Hellobee Boards Topic: Where will you get your child's name?

Hellobee Boards Topic: Where will you get your child's name? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 22 May 2026 08:43:23 +0000 PBandBaseball on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-3017 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:35:01 +0000 PBandBaseball 3017@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I really like more traditional names. If we were to have a boy we like "James" for the middle name which is my FIL's name. We'd do "Ann" for the girl's middle name. It was my grandmother's middle name and mine before I moved my maiden name to my middle. MegWag on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-3014 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:23:36 +0000 MegWag 3014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My husband is Jewish and there is a tradition of naming a baby for a deceased loved one. You don't give the baby the loved one's actual name, but generally a name that starts with the same letter. i.e. Hubs mom's name was Lorrayne. If we have a girl, she will be named Lauren. I think it's nice that you can have a tribute, but with a little flexibility. TheFixIts on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-2724 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:19:09 +0000 TheFixIts 2724@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We'll use versions of family names. For example, husband's grandma is "Louise" and I like "Eloise" for a middle name. I'd like them all to be connected to some sort of meaning! bykes187 on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-2722 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:10:27 +0000 bykes187 2722@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Our daughter has a name that's Biblical (in a sense.. look up Mark 5:41), and after she was born we discovered that it was also a family name. Her middle name is a combination of her grandma's middle names. My husband wants our boys to have two middle names and have their initials spell a word that we can use as a nickname, like J.E.B. Stuart. This makes it REALLY hard to pick. I also want to try to honor all the grandparents one way or another through names, so while I want a boy next I'm kind of afraid for it! Our frontrunner boy name is actually another combination media/family name... think iconic Schwarzenegger role and a red-haired talk show host. :) bakingAbug on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-2718 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:57:44 +0000 bakingAbug 2718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We don't know for sure what we are naming Bug yet but my Aunt and cousin kept dreaming of our baby (several years ago) and they jokingly called him Adam since he was going to be the first born grandchild. We are nerds so we took it and ran - I love Chemistry and he loves physics so we were going to name our Bug Atom. I thought that was awesome for a but but realized he might face difficulties later in life so now we are back to Adam. We don't have any relatives with the name and it's got this cool and calm sophistication to it. alongfarview on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1680 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:57:57 +0000 alongfarview 1680@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I love the idea of having a family connection to a name (my siblings and I all have a family connection to either our first or middle name), so I'd like to keep that going. We also both like fairly traditional names (though I prefer that they not be very popular. I loved having a name that people had heard of, but I was the only kid in my class with that name). The only problem right now is that my favorite name for a girl (it would be what we'd call her, a shortened version of her first name) is also the name of my sister-in-law's dog. I don't mind (I've met many a dog with my name), but I think my husband feels a bit weird about it (since he lived with his sister when she got the dog). So... we'll see how that one goes once we're actually faced with the decision! geekinheels on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1674 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:35:48 +0000 geekinheels 1674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I'm not TOO picky about names, but I do tend to gravitate toward more traditional ones. My husband's only rule was that he can't know anyone in real life with the name. The only problem with this is that he's a very social, outgoing person, so practically every name I liked was out! Surprisingly, my husband did not know anyone named Claire, and since I have always liked that name, we decided on it long before she was even born. We're still keeping BebeDeux's name a secret, but it was the same deal with her. I guess on one hand, it was a good thing that BebeDeux didn't turn out to be a boy, because we still haven't chosen a boy's name. Mrs McK on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1588 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:05:41 +0000 Mrs McK 1588@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We have two girl's names picked out already. One is a combination of my husband's grandmother's and great aunt's names. The second is a name (which we both love) from one of our favorite songs. As for boy's names, we're still up in the air. We kind of just went down the boys names lists until we found one that we both really liked that aren't too common. The middle name will be DH's middle name, which was his dad's middle name, which was his grandmother's maiden name (got that?) tejbee on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1580 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:51:32 +0000 tejbee 1580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ No little ones for us yet, but we've got a head start on the names. If a boy, DH wants him to have the same initials as him. This means we need a first name that begins with a "J" and a middle name that begins with a "D". We decided on Daniel as the middle name since that is a family name on DH's side. The first name is one we haven't quite come to an agreement on yet, but DH might disagree, as he has a name that he is set on. lol The only reason I'm not fully on board with it is because I have a family member with the same name whom with I have a weird connection. So I'm not sure how I feel about using it yet. If a girl, we have a name already picked out. The first name is one that I heard years ago in an old tv series. I liked it, but didn't know how DH would feel about it until I mentioned it to him and he grabbed a hold to it as "THE" name for our little girl. The middle name is a shortened version of a bible name that is also a shortened version of my best friend's/cousin's name. Otherwise, I am constantly on the lookout for names that I like and write them down every time I come across a new one I like. It could be from a book/movie/tv show/news article/anything really. Adira on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1572 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:10:52 +0000 Adira 1572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I've actually had a name picked out (for a girl) since I was a teenager. It is a fairly normal name, but it came from two women (with the same name) that I looked up to and found inspiring. Unfortunately... I no longer feel like I can use the name as it's the same name as one of my husband's first cousins. Oh well! Mrs. Maple Leaf on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1548 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:29:39 +0000 Mrs. Maple Leaf 1548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ All we have agreed upon so far is that we definitely want traditional (nothing made up) Irish names to keep with out heritage and go with our lastname too. We also have agreed our first daughter's middle name will be after my grandmother who I was extremely close to until she recently passed away. misono on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1208 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:21:45 +0000 misono 1208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We named our daughter Mio (美桜) — a Japanese name written with the Chinese characters, “beauty” and “cherry blossom,” translating to “beauty of the cherry blossom(s)”. She was born in early April, when cherry blossoms are in full bloom, so we thought it was appropriate. It's easy to spell, and is pronounced mee-oh, which I feel is pretty easy to say, compared to a lot of other Japanese names. Coastinganon on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1056 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:01:38 +0000 Coastinganon 1056@https://boards.hellobee.com/ for our son, we just liked the name (first name)...his middle name is my great grandmother's maiden name. for our soon to be daughter, there is a naming tradition in my family that predetermines her first name...her middle name will be my husband's grandmother's name and that's the name she'll go by Laneybugsmommy on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1052 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:58:22 +0000 Laneybugsmommy 1052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My daughter's name is Libby-Jane. Libby is my husband's grandmother and Jane is my grandmother. When we're not feeling like calling her by her full name we call her Laney which combines both names. BSB on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1051 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:58:38 +0000 BSB 1051@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @MrBee: Ugh! That husband of mine keeping info from me! I'm pretty sure he knew that connection but just didn't tell me because he didn't like the name. Thanks, MrBee! Iiamsn01 on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1048 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:14:11 +0000 Iiamsn01 1048@https://boards.hellobee.com/ There was a little girl I knew named Saera (she was korean) I fell in love with it and since I have Korean in my background it was a great way to honor that as well. mrbee on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1042 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:24:16 +0000 mrbee 1042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Lara is also a Super name... it's the name of Superman's birth mother! <a href="http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Lara" rel="nofollow">http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Lara</a> BSB on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-1041 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:03:03 +0000 BSB 1041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Not TTC yet but very soon. :) We have names picked out. At this point it is really any name that both me and the husband likes. Which is not many. There is one name that is named after a character in Superman. Husband is a big comic book geek. I liked the name Lara but husband doesn't. He likes the name Lana... like Lana Lang from superman. I actually like that name, too. So that's one name, we will probably pick out one more. Picking out girl's names are harder than boys for us. We have two boy names already. I think the hardest part is finding something... anything that we both can agree on. Mrs. Sunglasses on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-901 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:42:24 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Mavrick (we took out the E (Maverick) to avoid miss pronunciation in french) comes from the classic Top Gun Movie. Obviously. Though my parent (clearly much older) feel as though we named our son after the Ford Maverick car which was a horrible LEMON !! haha ... crazy how generations think differently. mediagirl on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-873 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:48:01 +0000 mediagirl 873@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yeah, like a few others, we aren't pregnant yet. We have a bunch of girl names we love but haven't talked about boy names. Thus the wanting a girl to make it easy. :) I think we'll end up using my middle name that I dropped for my Maiden name. Other than that, it will probably be a classic sounding name with a classic spelling. We're not interested in trying to be different, other than naming our child a name that is not in the top 100 names. tequiero21 on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-834 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:42:54 +0000 tequiero21 834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ we're not there yet, probably won't start looking for names until we know the sex of the babies. but i think my hubs is more traditional (like david, michael traditional) and i don't mind biblical but nothing so common as david or michael. i'm more of a silas, micah biblical but he already nixed those. meaganceleste on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-823 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:06:21 +0000 meaganceleste 823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Not even close to pregnant yet, but we've had names picked out for quite awhile. My husband is a II, so we're sort of stuck with Derrick Patrick, III if we have a boy (not so excited about that), but we'll be calling our future baby boy Tripp. Our girl pick is Heidi Lois. Heidi has ALWAYS been my favorite girl name pick and Lois is my husband's grandmother's name. He's the only child of his grandmother's only child, so we want to pass along a bit of his family. twodoghouse on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-816 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:35:03 +0000 twodoghouse 816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ This is all in the hypothetical stage right now because we're not pregnant, but we do talk about names a lot. The girl name we love is just a first name that we like (Kara) and the middle name would be my mom's maiden name (Sommer). We have no idea for a boy, but probably David for a middle because that's my father-in-law's name. Parental Unit on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-693 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:17:25 +0000 Parental Unit 693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My sons name is Keyan. It was a cross between seeing a similar name and making up a name. I just put a twist on an old name I came across. I love names that are a little different but still easy to sound out (if that makes sense). If our next baby is a girl we have a few names I just love, Kennedy/ MaKenna/ Hartley... all 3 are from baby books. MaisyMay on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-690 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:12:13 +0000 MaisyMay 690@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We already have names picked out, and they tend to be names of family members combined with names that we like. I'm really big into the meaning of names and so the research has been fun. Also, since we're both twins, we tend to try to find names that sound good in pairs. Right now our top boy choices are Michael Scott and Timothy James. For girls we have Jessica Grace and Amelia Marie. StephBWill on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-646 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:59:27 +0000 StephBWill 646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We're Team Green due in Feb. If its a boy, he'll be named after my husband, Richard Carter, III and go by Carter. If its a girl she'll be named after my parents middle names - Jane & Lee, combined into Janely. We're torn on a girl middle name and probably won't decide until we deliver. But the contenders are Ruth after my grandma and my husband's mom and sister's middle names and Lucille, just a name we like :) Jenna on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-643 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:24:23 +0000 Jenna 643@https://boards.hellobee.com/ All of our top name choices are just names that we've seen and liked. Although my current top middle name for a girl is Lyanna, and I got that from "A Song of Ice and Fire" series (Game of Thrones) Laneybugsmommy on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-631 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:51:42 +0000 Laneybugsmommy 631@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My daughter's name (Libby-Jane) is my husband's favorite grandma's name combined with my closest grandma's name. Rock n Roll on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-622 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:12:08 +0000 Rock n Roll 622@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I have two different inspirations- my daughter's first name was one I'd always liked and is from a popular children's book series. It's also very close to my husband's favorite band's name, so he was happy with it. Her middle name is my sister's first name. For our next child, my husband gets naming rights, and I get veto power. I named our daughter and both our cats so he says it's his turn! But if it's a girl, her middle name will be my other sister's first name. LazyLightning on "Where will you get your child's name?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/where-will-you-get-your-childs-name#post-591 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:50:24 +0000 LazyLightning 591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Mr. N and I each have a very informal (since we're not yet TTC) list of names we like. Most of these, we've stumbled across in movies or books, and a few are the name of--or similar name to--a family member's name. Just wondering where your kids' name will come from. Family name? Media-inspired? Just a name you like? Or made up totally?