New Baby Names Thread

[vvvvvfee]

Let's pick each other's brains about names!

[notmoose]

Okay, so my old list of "yeses"

Boy:
Desmond
Dominic
Griffin

Girl:
Cecelia
Iris
Louisa

These are all most likely for sure no's now. Dominic, Cecelia, and iris are too popular. Griffin and Desmond are more popular than I'd like (I'd prefer 400 or higher on SSA). Louisa was never a yes for MH and he has now said he doesn't like it at all.

My taste and my husband's are so different. He doesn't like any names that he knows someone by. But it can't be too unknown or he thinks it's weird.

We keep finding names we like but are too popular for me. Popularity is a HUGE deal breaker for me. I've nixed names we both love because it's popular. I just cant.

[notmoose]

MH would choose vivian/Vivienne for a girl. I love it too. But *TW* it was the name we chose for the pregnancy we lost and it feels wrong to use it now. *End TW* and it's popular.

[vvvvvfee]

okay, please don't quote the below section bc i will delete personal info later.

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so yeah, we're not really crazy about any of these. i want it to flow with the other two names.

for a girl we may use a family name, but even if we don't we have way more options to pick from.

boy suggestions, please!!!

[vvvvvfee]

notmoose, just to throw random things out there--

Bernadette
Colette
Leonora
Althea
Camilla
Aurelia
Marigold
Willow
Opal


Elias
Malachi
Malcolm
Tristan
Graham
Ronan

[notmoose]

vvvvvfee I think Enzo and Leo are both fine as is. They're both acceptable names without being short for anything IMO.

I like Evander, I don't think I've ever heard that. Leander made me think of Leland. I love Leland but MH vetoed because its a common name where he's from. 🙄

[slurpeelove]

We picked our name out after weeks of deliberation. Here are some that we liked:

Boy:
Eliott
Benjamin
Alexander
Noah

Girl:
Hannah
Lillian

[notmoose]

@vvvvfee thank you!

Bernadette -nms

Colette - I like but too close to my nephews name

Leonora - adding to my list

Althea - I really like this, I could use nn Thea

Camilla - love, MH does not. I think I'll run it past him again

Aurelia - meh

Marigold - MH wouldn't go for it

Willow - H vetoed

Opal - nms


Elias - adding

Malachi - nms

Malcolm - I kind of like this, adding

Tristan - nms

Graham - too popular

Ronan - LOVE but MH vetoed

[notmoose]

vvvvvfee

Here's some similar to the ones you posted:

Arno
Aldo
Laszlo
Matteo
Nico
Theo
Cyrus
Alaric
Reuben
Anders
Oscar
Otto
Otis
Gideon
Archer
Jasper
Julian
Arthur
Simon

*These are all names I found by looking up names you listed/your boys names. And I didn't check popularity, so I'm unsure where they all fall.

[pickles]

Here’s a list of names that we considered for our children. Once this LO is born, MH will getting snipped so we won’t get to use them.

Lucille Mae
Eliza May
Isadora Rose
Eleanor May
Olympia Marie
Theodore Alan
Abraham
Ulysses
Ezra
Anora
Ahab
Bianca
Aurora
Jimothy (any US Office fans?)
Roselyn
Grover
Alistair
Conan
Magnus
Baer
Delphine
Asher
Lucille
Royce
Duncan
Sybelle

[kaeguri]

notmoose , some of the name on my list might be your style (I like names that aren't popular too)

Genevieve
Lorelei
Liliana
Analise
Gwendolyn
Seraphine
Marguerite
Aveline (too close to DD's name, but I love it)

For a boy, we loved Alistair, Rylen, and Rowan (Rowan was a girl name contender too).

[notmoose]

Apr 20, 2018 23:05:27 GMT -6 kaeguri said:

notmoose , some of the name on my list might be your style (I like names that aren't popular too)

Genevieve
Lorelei
Liliana
Analise
Gwendolyn
Seraphine
Marguerite
Aveline (too close to DD's name, but I love it)

For a boy, we loved Alistair, Rylen, and Rowan (Rowan was a girl name contender too).

Almost all your girl names were on my list but MH vetoed. I tried hard for Lorelei and Genevieve!

Rowan is on our maybe list for a boy, but MH doesn't love it. I've tried to get him on board with Ronan, but that didn't happen.

[frecklesnbrains]

This was our short list of boy names and includes the FN/MN we ended up using for DS1 and also our leading contender FN/MN for DS2. I found out I was having boys very early both times (thanks to being AMA and qualifying for cfDNA testing) so we never really thought much about girl names. Some of these are family names and some are names DH and I just liked and/or discussed.

Charles
Nathaniel
Ian
Arthur
Colin
Felix
Reid
Paul
Raymond
Mark or Marcus
Owen
Theodore

Alice
Gwendolyn
Sarah
Ruth

[kaeguri]

notmoose, I tried hard for Genevieve too. But H said no. I love that name! Vivi is such a cute nn.

[kaeguri]

It's down between Rosel.yn Yu.na and Jos.ephine Yu.na. *insert harsh sounding german name with lots of consonants* H is good with both. Only thing is I'm not fond of Rosie (H loves it), but I love Josie (go figure). Or Jo.

DD is Evel.ine So.ra. (pronounced eh-vah-leen). Finding middle names that are actual names in both Korean and Japanese is harder than it sounds.

[cornflakegirl]

The name we picked is popular but I just really love this name. I honestly had no idea that it was popular until I read the names list. I thought about changing it but it's the only name that I felt a connection to with the baby so I think we are set on using it.

[goldenbird]

FX my cousin doesn't use Connor in any capacity because MH made a list of names he likes, and I didn't like any of them.
At all. 😂

MH's name starts with a C, and for a minute I wasn't sure I wanted a C name. But I'll have to get over it because we have not one other name we both like.

[potatocakes]

So here's where we're at:
DD is Amelia Louise. (Short, generic last name) We loved her FN before we were even TTC, plus being big fans of the 11th Doctor (aka nerds), it was an easy choice. MN is same as me, my mom, both of my grandmas, as well as my great great aunt's FN, and I inherited her wedding rings. All obvious choices. She self nicknamed as Mia before she could say her whole name correctly, but prefers to be called Amelia now. We liked Amy, Millie, and Mia as NNs.

When we were naming DD, our boy name was Oliver Thomas. That has since gotten EVEN MORE popular, and my (close) cousin used Thomas as a MN for her boy (it's my only boy cousin's FN). I absoluely LOVE Ollie as a NN, I think it's adorable. We also like the idea of giving DS a name with a vowel, since we all have vowel names (H is AMR, I am ELR, DD is ALR, for reference), but I'd settle for a name we actually like! Here's my short list, is there anything we're missing? Somehow I don't like all the "old-man" names as much as I love the "old-lady" names for girls. If this baby was a girl, her name would be Eleanor or Alice (H doesn't vote in this imaginary world).
I don't mind popular (H and I have permanent top 10-20 names), but would like it to not be top 5.
Issac (NN Ike)
Theodore (Theo)
Oliver (Ollie)
Peter
Ethan (close friends just named their boy this, plus popular, so I think it's out)
John Wayne (H's pick - my dad's FN and his dad's MN)
Philip (I really like this, but I know one in real life who is just lame)
Titus (family name, my side)

Anything I'm missing?

[notmoose]

Apr 23, 2018 9:43:04 GMT -6 potatocakes said:

So here's where we're at:
DD is Amelia Louise. (Short, generic last name) We loved her FN before we were even TTC, plus being big fans of the 11th Doctor (aka nerds), it was an easy choice. MN is same as me, my mom, both of my grandmas, as well as my great great aunt's FN, and I inherited her wedding rings. All obvious choices. She self nicknamed as Mia before she could say her whole name correctly, but prefers to be called Amelia now. We liked Amy, Millie, and Mia as NNs.

When we were naming DD, our boy name was Oliver Thomas. That has since gotten EVEN MORE popular, and my (close) cousin used Thomas as a MN for her boy (it's my only boy cousin's FN). I absoluely LOVE Ollie as a NN, I think it's adorable. We also like the idea of giving DS a name with a vowel, since we all have vowel names (H is AMR, I am ELR, DD is ALR, for reference), but I'd settle for a name we actually like! Here's my short list, is there anything we're missing? Somehow I don't like all the "old-man" names as much as I love the "old-lady" names for girls. If this baby was a girl, her name would be Eleanor or Alice (H doesn't vote in this imaginary world).
I don't mind popular (H and I have permanent top 10-20 names), but would like it to not be top 5.
Issac (NN Ike)
Theodore (Theo)
Oliver (Ollie)
Peter
Ethan (close friends just named their boy this, plus popular, so I think it's out)
John Wayne (H's pick - my dad's FN and his dad's MN)
Philip (I really like this, but I know one in real life who is just lame)
Titus (family name, my side)

Anything I'm missing?

I like Theodore and Oliver best from your list. I also thought of Owen as I was reading your post?

[potatocakes]

Apr 23, 2018 12:35:18 GMT -6 notmoose said:

Apr 23, 2018 9:43:04 GMT -6 potatocakes said:

So here's where we're at:
DD is Amelia Louise. (Short, generic last name) We loved her FN before we were even TTC, plus being big fans of the 11th Doctor (aka nerds), it was an easy choice. MN is same as me, my mom, both of my grandmas, as well as my great great aunt's FN, and I inherited her wedding rings. All obvious choices. She self nicknamed as Mia before she could say her whole name correctly, but prefers to be called Amelia now. We liked Amy, Millie, and Mia as NNs.

When we were naming DD, our boy name was Oliver Thomas. That has since gotten EVEN MORE popular, and my (close) cousin used Thomas as a MN for her boy (it's my only boy cousin's FN). I absoluely LOVE Ollie as a NN, I think it's adorable. We also like the idea of giving DS a name with a vowel, since we all have vowel names (H is AMR, I am ELR, DD is ALR, for reference), but I'd settle for a name we actually like! Here's my short list, is there anything we're missing? Somehow I don't like all the "old-man" names as much as I love the "old-lady" names for girls. If this baby was a girl, her name would be Eleanor or Alice (H doesn't vote in this imaginary world).
I don't mind popular (H and I have permanent top 10-20 names), but would like it to not be top 5.
Issac (NN Ike)
Theodore (Theo)
Oliver (Ollie)
Peter
Ethan (close friends just named their boy this, plus popular, so I think it's out)
John Wayne (H's pick - my dad's FN and his dad's MN)
Philip (I really like this, but I know one in real life who is just lame)
Titus (family name, my side)

Anything I'm missing?

I like Theodore and Oliver best from your list. I also thought of Owen as I was reading your post?

Owen and Henry keep coming up as recommendations, but we have good friends that named their boys those!
Herbert is a family name that's growing on me.

[kaeguri]

potatocakes, Evan (Evander), Alexander, Elliot? I love Oliver. And tbh, shared middle names wouldn't be a big deal for me, as MNs rarely get used anyways. Or maybe use Theodore or Titus as a MN instead?

[frecklesnbrains]

My DS1 and my nephew share the same MN and I don’t think it’s a big deal. And his FN is the same as one of DH’s cousins’ kids. But she has 8 kids so taking all those names off the table is impossible...

[notmoose]

Apr 21, 2018 12:34:38 GMT -6 kaeguri said:

It's down between Rosel.yn Yu.na and Jos.ephine Yu.na. *insert harsh sounding german name with lots of consonants* H is good with both. Only thing is I'm not fond of Rosie (H loves it), but I love Josie (go figure). Or Jo.

DD is Evel.ine So.ra. (pronounced eh-vah-leen). Finding middle names that are actual names in both Korean and Japanese is harder than it sounds.

I like Josephine slightly more. But they're both beautiful, you can't go wrong!

[potatocakes]

Apr 23, 2018 14:30:59 GMT -6 kaeguri said:

potatocakes , Evan (Evander), Alexander, Elliot? I love Oliver. And tbh, shared middle names wouldn't be a big deal for me, as MNs rarely get used anyways. Or maybe use Theodore or Titus as a MN instead?

We came across Evan last night, and it's become a top contender!

[notmoose]

If we can't find a boy name that probably means I'm having a girl, right? 🤦‍♀️

[frecklesnbrains]

I’m really anxious about what William and Kate are going to name the new royal baby. They better not use our preferred name because you KNOW it’s going to get super-popular.

[PennyCandy]

Boy names are hard. With DS1, we just knew. He's James Matthew. Matthew after dad and James, just because we love it. He goes by James. No nicknames unless he decides on something once he's old enough to have a preference.

This one is going to be Zachary Michael. Michael after DH's late grandpa. I don't feel as connected to it, but I still really like it. I'm ok with Zach for him.

[tarheelmom]

We are so behind on this naming game....

I thought we were set on the middle name. DH likes matchy names, I don’t at all. Compromised to agree that our middles can sound somewhat similar. DD’s is Danielle, DS’s is Nathaniel, and DH agreed to Gabrielle for the baby (one of my favorite names he vetoed as a first name option).

First names: DD is Jocelyn, DS is Isaac, don’t want matchy so no names starting with J or I and no names ending with N or C. We both agreed months ago that we liked Cecilia, but now neither one of us thinks it’s the one. After I threw out about 50 possible names, DH finally approved 2 names; of those we have different favorites. I won’t mention my concerns, looking for open feedback and other, similar suggestions? And we’ll probably need to revisit the middle name since it doesn’t go well with all of these.

Cecilia
Delilah
Eleanor

[pickles]

tarheelmom I’ve always loved Eleanor, after the First Lady. She’s an amazing namesake and I would have loved to have a daughter to name her after.
Delilah is one of those names I also loved, but was never a realistic choice for us since were both from the PNW, and that name feels like it’s more Southern.

[notmoose]

Apr 25, 2018 7:27:44 GMT -6 frecklesnbrains said:

I’m really anxious about what William and Kate are going to name the new royal baby. They better not use our preferred name because you KNOW it’s going to get super-popular.

Did they have a girl or boy?