https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 26 May 2026 18:52:22 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name/page/2#post-2050004 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 21:55:05 +0000 .twist. 2050004@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: ditto. </p> <p>We agreed on girl names from here to Mars. We could.not. agree on a boys name. </p> <p>It ended up being a name we could both agree on, and liked and it's a popular name but with a European spelling, so it's less common than it's American spelled counterpart. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name/page/2#post-2049811 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:57:18 +0000 meredithNYC 2049811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It took a lot of work to find something traditional, though not terribly common (we have a super common last name) AND agreed upon by both of us. Our daughter is Gwendolyn and our son (due in April) will likely be Lyle. Both kids have/will have family names as middle names. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name/page/2#post-2049790 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:30:24 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 2049790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladybee: Awww! Happy to help! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name/page/2#post-2049788 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:27:12 +0000 ladybee 2049788@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: Irish catholic here too. Ryan Joseph is now top of my list. :grin: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name/page/2#post-2049765 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:52:23 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 2049765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So many reasons! Meaning, out of the top 100, unique, but easy to spell and pronounce (you read it like you would pronounce it without any second guessing), not made up, we liked it, passes the resume/judge test, has nickname options that we like (I love nicknames, but wanted them to have a formal first name - also nixed a few names bc we didn't like the possible nicknames assoc with a name), grandparents can easily pronounce, and they paired well together as siblings. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name/page/2#post-2049739 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:07:17 +0000 jhd 2049739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love the meaning behind LO's name the most, but I also love the way it sounds, the easy spelling, and the fact that it's recognizable, yet not very common. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name/page/2#post-2049633 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:16:31 +0000 Sapphiresun 2049633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lots of factors, but as an Alicia who constantly has people come to my office saying they have a meeting with "Lisa" one of my major demands was a name that's not too easy to mishear. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name/page/2#post-2049622 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:07:54 +0000 mrsjyw 2049622@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We wanted short, classic-ish, in the middle of the pack as far as popularity. Middle name is biblical and we'll probably stick with all of those in naming lo #2. Eta: we have a really long, uncommon polish last name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name/page/2#post-2049618 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:03:58 +0000 MrsADS 2049618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, we haven't named a kid yet but we will be (11wks pg). Our top concerns will be:</p> <p>- Sound with last name: we have a WEIRD last name (rhymes with "Corey") so any girls' names ending in a -ey sound basically sound like they rhyme. Our last name is also pronounced very differently than it's spelled so,</p> <p>- Traditional, easy to spell first name (since the last name is hard enough)</p> <p>- Child's future (how will this sound as Judge so and so, Dr. so and so) - my kids can choose whatever career path they like but I don't want them to be hampered by a weird name. </p> <p>- Then, how we like the name/family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049601 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:47:55 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 2049601@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@farawayviolet: lol at special snowflake! You ARE a special snowflake ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049599 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:45:36 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 2049599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladybee: on my Irish Catholic side, for generations they alternated John and Joseph every generation. The father would be Joseph John and the some would be John Joseph. Makes my genealogy research really hard! So to me it is the quintessential Catholic boy name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049575 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:25:04 +0000 farawayyama 2049575@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Top consideration was future prospects. Like it or not, people judge, so not off the wall names or Kreaytuv spellings. My child is not my billboard to announce my special snowflakeness and questionable literacy practices on. ETA: I'm not necessarily refering to unusual names so much as made-up left field names.</p> <p>After that it was a family name that happens to be classic and spelled correctly that I love and so did DH. But I'd rather have a child with a name I don't particularly care for than some awful botch up of letters or sounds. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049567 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:19:39 +0000 Canoli 2049567@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: same here! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049564 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:16:32 +0000 NurseDMB 2049564@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just liked it, but it was also important to me that it would sound okay when they were older, like on a resume, for example. I'm not a fan of really trendy names. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049561 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:14:27 +0000 hotchildinthecity 2049561@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My plan always was a unique name. I have a name that was unique for most of my life but is now becoming popular and i liked being the "only" one with my name. We ended up keeping J's birth name because it suited him and we liked the meaning. And since its a korean name, it's unique as well so it worked out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049551 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:59:44 +0000 ladybee 2049551@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: No but I love that! Joseph was my husband's grandfathers middle name so he'd love it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049536 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:50:00 +0000 Lindsay05 2049536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Uniqueness and just liked it. Although they will never find their names on personalized novelties. Middle names are family names. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049535 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:48:35 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 2049535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladybee: it's a good one. So much meaning! Have you considered Ryan Joseph? So classic. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049533 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:45:58 +0000 lamariniere 2049533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamasig: we also had language considerations, it had to work in both French and English. After that, we just liked the names we picked. DS's name ended up having family ties, but it was completely coincidental. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049528 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:43:27 +0000 ladybee 2049528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: that's my middle name choice! Thanks for pointing that out. We did Matthew Robert. Almost did Andrew. Second boy will be Ryan Matthew or Ryan Michael. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049521 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:38:47 +0000 NovBaby1112 2049521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH was dead set on naming DD after his mother who passed away, so family significance was our top consideration obviously. I liked that it was a unique but easy to pronounce name as well and she wouldn't be 1 out of 6 in her class with the same name. For #2, it's going to be much harder bc we don't have really any more family names, so it's just going to be something we like. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049487 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:13:06 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2049487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the first name- we'll pick a name we really, really like.</p> <p>For the middle name- I'd like to honor someone on my side since our kid(s) will have my husband's last name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049476 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:03:55 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2049476@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We wanted names that would be familiar to our English and Spanish families. We wanted classic names with modern nicknames that didn't have negative meanings. Also, DH has very different taste than I do so we needed to agree. DD2's name took all forty weeks for agreement, </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049470 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:56:47 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 2049470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ladybee: our second daughter's name isn't a saint, but her middle is Mae, which basically derives from Mary... So we're covered. Need a good saintly boy name too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049461 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:49:56 +0000 Greentea 2049461@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't want a super popular name, yet wanted a classic name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049457 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:45:31 +0000 ladybee 2049457@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: very true! Our girl name is Olivia which I've loved for years. Not a saint but close to saint Olive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049441 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:28:50 +0000 twodoghouse 2049441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Their middle names are family names. For the first names, we just needed to find something we agreed on. We wanted names that weren't super popular, but not weird. Easy to spell and pronounce. My husband did not want long names that needed nicknames. I did not want them to be religious/Biblical. And, we had twins so we needed two that sounded alright together but didn't want them to be matchy twin names. We settled on Alice and Blake. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049437 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:25:20 +0000 snowjewelz 2049437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours was meaning, and then we also like the actual name </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049432 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:20:04 +0000 loveisstrange 2049432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly, we just needed to agree! Haha, that was hard enough. Though we did want something classic but not top 20 (although now it's more and more popular every year *sigh*), and a traditional spelling. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-top-consideration-choosing-a-name#post-2049431 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:19:38 +0000 Mamasig 2049431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The most important factor for me is that it sounds good in Spanish and English. I didn't want the name butchered in either language. DS1's name is one that we both liked. DS2 is named after my grandfather. I don't love the full name in English but the nickname sounds fine. </p>