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Hellobee Boards Topic: How did you come up with your girl name? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:52:44 +0000 Bao on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name/page/2#post-561585 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:39:09 +0000 Bao 561585@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I love your name choices! I just liked the name and mentioned it to DH and he liked it too, and that was that. LuLu Mom on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561558 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:26:33 +0000 LuLu Mom 561558@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I had Emerson picked out before I met DH. I was in Target one day and a little ornery girl in pigtails was runnign up and down the aisle and her dad was calling her name, and I loved it. DH took awhile to get on board. Her middle name is my maternal grandmother's maiden name (family tradition for the first girl born.) We are in trouble if we have girl #2, we can't agree on anything! lindseykaye on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561519 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:08:15 +0000 lindseykaye 561519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We had the HARDEST time with a girl name! Years before we got pregnant we decided on a boy name (family name, middle name we like) and didn't even start thinking of girl names until we knew that LO was a 'she'. I even started kind of backwards, knowing first that I wanted our daughter's middle name to be Jean, after my great aunt and coincidentally also DH's aunt's middle names. So that posed a challenge. Eventually we each made a list of names we loved and put them into Nymbler.com to see what they came up with. We also used Baby Name Wizard to narrow down names based on the trends I saw with our list and that's how we found the name we chose! I had never heard it before but it was on their list of suggestions. It nodded to both of our mothers names and we also loved the many nickname options available. Our daughter ended up being named Ellora Jean. We call her Ellie or Lora for short And - I love SO MANY of the names on your list. You've already got a great selection to choose from! T.H.O.U. on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561504 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:00:44 +0000 T.H.O.U. 561504@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We used family names. She is actually named after her grandfathers so if you want to use a family name, don't forget to include men in your life and modify! heffalump on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561485 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:47:31 +0000 heffalump 561485@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We used a family name, its jewish tradition to name after a deceased relative. She's named after dhs great grandma and her middle name is my great grandma. Her name is on your list, rose. I always get lots of compliments on her name :) sorrycharlie on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561462 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:34:42 +0000 sorrycharlie 561462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I had a lot of your names on my list too! We went with Olivia because it was the only one my husband liked. purrpletulips on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561454 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:28:12 +0000 purrpletulips 561454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I like all the names you've listed but my favorite is Eleanor. We had no problem with the girl name either time (like you team green both times) however our boy name was the problem. I wanted something that was classic and if possible a family connection. DD's name is Evelyn Claire: DH's grandmother was named Evelyn (turns out so was my grandmother's best friend) and DH just randomly picked Claire which I liked but not as a first name. Second child was a boy (Thomas George) but if a girl the name would have been Elyse Carol: Elyse was just a name I liked and Carol was DH's mom's first name and my grandmother's middle name. Chillybear on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561438 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:21:11 +0000 Chillybear 561438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Just by going on the rhythm of the names a lot of the names you picked have 3 syllables which might sound nice with a simpler 1 syllable middle name. Marie runs rampant in my family as a middle name and would sound nice with a lot of your top choices. Mae/May is a newer one i've been hearing often. Evangeline is at the top of my list with nn Evan. Check out Baby Name Genie - they have a page where you can test drive a name - they put the name in different scenarios say them out loud and see how it feels. travelgirl1 on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561413 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:03:19 +0000 travelgirl1 561413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We honestly did not agree on anything for such a long time, but we kind of liked the Spanish name Ariceli but not enough to use it. DH has a Spanish last name. We played around with names that sound like Ariceli and came up with Ariela! Which actually is a real name but neither of us know anyone called it and my family had to ask a million times how to pronounce it. Apparently my gran has only just got the hang of it and punches the air when she says it because she's SO proud of herself, ha ha. avivoca on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561385 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:48:57 +0000 avivoca 561385@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My husband is insisting on the name Hyla for a little girl. It's the genus of a certain tree frog (he assures me that it's a pretty frog). loveisstrange on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561362 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:15:21 +0000 loveisstrange 561362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have very similar taste in names! I love classic, feminine names too. Several of yours were on my list too (Eleanor, Madeline, Natalie, Rose, Violet). I also loved Caroline, Emmeline, Annabelle, Clara, Lydia, Norah, etc. We ended up naming her Charlotte. It's a family name from waaaay back in my family tree (like, a couple hundred years) but we actually decided on it after watching a movie that had a character named Charlotte with the nickname Charlie. rawrasaur on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561361 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:00:07 +0000 rawrasaur 561361@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I swear I looked every name 5 times over and was still uninspired. I was looking at an employee list one day and saw an Audra listed and texted the name to my husband to see what he thought. I didn't instantly love it, but it had everything I wanted in a name and as we continued looking it just really stuck with me as being the right name. Her middle name is Quynh (Vietnamese and sounds like Quinn). sera_87 on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561359 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:34:02 +0000 sera_87 561359@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I love most of your names! Esp. Victoria. So classic and underused. My top girl name is a family surname on my maternal side. Otherwise I just like old-fashioned, strong, classic names. LittleGBee on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561328 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:29:21 +0000 LittleGBee 561328@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @NaturallyCathy: Our daughter's name is Cordelia and she goes by the nickname Cora...which is gaining popularity, but I still love both of her names. We have the opposite problem! We have another name for a girl, but we're totally lost when it comes to boys names! Also, because our children will have my husband's last name (mine too, I guess), I find myself drawn to honoring my family through the middle name rather than his. I dunno though. shopaholic on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561314 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:11:30 +0000 shopaholic 561314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I actually really love most of your names (including my own! ;) hahah) DH came up with our girl name and it was one I finally liked and we could agree on. Her middle name is my MIL's name - it makes the IL's happy and flows with the first name, so I wasn't going to be too picky about the middle name. googly-eyes on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561299 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:54:04 +0000 googly-eyes 561299@https://boards.hellobee.com/ DH named LO. I liked Cordelia but DH didn't like it! Minnie_Girl on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561257 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:28:45 +0000 Minnie_Girl 561257@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Our girl names list was VERY much like yours (we were also team green)! We liked classic names but wanted the name to be "hers," not really a family/friend name. So that ruled out Eleanor, Grace, Madeline, Lillian, Natalie, Olivia, Diana, and many others. We ultimately named DD Elizabeth Rose! That being said, you have fabulous taste and anything you choose will be excellent. ;P lovehoneybee on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561254 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:19:41 +0000 lovehoneybee 561254@https://boards.hellobee.com/ 2 of our 3 girl names from our short list are on your list! We had Grace Catherine (or Evans), Amelia Grace and Eleanor Grace. Grace is DH's much beloved late grandmother, so we wanted to use it somehow. We also had Alice and Madeline on our (longer) short list for a long time. MrsStar on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561251 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:16:41 +0000 MrsStar 561251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I love all your names! We named lo Eleanor :) I heard the name when I was super young and I was insistent I would call my first daughter Eleanor, When I told dh my idea he hated it, then he found out that theres a mustang car model called an Eleanor and suddenly he was happy with the name choice :) BabyBoecksMom on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561201 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:10:54 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 561201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We were stuck between two names, one was a beautiful name we heard on vacation (Caroline) and one was a family name (Willa). We went with the family name because it was unique and pretty. aprk on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561198 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:07:58 +0000 aprk 561198@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I love your name choices. We were looking for something classic and not too obscure. If our LO was a girl we would have named her Nora. mrs. wagon on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561196 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:05:42 +0000 mrs. wagon 561196@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @NaturallyCathy: Love all your names!! We were choosing between Cordelia and Josephine and ended up with Josephine. We also considered Madeline, Natalie, and Vivian. It was a really tough process to choose a name but we went to the hospital with a short list (the list changed all the time, but always included Cordelia and Josephine) and waited until she was born to make the final decision. Ree723 on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561192 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:01:44 +0000 Ree723 561192@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @NaturallyCathy: it's just an unofficial test to see how your child's name would sound if they were the president, a doctor, or a lawyer etc. I can't really see a President Bambi Smith, or famed neurosurgeon Dr {insert bizarre name or absurdly misspelled name}. It could just be me, but I think to an extent, people oftentimes live up to stereotypes surrounding their name. SleepyMonkey on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561148 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:25:10 +0000 SleepyMonkey 561148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ i liked really feminine names that ended with an a. it had to be more than one syllable, because our last name is only one syllable and i wanted it to have a nice cadence to it. i also wanted to like the possible nicknames that could be derived from the name, and i didn't want the name to be overly popular. i chose a variation of lillian. LO's middle name is after my mother. doodlepoodle on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561147 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:24:58 +0000 doodlepoodle 561147@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @NaturallyCathy: LOL oh yes, my best friend was actually a history/lit major in college and she had the HARDEST time picking names. They didn't decide with either of their boys until the last minute! Luckily DH and I are less picky in that sense, it's more "Oh I knew a girl with that name in school, she was a beeyotch!" ;-) Mrs. Grizzly Bear on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561143 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:23:00 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 561143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @babyjmama: My son's name got hijacked by DH's love of history, which is why I'm trying to appease his need for something classical and my need for something interesting! It's both helpful - and tremendously unhelpful at the same time - being an English major because as much as you love a name, you'd hate for someone to think of its origins. Like Ophelia. Or Leanor. Mrs. Grizzly Bear on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561138 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:21:20 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 561138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mrs. Pen: You read my mind on the nickname! @Smurfette: I think my problem is that I like two syllable first names too much to let Grace go as a first name. Besides, my mother calls me 'Grace' when she means the opposite - that I'm being clumsy... Go figure. doodlepoodle on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561134 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:20:24 +0000 doodlepoodle 561134@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @NaturallyCathy: Oh my goodness I love ALL of those names! DH and I are both very "vanilla" as he would say, (boring is what I call us!). I've loved one of the girl names we like since HS, Brooke, the other is Aubrey and I just think it sounds really good with the middle name we'd use (Elizabeth) so we don't really have any good "ah-ha" moments. That was our boy name story :) Mrs. Grizzly Bear on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561133 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:19:48 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 561133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @mediagirl: Emily would, unfortunately, be too close to a family member's name. While she would be thrilled, to have her think that I chose it because of her would make me less so - and I hate that because I actually really like that name! I also like Emma and Amelia but can't chose them for the same reason. Frustrating! @katiew92081: I love Evangeline too. If I shortened it, I would shorten it to Eva. Which suddenly makes me think of Wall-E... @Mrs. Jacks: We have some... interesting family names in our tree. One of them was Utopia Adelaide, on my side of the family. Funnily enough, I kinda like Adelaide but I don't think DH would be too keen on it. @Maysprout: I think Valencia popped into my head because of the Decemberists. But I thought it sounded pretty so I added it to my list. And I'm sure I would try and shorten Cordelia to Cora if I get half a chance (<3 Downton Abbey)! Mrs. Pen on "How did you come up with your girl name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-come-up-with-your-girl-name#post-561130 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:18:51 +0000 Mrs. Pen 561130@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @NaturallyCathy: loooove your name options! Evangeline is our top name if we have a girl later on, and we'd call her Eva!!!