Did someone suggest it? Did you find it on a website, book, an old friend?
For dd my husband suggested a name and I looked up variations and we found one we loved! It's not so easy this time!
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we came up with it when thinking back to a road trip and how to pronounce one of the cities we drove through. At the time we disagreed on the pronunciation and it was a funny joke we had since then. Then we both agreed it was actually a name we liked and went with it!
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We had a boys name picked our before we were pregnant, and for the first half of my pregnancy i swore up and down we were having a boy.
We could not agree on a girls name at all and our style was completely opposite. It was easter sunday and we had gone to ihop after church and all through breakfast we were throwing around girls names and vetoing everything.
We got in the car and Hubs radio has the screen that tells you the artist thats playing and on the radio was a Fiona Apple song. I said "what about Fiona?" Hubs really liked it and it went on our short list for girls. About a month later we found out we were having a girl. About a month after that hubs and I came to an agreement that if we went with Fiona I could have carte blanche with the middle name. It wasnt until about 2 weeks before delivery that we were pretty definite that she would be "Fiona Marie" but i still reserved the right to change my mind in the delivery room.
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dd1: I came up with it years before meeting DH. I was in Target and I heard a dad say "come back here Emerson" and I saw the CUTEST little girl with piggy tails running and laughing from her dad. It stuck with me and I knew as soon as I found out we were having a girl that was what I wanted. It took a little convincing of DH who wasn't sold right away.
DD2: if this name sticks, it was a name I found randomly when searching for DD1. It was very uncommon so DH wasn't sold on it, now Channing Tatum used it after DD1 was born, now it's obviously more popular, but I still love it.
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DS: it came to me in a dream years before I was ever pregnant.
DD: DH picked it.
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With DD it had always been DHs favorite girl name so when he suggested it, I agreed. It was the only girl name we agreed on. This time we are less than 2 weeks from
the due date with DS and have no name. We have more girl
Names just in case lol. Hoping something clicks when we see him
ETA really the only names we seem to agree on liking are family names this time. Which I love but our favs are not the same so we shall see. -
E's is a family name. Evan(s) is D's middle name, his dad's middle name, and was his grandmother's maiden name. Charles is my MIL's maiden name.
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Cashier's name tag at the local grocery store.
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It is a last name in our family.
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Once I found out DHs grandpas original named (he changed it to somethingn else when he moved to Canada) I told DH we should name our first son his grandpas original name. It was like 6 years before we had our son but we always knew that would be the name!
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@yellowbird: similar to you, DH suggested a name and I suggested a variation that we both like better. Not sure where he got his original inspiration!
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DS1: It's DH's paternal grandmother's maiden name. He told me even before we were engaged that he always wanted to name his son this. I instantly fell in love.
DS2: My friend had twins a month after DS1 was born and when she told me one of their names, I also instantly fell in love. It's been really hard to find a name that beats it so we're going with it. And I love that my friend is super excited about it too.
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Both my daughters have Biblical names. D1's middle name is a favourite name of mine that DH vetoed as a first name, and D2's middle name is after DH's aunt.
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We were playing around with sounds that we liked and came up with it, then googled it and it was actually a name! I chose her middle name based upon meaning.
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Heard it on the beach.
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M suggested it and I loved it.
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We had a name picked out before I became pregnant. However, once I was pregnant, I didn't feel it was "right".
So I spent a lot of time on nameberry.com. We came up with a short list and eventually kept coming back to the same name.
My favorite was when it was solidified by my DH. He ordered a latte using the potential name. We loved hearing the barista call it out and seeing it written on the cup.
Actually I think it was solidified by my sisters' reactions. They LOVED it. -
#1- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
#2- the little dating wheel at the OB's office, but we went for a more old fashioned spelling at my husband's request.
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I used to be a substitute; when I was taking roll one day I read the name "Sophia" and the most adorable little girl replied "my name is SoPHIE!" A couple years later when we got pregnant I mentioned to DH how I wonder if names shape personalities...he said maybe in some way. I then joked that I want our daughter to be as adorable and confidant as that little girl. I told him the name and he said he liked it too. It sat on the back burner and when we went through a thousand other names, it was the only one we kept coming back to.
With DS, it's a family name. He's the fourth and one day I'll make my daughter in law so mad when I insist she use the name too
haha
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We made a list of names we both liked before I got pregnant. My husband suggested the name we used and we both loved it.
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I've always loved the name since I saw the movie Ghost several years ago. It kinda just stuck with me and when I suggested it to DH he loved it as well!
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@Chillybear: I love Fiona so much!
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If we have a boy we have a very unusual family name we agree on. If it's a girl it will be a bit trickier because our taste is quite different - DW likes classic names (Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret) and I like more unusual names (Sydney, Felicity, Isla). We shall see. Only ttc now so we have time!!
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@wrkbrk: Thanks! we got a lot of very positive feedback from friends and family.... My one uncle even thought it sounded italian
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DS1 -
1st name: Desmond -from "Lost", DH and I binge watched the series together when we first started dating and just liked it
middle name: Elliott - from musician Elliott Smith, DS would always move around my belly when he heard the music, so it stuckDS2 -
1st name: Gideon - heard the name on Criminal Minds and liked it, as well as how it sounded with Desmond. Both masculine, non unisex names. DS1 liked to say it too, which helped (and is so cute!)
middle name: Everett - wanted to stick with "E" middle initials (my middle initial is E) and just liked it. It was in the initial running for first names -
I found it on a website somewhere, I think. It may actually have been in a HB list
I really liked it, but I didn't think DH would go for it. Turns out that we both really loved it, so that was our girl's choice. We were 
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DD1's name I like from childhood reading A Little Princess. It came up during a search on name berry.com.
DD2's name is a name recommended on nameberry..."people that liked DD1's name also liked these names.."
They are both names from the Aeneid. -
R's first name came from Game of Thrones and middle was from Doctor Who and Firefly. Current LO's tentative name- first is from Sword of Truth series, middle is from Battlestar Galactica, and nickname is from Harry Potter. But of a nerd.
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Ha. DD's name came from the name of a sweater in an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog that I saw when I was in 7th grade. I wrote it on a post it note and it stuck with me since then, plus DH loved it.
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My daughter's name is Persephone, Effie for short. We were attracted to Greek mythology for names because my partner is a playwriting and a former theater historian with a focus on Greek and Roman lit.
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He's named after my husband's late father! We took his full name, and flipped the middle and first names. It works too because his name (William) is also my husband's, his brother's, and his uncle's middle name, as well as the name of a late great-uncle. Whew!
That being said, our next kid (not pregnant, just planning) will be named after my side, boy or girl. We've got those names picked out too - if he's a boy, his first will be my grandfather's name and my mother's maiden name as a middle; if it's a girl, she'll be my mother's middle name in a longer form, with my name as middle.
We decided after Will was born to go strictly with family names. It works for me because I LURVE baby name books/sites and I would STILL be choosing my LO's name if we hadn't gone with that as a rule. Ha!
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I liked our lo's name for such a long time that I don't even remember the source. It's a Biblical name, but not of a popular character.
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@oliviaoblivia: that was my favorite book as a kid! I never made the connection with your DD's name though.
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Dd1, dh suggested a variation of the name but i thought it maybe had too many syllables. I found a shorter version and i loved it. Its very uncommon but has a very common, shorter variation.
Dd2, i knew a girl through my job with the name and it is not terribly common for someone our age. We had it on our short list for dd1 too. Our list of girl names didn't change at all between dd1 and dd2.
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We've always loved H names and LO1's name first came to us from a Texas country musician that we loved in college. But, I also liked it because it's the last name of a former president and happens to be the maiden name of one of our best friends/LOs godmother.
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We used nameberry and entered a list of the names we liked along with DD1's name and up popped the name we eventually used. It was not something that I had thought about before I saw it on there. DD1 was named after my grandfather and was also the name of a musician we both love.
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@msplatypus: great name and great reasoning!
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#1 Family names, but we loved the era and the symbolism. Easiest name to pick.
#2 I think we first found it on nameberry, but I found a British singer with the name and she was so dear that it sealed the deal.
#3 was a grinding ordeal through every baby naming site focusing primarily on baby name wizard, nameberry and nymbler. We went away from the name and came back to it 1,000 times. We didn't have middle names until a couple days after birth. I was exhausted by names when we were done. The pressure was on and boy names are hard!
and both really excited that we got to use her name Reply
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