when we first started talking baby names during our first pregnancy (about 3 years ago... wow, how things change!) we decided to give each other complete veto power over any & all names. so if i had one i loved but N hated, he could veto it outright-- no compromises. & vice versa. we figured that way, when we finally agreed, it would be a name we both loved, instead of one of us feeling so-so about it, or not liking the middle name, etc, etc.
& it worked-- we both love the boys' names.
the downside is that we both have a couple favorite names that we know we'll never get to use. N for instance, loved the name Logan. which to me just sound too much like loogie, so i vetoed it. (plus, it's becomming a really common name, & we try to stick to less common stuff. i'm pretty sure val & conrad will be the only val & conrad in their kindergarten class, for instance.) & i always loved the name henry, but N nix'ed that right away. we both totally agreed on girls' names right away (go figure) so unless #3 is another boy, we don't have any well-loved but never-to-be-used girls' names.
so what was your name-picking process like? do you have any favorite names lurking out there that don't currently belong to your kids?
Jeff has had a girl name since day one. I agreed to it, otherwise our relationship was a no-go (ok, maybe not THAT big of a deal, but since I jkind of like the name anyway, I agreed...UNLESS bay girl is a red-head, then *I* get to use the girl name *I* love, heheeee!)
ReplyDeleteBoy Names, Jeff Liked the name I had picked out..then we were pregnant with twins, so we had to pick another name in a hurry, and after tossing names about Tristian was our second name (Julian was supposed to be Julius Ian, but I said Julian, and that was like, whoa! It stuck!)
In the process of trying to find a second boy name, that 'went with' (but still was individual) Julian, we came up with Liam...and well, he's napping next to me, LOL!
Our next one, if baby is a girl, she's all set, redhead or not...if baby is a boy...back to the drawing board, LOL!
Brandon was stuck on the name Skyler for Noah...HATE IT. So I went through every baby name site I could find and looked at all the names and wrote down every one that I liked. I wanted our kids names to mean something special for us, so I liked the idea of doing a biblical name for the first name with a family name as the middle...and DH liked the idea. So he read through my list and was overwhelmed. So I went back through and picked out all the biblical names that were favorites and then showed him and he said he really liked Noah. Thomas is my dad's name, and FIL's middle name so we liked the idea of using that.
ReplyDeleteEli was named before we got pregnant. I just mentioned it to Brandon once and he loved it. Brandon is also really close to his grandfather who isn't doing the greatest health wise so I asked him if he would like to use his name, Charles, for Eli's middle name and he was thrilled.
Our girls name...well I have wanted the name Grace Elizabeth since as long as I can remember. Even before we got married I told DH if we ever have a girl that's her name, and luckily he loves the name Gracie so that's what we would call her...but I don't really see a girl in our future so I don't think I will ever get to use it. Oh well! If we have a 3rd I just really think we will end up with all boys...and I am out of boys names that we both really like so who knows what we would do!
Justin and I agreed right away on Ella, but we were totally in disagreement on boys names. He loves Jordan and I really don't like it and I loved Cole and he was so-so. Thank goodness we are having a girl, I think it would have been miserable to try to agree on a boys name!!
ReplyDeleteI hope your having a girl, they are just so much fun! Boys are cool too I guess. ;)
Jason HATED the name Grady at first. He said it sounded like a last name or a dog's name. But it was the only name I LOVED. Once we found out we were having a boy, I just kept calling him Grady and he kept saying "no". I had a really bad day at work one day, and he said "it'll be ok, Grady'll be here soon and everything will be great." It grew on him! I can't picture him as anything but a Grady. I can't even think of any of the other boy names I even considered. Jason has been stuck on Trent, Trevor and Tyler since he was like 16 and I'm not crazy about any of them. I like Griffin, but it's one of the kids my mom nannies for names, I like Carter, Carson, Brennan... For girls I've never had a name stand out too much. I've always loved the names Grace and Nora, but can't have either because our last name is Jones, and I just don't want people asking if we named our (hopefully someday) little girl after someone famous. I do really like the name Maggie. Not Margaret, just Maggie. I like Irish-y sounding names since I was stripped of my "Mc" name and got screwed with Jones. Most boy names sound like linebackers, so whatever.
ReplyDeleteHave you decided whether or not to find out the sex? I don't think I'd be able to not know!
All three of the boys were named after they was born we had a name picked out for our first called him by that name from the time we found out he was a boy until i was in labor then we changed our minds lol with our middle son we was still going through names while i was having my c section and with the last dh tried his hardest to take conrads name he really likes it he seen it on your blog right after they was born and i told him no lol I came up with Maddox and let dh pick his middle name of Cian I think it was 2 days after he was born before we could both agree on both the first and middle name.
ReplyDeleteBoys names are hard to come up with for us dh has a large family and we didnt want to use a already used name lol but go figure both of my brothers married women who had kids from pevious relationship and one has a son named Tyler and the other had a son named Aiden lol I have always like the name Kingston , Kayden and i had a few others but cant remember them now.
For me, K no one else had any say, I was able to pick his name. *sigh* it was a boy's name when I picked it.
ReplyDeleteJ her dad, well her dad HATED her name. He wanted to name her Brianna, which is fine, just super popular at that time. I REALLY loved Jade, so I kept at him until he agreed (the day I went into labor). She ended up a Jadelynn (lynn was his thing) Brianna.
Rylee, I LOVED the name Janna, but P hated it. I was okay with Rylee, but not in love with the name. BUT I do love the name Rylee Nicole (Nicole was my call). I still wish I would have used a different name.
Caden, he was going to be Hunter. Another name I didn't love, but was okay with it. I loved the name Caden, it was on the top of my list since R. P finally agreed to it 100% when everything went south, and I told him it meant fighter. C's middle name is John (which I hate) but it was after his grandfather that stuck around just long enough to know C was going to be okay.
So after that story time, we just came up with names that both of us were okay with, and at least one of us loved. We did veto some names, but we were pretty much on the same page.
Names we didn't get to use (I have but DH refuses to speak of the loss) is Isabella Grace. It is the name we had picked for our loss, and since her last (edd) birthday I have just been calling her that.
well eric is a jr so he's named after his daddy (easy) but what made me agree to a jr was because dh's middle name is ronald which was my dad's name so in my eye's we were honoring my dad too. i always liked isabella grace for a girl but dh hated it. he likes samantha and so do i but that's my niece's name. we agreed on osiris elizabeth before we found out we were having a boy because dh has a thing for god/goddess' names (his daughter's middle name is isis) and at first i wasn't sold on it but the more i heard it, the more i liked it. not too many other people liked it though. but we got a boy so he's a jr. not sure how the heck we will come up with a name if we ever get pregnant again.
ReplyDeleteThe name process was really difficult and we didn't agree on a name until Christmas Day, 4 days before Danica was born. My DH would always joke about names and wasn't really serious early on. He didn't want any names that were too common and sounded "yuppieish." When he brought up the name Danica initially, I wasn't too keen on it, but then it grew on me and I found out it meant morning star, which I thought was pretty. Plus there were "signs" that we should name her Danica. When we were at a store on our anniversary, there were some napkins with the style name "Danica." Then we would be watching NCIS reruns and the episode had Danica McKellar in it. Even with these signs, we still looked online for other names. DH didn't want to have any regrets about the name. I made a list of names I liked and he would indicate which ones he liked. I liked Lauren and Hannah, too, but he didn't. Danica always seemed to win out. Initially I wanted the middle name to be Lee since that is my mom's maiden name, but then I thought that it would be cool if the baby had the same initials as her daddy, so we had to find a middle name that starts with an E. Elise flowed really nicely with Danica, so we named her Danica Elise.
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