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

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 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, 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.



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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.

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.

All of my children were named after family members and their second name something I liked at the time. Keep everyone happy.

well the main contemplation of my baby's name was spent during sleepless nights and based partially on initials. my initials currently spell sas and when i marry my fiance they will become sad but thats ok it doesn't bother me. so we decided to give the baby his dads last name from the start so we don't have to change it later which might be confusing for him. well i'm not a Christian but i decided i wanted his initials to be god and we both wanted to give him an unusual name because i know like 7 Jessica's and 5 Sarah's and i didn't want that to happen with any of my kids. so on those sleepless nights wed sit on the computer going through baby name websites and Wikipedia looking for interesting g names and d names. we also decided to have one name that was a gods name in the names too which is where wiki came in. and at the time we didn't know weather he was a girl or boy so we were looking for both. and in the end we decided on the names Gage Odin and Gaia Omega which both flowed nicely and were unusual when we have a second my fiance wants to make the initials out to be lsd but thats partially because he had a bad guy past and his mom who died when he was young was named Lisa and i can forgive him wanting to name our girl after her even if it is pretty common.

well, i had a friend whose sister's name was leah and i just loved that name! my hubby picked leah's middle name which is kirsten. my hubby named our youngest daughter hannah, after an aunt whose name was johanna (in german the jo is pronounced 'yo') and we dropped the yo and named her hannah. i picked her middle name which is emily.

My partner and I couldn't agree on names. With our daughter, I wanted what he called "hippy names" (nature names). In the end, I chose several names from a book and he finally agreed on Caragh, which means friendship or loved one according to the book (in Irish). Her middle names, Lynn and Janette, are our mothers' names. With our son, we were going to choose a Jewish name, for my partner's family, but we didn't like the same names. I liked Marias, but other family members didn't. We argued over and over, til one afternoon in the pub, I said I would let Caragh choose. She was just over a year old. I gave her the baby name book and told her to open it and choose a name. She opened it and pointed to Riley, which I had suggested before and my partner didn't like. But when it was HER idea, he loved it! His middle names are Sandor and Brian - after his paternal grandfather (who escaped a concentration camp in the war and is more or less my partner's hero) and my father, who is definitely MY hero

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":)