With my first daughter my ex and I came up with it fairly easy, First he wanted to name her Tara Elaine, but I wasnt so keen on it lol, we were on the phone and talking about our troubles and I said "all we can do is have a little faith it will work out for us" Well, it didnt, but our daughter's name did. Faith Marie


Second girl, my husband couldnt decide what names he liked at all, He was TERRIBLE. We had picked a boys name just in case, so that was easy. But he just couldnt wrap his head around the fact that the dr said "it looks like a girl" lol. So we had several names in mind when she was born. He was holding her when he said "I think Allison Rose suits her best" and it still does to this day.


We had some time in between children to pick the 3rd baby's name. We knew it would be our last, and, again, the dr said "looks like a girl!" LOL. We had settled on Rhyleigh, but didnt have a middle name picked out. We were sitting around a campfire one night, he said "since it's our last baby, I think she should have a bit of her mama in her name" So she got my middle name. Thus, we have Rhyleigh Kay

 

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It took a while The girl's name (Leah Alexandra)we had picked out was no problem...but of course we never had a daughter. My former husband wanted the name for our first born son to be Jon Trevor and he wanted to call him that...both names. It just reminded me of a preppified lil boy and I suggested Trevor Gage and there was NO way he would agree to that We were able to agree on Trevor and after he was born I asked that his middle name be his Godfather's(which was Daniel) since my then husband would not let me use either of his names when naming our son.

Our second son we agreed on the name from the get-go

It can be a real challenge to agree on names so if a compromise/agreement can be reached...all the better! Truly...


~Murron~

 

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I had let him pick our sons name but i wanted the option of declining a name i didnt like. when we got pregnant the second time we actually did find out we were having a girl and our son kinda picked her name for us. he couldnt say Guinevere but he said Guinny Bear...and from then on until now we call her Guinny Bear


i kinda am of the opinion that the guy should be able to carry on a family name if he wants so hubby had that option.


Gerriik Lyle-- Gary and Eric were two friends of hubby's growing up. one had already passed, combinded the names to get Gerriik. Lyle was 5th generation middle name.


Guinevere Emily-- already said how that came along. Emily is after her aunt who is a great person.


edit: but i would say 4-6 months to choose either name. we went thru a number of names.

 

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My ex's family has a tradition of naming the next baby after the last member of the family that died, but they only use the first letter of the person's name. We already knew it was a girl and the last person who had died was the ex's grandfather, Sidney. I wanted to name her Sydney, but he didn't like that much, so we settled on Sara. She got my mother's middle name, Ann, so she's Sara Ann.


It only took one 2.5 hour ride from his Atlanta to Augusta to pick out her name.

 

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in my husband's family (they are Ashkenazi Jews) it is the tradition to name children in honor of deceased loved ones.

with our first daughter, we were pretty set on her name early on, we definitely intended to name her in honor of his grandfather and we were very happy with our choice of name from the start.

with our second daughter, we couldn't agree up until she was born and to be honest, it wasn't my first choice of name. we named her in honor of my grandfather and just could not agree on a name starting with "J" -- the names I liked, he didn't like, and vice versa. if I had to do it again I'd have tried harder for a different name but her name has grown on us and seems to suit her, so I guess that's ok.

 

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Naming the children after the deceased like that must be a common Jewish thing, then, because the ex's family was Jewish.

 

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yeah, I think it is. I've heard the Ashkenazim name children after the deceased (and in fact my husband didn't want to divulge our baby's intended name just in case someone else died in the meantime) and the Sephardim name children after living loved ones.

 

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So we committed to a name. We are going with Brokk Gaerret.

Brokk is a character from Norse Mythology and Gaerret was my husband's name in game when we me. If you go to my website in my sig there is a detail explanation and story behind the names.

Thanks to all for your feedback. Was very interesting to read.

 

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With my most recent baby, we had 2 girls' names picked out: Hayden and Kennedy. Well, she was born and we both agreed that she didn't look like a Hayden or a Kennedy so we didn't name her until late that evening. It ended up being a name that hadn't come up at all whenever we discussed names.

 

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Gwendolynn Marie is a beautiful name though, Blu. I especially like that she shares my middle name

Silver

 

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