how did you chose your child’s name ?

Rico: DH thought of it from "Puerto Rico".  Strange huh!  This was when we had not long being going out, and I have no idea what he was thinking, but mentioned it one day.  We hadn't considered marriage, nor having children together, but Rico always stood out, and no other name was going to come into consideration.

 

Gia:  Not long before I fell pg with Rico, we were watching an old Italian war movie with a young girl in it, called Gia.  The mother, a local, slept with 3 american soldiers and she told each one of them that they were the father of her daughter "Gia" and when they all were sending her money to raise the child!  Until they all came back to her town years and years later so she had to try and work it so they didn't all come to see Gia at the same time.  DH said after the movie when we had a girl, her name would be Gia.

 

Jett:  No particular story with that name, Dh just suggested it when I was only a few months pg with Jett, and I liked it, then loved it!  I couldn't stand the rest of his suggestions, and he didn't like any of mine.

Hannah was a name that DH and I both really loved.
Every Hannah we'd ever known was really lovely.

Once she was born I found out Hannah was the name of both of my great-great grandmothers and was my Grandma's favourite name.

So it was meant to be.

i have always like james had a name and after dicussings heaps of names with my mum and dad james didnt even come frist with that pick i waited till i was in laubour and told mum and dad then ahahaha whos gonna fight with a labouring woman

We have chosen Alexander, cause its my dads name and I always said I would name my son after my dad, and I really like the name and so does DH, it also goes back for generations, so I'm carrying it on

DH and I had been discussing baby names since long before we were engaged let alone married and thinking about TTC.  We have lots of boys names we like and a few girls names we like too but we couldn't agree on any and then one day DH suggested Michaela for a girl and I totally fell in love with it. 

Her middle name is Elizabeth named after my niece who lived with us for awhile, Elizabeth (my niece) was named after my sisters and I  (Elizabeth is my oldest sisters middle name) and my mum came up with the middle name Elizabeth for my sister because it was the name of her favourite childhood doll.  So I suppose we're creating a bit of a family tradition now.

We still can't agree on a boys name.

With Ethan I got it suggested to me at work the same day DH thought of it out of the blue so it was fate:)! Daniel he didn't like but I love and it went with Ethan so that sorted that:)

With this one (yes we are sad and already have names) we just both really liked the girls name and the boys name is one I loved last time and it's grown on DH:)

Leah Grace - Leah was my great grandmothers first name and my grandmothers middle name. Grace was a name we liked and after we named her I found out from DH's mother that grace was her favourite aunt. (DH knew but didn't tell me just agreed instantly to the name)

Joel Matthew - Joel was the only boys name we agreed on second time round(didn't have it 1st time!) And again after we told my mum she said it was my great grandfathers name, and had been one of mums choices had she had a boy. Matthew we liked both times round and as far as I know not a family member - but could be wrong yet!!!

We chose Samantha after we had the 20 week scan and found out she was a girl. We had loads of boys names already chosen (his family all has tons of boys!).
We just both wanted a name that could be shortened ie Sam, and was girly, but no too girly IFKWIM. DH actually chose her first name in the end, but we both loved it. And by the time she was born (after being Samantha for nearly 5 months already) she couldn't possibly be named anything else.
Plus as an extra bonus - Samantha means: she who obeys - yeah right!!!

Her middle name is Rosalie, after my Mom, who she will never get to meet, but who would have been the most awesome Nanna in the world.   It was important to me that she feels a connection with her Nanna.

Edited to add: Like CuriousG, it was important to me that Sam had a name that wasn't too hard to read etc. I found it quite challenging growing up with a name that no one could pronounce, although I do love my name.

Edited by Mum2Sam

We always had trouble with boy names.....Our first i don't know how we came up with Lachlan or Lachie...i think we just went through and said lots of names out lound and this was the only boy name we liked....If a girl we had three to choose from. If he was a boy the middle name would come from my side and if it was a girl it would come from DH's side but as soon as we found out that he was a boy DH packed a sad and stamped his foot and said it was not fair So we have Edward from my side and william from his....Later finding out that we both have great grandparents called Edward William and William Edward...lol

Sophia got her name from Lachlan actually.   his fav song was Sophia by The Rasmus so he wanted to call her that and we loved it so if it was an girl Sophia and if it was a boy...Superman (Lachies choise)...Lucky we had a girl.   We actually Did not have any boy names in mind. He middle names acame from DH's mums middle name and frome my Aunty. If we gave one two middle names we had to do the same for the other or they will feel as though we do not love them as muc h

my2angels wrote: Addison I was getting desperate and posted a thread on here and someone suggested it. At that stage I didnt even know about Greys Anatomy but in the list someone posted it caught my eye and I rang hubby and he loved it too and that was that.

hehe , it was me, I still remember that thread