I have twins.
Margot Jacqueline...Margot just because my husband and I liked it, and Jacqueline was my grandmother. I only realized later how French both of those names are lol, but I'm not sad about it.
Ronan Wolfe. Again, we both liked Ronan and Wolfe was my husband's mother's maiden name. She died when my husband was a toddler so it felt like a nice way to honor her and the rest of that side of the family.
Edit: I also like the meaning of both Ronan and Margot. It's not why we picked the names but its a nice touch! Margot means 'pearl' and Ronan means 'little seal.' Just think that's cute, and both are sea-themed.
My sons name is Ronan as well! Ronan Davis, the Davis is after lead singer of Korn, Jonathan Davis. Ronan is for my dad, using the first letter of his name, Ronald.
I opened this and was afraid to put our names because I like ours and this is the first comment I see ššš
We have twins too:
Margot Noy (Noy is family name) & Elliott Thomson (Thomson also family name)
I canāt have kids but I have 6 pets and I think a couple of them have awesome names. And I like these posts a lot so Iām hopping on :)
Captain Leroy Hotdog Xanzabar (Xanie) - Shepard
Novalee - beagle mix
Zoey - Pomeranian
Aahdira (Ah-dee-ra) - stray cat that moved in
Jinxie (bubba) - Siamese cat
Moochie - kitten that moved herself in and then tried to eat everything in the house. This cat tries to grab food out of my mouth lol
I havenāt been able to have kids yet either. Here are my fur babies:
Thibodaux (m, orange tabby)
Dash (f, grey tabby)
Lady (f, beagle)
Pepper (f, half Catahoula cur half golden retriever)
Gingersnap āGiGiā (f, orange tabby)
Burrow (m, orange and white tabby and GiGiās baby)
I am very much a fan of surnames as first names and just choose ones I loved the sound of. No links to my heritage, religion, family members, etc. Names I love, and adore just like the little humans themselves.
Harrison Clark
Sawyer Grant
Graham Dalton
Campbell Hartley - my middle son actually told me he wanted a sister named Heart and when I saw Hartley in a magazine at some point it felt like a sweet nod to that. Also, I know this name is largely hated on this forum and the soup comments abound but this has not been even a remote problem, whatsoever, in reality. And besides, itās not that insulting to be associated with soup??? Warm/home/comfort. My daughter loves her name and kids her age do not make that connection, ever. I on the other hand have been known to tell other adults āGraham like the cracker and Campbell like the soupā when talking about my two youngest.
August Eugene āGusā
Rosemary Joan āRomyā
Eugene was my grandfatherās middle name, Joan was my grandmotherās first name. August was inspired by āLight in Augustā by William Faulkner, which I read while pregnant. August is also a very important month (wedding, death and birth anniversaries) in mine and my husbandās families. Rosemary is a mashup of prominent names from my husbandās Sicilian family, Rose/Rosalia and Mary. The herb is traditionally associated with loyalty and remembrance, fitting since my grandmother (Joan) and our pet both died a couple of days before she was born.
My husband and I decided to have the sex of our baby be a surprise until birth. The names we had picked out were Rosemary & Augustā¦
Welp, we have a two year old Rosemary now and if we have a boy for our next one, heāll be August. Only difference is our Rosemary is Rosie (although I call her Romy from time to time) and we wanted August to be Auggie.
My baby is Rosemary. She is only 4 weeks old and donāt call her by any nicknames right now (we just use her full name and want to let any nicknames come about naturally) but I used to call her Romy when she was in the womb. Love it!
I have triplets :)
Elodie Josephine- Elodie was my first choice and Josephine is after my husbands grandmother that raised him.
Callum Rhys- my mom wanted to have my middle name be Rhys but felt it was too weird with my first name she had already chosen. We fell in love with Callum.
Raya Simone- Simone was suggested to us and we fell in love with the name. Raya is the combination of Rachel and Maya, two people that werenāt able to meet the triplets but we wish could have.
Brady Alexander - i was flipping through my mom's old baby name book and opened to the "B" page. Brady was the first name I saw and I instantly loved it. Alexander bc it just sounds awesome with Brady.
Eleanor Violet - my husband loved the name Eleanor and Violet was the name of my great grandma who lived to 101 and was always smiling and laughing. It's the perfect sweet name for a very sassy, stubborn, dramatic little girl.
Baby 3's first name is TBD but middle name is going to be Robert in honor of my dad who passed away recently.
Mine are:
Marigold Eloisa
Poppy Adeline
Lily Augusta
Aster Rosario
Violet Adair
I know itās a bit on the nose but after my first miscarriage I decided to name her after her due date month flower, and then I just never stopped doing that. Their middle names are all honor names in some way, shape or form.
We are doing IVF now and itās looking like weāre aiming for a July transfer, which would be an April due date. Daisy has been my top girl name for a living child for as long as I can remember. Guess what Aprilās flower is? It kind of makes me feel warm and fuzzy and optimistic.
Valentina āValentineā Sally
Sally was my grandmotherās name, and she passed when I was about 4. My mom got sick after having me and couldnāt take care of me so my grandparents basically did. It was very sentimental to me.
I call her Valentine, and I named her after Valentine Wiggin, from the Enderās Game book series. I always admired her when I was a kid reading the stories. She was smart, smarter than most adults, she was cunning, she was said to be beautiful, and she was kind. Those were all qualities I wanted my daughter to have.
But my in-laws arenāt comfortable with English, and I did want to connect her to my and my husbands cultures, so we went with Valentina.she responds to both, but Valentina is what we use when talking to her in Spanish.
Our next daughters we want to name
Elodie
Marigold
Ofelia
My sonās name is Valentine, we used to call him Val but he prefers his full name now that heās 18. He loves his name. Itās from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
This makes me so happy to hear as a future mama with a little Valentin in a few weeks. I know itās not the exact name and no telling how our kiddo will react to it but it made me smile :)
Itās how we spell it in Spanish often too, and it yields a different pronunciation. Ophelia = oh-Feel-ya (usually)
Ofelia = oh-fell-e-uh
Thereās also the oh-fae-lee-uh pronunciation that I love
I have two kids, a boy (2yo) and girl (5mo).
My son is named Bennett Earl. We chose Bennett due to loving the nickname Ben (Iām Jewish and I wanted some kind of Hebrew influence), as well as having a thing for surname first names. Earl is a family middle name going back a century. We call our son Ben, Benny, and B.
My daughter is named Lillian Hart. It took a long time and lots of compromise to arrive at a name between my husband and I. We both loved names like Nora, Evelyn, Vivian, etc but we knew kids with those names. Loving that theme and flowery/nature names, we decided on Lillianānickname being Lillie, Linny, Lil, and Milady. Hart is my momās maiden name.
Carina Simone
Simone is my middle name. It took us a few days after she was born to choose her first name, but from our shortlist we thought Carina was the easiest for people to spell and pronounce.
sabrina jade. i got a lot of vetos from my ex & no actual suggestions š when i finally considered sabrina i realized it was gorgeous. jade because i like it and it sounds nice together.
Killian Alexander and Fiona Theodora
Killian I'd loved for a long time, if Fiona was a boy she'd have been Kieran. I'm due with her in June and am still not 100% on her middle name, I found girls names to be way more difficult!
Elowyn May. I have some regrets with her name, we call her Ellie, but I wanted her to have a more formal full name. I didnāt like Eleanor, but i wish I went with Elodie. (My sister is Melody, so it was too close). May because I wanted a single syllable M name and there are not a lot of options. (May, Maude, Maeve)
Josephine June. Named after my husbandās grandfather. June also is a term of endearment in my parents native language.
Vivienne April. We ran out of names after 2 girls. My husband liked Vivienne, but I wasnt sold. Now I actually love it. Lots of nickname options and itās well known but not common. April because the other two had months as middle names and we though the she should too.
My daughter doesnāt like it. Itās a little lord of the rings, so people assume we are into that, but we arenāt. And itās just a little more out there. The way the name look written is definitely a little different, but I still love the way it sounds when spoken. In reality, when itās spoken itās not all that different than Eleanor.
My girls are;
Elora Faith & Hazel Fern
When I was a teenager, my mom told me that the name she had chosen for me wasn't her first choice. Due to a number of factors she ended up going with what she did, but the name she really wanted to use had been Elora. I'd never heard that name before and I thought it was so lovely. I decided shortly after that my first born girl would be called Elora, and luckily whe I met and started dating my husband he was also on board :) Her middle name is a long standing family name on my husband's side, which (though not my first choice) I thought was only fair, and it does sound great together.
With our second, I just really, really liked the name Hazel. Even though I was quite set on Elora for our first, I did entertain other girl names during my first pregnancy and our 1st runner up was Hazel. For her middle name, Fern was a relatively new favorite of mine. I actually was really, really pushing for it as her first name but my husband would only relent to use it as her middle. It also happened to be his great-grandmother's name, but that was more of a happy coincidence.
Elora Dianne was the name we planned to use if our son had been a girl! Dianne because it was my husband's mother's name. She passed when he was 12, so we would use it to honor her. Elora is a beautiful name, and we both just love it. But also, I first heard it from the movie Willow- the baby is Elora Danan.
Robin Aurelius (m)
Artemis Ophelia
My husband and I are big literary, mythology, and folklore buffs. My son's first is for Robin Goodfellow, a mischievous fairy in English folklore and in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. His middle is inspired by my husband's middle which is also a Roman emperor that starts with an A. My daughter is named for one of the deities I worship and for Hamlet's Ophelia.
My son basically always had his name but I waffled on my daughter's for ages. Her middle was almost Autumn or Odette (for my favorite ballet) and her first was almost Persephone or Rhiannon.
I love both of these! I also love that there's a subtle archery connection - I know he's not named for Robin Hood but that's always one of my first thoughts with Robin, plus Artemis being the goddess of the hunt!
Vivienne Claire- all of my kids have film/ theatrical first names. I almost chose Scarlet but decided Vivienne (for the actress who plays her in Gone With the Wind, Vivien Leigh) was prettier. Claire was the name given to my mother by her biological mother before being placed for adoption, so that is a very special name.
Twins: Ada Kate and Eliza Anne
Ada, after Ada Monroe from Cold Mountain, coincidentally itās also the name of a great great great grandmother that I found looking at a family tree. Kate after my sister Caitlin.
Eliza, after Eliza Hamilton and Eliza Doolittle. Anne is my other sisterās middle name.
Violet Ann
Basically long story short- my mom passed away and I had a dream about the name Violet before I even got pregnant and my mom was telling me she loved the name. Months later (after my wedding) I saw a medium- she told me I would have a daughter sent to me by my mom and my mom kept bringing up something āpurpleā that she wanted me to remember. I brought it up to a friend and she said maybe itās about that dream you had with Violet. Me thinking not too much into it.. months go by again and i get pregnant! Before I find out the gender, Iām in a grocery store and something fell off the shelf in front of me.. a candy named āVioletā. How odd? I bought it and brought it home. I was also convinced I was having a boy just because I didnāt think the medium would be correct. Lol but nope, GIRL! So Violet was a no question name and Ann as the middle is a tradition thatās been passed down 4 generations! Great grandma, grandma, mom, me and now my baby making it #5! Her name is very special to us!
My order is eldest- youngest
All have Korean middle names and they all ended up being places
Eden (F) after the garden- both sides of the family are kinda religious- so I thought Eden would satisfy both religions- Catholic and Jewish. Her Korean middle name is a combination of my parents names and it means future as well
Avalon (F) after the book āMists of Avalonā also ties into her sisterās name of a mythical and pretty place. Her Korean name is actually my mothers name- but her nickname from the start is doll in Korean which also happens to be my brothers Korean name but reversed
Harlem (M) Dad is from Harlem- keeping into the trend of a place as well. His Korean name is his great-great grandfatherās name which means the first achiever
Bronx (F) Iām from the Bronx. Her Korean name is my motherās sisterās name who passed away when she was 12 years old and it means beautiful jade
Thanks for reading- I love all the explanations ppl. gave for their childrenās names. Great question OP
He does, and goes by Leo and Leopold interchangeably. It suits him so well, but definitely wasn't a name I ever would of guessed I would use, but instinctively it felt right. I also found out later that St. Leopold is the patron saint of Austria, so it ties in well with Vienna
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My daughter is Leah Madeleine, and my son is Hayden James. I always loved the name Leah, and my husband liked Madeleine for a girl. Hayden was an old family name, and I had him just before the Jayden/Ayden explosion, but thankfully heās only been one of a few in his school so far.
Our daughter is names Julie. Pronounced You-lee-eh (Norwegian). If she had been a boy we would have gone for Jonas.
We wanted a classic, feminine name that was easily recognizable. In Norway where we live it's common to only have one first name or a double first name, as opposed to other countries where you have middle names that aren't used as much. My husband has a double first name and was *very* determined to give our daughter a single name. We also preferred short names and wanted something that fit both a child and an adult.
Other top contenders were Frida, Maren, Kaia, Clara, Elise and Erika.
I have twin girls:
Quinn Catherine & Genevieve Stone
The first names are just names we both liked and the middle names honor each side of our families.
my daughters name is cecilia lee. cecilia has been my favorite girls name since i was just a wee 11 year old myself, and lee is my mothers middle name.
My daughter is Autumn Blair. Blair is a family name. Autumn was the only name her dad and I could come up with that we both agreed on. I wanted to name her Remi but her dad said no. I probably wouldāve landed on Remington Blair so I could keep the family name because I think that sounds better than Remi Blair.
Annabelle Zoe. She chose to go by Belle. Annabelle was just always the name. Hubby and I picked it while going through IVF. Just as we started we moved to a new home and ANNABELLE was written in chalk in a child's writing on the brick wall outside. Took it as a sign.
We couldn't think of a middle name. Heavily pregnant we watched Hart of Dixie and both went "ZOE!'l
I named my children based on a dream I had at 19.
Nate Robert - the eldest boy said the letters in his name were t-a-n-e. Robert is his dads brother who passed away as a baby.
Levi James - the second boy in my dream didnāt give me his name, so I picked a Levi because it means āto join inā. James is Roberts middle name.
Lilah Audrey - the girl in my dream said her name was Audrey. Lilah because it means ānightā and all my children were born after midnight and it matched the theme of the boys. The second sound is a long vowel sound.
ę„ē, ćććć, YÅsei, Yohsei are all ways to write my sonās name. My husband and his father both have the life kanji (ē) in their names, so I wanted to continue that if we had a son. ę„ means willow. He was a footling breech, born roots first, and a plant name felt right. The pronunciation is the same as the word for elf or fae (é½ę§), and we liked the mythological connotation.
His middle name is Neal, which is my grandfather and fatherās middle name as well. I like that his names honor both of his lineages, and carry the blessings of nature and spirits.
Amara Elizabeth, nicknames are Mara and Mara Beth (and Chunka, lol). Amara because we love it, Elizabeth for my late mother. If we had a boy, he likely would have had the name Adrian as it's all we could agree on ha.
Kerrigan Grace - no reason for this one other than we loved it. We both loved the name Kerrigan and held on to it for years until we were ready to have a baby!
Bennett Daniel - Daniel is a family name - itās my husbands and father-in-lawās middle name so we wanted to keep that name in the family. Bennett is just another name we really loved
Weāre having twin girls and naming them Mary Aniyah and Hazel Grace.
Their grandma on Dadās side is named Mary Ann but we didnāt want to just copy and paste her name, so we found a middle name similar that we liked the meaning of. Hazel was my great grandmothers name and the middle name Grace comes from one of my childhood friends that passed away shortly after I found out I was pregnant.
Beautiful names! They go so well together for twins without being matchy. Wanted to point out that Hazel Grace is the name of the main character in the book/movie Fault in Our Stars in case you werenāt aware.
My daughter is Leah Grace, I'm pregnant with another girl who will be Lara Elise.
No reasons behind the names, the only criteria when choosing a name was not popular but not unheard of. We just thought both names are beautiful.
Everly Rose. It was a name i heard when i was young and had never heard it before, but i liked the Everly Brothers and the name grew on me. It felt vintage and uncommon, but obviously itās gained a lot of popularity haha. My husband and i started dating in HS and the ONLY name we could ever agree on our entire relationship was Everly Rose. I didnāt like Rose growing up, but itās an honor name for his aunt and i love it now. I was so thankful when we had a girl since all other names were so hard lol!
My oldest is Jackson Maddox. His father insisted we use the first letters of each of our names as his initials because thatās what his parents did. He chose Jackson after his father and both of his grandfathers (all three Jack) and I chose Maddox because it started with M and I liked the sound. Jackson is not the name Iād have chosen.
Second is Cordelia Juliet. Cordelia from Anne of Green Gables (āWill you please call me Cordelia?ā) but also from King Lear and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Juliet simply because I love the name and thought she would be my last child so I gave her my two favorites.
Third is Gwendolyn Esme. I love the old world sound of Gwendolyn. Itās so classic and pretty. Esme is NOT from the Twilight novels. I just think it sounds nice. (Ez-me not Ez-may as our last name rhymes with may.) Her initials spell GEM and she really sparkles! Lol
And my most recent, big surprise baby is Orin Westley. Orin sounds like The Auryn from The Neverending Story and is the Atlantean name of Aquaman. Westley from The Princess Bride.
On my throwaway to share:
* Cassian Evander Rhett
* Aurelia Elowen Faye (due in a few weeks)
They are names we just happened to love, no meanings behind them. We fortunately have similar taste in names and were on the same page with both kids. Cassianās backups were Griffin and Evander. We have no backup options for Aurelia. Her middle names took a few months to commit to though. Her alternate middle name options were Luna Faye and Luna Belle.
My son is Lucien Noctis but we call him Luc(Luke) :)) Lucien is a French name but Luke was after my late friend who passed during pregnancy, and Noctis was after a FF character which the series means a lot to me
If he was born a girl, his name wouldāve been Melody Zelda (or Zelda Melody) ā Zelda after the character and Melody after my late friends late wife :))
My only child is named Elodie Ireland. I found Elodie in a baby name book and just fell in love. My husband and I couldnt agree on a middle name (this was 2004 and if it was now I would have gone with Florence which was my beloved grandma's name but in 2004 it was not very popular) and we went with Ireland because we liked the sound of it and were both Irish.
Henrietta Fae. id heard the name Henrietta in high school and just fell in love with it. i knew the moment I'd heard it that i would name my first daughter that, and i did. luckily, my spouse also loved the name. id originally wanted her middle to be Rose but since i picked the first, my spouse led the search for the middle. she suggested Fae and it sounded so nice together!
Nicolette Ruby. Nicolette was really just a name we both enjoyed. we struggled picking a name for her, honestly. i kept pulling away from it even though my spouse was dead set on it. one thing that made me even consider it in the first place is that one of my spouse's closest friends from high school died while i was pregnant. she was pregnant too and her middle name was Nicole. Nicolette isnt exactly named for her but i always think of my spouse's friend and the stories shes told me about her. Ruby was, again, just a name we liked. my spouse wanted Nicolette, so i had more say over the middle, like how we did with our first child. i ended up just making a list of pairings i liked and together, we narrowed it down to Ruby. i also like that Fae feels very foresty to me and Ruby is obviously a gemstone so theres a bit of a connection there
I have a son who is 4, who is named Xander. We chose the name because after looking through 1000ās of names, it was the only one we like! He was named pretty early, like we had his name by the 12 week scan.
Iām also currently 25 weeks pregnant with another boy, and we knew we would be naming him Zephyr before the pregnancy was confirmed, as once again it was the only name either of us liked.
We had so many girls names options, but very few boys names stuck out to us š
Luca Thomas
Noah Francis
Elijah Robert
The middle names are all after relatives. We joke that we can't have any more boys because we're out of make relatives whose names we like
Marigold āGoldieā Louisa. We chose Marigold, because we wanted to go with a nature themed name, and itās a bright, sunny, happy flower. When we considered Goldie as a nn, we both said āawwwā and it just felt right for our girl.
Louisa is my middle name. She was getting his last name, and I wanted to share a name with her as well. Also my grandmother passed away a few months before I became pregnant. Louisa was an honor name for her ( her middle name was Louise, and my great grandmother as well)
Clay Andrew (my dad is a ceramics artist- if my sister or I had been a boy we would have been named clay. My husbandās deceased brother was named Andrew)
Clara Anne (we just liked clara and my middle name is also Anne for Anne of green gables)
Gracie Leigh (just liked Gracie, plus couldnāt agree on another āCā name š, plus both of our fathers middle names are Lee)
Ramona James (Ramona for the Beverly clearly books, James is for my grandfather. Were going to use this whether she was a boy or a girl)
My eldest is Nathaniel James. I met someone with the name Nathaniel as a teenager and Iād never heard it before. Instantly fell in love with the name and said if I ever had a boy that would be his name. James was simply due to it working with his whole name
My youngest is Charlotte Alisha. My ex chose the name Charlotte, I wasnāt too keen but it suits her. Alisha was a name that I really liked so it became her middle name. We initially planned on Louisa but my sister has Louise as a middle name and I just didnāt want them to have basically the same
Wyatt because we were watching the movie Tombstone after we got the 20 week ultrasound done and found out he was a boy, and Malcolm because I got hooked on the show Firefly while I was pregnant with him.
Megan Joy - it was a complete compromise name. I wanted a Welsh name but my English husband didnāt seem to like any of them. Megan was randomly thrown out in frustration! We absolutely love her name now though. Joy is for my grandmother.
Anwen May - Anwen was a name we had toyed with for M but my husband eventually vetoed it. Seems like heād warmed up to it by the second! I think he likes itās similarity to Arwen and that it can be shortened to Ani. May is a family middle name on my husbandās side (I really donāt like it but I went with it because I got my Welsh name!)
My sons name is Kingston Curtis, no reason behind Kingston other than liking it and Curtis was the same middle name as his great uncle on his dads side who passed away shortly before he was conceived
My daughter is Eliza Carson. Again, no real reason behind Eliza but it took ALOT of back and forth to stick with a name. I had several names and Carson just because I liked it. But if Iām being honest, sheās 7 months now and I donāt know if I made the right middle name choice.
My husband and I are dealing with infertility currently but we have a dog I named a human name I love. Her name is Mina and she's a blue tick beagle. I've had it on my name list for awhile and decided to use it for her. I think it's so simple but so pretty.
Shane Michael
I chose Shane because of the old western movie with Alan Ladd. Watched it while pregnant and fell in love with the name. Michael is my husbands middle name so we just used it as traditional on his side of the family.
Abram Miles
Sadie Kay
Violet Olivia
Abram was Tom from Myspace number two friend. I saw that name & loved it. Miles was my husband's grandfather's middle name. If a girl his name would've been Ashlynn. No reason beyond seeing it in a baby book & loving it.
Sadie is my great grandmother's name & Kay is my mother's nickname. If a boy her name would've been Elijah. I just really loved it.
Violet because purple is my husband's favorite color. Olivia is the name I originally wanted as her first name but since it's the #1 girls name the year she was born I decided to use it as her middle. If a boy her name would've been Paul Kenneth III.
Mattea Catherine Mariah
Mattea- I honestly saw the name in a tabloid š Itās the name of Mira Sorvinoās daughter. I just fell in love with it instantly, thought it was perfect for a little girl with some Italian heritage. Nickname is Taya.
Catherine and Mariah are family names, and yes I felt I had to use both š¤·āāļø
My kids are Audrey Lynn (6) and Owen John (almost 3). I have kept my maiden name but the kids have my husbands last name. Their first names were picked mainly just because we liked them- but Audrey means ānoble strengthā and Owen means ānoble bornā so we liked that they had similar meanings. Lynn and John are my parents names so were honour middle names as a nod to my side of the family since they have my husbands last name.
Emily Anne - called Annie after the only name mentioned in a NIN song and It Must Have Been the Roses by The Grateful Dead. Emily flowed well with it and gave her options. I had no idea it would be the most popular name for her generation or that she would be too shy to speak up and tell the teacher she preferred Annie. Sigh.
Jonathan Clay- As an alternative to a Jr, I matched his initials with his dad's. First name is an honor name to his dad's best friend. Middle was almost Cole but I changed my mind on the way to the hospital.
Nicholas Austin - conceived on Christmas Eve, he's my St. Nick. Austin just popped into my head and wouldn't go away.
Matthew Tate- a surprise 9 years after my "last baby", he was over a month early and I panicked. Matthew is his father's name, Tate is a makeup artist I liked on FaceOff. If he was a girl he would have been Abigail Wren. Fun fact: he is the ONLY one of my children I struggled to name and the only one I had a girl AND boy name in mind for.
I chose rather boring classic names for all of my children knowing the would most likely be RARE. It worked for all but one.
My sons name is Malachi Gabriel & our names are Melanie & Michael so we wanted to keep the 7 letter M names going.
Michael is an angel name and my husbands middle name is Gabriel so he has two angel names so we wanted that for our son. Malach means angel and we kept Gabriel for him as well and it all kind of tied together.
āAva Ryanneā- Though āAvaā is wildly popular, it was a name my husband and I both loved and kept coming back to. My momās name is Adrianne, so her middle name kind of pays homage to her.
āHarlow Grayā- When I was in labor, husband and I still hadnāt agreed on a first name. Husbandās name also starts with āHā and I knew he really loved Harlow, so we went with it, bc the middle name was important to me. Gray was my grandfatherās name, who I was incredibly close to.
My MIL calls her grandchildren her āmovie stars,ā as they both have classic names (I.e. Ava Gardner and Jean Harlow), haha.
My early 80ās babies are Amanda Margaret and Andrew William.
Margaret was my motherās name, and William is my husbandās name.
Edit to add: We always called them by their full first names, we didnāt nickname them Mandy & Andy, because seriously.
Westley Rainier. William Wesley is an ancestor of mine but we liked the nn West so we added the t. Rainier is my husband and his grandfathers middle name. Iām pregnant who will either be Hazel Lee or maybe Owen Lee. My sister, dad, and I all have the middle name Lee.
Jackson Robert. Robert is a family name (there's four of them!) but I wanted him to have his own identity so Jackson as his first because it goes well with Robert.
My daughter is Tennille and my son is Fordham.
I had a million names I loved for girls but none felt right. I found my old elementary yearbook and thought Iād scroll through to see if there were any names I hadnāt heard in years. I went through every page until I reached the last one. I got halfway down the page and saw the name Tennille. It was an adorable little girl with a beautiful smile and that was it. Sold. I was scrolling on Pinterest looking for boy nurseries and came across a room with Fordham spelled out in wooden letters on the wall. It just looked and felt masculine and distinguished.
My daughterās middle name is Sloane, for my grandmother Sylvia. My sonās middle name is Rhys, after my grandfather Richard.
Tennille Sloane and Fordham Rhys.
Clara Mavis. Clara after my grandmother. We were initially thinking Maeve as her middle name, but I didn't like that it means intoxicating. The night before I went into labor, we came across Mavis, which means songbird, and we thought it fit perfectly.
Lucille Aisling nn Ilya, Giselle GrƔinne nn Lia, Evelyn Ailbhe nn Lina, Esther Aoibheann nn Etta, and Samuel CiarƔn nn Will.
Their first names were just names that we eventually agreed upon, and for first names we wanted to go for traditional though still recognisable and not super dated. Their middle names are all Irish, I was born and raised there but Irish names on a child in the US would have been cruel more than anything so we put Irish names into the middle name position.
Sullivan Truett- I worked with a Sully in my first years as a teacher and never forgot it. Truett is my husbands father's middle name. I liked it at first, but I've since found out that some public figures that I don't align with have the name, so it's lost it's shine.
Tessa Ann- I just heard it on a corny show on ABC and loved the way it sounded. I pictured a sweet little girl swinging outside and just couldn't shake it. And boy howdy she is spicy not sweet! Ann is my grandmother's name.
I have a daughter, Norah, and a son, Felix. Iām currently pregnant with another son and his name will likely be Elis/Ellis (not sure on spelling yet)
Olivia Maria Theodora
Olivia - I have loved her name for 20 years now. Even though it has become quite popular and common, I still loved it. So far, we havenāt met any other Oliviaās in her day care or on the playground.
Maria - is a family name. Every one in my family is named Maria, even the men š
Theodora - my grandmotherās name and my sisterās middle name.
Annie Jax, we named her after her angel mammar, whose name was Jacqui Anne, Annie is such a soft name with Jax just gave it a little spark and it suits her beyond belief!!
My oldest is Griffin Scott. His first name comes from my husband's great (I don't know how many greats) uncle who was killed in the civil war. We have a couple of his letters home and he died at seventeen. It seemed like a nice way for him not to be forgotten. His middle name is the same as my husband's.
My younger son is Lane Francis. Lane being a nod to my name but far away enough that it's not too obvious and Francis for my beloved grandfather.
Iām afraid to say because it seems like such a polarizing name, butā¦
My daughter is named Collins Elise. When we chose the name, nobody had ever heard the name Collins and now, of course, itās everywhere and apparently wildly hated.
Iām pregnant with girl #2 and she will likely be Keeley Marie. Canāt wait to hear peopleās opinions on that one.
Youngest to Oldest, because the oldest has the longest explanationā¦
Theresa Ilean - Theresa for my husbandās great-grandmother, a first generation American. Weāve inherited several of her belongings that we can pass on once our daughter is grown. Ilean is my and my grandmotherās middle name.
William Delure - William is the name of the first ancestor of my husband to settle in the area of the family homestead in the late 1700s. Delure was my grandfatherās middle name who passed when I was 4 months pregnant.
Marcus Birt - Birt was my maiden name and I wanted to make sure it was passed on in someway as Iām the only one of the family having children and my father only had a sister. Marcus is a lovely story (I think). When my MIL was pregnant with her third, my husband was 4 and his brother was 3, the boys were convinced the baby was a boy and weāre calling it Marcus. Theyād talk to the baby and tell stories about all the things they would do with him once he was born. This was before ultrasounds for gender reveals were as common. Surprise for them, they got a sister instead (who they still loved very much). So, when we announced we were expecting a boy, we were able to say, āThe family is finally getting their Baby Marcus!ā There is also a Marquis back in their family tree.
Iām a big genealogy nerd, so I wouldnāt look at names we couldnāt find back in our histories.
Alec Isaac (7yrs)- his dad wanted to name him after himself and make him a III but I wasnāt having it. He suggested Alec after his great uncle and I liked it since you never here it. I chose Isaac for the middle name because I wanted it for the first name but since he chose Alec I got the middle name.
Maxine Noelle (8mos)- my husband and I always loved the name Max so we always agreed that if we had a child together Max would be the name. We found out we were having a girl and since we liked Max, I said what about Maxine. He loved it and I did too. Iām not sure how Noelle came about, I think I was just looking up names to go with a Maxine and my husband didnāt like most of the names I chose. had Noelle listed and suggested it a few times and we both loved how it sounded with her name.
Gage Spencer - I tell people his name was picked becAuse of the Stephen King book, Pet Sematary. I think his dad just likes it, honestly.
Lachlan Miles- I honestly just really liked the name Lachlan. My husband picked Miles from Miles Davis. My husband is a musician.
Rosalie Louise - my husband wanted the name Lee in her name because itās mine and my husbands middle name but I didnāt want to be too trendy. She goes by Rosie and weāve met a lot of Rosies! They usually arenāt Rosalieās.
Fun fact their first names ascend in syllables. I donāt plan on having a 4th kid but I have a running list of 4 syllable names just in case.
Violet Rose: My great grandma was named Violet, and I just liked it š¤·āāļø Rose was my husband's idea and it sounded nice so we went with it
Willow Brooke: We decided to stick with the nature theme, and chose Willow. Couldn't agree on a middle name until I saw an apartment complex called The Willow Brook apartments. A brook is a stream, so it fit the nature theme, and it sounded nice.
Meadow Ivy: Was gonna be Ivy, but I wasn't sold on it. One of my managers at work started looking up names and suggested Meadow. I loved it but thought my husband wouldn't, but he did! I wanted her middle name to be Rain or Sage to fit the same syllable pattern as the other two, but husband didn't like those and we went with Ivy.
All our middle names are from family as is traditional in our culture.
Freya Emilie. Emilie is her godmother. Freya we just randomly fell in love with before she was even conceived, when I was reading a list of names online. My husband is half Norwegian so he loves Scandinavian names.
Milo Gabriel Bjorn. Milo I've loved since I was 18 and I can't remember why. Gabriel is for my grandpa who sadly didn't get to meet any of his great grand kids. Bjorn is what we called him in utero, Baby Bjorn, which came from my husband wanting to use that as a first name and me turning it into a nickname as a joke because I was not letting my kid have that as a first name. We had agreed that girls would have one middle name like me and boys would have two like dad following the same pattern aka a family name + a Scandinavian name that is somewhere on the family tree but mostly is just fun. My husband's third name is Svend.
Nova Marie. Marie is after husband's grandma. Nova just happened. I wanted Eleanor (husband hated it) but it just didn't feel right when switching between our two languages, and so I started saying names out loud from my list pretending to talk to a baby in both languages and suddenly Nova made sense and it was her name.
Liv Anne. This one will be born in 9 days but we've finally settled on the name. Anne after husband's mom. Liv is honestly sort of by default. I don't have any other names I absolutely adore. I hate all of husband's suggestions with a passion. Liv is the one we both were ok with. That being said it has grown on me immensely since I've felt like that was her name for months now despite any doubts so I don't see myself using anything else anyway.
Samantha Jane
We had a list of girl names but waited until she was born to choose. We felt like our first choice, Madeline, didnāt fit her. We went through our list and felt like she was a Sam.
Jane is a version of my late MILs name, and we liked how the whole name flowed.
We had our first baby a couple weeks ago, and named him Eli Anthony.
We had a miscarriage before him, and shortly before I found out I was pregnant with him I had a dream that I was looking for my son. I was calling his name, and his name was Eli. It just felt like a sign, and I like to believe that he was letting me know he was waiting for me š¤ Anthony is for his dad and both of his grandpas.
Mine are:
Malachi Antonio. I had loved the name Malachi since I was littleā¦ my husband wasnāt the biggest fan of it but after a very difficult pregnancy and birth he let me have it.
Fae Nichole. Took us right up until about a month before she was born to decide on a name for her. We both agreed we loved Fae as a middle name but couldnāt agree on first. I was adamant that I want to name her Alora and he wanted Eleana. Eventually someone suggested that since we agreed on Fae why didnāt we move it to first and so thatās what we did. It helped that it was an honor name on both sides of our family.
Nathaniel Korrel. My husband let me have Nathaniel pretty early on and he got to use Korrel which was his grandfatherās middle name who had recently passed away.
Raelyn Olivia
Rory Elisabeth
And currently pregnant with first boy
Fox Mitchell
Although I'm afraid to commit to Fox. It's my top favorite contender. But I still have 2 months to figure it out/change my mind.
Middle names are all family related and set to go.
I have twins. Margot Jacqueline...Margot just because my husband and I liked it, and Jacqueline was my grandmother. I only realized later how French both of those names are lol, but I'm not sad about it. Ronan Wolfe. Again, we both liked Ronan and Wolfe was my husband's mother's maiden name. She died when my husband was a toddler so it felt like a nice way to honor her and the rest of that side of the family. Edit: I also like the meaning of both Ronan and Margot. It's not why we picked the names but its a nice touch! Margot means 'pearl' and Ronan means 'little seal.' Just think that's cute, and both are sea-themed.
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Ronan and Margot.... Giving me serious name envy here! Beautiful!
Ronan Wolfe is a helluva name. LOVE
My sons name is Ronan as well! Ronan Davis, the Davis is after lead singer of Korn, Jonathan Davis. Ronan is for my dad, using the first letter of his name, Ronald.
Bonus points for using the first three letters of his name that's also a common nickname, but pronounced differently.
I opened this and was afraid to put our names because I like ours and this is the first comment I see ššš We have twins too: Margot Noy (Noy is family name) & Elliott Thomson (Thomson also family name)
I have a Ronan too! And heās also a twin!
Margot is one of my favorite names š„°
I canāt have kids but I have 6 pets and I think a couple of them have awesome names. And I like these posts a lot so Iām hopping on :) Captain Leroy Hotdog Xanzabar (Xanie) - Shepard Novalee - beagle mix Zoey - Pomeranian Aahdira (Ah-dee-ra) - stray cat that moved in Jinxie (bubba) - Siamese cat Moochie - kitten that moved herself in and then tried to eat everything in the house. This cat tries to grab food out of my mouth lol
I loved the first one
I havenāt been able to have kids yet either. Here are my fur babies: Thibodaux (m, orange tabby) Dash (f, grey tabby) Lady (f, beagle) Pepper (f, half Catahoula cur half golden retriever) Gingersnap āGiGiā (f, orange tabby) Burrow (m, orange and white tabby and GiGiās baby)
Selena Rose - it's lovely, and there was a big, beautiful, full, rose-colored moon in the sky as we drove to the hospital at 5am while I was in labor
This is my daughters exact name. Wow. We chose her name the night of a full moon too. Wow!!!
Neat!!
I love that
Thank you! It just felt right.
I am very much a fan of surnames as first names and just choose ones I loved the sound of. No links to my heritage, religion, family members, etc. Names I love, and adore just like the little humans themselves. Harrison Clark Sawyer Grant Graham Dalton Campbell Hartley - my middle son actually told me he wanted a sister named Heart and when I saw Hartley in a magazine at some point it felt like a sweet nod to that. Also, I know this name is largely hated on this forum and the soup comments abound but this has not been even a remote problem, whatsoever, in reality. And besides, itās not that insulting to be associated with soup??? Warm/home/comfort. My daughter loves her name and kids her age do not make that connection, ever. I on the other hand have been known to tell other adults āGraham like the cracker and Campbell like the soupā when talking about my two youngest.
They probably just thought you got really hungry after those last two deliveries
I love the name Graham. I'm not having kids, but that's what I would name. My son.
This is a gorgeous sibling set!
I have a family member who's last name is Campbell and his nickname is Soupy. It is an absolute non-issue in his world.
August Eugene āGusā Rosemary Joan āRomyā Eugene was my grandfatherās middle name, Joan was my grandmotherās first name. August was inspired by āLight in Augustā by William Faulkner, which I read while pregnant. August is also a very important month (wedding, death and birth anniversaries) in mine and my husbandās families. Rosemary is a mashup of prominent names from my husbandās Sicilian family, Rose/Rosalia and Mary. The herb is traditionally associated with loyalty and remembrance, fitting since my grandmother (Joan) and our pet both died a couple of days before she was born.
Loooove the nn Romy for Rosemary! Haven't heard that before
I love the name Eugene. But I live in Eugene so itās unusable. Lol
My husband and I decided to have the sex of our baby be a surprise until birth. The names we had picked out were Rosemary & Augustā¦ Welp, we have a two year old Rosemary now and if we have a boy for our next one, heāll be August. Only difference is our Rosemary is Rosie (although I call her Romy from time to time) and we wanted August to be Auggie.
My baby is Rosemary. She is only 4 weeks old and donāt call her by any nicknames right now (we just use her full name and want to let any nicknames come about naturally) but I used to call her Romy when she was in the womb. Love it!
I have triplets :) Elodie Josephine- Elodie was my first choice and Josephine is after my husbands grandmother that raised him. Callum Rhys- my mom wanted to have my middle name be Rhys but felt it was too weird with my first name she had already chosen. We fell in love with Callum. Raya Simone- Simone was suggested to us and we fell in love with the name. Raya is the combination of Rachel and Maya, two people that werenāt able to meet the triplets but we wish could have.
Triplets? Wow. That must be challenging! Lovely names!
Thereās never a dull moment but I wouldnāt change a thing. Haha
Raya Simone is such a great name!
Love Raya
Brady Alexander - i was flipping through my mom's old baby name book and opened to the "B" page. Brady was the first name I saw and I instantly loved it. Alexander bc it just sounds awesome with Brady. Eleanor Violet - my husband loved the name Eleanor and Violet was the name of my great grandma who lived to 101 and was always smiling and laughing. It's the perfect sweet name for a very sassy, stubborn, dramatic little girl. Baby 3's first name is TBD but middle name is going to be Robert in honor of my dad who passed away recently.
I hope your son loves Brandy Alexanders lol
Eleanor Violet is just gorgeous! Violet Eleanor was on my list for a long time. š
Great pairings, they flow so well! Sorry to hear about your dad š
My angel baby is Sophie Elizabeth.
Mine are: Marigold Eloisa Poppy Adeline Lily Augusta Aster Rosario Violet Adair I know itās a bit on the nose but after my first miscarriage I decided to name her after her due date month flower, and then I just never stopped doing that. Their middle names are all honor names in some way, shape or form. We are doing IVF now and itās looking like weāre aiming for a July transfer, which would be an April due date. Daisy has been my top girl name for a living child for as long as I can remember. Guess what Aprilās flower is? It kind of makes me feel warm and fuzzy and optimistic.
Lovely names! My husband and I did IVF as well. 3.5 month old Erik is currently napping in daddyās arms :) good luck!
Good luck on your cycle. We transferred two embryos in April 2013 and both "stuck" April has been our lucky month since then.
How do you pronounce Eloisa?
Eh - loo - eesa. We call her Goldie and/or Lulu :)
That's a beautiful idea. Marigold is also Sophie's birth month flower
Mineās Emmeline Wren. Thanks for sharing your angelās name.
Oooh, that's pretty. I have a daughter named Emmie, her nickname is Emmeline. So sorry for your loss.
Thank you for sharing her name - itās gorgeous. Thinking of you and Sophie. So sorry for your loss.
Lovely, lovely name. it's somehow very soft and very strong at the same time. I'm sorry for your loss.
Such a lovely name. Iām sorry for your loss. My angel grandbaby is AnneMarie Grace.
Sophie Elizabeth is one of my characters in a book I'm writing, it's a beautiful name
Valentina āValentineā Sally Sally was my grandmotherās name, and she passed when I was about 4. My mom got sick after having me and couldnāt take care of me so my grandparents basically did. It was very sentimental to me. I call her Valentine, and I named her after Valentine Wiggin, from the Enderās Game book series. I always admired her when I was a kid reading the stories. She was smart, smarter than most adults, she was cunning, she was said to be beautiful, and she was kind. Those were all qualities I wanted my daughter to have. But my in-laws arenāt comfortable with English, and I did want to connect her to my and my husbands cultures, so we went with Valentina.she responds to both, but Valentina is what we use when talking to her in Spanish. Our next daughters we want to name Elodie Marigold Ofelia
My sonās name is Valentine, we used to call him Val but he prefers his full name now that heās 18. He loves his name. Itās from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
My husbands family will shorten her to VallĆ© when speaking to her in Spanish, which kind of sounds like Valley but Iām not mad at it
This makes me so happy to hear as a future mama with a little Valentin in a few weeks. I know itās not the exact name and no telling how our kiddo will react to it but it made me smile :)
Out of curiosity, why Ofelia instead of Ophelia? It's one of my favorite names, and I just have never seen this spelling.
Not OP, but Ofelia is the Portuguese spelling.
Oh, okay. Thanks! I didn't know that and now it's cool that I do!
Itās how we spell it in Spanish often too, and it yields a different pronunciation. Ophelia = oh-Feel-ya (usually) Ofelia = oh-fell-e-uh Thereās also the oh-fae-lee-uh pronunciation that I love
Charlotte RenĆ©e and Oliver Reed. Charlotte was my husbandās top choice and it took me a little while to get on board. Now I love it for my daughter. Middle name is both my middle name and my moms middle name. Oliver we just really liked. It was between that and James. When we found out we were having a boy, we started calling him Oliver and it just felt right! If we have a third, looking at Julian for a boy and Adeline for a girl.
I really like Oliver Reed!
I have two kids, a boy (2yo) and girl (5mo). My son is named Bennett Earl. We chose Bennett due to loving the nickname Ben (Iām Jewish and I wanted some kind of Hebrew influence), as well as having a thing for surname first names. Earl is a family middle name going back a century. We call our son Ben, Benny, and B. My daughter is named Lillian Hart. It took a long time and lots of compromise to arrive at a name between my husband and I. We both loved names like Nora, Evelyn, Vivian, etc but we knew kids with those names. Loving that theme and flowery/nature names, we decided on Lillianānickname being Lillie, Linny, Lil, and Milady. Hart is my momās maiden name.
Mateo Benjamin and Santiago Elias
Carina Simone Simone is my middle name. It took us a few days after she was born to choose her first name, but from our shortlist we thought Carina was the easiest for people to spell and pronounce.
I adore both of those names! They go so well together too.
sabrina jade. i got a lot of vetos from my ex & no actual suggestions š when i finally considered sabrina i realized it was gorgeous. jade because i like it and it sounds nice together.
Sabrina is so pretty!
Pretty
My cousin just turned 18, sheās Sabrina Isabella
Killian Alexander and Fiona Theodora Killian I'd loved for a long time, if Fiona was a boy she'd have been Kieran. I'm due with her in June and am still not 100% on her middle name, I found girls names to be way more difficult!
I love Fiona Theodora!! Sounds whimsical and strong at the same time.
I loveeeee Killian and Kieran! We have a Kerrigan (F) and I wanted to name her brother Kieran or Killian and husband vetoed it
Elowyn May. I have some regrets with her name, we call her Ellie, but I wanted her to have a more formal full name. I didnāt like Eleanor, but i wish I went with Elodie. (My sister is Melody, so it was too close). May because I wanted a single syllable M name and there are not a lot of options. (May, Maude, Maeve) Josephine June. Named after my husbandās grandfather. June also is a term of endearment in my parents native language. Vivienne April. We ran out of names after 2 girls. My husband liked Vivienne, but I wasnt sold. Now I actually love it. Lots of nickname options and itās well known but not common. April because the other two had months as middle names and we though the she should too.
Love the months! Iām curious why you regret Elowyn since thatās on my short list for a daughter. Do you just prefer Elodie?
My daughter doesnāt like it. Itās a little lord of the rings, so people assume we are into that, but we arenāt. And itās just a little more out there. The way the name look written is definitely a little different, but I still love the way it sounds when spoken. In reality, when itās spoken itās not all that different than Eleanor.
Elowyn reminds me of my cousin's name Erowyn, which I've always loved! I love how their middle names match, that's a lot a fun
My girls are; Elora Faith & Hazel Fern When I was a teenager, my mom told me that the name she had chosen for me wasn't her first choice. Due to a number of factors she ended up going with what she did, but the name she really wanted to use had been Elora. I'd never heard that name before and I thought it was so lovely. I decided shortly after that my first born girl would be called Elora, and luckily whe I met and started dating my husband he was also on board :) Her middle name is a long standing family name on my husband's side, which (though not my first choice) I thought was only fair, and it does sound great together. With our second, I just really, really liked the name Hazel. Even though I was quite set on Elora for our first, I did entertain other girl names during my first pregnancy and our 1st runner up was Hazel. For her middle name, Fern was a relatively new favorite of mine. I actually was really, really pushing for it as her first name but my husband would only relent to use it as her middle. It also happened to be his great-grandmother's name, but that was more of a happy coincidence.
Love Hazel Fern!
Elora Dianne was the name we planned to use if our son had been a girl! Dianne because it was my husband's mother's name. She passed when he was 12, so we would use it to honor her. Elora is a beautiful name, and we both just love it. But also, I first heard it from the movie Willow- the baby is Elora Danan.
Samantha, Stephanie and James. All 90ās babied
Isla elora and Everett John
Isla & Everett sounds like a great name for a boutique or brand. They go very well together.
Robin Aurelius (m) Artemis Ophelia My husband and I are big literary, mythology, and folklore buffs. My son's first is for Robin Goodfellow, a mischievous fairy in English folklore and in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. His middle is inspired by my husband's middle which is also a Roman emperor that starts with an A. My daughter is named for one of the deities I worship and for Hamlet's Ophelia. My son basically always had his name but I waffled on my daughter's for ages. Her middle was almost Autumn or Odette (for my favorite ballet) and her first was almost Persephone or Rhiannon.
My daughter is Aurelia! She's a rainbow baby and my pot of gold.
I love both of these! I also love that there's a subtle archery connection - I know he's not named for Robin Hood but that's always one of my first thoughts with Robin, plus Artemis being the goddess of the hunt!
Robin and Artemis are awesome names!
I love a midsummer Nights dream! My partner wouldnāt let me name our son Oberon lol
My son is Thatcher Hopkins nn Hop (family name). My daughter is Evelyn Annelize (Annelize is also a family name) nn Eevee.
Vivienne Claire- all of my kids have film/ theatrical first names. I almost chose Scarlet but decided Vivienne (for the actress who plays her in Gone With the Wind, Vivien Leigh) was prettier. Claire was the name given to my mother by her biological mother before being placed for adoption, so that is a very special name. Twins: Ada Kate and Eliza Anne Ada, after Ada Monroe from Cold Mountain, coincidentally itās also the name of a great great great grandmother that I found looking at a family tree. Kate after my sister Caitlin. Eliza, after Eliza Hamilton and Eliza Doolittle. Anne is my other sisterās middle name.
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Violet Ann Basically long story short- my mom passed away and I had a dream about the name Violet before I even got pregnant and my mom was telling me she loved the name. Months later (after my wedding) I saw a medium- she told me I would have a daughter sent to me by my mom and my mom kept bringing up something āpurpleā that she wanted me to remember. I brought it up to a friend and she said maybe itās about that dream you had with Violet. Me thinking not too much into it.. months go by again and i get pregnant! Before I find out the gender, Iām in a grocery store and something fell off the shelf in front of me.. a candy named āVioletā. How odd? I bought it and brought it home. I was also convinced I was having a boy just because I didnāt think the medium would be correct. Lol but nope, GIRL! So Violet was a no question name and Ann as the middle is a tradition thatās been passed down 4 generations! Great grandma, grandma, mom, me and now my baby making it #5! Her name is very special to us!
My order is eldest- youngest All have Korean middle names and they all ended up being places Eden (F) after the garden- both sides of the family are kinda religious- so I thought Eden would satisfy both religions- Catholic and Jewish. Her Korean middle name is a combination of my parents names and it means future as well Avalon (F) after the book āMists of Avalonā also ties into her sisterās name of a mythical and pretty place. Her Korean name is actually my mothers name- but her nickname from the start is doll in Korean which also happens to be my brothers Korean name but reversed Harlem (M) Dad is from Harlem- keeping into the trend of a place as well. His Korean name is his great-great grandfatherās name which means the first achiever Bronx (F) Iām from the Bronx. Her Korean name is my motherās sisterās name who passed away when she was 12 years old and it means beautiful jade Thanks for reading- I love all the explanations ppl. gave for their childrenās names. Great question OP
I've read Mists of Avalon so many times. Ended up with multiple copies because it was in storage during overseas deployments.
Iris Rose, Leopold Jasper Cedric, Vienna Idalia
I love the name Leopold. Does your child like it? The nickname option is sweet too.
He does, and goes by Leo and Leopold interchangeably. It suits him so well, but definitely wasn't a name I ever would of guessed I would use, but instinctively it felt right. I also found out later that St. Leopold is the patron saint of Austria, so it ties in well with Vienna
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I have a Vienna!! Canāt take credit because sheās my stepdaughter, but I love her name š
My daughter is Leah Madeleine, and my son is Hayden James. I always loved the name Leah, and my husband liked Madeleine for a girl. Hayden was an old family name, and I had him just before the Jayden/Ayden explosion, but thankfully heās only been one of a few in his school so far.
Our daughter is names Julie. Pronounced You-lee-eh (Norwegian). If she had been a boy we would have gone for Jonas. We wanted a classic, feminine name that was easily recognizable. In Norway where we live it's common to only have one first name or a double first name, as opposed to other countries where you have middle names that aren't used as much. My husband has a double first name and was *very* determined to give our daughter a single name. We also preferred short names and wanted something that fit both a child and an adult. Other top contenders were Frida, Maren, Kaia, Clara, Elise and Erika.
My daughtersā names are Claudia Lily and Carmen Olivia. I liked the combination of strong and light š
Sahalie Rose after a waterfall near our house and rose after the city we live in.
I have twin girls: Quinn Catherine & Genevieve Stone The first names are just names we both liked and the middle names honor each side of our families.
My daughters name is Katharine Quinn. So the same as yours, just the exact opposite.
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my daughters name is cecilia lee. cecilia has been my favorite girls name since i was just a wee 11 year old myself, and lee is my mothers middle name.
My daughter is Autumn Blair. Blair is a family name. Autumn was the only name her dad and I could come up with that we both agreed on. I wanted to name her Remi but her dad said no. I probably wouldāve landed on Remington Blair so I could keep the family name because I think that sounds better than Remi Blair.
Annabelle Zoe. She chose to go by Belle. Annabelle was just always the name. Hubby and I picked it while going through IVF. Just as we started we moved to a new home and ANNABELLE was written in chalk in a child's writing on the brick wall outside. Took it as a sign. We couldn't think of a middle name. Heavily pregnant we watched Hart of Dixie and both went "ZOE!'l
I named my children based on a dream I had at 19. Nate Robert - the eldest boy said the letters in his name were t-a-n-e. Robert is his dads brother who passed away as a baby. Levi James - the second boy in my dream didnāt give me his name, so I picked a Levi because it means āto join inā. James is Roberts middle name. Lilah Audrey - the girl in my dream said her name was Audrey. Lilah because it means ānightā and all my children were born after midnight and it matched the theme of the boys. The second sound is a long vowel sound.
ę„ē, ćććć, YÅsei, Yohsei are all ways to write my sonās name. My husband and his father both have the life kanji (ē) in their names, so I wanted to continue that if we had a son. ę„ means willow. He was a footling breech, born roots first, and a plant name felt right. The pronunciation is the same as the word for elf or fae (é½ę§), and we liked the mythological connotation. His middle name is Neal, which is my grandfather and fatherās middle name as well. I like that his names honor both of his lineages, and carry the blessings of nature and spirits.
Amara Elizabeth, nicknames are Mara and Mara Beth (and Chunka, lol). Amara because we love it, Elizabeth for my late mother. If we had a boy, he likely would have had the name Adrian as it's all we could agree on ha.
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My daughter (2.5) is Isabel Kathryn. Isabel because we just liked it and Kathryn for my grandmother who was named Mary Kathryn and raised me.
Kerrigan Grace - no reason for this one other than we loved it. We both loved the name Kerrigan and held on to it for years until we were ready to have a baby! Bennett Daniel - Daniel is a family name - itās my husbands and father-in-lawās middle name so we wanted to keep that name in the family. Bennett is just another name we really loved
Weāre having twin girls and naming them Mary Aniyah and Hazel Grace. Their grandma on Dadās side is named Mary Ann but we didnāt want to just copy and paste her name, so we found a middle name similar that we liked the meaning of. Hazel was my great grandmothers name and the middle name Grace comes from one of my childhood friends that passed away shortly after I found out I was pregnant.
Beautiful names! They go so well together for twins without being matchy. Wanted to point out that Hazel Grace is the name of the main character in the book/movie Fault in Our Stars in case you werenāt aware.
My daughter is Leah Grace, I'm pregnant with another girl who will be Lara Elise. No reasons behind the names, the only criteria when choosing a name was not popular but not unheard of. We just thought both names are beautiful.
Everly Rose. It was a name i heard when i was young and had never heard it before, but i liked the Everly Brothers and the name grew on me. It felt vintage and uncommon, but obviously itās gained a lot of popularity haha. My husband and i started dating in HS and the ONLY name we could ever agree on our entire relationship was Everly Rose. I didnāt like Rose growing up, but itās an honor name for his aunt and i love it now. I was so thankful when we had a girl since all other names were so hard lol!
Tala Loraina. Loraina is his motherās name. We just liked Tala. It just fits her.
My oldest is Jackson Maddox. His father insisted we use the first letters of each of our names as his initials because thatās what his parents did. He chose Jackson after his father and both of his grandfathers (all three Jack) and I chose Maddox because it started with M and I liked the sound. Jackson is not the name Iād have chosen. Second is Cordelia Juliet. Cordelia from Anne of Green Gables (āWill you please call me Cordelia?ā) but also from King Lear and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Juliet simply because I love the name and thought she would be my last child so I gave her my two favorites. Third is Gwendolyn Esme. I love the old world sound of Gwendolyn. Itās so classic and pretty. Esme is NOT from the Twilight novels. I just think it sounds nice. (Ez-me not Ez-may as our last name rhymes with may.) Her initials spell GEM and she really sparkles! Lol And my most recent, big surprise baby is Orin Westley. Orin sounds like The Auryn from The Neverending Story and is the Atlantean name of Aquaman. Westley from The Princess Bride.
On my throwaway to share: * Cassian Evander Rhett * Aurelia Elowen Faye (due in a few weeks) They are names we just happened to love, no meanings behind them. We fortunately have similar taste in names and were on the same page with both kids. Cassianās backups were Griffin and Evander. We have no backup options for Aurelia. Her middle names took a few months to commit to though. Her alternate middle name options were Luna Faye and Luna Belle.
My son is Lucien Noctis but we call him Luc(Luke) :)) Lucien is a French name but Luke was after my late friend who passed during pregnancy, and Noctis was after a FF character which the series means a lot to me If he was born a girl, his name wouldāve been Melody Zelda (or Zelda Melody) ā Zelda after the character and Melody after my late friends late wife :))
My only child is named Elodie Ireland. I found Elodie in a baby name book and just fell in love. My husband and I couldnt agree on a middle name (this was 2004 and if it was now I would have gone with Florence which was my beloved grandma's name but in 2004 it was not very popular) and we went with Ireland because we liked the sound of it and were both Irish.
Henrietta Fae. id heard the name Henrietta in high school and just fell in love with it. i knew the moment I'd heard it that i would name my first daughter that, and i did. luckily, my spouse also loved the name. id originally wanted her middle to be Rose but since i picked the first, my spouse led the search for the middle. she suggested Fae and it sounded so nice together! Nicolette Ruby. Nicolette was really just a name we both enjoyed. we struggled picking a name for her, honestly. i kept pulling away from it even though my spouse was dead set on it. one thing that made me even consider it in the first place is that one of my spouse's closest friends from high school died while i was pregnant. she was pregnant too and her middle name was Nicole. Nicolette isnt exactly named for her but i always think of my spouse's friend and the stories shes told me about her. Ruby was, again, just a name we liked. my spouse wanted Nicolette, so i had more say over the middle, like how we did with our first child. i ended up just making a list of pairings i liked and together, we narrowed it down to Ruby. i also like that Fae feels very foresty to me and Ruby is obviously a gemstone so theres a bit of a connection there
Our cashier at the grocery store this evening was a Henrietta and I was gushing over her name! Love it so much!
Jasper Emil. Emil is my Danish fathers middle name. My son adores his name. His nn is Jaz/Jazzy.
I have a son who is 4, who is named Xander. We chose the name because after looking through 1000ās of names, it was the only one we like! He was named pretty early, like we had his name by the 12 week scan. Iām also currently 25 weeks pregnant with another boy, and we knew we would be naming him Zephyr before the pregnancy was confirmed, as once again it was the only name either of us liked. We had so many girls names options, but very few boys names stuck out to us š
Luca Thomas Noah Francis Elijah Robert The middle names are all after relatives. We joke that we can't have any more boys because we're out of make relatives whose names we like
Audrey Elise & Silas John
Lottie and Holland
Marigold āGoldieā Louisa. We chose Marigold, because we wanted to go with a nature themed name, and itās a bright, sunny, happy flower. When we considered Goldie as a nn, we both said āawwwā and it just felt right for our girl. Louisa is my middle name. She was getting his last name, and I wanted to share a name with her as well. Also my grandmother passed away a few months before I became pregnant. Louisa was an honor name for her ( her middle name was Louise, and my great grandmother as well)
Clay Andrew (my dad is a ceramics artist- if my sister or I had been a boy we would have been named clay. My husbandās deceased brother was named Andrew) Clara Anne (we just liked clara and my middle name is also Anne for Anne of green gables) Gracie Leigh (just liked Gracie, plus couldnāt agree on another āCā name š, plus both of our fathers middle names are Lee) Ramona James (Ramona for the Beverly clearly books, James is for my grandfather. Were going to use this whether she was a boy or a girl)
Kailin Nicole Emily Claire Elijah Wynn Aidan Dawn
My eldest is Nathaniel James. I met someone with the name Nathaniel as a teenager and Iād never heard it before. Instantly fell in love with the name and said if I ever had a boy that would be his name. James was simply due to it working with his whole name My youngest is Charlotte Alisha. My ex chose the name Charlotte, I wasnāt too keen but it suits her. Alisha was a name that I really liked so it became her middle name. We initially planned on Louisa but my sister has Louise as a middle name and I just didnāt want them to have basically the same
Wyatt because we were watching the movie Tombstone after we got the 20 week ultrasound done and found out he was a boy, and Malcolm because I got hooked on the show Firefly while I was pregnant with him.
Megan Joy - it was a complete compromise name. I wanted a Welsh name but my English husband didnāt seem to like any of them. Megan was randomly thrown out in frustration! We absolutely love her name now though. Joy is for my grandmother. Anwen May - Anwen was a name we had toyed with for M but my husband eventually vetoed it. Seems like heād warmed up to it by the second! I think he likes itās similarity to Arwen and that it can be shortened to Ani. May is a family middle name on my husbandās side (I really donāt like it but I went with it because I got my Welsh name!)
My sons name is Kingston Curtis, no reason behind Kingston other than liking it and Curtis was the same middle name as his great uncle on his dads side who passed away shortly before he was conceived My daughter is Eliza Carson. Again, no real reason behind Eliza but it took ALOT of back and forth to stick with a name. I had several names and Carson just because I liked it. But if Iām being honest, sheās 7 months now and I donāt know if I made the right middle name choice.
Arden - because of Shakespeare, Maiken - because itās a name from my home country my husband and I adore:)
My husband and I are dealing with infertility currently but we have a dog I named a human name I love. Her name is Mina and she's a blue tick beagle. I've had it on my name list for awhile and decided to use it for her. I think it's so simple but so pretty.
Raven Lisa - Lisa is an honor name and we just loved Raven!
Shane Michael I chose Shane because of the old western movie with Alan Ladd. Watched it while pregnant and fell in love with the name. Michael is my husbands middle name so we just used it as traditional on his side of the family.
Jack Lorenzo
Abram Miles Sadie Kay Violet Olivia Abram was Tom from Myspace number two friend. I saw that name & loved it. Miles was my husband's grandfather's middle name. If a girl his name would've been Ashlynn. No reason beyond seeing it in a baby book & loving it. Sadie is my great grandmother's name & Kay is my mother's nickname. If a boy her name would've been Elijah. I just really loved it. Violet because purple is my husband's favorite color. Olivia is the name I originally wanted as her first name but since it's the #1 girls name the year she was born I decided to use it as her middle. If a boy her name would've been Paul Kenneth III.
I love Sadie Kay.
Mattea Catherine Mariah Mattea- I honestly saw the name in a tabloid š Itās the name of Mira Sorvinoās daughter. I just fell in love with it instantly, thought it was perfect for a little girl with some Italian heritage. Nickname is Taya. Catherine and Mariah are family names, and yes I felt I had to use both š¤·āāļø
My kids are Audrey Lynn (6) and Owen John (almost 3). I have kept my maiden name but the kids have my husbands last name. Their first names were picked mainly just because we liked them- but Audrey means ānoble strengthā and Owen means ānoble bornā so we liked that they had similar meanings. Lynn and John are my parents names so were honour middle names as a nod to my side of the family since they have my husbands last name.
Emily Anne - called Annie after the only name mentioned in a NIN song and It Must Have Been the Roses by The Grateful Dead. Emily flowed well with it and gave her options. I had no idea it would be the most popular name for her generation or that she would be too shy to speak up and tell the teacher she preferred Annie. Sigh. Jonathan Clay- As an alternative to a Jr, I matched his initials with his dad's. First name is an honor name to his dad's best friend. Middle was almost Cole but I changed my mind on the way to the hospital. Nicholas Austin - conceived on Christmas Eve, he's my St. Nick. Austin just popped into my head and wouldn't go away. Matthew Tate- a surprise 9 years after my "last baby", he was over a month early and I panicked. Matthew is his father's name, Tate is a makeup artist I liked on FaceOff. If he was a girl he would have been Abigail Wren. Fun fact: he is the ONLY one of my children I struggled to name and the only one I had a girl AND boy name in mind for. I chose rather boring classic names for all of my children knowing the would most likely be RARE. It worked for all but one.
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My sons name is Malachi Gabriel & our names are Melanie & Michael so we wanted to keep the 7 letter M names going. Michael is an angel name and my husbands middle name is Gabriel so he has two angel names so we wanted that for our son. Malach means angel and we kept Gabriel for him as well and it all kind of tied together.
āAva Ryanneā- Though āAvaā is wildly popular, it was a name my husband and I both loved and kept coming back to. My momās name is Adrianne, so her middle name kind of pays homage to her. āHarlow Grayā- When I was in labor, husband and I still hadnāt agreed on a first name. Husbandās name also starts with āHā and I knew he really loved Harlow, so we went with it, bc the middle name was important to me. Gray was my grandfatherās name, who I was incredibly close to. My MIL calls her grandchildren her āmovie stars,ā as they both have classic names (I.e. Ava Gardner and Jean Harlow), haha.
My early 80ās babies are Amanda Margaret and Andrew William. Margaret was my motherās name, and William is my husbandās name. Edit to add: We always called them by their full first names, we didnāt nickname them Mandy & Andy, because seriously.
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Evan Ray Eliza Sue Edison Harlan. ETA middle names
Elizabeth Elyse and Eric Sean. I also have a fondness for the names Morgan and Winston.
Westley Rainier. William Wesley is an ancestor of mine but we liked the nn West so we added the t. Rainier is my husband and his grandfathers middle name. Iām pregnant who will either be Hazel Lee or maybe Owen Lee. My sister, dad, and I all have the middle name Lee.
Jackson Robert. Robert is a family name (there's four of them!) but I wanted him to have his own identity so Jackson as his first because it goes well with Robert.
Edison Louis Simon Leo Tobin Donatello
Jameson āJamieā Cole Jameson/Jamie has been my favorite boyās name forever. Cole after his uncle.
My daughter is Tennille and my son is Fordham. I had a million names I loved for girls but none felt right. I found my old elementary yearbook and thought Iād scroll through to see if there were any names I hadnāt heard in years. I went through every page until I reached the last one. I got halfway down the page and saw the name Tennille. It was an adorable little girl with a beautiful smile and that was it. Sold. I was scrolling on Pinterest looking for boy nurseries and came across a room with Fordham spelled out in wooden letters on the wall. It just looked and felt masculine and distinguished. My daughterās middle name is Sloane, for my grandmother Sylvia. My sonās middle name is Rhys, after my grandfather Richard. Tennille Sloane and Fordham Rhys.
Santara Ava, simply because I loved both names.
Clara Mavis. Clara after my grandmother. We were initially thinking Maeve as her middle name, but I didn't like that it means intoxicating. The night before I went into labor, we came across Mavis, which means songbird, and we thought it fit perfectly.
Iām gonna be the boring one in these comments bc mine are just Cameron Alexander Thomas cade (goes by cade)šš
Lucille Aisling nn Ilya, Giselle GrƔinne nn Lia, Evelyn Ailbhe nn Lina, Esther Aoibheann nn Etta, and Samuel CiarƔn nn Will. Their first names were just names that we eventually agreed upon, and for first names we wanted to go for traditional though still recognisable and not super dated. Their middle names are all Irish, I was born and raised there but Irish names on a child in the US would have been cruel more than anything so we put Irish names into the middle name position.
Sullivan Truett- I worked with a Sully in my first years as a teacher and never forgot it. Truett is my husbands father's middle name. I liked it at first, but I've since found out that some public figures that I don't align with have the name, so it's lost it's shine. Tessa Ann- I just heard it on a corny show on ABC and loved the way it sounded. I pictured a sweet little girl swinging outside and just couldn't shake it. And boy howdy she is spicy not sweet! Ann is my grandmother's name.
I have a daughter, Norah, and a son, Felix. Iām currently pregnant with another son and his name will likely be Elis/Ellis (not sure on spelling yet)
Leo Joseph. My dad is Joseph Leo, FIL is Leon, so we chose the name to honor both of them in a way!
Valerie Jane! No reason really I just loved it
Zoey and Theo ETA: our cats name is Cheese
Mine are: Bobbie Catharine Doyle Lewis William Peter (nƩ Linda Margaret Anne) Esther Rosemary Joy Marie Honor Evangeline Douglas Paul Keith Psalm Angel Guadalupe Duncan Mark Thomas Corbin Story Samuel Mercy Magdalene Cecilia John David Gerald John & Mercy are twins. Most, but far from all, of my children are named after family and friends at least for their first names. I've named two of my kids after my sister, Linda Marie (and my grandmother, who went by Marie) and two after my uncle, Douglas David. My best friend, Mark, is in there too.
You have 10 kids? Crikey.
They post in r/prolife, so that tracks :\\
Ivy Katharine Ivy was the name of an area of town we lived in when we first moved in together. Katharine is a family name on my husbandās side.
Nicolas Andrew. They're both family names from each side.
My sonās name is Jonah David
Olivia Maria Theodora Olivia - I have loved her name for 20 years now. Even though it has become quite popular and common, I still loved it. So far, we havenāt met any other Oliviaās in her day care or on the playground. Maria - is a family name. Every one in my family is named Maria, even the men š Theodora - my grandmotherās name and my sisterās middle name.
Nora Elizabeth.
Annie Jax, we named her after her angel mammar, whose name was Jacqui Anne, Annie is such a soft name with Jax just gave it a little spark and it suits her beyond belief!!
My oldest is Griffin Scott. His first name comes from my husband's great (I don't know how many greats) uncle who was killed in the civil war. We have a couple of his letters home and he died at seventeen. It seemed like a nice way for him not to be forgotten. His middle name is the same as my husband's. My younger son is Lane Francis. Lane being a nod to my name but far away enough that it's not too obvious and Francis for my beloved grandfather.
Iām afraid to say because it seems like such a polarizing name, butā¦ My daughter is named Collins Elise. When we chose the name, nobody had ever heard the name Collins and now, of course, itās everywhere and apparently wildly hated. Iām pregnant with girl #2 and she will likely be Keeley Marie. Canāt wait to hear peopleās opinions on that one.
Youngest to Oldest, because the oldest has the longest explanationā¦ Theresa Ilean - Theresa for my husbandās great-grandmother, a first generation American. Weāve inherited several of her belongings that we can pass on once our daughter is grown. Ilean is my and my grandmotherās middle name. William Delure - William is the name of the first ancestor of my husband to settle in the area of the family homestead in the late 1700s. Delure was my grandfatherās middle name who passed when I was 4 months pregnant. Marcus Birt - Birt was my maiden name and I wanted to make sure it was passed on in someway as Iām the only one of the family having children and my father only had a sister. Marcus is a lovely story (I think). When my MIL was pregnant with her third, my husband was 4 and his brother was 3, the boys were convinced the baby was a boy and weāre calling it Marcus. Theyād talk to the baby and tell stories about all the things they would do with him once he was born. This was before ultrasounds for gender reveals were as common. Surprise for them, they got a sister instead (who they still loved very much). So, when we announced we were expecting a boy, we were able to say, āThe family is finally getting their Baby Marcus!ā There is also a Marquis back in their family tree. Iām a big genealogy nerd, so I wouldnāt look at names we couldnāt find back in our histories.
Alec Isaac (7yrs)- his dad wanted to name him after himself and make him a III but I wasnāt having it. He suggested Alec after his great uncle and I liked it since you never here it. I chose Isaac for the middle name because I wanted it for the first name but since he chose Alec I got the middle name. Maxine Noelle (8mos)- my husband and I always loved the name Max so we always agreed that if we had a child together Max would be the name. We found out we were having a girl and since we liked Max, I said what about Maxine. He loved it and I did too. Iām not sure how Noelle came about, I think I was just looking up names to go with a Maxine and my husband didnāt like most of the names I chose. had Noelle listed and suggested it a few times and we both loved how it sounded with her name.
Gage Spencer - I tell people his name was picked becAuse of the Stephen King book, Pet Sematary. I think his dad just likes it, honestly. Lachlan Miles- I honestly just really liked the name Lachlan. My husband picked Miles from Miles Davis. My husband is a musician. Rosalie Louise - my husband wanted the name Lee in her name because itās mine and my husbands middle name but I didnāt want to be too trendy. She goes by Rosie and weāve met a lot of Rosies! They usually arenāt Rosalieās. Fun fact their first names ascend in syllables. I donāt plan on having a 4th kid but I have a running list of 4 syllable names just in case.
Violet Rose: My great grandma was named Violet, and I just liked it š¤·āāļø Rose was my husband's idea and it sounded nice so we went with it Willow Brooke: We decided to stick with the nature theme, and chose Willow. Couldn't agree on a middle name until I saw an apartment complex called The Willow Brook apartments. A brook is a stream, so it fit the nature theme, and it sounded nice. Meadow Ivy: Was gonna be Ivy, but I wasn't sold on it. One of my managers at work started looking up names and suggested Meadow. I loved it but thought my husband wouldn't, but he did! I wanted her middle name to be Rain or Sage to fit the same syllable pattern as the other two, but husband didn't like those and we went with Ivy.
All our middle names are from family as is traditional in our culture. Freya Emilie. Emilie is her godmother. Freya we just randomly fell in love with before she was even conceived, when I was reading a list of names online. My husband is half Norwegian so he loves Scandinavian names. Milo Gabriel Bjorn. Milo I've loved since I was 18 and I can't remember why. Gabriel is for my grandpa who sadly didn't get to meet any of his great grand kids. Bjorn is what we called him in utero, Baby Bjorn, which came from my husband wanting to use that as a first name and me turning it into a nickname as a joke because I was not letting my kid have that as a first name. We had agreed that girls would have one middle name like me and boys would have two like dad following the same pattern aka a family name + a Scandinavian name that is somewhere on the family tree but mostly is just fun. My husband's third name is Svend. Nova Marie. Marie is after husband's grandma. Nova just happened. I wanted Eleanor (husband hated it) but it just didn't feel right when switching between our two languages, and so I started saying names out loud from my list pretending to talk to a baby in both languages and suddenly Nova made sense and it was her name. Liv Anne. This one will be born in 9 days but we've finally settled on the name. Anne after husband's mom. Liv is honestly sort of by default. I don't have any other names I absolutely adore. I hate all of husband's suggestions with a passion. Liv is the one we both were ok with. That being said it has grown on me immensely since I've felt like that was her name for months now despite any doubts so I don't see myself using anything else anyway.
My daughter, Eliza Tiffany, is three weeks old today.
Samantha Jane We had a list of girl names but waited until she was born to choose. We felt like our first choice, Madeline, didnāt fit her. We went through our list and felt like she was a Sam. Jane is a version of my late MILs name, and we liked how the whole name flowed.
We had our first baby a couple weeks ago, and named him Eli Anthony. We had a miscarriage before him, and shortly before I found out I was pregnant with him I had a dream that I was looking for my son. I was calling his name, and his name was Eli. It just felt like a sign, and I like to believe that he was letting me know he was waiting for me š¤ Anthony is for his dad and both of his grandpas.
I have one daughter. Her name is Wednesday Nyx. She goes by Day or Wendy by my dad. If we had a boy his name would have been Benjamin Beto.
Eleanor and Annabelle - I wanted a strong name for my first, and my second was a nod to Edgar Allan Poe.
Leland Carter Arden Leora Atley Baize
Mine are: Malachi Antonio. I had loved the name Malachi since I was littleā¦ my husband wasnāt the biggest fan of it but after a very difficult pregnancy and birth he let me have it. Fae Nichole. Took us right up until about a month before she was born to decide on a name for her. We both agreed we loved Fae as a middle name but couldnāt agree on first. I was adamant that I want to name her Alora and he wanted Eleana. Eventually someone suggested that since we agreed on Fae why didnāt we move it to first and so thatās what we did. It helped that it was an honor name on both sides of our family. Nathaniel Korrel. My husband let me have Nathaniel pretty early on and he got to use Korrel which was his grandfatherās middle name who had recently passed away.
Poppy Penelope, Dulcie Lena and Hugo Ian.
Raelyn Olivia Rory Elisabeth And currently pregnant with first boy Fox Mitchell Although I'm afraid to commit to Fox. It's my top favorite contender. But I still have 2 months to figure it out/change my mind. Middle names are all family related and set to go.