It's time to get a little more serious about deciding on names.
Here's the criteria:
- Spellable - NO ONE seems to be able to spell our last name, so out of pure respect to The Kid, it deserves a first name that they won't have to spell every time they meet someone.
[Tom says: "This is so true. It's not fair that the kid should have to spell both their first and last names all the time -- every time I make a phone call and have to give my name, it's always 'Tom Supercalafragilistic S-U-P-E-R-C-A-L-A-F-...'. I don't even wait for them to ask."] - Gender specific - For example, I love the name Jordan (I know, it's taken!), but it would never pass because we know both a girl Jordan and a boy Jordan.
- Maybe not start with a B. Someone graciously pointed that out to me the other day...
Boy's name:
It's been decided. It's meaningful to us, I love it's biblical meaning... And just all around good stuff. Done. (Don't type it in the comment section if you know what it is!)
Girl's name:
Here lies the problem... We have two, but we aren't sold on either. They either don't jive with the boy's name we have (does this matter?) or breaks one of the above rules (can't we just change the criteria to suite our needs?)
What about you? If you've named a kid or two, or four, what was your criteria? Were you sold on a name the first time you thought about it? What if you loved one but your spouse did not?
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I always worried too, about whether the kids' names went well together. I think if you really really like a name then don't worry about it. As far as the B.S. thing goes - people are going to find something to tease your kids about if they want to so you can't save them from that anyway. My initials are TV. I do find it kind of annoying, but whatever. It's not like I chose to keep my own last name!
I actually started writing this huge comment here, but copied it over to my blog and just made it a blog post instead!
Other names I liked: Brielle and Alison for a girl. Jayce, Everett, Lochlain for a boy. Actually, had Jordan been a boy she'd have been Lochlain. Not sure why we took it off the table afterward!
Good luck.
My husband found Jamin's name in the bible. I had never heard it before, and apparently neither has anyone else. I don't know if I was ever 100% sold on it, but Jeff liked it. I love his middle name, Andrew. Aaron was definitely my pick and again, a bible name and his middle name after his father. Ethan, well it grew on me alot and his middle name Joshua. (bible theme eh?) Always loved Joshua, but Jeff's cousin has a boy with that name so we opted to use it as a middle name. They all of J's, but not on purpose. That being said, I have to stop having children because I'm right out of boys names. :)
I was absolutely no help. We just liked the names and I love that they all have bible names. I don't like anything to fancy or hard to spell.
You'll find the right name, don't worry!
We picked Keegan and decided to use it for whatever the baby came out as.
Then we picked Shelby (origionally after Sheldon for a girl) and quickly decided to use it for either once again.
I don't know if that was insightful or just lazy.
It worked.
Heather - that's what I wanted to do with Elliot! I like it as a boy name too. Steven doesn't. Doesn't think it's manly enough. Guys are so odd sometimes!
We never really talked about boy names when we were pregnant with Elliot. Steven says now that he'd have pushed for Keaton. I would have fought to use Elliot still.
Names are hard! Good luck!
I love unique names and when my husband suggested Kiandra I thought it was a great name. When we were expecting our second, there was pressure to have another unique name. I loved the name Jessica but wondered if it would seem like I put more effort into Kiandra's name and less into Jessica's??? maybe it wouldn't have mattered. We named our next daughter Kezia. I loved the name Jordan too but hated that you didn't know if it was a girl or a boy if you just heard it. My daughter Kezia ended up with Jordynn as her middle name. Our son was hard because we couldn't agree on a name. I really wanted Braeden and my Husband wanted Kaden but in the end we went with Kaden. I really didn't mean to have KKK (and it looks terrible when my mom would write "babysit KKK" on her calendar!) but it really comes in handy labelling stuff :)
oh, very difficult. Sorry, we barely came up with one boy and girl name ourselves. Quinn has a large realm of people, considering he did day camp for a few years, so that was really hard, b/c he'd been around so many kids/names...and of course some of those kids were naughty :). I have a large family, so that made it hard coming up with our own, unique name. We only came up with Caden a week b4 the due date, thinking No one had that name, then found out after, there are a couple of them in the church (Pamela :). oh well, we liked it! And the girl name I had we won't use now either, b/c a friend's daughter has it. We're fresh out. Lord willing, you still have 5 months to decide and you have an APP for that!!
Lyla, now that you can't use your girls name, you should tell us what it had been!
I agree with Tiffany about telling us, Lyla!
awww, that would be telling. I'll tell you the first name, b/c the second name we still might use. da,da,da...ohhhh, i almost can't do it, i feel I'm "telling", I really liked it, I'm bummed I can't use it (if we ever had a girl). Quinn wasn't completely sold on it anyway, it's a really lovely name still...ok...i should tell you...da,da,da..."Mya"
Thanks for sharing Lyla!
Yes, very nice! If it makes you feel better you can totally name your future daughter after me. Honest, I don't mind sharing!! :)
Lyla :) When I was reading your post it made me happy that "Kaden" didn't stand out as a naughty name because I think Kaden was in day camp when Quinn was there! We debated between the "C" and the "K" but we seem to have a thing for Ks. We didn't think Kaden was all that common either but you do see it more often now. I even had a girl named Kayden in my student teaching class and I thought the name was more masculine.
Good luck, Candice! I can't wait to hear what you decide to name your little one.
Pamela - haha, i guess not! :)
How did I miss this post??
I love the name Mya, but Devin wasn't sold on it. For some reason boy names are easier than girl names for us. Luckily, we have two boys. :)
We liked Dillon because it was "normal" enough that people wouldn't think it to be strange. And we didn't know any Dillons. It was Devin's pick and I really liked it. Reid was my pick. Kind of strange, considering the only Reid we knew was in both of our school classes for 13 years (Devin and I are the same age, same school, etc). This Reid was a beer guzzling, car crashing, party guy...but also a really hilarious and super nice guy. Ryan was our other pick for a boy, second time around. A few girl Rhiyans around (pronounced the same way) and who doesn't know a whole wack of Ryan's? We didn't know any Reids at the time, but now we're one of three in the last year or so. Can't control what other people name their kids.
And I hear you on the BS thing. My Mom's initials are VD. ;)
Funny story - I have a friend whose last name is two names with the initials VD. She once told me that she writes VD on a lot of their stuff if they're going to a hotel or anything, and that way if they lose a ball or something at the pool she can call the hotel afterward and let them know that she left a ball or toy behind, and it should have VD on it. I don't know if she meant to have it sound that way when she told the story, but boy did I laugh!
I love gender obvious names!!
Our girls' names are Emma, Sophia and Olivia and our boy's name is Jacob.
Other girl suggestions - Ava, Isabelle or Isabella, Hannah, Abbey, Abigail
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