https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:32:00 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845739 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:16:12 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2845739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lovely name! Congratulations. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845722 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 17:09:12 +0000 magnolia 2845722@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bluemasonjar: love it! Congrats </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845719 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 16:36:00 +0000 Sams Mom 2845719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bluemasonjar: congratulations on the baby boy, Great name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845714 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 16:06:52 +0000 Bluemasonjar 2845714@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you for all the suggestions!! </p> <p>We were forced to make our decision quicker than anticipated as our baby boy arrived 10 days early. His name is Connor Felix (after my great grandfather) and I feel like it really fits him :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845520 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:45:06 +0000 Mrs. Microscope 2845520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband's family started an Irish theme, though they're not Irish! </p> <p>Ryan<br /> Brendan<br /> Tristan<br /> Connor<br /> Kieran</p> <p>Three of those are in our family! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845487 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:43:43 +0000 Spinny 2845487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Emmett<br /> Kieran<br /> Owen </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845363 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:18:19 +0000 mamabolt 2845363@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Harlan? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845333 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:55:25 +0000 JCCovi 2845333@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a Killian, it’s Irish 🙂 I also love Felix and have been hearing that a lot recently. Also, my cousin Declan has a brother Dashiell and I think those go together really well! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845318 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 20:48:54 +0000 Jennibenni 2845318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Welles/Wells? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845301 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:18:41 +0000 dc yoga bee 2845301@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am in the exact same boat! My DD is named Maya after Maya Angelou. I heard her speak my freshman year of college, she’s one of my favorite authors, and was just a really remarkable woman who did great in the world. We love her name so much. Pregnant with a boy and there’s no aha moment. There’s no meaningful name to us out there so far. And it’s like if we name after a family member it would be a traditional name, which isn’t our style at all. And it would be picking a random family member. It sucks. We have a ways to go but I know we will be settling.</p> <p>Also, did you have a second favorite name when naming your first son? Maybe start from there? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845210 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:18:55 +0000 crazydoglady 2845210@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bluemasonjar: If you want something that has a different end sound than Declan, what about Callum? Apparently, it is Gaelic for dove which is pretty cool. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845209 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:14:25 +0000 Bluemasonjar 2845209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: Fredrick was my grandfather's name so it has a lot of meaning but to your point it is a little stylistically different. :happy: </p> <p>@Mommy Finger: @SproutBee: I like hearing from mom's with Callans it is definitely on the consideration list! I agree that Cal is a good nickname option but good to hear people don't always use it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845182 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:36:04 +0000 Mommy Finger 2845182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SproutBee: I just saw you have a Callan too! Unless you're my friend who I lovingly "stole" the name from, I don't hear it too often. :grin: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845179 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:33:38 +0000 Mommy Finger 2845179@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bluemasonjar: I call my son Cal all of the time!!!! I love the simplicity of it and figured it could be a good name for him to use when he's older if he chooses. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845154 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:46:48 +0000 Alba4 2845154@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Finnian<br /> Seamus<br /> Kieran<br /> Lachlan<br /> Connor<br /> Patrick<br /> Nolan<br /> Sean<br /> Keith<br /> Keegan<br /> Niall<br /> Flynn </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845152 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:44:24 +0000 MrsLonghorn 2845152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Kian (key-an/key-in)<br /> Callan </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845141 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:22:15 +0000 LCTBQE 2845141@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bluemasonjar: a lone vote for Frederick here :) I absolutely love that name and I think it's so under-used and awesome. I just had #2, a girl, but if she'd been a boy that 1000% would have been the name. it does feel really stylistically different to me than your son's name and all the names pp's are floating, but I like that it isn't so matchy-matchy with Declan. congratulations in advance! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845131 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:53:11 +0000 MrsBucky 2845131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like Kiernan James a lot! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845130 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:52:16 +0000 MrsBucky 2845130@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Kiernan? Kellan? Aiden? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845097 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 07:12:19 +0000 KayKay 2845097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Gael? I have a friend who just named her little boy that, and I thought it was super-cute!</p> <p>Brendan/Brennan?<br /> Colin? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845079 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 22:32:38 +0000 SproutBee 2845079@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bluemasonjar: hi! I have a 5yo named Callan as well. Just wanted to add that no one calls him Cal! There was only one preschool teacher that has ever called him Cal... but everyone else calls him Callan bc that’s what we call him and now that’s how he introduces himself. I’m not against Cal, and thought that might be a nickname for him, but he’s just never looked like a Cal to me, so he’s always gone by his full name! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845075 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:16:43 +0000 Bluemasonjar 2845075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ajsmommy: Connor is the name DH and I both like the best right now! I think I am just wavering because nothing can compare to DS #1's name in my mind (I need to get over that). We have also thought about Finn but I like Flynn as a possible alternate. </p> <p>@jennlin821: @SupernovaJ: @Kaohinani: So many good options. Thank you! I like Quinn and Ronan a lot.</p> <p>@Mommy Finger: We definitely have similar styles. I suggested Nolan but my husband wasn't a fan. I came across Callan recently and like it but we also have a friend with a son that goes by Cal (named Calvin). Not sure how much it matters but I was thinking it might be a natural nickname. Have you heard that with your son? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2845074 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:08:40 +0000 Bluemasonjar 2845074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Kitkat: Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone feeling this way. I'm so glad to hear that you love the name you chose for your second DS now! That gives me hope as I am still so unsure at this point. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2844907 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:51:41 +0000 Kaohinani 2844907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both my husband and I have Gaelic names. (I'm French, Irish, Spanish, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Israeli, Greek, and Swedish.<br /> . . For names, we opted to embrace the good ole' Irish. 🤣) I digress...We have a Teagan (DD) but the name is unisex (male variations - Teague, Tegin, Taygan, Tiegan, Teegan, Tigan, Taegen, Tiegon) and Grayson (DS) which is the Gaelic form (* "Greyson" is Old English). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2844901 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:20:23 +0000 Mommy Finger 2844901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a Nolan and Callan. I tend towards Irish names. It was unintentional that all of our names basically rhyme! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2844848 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 08:12:49 +0000 SupernovaJ 2844848@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm with you, my son's first and middle name happen to be gaelic!</p> <p>Davin<br /> Daren<br /> Deagan<br /> Pearse / Pearce / Pierce<br /> Quinlan / Quinn<br /> Reilly<br /> Ronan<br /> Arlan<br /> Finley<br /> Keenan </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2844844 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 08:06:04 +0000 jennlin821 2844844@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>To continue with the gaelic theme, what about Cullen? I think it works great with all of the other names you mentioned as either a first or middle name!</p> <p>A few others that I like:<br /> Keegan<br /> Quinn<br /> Shea<br /> Sloane<br /> Tobias/Toby </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2844835 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 07:48:40 +0000 Ajsmommy 2844835@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Finn<br /> Flynn<br /> Myles<br /> Sullivan (nn: Sully)</p> <p>I also always think of Connor </p> <p>I'm liking.... Flynn Felix F....man :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2844804 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 23:58:40 +0000 Kitkat 2844804@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just had baby boy #2 two months ago and was in the same situation. DS1 is Benjamin, a name I’ve always loved, with a meaningful family middle name. It made it hard to think of another boy name I loved as much, but we settled on Harrison James. Neither name has much significance, other than DH always liked James and wanted it at least to be a middle name. I’ll admit before he was born I was still wavering on the name (I think because I had always loved Benjamin so much it was hard imagine another name living up to it) but now that he’s here I absolutely love his name and couldn’t picture it being anything else. I like James as a middle because it seems to go well with everything. Other first names we considered were Carter, Liam, Owen, and William. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/boy-name-help-8#post-2844801 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 23:08:05 +0000 Bluemasonjar 2844801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Help! I am 2 weeks away from my scheduled C-section date. We are Team Green :teamgreen: for the second time and struggling to find a name we both love for a little boy.</p> <p>I have loved the name Declan since high school and we used it for DS #1 along with a meaningful family surname as his middle name. I just don't know how to compete with that, it is so perfect in my mind! We still like Reagan for a girl's name and would pair it with Mae for a middle name after DH's grandmother.</p> <p>I tend to like Irish/Gaelic type names but not at all a requirement. Our last name starts with an F and ends in "man." </p> <p>I really want at least part of the name to have significance. Some family names: Felix, Wilson (cousin used it for a first name but an option for middle), James, Leo and Fredrick. </p>