Who does NOT have name for the baby?? - Page 2

[ckhagen]

Well, we had a name, Judah. But... a year ago a close friend "stole" it claiming she didn't know we were going to use it (yeah right... everyone was shocked she used it knowing I had made it very known). So... I wanted to use it anyway. Our son's name is Zion. We thought Judah would be a great match. I'm stubborn enough to use it anyway. Besides, we probably won't be friends forever right? But... DH thinks it kind of threw a wet blanket on it. Now, DH wants to use our third boy name and just save Judah for later incase we had another boy. The third boy name we had picked is Jericho. Granted, I like the name, but I'm not *crazy* about it. So I don't know what to do now.

[Caroline248]

Oooh..I really like Jericho.

We talked about Elias last night. I like it. But I am still not convinced this baby is a boy...

~C~

[ckhagen]

Thanks Caroline. I'm trying to convince myself to just go with it, but I keep getting stuck on "and the walls came tumbling down..." Ya know, the children's Bible song? Oh, and it means "noctournal". Hehe... just what I need, a noctournal newborn!

[Caroline248]

I thought of the song...but I didn't know about the meaning!! Hmmm..maybe it isn't so great then...

~C~

[Wolfcat]

My still-growing ds is Logan Vance. But when I first found out, I called him alien tadpole (cause they look like aliens and tadpoles). Well, it stuck. My parents had an ornament engraved with "tadpole" for X-mas. My mom is going to call him Tad, and I told her that it just might stick as a nickname.

[mcimom]

I like Judah - I would be afraid someone would nickname Jericho "Jerry" or something - besides pi$$ on the name stealer - it's not even like it's family...it's just a friend...I'd do it.

[mcimom]

Originally Posted by Caroline248

Oooh..I really like Jericho.

We talked about Elias last night. I like it. But I am still not convinced this baby is a boy...

~C~

Elias makes me think of Big Boy though - you know Elias Bros? What about Elijah...I figured if you liked Jericho...

[mommy2girlies]

how funny that many of you like the name, but not what nickname people will call him! im in the same exact boat!! we're naming him jefferson, but i hate the name jeff. have no idea why, i just don't like it. so since his middle name is going to be carter, we're going to call him J.C. after dh's grandfather. he was a joseph christopher, but no one called him that. only j.c....

i say name your son judah!! how rude that she stole your name! leigh anne's right, its not like its family! but i really like jericho too

ok, so a funny story about not having a name yet. my fil's name is ted. but it wasn't put on his birth certificate till he was in his 30's!!! can you believe his birth certificate said "baby smith" till he was 30'ish!!!!!!! talk about an oversight! they named him ted a couple weeks after he was born, but never changed the birth certificate... how funny is that! so not naming your baby till you meet them, or even for a couple weeks doesn't sound so bad after all huh?!

[mcimom]

I think it's great that many of you wait until you "meet" baby. All of my dds and this pg - we've named them during - but I always kind of worried - what if they don't "look like a..." ??? Especially my Carmen - that's such a unique name (even though dh's mom is from Spain - we live in the mecca of white middle class America) - I wondered if it would "fit" her - but of course I can't imagine her with any other name.

DH's name is still wrong on his birth certificate - but it's only his middle name which I guess his parents changed days after his birth for who knows what reason. His SS card and all other forms of identity have his middle name as it is now, but the birth certificate never got changed...

...and don't worry about my nickname or free association problems with names - just bringing them up in case you hadn't thought of them before

[B52Bombshell]

Originally Posted by Wolfcat

... But when I first found out, I called him alien tadpole (cause they look like aliens and tadpoles). ....

How funny! When I was pg w/DS, I called him "our alien tadpole" until he started to look like a baby...

We didn't actually name him until he was something like, 30 min old. Then the names just kinda popped in our/my (?) heads & we now have an Alexander Maximilian...Zander for short.

I'm SO clueless as to what to name Butter Bean...we're 99% sure that she's a girl...boys names are SO much easier!!! We'll prolly wait until she's born before naming her. In the meantime, we gotta start our names list!

[Caroline248]

Bumping this....we are still completly nameless.

I keep hoping that when he is born, I will look at him and KNOW the name....at the very least we have until December...DH says we have to get him a SS# by then so we can claim him on our taxes

Any new ideas?? I at least want a list...


~C~

[KnittingKara]

many contenders ..... no finalists

[mum2tori]

Well we've know we are having a girl and we've had a set girl's name since DS#1 so... yes we have a name. At least a definite first name, we've been going back and forth on the middle name. I'm not worried.

We also have a Jackson. He's 3 now. Most people call him whatever we call him which is Jack or Jackson. I do like the nickname but that's because that's how I started to think of him while I was pregnant with him. I'm probably the only one to ever call him Jackie but that's usually when I'm snuggling with him (he's my snuggle bug) and I'll call him Jackie-boo. RIght now he prefers to be called "Jack Jack". But he willingly response to both Jack & Jackson.

Pregnancy #1: We found out the DD was a girl and picked a name that weekend. It is perfectly appropriate for her. She is a Tori through and through.

Pregnancy #2: Nickname was "Peanut" until about 7 months pregnant when I suddenly started thinking of him as "Jack". For a week I called him Jack in my head and then mentioned it to DH and he was like "oooh I really like the name Jack". We decided to go with the formal version of Jackson (family name). I think it was about 2 weeks before he was born that we decided on a middle name.

Pregnancy #3: Nickname was "Radish". DS#2 didn't have a name until he was born and we actually changed from the original name to a different name the next day when we were filling out the birth certificate info and trying to decide on the middle name. It was never a problem of not liking the names the other person liked... we both liked a list of about 6-8 names and couldn't decide which one to use. We were going to orginally name him Nicholas (not sure if I really wanted the nickname "Nick" though). We didn't have a middle name because DH didn't want to use any of the favorite names off our list because "well what if we want to use those as a first name for later, I don't want to "waste" one as a middle name". Well we were filling out the paperwork and decided we really need to come up with a name. I pulled out the baby name book and just started reading off names to see if one jumped out at us. I mentioned Adrian and DH was like "that's nice" and then I said "Aidan". We both just looked at each other and said "I really like that one". We decided to go with it as the first name and went with James as the middle name (after his grandfather since Jackson is a family name from my side).

Lately I sometimes wonder if I shouldn't have pushed more for Calvin for Aidan's name though "Fiery One" IS very appropriate for him. He's just starting to get that wonderful mischievous personality that reminds me so much of Calvin/Hobbes which was my original inspiration for the name to start with. He's all spikey blond hair too.

Pregnancy #4: Current. I've had a very strong feeling that baby is going to be a girl and u/s confirmed it. We really hadn't talked boys names and we've had a favorite girl's name like I said since I was pregnant with Jackson. So we'll be using that as the first name and haven't really decided on a definite middle. We've got 2 names that we've gone back and forth on for the middle but I haven't even looked at the baby name book to see if there is another name out there that we want to throw into the middle name mix.

Here's some of the boys names we always liked:
Nicholas
Christopher
Alexander
Lyle (my grandfather's name and my dad's middle name)
Zachary
Gavin
and of course Calvin. Maybe I'll get a Calvin someday... though I seriously doubt we are having a fifth.

[Caroline248]

Originally Posted by mum2tori

Pregnancy #3: Nickname was "Radish". DS#2 didn't have a name until he was born and we actually changed from the original name to a different name the next day when we were filling out the birth certificate info and trying to decide on the middle name.

I remember Radish....I can't believe we are already doing it again!!

~C~

[SoCalGirl]

We bought two baby name books (one huge one with like 55,000 names, and "Cool Names for Babies" that has lots of short lists based on various themes/styles), went through them all, made lists, found several cute names that we liked, but ultimately, have decided to just stick with the name that we liked best even before we bought the name books! It just "sounds right" in a way that nothing else has. So, as my DH says, barring any sort of horrible fascist dictator with this name coming to power and committing serious crimes against humanity between now and when this baby is born, we've got a name. (But we're keeping it under wraps until birth.)

[mum2tori]

Originally Posted by Caroline248

I remember Radish....I can't believe we are already doing it again!!

~C~

I know!!

Are we insane?

[AugustineM]

Still no name here either. Possibilities:
Eva, Evelyn, Julia, Mia, Hazel, Lauren...

Middle name will probably be Christine, a family name with special significance.

Thoughts?

[*guest]

I got nothin' over here.

[chiromama]

we've got a few boys names we like and a few girls names we like.... but nothing for sure.

[sadhitia]

No idea here. We didn't name our daughter until she was two weeks old, though, so maybe we'll repeat that kind of thing. It's a lot harder to name someone than we thought it would be!