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[aidenn]

I won't lie - being up all night with morning sickness and stomach flu has made me grasp at straws for something to do, so while I am only.9.5 weeks, I have been brainstorming baby names. Anyone else taking the jinxy plunge with me & thinking of names before the first trimester is out?

For a boy, I am considering Henry Elliot and a girl would be Penelope (Nellie) Fairlight, but they are far from being set in stone!

[nettlesoup]

They are lovely name choices, Aidenn.

I've had a wee think about names as well. If it's a girl I'm tempted to name her Heather. A close family friend of ours died in August and her name was Erica, and I wanted to name the baby in her memory, so Erica is the latin name of heather.

I'm terrible at thinking up boy names I like, but I really like Bran. He's a Celtic harvest God, so that would be appropriate for a September baby. That's as far as I've got though!
 

[haurelia]

You're not alone! I've been thinking a lot about names too. 

We have a 4 year old Henry Everett, and this is our second baby. 

I have a strong girl feeling so have been brainstorming girl names a lot.  We like old-fashioned names; so for girls, I'm thinking about Matilda, Edith, Eleanor, Alice, Beatrice. Middle name would be after my grandma (also my middle name and my mother's middle name) Aurelia. 

For boys, we already had some names that were considered for DS.  Silas, Asa, Grover, George, Samuel,  If this baby is a boy, his middle name will be Michael, so I think George will be out as a first name. 

I don't believe it's a jinx...just fun to think about. Hope you're feeling better and getting more sleep soon. 

[DaisyTree]

Ooh I love the names so far. For us, if its a boy it will be the name we chose my first pregnancy (we didn't find out gender for dd) Collin Philip. For a girl I really like Molly, but DH's grandma had a dog named Molly for many years and he thinks his family will make a big deal about it.

[thefreckledmama]

We've been discussing names looooong before I was even pregnant. I'm kind of a name nerd, so it's a lot of fun for me. Plus, we have very, very different naming styles, so it will probably take us the entire pregnancy to find a name or two we can agree on.

I will say, Penelope is on the short list of names for a girl we both agree on. My only hesitation is the potential for it to skyrocket in popularity because of its newfound status as a celebrity baby name. Of course this is coming from a mama who's oldest is named Olivia-and I thought I was choosing a lesser-popularity name. Ha!

Our major naming style conflict comes from me ideally wanting a classic but less common name-so there aren't 4 in a class, whereas he wants super trendy. He wouldn't buy a name book after he saw it was printed in 2011, because it obviously was not the most current. I told him if it was a name that wasn't around 2 years ago, I wasn't giving it to my child. Lol.

[thefreckledmama]

DaisyTree-Our family dog growing up was Sam/Sammy. My niece is Samantha/Sammy. I don't think anyone even really thinks about the association.

[DaisyTree]

Freckledmama thanks for sharing that... That's what I told DH. They may put it together initially, but I think it would be quickly forgotten.

[dakipode]

Names are somewhat on my mind, mostly because of DH's last name, it's one that I find hard to match if you know what I mean. I also want a name that transfers between English and Dutch since I intend to speak Dutch to the kid. No concrete ideas yet.

[mrsandmrs]

we have been planning baby names for about 4 years. every time i think we're "settled" on names something weird comes up. If we have 2 girls or 1B/1G, I think we will be OK but if we have 2 boys, we are at a loss for the second fella. Naming twin boys would be a challenge for us. Good thing it takes so long to grow a baby - I need all that time to come up with the names. We are both name nerds and we're really sentimental about family names, so there is a lot to negotiate and discuss.

freckledmama - persephone is a sound-a-like for penelope if you want something more off-the-beaten-path. 

[katalopolis]

We're going with a western first name and a Japanese middle name (my fiance is half-Japanese) and we've got a good shortlist of both types of names so far. One of the girl Japanese names we've got on the list is "Mayumi" which if spelled with a certain set of Kanji (a Japanese name's meaning changes depending on how you write it) means "true bow" which is pretty awesome since we both do archery.

[Bromache]

I started looking at names as soon as I saw the BFP at four weeks! 

We have two boys already. Coming up with a third full boy name might be difficut for us, because our naming tastes are pretty different. But I have a very short list of boy names I'd like at this point, so that might actually be easier.

For girl names, I'm debating just going with our last choice. (The girl name we decided on for our first is out of the running, as DH's sister used a very similar name for her daughter. I'm a bit sad about it, because it really is my favorite. But our second choice was pretty good, too.) The trouble with it is that it ends in the same sound as our second son's name. Probably not a big deal, but it's bothering me. The trouble is that almost ALL of the girl's names I like end with the same sound, "-a". And the other ones I've come up with have been turned down by DH so far. *sigh* Oh, and the other issue is that both of our first kids have constellation names in the middle, and the female constellation names all end in "-a", too, which would just sound awkward...

This could definitely take all pregnancy!

[letniaLynne]

My DF and I did a bit of chatting about names a few weeks ago. Figuring out the list of requirements. Since his family is very Polish the name we choose needs to be able to be translated and conjugated in Polish as well as sound nice in English. And learning more about the polish language they have many many different conjugations depending upon the sentence, it gets complicated! Luckily the names I chose for my 2 girls from my first marriage turned out perfect in Polish amazingly!! I say that was fates hand helping out! But my name just does not work!! Lol My DF and his family have spent time trying to figure out how to conjugate my name but never come to an agreement they all say it just sounds very veery strange.

I think finding a nice English sounding name that we like that also translates well is going to be tough!

[aidenn]

I am loving the multicultural representation in this board! My husband is half German, so I fully understand the issues surrounding names being lost in translation! I will be thrilled to see the cool names that come out of this board!

[chispita]

I have a little notebook I always carry in my purse. Towards the back there are a couple of pages with names I like 

We know we want uncommon names, and I think we might have a "star" middle name theme, but other than that nothing's settled. They just have to be something that sounds good in both English and Spanish - though we're definitely not picking a Spanish name (we're both atheists and Spanish names are based on Catholic saints), but has to be pronounceable by someone Spanish without sounding too weird.

Actually, the big fight / anxiety is going to be regarding last names. We're both from Spain, so two last names - problem is, both of our first last names are boring and common as dirt, whilst our second last names are actually interesting (so there's the first strike: pissing off the grandparents whenever the learn of it). And then the second question, with those two last names, is order - they sound good either way, but I have this knee jerk reaction where I'd rather the one that comes from me go first mostly because traditionally and by default it's the father's that goes first, but I'm not sure whether that's a childish reason.

So even though we've sort of talked about the whole names issue, nothing's been decided other than the fact that we're not telling anyone (specially not family!) till the baby is here and named! We don't care and don't want to hear about their complaints or requests - this is a decision between Alex (DH) and me, no one else is involved.

[katalopolis]

I don't want to decide on a name firmly and then have the baby and realize that "you don't look at ALL like a ________" which is why we've got a small list of names for each gender. Just in case.

[MamaMash]

I have a few girl names I like. But, nothing I'm absolutely set on. I have pretty much no boy names on my list at this point. DH and I have different naming styles when it comes to boys. He is 1/4 Mexican 1/4 Brazilian and has the tendency to want a Mexican name (Juan Julio José etc...) I do not like that style at all, not to mention he doesn't look Hispanic at all. And our dd is blonde as blonde can be. The only thing that gives his heritage away is his last name. I would just not be ok with my son going to school with a complete Mexican name and when the teacher calls roll the first time he stands up and is a white boy with blonde hair and blue eyes haha. Just not cool. So, needless to say a boy would be hard for us to agree on.

[amanda bee]

i have a couple 'girl' names stashed away that represent both of our cultures (i am french-canadian/irish & my DH is mexican),

so i want a mix of both heritages. Our 11 year old is named Emiliano Devlin (& both of of our last names hyphenated).

i am totally stuck on Violet as a first name if my bean is a girl.

finding a boy's name is harder (i'm with you chispita: we are also both atheists & a lot of mexican names are also based on Catholic saints).

Mama mash: my son loves his name Emiliano (he is named after the mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata).

it makes him feel proud of his heritage :) 

[MamaMash]

Amanda bee- I really like that name. But, I'm still hoping to be able to carry on his heritage (if its a boy) with a middle name and obviously his very Mexican last name. Middle name I would be fine with Anthony/Antonio. My husbands middle name is Anthony and his grandfathers name is Antonio.

[Cutie Patootie]

Most likely, if we have a boy, he will be "Felix Nicholas".  For a girl, "Lavinia Nichola".  We will probably call her "Livie" for short. 

My 32yo brother died suddenly this past April, and Nicholas is in memory of him. 

I am going back and forth about the middle name if we have a girl.  Maybe I should just go with "Lavinia Nicholas"?  Or should I make it more girly and use "Nichola" instead. 

"Nichola" sounds exactly like Nicholas, but without the S.
 

[beep]

I love the name Felix.