Is anyone else still undecided on a name?

[Mizelenius]

I am just stuck. I have a few names I really like, but I don't know if any of them are "the" name. I think I've exhausted the baby name books, too . . .

Anyone else?

[DCMama01]

My baby has no name either. I don't know the sex, and I don't have a name picked out for either gender.

[starc]

With every child I do all the leg work on finding names only to have then shoot down by my husband. Very annoying. This being our third son I've gone through all the names I like but my husband doesn't like any of them. Now we only have one name we can agree on. Which I'm okay with but it's definitely not my favorite. I wish we had a back up name in case he doesn't look like the name my husband likes. With every child we have always had at least two names to pick from.

[DCMama01]

^^^I'm in the same boat right now (every name I like gets shot down) which has taken most of the fun out of it. I'm not offering up anymore names until the end. Less time to object.

[crunchy_mama]

We decide after the babe is born here.

[kcparker]

Girl name, yes. Boy name...errrr, nothing. Well, I have my secret name that I want if it's another boy, but I think it won't go over with the DH, and he keeps coming up with names that make me want to retch into a hat. So far though, all the people who have asked if it's a girl or boy and get a response that we don't know say, "Well, I think it's a girl." That's my gut too, so I am not worrying about boy names for now.

[Beppie]

there's only about a 5% chance that it's a boy (well, who knows really, we were told it was "probably" a girl when we had our u/s, but nothing 100%)...and if it's a boy, we have no name picked out. everytime I mention it to DH, he says, we don't need to be wasting our time thinking about that! (He's sure it's a girl.)

[strawberryfields08]

We don't know if its a boy or girl either and also have no names for either. We talk about names all the time but can't agree on anything. I am really hoping when we see the baby something just comes to us and we know its name! DD didn't have a name for a few days and that was OK, so I guess this one might not either.

[Mizelenius]

RE: the DH/DP issue . . .DH named one of our DDs completely on his own. He picked a name and told me he'd consider another if I came up with something he liked more. I tried, but was not successful.

This will be our 4th DD. We named two together, he named on on his own, so this time I decided I will be doing it on MY own. There is one name I like that he really, really hated, so that one is out, but other than that, I am going solo.

It's harder in some ways, but I think the whole name thing is very hard as it is.

Maybe it will all come together once the baby is born, though I don't trust my judgment too much at that point. I almost named my 1st DD "Rosebud" because of her lips when she was born instead of the planned "Fiona." I am SO glad we stuck with Fiona!

[EvolvingMama]

I am super stuck and it's actually really stressing me out. I have two DS and knew what their names would be, for sure, and it worked out great. This time, I'm having a girl, and now I have my 2 sons, 1 stepdaughter, and husband to throw their opinions in....and no idea! She is due in a few days.

Cora? Jessie? Eva? Emma? I want to use family names, too....but it's so hard!

[billikengirl]

Yeah, this little man may have no name for a week after he's born. DH and I are having a really hard time even coming up with the short list we planned to pick from after we see him. We agree on about, oh, zero names.

[mamatolevi]

Neither of us like the names the other has suggested. I esp. dont like using his father's name as the middle name, but understand why he wants to and have not put my foot down.* Neither of us can figure out something that goes with it well that we both like. I'm partial to Owen. He's partial to Jason or Joshua.

*(FIL died a year ago, but was a selfish drunk who in his last years did evertyhing he possibly could to be a burde to DH. He mistreated MIL and DH, never paid support, as well as pissed me off royally a number of times. I don't want to use the name b/c of the baggage associated with it, but at least if it's a middle I don't have to use it often.)

[sebarnes]

We will decide a name after the baby is born.

[calidarling]

For our first ds, dp had a name he always liked and I never had anything that I liked more. Also, dp is very laid back and I tend to make a lot of decisions in our family, so when he actually had an opinion on the name, i went with it.

This time we are having another boy, and for a few weeks after we found out it was a boy, we tried to think of names. There were a lot that we liked okay, but nothing that stood out to me.

Then people started pressuring us about a name, and being the contrary person that I am, i decided to stop looking for a name (im not good with people telling me what to do or how to do something). This one will be named after he is born and I am very excited about that.

Dp is on board for waiting, although he has some names that he really likes and teases me about it.

[stilllearning85]

No name here yet either, although we have planned to wait until she is born to name her. Still... what if she NEVER gets a name!? AAAAH!

[notjustmamie]

We don't name the kids until birth, so officially we don't have a name, but we do have a collection of names to choose from (finally).

For the mama's whose DHs are objecting to all the names you've bothered to search out, you can always tell them when they take the time to research some names, then they can have veto power. Or maybe that's just the cranky pregnancy hormones talking.

[strawberryfields08]

Originally Posted by mamatolevi

Neither of us like the names the other has suggested. I esp. dont like using his father's name as the middle name, but understand why he wants to and have not put my foot down.* Neither of us can figure out something that goes with it well that we both like. I'm partial to Owen. He's partial to Jason or Joshua.

*(FIL died a year ago, but was a selfish drunk who in his last years did evertyhing he possibly could to be a burde to DH. He mistreated MIL and DH, never paid support, as well as pissed me off royally a number of times. I don't want to use the name b/c of the baggage associated with it, but at least if it's a middle I don't have to use it often.)

I have a similar situation with a boys middle name. DS has my dads name as a middle (he was awesome and passed away 6 years ago) We always use family names for middles, but if this one is a boy I DO NOT want to use my selfish, cranky, terrible, FIL's name as a middle! He has the same last name as us and so I would be using his full name in essence, you know? But of course he would be so hurt (I don't care really) and DH doesn't want to do that to him, I would rather use DH's Grandpas name as a middle because we are all much closer to him and he is a great guy. What to do, what to do.........