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Howdy,
I love hearing why people named their children what they did, lets face it most of us spend at least six months thinking them up and debating them with their partners...
My Daughter's Name is Elara. My huband and I met when we were quite young and went through a boargame playing phase.. anyway we were playing Sola Quest which is like monoploy with plannets and Elara was a name of one of Jupiters moon. We both fell in love with it, it seemed like a natural choice when I got prego's years later. Her middle name is Ruby after my two great grand mothers.
we didn't pick a boys name in case cause we couldn't deside... So when I got prego's with my son the war was on...
It took the better part of my pregnancy to slog it out, my husband wanted Rory Neil and I wanted Ezekiel Stephen. I refused point blank because my fav show was Gilmore Girls and everytime I thought of Rory I thought of a girl (no offence) and He like Ezekiel but hated the nickname Zeek. We we at each others throtes till we came across the name Tobias...
So My son is Tobias Stephen Neil, Stephen after my dad and Neil after his fav uncle.
Bring on your stories I Love reding them
Kim :D
Hi
I was convinced through most of my pregnancy that we were having a boy... I had loved the name Connor James for months, but changed my mind to Declan James... Our girls name for ages was Amelia Jade... About 3 weeks before I was due, I started to have the feeling I was having a girl - and the name Eleni came to me... I looked it up on the net, and it means "Light of the Sun", which I thought was beautiful! My husband wasn't convinced though... I had an emegency caesarean, and when they lifted the baby out, my husband says "It's an Eleni!!" And it stuck - she is Eleni Jae...
Cheers!
2girls&1boy
22-07-2005, 12:39
We named our daughter Grace as I have been in love with Grace Kelly since seeing a movie with her in when I was a little girl.
We also had the names Abby and Hannah but when she was born she just looked like a Grace to me.
Hi
My daughters' names are "Catlin" (form of Catherine, associated with a Greek word meaning pure) "Jayne" (after her late grandma)
and "Brianne" (meaning strong) "Elizabeth" (another family name).
I like to know the meanings of names (even if different sources say different things). I made DH buy me baby name books for about 5 years before we even planned to have children :D , but I kept them hidden so that no-one would jump to premature conclusions.
Cheers
mumofethan
22-07-2005, 14:52
Well i had Ethans name picked from about 4mths... I have always loved the name Ethan, so when i suggested it to clinton he had no objections...
i always said when i was younger that my first born son would have his daddies middle name as his own middle name, but my stepson already has that so we went fishing for middle names... no family middle name seem to fit... then clinton suggested Marshall after his all time favorite guitarist Jimi Hendrix (aka James Marshall)... so Ethan Marshall became our boys name...
and well thankgod we never had a girl cause we were still dicussing them whilst i was in labour, u would think after 9mth we could get one! The problem with girls name was the initials... The one name we could agree on is Gabrielle Angel, however with the last name of Young the child would have the initials of GAY and i couldnt do that to a kid...
we went thru numerous other and we like one or two for a mth until we would decide we didnt like it any more!
ohwell thankgod i had a boy!
:D
Michelle
:)
When I found out I was pregnant at 7mths, I knew I was going to be a single parent so choosing a baby name was halved. I chose my son's name when I was 17 y/o and after all these years (found out when I was almost 31) I still liked it and eventually used it. I had trouble with a girls name but did finally come up with one.
I told my family and friends and any partners I had of my boy's name over the years and no-one liked it. But since I did I used it and now everyone loves it, it is such a different name that they needed time to get used to it.
My son is now almost 17mths old and I know I made the right choice.
His middle name was even easier as it killed 3 birds with one stone, my fathers name, my stepfathers name and the father of my boy's name.
My son's name is Xavier Robert.
Chickadee
22-07-2005, 15:44
Chloe is named after DH's mum, using her middle name. His mum's first name, Laurel, was too close to one of my middle names (Laura) and it would have felt odd to me. Chloe's middle name is the same as DH's sister's middle name.
The women on my side of the family mostly have very old traditional names. I was told very bluntly by my mum not to name any child after her (Avonelle).
We were a bit stuck on boys names. We both like traditional English names (James, Christopher, Stephen, etc) but all the ones we like have already been used in our families.
When I was younger I always loved the name Thomas and luckily his dad liked it to, so that was easy! His middle name is Samuel because I also just love that name. When I was pregnant with Cooper it wasnt as easy, his father and I couldnt decide on anything, I had my heart set on Noah, and he loved Xavier. We had discussed Cooper because it is his mums maiden name but I really wanted Noah and I just thought 'oh i'll wait till the labour he'll let me name it what ever i want!' but when he came out, he looked nothing like a Noah, he had this thick shock of golden blonge hair and he just looked like a Cooper (or an Aiden!) so we went with that, James is my dads middle name. With Matilda we again couldnt decide on anything, I kept mentioning Matilda but he kept saying no, but wouldnt offer any of his own suggestions! so I put together a list of other names I like but with only a couple of wks to go he said 'well actually i do really like matilda, its kind of quirky, but still feminine' Jayne is my sisters name, and I thought it went really well with Matilda. Well I think I have raved on long enough, but its always fun talking about childrens name and how we came up with them etc isnt it? :)
mumof2girls
22-07-2005, 23:31
I always wanted Declan for a boy but I had 2 girls so didn't really matter. My oldest daughter I wanted to call her Mahalia Rachel (no special reason just liked the name) but my hubby could never pronounce it right and she ended up being a "Jacki Michele" (no it's not shortened her name is is just Jacki) we still don't remember where we got the name from, and with my second my oldest would call my tummy Jamie so we decided that no matter whether it was a boy or girl we would name them Jamie so our second daughter was named "Jayme Lee", they both really suit their names though! :)
It took as a little while to get pregnant and i had been desperate to have a baby for a long time, also i suffer from endometriosis so there was always the risk of conception taking a long time or not happening at all.... hubby and I and our family always prayed for a baby and when i fell pregnant Samuel was the obvious choice, apart from being a lovely name it means "Asked of God" In the bible story Hannah (who was old) finally had a baby boy and she says "i will call him Samuel because i asked God for him...."
It means alot to us...
also his middle name is James which is hubbys grandfathers first name and my grandfathers middle name (two birds , one stone)
pregasaurus
23-07-2005, 16:29
When I found out I was pregnant with our first baby we weren't married, so our little flower child was Daisy Baby (we didn't like calling my belly 'it'). When we discovered it was a girl, Daisy was the obvious choice for a middle name! We liked fairly traditional girls names like Isabella, Jasmine and Caitlin. Then one day I was watching a TV show with a character named Sarah, and I thought 'that's pretty'. I went and looked it up in my baby names book and it means 'princess' in Hebrew. I thought that was so nice, a little princess! Daisy means 'Dad's eye', so Sarah Daisy literally means the princess of Dad's eye!
Alexanders middle name is James, because that's my husbands middle name, my brothers name and the name of the best man at our wedding.
This baby's middle name will probably be Jack, after both grandfathers. Stuffed if we can think of a first name for it!!
blaisekiararylan
25-07-2005, 22:44
Hi as my names are all quite different i have stories (as everyone else does) for them. my eldest son is named Blaise after Blaise Pascall the mathemetician and historian (my husband at a very early age always said that his first son would be named Blaise).
as i was driving home one day i was listening to the radio and somebody rang up and wished her daughter a happy birthday and i loved the name so much i named her Kiara.
the third one however, came about a week before the baby was born, my husband and i were in bed reading a baby name book and he suggested 4, and i agreed that i like Rylan.
mattias'mom
26-07-2005, 03:54
When our son was born in January we had no idea what we were going to name him. I knew I wanted his middle name to be Troy after my brother that passed away 6 years ago but the first name was a challenge. We went through a baby name book and nothing appealed to us. Then out of the blue my DP said what about Mattias (pronounced Ma tie as...people have a hard time pronouncing it correctly for some reason). So we decided on Mattias Troy.
Baby Girl
26-07-2005, 11:53
names, names, names........soooooo confusing!!
Both times I was pg we had boys names picked out -
1st time - Phaydi (fay-dee) or Tien (tee-en)
2nd time - Jett or Xavier
No problem right........wrong - we had girls!!!
My DP named DD1 when she was 2 days old, he was holding her and just staring and then looked at me and said 'How about Nyssa (Nee-sa)?' It was pretty and went with Louise (which is a family tradition for girls middle name) so Nyssa it was. He had heard it in a movie!
DD2 was a little different, she was very nearly called Jett as I liked the name so much I figured it could be a girls name too!! Jett Louise.... not so bad.... Anyway, I was in the shower after giving birth and my DP was with me and asked if I would like to name this one... In my slightly distracted state I was rambling about Nyssa having 1 N and 2 S's and maybe we could think of a name with 1 S and 2 N's, hence Sienna, it just sort of flowed when I was sounding out the ssss and nnnn.
Both times we didn't look up the meaning until after we chose the name. Nyssa means 'the beginning' from the greek word seranisa (sp?) and Sienna means 'red/brown' coming from the village Sienna in Italy where that is the colour of the dirt, a very distinct reddish brown.
Sorry to ramble...
Miss Tazar
26-07-2005, 11:57
Hi
Our DD is due in Nov and for a long time now I have always wanted to use my mother's middle name of Ruby (even though she hates it!)
So when we found out I just knew I wanted to use Ruby. Then my DH came up with Rubimai, which is a combination / variation of both our mother's middle names, and we love it.
The middle name we have chosen is Darci because we like it and it sounds nice.
So our DD is going to Rubimai Darci...
The good news is with the variation added, my Mum has learned to lvoe the name as well.
Cheers Roxi
justtwogirls22
26-07-2005, 13:41
i found out i was pregnant on a tuesday & on the next saturday we had decided the names quite by accident - i had alot of failed IVF & when i found out i was pregnant whilst on the pill (different guy) i looked through a baby name book & found eliana which means god has answered my prayers - i suggested it to DP & he turned to me & said i was going to say iliana (after an actress) then the ad on the tv had anastacia & we both liked that but i wanted it spelt annestacia (as anne goes back as a middle name for ages in my family) DP picked the boys name of teirnan & lyle after his grandfather so at least if the next one is a boy it will be easy to name him
Nyssa's are also swedish fairies, my cousin has it for a middle name... I was ticked I wanted to use it :mad:
Rainbowbrite
26-07-2005, 16:29
My husband is a HUGE Star Wars fan so we got DD's name from the novels that follow on after the Star Wars movies. It is the name of the Jedi that marries Luke Skywalker :p It also works on the Spiderman level too as we shorten it to MJ.
If MJ were to be a boy, her name would have been Anakin (Darth Vader) :rolleyes:
The things we do for love :p
Oh and BugBias, your son has the same name as my brother - Stephen Neil :)
Supermum
27-07-2005, 07:20
When I found out I was having a boy first time around ... my husband and I sat down and went through an entire baby names book going through the names one by one. We couldn't agree. I liked Benjamin, Sebastian and Noah and he liked Hunter, Jonathan and Samuel. I also liked Samuel but our bird, a cockatiel named Sammy had just died and I couldn't get past it as a bird's name!
Eventually we did our top five list and rated them. The name with the highest score would win. Benjamin David it was.
With bub number 2, a girl this time, we decided to do the democratic thing again and vote. We listed our top five and unfortunately, the name that I had loved since I was a teenager, Carter, came in at number three. I was devastated and prepared myself for a little Piper.
A friend of the family who didn't know we were have a girl sent two blankets over from Hong Kong when I was about 8 months pregnant. A pink and a lemon one. Embroidered in the bottom left hand corner of both blanket's was the name Carter (obviously the brand name)
I screamed - IT'S A SIGN! He threw his arms in the air and said 'I can't win' and two weeks later Carter was born. As an only child - my maiden name was all but lost so I passed it on to my little girl as a middle name. I'm sure she'll be saying "Mum, why couldn't you give me a normal middle name like Rose?".
I have loved reading all of your stories and I think it's wonderful that your children will know how much deliberation and love went into naming them.
mama2BnG
28-07-2005, 04:11
When I was pregnant with Brent we said as soon as we found out that if the baby were a boy he'd be Robert Ashby Jr. and girl would be Rebecca Rae. I had a feeling I was carrying a girl so I went 5 months rubbing my belly calling him "Becca". Well low and behold he was a boy, and so he was going to be "AJ" (Ashby Jr.) When I was 7 months pregnant DH turns to me one day while driving down the road and say's "I don't want to name the baby after me." " WHAT????? Fine, What do you want to name him Ashby?" "How about Brent?" "Maybe we'll look online when we get home." Well every name I came up with he didn't like. (Brendan, Trenton, Zachariah, Caleb) Finally I gave in. So my son is Brent Ashby.
With this one. Ok early on we said if she was a girl her name would be Kaylin Rae. For a boy we finally came up with Connor Ray. (Ray is for my daddy, who died in 1999) She's a girl so we thought that was over, Kaylin Rae. Just lately I haven't been feeling right about that name. I just don't feel about it the way I think I should feel about my childs name. So I came up with Gabrielle Rae. I love Gabrielle. I used to want to change my own name to this. It's so pretty and it means hero of God. I love names with strong meanings!!!
So that's my long story! :p
red crayon
31-07-2005, 16:10
My dp and I decided on baby names fairly soon after finding out I was pregnant. No arguments at all which was great. If I'd had a girl, we were going to name her Maisie Ruby - Maisie is after my mum's mum who developed alzheimers at an early age and died when I was 20, and Ruby after my dp's paternal grandmother.
I'm not sure where we got Spencer from. We were both lying in bed one night, discussing names, when dp suggested Spencer. I replied that I had been thinking of suggesting that name too. The poor little man has two middle names which I'm sure he'll thank us for :D . His middle names are John after my dad and Herbert after my dp's dad, who died when he was 6 years old.
When dh & I found we were expecting our 1st bub, it was a bit of a shock for 2 reasons - 1) we were actually in Canada at the time on a working holiday and 2) I was on the pill (50mg tablet). :confused:
We had a tough time picking names as my dh (who got teased a lot at school) would come up with ways other kids could tease them. EG: is a bella on a bike/cow etc. Men!
As my hubby is a big ice hockey fan, for a boys name we like Linden (after Trevor Linden - Vancouver Canucks player) and Heath as a middle name (dh fave actor is Heath Ledger). Our other fave boys name was Matthias (another Vancouver Canucks player). :cool:
For a girl we decided on Emily Sara (Pronounced Sarah) after our canadian friend. This stuck for at least 85% of the pregnancy until dh decided he didn't like it so we had to go through it all again :mad: . 1wk to go & we settled on Alisha Sara (called Ali for short). :D
Kate 26yrs
Wayne 27yrs
Alisha Sara 9mths
the_queen
14-09-2005, 15:36
Our Princess is called VALLERIE .... we found out at 20 weeks that she had a Cleft Lip, and after that I decided that the name we gave her had to MEAN something. Really mean something. So we chose VALLERIE because it means TO BE STRONG and we think that is the best characteristic we could wish for her. As it turns out, she is a very strong brave girl, who copes really well with pretty much anything.
My husband and I wanted to call our firstborn (if a girl!) Nikki Lee (victory of the people and beautiful meadow). It turned out that I was carrying twins and unfortunately I miscarried one early on and that name was given to her. We had no idea what the other twin was ... couldn't think of any names until one day we were driving home and I said "what about Bella Cate?" So ... Bella Cate (Beautiful and Pure) she is! Good thing we didn't have a boy as no names leapt out at us and we were still deciding while waiting for the c/section!
Right from the beginning I wanted to call my second child Jenna Eve. This lasted until I was admitted to hospital at 29 weeks and the only other lady in the ante-natal ward was determined to call her little girl Jenna! We changed to Abby Lisa and stood firm until the night before my c/section at 36 weeks, when Meghan Anna just seemed right.
9:35am the next morning 13lb 2oz Daniel Arthur was born! We had only discussed a boys name a couple of times as for some reason we were so sure he was going to be a girl! Daniel (God is my judge), because we liked it and Arthur (strong as a rock - very appropriate!) after my grandfather (Arthur Wilfred) and my father (Allan Arthur).
Our baby that died at 11 weeks in March has been named Sam (a very longed for child)... we have no idea of the sex, but the kids need to have someone to refer to rather than "our baby that died"! They talk of Nikki and Sam a lot and it is kind of nice that they have names and will never be forgotten.
When I first found out I was pregnant my bf and I had no trouble picking a boys name - Ethan - and that was to be my ds name for at least the next 2 months. This came to an abrupt halt when my cousin (just in from Ireland) asked what the childs name was to be and he pronounced it "etan" as with the thick accent he didn't say the "th". So my son was destined to be "Etan Bone" which it was kindly pointed out is a VERY disgusting saying in certain circles in the home land and since we were planning a move there we couldn't do it. We chose Ciara for a girls name and when Ethan fell through I just lengthened it to a boys name - Ciaran. We never discussed middle names but I knew it meant alot to bf for him to have his middle name hence Ciaran Nathan was born.
Pregnant again and this time the name was to be Declan or Connor for a boy, and Clare or Niamh for a girl. I met up with an old friend from Irish dancing and she is the most beautifully adapting young lady now and I knew that I wanted my child to carry her name - Ehlana - as a middle name. Hence up til I started labour my girl was to be named Niamh Ehlana. Bf decided that Eleanor was the middle name (following HIS tradition) and her first name would be Alana (in his words "spelt properly")
This time around we know it is a boy and I think the fact that we have the name already spoils my fun for the next 4 months .... Declan Robert is due Feb.
My mum prides herself in reminding me of how I got my name. Up until she went into the operating theatre (c-sect) my name was going to be Orla-Rose. They never picked out a boys name because my mum was determined I was a girl (even told the doc to cut off the tail if I wasn't - LOL)
As the doc asked what names they had chosen and my dad told him mum cried out "No, I can't call her that" and wouldn't say anymore on the subject. I was in hospital for 6 days and each day the nurses would bring me down from the nursery and say "ok mum what is my name today". I was Erina, Hayley, Elise, Eliza. Finally my dad was reading a poetry book and turned to mum saying how about Eleanor and it stuck. Dad then decided I would take my mothers name as my middle name as he didn't want to go through all that over again.
My brother was to be Eamon (Aim-on) but Eamon Wright was just wrong. Likewise my second brother was to be Marc but again Mark Wright ..... I'm with the hubby that looks at the nick names children come up with. I'm a teacher and I have to say CHILDREN CAN BE MEAN!!!!!!!
Peaceangels
26-09-2005, 22:02
When I was pg with DS1 my DH was adamant it was a boy - I liked the actor Ethan Hawke, so Ethan was my choice - it means "strong". DH "pretended" he didn't like this and proceeded to tell everyone if we had a boy his name would be Leroy (not that there is anything wrong with this name, but its not my cup of tea), it was his little joke throughout the whole pregnancy. After a 22hour labour & a emergency c-section when it came to naming our DS1 my DH turned to me with admiration and love and said "its your choice" - Ethan it is!! Middle name James after my grandfather.
When I was pg with DS2 my DH was adamant it was a girl (my sister also had a dream it was a girl), so we had the name Tiana picked out, boy did we get a shock (not in a bad way though), anyway, we had agreed on Lachlan earlier (I like Lachlan Murdoch and love the nickname Lochie). Middle name Maxwell after my FIL.
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