I already gave my DH naming rights...

[Spark]

And, now I'm suddenly afraid! I realize that many many people love the names that are in the top 10 for popularity. http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi For me, I just have such an aversion. Sure, there are some pretty names there, but I prefer classic, but unique names. We have Jude, Cicely and Josephine. These are all names that aren't super popular, but still are traditional names.

So... what is my DH saying his picks are for names (he moves fast on names)... Olivia (beautiful, but #7) and a boy name that's great, too, but you hear every 2 seconds. Then, he tossed me a bone & mentioned Roman for a boy. I jumped up and down! Oh, man! If it's between Roman or Olivia, I'll be voting for a boy!!! :lol

[veganf]

It's my husband's turn to choose this time :lol . But I do have veto rights if I hate.
The deal was, he picked the first girl name, and I picked the first boy name--and then we'd switch...so because we have 3 boys obviously I've had 2 turns, and now it's his turn regardless...

I think he still likes his girl choice from last time: Maia Anne
NO IDEA what he'll choose if it's boy #4 though!!!

But Roman and Olivia are both beautiful names...though I'd be partial to Roman too :loveeyes: .

[red_trillium]

i'm up this time! i hope anyway. dh picked out dd's name. although, i think my deceased mother had something to do with it.... she was pushing to name me bethany soo hard, but my dad would have nothing to do with it. lol anyway, i think she got to dh because early on, out of the blue, he said if it was a girl we should name it bethany. i pushed against, but he was adamant! lol (he didn't know my naming story) then after she was born we let gabriel give the final say, either bethany or maya(my pick), and he quickly picked bethany. lol thanks mom... lol

i picked out gabriel's name thinking it would be not too popular. ugh, it's really high on the charts now. oh well, i still like it.

i really like olivia and roman too! roman was on my list last time. my neice named her baby romeo though, so that might be too close.

[Spark]

Ooh, you're both up to bat for names! That's so cool! :D

You know, the thing is, as far as names go, Olivia really is pretty. Even if it is too popular for my tastes. I mean, it's not like Appliance or something!

Okay, the Bethany story... wow. That's undeniably your mother! :lol

Hey, I was thinking, I wonder if he's going for the nickname "Liv". Aren't there other more unusual names that could be shortened to Liv? Suggestions???

[Mom2Lex&Cay]

I'm a control freak with the naming! It's my turn everytime. Really we try to find one we both like and agree on.

Having grown up an Ashley and having my name yelled out everywhere, I have a complex.:lol My kids can not have common names. Lexi is short for Lexington and we have Caymen.

I told DH the other night I was ready to pick names and got "Can't we wait a little longer?!"

[red_trillium]

hmm, olive, livy, livia? can't think of any more...

[mrs rockstar]

Olivia is my second choice for a girl :lol

[happyfrog]

I have to admit, I don't give my dh naming rights. i get the stretch marks and the labor experience, so I also then 'earned' primary say in naming our kids. HOWEVER, he gets veto rights. if he genuinely doesn't like the names projected for the kid, he can say 'heck no' and I figure out a new name - he's welcome to suggest, but I am the one who determines if it's even in the running. :)

i do believe in giving our kids heritage names, and names with strong meanings, so that does impact our decisions with naming kids. dh likes my approach with that and so far, has liked all the names i've come up with - where both sides of our family is honored and reflected in our children's names. :) makes it a cool thing for the kids as they grow to have that link to their past.

Just our 'method' for naming our kids.

'sides, I enjoy reading the geneology pages of our family backgrounds. :)

BettyAnn

[DawnaRose]

my 13yo is an Olivia :)
When I named her (after my grandpa Oliver) her name was not popular at all, she was the only Olivia in the entire school until 4th grade, now there are a few in our small town named Olivia but she doesn't mind. She likes that she can now find things with her name on them (pencils, notebooks etc at back to school time) for a long time I couldn't find ANYTHING with Olivia on it.

We call her Olivia and Livi...


DH has only one requirement for a boy, the name must start with D and the middle name must be Eric. His dad is a D and he is a D and they both have Eric for a middle name so he wants to continue that tradition. I don't mind so much I think its sweet, but I am NOT finding D names I like :irked:

[nubianamy]

I like Roman for a girl! Or Jordan. :) Summer is #1 on my list for a girl right now (I see that's around #150).

I'm a teacher so I get to see ALL the most popular names cycle through. There are about fifty Aidens and Emmas in my school now.

Here's how Tom and I chose our first name.
1. We printed out a list of the top 1000 baby names (only girls, since we knew we were having a girl) from the US Gov. Census web site, one copy for each of us.
2. We automatically excluded anything in the top 10.
3. Independently, we read the list and circled all the names we liked. We starred all the names we really, really liked! We x'd out all the names we really DIDN'T like.
4. We shared our lists. Any circled names went on the short list. Any starred names went at the top. Any x'd names were automatically disqualified, even if one of us had circled or starred them.
5. We looked at the short list (about 20 names) and put them together into pairs, looking for names that sounded good together.
6. We wrote a few pairs on a sheet of paper and posted it prominently in the house, living with them for a while.
7. Eventually we both came to agreement on a name that we both liked. (Ivy Sophia)

No family names or heritage. If we have a boy, though, we'll make his middle name Thomas after my husband.

[Lorette]

Hey, I was thinking, I wonder if he's going for the nickname "Liv". Aren't there other more unusual names that could be shortened to Liv? Suggestions???

Livia
Olive

[mchalehm]

I love "Olive."

[morganstar83]

my dh has already picked a first name for a boy which is Aidan and I get to pick the middle name...its tough lol...no ideas for a girl name yet :)

[morganstar83]

...by the way does anyone know a good unique strong boy's name that would go with aidan? i know im only 5 weeks but im to impatient to wait to decide on names lol

[Lorette]

...by the way does anyone know a good unique strong boy's name that would go with aidan? i know im only 5 weeks but im to impatient to wait to decide on names lol
Aiden Forest

[veganf]

Samuel
Orlando
Zane
Heath
Jeremiah
Montgomery
Tobias

[red_trillium]

my nephew is aiden blake. his cousin is also an aiden, but not sure of his middle name.

[RainRaven]

Hey, I was thinking, I wonder if he's going for the nickname "Liv". Aren't there other more unusual names that could be shortened to Liv? Suggestions???

LIV
LIVANA
LIVI
LIVIA
LIVVY

[Spark]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, I'm going to drop them by my DH's desk. :thumb

morganstar83 What does your last name sound like? Don't post the real thing. I think I like Aidan Zane the best of the suggestions, just depends on the flow with your last naem.

[morganstar83]

Thanks for all the suggestions. They are really good/
Spark- my last name sounds like climb if that helps

[Spark]

Ooh, I vote for Aidan Samuel Climb then! I think that has such a nice sound. :)

Okay, so my DH TOTALLY switched horses in midstream. I was just beginning to think, I could do Olivia. It is a pretty name, I was just afraid of the top 10 thing. But, then he comes to me & says... "I changed my mind about Olivia...."

I want....


RUTH!

I can do Ruth for sure! I like the name. I'm not a big fan that Ruth was the name of my DH's grandmother that died really young, but okay. Ruth!

Ruth or Roman it is! (Yes, it seems odd to have names already, I'm one that would name upon birth, but my DH LOVES to have names ,since it's his turn, so be it. )

[meowee]

We've had a boy name in reserve for 8 years... 4 girls later I wonder if we'll get to use it?

[veganf]

We've had a boy name in reserve for 8 years... 4 girls later I wonder if we'll get to use it?

Yeah, sounds like us with girl names.
I keep shoving my huge list of names in front of my husband's face, but after 3 boys he's having a hard time thinking about MORE boy names, but it's his turn to chose. I like to plan ahead....he'd happily think about it until July. :loveeyes:

[quarteralien]

Long before we had kids, DH, who lives and dies by Excel, and I sat down and created a spreadsheet of names with a theme, first and middle, and how they would go together. The theme was to pick a name we liked for the first name, and the middle name is a place somewhere in the country of origin for that name. At first we had 2 boy and 2 girl names. We've used one of each, so now we just go to the next ones on the list. So far we have two English names, Dorian Barton, and Faith Devon. We've since added another girl name, so we have to have that many kids and in that ratio. We'll see if that actually happens for us, especially since I'm feeling like this one is a boy. Our next boy name is Irish, Quinn Douglas, and the girl name is French, Lenore Calais. The other girl name is Ariadne, which is Greek, and we haven't found a place in Greece to go along with it, but that's okay, because we won't be using it this time.

[quarteralien]

Maybe we'll use one of our girl names after all. ananas thinks I'm having a girl, and I was dead wrong with both of my kids, so maybe it's true. :lol

[Linzie2]

:) Summer is #1 on my list for a girl right now (I see that's around #150).



I think I remember talking about this on Nursing mamas TTC....of course I LOVE :loveeyes: the name....that's why we chose it for DD!!!!

We had a boy name picked out with the last pg.....Jonathan (DH's dad's name....he passed when DH was a teen) Arlo.

If this one is a girl, first name Harper, middle name :shrug. I like Marin, DH says not so much. He says it does sound good together tho.....there's time to change his mind!

[veganf]

I like Marin, DH says not so much. He says it does sound good together tho.....there's time to change his mind!

I recently added Marin to my girl list, just before finding out I was pregnant. :o I think it's beautiful.

[MySunflowerBoys]

...by the way does anyone know a good unique strong boy's name that would go with aidan? i know im only 5 weeks but im to impatient to wait to decide on names lol

*lurking* My son's name is Aidan Riley. I like to keep the nationality of the names the same, it has a better flow.

[christinespurlock]

*lurking* My son's name is Aidan Riley. I like to keep the nationality of the names the same, it has a better flow.

I still lurk on my Dec and May ddc Deborah. I have an Aiden too. He's Aiden India, where I met his daddy.

[~*~MamaJava~*~]

Spark, Olive goes with your family! It's classic and a bit quirky :)

I could not let my dh handle the naming, he'd just do it on the spur of the moment once baby was born! He made the final choice for our 1st and 3rd, but that was from my short list :lol Our 2nd's name was my dreamed-of name for a boy and I wasn't budging :D
We will be lost if this is a girl. It took us forever to get dd's name (Erica Juliet), and I just don't like anything else at the moment :(