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post #1 of 57
12/30/06 at 5:22pm
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Is anyone obsessing about this so early on like me?

If we have a boy the top contender is Alexander. We'd call him Xander.

I'm not so sure about the girl's name. My dh and I have a hard time agreeing. He doesn't really want to think about it until the end of my pregnancy anyway. He's no fun!
post #2 of 57
12/30/06 at 5:57pm
We didn't find out if DS was a boy or a girl, so we had a boy and girl name. Only one girl name, we would name a girl after DH's late mother. And we had several boy names that we liked, so either way we are good to go for this baby!
post #3 of 57
12/30/06 at 9:10pm
Alexander is a great name! It's DS's middle name.

For a boy we like Logan James (James is for my maternal grandfather and my paternal grandmother). For a girl I have a bunch of names I really like but DH has vetoed all of them. Our girl name when we were pg with DS is out - I know at least 3 little girls with the name and it's become realllllly popular!
post #4 of 57
12/30/06 at 10:06pm
grrr, DH always shoots down my names!

The only girl names he's OK with right now is: Ella, and Delaney, oh and Kira.

As for boys, I LOVE Corbin, but DH isn't thrilled w/it. He likes Liam.

Who knows what we'll agree on :
post #5 of 57
12/30/06 at 10:07pm
We consider naming a very important and very fun job. It's most important to us that our kids don't have 'common' names, or anything in the top 100 at least. We really love the boy name Simon, but it's on the top 10 lists in Scandinavian countries, and while it's about 250 on the list here, it's gaining in popularity. We like Ignacia for a girl, but it's not set in stone. I like a lot of names that DP doesn't like, such as: Oscar, Finnegan, Imogen, and more.
post #6 of 57
12/30/06 at 10:18pm
Hello, my s/o and I tossed names back and forth in the Freightliner like a beach ball... from old to new and foreign. I started the name game just about as soon as the test screamed 'positive' at us. We played 'name vollyball' until our 5 month.... at least for the first name... Serenity. Now the middle has taken a little more time. I really liked "grace" and Terry liked "Angelita" which using Angelita will make her initials S A D. Still punting to put a hyphen and add the grace but I don't think there is a chance. Terry heard of Angelita after I was told to get out of the truck due to health issues.... and he really likes the translation... 'peaceful little angel'. (roughly)
post #7 of 57
12/31/06 at 1:14am
This is fun!! Great reading what you other ladies are thinking/doing!!

Well... I have already thought about names!! It helps me when I mediate on a strong and healthy pregnancy and baby!! Also we name our children after a family relative. My son's name is Alexander William.... and we were thinking if we have another boy.. Jacob Christopher or if we have a girl..... Kaitlyn Elizabeth.

Just my thoughts!!

Good luck ladies!
post #8 of 57
1/1/07 at 2:36pm
We've had our first names picked out for a while but we're keeping them a secret. Sorry. Is anyone else doing this or am I the only one?
post #9 of 57
1/1/07 at 3:27pm
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Originally Posted by arelyn View Post
We've had our first names picked out for a while but we're keeping them a secret. Sorry. Is anyone else doing this or am I the only one?
We don't tell anyone IRL. With ds, we were thinking "Jared" and mentioned it to my parents. They decided that's what they were going to call him, even though we were just thinking about it. Well, we abandoned Jared because of that, and have kept our mouths shut since. With dd, we asked a couple of aquaintances "how would you spell this?" or "how would you pronounce this?", but I generally don't tell. And if someone tells me what they're thinking, I never say "oh, I knew a so-and-so and she was such a b----!" Seems people were always saying that to me with ds.
I looked on a baby name website last night. got through the d's, and....nothing. (Was only looking at boy names.) We have such a hard time with boy names.
post #10 of 57
1/1/07 at 4:28pm
LOL, we kept our name for our first a secret too...With the 2nd I think we told some people, and didn't tell others, with this one, for a girl we like Nevaeh and Anjalie for a boy we like Romy and Nasir...nothing's set in stone yet. I liked Nasir for DS#2 before I found out for sure that he was a boy, once I know he was, Nasir just didn't fit him...
post #11 of 57
1/1/07 at 9:06pm
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Originally Posted by AugustLia23 View Post
we like Romy and Nasir......
Romy would be perfect for our baby...we conceived in Rome!
post #12 of 57
1/1/07 at 9:57pm
We don't tell anyone IRL our name choices, and we don't find out the sex ahead of time either. We had both names picked out but have changed our minds recently. On our trip out of town this weekend we discussed.

Top contenders for a girl are: Autumn, Ariel and Amber

Top contenders for a boy are: Adam, Aaron, Maxwell and Oliver

We also have a middle name list for each, but that gets more complicated.

DS was named completely for family, so this time we are just picking names we like. It's fun

If it's a girl, I'm pretty sure her name will be Autumn. So appropriate with a September babe.
post #13 of 57
1/3/07 at 6:26pm
Is anyone worried about agreeing on a name with their DP? I brought the topic up yesterday and my DH is first of all just not that interested and then after some urging his suggestions were terrible! Oh no I think he has awful taste! But only in names, !

We're in a bit of a hard spot because the name would preferably be pronounceable in all our languages - that's 4. And can I mention that I like names that are not so common.

I guess we have 9 months to come to some sort of agreement and hopefully one that suits our baby too.

Anyway just thought I'd share my anxiety. Oh btw I like the name Liliana for a girl and Kaedon for a boy. And my feeling is that since I'm carrying the baby my opinion should count more, right? I just don't want to name my baby Jan as his family expects us to or Jana for a girl....
post #14 of 57
1/4/07 at 3:05pm
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Originally Posted by hazieluna View Post
Is anyone worried about agreeing on a name with their DP? I brought the topic up yesterday and my DH is first of all just not that interested and then after some urging his suggestions were terrible! Oh no I think he has awful taste! But only in names, !

We're in a bit of a hard spot because the name would preferably be pronounceable in all our languages - that's 4. And can I mention that I like names that are not so common.

I guess we have 9 months to come to some sort of agreement and hopefully one that suits our baby too.

Anyway just thought I'd share my anxiety. Oh btw I like the name Liliana for a girl and Kaedon for a boy. And my feeling is that since I'm carrying the baby my opinion should count more, right? I just don't want to name my baby Jan as his family expects us to or Jana for a girl....
We have a hard time agreeing as well.

My dh puts a lot of emphasis on the meaning of the name and that can make things hard.

Even though my dh doesn't show much interest this early on, I'm still badgering him with names. I like the name Liliana a lot too. And Lydia (or maybe Lidia).

I always feel like my opinion should count more too. DH has never much cared for that argument!
post #15 of 57
1/4/07 at 3:30pm
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Originally Posted by hazieluna View Post
Is anyone worried about agreeing on a name with their DP? I brought the topic up yesterday and my DH is first of all just not that interested and then after some urging his suggestions were terrible! Oh no I think he has awful taste! But only in names, !
Yes! We totally have this problem. We have very different tastes in names, so we do a lot of back and forth.
post #16 of 57
1/4/07 at 3:49pm
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Originally Posted by Einen View Post
Is anyone obsessing about this so early on like me?

If we have a boy the top contender is Alexander. We'd call him Xander.

I'm not so sure about the girl's name. My dh and I have a hard time agreeing. He doesn't really want to think about it until the end of my pregnancy anyway. He's no fun!
LOL.. I posted this yesterday in the Aug DDC on our name thread...

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Originally Posted by Mindi22 View Post
Well, we were pregnant over the summer, so we thought up some names then that we didn't get to use, and I think are still on our short list.

For a boy, my favorite (God, I'm almost hoping for a boy to use this name!!!) is Alexander (nickname Xander) Zachary (I just love the aliteration of Xander Zachary.... how much fun will that be to shout across the house???). We are pretty open as far as middle names go for a boy, since we used Arthur for DS, and that was the only family name that we found that <a>ran in both families and <b>we both liked and could agree on.

=Mindi
Einen, we must think alike!
post #17 of 57
1/4/07 at 3:52pm
Dh wants to name our next FONTANA:


Like that is going to happen!
post #18 of 57
1/4/07 at 5:27pm
We had names picked out while we were still pregnant with our first We had Lilah's name picked out years ago....and we have a boy name Cian Wolfgang, and a girls name, Scarlett Begonia, picked for this one
post #19 of 57
1/4/07 at 10:24pm
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Originally Posted by Mindi22 View Post
LOL.. I posted this yesterday in the Aug DDC on our name thread...



Einen, we must think alike!
I think it would be so great to have a name that started with an X!
post #20 of 57
1/4/07 at 11:18pm
we didnt decide on our dd's name until almost the very end.

DH doesnt even want to talk about this ones name yet....

I like Adrienne or Allison, both of which were on the short list last time.
We never did come up with a definitive boy name last time, but both of us feel strongly that we are only having girls...so....
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