Why did you pick out the names you used for your children?

[Kitty 34]

1st son was named after my youngest brother
2nd DS was named after his Dad
3rd son was named after going through my Mom's family tree

 

[Christine]

Mine aren't named after anyone. I just liked the names, felt they went well with our last name and were just a tad different that what was the rage at the time.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

1st born was given a name I concocted years before. Basically made up of grandmother's maiden name and (as it turns out) sister-in-law's middle name.

2nd child got paternal grandfather (first name) and maternal grandfather (middle name)

3rd child got a combination of "new" names in the family (but the initials are the same as his brother's name).

 

[Boopuff]

My oldest daughter is named for her two grandfathers Rae is her middle name (no starwars connection.. she's too old!)
Second DD - my DH was at work and took a call from a woman - that was the name!!!

 

[easyas123]

Mine aren't named after anyone. I just liked the names, felt they went well with our last name and were just a tad different that what was the rage at the time.

Ditto for us. Husband wasn't interested in having a child named after him, and we had a few not common but not unheard of names that didn't have odd or ridiculous spellings (sorry, pet peeve of mine and no it's not about anyone but me) that we liked. Son 1 arrived and we gave him a name that seemed to fit him from that list, and then did same w/ son 2.

 

[Calee]

First DS I heard the name in a movie and liked it. It was not one commonly used, but also not strange/hard to say/hard to spell. His middle name is my maiden name. We have met one old man with his name.

Second DS DH and I both liked different T names but didnt like the others choice. We finally found a T name that we both agreed on. Again, not commonly used but not strange. We have never met another child with his name. Middle name is my husbands middle name and my fathers name.

Youngest DS we really struggled. His name is not super common, but I hear it much more than my others. His middle name is my mothers middle name and my grandmother's maiden name.

We didnt know the sex of our babies before they were born and did not name them until we were leaving the hospital.

 

[tcufrog]

My mother, sister and I have the same first and middle initials. My husband happens to have the same first initial although he doesn't have a middle name for cultural reasons. We decided that our kids's names would follow in my family's tradition by having my family's first and middle initials and they would follow his family by having his last name. Since we are from different cultures, we chose names from his culture for their first names and names from my culture for their last names. We're cool though with our kids going by their first or middle names though since my dad and sister go by their middle names. Our older son was also named after my DH's older brother who died when my DH was in college. His brother never got to get married and have kids so that was our way of giving him a legacy.

I do have two generic naming rules though that will never steer you wrong.
1. The name should be cute for a baby.
2. It should also be appropriate for a Supreme Court Justice.

 

[ZZBane]

For my sons first name, I’ve just always liked the name. I was also going to pick the name if I had a girl. It’s a super common name now a days, but far less common if I had a girl.
My sons middle name, though, is Bane. Bane was my dogs name...the first love of my life. I had to put him down when he was 2 1/2 in 2014.
It was an obvious choice for me when I became pregnant is 2016, that boy or girl, the middle name would be Bane.

 

[luvsJack]

Oldest is named after his dad’s best friend. But he also has the same first name as his father and grandfather and now goes by the same nickname as his grandfather.

Younger son is named after his father’s cousin that we were both very close to and his dad. He goes by the full name and his dad goes by the nickname.

Dd’s Name is all her own. Actually her brothers came up with her first name and dh with her middle name. She was supposed to go by a nickname but it never stuck.

 

[ronandannette]

Although I never gave a lot of though to having children in my early years, I always had a certain name in mind that I'd want to name a son. DH was fine with it - it's not a family name or meaningful for any particular reason - just a nice name that luckily went well with our surname. We also agreed on a middle name. DH filled out the hospital forms by himself when I was still pretty out-of-it postpartum. Imagine my surprise! It wasn't until DS's official birth certificate was issued that I found out DH had added his own name as another middle name.

 

[NYCgrrl]

My first name is French as is the ex's so it was easy choosing our children's first names.
Their second and third names (one has a hyphenated first name and the other a double middle name) were in honor of family members on both sides of the family.

 

[wenrob]

Oldest DD’s first name is a combo of two names, the first half of the name DH liked and the second half of the name I liked. Her middle name is my sister’s middle name.

DS is named after my dad and his middle name is my DH’s first name. First son gets the name of his father for his middle name in my DH’s family. I had claimed my Dad’s first name when we were kids so my sister gave her son (born first) Dad’s middle name (which is what Dad went by.)

Younger DD’s first name is a combo of the first part of that name I liked with older DD (I really liked that name!) and my middle name. Her middle name was my MIL’s middle name.

 

[Praying Colonel]

DS is named after my paternal grandfather and his middle name is DW's maiden name.

DD is named after Sarah in the Bible and her middle name is DW's maternal grandmother's name.

 

[MamaBelle4]

All of our kids' names are just traditional names we loved. And I agree with the above: I wanted names that were good baby/kid names but also good names for POTUS (shoot for the stars, babies)

 

[NAB]

My husband picked my son’s name. It took 3 days to name him. Named after an uncle /friend. I liked the name so was fine with it. Everyone calls him Nick but I have only called him Nicholas and he is 22 .

My son was 3 when my daughter was born. I liked Annie or Anna but my husband didn’t. I also liked Hannah , Nicholas could say this name thanks to Toy Story Sid’s sisters name. So she was named Hannah .

 

[DisLiss]

The first names were primarily names we liked, while also being names that appeared in our families elsewhere. The middle names were purposely family names after specific family members.

 

[lovin'fl]

First born was our son. We had name chosen, Gavin, but DH's friend said it sounded too similar to DH's name when yelling it...like if I yelled out the door for 'Gavin' to come in for dinner it would sound like I was calling both (like both would respond). So DH poo poo'd the name. I went into labor a few days later and we had no name. DH is Irish. Apparently when his oldest sister was pregnant (when we were in college) he told her he had dibs on the name Patrick. So she didn't use it on her first 2 kids (both boys). So she kept firmly saying we needed to use that name. Well I had a Patrick (or Pat as he was called) across the street from me as a kid and he was a creepy oddball. So I had that association with the name. But after, no lie, like 36 hours of labor with 2 hours of pushing and use of suction to pull out a 9.5 lb baby (not to mention the huge episiotomy) I just said to DH, in exhaustion, 'you pick the name'. And Patrick it was. His middle name is my maiden name which is also a male's first name so it worked.

Next up were twin DDs. We had 2 names chosen. One was a play on my maiden name and other was Morgan. After seeing tons of Morgans while pregnant....like everywhere we went we heard parents calling their little girls Morgan (1999)... we scrapped the name. It was again at the last minute as I got several gifts at my baby shower with the name Morgan on them. We had 2 names to replace Morgan. One was Reese. After they were born and were taken away to nursery (they were born 4 weeks early) I was wheeled in to see them and decided she (baby A) didn't look like a Reese. SO she got the other name. Both are kind of unisex and also common-ish last names. For middle names, one has my mom's and one has MIL's.

 

[VandVsmama]

I had a few rules for our kids names:

• You had to be able to clearly tell the gender of the kid based on the 1st name. So no gender neutral names like Morgan.
• No weird names like Apple, Jagger, etc.
• No giving something that seems like a last name as a first name. For example, Jackson, Roosevelt.
• First name had to sound ok with our last name.
• No trendy names like (at the time) McKenzie, McKenna, Hailey, Kailey, etc.
• No weird spellings. For example, instead of Karen, spelling it as "Karyn."
• Nothing that sounds or looks like it could be a porn star name.

 

[wenrob]

Although I never gave a lot of though to having children in my early years, I always had a certain name in mind that I'd want to name a son. DH was fine with it - it's not a family name or meaningful for any particular reason - just a nice name that luckily went well with our surname. We also agreed on a middle name. DH filled out the hospital forms by himself when I was still pretty out-of-it postpartum. Imagine my surprise! It wasn't until DS's official birth certificate was issued that I found out DH had added his own name as another middle name.

I had a friend who’s S/O changed their son’s name completely, first and middle while she was still out of it. She was furious but never did anything about it.

 

[lovin'fl]

I had a few rules for our kids names:

• You had to be able to clearly tell the gender of the kid based on the 1st name. So no gender neutral names like Morgan.
• No weird names like Apple, Jagger, etc.
• No giving something that seems like a last name as a first name. For example, Jackson, Roosevelt.
• First name had to sound ok with our last name.
• No trendy names like (at the time) McKenzie, McKenna, Hailey, Kailey, etc.
• No weird spellings. For example, instead of Karen, spelling it as "Karyn."
• Nothing that sounds or looks like it could be a porn star name.

A rule we had was not to have double same initials. So 1st and last names could not have same beginning letter (and our last name begins with M...another reason we dumped the name Morgan). We also wouldn't do weird spellings or weird or trendy names. And DH was adamant that any son of ours get a traditional boy name so as not to get made fun of. (but I do like the unisex and typical last names for girls...both my girls have those both)