarriages, and [name_f]Rachel[/name_f] was named after we received her genetics report telling us that she was a girl, and she had a chromosome-1 abnormality that would have been inconsistent with life. It just felt like the right name.

My last pregnancy, when we told [name_f]Jessica[/name_f] that the treatment had worked, and we were cautiously optomistic that there would be a baby, she and I looked at my list. She was 6 at the time. She was delighted with [name_f]Jemima[/name_f], when I told her that was my favorite name on the list. As we went through the pregnancy, each bump was met with caution, but we worked through ok. [name_f]Jessica[/name_f]'s teacher approached me at an evening function and told me she was thrilled I was having another girl. I explained we were finding out in the delivery room whether it was a boy or a girl, and she was surprised. [name_f]Jessica[/name_f] had told her that I was having a girl and her name was [name_f]Jemima[/name_f]. She had written and illustrated a story for an assignment about her and [name_f]Jemima[/name_f] flying a kite, complete with a baby in a red stroller (like ours). [name_f]Jemima[/name_f] was the name of [name_m]Job[/name_m]'s daughter, and given what I had been through to have children, I felt it fit. When we went to the hospital, [name_m]David[/name_m] and I were waiting for them to take me to the operating theater when he asked if I had a baby name book. I informed him that the list was in my bag, that it had been on the fridge for nine months, and there was no looking through books now, it had to come off my list. “I don’t like any of these girls names.” Too bad. [name_f]Jessica[/name_f] and I like [name_f]Jemima[/name_f]. What middle name do you like? He eventually chose [name_f]Natalie[/name_f], and then told me that he’d gone off [name_m]Joshua[/name_m] [name_m]Oliver[/name_m]. He chose [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] [name_m]Timothy[/name_m], and we started down the hall to the OR. [name_f]Jemima[/name_f] [name_f]Natalie[/name_f] came out howling about being pulled from her warm little cocoon. When [name_m]David[/name_m] went home and told [name_f]Jessica[/name_f] she had a little sister named [name_f]Jemima[/name_f] [name_f]Natalie[/name_f], her response was “I told you it was a girl.”

[name_f]Susan[/name_f]

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Naming my children was really difficult for me because growing up, I never wanted children. I had zero intentions to be a mother so I never dreamed of those perfect names or did any kind of research into meanings, etc. Then I met my husband and he wanted a family of 4. We almost broke up because I’m a firm believer that there are some things you shouldn’t compromise on and parenthood is one of them. However, I’m also a hypocrite because we compromised on 2 children because I thought hey, we’re not outnumbered and we’re only replacing ourselves.

When I was pregnant with my son, we couldn’t agree on any names. He just wanted to suggest a bunch of girl names and I told him that we were NOT having a girl. The baby was a boy and that’s all I would discuss. Fortunately, we found out at 20 weeks that we were expecting a boy and so we were then able to focus on boy stuff in peace. From day one though I knew I was carrying a son. We had a lot of names floating around but I kept coming back to [name_m]Asher[/name_m]. I hadn’t really heard of anyone naming their kid that except my friend’s sister’s brother in law that lived miles away from us. [name_m]Daniel[/name_m] is my husband’s name and it was important to me to have [name_m]Daniel[/name_m] as the middle name. We had two names picked out, just to be safe in case the baby didn’t look like a certain name, but going into the hospital and throughout labor, I knew I was having [name_m]Asher[/name_m] [name_m]Daniel[/name_m]!

After [name_m]Asher[/name_m] was born, I had a hard time bonding with him (hurrah severe PPD!) and so I told my husband we were one and done. Thankfully, he is extremely patient and didn’t push me at all because he knew (or at least hoped) that I would come around. Sure enough, when [name_m]Asher[/name_m] was 15 months, I agreed that we should have one more and got pregnant pretty much the first time we tried, lol. I wanted another boy so badly and picked out the name [name_m]Cohen[/name_m] [name_m]Allen[/name_m] ([name_m]Allen[/name_m] is my maiden name) but at the 20 week scan, we found out that we were expecting a little girl. I won’t lie, I was completely devastated. I really wanted another son since I felt like I missed out on important milestones in [name_m]Asher[/name_m]'s first year because we hadn’t bonded. (Plus, I have a toxic relationship with my own mother and was scared to raise a daughter) However, I threw myself head first into all things girls to get myself excited and that included a ton of name suggestions. My husband and I actually didn’t have a hard time with her name - he knew that I was having a hard time and he let me go at my own pace. I found the name [name_f]Callia[/name_f] shortly after we found out we were having a girl and despite all the other name suggestions we had, I kept coming back to that one. I wanted a C name for sure (ABCD because we’re corny like that!) and so even though I said I didn’t know her name up until she was born, I secretly knew it all along. Her name is [name_f]Callia[/name_f] [name_f]Jane[/name_f] ([name_f]Jane[/name_f] is my mother in law who has been more of a mother to me than my own mother has been) and I couldn’t be more proud to be her mama!

As for this third baby… this was by far the hardest time we’ve had. My husband realized that he wanted more than two children which of course led to huge fights and this is exactly why I tell people don’t compromise on something as important as parenthood. It rarely ends well. I told my husband we agreed on two children and he couldn’t go back on his word. He said I tried to go back on mine after [name_m]Asher[/name_m] and I said but when it came down to it, I didn’t and yadda yadda we almost separated. However, before it could actually come to separation, I took a pregnancy test to shut him up and lo and freakin behold, it was positive. I was PISSSSSSSED. However, I’ve fully come to embrace this and even though it’s been an incredibly high risk pregnancy and I risked losing the baby every day (I’m almost at the point where baby can come any day!) I [name_u]LOVE[/name_u] this baby so much already but damn we have fought about names. We have finally settled on one though and I can’t wait to introduce baby! As for the name, we have chosen [name_f]Eleni[/name_f] [name_f]Jolie[/name_f].

My husband and I fought hard on this girl name because we limited ourselves sorely. It HAD to begin with an E and it had to be 5 letters long to match the rest of our children. I liked [name_f]Elyse[/name_f], he wanted [name_f]Eliza[/name_f]. I wanted [name_u]Emery[/name_u], he liked [name_f]Edith[/name_f]. I liked [name_f]Elora[/name_f], he wanted [name_f]Elena[/name_f]. It was a freaking nightmare. We have FINALLY settled on [name_f]Eleni[/name_f] (uh-lay-nee) thanks to Nameberry. I came asking for help and you amazing ladies delivered! And thanks to you, our daughter will have a gorgeous name. Her middle name is [name_f]Jolie[/name_f] because I fell in love with that name when I was pregnant with my first daugher but I ruled it out for a first name because it had to be a C and then I was going to make it her middle name but my mother in law was AMAZING throughout my pregnancy and I really wanted to honor her. Now, I’m glad I did [name_f]Callia[/name_f] [name_f]Jane[/name_f] and [name_f]Eleni[/name_f] [name_f]Jolie[/name_f] because they can kind of match as sisters.

Although, even as I type this (talking out loud to my husband about it) he STILL says “you sure you don’t like [name_f]Edith[/name_f]? A little [name_u]Edi[/name_u]??”

OI!

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We always knew we wanted less popular names. I never like creative spellings or made up names. I tended to like more uncommon names.

[name_u]Seth[/name_u] is from the movie City of Angels it was [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] Cage’s character and I fell in love with it. It didn’t have sentimental value because of the movie, I just hadn’t really heard it much until that movie. [name_m]Gabriel[/name_m] is just a name I loved. In 1999 his name combo was pretty untraditional-my parents did NOT love it, but they do now. Most boys were being named [name_m]Jacob[/name_m], [name_m]Christopher[/name_m], [name_u]Michael[/name_u], [name_m]Joshua[/name_m], [name_m]Austin[/name_m], [name_u]Cody[/name_u], etc.

[name_f]Leah[/name_f] was just a name I loved. Her dad got to pick the MN and chose to link her with her older brother. Hers was more uncommon too. Most girls were being named [name_f]Kaitlyn[/name_f], [name_f]Emily[/name_f], [name_f]Hannah[/name_f], and [name_u]Madison[/name_u].

[name_m]Isaac[/name_m] I just liked a lot. [name_u]Curtis[/name_u] is a family name on both sides that appears in 4 different generations-my cousin, uncle and a cousin’s son all have it as a FN, and grandfather as a MN, it was also my ex-husbands MN and his uncle’s MN. Most baby boys were being named [name_m]Jacob[/name_m], [name_u]Aidan[/name_u], [name_m]Ethan[/name_m], and [name_u]Ryan[/name_u].

The ruby is mine and my grandma’s birthstone. My sister is [name_u]Stacey[/name_u], but when we were little I NN her [name_f]Anastasia[/name_f] “for long”. So [name_u]Ruby[/name_u] is named after my sister and grandma in a non-traditional way. Most baby girls were being named [name_f]Ava[/name_f] [name_f]Isabelle[/name_f], [name_f]Emily[/name_f], [name_f]Sophia[/name_f], and [name_f]Olivia[/name_f].

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Its actually spelled [name_m]Zenon[/name_m], but that spelling would cause pronunciation problems here in [name_u]America[/name_u]. It means “from [name_m]Zeus[/name_m]”. In Spanish, the C and Z are pronounced the same. It would be [name_m]Say[/name_m]-[name_f]Non[/name_f] (long O) not [name_f]Zee[/name_f]-nawn.

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And looking at my post now…I realize I hate that the name [name_u]Seth[/name_u] is yellow. :confused: That is such an “ALL boy” name to me. Same for [name_u]Curtis[/name_u]…[name_u]Curtis[/name_u]? On a girl? Can’t even contemplate either on a girl.

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Naming my kids has been pretty easy. I tend to like really popular trendy names, and so does my husband. With each of our kids it was really easy for us to agree. When we found our that our first child was going to be a girl, I knew that I wanted something really girly. I think our name choices were [name_f]Sofia[/name_f], [name_u]Avery[/name_u], [name_f]Sophie[/name_f], and [name_f]Ava[/name_f]. But after my husbands aunt died he wanted to use her name witch was [name_f]Annabelle[/name_f]. I didn’t want a name to be forced on me,so i told him no. But later in my pregnancy, I started to love the name [name_f]Isabelle[/name_f]. We agreed on [name_f]Isabelle[/name_f], because I loved it and my husband did as well because it was similar to his aunts name. Isabelles middle name Annaree is a combination of our mothers names.My mother-in-laws name is [name_f]Anna[/name_f] and my moms names is [name_f]Freeda[/name_f].

[name_m]Willam[/name_m] [name_m]Andrew[/name_m] was SO easy to name. After I found out he was a boy DH and I made a list of 2 or 3 or our favorite names. [name_m]William[/name_m] was my pick and [name_m]Andrew[/name_m] was his. We then agreed on [name_m]William[/name_m] [name_m]Andrew[/name_m].

My newest baby [name_u]Eloise[/name_u] [name_f]Scarlett[/name_f] was a little harder, but still easy. We waited to find out the gender, but just a little bit before she was born we couldn’t take it anymore and decided to find out. We were set on either [name_f]Sophie[/name_f] [name_u]Rae[/name_u] or [name_f]Penelope[/name_f] [name_u]Wren[/name_u] and we were going to wait to see her to decide. But when I saw her auburn hair and [name_f]Emerald[/name_f] green eyes I knew that she wasn’t an [name_f]Penelope[/name_f] or a [name_f]Sophie[/name_f]. She was an [name_u]Eloise[/name_u].

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I probably won’t have kids for another 10 or 15 years (that’s that plan, hopefully), but when I do have kids I plan on honoring my brother [name_m]Jonathan[/name_m] who died last year. So, [name_f]Natalie[/name_f], [name_f]Natalia[/name_f], [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m], [name_m]Jonah[/name_m], or [name_f]Jade[/name_f]. I’m leaning toward [name_f]Natalia[/name_f] for a girl, [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m]/[name_m]Jonah[/name_m] for a boy, and [name_f]Jade[/name_f] for mns.

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I’ve always had a thing for names. [name_f]Annabel[/name_f] was on my list for a long time, before ever becoming pregnant. [name_f]Violet[/name_f] was a favorite too, and we thought it sounded nice with [name_f]Annabel[/name_f]. The only other name we seriously considered was [name_f]Lila[/name_f], but I wasn’t crazy about the flow of [name_f]Lila[/name_f] [name_f]Annabel[/name_f] AND knew I’d regret not using [name_f]Annabel[/name_f] if we went with another [name_f]Lila[/name_f] combo. So… [name_f]Annabel[/name_f] [name_f]Violet[/name_f] it was!

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I don’t have kids, but I can share the story on my name and my nephew’s if that’s okay.

I was named after [name_f]Erin[/name_f] [name_m]Walton[/name_m] from The Waltons, which my mum loved to watch (which I find odd as we’re English and it was an American TV sitcom!) and she swapped the I for an Y (yes, a [name_u]Berry[/name_u]'s worst nightmare) because she wanted to join all of my siblings together (we all have Ys, mine is the only switched one, my older sister has it added in and my younger sister’s name has been completely respelled to include a Y). My middle name, [name_f]Rose[/name_f], is after my great grandmother, [name_f]Rosa[/name_f].

My nephew’s first name was just something my sister and [name_m]BIL[/name_m] both liked. They roamed baby name lists for a good few months and my [name_m]BIL[/name_m] couldn’t shake off his love for [name_u]Noah[/name_u]. My sister loved it too, but she didn’t want to settle until his birth. So, they conjured up a list of names (inc. [name_u]Leighton[/name_u], [name_u]Mason[/name_u], typical top 100 in the UK names) but my [name_m]BIL[/name_m] didn’t love anything else. So, when he was born, they picked [name_u]Noah[/name_u] because it was something they both agreed on. His surname is his daddy’s name to pass on tradition.

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Yay, another boy [name_u]Sage[/name_u] here :slight_smile:

After having kept a list of names since I was a child, I came upon the name [name_u]Sage[/name_u] just when we were starting to consider having a child. I discovered it on a business card of a person who was a medical intuitive.

The simplicity of the name, combined with the deep meaning just struck me and my husband equally. I’ve always gone for names meaning wisdom, light, truth Etc, but most names on my list were complicated Latin or Greek names etc. I love the transparency in meaning with [name_u]Sage[/name_u].

We thought we were expecting a girl, and were surprised to learn that wasn’t the case. After learning we were expecting a boy, we set [name_u]Sage[/name_u] aside for a while and started really diving into “boys” names which we had been neglecting up until then. We had a very hard time finding a boy name we liked. In fact, we didn’t find any name we loved as much as [name_u]Sage[/name_u].

So by the time we were about 6 months along, we came back to the name. Since it really is a unisex name, we felt into it and concluded it was just this child’s name, boy or girl.

[name_u]Sage[/name_u] has two middle names; the first one is a super rare Greek name with a similar awesome meaning, and more clearly gendered. So if [name_u]Sage[/name_u] decides that unisex isn’t for him later on, he can go by his middle name if he prefers.
His second middle name is a family name.

We will be keeping the two mn tradition up with our next one, which I can’t wait to name!