How Did You Chose your Child's (Children's) names?

The whole time I was pregnant my husband, mother-in-law, and I argued constantly over what to name the upcoming baby. We went though several names not agreeing on anything at all. The only thing we did agree on was her middle name was to be Shae. A month before I was due we kind of agreed on Constance Shae, but little did I know that there was a secret plot. Finally the day came and the baby was coming. After 27 1/2 hours of hard labor I gave birth to a 7lb 14oz girl. There I was exhausted and they brought me the papers to name her. My husband then stated that him and his mother thought Hailey Shae was more appropriate and would suit her more. I was tired and figured I would give in. So that's how she became Hailey.

Hello, well for my children their names are uniquely put together. Well for my daughter her name is Breanna Nicole. Hers came about when I was with her father, I have always liked the name Nicole and I could not get him to agree with the name of Jasmin Nicole, So he decided on the name of Breanna and I grew to love that name through out the pregnancy. Now for Breanna's brothers name well that was picked from their father and not me. But his name is David Anthony JR. I did not want a JR or at least not after him but I being young at the age and he being abusive I did not want to piss him off. I really wanted Davids name to be Jonathan Steven. Now that I am in a better relationship with a man that is my husband and who respects me, things was easier to name my future children. We have 2 wonderful boys together. Their names are very special and dearly close to us. Our son Kenneth got his name from his grandfathers. My dad's middle name is Kenneth so that is how he got his first name and he got his middle name from my husbands dad's first name which is William. So there for his name is Kenneth William. At least this way he will be having history in his name. Our youngest boy well his name was a debate name since the minute we knew what we were having. My husband wanted him to be named after him and I said I did not want another JR because I already had one and plus the name Aaron is getting popular and I liked the name Jacob Aaron but my hubby did not like it. So we decided that we would keep Jacob as the first name and so we tried everything we could for a middle name and then my hubby said why don't we give him my middle name as his middle so that he will be having history in his name too. So his name is Jacob Ernest. Ernest is after his daddy's middle name and his great grandfather's first name. But that is the story to how we came up with the names of our boys and how I and my ex came up with my first 2 children's names. I hope that you enjoyed this response. Happy Mylotting

My pregnancy was a complete surprise. I had no help from her father what so ever in the whole pregnancy/child birth/parenting thing - if you catch my drift. So it was kind of nice having no outside influence! I had NO ONE that had to agree with me! haha I always thought about what I was going to name my kids - you know how girls play with that. My boy's name was Jonathan Michael, and my girls name was Aubrey Rachelle. Well, the day I found out I was pregnant, my roommate asked me "what are you going to name it" - and I found i didn't care for those names anymore. Work was slow so I was a bad employee and sat there looking at baby name suggestions - I got stuck on Rozalyn, but it didn't quite do it for me. Now my daughter isn't exactly named after this person... but during internet searches while I was being a good employee, I came across an AMAIZING vocalist name who I instantly idolized and ever since then have been trying to match her singing abilities... just can't do it... but anyway, I'm talking about Joss Stone. And it hi me! Joslynn! So I looked up the meaning of the name, and although I had to use the more common spelling of "jocelyn" I learned that it means "strength". And dorannmwin... if you'd have stood by my side for the previous, oh, 3 years... got scammed online, got sued by a psycotic neighbor man who was 25+ years old than me (the reasoning of his horrible reign over my life with law suits and losing my job over him and every other thing... was because I, at 18 years old, wouldn't up and leave my boyfriend for him....) But anyway again - if you'd have been there thru all that crazy mess, you'd have known the first thing I needed bringing into this world was a little strength... and I got it in my Joslynn :)

I think it is really cool how families will name their children with the same letter..like David, Diana and Daria. I wish I would of thought about that when naming my kids but I am still very happy with my childrens names. I have two children, a boy and a girl. I picked my sons just because I really liked the name and then his middle names(yes plural) were chosen after my grandfather and my uncle. My daughter is named after her father(my husband) it is just his name with an A at the beginning and at the end and her middle name is my grandmothers middle name. The only thing I hate about picking names is people that name their children seconds and thirds, it is one thing to be a senior and junior but after that I feel it starts to just get annoying...can you not come up with something a bit more original for this child?

Hello, dorannmwin. I named my child Dimitar. This is my second-father's name. My wish was to name him Alexander - I love this name I don't now why, just love it and my wish was my first son name be Alexander, but I though that my father deserves it. And I named him Dimitar. But I promisse to myself that if and when I have another child/son/ I will name him Alexander.

I am born and raised in another country and for me it was important to pick names that originated there. I also wanted to use family names. So all my girls have 2 middle names that came from someone in our family. Either a grandmothers, sisters or mothers.

Though we had gone through many Indian names before our kids were born, we couldn't zero in one that both of us liked. The first was born on the day of a famous indian festival celebrating the birthday of a Hindu God (Ganesha). So, we decided to give him the God's name...though we didn't want anything that was common. So, we chose an uncommon name that was used for that particular God...which also had another philosophical meaning. When we had our second son, our older one chose a name for him which meant the same as his name (the philosophical version though it turned out that this particular God was also known by the same name).So, I have Pranavswaroop and Omkar:)

I found our son's name in the newspaper. It was the name of an Irish musician, and to our knowledge, no one in either of our families bore that name. Our daughter's name is the feminine version of my husband's middle name. That worked out fine, as he only uses a middle initial.

It was really important for my husband to pick out our first son's name. I'm not really sure why. He chose the first name Isaiah because he liked it and the middle name Dash after my father. I'm not sure how we will choose in the future, but we'll deal with that when the time comes.

We generally keep names on rashi of child . Once rashi is decided we know the starting letter for the name. Then we search some very good meaningful names starting from these letters. This is how names are selected but in some cases we decide in advance as we like that name very much. In my son,s case my husband wanted him to be called Sahaj so we didn,t go for rashi and just kept his name Sahaj.

I was killing myself trying to look for a nice name online. My husband said not to worry about it. Since we didnt know if it was a boy or a girl at the time, my husband told me just to keep it low. What I didnt know at the time was that he was searching on his own. Since I wanted a biblical name, he chose one that was a new testament book and my son´s name is Alán.

HI Doran, Finding the right and precious name of our kids is really a challenge for us couples. Since our our last name is francisco -- a spanish word, we tried to look for a name that will in a way matched the surname. For our eldest son we named him giancarlo an italian word and nice to pair with francisco...for our youngest son we named him angelo miguel from me and my husbands first names initials.

Good topic! thank you for your thread huh,i am interested in naming the children,i once experienced this issue and never forgot.. on Christmas day of past year my friend's baby was born,my friend offered 500RMB as bonus and a rich meal for his friends who can give the best name for his son. my friend's demand is that the name must include the meaning of good luck,happiness,health in the future and sound good while reading. Finally i won the tender,the name i chose is ???(chinese name,some myloters may not understand it) ?is family name,up to my friend ?means spirit and universe ?means propitiousness and luckiness,,

I don't have any neat stories. I am one of the few who does not like using family members names. Our last name is short (4 letters) so I like longer first names, if possible. I ended up with: Nicholas Joseph Brian Andrew Matthew Cameron Taylor Samantha Connor Riley Brady Aidan Caden Liam Noah Ryan (yes I broke the rules with this one) Madison Alyssa I was running out of boy names I *loved* when I had Noah..I wasnt even sure of the name but I decided during labor..and he's definitely a "Noah" :)

Simple, I just liked the names Nolan and Falon. So decided, if its a boy, its going to be Nolan and if its a girl, Falon. It was a boy. And again another boy. So it was Dylon.

I wanted my son's as well as my daughter's name to begin with the letter A.I wanted the name to be a short one as my name is a long one .SO I selected the names of Anush for my son and Aarthi for my daughter.

My son was named Russell Paul after my father. I knew that from the moment I knew I was having a boy (which was not through ultrasound, but just something within). My daughter was supposed to be Rachel, but when I saw her, it just didn't fit. I had imagined a dark haired, olive toned beauty, but she came out with a fair complexion and blonde hair and a strawberry birthmark on her forehead. She was GORGEOUS!! But, I just couldn't think of a name. Every name I bounced of my now ex he rejected. Finally, my parents told him "PICK A NAME!!!" He called and suggested Debra. It fit! I then went about picking just the right middle name, which is Nicole. I can't imagine either of them being named anything else!!

I have only named one of my children because she is the only one I gave birth to. My husband and I talked about this and my take is that a child deserves a unique and individual name that is all their own. This can be in part by giving them one name 'for' somebody else but I would never want to give them exactly the SAME name (purposely) as somebody else. My son has the same exact name as his dad and that wasn't because HE wanted it that way. My older daughter has TWO middle names and we really like neither of them. Our youngest is Allison Lauren - we both liked Allison but my husband liked it better than some of the others on our list which were all A names - Alexandra, Ariana, Alexis, etc. I've always liked Lauren, didn't care whether it was a first or middle. I am probably one of the only parents I know who does NOT call my kids by their first and middle names OR first, middle, and last names when they are in trouble. I want them to like their names and not only hear them when they are in trouble. We didn't pick the names early because I thought she was a boy for half my pregnancy. We had a small list going but since she decided to be born right at 39 weeks, I had neither a name picked out or a bag packed, so we were literally down to the wire, discussing names while I was in labor lol. I am pleased to say she DID have a name chosen before she was born, but it was only solid within the last 2 hours before she was born. She is not named for anybody, just herself. I am glad that she looks exactly like her name, although we didn't think she really looked like either of us right after she was born lol. There are some names I just plain like that I really would be torn about using - only because people would ASSUME I had used the name in reference to another person. I prefer to stay away from that - people making assumptions about a child's name which isn't true. If we were to choose more names (if I had more kids for instance) I would stick to my idea that my child deserves a name all of their own. I was actually named for a great grandma - my first name anyway, and my name happened to be the most popular girls name the year I was born and for several years afterwards. I'm not sure if my husband was named after anybody, I don't think he was but it was a somewhat popular name at the time he was born. I'm not necessarily 'trendy' in choosing and I also want to make sure that the name always sounds good - from before birth thru toddler age on to adulthood and beyond. Sometimes you give someone a name and during one stage of their life it just sounds goofy. I would try to avoid that... and also not make it so long or confusing that your child is the last preschooler to learn how to write their name in a class of 35.

it crossed my mind to use one of my husband's names to name our little one but he doesn't like the idea. had he agreed my son's other name would be one of his grandfather's names. so, since he doesn't like me to give either one of his first names to our child then i erased the idea of using any name in the family. however, i like the saying that the owner's name is reflected on the child being given that name so catholics that we are, a saint's name is far from my mind. during the time that i found out that i was pregnant pope john paul II was ill so i vowed that our child would be a john paul. but since we have a spanish sounding surname i tailored it to suit that surname thus our child became john paulo ona .

I have three sons. The oldest is 24 and I remember at that time I was an avid fan of The Young and The Restless. There was a guy on there and his name was Shawn. He wasn't the nicest character of the bunch, but he was cute. His middle name Allen is the same as his dad's middle name. My middle son is 18. His father picked out the name Kyle. I wanted to have a say in it too so his middle name is Richard, after my Dad who we lost last Christmas Day. My youngest is 16 and I named him Dillon. I had heard it a few times while I was out eating or shopping, whatever, and I really liked it. I wanted to spell it Dylan after the singer, but his dad refused...no big deal...same name. His middle name, Anthony comes from his dad's middle name.