Hey again, everybody!
We’re now almost forty weeks along, feeling sometimes that labor is imminent, other times like our boy will be in utero until [name_f]October[/name_f]. In the last week or so, we’ve started hemming and hawing about the name we thought we’d chosen. It started with a question about whether or not to hyphenate our surnames, and that led us to reconsider the middle name, and naturally if the last name AND the middle name are up for debate, the first name is on the table again too. I’m crossing my fingers the baby just looks like a certain someone or other when he’s born and the name makes itself obvious, but in case that doesn’t happen, we’d appreciate your feedback.
POSSIBLE FIRST NAMES:
Top pick: [name_m]Ambrose[/name_m]
Runners-up: [name_m]Ruben[/name_m] and [name_m]Ezekiel[/name_m]
My partner’s dark horse: [name_m]Desmond[/name_m]
My dark horses: [name_m]Simon[/name_m], [name_m]Oskar[/name_m], or [name_u]Owen[/name_u]
MIDDLE-NAME CONTENDERS:
[name_m]David[/name_m], after my dad and my maternal grandfather, meaning “beloved.”
[name_m]Charles[/name_m], after my partner, his dad, and his grandfather, (who share it as their first name and go by their different middle names), meaning “free man.”
THE LAST NAME QUANDARY:
Option 1: my last name: one syllable, could be [name_m]French[/name_m], Scottish, Irish, English, or Bengali (in my case, it’s [name_m]French[/name_m], but I like its chameleonic character). Simple, straightforward, radical.
Option 2: his last name: two syllables, decidedly [name_m]French[/name_m], but sounds in English like the name of an undesirable bug or a bit of drug paraphernalia, which I’m having a hard time getting over. Still, simple and straightforward as well, if much more traditional.
Option 3: skip the middle name (which we would use to honor family more than out of love for the names themselves anyway) and use either one of our surnames in the middle spot.
Okay, everyone. We know we’re overthinking things, but that’s why sites like Nameberry exist, right? Please let us know what you think.