https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:36:25 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-646541 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:58:27 +0000 tequiero21 646541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-646498 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:37:43 +0000 Happygal 646498@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is how we'll pick out names. I say them over and over again out loud. The middle name may be based on family history, but the first is all about the sound of it for me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-646496 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:36:23 +0000 yellowbird 646496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We picked LOs name because its pretty, and then we looked up the meaning and its great too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-646491 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:34:01 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 646491@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We made sure our names hit both pretty and meaningful :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-646478 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:27:52 +0000 Grace 646478@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Hedgehog: Kaia! That's a great name. I like that.</p> <p>@MrsTiz: Nella is a great name. </p> <p>Girls names are so much easier than boys...</p> <p>Oh, and yes, totally picking names because they are pretty. I'm actually staying away from family names because I want my LO to have their own name. Middle names can be for family ties. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-646225 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:05:06 +0000 SugarplumsMom 646225@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Finding a name that you like is hard enough, it being pretty is as good as any! Congrats! We specifically wanted DD to not be a namesake, so we passed on a more emotional/meaningful name because of it and picked one without any ties or connections. We think it's pretty :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-646203 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:41:09 +0000 sandy 646203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Me too! Both her first and middle name were purely picked out bc we thought they were pretty names...turns out there are so many great aunts, etc with her first and middle name on both sides of my husband's family. </p> <p>I totally understand picking a name for family history/tradition but sometimes I feel sorry for some babies with the strangest names... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645851 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:35:00 +0000 MrsTiz 645851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: Nella! You should check out Enjoying the Small Things blog, her daughter is named Nella :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645837 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:27:27 +0000 blackbird 645837@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our name has no special meaning-it's pretty and feminine and classic and that's it!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645762 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:32:37 +0000 Mrs Hedgehog 645762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! Not alone! If LO is a girl her name will be Kaia. Why? Because we think it is pretty. Now her middle name, Lynn, is a family name but if I didn't think the combo was pretty, she wouldn't get getting the name. If LO is a boy he will have a family middle name because it is important to DH but the first name will be something we find pretty. Leaning maybe toward Amory... not 100% yet though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645759 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:30:21 +0000 PurpleUnicorn 645759@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i was all about the pretty. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645751 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:24:15 +0000 mrs. wagon 645751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@juliekim: I'm even less deep about how we picked the name-- there was a little girl I knew named Jodie and I thought she was so cute, so that name was a favorite of mine PURELY because that little girl was so cute. I'm not even in touch with that family any more but my love for the name stuck! I wanted my daughter to have a more formal full name so we picked Josephine. We loved how it sounded and I don't even really know what it means...!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645732 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:11:56 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 645732@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We picked my dds first and middle simply because we liked the way they sounded. No meaning! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645726 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:06:43 +0000 yourekindapretty 645726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>ah - thank you everyone for your feedback! im so happy im not the only one ;) i was starting to feel bad that i didn't have a more "meaningful" rationale for the name I picked...</p> <p>@mrsbrewer - i almost told you the full name - i had to delete what i wrote (im obviously not very good at keeping secretes)! =) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645521 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:29:11 +0000 LittleFox 645521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We picked DS's name because we liked it, no long history or back story involved. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645496 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:17:07 +0000 MamaMoose 645496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO's name happens to be a derivation of my GMIL's name but that's not why we picked it. We just liked the name! But her middle name is my grandmother's name which we did on purpose to honor her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645492 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:14:16 +0000 mrsmenow 645492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our girls all have names that we thought were pretty for their first names. The older 2 have middle naames with meaning and LO has a middle name that I wanted as a first name that DH vetoed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645484 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:11:12 +0000 Cherrybee 645484@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, we're picking names because we like them, too! Come on, if your nan was called Nellie, what would you do?!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645422 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:38:36 +0000 sslm 645422@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Definitely not the only one! No deeper meaning to the name we picked :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645421 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:37:35 +0000 pl0508 645421@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just like our sons name ! His middle name has family ties but the name we will call him was just our favorite ! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645410 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:34:00 +0000 Pepper 645410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just really like boy name we picked! No deeper reason than that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645382 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:22:53 +0000 Foodnerd81 645382@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH doesn't even know this, but the girl name we have picked out is one I read on a blog and really liked it, so I said, what about ___? He liked it, and we've been sold every since. </p> <p>For middle names I like them to have some meaning, like being named after family, but I sort of work backwards from what sounds good and apply some meaning to it. Totally cheating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645376 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:21:49 +0000 cheesetomywhine 645376@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Here! My DH picked her first name becausse he thought it was pretty. Her middle is a family name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645370 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:18:19 +0000 Sweet T 645370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We picked DS's name because we liked it. There's no family attachment at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645364 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:16:47 +0000 mrs_t 645364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have done first names that we love how they sound, and middle names with family connections. We love the history of the family names, but didn't want to feel too tied down with first names, and I think it's worked out great! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645352 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:13:16 +0000 Boheme 645352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, we just liked his name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645349 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:11:28 +0000 LuLu Mom 645349@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Me! I loved her first name, it has no family/emotional connection.</p> <p>Actually if I'm honest, we named her after an onery girl in Target who was being yelled at by her dad for running up and down the aisle. I fell in love with the name then! haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645347 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:11:12 +0000 MrsBrewer 645347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@juliekim: Now I'm really curious!!! First letter? LOL </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645346 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:10:46 +0000 stargal 645346@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yup we both just liked his name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/picking-a-name-because-it-sounds-pretty#post-645340 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:09:15 +0000 yourekindapretty 645340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>"whew" =) </p> <p>@mrsbrewer, the name we finally picked is a big secret till my girls born ;) honestly, it's because i'm a bit embarrassed about the name association (it's a name you hear on a very popular tv show!) But i absolutely love it.... *biting nails* it sound so pretty! </p>