Baby Name: Is it hard to name your child? How many times did you change your mind until you had your child? ?

w/my oldest son it was easy, but only because he's my step-son...i didn't have to do a thing. lol i like his name though.





w/my middle son though it was very difficult, my ex husband and i didn't agree on much of anything ever (hence the ex part), so it took a very long time to agree to a name, but i am most happy w/it.





w/my daughter, my hubs and i already knew that we would be honoring my great-grandmother by using her name. we just didn't know where to put it- first or middle. i wanted to honor my dad too because we thought this would be our last baby. My dad's name is Ronald, he's called Ron or Ronnie mostly so i thought about naming my daughter Ronnie or Rhonnie or Ronie, but i just couldn't commit to it. And i HATE the name Rhonda, which is what most ppl suggested. so we both went on sites, looked at books and jotted down names, traded lists, crossed off names, talked about them, crossed off some more till we had two left we liked, then we paried them w/my great-grandmother's name to see which sounding best and that's how we named her.





w/my last son (who was a surprise baby), i knew i wanted to honor my dad for sure so no matter if it was a boy or girl and Ronald for a boy or Ronnie for a girl would be his/her middle name. my hubs was overseas at the time so we had to pick a name through emails and 15 min phone conversations twice a month. when i found out it was a boy, and knew i'd get to use my dad's full name i was over the moon happy, so i told my hubs to send me a list of names he liked and i'd just tell him what i liked. he sent me a list of 3 names, 1 i didn't like, 1 i tweaked a bit and it ended up being respelled to be my hubs great-grandfather's name, and 1 i liked. so out of the two we had left i told him to choose, i'd be happy with either. so he did, over email. lol





it's hard work, but knowing that your are completely satisfied and have no regrets about your names is so worth it.

Baby Name: Is it hard to name your child? How many times did you change your mind until you had your child? ?
I have one child and I knew what I was going to call him the instant I found out I was having a boy. His daddy died not long after I found out I was pregnant, and I knew his favourite name for a boy was Edward. His name was James. I called our son Edward James. If I had a girl, I was going to call her Ella Jessica, as Ella was his all time favourite girl's name, and Jessica was a name he adored. I was going to choose Jessica because it's his same initial. I also love the names.





My older sister, who is 8 months pregnant, has changed the name a thousand times. She has gone from Anastasia Rose, to Natalie Marie, to Grace Louise and back to Anastasia, then to Harriet Claire, to Elisabeth Helen, to Helena Jo and back to Harriet and it just kept going. She has now decided on Helena Claire, though I have no doubt that will change by the time her daughter arrives.
Reply:Some people have a few names in mind before the child's born so as soon as they see her/him they know straight away it suits one particular name more.


However, some people struggle a lot more, and it often takes them weeks, some even months.





Take Billie Piper for example. Her mom and dad wanted a little boy called Billie, but they had a girl so they still named her Billie. A few yeas later they changed it because it was a boys name, but they couldn't see it any other way and it didn't feel right with the other name (sorry, i forgot what it was - in her autobiography) so they changed it back.


That shows that it can take years even, but that's just one in a few. Chances ae it's either straight away to a few weeks, or months at tops.


Good Luck :)
Reply:Yes, it's a nightmare decision! In fact, having already registered our daughter with one name, we went back and re-registered her with another name choice (you can do that in the UK until the child is 12 months old and if you're not having the baby christened).
Reply:If it was up to just me I would have no problem naming my children. But...since they are equally my husband's children he has a say in the names and that is where it gets hard. We agree on nothing! It takes us the whole length of the pregnancy to agree on names. With my second daughter is was about 8 hours after she was born before she had a name. So we never settle on anything to change it before the baby is born.
Reply:My husband and I went back and forth for about a month after learning I was pregnant, then we both found a girl's name and a boy's name to agree on.





But when our daughter was born, she didn't look like the Savannah we'd imagined. So we decided impromptu to name her Willow, and it fits her perfectly.
Reply:we NEVER changed our minds. we had it down to two or three by the time the baby was born, we just had to decide which one, and by the time the nurse came around with the BC's - the baby had his/her name. We have a boy and a girl and a surprise on the way - WHO ALSO ALREADY HAS A NAME ALREADY READY for HIM/HER...
Reply:I made a list of potential names.. and then crossed off the one's my fiance didn't like. And went through the other names and on my list was Kaylee. And he liked it, and so did I bc I had it on my list as a top name. The hardest part is the both of you deciding on a name. My whole pregnancy, the only name we considered from that point was Kaylee. There was no switching back and forth between names. If you are really serious about a name.. and you know the name is really special when you stick with it and there is no back and forth.. if you going back and forth then maybe it isnt the right name.. you will know it when it is the right name
Reply:I had my daughter's name picked out for years before she was born. We had a boys name I didn't love, but could live with. This time, we have a boys name we love, but are still in negotiations for a girls name. I'm 20.5 weeks along, so we do have some time.
Reply:We only changed our minds once and that was ONLY because my cousin named his son what we had picked out for ours. It wouldn't have been a problem except the family is very close and we wanted our son to have his own identity.





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Reply:we had a boys name picked out but didnt have a girls name ...looked @ a few for girls but could not agree. when she was born we both looked @ each other and both said @ once Ally and that is what my angel is called and it suits her.
Reply:my mother changed her mind at the last minute... she had a name all picked out and then watched television after giving birth and named me after Melissa Gilbert
Reply:Not if you got a sci-fi comic book Japanese superhero anime fantasy geek friend. He can come up tons of cool names.