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[scouty.livejournal.com]

my boyfriend and I talked about our future kids yesterday and I showed him my "fave-names-list"
as I knew before he wasnt so enthusiastic about my names ^^
immediately he started to make an own list

my fave names :
caleb
evan
damian
ryan
joel - his daughters name is jule..so joel is off my list

delilah
dakota
madison
ava

his fave names :
paul roy

nina
saskia
svenja
lili

my son´s name will not be paul roy..no..never...

we both like summer and ella...but I guess these are not the perfect names for my babygirl to-be ^^
I suggested to name our daughter delilah so he could give her the nickname lili....we´ll see :P

:) WDYT ?

I would like to hear your "babyname" stories....
how did you find your babyname...
how did you decide ?
was it easy or not ?

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[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

lily/lilah are sweet nicknames for delilah :)
[i prefer lily to lili]

[the-good-ship.livejournal.com]

Like: Ryan, Delilah and Saskia.

[poohbaby.livejournal.com]

I would like to hear your "babyname" stories....
how did you find your babyname...
how did you decide ?
was it easy or not ?

My name is Christian (i go by Christy) but I always adored the name "Tristan" (kinda after me but not so close that it was the same as my name) luckily, my husband loved the name too and so our first son is Tristan Alexander. It was easy, we chose alexander because it just went well with Tristan.

With my first daughter, during my entire pregnancy she was to be "Sierra Alyssa" which was a name my husband and I fought over for the first few months...he wanted Breanna Nichole. Anyway, as soon as she was born, I looked at her and immediately said "Skylar Nichole" and he agreed to it. The name skylar totally fits her personality! And the "Nichole" part is after my husband "Nicholas"

And now I'm pregnant with another girl...due in 4 weeks and her name will be Haley Meredith. We wanted the initials HM as they are my father's initials...so we chose two "H" names (Haley & Hannah) and let my other kids pick between the two, obviously they chose Haley. And the Meredith is after my grandmother, whose middle name is Edith but our last name is Eddy so that wouldn't work! lol

[salenite222.livejournal.com]

My fiance and I just went through TONS of names for about the last 4 months we were pregnant. We knew we were having a boy and at the time we had heard Aiden for the first time (I know it's too 'trendy now) but then it wasn't popular (at least around us) and since it means "firey one" and I'm very Irish I liked that. I came up with Kail because I was looking at names and yelling them out like I was angry AIDEN KAIL!! You know when you have to use the middle name? yeah that one sounded right so that's what we named him. He came out with RED RED hair too so Firey one (aiden) was a good match I think. He is a quarter chinese (yes with red hair) and my fiance's mom is from Taiwan and gave him his Chinese name (i'm not sure about the spelling) but it's Shou who (I just spelled it like we say it) it means 'Little Tiger' I think they all fit together well. And it's nice having my son becoming Bi-lingual.

(Wow this is a long comment) The way I got my name is a little more interesting I think. My mom was told throughout her pregnancy that I would be a boy. My name was supposed to be Shane Alan (i'm glad it's not)so when I came out without the jewels she had no idea what to name me. My mom and Grandmom were thinking of names while watching The Wheel of Fortune and saw a woman named Haighlee or however you spell it and my mom liked it. My dad's name is Terry Rae so she took the T and I became Taylee Rae. :)

[fireyirishangel.livejournal.com]

Back when my fiance and I were just dating/living together, we looked at baby names and "argued" over them, making lists and lists of what we hated, what we could kinda agree on and what we both loved. The last list was incredibly short.

By the time I got pregnant, we'd both changed our minds about what we liked and ended up with an even shorter "agreement" list. It was horrible. His favorite girls' names are Persephone and Artemis, mine are Emma and Abigail -- we hated each other's choices.

We did both like the name Anneliesse, but had a horrendous time trying to find a middle name that we liked with it. I loved Belle as a middle name, but we didn't like the ending sounds together, so we changed the first name to Anneliessa to go with Belle. And that was that.

Until my family and friends started worming their way into my brain. A number of people pointed out that the name isn't pronounced as it's spelled, it's too long, she'd spend her life correcting people on the pronunciation, etc. In a move that angered my fiance, I decided that they were right and came home one night to tell him that I wanted to change the name. He was furious I'd let others influence me so much and we dropped the topic altogether for a few days.

In the meantime, lneef was talking baby names in her own LJ and mentioned that she loved the name Mira, and wanted to name her unborn daughter Miranda so that she could call her Mira. I'd never given the name Miranda any thought before, but at that moment, it struck me. I mentioned it to my fiance and he liked it as well. lneef wasn't going to use the name and I asked if she minded my using it (of course she didn't), so we then set on a quest to find a middle name we liked. He didn't want to use Belle because he felt that belonged with Anneliessa.

I was about 32 weeks pregnant and started having some complications, and ended up making numerous trips to Labor & Delivery. During one of those trips I was admitted by a woman who asked me about baby names and told me that she had a beautiful granddaughter named Paige Elizabeth. I went home and mentioned Paige to my fiance, we both liked it, and our daughter became Miranda Paige. We call her Mia for short, as Mia is a nickname I've loved for years (though I'd imagined using it for Amelia, a name he was adamantly against).

We had a boy's name in mind that took us just as long to come around to. He like Lucian, which I'm okay with, but don't love. I like Noah, and he always says "ark" and won't agree to it. I saw Ronan somewhere and we both liked it, but couldn't agree on a middle name. We were in a bookstore one day and I was flipping through a baby name book and saw the name Alexander, and said Ronan Alexander out loud. We both said "I like it!" at the same time, and as such, the boy's name was set. Alexander has a bonus of being the middle name of my paternal grandfather, a man I never met. I like that it's a family name, but do wish I had more ties with the person to whom it belonged. For that reason, I'm considering alternative boys' names, trying to use family names with them.

Wow. That was long. Sorry for the book!

[coolteamblt.livejournal.com]

I like Caleb and Delilah. I think Dakota and Madison are a bit trendy, but not bad.

I really don't like any of his names, especially Lily spelt Lili. Lily, I like, though. Paul Roy is atrocious.

As I have no kids, I don't really have baby name stories, except my own. My mother had been trying to get pregnant for five years before she conceived me. As first time parents, they would refer to me by name. I was Anna Elizabeth, Anna Allyn (my dad's middle name is Alan), Gretchen Elizabeth, and Anna Katherine at various points of the pregnancy. I was Anna Elizabeth for several months, and they thought they had settled on it. Then, four days before I was born, my father started talking about Katherine Elizabeth. My mother said, "I thought she was Anna Elizabeth?" and my dad said, "She was until she was Katherine Elizabeth." And that was that. Apparently I'm named after my paternal great-grandmother Kathleen, and my maternal great-aunt Jewel Elizabeth.

My sister was always Amelia Margaret. My dad wanted to name her Anna Margaret, but my mother told him he had his chance for an Anna with me. She's named after my other paternal great-grandmother Lois Amelia, and my maternal grandmother Margaret Isabella.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

lol. paul roy. what a typical guy.