Anyone still not have a name(s)?

[MarineWife]

My dh and I cannot agree on a name for boy #4. I feel like we have inadvertently boxed ourselves in because of the names of our other 3. They all end with -an or -en. So, now I feel like we have to find a name with the same ending sound, -en, -an, -in, -on or -yn, so this kid isn't the odd one out. I also don't want a name that's too similar to the other boys' names. That's making it very difficult to find a name we like. The names I like are very similar to the names we've already used, which, of course, makes sense. That's what I like.

I tried going back through my baby name books without any exclusions to just pick any names I like. I ended back at the same place. All very similar names. We're stuck.

[greenmama66]

My boys have names ending with en. This next boy is no different as name ends with an or en.

[SuburbanHippie]

Our boys name we picked out is Owen.  Do you have an Owen already?  I also really like Ethan, but DH doesn't care for it.

We have no girls name yet.  We're completely lost on that one.

[MarineWife]

We didn't mean to have the same ending for all the names. I didn't even realize it until we had to pick a name for this baby.

We have a Ryan, Ethan and Kellen. My dh doesn't like O or Q names. After our last discussion, he said he'd look some more. I told him no more looking. We need settle on a short list and then see if we can agree on something from that.

I've narrowed my choices down to Brenden, Aiden and Aston. I'd go with Aston in a heartbeat except that my 20yo ds said if I do that everyone will call him Ass.

My dh won't agree to any of these and keeps coming back with new names. The latest are Gavin, Nolen and Logan. I don't like any of those. We discussed Dylan but my dh likes Dillon and I don't like that spelling. I think my dh is just being difficult. Even if he agrees to a name I suggest, he has to find a different spelling and won't let it go. He probably thinks I'm being difficult.

My latest idea is to try to get my dh to agree to a list of 3 names and let me choose after the baby is born. Maybe once I see him, I'll know which name fits him best. My dh won't be here for the birth so he won't be able to make the final decision with me. I don't know if he'll go for that.

[LivingSky]

MW: Oh darn, I was about to reply and say I love Aston as a name, but I didnt think about the potential unfortunate short form. I do also really like Aiden.

I personally think Logan is a fantastic name but there's just no way to use it these days without people thinking you named your child after Wolverine from XMen.

Have you considered Caiden? (or Cayden, Kaiden, Kayden, etc). Or Mason? Those are the two names on our short list that fit your criteria.

My DH will be here for the birth, but we've done just what you suggested - come up with a short list of names we like and we'll decide for sure which one we'll use once baby is here.

[mayakas]

How about


Landon
Preston
Sutton
Grayson
Braedon
Mason

[MarineWife]

Originally Posted by LivingSky 

MW: Oh darn, I was about to reply and say I love Aston as a name, but I didnt think about the potential unfortunate short form.

I know. When my ds first said that to me I thought he was being silly. Then I mentioned it to a few other people and they agreed with him. I think I'll have to take the word of a just barely not teen anymore guy about what other teen guys would do.

We don't want to do another 'K" sounding name since we have a Kellen. My dh is also very hung up on meaning. Since he's a US Marine, he wants a strong, warrior, hero type meaning. We did agree on Sloan as a middle name, which means warrior or something like that. I can't remember exactly now. I was hoping that would help him let go of the first name meaning but it hasn't.

I like Braeden, too, but my dh won't agree to that one either, I think mostly because of the meaning. I have teased him and told him since he won't be here I can name the baby whatever I want. I won't really do that (I don't think ) but I am getting a little tired of going around in circles with him.

We have way too many rules to pick a 4th boy name.

[javilu]

jason?

[Gismobabe]

Soren? Meaning: thunder, war (Danish)

[mumofmak]

We're struggling with a name choice for our boy #4 too!  It's so frustrating and any time I ask DH about ti he makes some silly suggestion...I need him to get on board with really trying to find something... Our added issue is that it has to work in English and Norwegian...we don't even have a good middle name picked out!

Our current short list is:

Aleksander Johannes

Erik ???

Matthias Aleksander (no *th* sound just a *t* sound)

And I love the name Aksel but DH is not a fan.... :-(

any suggestions?? or preferences on these choices?

I'll suggest Karsten (or Carsten) for you even though you said you didn't want a *K* name. ;-) That's our boy #3 and we love it! Means annointed one.

[MarineWife]

I actually suggested Soren to my dh because I know someone with that name and had never heard it before. He is working with some Danish guys so asked about it and was told it's pronounced like Shorn, so that doesn't fit. I also asked about Aren. Again, it doesn't sound like it's spelled in English. It's pronounced Arn.

mumofmak ~ I like Aksel, too. Why do those darn dhes have to get in the way? . The next one I like is Aleksander Johannes. I had to seriously threaten my dh that I was going to name the baby Brenden to finally get him to get serious about offering suggestions. It's not ok to shoot down everything I come up with if he's not going to provide some positive input. Of course, now I'm kicking myself for that. Just can't win.

[Mommy Kahdib]

A friend of mine has a Mason, Caeden and Nolan...same requirements that you had.

What about Emerson?  Or Pierson?  Zion? 

[ArcticRose]

We are having trouble picking boy names too. At this point I think we're just hoping for a girl, since we have a girl name picked out, lol.

No K names? Darn. I was going to suggest Corbin or Calvin.

What about Flynn? Darren? Devon?

Those are all possibles on our list.. along with Donovan, Gavin, Logan, Ethan, and Dylan.

We have a few others that don't end with en sound. *sigh* Maybe we'll know once the baby is here.

[noahs.mom06]

We still haven't picked a girl name we totally agree on. We have a boy name, although we're not 100% on the middle name (I am, but DH would like something different). So, the baby will probably be a girl ;)

[tourist.]

We still haven't decided on a name either.  It's really super frustrating!  With DS1 we had the name literally moments after finding out he was a boy (and mutually agreed to the name within 24 hours of finding out).  This time we are 100% stumped.  I think with DS1 we set the bar too high, we always get compliments on his name, how it's cool/unique/rock star whatever it is, so we can't just name DS2 whatever - it needs to be cool too.  There's too much pressure!  

Good luck to you on your name search!

[HidaShara]

I'm refusing to think about it until I have baby in hand. :/  DH and I have a number of options, none of them perfect. But I'm as tired of coming up with reasons why I SHOULDN'T name my baby something as I am with finding reasons we should.  I'll let her (it had better be a her or it's gonna be a whole different set of name problems) present herself - maybe I'll be inspired.

[MarineWife]

I could go for waiting until baby is born more if my dh were going to be here. Since he won't, I feel more pressure to decide beforehand.

We've had a girl name picked out since we were TTC what turned out to be ds2. We'll never get to use it.

I also like:

Ronan
Rowan (although, I guess that's more popular for a girl)
Keiran
Keenan
Kian ~ I'm pretty sure my dh would agree to this one right away because he's the one who suggested it first.
Ian ~ too close to Ethan, right? I can see myself constantly getting their names mixed up. I do that already.

I've lost my original lists. My 7yo ds took my notepad to take notes for some detective game he was playing.

[Gismobabe]

Originally Posted by mumofmak 

We're struggling with a name choice for our boy #4 too!  It's so frustrating and any time I ask DH about ti he makes some silly suggestion...I need him to get on board with really trying to find something... Our added issue is that it has to work in English and Norwegian...we don't even have a good middle name picked out!

Our current short list is:

Aleksander Johannes

Erik ???

Matthias Aleksander (no *th* sound just a *t* sound)

And I love the name Aksel but DH is not a fan.... :-(

any suggestions?? or preferences on these choices?

I'll suggest Karsten (or Carsten) for you even though you said you didn't want a *K* name. ;-) That's our boy #3 and we love it! Means annointed one.

I really like Matthias and none of my American friends or family have trouble pronouncing it. In order to escape the "th" problem (my native language is German and there it is a pure "t" as well), we have picked Matteo, called Teo so it is clear that there is no "th" sound in it as there would be with Theo.

I know Matthias in all age groups and all of them are nice men or cool boys.

I can just suggest some more Nordic names popular here:

Lorenz or Laurenz

Leon

Magnus

Niko

[beccamama31]

We are having trouble deciding on names as well,, 

We have an Adrian (boy)

and a Rowan (girl)

so not sure if we should continue with 'an' names, or branch out...  Don't know what sex the baby is yet...

MarineWife; I like the names Kieran, and Rowan (boy or girl) and Ian ,, I like Brendan too..( don't think Ian is too close to Ethan,, Ian is nice boy name)

MumofMac.. I like Aleksander, Erik and Aksel a lot, all are good Scandinavian names..

It is def hard to agree on a name!

[greenmama66]

Originally Posted by MarineWife 

I actually suggested Soren to my dh because I know someone with that name and had never heard it before. He is working with some Danish guys so asked about it and was told it's pronounced like Shorn, so that doesn't fit. I also asked about Aren. Again, it doesn't sound like it's spelled in English. It's pronounced Arn.

mumofmak ~ I like Aksel, too. Why do those darn dhes have to get in the way? . The next one I like is Aleksander Johannes. I had to seriously threaten my dh that I was going to name the baby Brenden to finally get him to get serious about offering suggestions. It's not ok to shoot down everything I come up with if he's not going to provide some positive input. Of course, now I'm kicking myself for that. Just can't win.

My youngest is named Soren Andreas. Also this babe's middle name was going to be Aksel but no one else likes it but Dh and I.......sigh..........

We are pretty decided on Julian Markus for this baby now.