We found out yesterday the LO2 is a boy! We are thrilled that we will have 1 of each, but now comes the hard part... his name! We had the perfect name chosen for a girl, but we just can't seem to agree on many boy names 
Anybody else deal with this? Any suggestions?-- either name suggestions OR strategies for getting past this!
kiwi / 557 posts
We have been having the hardest time finding the right girl name so I'm not any help but I wanted to say congratulations on your boy! 
Our real strategy with names was to go through the top 500 baby names on the SSA website and make a list from there. Since girl names are harder for us it only resulted in a possible 15-20 so at least it was a starting pointing.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
Boy names came easier to us, but we started like 50 down on SSN and just went through them all 50-500 made a list and compared.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
Boy names came easier to us, but we started like 50 down on SSN and just went through them all 50-500 made a list and compared.
Note: we have 2 girls...this was our strategy for a girl hahaha.
honeydew / 7235 posts
Yeah. We had a really hard time with both boys!! Especially the second!!! Good luck and congrats
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
Congrats on the
We're just the opposite. A girl name has stumped us!
Asher, Landon, Alexander, Wesley, and Caleb
ETA: watch TV, DH came up with August (our pick) after watching Girl Meets World. The adorable kid brother is August/ Augie.
apricot / 394 posts
I'm in the same boat as you. Expecting #2 and it's a boy. We had the cutest girls names picked out but are really struggling with a BOY!!!
nectarine / 2115 posts
@Worrywart: glad I'm not alone!
Thanks for all the suggestions! I'll check out the SSN!
@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I love those names! DH has already vetoed most of them 
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
Congrats!
I feel you. We never ever came up with a boy name, thankfully LO is a girl. I don't know what we will do if future #2 is a boy, haha!
grapefruit / 4712 posts
Boy names were easier for us to narrow down. If/when we have a girl I think it is going to be harder.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
Some the boys on our lists were:
Kellen, Nolan, Grant, Foster, Tucker, Holden, Lane, Brody, Brady, and Levi.
apricot / 287 posts
We had a much easier time with boy names. We'd watch the credits from movies and talk about names that we liked from those. Some of the names I like now are Colton, James, Wyatt, Luke, and Henry.
Nameberry is a good website to look at too - you can search a name you like and see similar names or search by themes.
pomelo / 5084 posts
We are going with Cooper but loved:
Liam
Duncan
August nn Gus
Theordore nn Teddy
Good luck!
kiwi / 549 posts
lol my husband and I are having the exact same problems with girl names
apricot / 315 posts
We found boy names hard too, and decided only on the way to the hospital! I made a shortlist by looking at websites of names and then we did a process of elimination.
honeydew / 7909 posts
Boy names are sooooooo hard. We were team green and finally decided on a name a couple weeks before my due date.
We decided on Jude Nicholas but ended up having a girl!
persimmon / 1345 posts
Totally agree! Just found out LO2 is a boy and I'm drawing a blank for big names. Had the cutest picked out for a girl!
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
@mrsrain: What's your DD's name (or name style?). I know Baby Wizard will make sibling name suggestions when you search for a name (so search for your DD's name and it will give sibling name suggestions). Also check out the Baby Name Explorer at Baby Center. I used Olivia here, but if you click on Suggested Names you can see Suggested Names, Sibling Names and Similar Sounding Names. It might be a good place to start!
My personal favorite boy names:
Evan (biased, it's my son's name 
)
Maxwell James (would have been a second boy name)
Theodore Felix
Leo Henry
nectarine / 2115 posts
@lovehoneybee: her name is Madeleine Joyce. If this one had been a girl the name would have been Eleanor Austen. Style-wise I like classic names, but I feel like there are fewer classic male names that aren't completely overused (i.e. William, Jacob, etc).
I did suggest (for like the 29th time since getting pregnant) August, and THIS time he said it could go on our list! So maybe repetition is the key to getting him behind some of my (less classic) favs
nectarine / 2115 posts
@LuLu Mom: @clover: took your advice and look through the top 1000 names... First of all, I'm amazed at the popularity of some weird names! Unfortunately, nothing new popped out at me. The big issue is that we just like different names. We have a list going, so I guess we will have to agree eventually!
pomegranate / 3779 posts
@mrsrain: repetition was definitely the key for me. DH vetoed my girl name initially, but he came around.
With LO1, we had a easy time with girl names and a hard time with boys. Thankfully LO1 was a girl. This time we are Team Green and DH actually liked the names I suggested for a boy last time (which he rejected at the time), but we are having a really hard time with a girl name that we both like.
One boy name that I love, but won't use is Micah.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
@mrsrain: another idea is go back decades and look through their names, you might find some older ones that were popular then that would work!
cherry / 157 posts
I'm really liking Isaac right now. Good luck! We didn't fully decide on a name for DS until after he was born
pomegranate / 3533 posts
I like the Baby Name Wizard website and book! And just good old-fashioned brainstorming sessions!
persimmon / 1313 posts
Boy names are hard (we had no boy names) but since meeting lots of boys with creative mommas I love the names Nolan and Lysander.
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
we had an awesome boy name and have two girls. sad panda. no more kids for us, either!
we used my husbands middle and another strong name that we liked.
cantaloupe / 6634 posts
We have had a girl name picked out for a while so when we found out LO was a boy, we visited so many websites used nymbler etc and we actually both suggested DS's name at the same time and that was it!
apricot / 428 posts
@mrsrain: this was me when we found out. i liked different but refraining from naming my kid after a fruit or something. dh was really into classic and ds had dad's ffirst name as his middle. I hated trendy names for boys! i was obsessed with Glenn, Julian, Harrison, Reid or Wilder but we went with dad's number one pick: Nathanael.
pomegranate / 3716 posts
Boys names were SO hard! DH and I each wrote out a list of 5 - 10 boys names that we each liked. Then every week we would refer to the baby (in my stomach) as one of the names, and switch on a weekly basis. Just to "try out" the name. So one week he was Ethan, next week was Jackson, the following week was Charlie, and so on. It was really helpful to see how the names rolled off our tongues and if it felt "natural" to us!
grapefruit / 4455 posts
@mrsrain: we were in the same position. Ended up choosing a name not even on our list at the hospital the day after he was born..and it's perfect for him! No advice but it will work out!
nectarine / 2115 posts
Thanks for all the support! I like the suggestion by @Meridian: to use one name a week (or maybe a day) and see how they feel in practice!
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