For those of you with children...

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

How did you decide on your kid's/kids' name(s)? Family name? Did you argue with your significant other about it?

Just wondering!

Comments

[kristinluffsyou.livejournal.com]

Well i, for one, just threw scabble pieces against the wall and went with that!

My kids names are Bo'kqishka and LaFawnda :)



jk i don't have any kids i just wanted to say that :P

[cherrysorbet.livejournal.com]

Gosh, that must be how they actually do it. You've solved the puzzle!

Nah

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

Knew you were lying 'cause there's no apostrophe in Scrabble. :P

[amspeck-myworld.livejournal.com]

It's a long and strange process in this house...

My family has a naming tradition of giving two middle names, one hebrew and one honouring, which I have continued with my children.

Usually we agree on the honouring name first: for our son, it was my husband's family tradition for the first boy to have the honouring name Lovel (which I have grown to love as a name), for our daughter, we agreed to name the baby after my late grandmother Betty Lou (her honouring name is Louisa), and (God willing), the next child will be named after my husband's grandfather who passed away last year - so David for a boy or Davidyah for a girl. We have a list of other people we would like to be able to honour, but picking which is usually the first part of the process.

Then we try to agree on first names - or at least a list of names to choose from after we meet the newest addition. So far, my husband has won out on this as he picked Owen and Alexandra when they weren't on my name list. Now we have have pretty much agreed to a top three for either gender (though third place is a bit more fluid, particularly for boys names).

Then I typically pair a hebrew name to go in the middle. For my daughter, it was a namesake that goes with the first name (Alexandra Salome is after Queen Salome Alexandra) while my son's just seemed to fit. Our top three name list has paired a hebrew name or two with each of our choices.

And that's how we came to Owen Amidor Lovel and Alexandra Salome Louisa, and the names on our lists.

Very little fighting, but it does seem a complicated process when it is written out like this :)

[ladymela99.livejournal.com]

Salome is a beautiful name..I really like it. :)

[ladymela99.livejournal.com]

My parents named me after a literary character (Melanie-GWTW) they picked her because (according to my dad) she exhibited characteristics they wanted thier daughter to have. My middle name (Suzanne) was a variation of my mom's best friend Susan.

For me, my daughter is named Lily Kathleen. I kept the tradition of my parents and named after Lily Evans Potter (HP) and my best friend whose name is Kathleen.
I think I'm going to try and keep this tradition with any additional children I have (First name (book), Middle name--friend)but in all honesty if a name strikes me I may just use that instead of sticking to strick naming patterns.

[lickystyx.livejournal.com]

With my first son I was alone. There wasn't anyone to argue over a name with, so I gave him the name I liked the best, which was the very first one that came to mind when I found out I was expecting even though I had thought of a few others as standbys. With my next son, I collected names like pennies for a rainy day. lol. I had a notebook filled with them, and I would read them aloud to see how they sounded paired up in combinations and how they fit with my first son's name. When I found ten of them I liked most, I'd read them to my SO and he picked the ones he liked from the list of the ones I'd liked most. We chose two first and middle name combos for each gender that we liked and when he was born, picked the one that seemed to fit him best. We did the same for our daughter that came along next, only we couldn't seem to agree on names very much. We went through many lists of what I liked before he picked any that he liked. lol. When she came along, it was easy to see which name should be hers from our short list. With our second daughter, we never did agree on a name. We went 'round and 'round, but never really said, "This one's it for sure." In the end, I named her with a combination of names that I had not previously thought of. It just came to me as we were thinking about what to name her and throwing out a few random names to each other. Now, when it comes to naming pets... I have the last word! lol. I figure since I'm the one that's going to end up taking care of said pet despite outcrys of "I promise I'll take really good care of it Mom!" that I should at least get to decide what I'll be pairing with choice swears as I take care of it anyway. lol.

[xpaniic.livejournal.com]

My family really doesn't have any traditions. My parents didn't have a name picked out when I was born so they bought a baby name book from the gift shop that had baby names scrambled all over it in different sizes of font - well, they picked the name in the biggest font and gave it to me (Jennifer).

[kittyvegas.livejournal.com]

My little boy's name is a family name. I picked it out long before Mr. Vegas came along. Good thing he liked it. We argued a lot over girls names. Luckily we found out early it was boy so we didn't have to argue long.

[murderprotocol.livejournal.com]

I don't have any kids, but on my father's side of the family, they have a tradition of giving the parent's first name to their first child as a middle name. So, my grandparents names are Wayne and Evelyn, so my dad's name is Anthony Wayne, and my aunt's is Denyse Evelyn.

My mother had a lot of trouble coming up with a name for a boy - she liked Mark, but with Anthony as the middle name, it sounded like Marc Antony. She tried to go against tradition because she liked the name Andrew Scott, but the initials would have then been ASS.

Good think my sister and I were both girls. Although, neither of us have our mother's name as our middle name. Mine's after a family friend and my sister's was random. I'd like to keep the tradition though, even if for just my sons (if I have any).

[sex.livejournal.com]

We fought over names for the first six months.. then he cheated on me & we broke up, so I got 100% say :)

But the middle name that she will have has significance to him.. she's named after his best friend that died a year ago (Jordin). The first name is one I liked and have had picked out since a positive test.