Nothing Sticks

Girl Names
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My husband and I are having a hard time naming our baby girl due in [name_u]June[/name_u]. I have posted on here before looking for recommendations and was happy to receive so many supportive suggestions.

I was wanting to post with two intentions in mind:

  1. [name_m]How[/name_m] do/did you know that name was the “one” for your baby?

  2. Did anyone wait to see their baby before naming him/her? (I feel like if I were to see her I’d have more of an idea of what to name her, but I don’t want to wait too long and feel the pressure to name right then and there)

Anyways I am still open for suggestions for names. We like vintage, classic, old-fashioned names. My husband likes “J” names. Our last name is “[name_u]Dove[/name_u]” so the first name can’t be too floral or frilly or it won’t feel like a serious name. Also, shorter names don’t seem to fit our last name. I like [name_f]Sophia[/name_f], [name_f]Amelia[/name_f], [name_f]Jolene[/name_f], [name_f]Felicity[/name_f], [name_f]Rebecca[/name_f], [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f], and [name_f]Jane[/name_f]. (But nothing has stuck as the “one”).

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Well, I’m not a parent so I can’t really answer your questions, but I can give you more suggestions!

[name_f]Regina[/name_f], [name_f]Zosia[/name_f], [name_f]Emilia[/name_f], [name_f]Emily[/name_f], [name_f]Emiliana[/name_f], [name_f]Elena[/name_f], [name_f]Alena[/name_f], [name_f]Marina[/name_f], [name_f]Caroline[/name_f], [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f], [name_f]Christina[/name_f]/[name_f]Kristina[/name_f], [name_f]Cassandra[/name_f], [name_f]Genevieve[/name_f], [name_f]Evangeline[/name_f], [name_f]Susannah[/name_f], [name_f]Catherine[/name_f]/[name_f]Katherine[/name_f], [name_f]Caterina[/name_f]/[name_f]Katerina[/name_f], [name_f]Catalina[/name_f], [name_f]Gemma[/name_f], [name_f]Sarah[/name_f], [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u], [name_f]Maia[/name_f]/[name_f]Maya[/name_f], [name_u]Cassidy[/name_u], [name_f]Zoe[/name_f], [name_f]Natalie[/name_f]/[name_f]Natalia[/name_f], [name_f]Natasha[/name_f], [name_f]Nicole[/name_f], [name_f]Colette[/name_f], [name_f]Johanna[/name_f], [name_f]Hannah[/name_f], [name_f]Annabelle[/name_f], [name_f]Eliza[/name_f], [name_f]Hazel[/name_f], [name_f]Beatrice[/name_f], [name_f]Victoria[/name_f], [name_f]Maria[/name_f], [name_f]Agatha[/name_f], [name_f]Pippa[/name_f], [name_f]Camila[/name_f], [name_f]Camille[/name_f]

3

Thank you! I like [name_f]Johanna[/name_f] and [name_f]Hannah[/name_f]. My husband loves the name [name_f]Hazel[/name_f].

4

Like the previous poster, I’m not a parent, so I cannot answer your questions. Here are some suggestions though:

[name_f]Adelaide[/name_f]
[name_f]Alexandra[/name_f]
[name_f]Annalise[/name_f]
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f]
[name_f]Cecilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Eleanor[/name_f]
[name_f]Genevieve[/name_f]
[name_f]Jacqueline[/name_f]
[name_f]Jocelyn[/name_f]
[name_f]Josephine[/name_f]
[name_f]Juliana[/name_f]
[name_f]Lucille[/name_f]
[name_f]Madeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Margaret[/name_f]
[name_f]Margo[/name_f]/[name_f]Margot[/name_f]
[name_f]Matilda[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Victoria[/name_f]
[name_u]Vivian[/name_u]

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With our girl we didn’t settle on a name the whole pregnancy - possibly my fault because I wanted to keep looking.
In the end we had 3 options going to hospital and chose one almost as soon as she was born.
I think secretly we had been leaning towards [name_f]Olive[/name_f] anyways but it did seem to really suit it.

I really like [name_f]Felicity[/name_f] from your options!

[name_f]Martha[/name_f]
[name_f]Louisa[/name_f]
[name_f]Gemma[/name_f]
[name_f]Amy[/name_f]
[name_f]Elspeth[/name_f]
[name_f]Bethany[/name_f]

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I don’t have any kids so I can’t answer number one, but in regards to number two, that’s pretty much what my mum did when naming me. She’d had other names in mind but not mine, but when she saw me she said it just clicked

[name_f]Felicity[/name_f] is great from your list

Sorry for any repeats
[name_f]Sienna[/name_f]
[name_f]Mabel[/name_f]
[name_f]Phoebe[/name_f]
[name_f]Saskia[/name_f]
[name_f]Juliet[/name_f]
[name_f]Jessamine[/name_f]
[name_f]Jillian[/name_f]
[name_f]Geneva[/name_f]
[name_f]Emilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f]
[name_u]Ruby[/name_u]
[name_f]Alicia[/name_f]
[name_f]Elinor[/name_f]
[name_f]Lillian[/name_f]
[name_u]Evelyn[/name_u]
[name_f]Jocelyn[/name_f]

7

My ex & I had two names in mind for a girl when we went to the hospital & I let him choose which one he preferred.

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Your struggle to nail down a name is one I know too well. With our first, she was [name_f]Margo[/name_f] for months until my husband confessed he didn’t love it and we spent two nights poring over the name lists, considering every option, before I told him we should name her [name_f]Jane[/name_f]. We shook on it and that was that.

With our second, we both knew we loved [name_m]Henry[/name_m] as our favorite boy name but struggled until he was hours old to decide.

With our third, she was a new name everyday until the week we had her.

I miss the decisiveness with which I named my first; I just knew with her and I never had that feeling again. We’re expecting our fourth in [name_u]July[/name_u] and I feel that same uncertainty in choosing her name.

There is a wonderful quote in a fellow [name_u]Berry[/name_u]’s signature that says to close your eyes and think of the name you love the most, that makes you smile every time you say it.

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I’m always much more ready to settle on a name. Whereas my husband wants to keep the door open to options much longer. Which is funny because I love a wider spectrum of names than he does. For our first, he just felt like a [name_m]Levi[/name_m]. Although, we had another name in the wings to test out when he was born. But I think that was just to make us feel better and we had already picked [name_m]Levi[/name_m] in our heart. For my second, I was set on [name_f]Anya[/name_f] but looked at other names for my husband’s sake. I found out after we named her that it took time to grow on my husband. But he went with it for my sake and ended up loving it afterwards. For our third, [name_f]Naomi[/name_f] was the only name we agreed on lol. But we didn’t finalize it until she was born.

Also really love [name_f]Felicity[/name_f] from your names! Such a happy name to have :slight_smile:

10

We had a list of about fifteen names going into the birth, with my husband personally liking about four and myself undecided and refusing to pick one until we saw her. We didn’t choose one until a couple of hours after she was born. I don’t think I will choose ahead of time with any other children, either. I DID have a couple of names from that list that were really speaking to me, and even had a dream about one (the one I ended up choosing) but I’m still glad I waited until we met her.

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It’s funny- with my first we had a front runner but went to the hospital with options and wanted to meet her to decide for sure. We ended up going with our front runner but the pressure of making sure she “looked” like her name and that it was “the one for her” actually ended up making it harder for me- especially with hormones being factored in and having just given birth. She just looked like a baby and any of the names we liked really could have suited her, though there were specific reasons we chose the one we did and I couldn’t see her as anything else now.

I’m now expecting my second and made a conscious decision that I wanted to pretty certainly decide her name in advance- and if she ends up looking completely like something else then ok, but I’d rather have the confidence in my decision going in. We were down to 2 and started calling her one name and after a few weeks it really hit me that her name was the other one. So now I’ve been calling her that and thinking of her that way and feeling a lot more at peace with the decision than when we left it to the hospital.

Good luck!

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1.*[name_m]How[/name_m]do/did you know that name was the “one” for your baby?

When my son was born, the second that I held him I said “we should call him (insert name)” and my partner agreed.

  1. Did anyone wait to see their baby before naming him/her?

I had anxiety about not having a name picked for him before we went to the hospital. After months of going over names, we had decided to call our son [name_m]Simon[/name_m]. We also had a couple of back up names ready since we thought it would be good to have an alternative if he didnt “look like a [name_m]Simon[/name_m]”. In the end, he was not called any of the names we had initially come up with, as I didn’t feel that they suited him. Naming a person is a challenging task! I think it is great to go into things prepared with a top choice and a couple of other “just-in-case” names, even if you don’t end up using them.

If you like classic, not too frilly or whimsical names, that begin with J-, maybe…

[name_f]Josephine[/name_f]
[name_f]Jessamine[/name_f]
[name_f]Jacqueline[/name_f]
[name_f]Jillian[/name_f]
[name_u]Joss[/name_u]
[name_f]Jocelyn[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgia[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f]
[name_f]Eugenie[/name_f]
[name_f]Eugenia[/name_f]
[name_f]Victoria[/name_f]
[name_f]Genevieve[/name_f]
[name_f]Gillian[/name_f]
[name_f]Gwendolyn[/name_f]

[name_f]Hazel[/name_f] would also make a nice middle name for nearly all of these! Good luck

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I was out shopping with my mom while pregnant with my daughter and heard someone say the name [name_f]Lola[/name_f] in passing. I knew as soon as I heard it that that was going to be my little girl’s name. It has been perfect for her.

I didn’t have as much of a gut feeling with my son’s name. I feel like I was trying really hard to compromise on a name and really got away from what I really loved. I think his name suits him now, but I also plan on listening to my gut for my current baby girl due this fall when it comes to names.

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Thanks for all your stories!