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

you have a lot of great names...so hard to narrow down.

[mysticamor.livejournal.com]

Well, I think...
Gabriella ~ I like (Gabby for a nickname?)
Isabella ~ I LOVE
Sophia ~I LOVe this name but I can't use it cuz my sister is going to use it when she starts to have kids
Lavinia ~ I kind of like it
Akiko ~ I like this name....it's different
Iona ~ no fond of
Madison/Madeline ~ I like a lot
Regan ~ I kind of like but can see someone making fun of this name
Marley ~ no
Sydney ~ ok
Juno ~ reminds me of the movie
Cara ~ no
Erin ~ to common and boyish for my taste
Kyla ~ I love
Cecilia ~ I like a lot
Malaya/Maya ~ I love it!
Mia ~ Love it.
Gaia ~ not sure how to pronounce it
Grace ~ to over used
Rowena I like it a lot

Boys

Dillon ~ No
Joshua ~ kind of like it
Miguel ~ I hate this name
Raphael ~ love it
Jayden ~ like it but starting to become over used
Devlin ~ ok
Liam~ no
Dante ~ I LOVE this name
Orin ~ like it a lot
Kellan ~no
Riley ~ no
Bayani ~ not sure how to pronounce?
Dakila ~ not really
Verano ~ i like it...clever
Joaquin ~ like it a lot
Andres ~ like it
Legaspi ~ no
Gabriel ~ like it