The Serious name lovers thread!

argh - DP and I have never agreed on names! Luckily he had NOTHING for a girls name when number 1 came along Lilijanna Pearl. And because I had such a strong reasoning behind the name he couldnt argue. (Lili is the hebrew meaning of Susan - my name. And Janna is the second part of my absolute soul mate best friends name - Mariejanna who had all boys and woudl have used Janna for a girl if she had one - so Lilijanna is super special to us. Pearl is the birthstone for the month that I was due and lost the baby, if we hadnt have lost that baby I couldnt have got pregnant with Lilijanna so that is our tribute to the baby that gave itself up for Lili) (pronounced Lily Yah naa, the J is said like Y - my friend is dutch and Jana is also a croatian name and my mum is croatian - so everything is perfect)

PROBLEM! I am now pregnant with number 2......DP and I CAN NOT agree on anything and I absolutely HATE the names he has (which are all boys names again....but I think we are having another girl) and he keeps saying that because I named Lili that he should name number 2 - yikes! I wont tell you what his choice of names are because I dont want to offend someone with those names - but Im a school teacher and there are just SOME names I cant do! (history is a very repetitive thing and funnily enough kids with the same name even years apart can be soooo much the same in their personality)

So I am tryign really hard to find a name that has as much meaning as our first....I also dont wnat number 2 to think number 1 got all teh good names and she just ended up with something out of a book because mummy was too busy with baby 1 (the age gap is going to be close, I dont want her to think she was an accident)

anyway - thanks to everyone so far who has added names to this list! it has been really useful!

ARGH! My DF is the same! I suggested Isla's name (cause he couldn't come up with anything for a girl) and he just so happened to love it so agreed, but now we are expecting #2 he is like 'you named Isla, so I get to name this one!'. He is planning on naming it (if a boy) after him........ so first, middle and last name all the same!!! Not on my watch buddy!!! lol

arthur
charles
thomas

William?
Matthew?
Michael?

At the moment my husband likes Isaac. So I was thinking maybe Jack Isaac Prestidge but is that a little to matchy?

I like that Lisa, sounds great.
Anyone want to name our child?? DH just have completely different ideas and can't agree on anything.

HI EcoMummy!
If you dont mind me asking, what was your story with how you said you couldnt have gotten pregnant if it wasnt for the bubs you lost?

Sorry, Im not being a freak lol, I feel like I can relate to you. Because if I hadnt gotten pregnant in 2010, I wouldnt have known I had kidney failure. I had to give up my bubs to stay alive and now I got the go ahead to get pregnant after a kidney transplant from DH last year October. So if my lil angel hadnt come along and given up its life, I wouldnt be able to have the chance to get pregnant now.

I love your names btw!

DH and I have already decided on names haha, when were not even engaged and I was still in school. Olivia Elsie for a girl and Jacob Michael or Jacob Jonathan. These names are in our family and we want to carry them on.

Minipig, they come out at the end of January or the start of Feb.

dneyn, do you remember me? oh i think you're the first! I was due in September 2010, so might have been? hows your lil bubs?? And are you UTD again? hehe nice to hear from someone from way back then!

Ok, just because I am bored...
no plan to add to the family for another couple of years but we talked about names the other day and I got reminded of how much I hate that part. DH is a PITA and no help at all with suggestions such as Borat...

*gender specific names only
*minimum of 2 syllables - our last name only has 3 letters
* can't start with E, J, L, S, T, R or Th
*I am German so ideally something my parents can say too
*should be pronounced the same in German/English