It’s question of the week time in these parts again. We’re knee deep in baby names around here and I’m looking to you for help. Chime and leave your opinion and suggestions in the comments. As always I look forward to hearing what you have to say.
Question of the Week: Choosing a Name for Baby
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For us, it was important to choose names that were from family members. We wanted the kids to be named after some one.
When it came down to choosing, I made a list after doing a search on the internet and shared it with Jeff. We discussed it, practiced yelling the some names and then just picked one we both agreed on.
Jen, being able to yell the name is a criteria for us too. Luke’s name is not so “yellable” so I no we need to make sure this babies name can be yelled or I will lose my mind.
Congratulations! Tessa Noel was/is my first choice and is my 1st daughter’s name. Tess is a character I have written for years, and I love the way the name sounds, and Noel is Christmas and joy all rolled into one. My second daughter is Victoria Margaritte. I wanted to name her Jolie, again because that sounded joyful, but my son in particular was horrified. Someone suggested Victoria and it grew on me as I considered Tess and Tori. They go well together. Margaritte was for both my mom and my sister.
For us it was important to NOT name after someone in the family, mostly because a majority of our family has old-timey or “boring” names. I’d say to focus on what’s most important in a name to you. For us, it was that it wasn’t so common as to have five others in her class with her name, but not so unique that people have never heard of it. Unfortunately for my daughter there’s no cool story how she got her name, it’s just a name I like. Our last name chopped my baby names list in half so it was kind of easier than I was expecting.
I think you know how we came to our decision. We each made a list of our top 10 names for each gender since we aren’t finding out the sex. We then circled our top 3 favorite names and then exchanged lists. Hubby had to circle his top 3 of my lists and I had to do the same for him. The only caveat was you had to be willing to name your child the 3 you picked, no saying “I don’t like any of them”. Then our lists were narrowed down to top 6 and it was much easier to chose from there. We just continued discussing and hashing it out and within a couple days had decided on first names. Since both first names came off hubby’s list he didn’t fight me much on middle names. Our middle name criteria is similar though. Since we like unique first names, we go with more common or traditional middle names. If the first name is long we like shorter middle names and if the first name is short we like longer middle names. Overall flow, initials, etc. are also important. Good luck deciding! Will you be posting a name poll or something so we can vote once you have a top names list?
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We had the hardest time picking names…If it was just me, no problem. But there is my significant other who wanted a say. Not to mention the years of teaching that absolutely ruined many names for me. He’d mention one, I’d shiver. I’d mention one, he would suggest we buy the pole now. I didn’t want something so weird or different, since I was the only Ginger in school. I hated my name, hated the weirdness of it. Hated that everyone had a dog or a horse or a hamster named Ginger. Hated that I was a gum disease, hated I was a Gilligan’s Island character. So I tried to go with classic, simple, and one we both liked. I made lists from books. Handed the list to hubby, who then proceeded to cross everything off. One day he mentioned Charlotte. I thought, I could live with it. It went well with the middle name I wanted, Mae, after my Grandmother. I had one student named Charlotte. She was very very smart, a hard worker, and quiet. I am hoping for two out of three on that one, since Charlotte is anything but quiet. Our second girl was easier amazingly. We actually kept pretty much to the same list from our first. Charlotte was not 100% a Charlotte until I was in labor. We also had Amber Lee on the table….and surprisingly it did not make my list for number two. Rebecca was pretty much Rebecca from the beginning. We went with Lee as a middle, my middle name and hubby’s Mom’s maiden name…Good luck