How did you pick your baby’s name?

I picked from a list of baby names and combine it with my favorite actor's name. But we're still undecided. My husband and I are still trying to figure out other options.

No need to pick a name, never had a baby.

We are currently 8 months pregnant and know it will be a girl. We do have two names on our wish list and are still contemplating which one to use. The second name does have the disadvantage that it was the most popular girl's name in Germany in 2014 and we originally had decided to not use a name from the "top 10" since there will be too many girls with such a name *lol*

Oh, with the help of a book that explained the meanings of many first names. Remembering to give the right name, spelled correctly, to the Registrar in the hospital the day after the birth could be challenging, but their names are all correctly-spelled!

Maria is a beautiful name. My cousin's name is Maria, when it's supposed to be Marianne. I don't have any children. Lovely post. As for me, it was either Kristen or Laura. But they loved this name the best--my former NJ neighbor and my mother's friend had named their only daughter Laura. Kristen in Scandinavian for anointed.

Here it comes from tradition and is either given the grandfathers or mothers name.

From Day one I always said if it is a Boy the Name will be for a Boy Michael John and if it was a Girl it would be Melanie Jane well my first was a Boy and he got the name Michael John and I was so lucky that 3 years later I had a Girl as she is now Melanie Jane lol if the second one would have been a boy too I would have been stuck for a Name

It is interesting to read how you choose the name 'Maria del Carmen Rodriguez' for your daughter. Hope she grows up as per her name. At our place, our priest suggests an alphabet (on the 40th day after birth of a baby) or two to give a name to our baby boy or girl. I do not know the exact details how does he find that particular alphabet of the name . Then we give a name to a baby, which begins with that particular alphabet.

At least this one is an easy one, Ann. (I'm also happy there is nothing about it that call for sympathy or regrets on anyone's part!) My daughter should have been a son if you go by the statistics of the rest of my family. My parents had 16 children. The first three were boys. Of my siblings, I am the only one who has a daughter as his eldest child. I am also the next-to-the-youngest in our family. So there was a strong feeling that we were all going to have a boy first. My first wife and I picked out a boy's name and never gave a single thought to having a daughter. Starting when "he" was just a tiny bump, I read stories to "him", we sang songs to "him" and called "him" Bruce, as that was the name my wife and I chose for our son... We both told "him" how life was going to be after "he" was born. Can you imagine the shock we experienced when, instead of the perfect little boy we knew we were going to welcome into this world, a perfect little angel was born in his place?! Since we couldn't call our angel Bruce, we were at a complete loss for a name for her! The nurse was shocked we didn't have a name picked out for a girl! She thought it was hilarious when we explained why we only had a boy's name picked out! My daughter was born at 2 am. My wife and I dozed until we were awakened that morning about 7 am by the loud cries of our daughter. When I handed my daughter to my wife, she ask me if I thought Pretty* would make a good name for her. I had to think about it for two or three seconds before I agreed. My daughter didn't have a middle name until about a week later. *My daughter's online name is PrettyEvil. Of course, that is not the name we gave her IRL.

I went through a lot of names on the internet initially. We chose a list of names for a boy and a girl as each one in our family liked different names. Naming ceremony is a grand affair in India and it took a really long time to finalize a name that everybody was happy with. We named him Ishan which means the third (universal) eye of lord Shiv.