STRESS!

[summereats.livejournal.com]

I'm not due til the 7th of July and we don't want to find out the sex of the baby. I am starting to get REALLY stressed out about names! I mean, how do you just pick a name and subject someone who you haven't yet met to a name for the rest of their lives (or til they can legally change it) that will affect people perceptions of them? STRESS. People are saying to me, the baby will tell you when the time comes. I just have visions of my child at 18 saying mom, you're gonna have to give me a name.

Here's a short list anyway, names i like but none that i love love! It's a mixture of Irish (hubby) and Filipino/Spanish (me) names and others in between. Any jump out at you?

Girls

Gabriella
Isabella
Sophia (maternal great grandmother)
Lavinia (paternal grandmother)
Akiko
Iona (King's Island -Irish)
Madison/Madeline
Regan
Marley
Sydney (where i grew up)
Juno
Cara
Erin (from Ireland)
Kyla
Cecilia
Malaya/Maya (freedom in Filipino)
Mia
Gaia
Grace
Rowena (second name, my mom)

Boys

Dillon
Joshua
Miguel
Raphael (maternal grandfather)
Jayden
Devlin
Liam
Dante
Orin
Kellan
Riley
Bayani (my dad)
Dakila (Great)
Verano (summer)
Joaquin
Andres
Legaspi
Gabriel

Comments

[dingo83.livejournal.com]

I love that your names are mixed for your culture and your husband's culture! Here are the names that particularly jump out at me:

Lavinia (paternal grandmother)
Madison
Regan
Sydney
Kyla
Cecilia
Maya (freedom in Filipino)

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I love that your names are mixed for your culture and your husband's culture! Here are the names that particularly jump out at me:

Lavinia (paternal grandmother)
Madison
Regan
Sydney
Kyla
Cecilia
Maya (freedom in Filipino)
<Also, what about Amaya?>
Mia

Joshua
Orin
Riley
Joaquin
Andres

Good luck! I think what most people mean when they say that the baby will let you know...maybe have written down your top two or top three choices for either sex and then when the baby is born, you see what the baby looks/feels like to you. For example, you may envision a Regan looking different than a Cecilia, or a Joshua looking different than an Andres. I think you'll know...or maybe you'll have a dream? Everything will work out! Congratulations!

[dingo83.livejournal.com]

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[summereats.livejournal.com]

thanks :) definitely keeping options open :) trying to pair filipino and irish names is hard!!!! :)