Name origins?

[Famatigia]

Where did you get your baby's name? Is he/she named after someone special?

Please share!

[Dmitrizmom]

Viviene's 2nd middle name is a nod toward both grandmas, a couple aunts, and 2 greatgrandmas. her other two names we just really like.

[BekahMomToOliver]

Oooooh, cool thread idea!
It's pretty personal, but I'll share
Baby was originally going to be Charlie (I thought for sure she was a boy. I'd always thought I'd be a mom of only boys, for some reason. Guess not ).
Anyway, when we found out she was a girl, I still didn't quite believe it, but we settled on Jovie as a name (I like that it means "Joyful"... I still really love the name).
During the course of my pregnancy, my marriage fell apart. After having Oliver, things had really changed big time between us. I felt like I had grown alot as a woman and mother, and he was very stuck in his own stuff. We found ourselves in two very different places, with entirely different priorities, and things got really bad. In the end, there was essentially no connection, and we're now seperated. (Things have been much better since!)
A couple of years ago I began to really find myself spiritually, and I've been doing alot of inner work. I found alot of strength and peace this way while we were going through our marriage difficulties.
As the end of my pregnancy drew near, the name "Rowan" kept popping into my head, and kind of stuck there. At about the same time, I was getting alot of Reiki healing done by my doula, in preparation for labour. I did alot of meditation in order to 'settle' things in my head, so I could be 'clearer' emotionally when the baby came. It helped calm me in the face of these huge life changes: H and I separated at 37 weeks and I was about to become the single mom to two babies under 2 years old. EEP! So, anyway, during my meditations this name kept getting stuck in my head. I kind of went, "Okay, baby, you like Rowan. Duly noted." lol.
Anyway, long story short(er), she was born and everyone wanted to know her name. The birth had been beautiful, and a very healing thing for me spiritually. The baby and I really connected and worked together throughout, and it was just beautiful But when it came to her name, I couldn't figure out what fit! I knew she was an Elizabeth (a family name), but not as a first name.
My dad came over right after her birth and we were all talking about it. I guess he got a bit mixed up and thought we had named her, and he went home and made the announcement on Facebook. I didn't find out until the next day that she had a name, LOL! He came to visit and he was like, "what's her name again?" and I said "I haven't decided yet" and he said "yes you have, and I told everyone last night!" There were a few terrified moments as we logged on to Facebook to see what he'd named her, but I knew when I saw it that it was just one more sign. He had told everyone we knew about the arrival of his "beautiful new granddaughter, Rowan Elizabeth!" The universe was clearly trying to tell me that this baby wanted to be named Rowan.
The cool part is, the Rowan tree as a symbol has alot of significance for me spiritually, and I had no idea until my sister sent me this link when she was a few days old! : http://www.whats-your-sign.com/celti...owan-tree.html

Sorry it's kind of long... she's napping, DS is sitting snuggling me, and I have time to talk to grownups, lol!

[dosergirl]

Coraline Mae is named for a book by Neil Gaiman. most people now know him because they made a movie for the book, which came out early in my pregnancy. at least that is her first name. Her middle name is just one we really liked and liked with Coraline.

I don't like the idea of naming after family because i don't think it is fair to the family that baby isn't named after, haha, i know, i am weird.

we really wanted a name that was pretty, very unique but at the same time not weird. most people tell us that it sounds like a very old name, which we like. i have yet to find a real person with the name and several times people have called her Caroline, which is funny because the Cora in the book also struggles with this slip up

[Des10ed2b]

Irish C's

when i got pregnant with my daughter my husband surprised me by insisting that all of our kids be named Irish or Gaelic C names. it made things quite difficult! our daughter wasnt too hard. Once i saw the name Cayla i just fell in love, so that was pretty easy. Our son is Colin. Technically it is not known if that is the english spelling or if it is the irish nick name spelling of Coilean. But either way the name Colin is technically irish. we are not having anymore! so that makes it easy enough. now i am the only one in the family whos name doesnt start with a C!

[coldandsleepy]

Grey's first name isn't from anywhere in particular. It was one of very, very few boy names that both my husband and I liked.

His middle name is Ulrich, which is both my dad and my paternal grandfather's first name. (Though my dad goes by his second name, which is Richard.)

We didn't specifically set out to name him after anyone in our family, but ended up really liking the sound of Grey Ulrich... once we hit on that, nothing else seemed right.

[2boyzmama]

We looked to our ancestry. My husband and I share a Scottish/Irish ancestry, so we gave our boys first names along that line.

For the middle names, Ian's was set in stone long before he was conceived. In my husband's family, it's tradition that the firstborn son have his father's first name as his middle name. So Ian is Ian James...my husband is James Ronald, his dad is Ronald Clark, his grandpa is Clark Henry...you get the idea

We stuck with family names for middle names. Connor's middle name is William, which is on both sides of our family. Gavin's middle name is Augustus, Augustus Blockstein was the first of the Block family to immigrate to America, when he got here he changed his name to August Block. So Gavin got his German first name as his middle name.

For girls, we were just going with names that we liked, we had no theme or reason behind them! We were trying to stick with Irish/Scottish names at first, but strayed a little. Didn't end up mattering, we only have boys!!

[MichelleAnnette]

We like Hebrew names. Our son is Gabriel so we needed a name that "went with" that. No G names, that is confusing for me! We just like Susanna. I like the meaning, "rose or lily" but Lily DOES NOT go with our last name so we will never have a little Lily! Maybe Rose as a middle name for a future baby girl. Michelle is her middle name and that is my first name. Our son's middle name, Ryan, is my husband's first name. I didn't want to do family names either time except to use my husband's and my first names as middle names. I wanted easy names because we have a difficult last name. People still manage to mess them up, though. Susie (for Susan I think) is a family name on my husband's side but we are not calling her Susie and that is not why I like Susanna. We are calling her Susanna.

[octobermoon]

our name (Amiel) is Hebrew. DH and i both wanted it to be Hebrew, this was the only name we both liked.

[loriu]

http://randommsdoctormama.blogspot.c...icos-name.html

blogged about it b/c i got tired of writing all my friends individually about it!
loved reading everyone else's responses. some lucky kids whose parents put so much thought into their names

[Auroara Bobcat]

Gensena's (hard G sound not J) name is Norwegian and she shares a name with my great grandma. We didn't name her to honor my great grandma, we just really liked the name. My great grandma was only known as Gena and we only found out her whole name by accident! Gensena's middle name is Sativa and it means "sown," which is perfect because she was planned out and sown with much intention.

[JordanKX]

Originally Posted by BekahMomToOliver

The cool part is, the Rowan tree as a symbol has alot of significance for me spiritually, and I had no idea until my sister sent me this link when she was a few days old! : http://www.whats-your-sign.com/celti...owan-tree.html

Lil man is also Rowan (I love it as a girls name though too!)! We did a lot of looking up names before we made the decision. Rowan has always been one of my favorite names - DP's mom was the first to tell us about Rowan wood and it's uses in magic. I like old names - if not using family names - and Rowan in it's various spellings seems to be mostly gaelic. Has comparables in German, but I'm sticking with gaelic for my "where's his name from" answer.

His middle name is Sage. It's DP's brother's name although that wasn't our biggest consideration - I just love the name.

[2boyzmama]

Originally Posted by loriu

http://randommsdoctormama.blogspot.c...icos-name.html

blogged about it b/c i got tired of writing all my friends individually about it!
loved reading everyone else's responses. some lucky kids whose parents put so much thought into their names

I *love* how you got the middle name! So meaningful! And we have a Japanese Maple in our front yard, I used to not like it--we are anticipating widening our driveway and it'll be in the way--but I've been feeling myself more drawn to it lately, and I don't know why. Maybe I need to start researching them more...the way that it's just plopped right in the middle of our yard makes me think that it was placed there intentionally, and I'd hate to pull it up if it meant something to someone once upon a time.

[loriu]

thanks 2 (3) boyz mama!

you could always transplant your japanese maple if you need to redo your driveway. they're pretty expensive trees and probably worth keeping. it's strange, b/c we planted one at my mom and dad's last house together and put some of his ashes under it, but then my mom got remarried and sold the house years later, and i have never had the guts to drive by and make sure the tree is still there. i think i'd be too torn up if it wasn't!

my mom told me last night that she didn't want to call nicholas "nico" b/c it made him sound like a gang member. thanks mom!

[joeys_mom]

Rita is after my Aunt (also my middle name). Barbara is my MIL.

[First-Time-Mommy]

not in this ddc, but our sons(when born) middle name is after my granddad who died of leukemia.

[bright-midnight]

I got the name Leland from the book "Needful Things". He's not named after the character though, I just really loved the name. Hunter is my husband's middle name as well as his dad's first name.

[LMI Mom]

Eden Rose is inspired by our paternal grandmothers. Mine is named Edith Rose, and DH's grandma is Ida (pronounced ee-duh, and she goes by Edie). They're strong, beautiful women, and we wanted to honor them.

DD#1 is named Iris Meredith, simply because we liked it.

[HarperCait]

We just liked Adelaide. Her middle name (MacGregor) sounds like a family surname, but is not. Though it is Scottish, as per our heritage, it`s actually in honour of my dad Gregory, and DH's grandfather Alfred McEnroy C---- who was known as "Mac." (Both of whom are no longer with us.) We planned to use MacGregor for a boy or a girl, and the unisex nature of it was a bonus.