Question for the parents out there

youve got to be careful really with how you name yer children. parents want something "unique" even making things up.. if its too odd of a name, yer pretty much ensuring yer kid is the playground target for their entire school lives. family or old fashioned names that are TOO old fashioned, will pretty much do the same thing. ive got two girls.. and their names were chosen, with alot of thought and energy, before they were even conceived. to avoid the "fighting" with my first daughter, the father chose her middle name, i chose her first. and with my second, i chose the middle and he chose the first. granted the name had to be agreed on by both.. but the "options" to choose from were as stated. Brittany Ellen & Alysson Gloria and yes.. they fit their names perfectly

I had a few names chosen when I was pregnant both times. I didn't actually name my kids until I was holding them. They both fit their names very well.

In most northern parts of India, the astrologer suggests the first letter of the child's name (after the child is born) and the parents(or rather the family) decides on a name that starts with the particular letter. In our case, my husband and I look for names before the child is born and try to keep a couple of boy and girl names that we both like. We had done that for our older son.We had a boy's name ready that we both liked but not a girl's name. I had a son...and he was born on a special day (celebrating the birth day of an Indian God). So, we started looking for another name that would signify the special day. My sister-in-law's father-in-law who knows Sanskrit suggested a name that was the name of the God AND part of the name was the name we had chosen at first! So, my husband and I were quite happy with the choice...and our older son is Pranavswaroop (Pranav was our first choice). For our second son, again...we didn't finalize on a girl's name. We were focussed on trying to convince our older son that he could probably have a brother instead of the sister he was hoping for. He was the one who came up with the name which meant the same as his name(Omkar). The day the little one was born, he went all over the hospital telling everyone who would listen to him..that Omkar was born! It's not common in our place to give the child a name before or as soon as he/she is born. We have a naming ceremony a month after the child is born. The father of the child whispers the name of the child 3 times in each ear at the ceremony. There have been cases where fathers who didn't like the name the mother chose...whispering the name the father liked during the ceremony..lol

When I was pregant I didn't know if I was having a boy or girl. In fact we didn't know until we actually had her! When we found out we were pregnant we talked about a lot of names. We both liked names the other didn't. We had a few maybes. We both new that if it was a boy he would have my husbands middle name. If it was a girl we wanted to use his grandmothers name as a middle. We ended up combinding my great grandparets names to come up with our daughters first name, Luann Grace. If we had, had a boy he would have been Chase Edward.

Hi Moonlit. This is Piscesmoon back with a new name. I agree with what you said about not naming children until you see them. In all my sons' cases, their Dad and I had tossed around names we liked. However, when I saw my sons, it was as if they told me their names and they ended up with names different to what I had planned. First and last told me their names immediately. Middle son was known in the hospital as "Baby of ..." until the 4th or 5th day when his name finally came to me. In each case, my sons name suit them as kids but are also, I think, manly names.

When I had my first daughter, the dad was not around. I wanted to name her Alexandra Lake. But having conservative parents, they had the name changed and would not stop calling me on my phone until they had verified with my Aunt that her name was changed to something normal like Alexandra Mae (She was born in May, so they wanted that in her name.) When my husband and I had our second daughter, we wanted something unique and I really like the name Skylar. While I was pregnant, for something reason the name Therese really got to me, and so we decided to name her Therese Skylar. But then we got so caught up in thinking up of other names, and we assumed that her birthstone was Amethyst (she was born in September, and her birthstone was actually Sapphire), which sounded like another good name, so we added that too. But I thought her name was too long since it was already three names. I tried to figure out some way to shorten it without leaving any of the names out, and she ended up as Tyrese Amethyst Skylar.

Hi, moonlitmagikchild. We got our kids names by just thinking hard about what we wanted them to be named. They all start with C. I am planning to name my fourth child an C name too. I never knew that I could come up with the names that we have, but we did. They are very pretty names. I guess it was an Angel that dropped our kids names in our spirits.

For our son, I have always loved the name David Michael, but my husband wanted the name to be Armand, since the first born in each generation of his family had it as a name. So, we compromised with David Armand. Unfortunately with our last name, his initials are D.A.D. and his father's initials come out B.A.D. With our daughter, I named her after my brother, James, and she became Jaimie Michelle (which I considered to be the female Michael). And, her initials are not strange, either. I'm just happy my middle name wasn't Ann or my initials would have been M.A.D.!