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I did the list thing too. I had it on my bedside table and would add names to it and take them off. My hubby was pretty easy with it though, but it worked for us :)
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Lol, I had Brooklyn named, and hubby agreed, like the moment I conceived. It’s a good thing she was a girl afterall because everyone called her baby Brooklyn the ENTIRE pregnancy! Glad you came toa meeting of the minds, eventually, hehe.
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I presented hubby with a list of the names that I like and he picked from MY list. :)
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We had a heck of a time with our oldest, finding a name we both liked. When he asks us.. “how did you pick my name” we have to honestly tell him.. it’s the only name both of us didn’t hate.
Son two was named during labor. I figured I would have 10+ hours with nothing to do, so I brought a baby name book.
Son three was the easiest. We knew he was the last one, and we named him after both sides of the family.
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Buzz Bardi caused quite a stir.
I said, “I think our future son should be named Buzz.“
He said, “No fucking way.“
I said, “Like Aldrin. The astronaut.“
And he said, “You mean like the fat older brother in Home Alone?“
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We were able to avoid all issues involving naming our daughter for one reason: I have already named her. When I was like, 14. As in “My first daughter will be named Avienda Christine.“
And since he was arguing with a hugely pregnant woman and didn’t want to die, I got me way. I told him that the next baby is all his. Saved us from bloodshed - or at least the name related bloodshed. We won’t go into the co-sleeping debates *shudder*
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My friend and her husband changed their son’s name after 2 weeks- Which I thought that was really bizarre
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We had a super easy time with Lily’s first name, we were back and forth a bit on her middle name. In fact I have a post in drafts about how we named her, I should finish that.
Now if somehow she would have been a boy, he probably still wouldn’t have a name (almost 6 months later).
I can’t wait ti find out what you picked. I am fascinated by baby names.
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Our firstborn was a girl, and when we were picking out names, he hated every single name I suggested. Names I was fond of such as Serena, Skye and Jordanna sounded like “stage” names in his opinion. He preferred names like Susan, Ashley, Michelle - which are pretty names, but I wanted something more original. It got the point where I finally said - look - I AM THE ONE DELIVERING THIS BABY- WORK WITH ME HERE! Luckily I got my way at the end. We ended up naming my daughter Bianca. I’m sure you’ll come up with a great name, Sarah! However, I understand your frustration.
On a slightly separate note - I just came across a very funny video on You Tube as I was writing this post…has to do with breaking the news that you’re pregnant to your firstborn. I’m obsessed - SO FUNNY!
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I forgot that while we were picking a “boy” name he bought me a book with 15,000 names or something and I had him totally convinced that I wanted to name this baby, if it was a boy, Jimbo, only with a French spin, Jimbeaux, LOL. Wow, that was the mother of all run-on sentences right there. Those books have some seriously ridiculou names ;)
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Katelyn - SO TRUE! Oh my word, the best part of the naming process is looking at all of those names and thinking YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. Seriously, there were perfectly average names that we couldn’t find in our book, but those pages were filled to the brim with weird names we’d never seen or heard before IN OUR LIVES.
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No kudos for us, please; we didn’t fight over names at all. Before we were ever pregnant (or even married, for that matter), we used to think we wanted five boys (not so much anymore LOL) and we had picked out names for all of them. So when Goat #1 came along, he got name #1. Goat #2 threw a wrench into our plans by being a girl, but I had a girl name all tucked away just in case, and Goat Daddy didn’t get any say, really.
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I can’t wait to find out what you guys name your baby!!! We never had a boy name until Sean went through like 100, and we weren’t 100% about Jasper until we met him. I’m sure you guys came up with great names!
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My husband and I did okay with the first names, it was the middle names that caused a lot of fightin’ between the two of us. Our last two boys didn’t get their full names until the doctor told us “you need to choose their names right now so I can fill out this birth certificate!“ ;)
Ugh - I did not like that part of child bearing at all either.
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My husband and I went through the exact same thing trying to name our baby. As soon as we found out we were expecting, we started tossing names back and forth. We actually chose a girl’s name really easily and quickly when I was 10 or 11 weeks along.
So of course we found out at 20 weeks that we were having a boy. And spent the rest of the pregnancy trying to find something we could agree on. My husband is very picky—doesn’t like any name that reminds him of anyone he knows or that sounds “snotty”. Basically our son is Nicholas Andrew because (as a PP said) it’s the only name we both didn’t hate.
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The Arthur Clan - I thought this was going to happen to us for awhile there. A woman I work with took her son home from the hospital and went ELEVEN DAYS without a name.
I was pretty sure we might out-do her too lol.
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I’m so glad you guys have decided on a name. (I know you commented on my post about the Babies Who Name Themselves)... I’m glad my DH didn’t mind the name that came out in my dream… otherwise we’d still be trying to decide on a boy’s name. (NO GIRLS NAME IN SIGHT YET!)
Anyway, I was going to suggest (if you still hadn’t decided on names) that you could throw all of your choices into a glass jar and “draw” a name for the baby. It’d make an interesting “This is how we chose your name story” when the baby got older :P hehe
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Hey, we’ve had to come up with 7 first and 7 middle names.
We are still married, although some of our most pouty moments occurred because of baby names. Our tastes have changed over the years. It would have never occurred to me to name Aidan something like Beatrix or vice versa.
Names that are on this baby’s list probably won’t be on your next baby’s list. You’ll have a whole new set of names to argue over! Yay!
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I had our son’s name picked out years before so I told my Hubby it was that or nothing. We ended up compromising and Hubby got to pick the middle name since I picked the first name. :)
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Hah! So glad you finally got settled on names. We went through the same thing for her first name. “You want to name her WHAT?“ “That’s a bimbo name. My daughter will NOT have a bimbo name.“ “That’s a name for a stripper. Do you want her to grow up to be a stripper? Because that’s what she’ll be with a name like that.“ “That’s a horrible, ugly name, I can’t believe you like that. You have terrible taste in names.“ “I am NOT calling my daughter THAT for the rest of her life. No way.“ “That name means ‘evil woman,‘ you know. You want to name our daughter Evil Woman?“
Thankfully her middle name was easy - it’s for her grandmothers. We actually had that first. But that first name… . Then someone just suggested Hannah and we both went, Huh. Sounds GREAT. I like it.
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I think my husband and I could name six more kids, but raising them would be another story. In fact, part of my inability to say “we’re done” is that we have one more really great name and I hate to let it go. Ridiculous, right?
I can’t wait to hear what y’all pick!
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Well, I happen to know you have GREAT taste in names (names like Lillia, for example), so I think you should be the name picker.
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I liked this post, I can’t help but keep commenting. You know I’m a teacher, I see some interesting names….but by far the WEIRDEST name I’ve come across was OLSTEPHANIE. I hope I haven’t offended any of your readers but seriously? Olstephanie? Try teaching a barely five year old to write that name. Not sure it’s much better but we called her Fani for short. Oh, and I had a kiddo named Facundo once, his family was from Argentina. They called him Facco for short, I had to have a talk with them….everytime I watch Meet the Fockers I think of him, lol.
Last year I was on the playground giving the duty teacher my list of kiddos who owed me recess time and another assistant asked, “Oh, is that your list of baby names?“ Umm…no. This is my list of names I am definitely NOT naming my child :)
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God, I haven’t visited here in a while. I was even scared the baby was already born. Why scared?
Because I wanted to suggest some names for the baby of course :0If it is a girl:
Olivia
Emma
Nina
Mila
Isabella
Zoe
SophieIf it is a boy;
Levi
Jayden
Liam
Dylan
Keano
Sam
JoshuaMy work is done.
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picking the perfect baby name was almost as stressful as the thought of parenting itself. who was I to give a name to this little girl that she was going to be (for all intents & purposes) stuck with for the rest of her life?
my husband and I, being blessed with a last name that gives pause to the checkers at Safeway who are required by law to say “thank you, mrs. so and so”, knew we wanted a simple first name for her. I also knew I wanted Olivia for her middle name (my great grandmother’s name), so that narrowed down the first name choices considerably. for example, though I loved the name Emma, names ending with an “uh” sound did not go with Olivia.
every time I came across a name in the baby book that I half-way liked, I’d shout it out to my husband, and he promptly shot down EVERY SINGLE NAME. and he was no help coming up with any names on his own. the only name he offered up was Marielle (an old girlfriend), which I actually really liked, but it was too similar to his mother’s name, and I was not going to let her think I named my daughter after her. anyhoo….
I heard Ellis one night on a tv show, probably Law & Order, and rather liked it. it met all my criteria ~ short, original but not on the top-10 list, easily shortened to one-syllable, and it went perfect with Olivia.
even so, we didn’t officially decide on Ellis until late in the day, the day she was born. I needed to see how it fit on her before deciding. and since after kicking the name around in my head for several months & still not hating it, and more importantly, not coming up with any other names I liked better, we went with Ellis.
13 months later, I’m still quite happy with our choice, and I’m sure you will be, too :)
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Dutch Donut Girl - You have good taste in names! =) Actually, most of those were either on my list or on our “yeah, we can’t go with this because one of our sibs just had a baby and named them this last year” list. In fact, seriously, there are exactly four that were not lol. Next time, I’m going to have you draw up a list and present it to my husband!
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Our son didn’t have a name for about a week. We just knew what NOT to call him…my wonderful sis in law finally named him and we didn’t hate it!
yay us.
And my hormonal self so didn’t care that it was my hubby’s dead pet bird’s name.Ok, now my family sounds like a bunch of character from a wes anderson movie…
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My partner and I had the same experience. Came down to a name that neither of us had the energy to veto. For #2 we have a girls name, but are still ‘negotiating’ on a boy’s name.
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We didn’t get a chance :lol: Erin was lucky to be named at all!
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I had the name River picked out for years, boy or girl. Luckily, the hubs agreed and River Kaye just turned 1 :)
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Sarah A. Schlothan Christensen : Ha ha ha :) Yes, let’s do that! I’m all for it.
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I can’t wait to found out what the babies name is. I would like to throw in my suggestion to name the baby Ronald. Boy or girl, Ronald is a good name.
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Oh man, I remember how hard it was just picking out a name for our dog. I can’t imagine what it will be like when we have kids someday! Can’t wait to hear what you decided on!
By Elizabeth on June 19, 2009
My last kid wasn’t named until his second day. My husband picked our first born name, and for the second I got to pick out the name. Incidently, I chose a variation of the first born’s name. “Ain’t” I origan?! :)