Naming your baby?

[florassecret.livejournal.com]

Did you name your baby or your better half? I know my dad had no say in the matter with me, my mother named me Dorina. Same with my sister, Christa, and even my brother Bryan. All of us were named by my mother. I know my dad tried to help name my sister Birtha, and my mother refused. LOL perhaps that's a good thing.

My husband and I made a promise to agree or the name isn't used. LOL we never got to pick a girl's name out for our first born as Jocelyn was born 4 weeks early and we thought it was a boy. And no we didn't know the sex of our first born. This time we made another rule and promise, to pick names early before the baby was born so we wouldn't have to come up with a name on the spot; for girl Madeline Dorothy, for boy, Gabriel Maximilian. We both agreed on both names almost right away. Did you fight with your spouse till you or he/she caved or was a mutual effort in naming your kids?

BTW, anyone can answer this, even if you are not having a baby. I thought to put this out there as I've heard alot of people having arguments about baby names and what to name their baby.

Like my sister had no choice but to name both her boys scottish names as her husband wouldn't budge.

Oh and if you didn't get to help in the naming the baby, do you like it or hate it?

Comments

[kissesinabox.livejournal.com]

My first two kids were named by me because my ex-husband really wanted nothing to do with them. And this one will be named by both my fiancee and I but we're currently not agreeing too much on girl names but we've both agreed on Parker Liam I picked the first and he picked the second <3 and I agree with you on having names early for your kids because my first two were born early and thankfully I had already picked out their names lol.

[xbutterflyharmx.livejournal.com]

My husband put me in charge of naming because he likes most of the names I come up with. If I say one and he's kind of "meh" about it then I try another one. Usually he likes them though so it works. I forget which name it was that I loved and he didn't like it at all, which was sad. But he's pretty easy going so it makes it easy for me. lol

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

I think it's important for both parents to have a say in the name. It took two people to make that baby... if I was married to a guy who really wanted to use a specific name, I think it would be important to look at it as a possibility.

[momentarygenius.livejournal.com]

My husband had a big say in what we named our daughter. We knew her middle name was going to be Elaine after my grandmother. We fought over Melanie or Chistianna (pronounced like Cri-SHAWN-na) and ended up with Kristen. So I'm pretty glad he fought me over it, she doesn't look like a Melanie!

[pixiequeen112.livejournal.com]

Well I would like to hear what my future husband wants to name the baby. If it's a good name, I'll take it into consideration but if it sucks, I might put it as a middle name instead (depends if it THAT bad) or pick a name with both like.

-Funny thing, when it came to naming us, my mom called the shots. Like with my sister Ana. My dad wanted to name her Alicia but they compromised and named her Ana Alicia. My other sister, she named her after her father Lucia Guadalupe (my grandfather's name was Lucio) and with me.....well she just thought it was a pretty name and named me Adriana.

[queen-exene.livejournal.com]

At the moment I'd much rather have full naming control when I decide to have children. when I was named I was going to be Hannah, but when I was born my mother and father decided on Carly..which is much better than Hannah for me.

[jadedbytch.livejournal.com]

We made a deal before we started trying for a baby. That, if we ever had a boy, he'd name it. If we had a girl, I'd name it. Our first (and only so far) was a boy. He threw out a bunch of names I absolutely detested (Oliver, Steward, Annakin, etc). I finally caved in on Gabriel Jon. Jon was always going to be the middle name b/c it's my fiance's middle name. He didn't want a Jr, but, he wanted his middle name carried over.

So, my girl name (Chloe Rose) is in storage until I get pregnant with a girl (if that ever happens.)

[moonspirit43.livejournal.com]

For us it has to do with what gender the baby is. For girls my husband doesn't mind much, he just has to like the names. But for a boy they have to go by his family's English traditions. I'm not going to get him to back down on this, so I have to try and find names that work with in those traditions. But he won't do any work on finding names, just discussing the names I find. :/

[catmcroy.livejournal.com]

I named my daughter, with input from her father.
His input was her name is Stephanie instead of Stevie.

[spikedshinizzle.livejournal.com]

Well, the names that my husband and I have picked out are names of very important family members. The only problem came about with the name orders [his family names are spanish, while mine are english], and we decided to [not because i feel more important than he] put my family names first, since they're John and Lynda, and very easily pronounced by all of our family members. So, for us, at least, it was really easy. So, hopefully, we have a girl first like we're wanting, then a boy, because we've got names ready. Ha. Later on, though... Who knows? Could be a hassle. Luckily, we're prepared for the first baby, name-wise, at least.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

I don't have an SO, and no chance of any children right now. My plan is just to write a big list and present it to him with the instruction 'pick your favourite.'
Not that he can't make suggestions of course, those will be noted and added or vetoed. (guess we should both have veto power)

We have rabbits and I tried to involve my brother in naming them but he useless (we have polar opposite naming style which doesn't help) so I just went ahead without him.

For our parents it was joint effort naming us.
It took days to name me. Mum wanted Megan, Dad wanted Angela or Victoria. Ended up using the first thing they agreed on which something totally diffrent.
My brother was easier to name, Richard was the only boys name they liked and had decided on it when expecting me (good thing I was a girl).
I got to pick his middle name Thomas, after the tank engine (I was three!).

[mysticamor.livejournal.com]

My husband put me incharge of finding names,meaning and origian that I liked and he was a major help narrowing them down. I can be VERY stubborn when it comes to what I want and he knows that. And some names I thought were good names he ixnayed them so we went rounds for a couple of months with my son. This pregnancy it was a little easier. The same method but we both had a hard time narrowing down girls names until on finally just popped out more than the rest and then we worked from there. lol we're already starting to look for baby names for our next baby in 2 years. ;P

[estrella-jenita.livejournal.com]

I think that's something like what I'd do- probly give him my rather large list and go thru them together

[littlehounddog.livejournal.com]

I told my fiance when I met him that boy or girl, my first child would be named after my late father. He agreed wholeheartedly. :)