Baby Names - Page 2

[tuffykenwell]

Oh wow!!! I think DH and I have found the girls name Now we have to decide how the heck to spell it LOL!

The name is Eilis/Ailis and is pronounced Aye-lish. DH was thumbing through the baby name book listing names aloud and said that one and I said "I that name!" I have said it to him at least a dozen times and always gotten *the look* and a heck no...but somehow when he is the one offering it as a suggestion it goes down like butter :LOL

That actually happened to us with Rhys. I had know about the name Rhys for YEARS and had suggested it hundreds of times...nope nope nope. At 8 months pregnant we were watching Legally Blonde and DH said "I like the name Reese"...I said "So do I but its a boys name and she spells it wrong LOL"...he said he would give me gender and spelling if I gave him the name....sure honey...just cause i love you



Steph

[Megamama]

What a pretty name!(I mean Eilis) I was thinking about Rhiannon, but I am somewhat stuck on Daisy Jane. and I think we might go with Thomas Andrew for a son..and call him Taj for his initials

[tuffykenwell]

Originally posted by Megamama
What a pretty name!(I mean Eilis) I was thinking about Rhiannon, but I am somewhat stuck on Daisy Jane. and I think we might go with Thomas Andrew for a son..and call him Taj for his initials

DH was sulking last night because I wouldn't give him Rhiannon...not because I don't love the name (I do) but because I don't like siblings names that aliterate KWIM? It sucks too because there are soooo many nice names that start with the letter R!

Steph

[melmosmom]

names are always hard for us..

;dlgj

[LittleOne03]

Aaaah, names. We had the HARDEST time figuring out names for our first one! It was about a week or two before he was born that we were finally able to agree on what to call him. I was a teacher before becoming a mama, so I cannot stand anything too common, because I have associations with so many names. It couldn't be a name that had been a previous student's. Not too bad, except my husband really loves traditional names... Sigh. What a nightmare! We also weren't sure if it was going to be a boy or a girl, so we had to have one of each picked out. We finally settled on Kaden Kenneth Michael for a boy, and I just love his name. Now, of course, we've set a precident that our kids are going to have three names, so it's going to be fun. Our girls name from last time was Kayleigh Jessica (My maiden name was Lee, and my first name starts with a K, so I used to be K. Lee, and my husband's middle name is Jess, so Jessica is after that). Now we just have to come up with a third name for her. I chose Michael for Kaden's middle name because it was a biblical name I always loved, so now I have to come up with a biblical third name if it's a girl. I'm tossing around Kayleigh Jessica Elizabeth, but I'm just not sold on it yet. Our runner up boy name last time was Keller, so I'm pretty sure that's what we'll go with this time. I want Keller Ross (Ross is my dad's middle name), and I'm thinking that maybe Keller Ross Joseph, or something. Sigh. Why does coming up with a name have to be SO STINKING hard??? And I just found out I'm pregnant, so I feel like I've lost out on several weeks of name searching time!!

[gonnabeamom]

We've got a hard time with names because

We hyphenated when we got married, and this kid is going to spend so much time spelling their last name for folks that it's got to be a simple to spell and pronounce first name just even things out.

We don't want anything that starts with the same letter as our last name. Plus it's got to sound good with our last name

We both have the same first letter of our first names, so we don't want anything that starts with that 'cause it would be hopeless cutesy.

Many of the names that are beautiful and not incredibly common have been used either in the family or by close friends, and I don't want to do that. I wouldn't rule out Sarah because someone else has it, but we have friends will children named Talia, Lila, Lily, Julia and Zoey. All favorites of mine.

We probably want to use parts of my parents names in the kids names, so we'd like something that works that way.

I like the idea of gender neutral names, but DH doesn't like any of those that I've come up with.

I also don't want to get to settled on anything because I want some leeway to look at the kid and say "this fits".

[BoobyJuice]

We're having a really tough time with names this time. We hyphenated, but my last name is pretty neutral and all you notice is my husband's ver irish last name. We love this irish names, but unfortunately everyone loves them and they're getting so over popular. Everyone is using them. To make matters worse - for those of us with boys - lots of the irish boys names are used for girls in the US. For two years everyone commented that they'd never heard of our oldest son's name, now people tell us they know 6 of them. uggh!

We really want different, unusual, and yet easily pronounced names. Not too wierd for US ears. Both our names end in the "an" sound - Karen and Aidan - so that rules out all the Brendan, Devin, etc. We have two boys so we've never used our girls list. It's huge. We struggled to come up with a name for our second son. Now if it's a third . . . Oh, and this will be the 17th grandchild on my husbands (irish) side, so names are getting tough.

[tuffykenwell]

For those who like Irish names there is a page with spelling, meanings and pronunciations (with vocal files so you can actually listen to them LOL). The link is Irish Names

Steph