How Did You Select The Name Your Child/Children ?

Well the names at my side of the family usually starts with R. Don't ask me I just don't know what is so special with that letter. So that is the first consideration. My son's name was based on the names of his 3 grandfathers. Rufino, Federico and Ted. I took out the last letters of Rufino and Federico. So he's name is Rufin Federi. Since a third name might be too long for him to write in school. I just nicknamed him Tedi. It is more of a gratitude for our fathers. If not for them, two people would not have the opportunity to be in this world and something as special as my son couldn't have been born.

Well, I'm not yet married and I don't have any children but I also want to share how our names were made. Our parents are quite a religious persons to the extent that made the first letter of our names to be of spiritual significance as well. We are six in the family. For my parents, they have the initials J and C and for us, my siblings and I, we have A, M, E, and N. So, to sum up all our first initials, we would come up with JC-AMEN or Jesus Christ, Amen. There's also a biblical story behind our names. From the eldest down to the youngest, all connect with each other. :)

I had the name of my first child picked from a very young age, about age seven I think. However when finding out I was having a boy I had to come up with a masculine form of the name - which has worked out well, he really likes his name. The second child my husband and I came up with the name while I was pregnant but my aunt who was due on the same day as me ended up having her twins before me and 'stole' my planned name for her first born. We then had to swap her name around so her middle name to be became her first name. From that point on we vowed never to name our babies until they were born, so we named number 3 as soon as we saw her - we had a short list of names and we picked easily from the list within the first five mins after she was born. Our last baby didn't actually get her name until she was 4 days old. We settled on two of our long time favorite names, finally! She has very grown up names that I am sure she will grow into as she gets older. I have not regretted any of the decisions that we made naming our children, they are all beautiful and their names are quite fitting!

I found that names are tough. A boy's name was not an issue because I knew that I wanted to name him after my father - Joseph. However, we have so may Joes and Joeys running around in our family, I did not want to call him by the name or derivative of Joseph. The solution for us if it was a boy was to name him Joseph, after my father and Scott, a name that I like. Scott Joseph didn't fit for me so the name would have been Joseph Scott but called Scott, Scotty, etc. This would have worked in our family because my mother and all of her siblings were called by their middle names. I had a girl so that all ended up to be a moot point. The girl's name centered around finding a name that could utilize the nickname, Bri, pronounced Bree, like the cheese. Brianna was in contention until a neighbor moved an with a daughter of the same name. I like Gabrielle, but often Gabby is associated with that name and I did not want that to stick so that was out. Then we came across Bridget, but my husband would have called her the German form and it sounded too harsh. And a friend put in her 2 cents and said Bridget is what you call a dog. She was a dog groomer and apparently had a number of Bridgets during her career. So we finally settled on Sabrina. Everything works - Bri is a great nickname and the name is different but not too out there. The rub is that my daughter doesn't like the name Bri. Maybe we should number them and when they are old enough they can choose a name they like.

well obviously i will take help of holy quran. I think that will help me a lot for chose name for my baby and most of Muslim do that too.

it is a good discussion

our oldest daughter is named after a sister of a friend of mine. i really loved her name and vowed that i would name my daghter the same name. our youngest is named after my hubby's aunt who drowned when she was in her 30s. her name was johanna, we dropped the jo and added an h at the end.

My oldest is named after a best friend from Junior High School and my second "Mom"-my favorite aunt. I actually dreamt about my oldest son when I was about 14 or so...including his first name. He is named according to that and carries his dad's name for a middle name. I got my youngest son's name while listening to the Yankees game update on the Radio-They were playing at Shea Stadium. I wanted an unusual name for him, his dad is a Yankees fan, and the name is a shortened version of one in the Bible in King David's lineage-so is my oldest son's name. I named my youngest daughter after the heroine in "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken"-Sonora Carver. I love the woman's spirit and courage and the uniqueness of her name. She carries her great grandmother's middle name. In our family, the middle names the children carry are usually the same as an older member of the extended family...aunt, grandmother, cousin, etc. that the parents feel close bond with.

I give my child's first name, the name of the main character from the game Final Fantasy 8. Because when I was pregnant, my husband liked this game, and play this game with me. My son's middle name, I gave the name to show that he was a boy. And his last name is a combination of the zodiac my child and athlete my husband's idol.

We decided it long before having kids. It is the choice of me and my partner both and we did not allow anyone to impose on us. His mother was telling us that she is going to put a name to my twin but my husband refused saying that he wants to do the same as his parents did for him and his brother. So we decided to search for names and landed on various in which we choose Jared and Andrew. Andrew is a metal singer and Jared is the name my husband has chosen for the reason he has a friend who got lost in sea. And they were too close. I respect his decision and I also like both the names as he does.

Choosing name for our children is not that easy. When I first got to know my baby gender from my gynae,both me and my husband started to think what will be the best name for our dear son. We started to flip those name books and also search online. We listed down few names that we like,those kinda simple and easy to remember. We prefer to have a single word for our son 'name. As for his chinese name, my husband flipped our ancestor's book(which consist of those meaningful name) and picked one of them. But I can say,my son 's name is easy to remember and write.

I named my daugher with half of my first name and my full middle name and it matches perfectly. Then I named my son with the same to rhyme with my daughter but a masculine name. so we all have a 3 musketeer thing going and are very happy with it. Being a single mother I found that my decision was a good one as we get along so well.

According to my aunties, I was name after the ex gf of my papa. weird huh??

The most common tradition in my country is to name our children after our parents, resp. children' grandparents. This way a grandfather or a grandmother would be proud their grandchild is bearing their name or at least the name begins with the same letter as the grandparent's. Many people, however, don't do this. They just chose a name they like. I did the same thing. I didn't name my daughter after anyone, I just picked a beautiful and national name for her, not a foreign one. I mean her name is traditional, not some mixture of modernity and absurdity, like many people do these days. And I'm not sorry for the choice I made because everyone who hears her name says it's beautiful and very traditional and that my choice is great.

It was very easy to name my son. he was named after his father. My daughter was a bit more difficult. My husband and I could not agree on the sane names. We even bought a book for naming babies. Thankfully, we were able to come up with a name that we both liked. We did not let any family or friends choose the names for us. We wanted our child to have the name we chose for them.