names...?

Juts wondering how many of you already have a name chosen for your bubs, and if so then how did you know it was the one?
We have a few names we kind of like but I just cant decide, I just really cant... I am really scared that I will land up chosing a name at the time that I will hate later, I mean it will be around for a long time to come lol!
aarrghh!!! any advice on this name choosing thing...?

We went through quite a few names before we finally came to like Erin, she was Breanna first, then Sophia... but eventually we fell 'out of love' with those, and Erin just stuck ! Good luck, and remember you don't have to decide right away, you can always wait until your bub is actually born

I've founding that 'choosing' names is actually more about finding something left over after the parents have gone through discounting every other name due to people that they've met and didn't like with those names...
Andrew was named Andrew because the Andrews we had met seemed nice and his middle name, William was because he is the eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest son (you get the picture) dating back a heap of generations on the Dunlop side.
We've worked through a few names for this chap - starting with Logan which I really, really like but is too 'new agey' for Nick and Sam which Nick really, really likes but was the name of two of my mother's cats (not at the same time) while I was growing up and therefore always to be associated with Oriental Ebony cats rather than kiddies for me. We've settled on a name for the gigantababy now - we'll just have to see if it sticks once he's born.

Hi Mrs Frantic,

We have pretty much sorted out a name I think - I kinda said to hubby that I wanted to choose the name for our first baby (boy) and he would have hubby's first name as his middle name and hubby could choose the name for our second baby. I just really love the name that we have picked and even though we sometimes come up with other names I always seem to come back to this one. Good luck with naming your wee one.

I totally agree with Maree. When we were first seriously thinking about names we kept telling people what we liked when they asked, and everyone had an opinion, often negative,.." oh a brat from school was called that" " Ew I dont like that name" etc, so now we just say " oh its so hard to choose, we arent sure,..um,.." Very vague indeed! We have chosen a name for our bubs. But havent even told anyone ( except my best friend) that we have even chosen. We kept adding any name we found we liked to a list,..then often when we looked back on the list we would cross some off. DH kept changing his mind a lot! I suggested the name we have have chosen to DH when I was looking through names online, and as soon as he heard it he feel in love with it!

With Kobe we both new as soon as we heard it that it would be the one and amazingly both agreed on it but then we heard kobe byrant (american basketball player) was being done for rape and though oh dont know if i want the name association but then we went on our honeymoon to aussie and there was a girl in mcdonalds whos name was khobi and we looked at each other and both were like did you see her name at the same time. It felt almost like a sign so we decided that would be the name if he was a girl or boy just spelt differently.
This time round I was really starting to panick cos we had chosen Kobes name so early but had no idea for Addison. We had about 5 names that we both liked but none of them really jumped out like Kobes did, they were all ones we would settle for until I came on here and asked for ideas and the minute I saw it (thanks to Kelly aka caitlynsmygirl) I loved it and so did Hubby when I suggested it and we knew it was the one.

Hubby and I somehow agreed on Ashlee right from the beginning. We had a mini list of the names we did agree on but would regularly go and cross off ones that we'd gone off but Ashlee was always there, as was Sophie but we hadn't made a firm decision right up until she was born. When we were in theatre and she arrived, hubby said 'what are we going to call her?' and we took a look at her and decided she looked like an Ashlee

The 'lee' part is mums middle name and I have a sister named Haylee so it was nice to be able to carry the Lee on for a third generation. Hope it continues!

Before we knew we were having a girl, we had a couple of boys names picked out - one of which happens to be my brothers name but that wasn't going to stop hubby and I from naming our son after him! If we have a boy next, we'll probably have the same names picked out and our kiddies will probably end up with the same initials which will be cute.

I highly recommend you have a few favourites chosen and decide when she arrives to see what she suits.

I agree with Maree too. We had no idea what we were having with PAris - i had gone through loads of baby books and baby sites writing down names that i liked, i would sit on the computer at night and go through sites and read out names alphabetically and mike would be "no, no no no" with the occasional, "that's kinda ok,, maybe" But eventually he came up with the name Paris and was adamant that if it was a girl that it would be Paris - then for middle name, i was thinking olivia.. but initials would have spelt POT so mike said no, and came up with Harmony... but for boys names - nooooo idea.. I was still sitting online the night before i had her trawling through name sites to try and find something we remotely liked that met Mike's approval.

We went though and thought of nicknames for each name we liked, what initials might spell, other people we knew with that name etc.

For Ayja, we thought we were having a boy for some reason - and had decided on Leo as our boys name and had nothing for a girls name - so when the 20 wk scan showed she was a girl.. we were like "uh-oh!" and again we went trawling through name sites - but this time we knew we had to have something just as unique as Paris's name. Ayja came from the model Aja Rock - it was down the very bottom of our list of possible maybe middle names... and slowly bit by bit made it's way to the top. some we didn't like, some my MIL made comments on, others me and Mike just couldn't agree on.. Then one day i was having a shower, thinking about names - and Mike came in to put some washing in the hamper.. and I said "what about Ayja Nicole?" and he said yep and that was it.

It all depends i spose on what you like. Do you want to include family names into it somewhere, do you like traditional names, James, matthew, etc etc, or do you want different names, and if so, are you sure you want something that everyone else seems to be calling their kid at the same time - if you choose something different how are you to know that it's not too out there and the child won't be made fun of at school.?
It's so much to think about and very daunting but the others are right - you will "just know" when you reach that right name. We had some back ups for in case Ayja didn't look like an "Ayja" but i don't think after naming her a few months out from having her, and calling her that up until then.. that we could have changed it.

Kiya's name (pronounced kii-yah) is from a movie (Willow), and is a name I'd loved since I first heard it. I played around with a few different spellings, until I figured out one I liked. As her bio father broke up with me before she was born, I didn't have to worry about his opinion. Other than my cousins having fits of laughter telling me that the same word is rastafarian slang for marijuana (yeah, like that's common knowledge at her primary school!), I heard nothing negative about the name. Her middle name is Mary, same as mine, although it nearly was just initals: V. O., in memory of my much loved Nana who passed away a year before Kiya was born. However, my Dad told me that Nana actually didn't like her name and would not want anyone to be named after her so I decided not to.

Josiah's name (pronounced jo-sigh-ah is biblical. When Nathaniel and I first started dating, we went to a youth conference where one of the speakers used the 8 year old king as an example of rising appropriately to the occasion. Nat and I looked at each other, and both said "I like that name!"... and we just kept it in mind. When we found out I was pregnant, it came back up as a possible name and we felt it was right. Josiah's middle name is Phillip, same as Nathaniel.

Xavier's name (pronounced ex-save-ee-er) was a little harder... I went through my baby name book many times suggesting names to Nat, to have him say "I know a kid by that name... no." (Ah, the joys of being married to a teacher!) One evening, we were having a bath and flicking through the book when Nat said "What about Xavier?" I thought about it for a minute and said "yeah, maybe"... over the next couple of weeks it stuck! Choosing a middle name was a little harder, but in the end I suggested Max, as it seemed to fit, and Nat really liked it.

Frantic, keep in mind you surname. As our surname is very different (as in they are all related and there is only 3 family's in NZ with the surname) we made sure we had a plain first name. Andrew's initals are AJZ.