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[poohbaby.livejournal.com]

For all of you who already have kids, how did you come up with the names for your kid(s)? Were they just names you liked, or did you name your kids after someone?

For those of you without kids, when you do have kids, how much influence will you let your significant other have over deciding the name? Will it be a joint decision or will you push the name you like best?? Would you ever use a name that your SO hated?

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[lolzabeth.livejournal.com]

I knew I wanted William and Alexandar as middle names after my grandad and great grandad and luckily hubby liked them.
I read through the baby book and wrote down all the names I liked for a first name then hubby crossed off the ones he didn't like and all that was left was Theo and Leo. Hubby's cousin had just named her son Leo so ours is now Theo William Alexandar.

I would never use a name that my SO absolutely hated. If I really liked a name he didn't I'd ask to use it as a middle name if he picked the other then chose a first name between us. We'd do the same thing again if we have another kid but It'd be his turn to read through the book and me going behind crossing them out :P

[amai-amaya.livejournal.com]

I don't have kids, but most of the names I plan to use are names of characters in a book or something like that which I really started to like and which have a meaning to me.
They're not totally odd names, though.

My SO has the same right as I do when it comes to naming the kids. I wouldn't use a name that he doesn't like.
If I really really liked a name and he didn't I would probably try to convince him to use it as a middle name :>

[lneef.livejournal.com]

Of course I let my husband have a say. He has as much say as I do. Because he had a say, I had to let go of the name I was SURE was supposed to be hers because he wasn't feeling it.

We debated for months and months. No problem with boys' names, but turned out we were having a girl. We finally went through the SS top 1000 names of the decade and each crossed off what we didn't like, and listed the ones we both liked.

There were 14. We went into the hospital with those 14. After she was born, we cut it to 7 based on "She doesn't look like a..."

We debated all night that night. I was still stuck on the one name, he liked another. At some point we brought one back into play we'd dismissed earlier- Juliet (Juliana was on the list of 14, but I liked Juliet better and he said it was okay as a middle). Then early the next morning we started flipping through the phone book, and Catherine came back into play (he'd rejected it earlier as too common in his family- but suddenly decided it was okay as long as it was Catherine with a C).

We were still wavering, and then my mom called and started yelling at me that it was bad luck to have a baby unnamed so we just looked at each other, nodded, and told Mom her name was Catherine Juliet.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity, what was the name that was supposed to be hers?
I love Juliet, though I know far too many Catherines/Katherines/Katies to much of a fan. It was immensely popular for my age group.

[lneef.livejournal.com]

Miranda. Mira for short.

[easter.livejournal.com]

You totally win at baby names. I loved everything you had picked out.

[mcleitner.livejournal.com]

Hm...I would, of course, tell him my suggestions. I don't particularly hate any name. I just would choose something that suited best. If he came up with something I didn't like, I would try to use part of the name or just keep guessing until we find the right one. D:

[jordle.livejournal.com]

This is a hard one for me because I have had my names picked out for years and when I think about my kids I imagine them with those names, so it is hard for me to think of my SO telling me he didn't like those names. I don't think I could accept other names. It's selfish, I know, but I can't see me being able to compromise.

[ashamilee.livejournal.com]

With my first we each made a list we liked, and then swapped. We both came up with Paige, and that was pretty much the only one that was the same. She was given the middle name Elizabeth by my brother in laws ex. We couldn't think of anything, and we're about to give up on Paige all together, but she suggested Elizabeth and it worked.

With this one, I made a list and he starred the ones he liked. Once we came to Leila we started thinking of middle names. We were lying in bed one night throwing silly names out, and I said "Margene", as we were watching "Big Love" and she is one of the characters on there, and it fit. Turns out it was MIL's middle name as well. We're not going to use because of some recent deplorable actions, but that was what we were going to name her up to like a week ago.

[isoldereverie.livejournal.com]

lol My husband laughes at me whenever it comes to naming anything! I take days to name goldfish-it took the entire pregnancy to name each of our girls. For both, I created a list of names I liked and my husband vetoed the ones he didn't care for. Then we went back and forth over the rest. I thought I had created my oldest daughter's middle name, but I later found out (when she was 18 months old) that her middle name is the Australian Aboriginal word for "clouds."

Naming our second daughter was much more difficult. We considered using family names, but didn't fall in love with a name from either side. The names I really really liked, he hated. I kept hoping he'd come around, but he didn't. So, no, I would never use a name he hated. He suggested a few names, but our method both times started with me making a list of names that he could choose from.

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

Not married or planning on kids in the near future but I'd definitely let my spouse have a say, after all they have just as much a part in making the baby as i do, even if I'm the one to push it out. The only name I absolutely would not budge on would be Victoria Maree. I MUST name a daughter that it's just... written in the stars. But for every other name, I'd be willing to change it/compromise depending in why my husband disliked it.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I don't have kids yet.
I don't think it's a matter of me "letting" my fiance have influence over deciding names. The kids we have will be our kids and both of us will have to come to an agreement about a name that both of us like.
Which is hard in some cases (we have different taste in girl's names) and easy in others but that's the way it goes.
I don't know that I could ever use a name my fiance hated unless I conked him on the head and knocked him out before I signed the birth certificate.

[ladydiddymus.livejournal.com]

I definitely wouldn't agree to a name -- first or middle -- that I really didn't like, and I wouldn't really expect my SO to either, disappointing as that may sometimes be :)