How did you choose your children's names?

CAMSMOM1 wrote: I'm always curious when people tell me what they are naming the baby, and I wonder how they picked the name.

How did you choose your child/children's names? Did you pick it out of a baby name book? Did you just hear the name, or know someone with that name?
And how did you pick the middle name?


We only have 1 child. When we found out it was a boy, we had only picked out a girls name. We could never agree on a boy's name. I like unique names with significant meanings to them, and my DH likes the traditional/old fashioned names. So right there we didn't agree. We looked through baby name books, and couldn't agree. So we finally wrote a list of of top 5 names each. He put his names and I put my names down, and we only could agree on "Cameron" so that's what we went with!
For the middle name, we decided to carry on my DH'S middle name which has been passed down from 3 generations from his father and grandfather. Even though normally it wouldn't have been my first pick, I like the signifgance to it and it's better than a Justin Jr. !

My Mom picked my name because of Queen Ann. She liked the elegancy to it.

Just curios to see how you choose the names for your child(ren).

Ann

MissyKay2005 replied: My oldest son Brandon Web ...Brandon is his father's middle name and Web was his great garndfather's middle name. Boden Lee was put together From Oden and Boe which my husband did and I thought was cute so we went with it. And Lee was his grandfathers middle name.

zdk753 replied: My husband has 2 other sons that he never gets to see so when I got pregnant w/ Zach I told him he could name him. He went through the whole baby name book & couldn't find anything that he liked. I was getting a little worried when he made it to the Z's. He loved the name Zachary so that is what he picked. I didn't like it at first, but after awhile I got used to it. His middle name is Wayne which is my hubby's middle name. With Dylan I had just always loved that name since watching Beverly Hills 90210. His middle name is James which is my Dad's middle name. Kailynn was going to be Kelcei Renee, but every girl I met all of a sudden was named Kelcie & I wanted something different. My Aunt Lynn was killed in a house fire when I was 5 mos. pregnant & I wanted to memorialize her someway so I came up w/ Kailynn. Her middle name is Khrystine which is my middle name just spelled way different.

MamaJAM replied: I picked DD#1's name when I was 6-years-old. I heard the name for the first time and fell in LOVE with it. I always told everyone it would be my first DD's name. In fact - every guy I dated and got even slightly serious was _told_ that if we ever got married and had a DD - that would be her name. When DH and I first found out we were preg - he knew he didn't have a choice on the girl-name....middle names on the other hand - we discovered were going to be hard. When DH and I married - we ended up with the same initials J.A.M. (I had been J.A.W. before that)....we decided to keep up the tradition and give all of our kids names that had those initials -- but we quickly decided that we didn't like many 'A' names. We chose to give all girls my middle name, Anne; and all boys DH's middle name, Alan.

Since then - choosing names was fairly interesting....middle names were taken care of - and we only needed to check the 'J' section of baby-name books (though we had a rule for that too - all names had to have Hebrew roots).

DD#2's name was chosen right from the Tanakh (Jewish Bible).

DD#3's name we came across in a baby-name book and fell in love with it....never saw it anywhere spelled that way again though!

DS#1's name was chosen by DH. DH was thrilled to discover that the name of a character on Star Trek TNG that he liked had Hebrew roots.

DS#2's name was a battle -- DH liked one name - I _really_ wanted another one. DH 'won' in the end....though I have to admit - I don't think the name I wanted 'fits' DS.

Kaitlin'smom replied:
so what are there first names?

MyLuvBugs replied: Well, we just chose names that we liked and then compared lists. We had a boy name picked out like a week after we found out we were PG with Lorelei. But it took almost 5 months to agree on a girl name. We found Lorelei online, and thought it was beautiful. Her middle name is a family name (Elaine). We decided that all our kids would have family names for their middle name.

If we have another girl her name will be Lexi Alice. Alice is both Dh's Grandma and My Grandma's middle names. And we just LOVE the name Lexi. If we have a boy it will be Wyatt Charles. Charles was my Grandpa and by brothers names. And DH was just being a smart butt one day and said Wyatt Erp, but I liked the name Wyatt, so it was settled. lol

PrairieMom replied: Then Boy's middle name is his grandfaters first name. They have passed it down like that for generations, so I was forced to name him Tracy. We picked Benjamin because I wanted a strong sounding very male name to go with it.

Kaitlin'smom replied: We had always talked about a name when we ever did talk about having childern it was a girls name, but once we found out I was PG and expecting a girl we decided we did not like the name as much. I was watching a movie and heard the name Caitlyn and I fell in love with it DH did not like it so much then one day he said I do like the name maybe she will go by Kat, but we spelled it different. Her middle name was the only name we did have on the list that went with everything, and ironically it was the middle name of the origianl name we picked out.

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: Logan was Aaron's grandfather's middle name
His middle name is Read, a family name on my side. My grandfather and my brother both have Read as a middle name.

MamaJAM replied:
I'm not trying to be rude -- and hope you all understand....but, long before I ever went on-line - DH and I agreed to never share the kids names. I also never use his first name -- and on groups he belongs to - he never uses mine. My DH makes a living with computers and the internet -- and we are extremely cautious because of what he's seen.

CosmetologyMommy replied: When we found out we were having a boy, we went to barnes and noble and got a baby book and spent all day looking in it and Aidan was the only name we both liked! James is my grandfather's name and Michael is the english version of my dh's name, which is Miguel.
Aidan James Michael!

mummy2girls replied: well aron is very close to his sis jennifer so he wanted one of the names to be that. But because we picked jenna as the first putting jennifer beside that would look and sound horrible... ( jenna jennifer..LOL) .... so we looked into jenna and its another form of jennifer. and then the Lynn was the middle name because jennifers middle was that and mine is as well. so that how we picked it out:) And this is a big reqson i DONT want lynn taken out and changed to chase... He ticks me off sometimes..LOLOLOLOL

Hillbilly Housewife replied: The names we choes had to:

1) not be in use currently for siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Further than that, it was ok. We both have very pretentious families... and anything similar would be taken as it being named after... for example: we would not have named our son Marc-Anthony, for dh's dad is Marc.

2) not only do the names have to be not in use in our families, but they had to be as easily pronounceable in both engliush and french. I have a very french first name...most engish people massacre it. Sorry!

FGor Naomie - we kinda "had" to go with the same ending... the "ie" and there aren't many that we liked... Naomie was the first one we agreed on - so we took it.

None of our kids have middle names, DH thinks it's cool to let them pick their own middle name when they turn 13... some sort of rite of passage. What a freak.

MM'sMama replied: Brice's name is DH's but one letter diff so we have Brian (DH) and Brice. His middle name Daniel I have just always loved.

Caroline's just came to us after SIL and her hubby had there baby the day before us and took our name (still not happy about that one guys). And since Brian got Brice I wanted something with a K so it was going to Kyrah (K-year-a). But in the end Caroline came to me and DH loved it too so we went with it. Now I cannot even imagine her having any other name. And her middle name DH was beyond obsessed with so her middle name is Lucy.

MyBlueEyedBabies replied: We are boring

Katyryn Elizabeth is my name flip flopped and then legnthened. I am Lisa Catherine and Lisa is a shortened form of Elizabeth

Matthew Vincent is because DH and FIL are both M. Vincents and he wanted to continue it but didn't want a junior. Matt was the only name we could think of with an "M" that was a normal name.

With the next one...I have no idea we were thinking about sending an e-mail to friends saying send us your ideas...we need help

kimberley replied: Jacob Anthony: Jacob was one of the few boy names that me and the ex could agree on. i actually wanted his first name to be Anthony because i loved the name and he refused saying he didn't want him called "Tony". i know tons of Anthony's that never got called Tony

James Patrick: he was nameless for a few days because we were sure he was a girl. in the end, we decided to name him after my dad and the ex wanted his name for middle even tho i wasn't thrilled with it.

Jessica Jade: Jessica after my grandmother who passed, Jade because Jamie and I both loved the name.

Kaleigh Anne: we really had trouble thinking of a name for a girl that we liked. nothing seemed perfect. then we came up with Kaleigh and it grew on us. since i am half irish and he is scottish, it fit Anne is from my mom and grandmother.

pinniy replied: Geoffrey Jerome III, a.k.a. Trei-Trei, was named after his father, ...obviously. I always wanted to name my 1st son after his daddy, but always thought we'd call him "Junior," but DH is the "Junior," So, I picked Trei-Trei, 'cause he's the 3rd. It fits him, too.

Azia Janai, well, I always liked the name Asia (Also, been seen spelled Aja, Ajia, which I liked), but DH wanted to add a little "Z" (my nickname) to it, so he changed the spelling to A-Z-I-A. I've been trying to figure out a good middle name for Azia, and came across a girl named Tenae (Not sure of the spelling). I thought it flowed nicely, but then in a baby book I found out that Janae was another form of Janet (My mother's name). So, I just added a little uniqueness to the end, changing the E to and I, and there you have it. Her nickname might be AJ.

MomToJade&Jordan replied: My children actually named themselves. I know that sounds kind of weird. Jade's middle name was going to be Rose from the get go we just didn't have a first name. Then one day DH turns to me and says how about Jade. Well she must have liked the name because she moved at that moment. It just sounded so right to me. As for Jordan her name popped into my head while I was looking at the u/s that determined her sex. The tech and I both said hey looks it's a girl and I said yes. Jordan Elizabeth.

PhiMuMommy replied: my son was named alexander because i liked the name.. always have.. Brantley was after my best friend who died of brain cancer on my 16th birthday . as a tribute to my "first love" we were affianced by our parents at 2 and both of us had grown up thinking we'd marry someday.. we really liked eachother too.. it prolly could've worked....i still miss him.


if i have a girl her name will be
Camber Nicole-Leone.

camber was the name my best female friend and i created growing up (camber dachelle bluye.. her name was amber denise and mine was catherine michelle.. and so we combined them and both of us went as Camber till 6th grade..lol.) it think it sounds cool.. nicole becuase i have always loved the name.. and Leone because my mom passed her middle name to my oldest sister but she had all boys.. so i'm going to pass it on for her...

if i have another boy i want it to be

Atreyu Methyas

atreyu after the character in never ending story.. i always loved that movie and he was soo cute back in the day when 12 yr olds were hot..lol. and methyas because of The Rock. (yes and iguess the biblical terms.. tho i'm not really into religous stuff a lot..)

i know i know.. i'm weird..lol.

Elza replied: I made a list of all the names I liked from a baby name book. I went through the list with my hubby and he picked out the ones he liked (he hated most of them). We finally narrowed it down to one. When Anna was born I guess while I was in labor (I barely remember this) my husband came in and asked to change the name a little bit. I finally pried it out of him that it was my MIL's suggestion. I refused that and stuck with the name Anna. After she was born I also found out that there were four other babies in the maternity ward named Anna LOL. This is very true because they post the names outside the door and I saw it with my own eyes!!!! Jane was my husbands grandmother's middle name (she passed away last spring) so it is nice that Anna has her middle name. Ivan Kristofer was our second born and my husband chose the middle name, I chose the first name. Bryce our third born was my choosing along with his middle name Jasper. If it were up to my husband the boys would both have the same middle name one other thing they would have to share besides their toys and clothes LOL!!!!

remtana replied: I always knew my first child's name before I was even engaged and my DH knew it when we were dating. My daughter's name is Remington Ashlie. I have always liked that name. (Ashlie is after my cousin who I am really close to)

My second daugher, Montana Nicole. It is the first name we agreed on 1 month before she was born. I like different names, and my DH told me that the other ones that I liked were too weird. I have always liked the name Nicole. (My DH would tell you that it is after Nikki Sixx from Motley crue! I have always had a thing for him...) We did like the name Kensington, but it rhymed with Remington.

My third daughter, Kensington Taylor. We had to have Kensington I guess. I liked the name Ireland, but my DH hated it. So he said Kensington would work since Montana's name broke up the ryhming when you said all the names. My Dh picked the name Taylor.

Angela