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[lutine.livejournal.com]

My husband and I are having a really awful time choosing a name for our daughter due in December. We had a boy's name picked out, but as luck would have it, the ultrasound showed a girl. We like completely different styles of names - I got saddled with the most common name ever, so I like more uncommon names for girls. He likes traditional -cough-boring-cough- names. We went through one of those huuuuge baby name books highlighting ones we liked and none matched at all. Any name suggestions or advice for how to choose a name when you're at a stalemate?

For reference, my favorites are Athena, Kyra, and Jubilee (for sentimental reasons relating to a friend who passed away.) I also like Claire but my husband is English and can't really say it. The only name he really loves is Elizabeth. I offered to do Elizabeth as a middle name if I could choose the first and he refused because he says he hates all of my choices. It's getting so frustrating!

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[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Oooh, can I ask the name you guys agreed on?

This might work for us. My DH heard a reporter's name on NPR, and now it has become The Name. Any other name suggested is met with "...Or what about Imogen Fawkes? That's a great name." And it is a first and middle combo, which leaves no room for compromise. :P


OP, I think this sounds like a great idea. It would mean he would have to come up with a list of suggestions rather than just vetoing yours!

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

The boy name is what we had trouble with and we decided on Henrik Leopold. I had been crazy over Ambrose and really wanted to find a place for it. We had both loved Gabriel but it also didn't feel like THE name for some reason. Every combo I'd come up with he wasn't loving and visa versa. Finally I decided the only way to get around this was to scrap altogether what wasn't working and start new. I came up with a list of names that I thought he'd specifically like and see where it took us. That journey was chronicled on this community :D. So Henrik Leopold with the nn Lee.

OH WOW, I forgot you were the one to bring up Imogen Fawkes. I liked that so much I wrote it down. But Imogen itself is gorgeous, but I think you should be able to customize the middle name to make it your own as well.