Frustration

[bratty-lil-fae.livejournal.com]

Does anybody else get frustrated with one specific gender of names?

My husband and I already have one son. Nicholas Cael. Who we call by his middle name of Cael. We are currently trying to get pregnant with #2, and have our girl name set, Amelia (Grace or Hope, middle name debated but we agree it is one of these two). But boy names we cannot agree one. It took us forever to agree on Cael's name, and now with trying for number 2 we need to somehow agree on a boy name again. *ugh*

Comments

[thelasttruth.livejournal.com]

I find it a lot harder to come up with boys names compared to girls names. Someone once suggested that it's because girls names come and go out of fashion a lot quicker than boys names do, so you hear about more girl names.

[bratty-lil-fae.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I think boys names get just as trendy as girls do. They just don't have 27 different spellings for each name the way girls do :P

[sparklymoon.livejournal.com]

I have a list of like, 25 girls names I love... and 4 boys names, one of which is a family name and one of which is kind of a joke (Connor, because my name is Sara... My coworkers are obsessed with Terminator lol)

[bratty-lil-fae.livejournal.com]

girl names we agreed on pretty quickly. And he will probably win on the middle name (Hope) because it's his moms middle name, I just don't like the flow as well as Grace. But boy names... we can both come up with names on our own we like, and we can agree on names that we are both "meh" about but don't dislike, but we cannot find boy names that we both like let alone love. We do both like the name Devin, but live close to chicago and don't want it being assumed we are naming a child after Devin Hester, especially since we are not bears fans :P

[silvermidnight.livejournal.com]

yeah, I love love thinking about girls names but boys names don't do anything for me. I think it's because I want a boys name to have certain qualities associated with it and in order to do that I have to pick one that's been used a bit, whereas with girls names it's fine if I make them up.

[bratty-lil-fae.livejournal.com]

That's why Cael goes by his middle name. We both *loved* the name Cael, but wanted him to have a "normal" first name for future resumes/business/etc. So chose a first name we both liked and he goes by his middle name.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

My parents still, 42 years later, argue about what my middle name would have been if I was a boy. They both wanted to name me after their father.

[bratty-lil-fae.livejournal.com]

lol! That is awesome.

[bratty-lil-fae.livejournal.com]

We could do that with both of our Dads, the fight would be spelling. Our Dads have the same middle name, Alan vs Allen.

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

Allan would work. Haha.

[octobre09.livejournal.com]

Luckily we're having a girl (or so said the ultrasound technician) because we can not find a boy name that we both like. We hadn't found one with our first child (another girl) either. If this baby turns out to be a boy, I seriously have no idea what his name will be. I think in our case it's mainly because we want bilingual(French/English) names and it's much easier to find bilingual girl names IMO.

[bratty-lil-fae.livejournal.com]

We only had one ultrasound last time, and the tech couldn't find the gender. :P

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

For my first child, we had two sonograms and the sucker hid both times! They guessed a girl so I bought all pink (and had no name after 8 months!!) until a local office my friend was working at was trying to draw in new clients with a special for those brand new Real Time (4D) sonograms. You got to get a free sonogram, no strings attached! That's when I found out I was having a boy and all those pink things were rendered useless. But I had a name ready!! :)

[hibiscus-hedge.livejournal.com]

Yes, boys' names are MUCH harder in my opinion.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

My list of girl names outnumbers my boy names at least 3 to 1. :D I have a fun time coming up with boy names, but it's okay to do a little more with a girls name. So you can be a little more creative or be a little more daring, or more romantic. On a little boy you wonder if it will get him teased to name him Dorian or Florian or something not so common or acceptably masculine like Thomas, James, John, Robert...etc. I love Rafe Hollis and Jasper Grayson but I also question if they're a little too pretty. We have Gabriel Beauregard selected in our first spot for a boy now. And I love it, but I am also loving Henry (middle name unknown) and a suggestion I got from the Combo Game which was Roman Henrik. Still that's only 3-5 boy names. I have about 13-15 girl names at the moment.

I've always had a harder time with girl names because of the sheer length of my lists. So much harder to narrow down a favorite. I was relieved to have a boy first! Me and my husband seem to have a fairly good chemistry about it. The first kid is the hardest I think to name together, but after that you know each others styles and preferences.

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

I can think of names I like in general for both, but I can't think of names I like for boys specifically with our last name.

With our next baby, we aren't even going to think about names until we know girl or boy, so we only have to argue over one name :P

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Personally I enjoy driving my husband a little crazy with names. It's like the justice of my having to be pregnant and usually quite sick for the duration. While he just gets to...watch me get fat and then be there at the end. ;-)

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

He is a good sport about dealing with me & my obsession with baby names, as long as isn't a serious conversation! As soon as it is, it is an adventure ;)

[eveyalecia.livejournal.com]

I seem to have the opposite problem as everyone else-- I LOVE boys' names and have a list a mile long! But most girls names I either hate or are 'meh' to me. I have a few I really love, but only a few!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_venus_/]

We are the same way! We had a boys name picked right away with my daughter and took a lot longer to come up with her name. This time baby is a surprise, and we have a boys name (or two) but still no girls name (and I'm due in 3 weeks!). I think in my case, though, it's because I like a lot of girls names but don't really love any, whereas with boys names there are a lot I don't like and a few I love.

[pixie-bones.livejournal.com]

Same, haha! ^^

[chaichilaquiles.livejournal.com]

We had a boy first and definately felt frustrated about how much harder it was to choose for a boy.
Now that we are having a girl, I see a lot more boys names that I like. So my only advice is try not to push yourselves too hard in finding a boy's name. Keep looking at girls, and let the boy's names come to you!

[so-there.livejournal.com]

boys names are harder for us, too. I think it's because it's less taboo for a girl to have a "weird" name and as we prefer names that are less common, it's harder to pick one that will age well, doesn't sound too out-there, too feminine, too... I dunno.