How did you select the names of your kids?

Before my first son was born, after months of vetoing each other's choice of names, we zeroed in on a boy's name and a girl's name. Our first child was a boy and he was born on a special Indian festival...and we wanted a name that would signify the festival. Fortunately, we could do that by adding one more name to the name we had chosen....together it was the name of the God whose birthday it was...and he was named! The second one's name the older one chose which was the same meaning of his name.

In my family we have very few boys, so we have a tradition of passing down the name Katherine into each generation. The first was my great grandmother Katherine Rose, my grandmother was Katherine Caroline, my aunt Katherine JoAnn, my sister Katherine Elaine, and my daughter who I decided to go back to the beginning she is Katherine Rose after her great great grandmother. The other 5 kids we just picked for no reason.

When my first son was born his dad wanted to call him Fox, Raven or Rex. My family didn't like any of the names. So I bought a baby name book and my mum suggested the name Ryan. So we called our baby boy Ryan. Then before I had my next baby I began using the Internet so during my next pregnancy I looked at different names. I thought that the name Lorry would be lovely if we had a boy or Holly would be a great name if we had a girl. I had a second son but we couldn't agree on a name. His dad asked how about Teo? So I said how about Leo then? He liked that name so we called our baby boy Leo. His nick name is Leo the Lion and this suits him. One day I would dearly love to have a daughter and names I like are Holly, Amber or Lauren. However two names in our family beginning with 'L' it would be confusing. Yusuf sounds like a wonderful name.

I think it is very important to choose a suitable name for your kids. If you give the wrong name, that will give the kids a lot of trouble during the period they are growing up. For exemple, the other kids laught at your kids, If you give a rare name, the people don't recognize the word, they always say the wrong name. I suffered this for a long time. I have a friend which suffer a long name during his whole name. On his name, he has 2 first names which are mixed by french name and English name and 2 last names which are from his parents last name. He hates his name because of giving him a lot of trouble. I think the best name should be simple, easy to understand.

I actually picked out my daughters 1st name way before i even knew she was going to be a girl. I was very exciting with it being my first child therefore i wanted to try to prepare myself in every aspect so i wouldn´t be doubting when it got to it so i bought 2 babyname books and looked through them. I had to look for a name that sounded right in spanish and in english so it was a little bit of a challenge. I also wanted something that came close to or at least a part of my grandmother´s name but wanted to start a new name. I started in the A´s and absolutely fell in love with the name Adeliza, which was a name put together by putting parts of Adeline and Liza. I looked through both books but once you like a certain name that is just it. I ended up giving her my other grandmother´s name but in english and Finally decided on Adeliza Rose

We knew the baby was a girl so my husband and I both made a list of names we liked. If any were the same we automatically kept them. Then we put the names together to make first and middle names and then asked family members for their opinions- end result: Emily Elizabeth and Sarah Adeline.

I Have an only child a daughter and when she was born I already had a chosen name but for one reason or anoptjer the name didn't seem to fit and when i tried other names my brothers and sisters had a comment everytrime on the name. But I finally chose her name which i wanted to be unique from other names similar to it. So I came up with a spelling of the name which is indeed very uniques and tagged on another name which i always liked and wished as a name for my daughter as it mean beloved or sweetheart or some thing similar. So my daughter's name is really something I finally chose and made unique all for her. Her name is Eiris Mavourneen. I don't think anyone spells that name the same way i spelled hers.

I have a daughter. We didn't kow whether it was a girl or a boy but were preparing more for a boy. We had both a girl's name and a couple of boys names picked out. When my dughter was born family members said that the name we had picked if mispronounced would have a very different meaning. After that we couldn't really decide as the names I liked my husband didn't and the names he liked didn't like. Evetually we settled on a name we could both live with, Sabeeha. It suited her perfectly and I now I can't imagine her name being anything else.

I don't know how my parents chose my name, but I can tell you how they chose my brothers. You know the movie The Terminator, and John Conner, and Reese? My brother was named after the characters in that movie. His name is Conner Reese Evans. Weird huh? If I was going to name my kid after a character I would name him Leon or Hope.

Well, with our first child, we went in circles for months. My husband wanted the baby to have initials only. When I asked him why, the answer was silly. Well, to me it was silly. It had something to do with when he grew up and was late for meetings. I finally told him that if he could come up with two good names, names that sounded good together, that had those two initials, I would consent to that. The only two names he could come up with were both the names of one of my ex boyfriends. When I told him that, he changed one of the letters. Instead of JW, we got JC for James Clayton. The second child was a girl. I knew this before I even got pregnant with her. I woke up in the middle of the night and told my husband we were going to have another baby and, I gave him the name. He thought I was a nutter, since we had been told that we couldn't have any more children. Anyway, three months after my dream, I got pregnant. We never picked out another name, although everyone kept saying, "You need to pick out at least one other name for a girl and one for a boy." What happens if she doesn't look like a Rebecca? My thought was, who cares? What does a Rebecca look like, anyway? Well, our daughter was born, I looked at her and laughed. She looked exactly the way I had pictured her and, she was named Rebecca LeChelle, just as I had dreamed a year earlier.

For my first son, his father picked the name Jorden and since that was the only name that we could both agree on it was going to be Jorden weither it was a girl or boy. Then for my Second son we named him Alejandro. I liked the name and he was okay with it. I told him it was either Alejandro or Emilio. So we ended up with Alejandro.

Me and my husband select the name of our daughter at the baby names dictionary. We select which has a good meaning. Specially the names of those famous person the saints.

i hve a brother i know he is boy after birth first time ihe is very small and looking very cool so we com up with sum good and intresting nam and i though only one name gaurav and he look like as gaurave becouse i like this name

When i had my baby for the first time, i really didn't know what to do. When i gave birth to my daughter, we didn't know that my baby will be a girl, cause i didn't get the chance to have an ultra sound to know if the baby is a boy or a girl. anyways, we thought that it will be a boy so we prepared a name for a boy. to make the story short i gave birth to a baby girl. so instead of Julian Paul by the way, i got the names from paul mcartney and the julian is from john lennon's son. i'm a big fan of beatles. going back to my baby's name we changed it to Julienne Paula. it's a nice name anyways.

I just heared them and thought that is a name I like. When I was pregnant I wrote them down and at the end I looked in my little book again. Every name I disliked then I torned out of the book and finally there was only one name left. That's the name my kids got.

When our son was born, we did not have any specific name in our mind. In our religion, it is the priest which tells us the first letter of the name to be given to a child after performing a kind of prayers. In our case the fist letter was 'K', so we decided to name our son KARTIK. Kartik is the name of son of Hindu Lord Ganesh.

hello there,i like the name of your kid its cute and sounds like deutsche name" yusuf" in english thats Joseph " yusef" in deutsch. well before pregnant i had lots of baby´s name but my hubby dont really like some of it till we end up with the great actress and great wife "Catherine Zeta Jones and the my mother inlaw is Anni Loisa so i combined it "Cathren Ann Loise" so my hubby likes my idea so also my mother inlaw. my little Princess now is 4 yrs old and she can pronounce it nicely she even did it under 3 yrs old and so far she has no probs with her long names.thanks for your nice topic.

We had tons of names picked out for boys but then found out we were having a girl and could not agree on a name. I like names that arent that common but that arent too weird. My BF wanted either Bree or Audry and I hated both of those names so we combined them to make the perfect name, Aubree. I like telling that story.