reasons for your childs name

Krystal - posted on 04/19/2010

my Daughters name is Genevieve Mikeala first name daddy found it in a book and dont hear it very much and loved it and mikaela because i love the movie transformer and Mikaela was the girls name in the movie

Amanda - posted on 04/19/2010

Well with my oldest I had picked out Lilly Viktoria (for my mother who passed away in 2000). Since she passed I had plans on naming my daughter lilly (my mother's maiden name). We were told the whole time I was preg. I was having a girl but picked a boys name out just in case. If it was a boy I wanted Dakotah Jeffrey. Jeffrey after my dad. My hubby nixed that. lol. The only name we could agree on was kyler, so we decided to change the spelling to Kylar Jeffrey. Good thing we had a boy's name picked out cuz I ended up having a boy!



With my middle son, my hubby wanted another name that started with K, we were looking through baby name books in the book store and we both came across the name Kaden at exactly the same time! That was it from there. We loved it cuz it wasn't too popular then, but it sure is now! and Kylar and Kaden went well together. His middle name is Anthony cuz that's my hubby's middle name.





For our daughter, I knew I was having a girl from the moment I found out I was expecting. But just in case we picked Kooper for a boy cuz my ongyn's name is dr. cooper. She delivered all 3 of my kids and is great! For girls names Lilly is now such a popular name, we nixed that. We liked Kaia, but that sounded to close to Ky our oldest son's nickname. I loved Gracelyn but I have a niece name Gracie. Eventually towards the end of my pregnancy we ran across Kenna in a baby name book and we both just loved it, and it started with a K.! I was stuck on a middle name. I waffled back and forth between Lee (my mother's middle name), Viktoria, and Lilly. Actually thought about doing 2 middle names but decided against it. My oldest son ended up being the tie breaker. The first time he saw her I asked him what he thought her middle name should be and he said Lee, so I asked why and he said it was easier to spell than the other 2 names. lol. So she ended up being Kenna Lee.

Jordan Ashleigh - posted on 04/19/2010

I've always had a list of names I love. Before I got pregnant, I really liked the names Emmeline and Adelaide and Vincent and Dominic. It's a good thing we had a girl because we never did come up with a boy's name we could agree on. My daughter's name is Lilliom Asenath.

Lilliom (LIL-lee-um) actually came up randomly one day when we were just tossing names around. Kind of a "I'm not a fan of Lillian, but what about...?" We later found out that "Liliom" is the title of the play that the Rodger's and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" was based upon. Why is that special? My husband and I fell in love while in the production in high school. We played with the spelling - originally, we planned on spelling it as Lillium or Lilium - before settling with Lilliom.

Asenath (uh-SEEN-eth) was the name of my maternal grandmother and I have always loved the name. It means "she belongs to her father." Quite fitting, as my daughter is very much a daddy's girl.

Chelsea Cleo - posted on 04/19/2010

My daughters name is Kyah, I named her Kyah because its a gorgeous name and it means diamonds in the sky :)

Jalissa - posted on 04/18/2010

i had a;ways said i was going to name my daughter malika and my son blaine i now have a son his name is: Jaremiah Christopher Lee M
jaremiah: i wanted a j name that wasnt too common or too crazy and my sister suggested it my mom decided on the spelling
christopher: my brothers name
lee: father of my sons middle name
m- my last name

Allyssa - posted on 04/13/2010

Well i had orginally picked the name Savannah Mae for my daughter before i even knew she was a girl and i told everyone when i found out she was a girl what i was going to name her. Then one of my close friends got pregnant not to long after that and we talked about what i was going to name my little girl and a couple days later i looked at her myspace and it turns out she put Savnnah down as her girls name if it tuns out to bed a girl. She ended up having a misscarriage but i just couldnt use that name after that. So my second choice was either Kaylee or kailyn. I ended up deciding Kaylee Mae. And a month before Kaylee was born i found out my childhood best friend had passed away. We were bestfriend from the time we were 2 years old til grade 5 when i moved away. Her name was Kayla Marie. So Kaylee Mae was very close to kayla Marie and we used to always say we would name our kids after each other and when i realized it was similar to Kayla Marie i knew it was the perfect name for my babygirl.

Krista - posted on 04/05/2010

bf wanted it a welsh name...
Ceiro - Love
Pryce - Son of Rhys (rhys like the chocolate not like rice.) which is the father.. his father of which is not with us anymore :( was welsh.

Jenny - posted on 04/05/2010

very spooky story on how i got my daughters name we were going to call her chanelle but while i was 8 months pregnant i had a dream and in the dream the baby girl was called kylie jade when my baby girl was born it was the baby in my dream so we called her kylie jade

Tiffany - posted on 04/04/2010

my daughters name is hailey lane she was named that because my best friend died the day she was born and her first name was hailey and last was lane so thats my daughters first and middle. means alot to me

my sons name is morgan alexander his first name is after the drummer for sevendust and that was their fathers idol and alexander is my favorite name

Samantha - posted on 04/04/2010

well i have a son and i never though about a boys name just knew what the middle name would be from my family tradition if i had a girl her name was going to be sarah because i have always loved that name but i had a son and we named him darren after my uncle who passed

Stevie - posted on 04/01/2010

I had a list a mile long before we found out I was pregnant but surprisingly (not) My boyfriend didn't like most of them! I wanted Evelyn Paige for a girl but he said he HATED the name Evelyn but we're having a boy so I have some more time to work on getting him to accept that name before we ahve a girl ;) When we found out we were having a boy I wanted to name him after his father because I had looked up the meaning of his name (David) and it means "beloved" which I thought was really sweet but since HIS fathers name is also David he didn't want to and I agreed it was kind of silly especially since him and his father aren't that close sooo I decided I wanted a Hebrew name because David is hebrew. We aren't Jewish I just wanted our son's name to have a sort of link to his fathers name:) Anyway I looked on a lot of websites that had Hebrew names and after sifting through A LOT of very old fashioned names we found two that we liked very much Ethan Asher. Ethan means "strong" which is fitting because even as a baby David looked like a little bodybuilder and you can see the biceps on our baby already at his last ultrasound and Asher means "full of joy" which is too cute if you ask me so his full name will be Ethan Asher Busk, I don't think we will change our minds and I'm almost 36 weeks so he will be here very soon, I can't wait ♥

Chloe - posted on 04/01/2010

well before i found out i was having a boy i was adiment i ws having a girl the whole of my family thought it too... so i settled on either Maddison-Leigh Or Maizie-Leigh deciding on when we saw her and what she best suited... but my luck struck and i ended with a boy... me and his father were discussing names when all of a sudded i went to a kiddies footy practice and saw Lucas on a lil boys T i instantly fell in love with the name but his father wasnt so keen he liked Jordan {more popular than i wanted but hay-ho} lol he settled on that and me being me gave in and said what about Jordan-Lucas... it stuck and now my gawjus 6 month old son is called Jordan-Lucas Andrew Lee Hewerdine great name dont ya'll think?
other names were...
Hyden-James, Tyler-James and Amaii-James Tyler wasnt alowed cuz his dad is a bricky lol x

Shae - posted on 04/01/2010

We were set on Azalia for the first part of our pregnancy, but half way through my partner found the name Amali on the internet and the way he suggested to me when he read it out sounded like he really loved it, and I loved it too because its not your typical name. :)

Christina - posted on 03/27/2010

When I found out I was pregnant I had a dream that I had a little girl one December 28th 2009 and I was going to name her Amiah Madeline. So when I went into labor I had her on December 30th 2009 and I named her Amiah Madeline. Amiah is for her daddy because his name is Jeremiah and Madeline for my favorite books.

Melissa - posted on 03/27/2010

HEY I'M MELISSA I'M 25 AND I LIVE IN NY. I HAVE A 17 MONTH OLD LITTLE BOY NAMED RJ HIS FULL NAME FIRST MIDDLE LAST LOL IS RICHARD(AFTER HIS DADDY) JOHN(AFTER MY DADDY LOL) STEPHENS BUT WE CALL HIM RJ AND WERE TRYING FOR NUMBER 2 IF WE GET THE GIRL WERE HOPING FOR WERE GONNA NAME HER GIANNA AND CALL HER GI GI FOR SHORT NO REASON JUST A BEAUTIFUL NAME AND IF WE HAVE A BOY WERE THROWING MATTHEW AROUND.. I WOULD LOOVE TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH SOME OTHER MOMMYS SO REQUEST ME I ♥ NEW FRIENDS! XOXO
NAMED

Racheal - posted on 03/27/2010

Are you ready for this one my son's name is Jonathan Bryce William Jones. Jonathan is my cousin who is my favorite person on the planet besides my son. Bryce because my mom always wanted a son named Bryce, so instead I gave her a grandson. William is my cousin who passed away a couple years ago, my way of remembering him with out a tattoo. we just call him Bryce most of the time though..

Kia - posted on 03/27/2010

before even thinking about getting pregnant i always wanted a boy named "jerimyah" well my boyfriend hated that & wanted a jr if it was a boy, so we ended up having a babygirl named Mya instead & her middle name is "Jonlea" (john-leah) ... the "john" part is my fathers first name & the "leah" is my bestfriends middle namee so my daughters name is "Mya Jonlea West" && i lovee itt!

Stephanie - posted on 03/27/2010

Well the name is always the hardest part for me I am on number two and that is the conclusion I've drawn. With my First one I named her Freyja Nicole and fathers last name even though we were no longer together. I chose Freyja because I'm an Norse grant it I'm also Irish but I'm very proud of my heritage. Nicole I named her cause I wanted to name her after her Uncle my mom always named us after someone in the family. My new one I have the names for but it's a secrete till the birth

Steph - posted on 03/26/2010

My sons name is Jason Alec, Me and my fiance always knew our sons middle name would be Alec, after his cousin who died in 2006 of heart complications, Jason is because it was the only name my fiance could really pronounce b/c he has a speech impediment

and if our next child is a girl, her name will be Samantha Jean (Fiance Loves Samantha) and Jean is after my grandmother who raised me as a when i was little and she passed away in 1996

Kristen - posted on 03/26/2010

I has always said I was going to name my daughter Alexia Marie. Alexia because I thought it was beautiful, and Marie because that is also my middle name. When I started discussing "future baby" names with my now fiance, he hated it! I never really thought about the guy's opnion. LOL : ) When I found out I was pregnant I searched online for baby names for something that sounded kind of hispanic (because her daddy is mexican), but wasn't too hard to pronounce. I stumbled across Lilliana and fell in love with it immediately. Now I have my little Lilliana Marie, Lilli for short.

Keelani - posted on 03/26/2010

When I was pregnant with Konner, his name was decided right after I found out I was having a boy. His middle name Kai came from a friend who'd suggested it.

Olivia didn't have a name until after she was born. She was going to be named Alaska, but we thought that was too out there. Olivia came from SVU and Audrey was just a name we though of.

If we have anymore we like Rheece for a boy, and Addy for a girl.

Siobhan - posted on 03/26/2010

My sons name is Jay Hugo O'Colla - McGowan

When we where picking boys names we couldnt think of any names we liked that weren't already in either of the families... So i came up with the idea of Jayjay becasue his dads name is John so it kinda sounded like JJ for John Junior but we didnt like Jayjay but we both said we liked Jay and that doesn't stand for anythin its just Jay :)

Hugo we got from the fathers uncle who died a few years ago

and the first part of the surname is my surname in the male irish version instead of the female..... and the second part is just his fathers surname :) xx

Lindz - posted on 03/26/2010

my daughter's name is Alice August Armstrong
Alice- not because of the movie(the new alice in wonderland hadnt even come out yet) but it is of German origin and im a proud German.
August- was my great grandpa's middle name
Armstrong- that is her dad's last name

Kera D. - posted on 03/25/2010

beautiful story!!! I loved it. Thanks for sharing. I like that last name and it is very unique indeed. Have a good weekend!

Christina - posted on 03/25/2010

My son's Name is Varis Li Zupancic,

His name was partly based off of the various culture's that run's threw.



Varis- after his father because it's his first boy and his name is Javaris however I HATE names that start with a J so we settled on Varis.-African American



Li- both Myself and Javaris have a middle name that startes with L his is Latodd my is Louise-Japanese



Zupancic because I will never give up my last name and I promised my father if I was the first to have his grandson I would keep my last name going it's unique, uncommon and I love it♥-Youkaslavian

Kera D. - posted on 03/25/2010

well i had a vision when i was 13 and i called my son Mi'Chael-Lisan (My*kell-Lee*sawn). I was young and could have easily forgoten but God gave me conformation of my son to be's name. My favorite artist was Michael Jackson and my cousin whom I rarely saw was named Lisa- so those two names kept me up on that dream. I had finally written it out on paper when I was 18. I didnt know I would not have him until I was 21 and in my second marriage. So that's my story. I know its quite rare so I really wanted to take the opportunity and share it with you! So a quick reminder for all women!!!! Love urself enough to be true to the names you chose for your children. They may be the names God has given you for them and you didn't recognize it for the hope of pleasing someone else. Look for conformations as well. They always help. God Bless u all and ur children!

Megan - posted on 03/25/2010

I have two.Girl and boy. Sophia Pearl. Sophia's name is a complicated story. I've always loved the name Sophia, it means "Wisdom," it is the name of the county in WV where my great-grandmother lives (heaven on earth!) It also kind of stands for my favorite mythological figure, Athena, who among other things, represents wisdom. I originally wanted her middle name to be Avery, which means "Queen of the elves." Her father didn't like that though, so we finally settled on Pearl, the name of her paternal great-great-grandmother.
My boy is Kenneth Alexander Drake. His father wanted Alexander ("Great, Conqueror") Drake ("Fire, Of fire"), and I wanted to give him Kenneth ("Handsome") as a middle name because my dad's name is Kenneth, and his middle name is my grandfather's name, and the same with his middle and my great-grandfather's first, and so on. Family tradition. He didn't want to do that though, because he and my dad don't get along, but he relented and gave in in the delivery room. But I liked Kenneth Alexander Drake better than Alexander Kenneth Drake, or Alexander Drake Kenneth, so that's what we did.

Heather - posted on 03/25/2010

My sons name is Drew John. Truthfully I'm not a huge fan of how it sounds but its all about the meaning behind it. Drew is my partners friend who passed away on his 17th birthday along with four other friends in a car accident. John is after my father who passed away when I was three due to drinking and driving. If we were going to have a girl her name was going to be Isabella Alison. Isabella is a name I picked out since grade six. Alison is my partners moms name. We agreed from the start i got the girls first name and he got the middle and vise versa for the boy.

Amanda - posted on 03/25/2010

when I had my son, my husband and I named him Allen Scott because Allen is my husbands cousins middle name and he was killed in a car wreck and my husband wanted to use it in memory of him and my mom had a miscarriage with a boy between my sister and I and his name was to be Christopher Scott and my sister and I made an agreement that whoever had a boy first got Christopher, which she did and I got Scott. If we were going to have a girl we were going to name her Kira Shea but now if we have a girl it will be Kira Elizabeth; Elizabeth after my best friend who was murdered.

JAMIE - posted on 03/25/2010

i have just one baby boy named daniel onsomu. daniel i got from my hubby, who is very religious, got it from the bible. we both agreed it was a very strong name. It was neat because when our nurse asked us (while i was in labor ) what his name was and we said daniel she started telling us the story of daniel in the bible amd she started sobbing. it was so touching! onsomu we got from my hubbys side of the fam it was his middle name passed on from an uncle that was very looked upon in his fam. so Daniel Onsomu is what we came up with and very pleased!

Brittany - posted on 03/25/2010

YES. Before I had my son Baylin, I had some crazy names picked out. But when I got pregnant, I had changed the thought due to a fe reasons. First the father is military, and second he has an opinion too being that he is involved with the pregnancy and life. "Baylin" means mighty soldier. Get it? :)

Jenna - posted on 03/25/2010

when i found out i was preg i realy liked the names xavia 4 a boy n phinix 4 a girl. but the i thought of how mean sum kids are so i when bak to basics.
my son is called joshua ian michael sherman. the initals spell out my nickname which is is jim and the middle name are his grandads names

Jamie - posted on 03/25/2010

My sons name is Gryffin after the mythical beast and it is spelled with a Y because its different and so less people would think he was named after Family guy.
Now we want 2 more girls (good luck right? lol) and their names will be Phoenx and Crymson.

Janette - posted on 03/25/2010

Angelo= every man on my dads side has their name start with an A. angelo means angel in italian nd he is my little angel(unil he hit 2)

Sarah - posted on 03/25/2010

Asher - Because it was uncommon and I love the name. His middle name is Gabriel and that was always another favorite of mine. :)

Alyssa - posted on 03/24/2010

I didnt pick ot names before I found out I was pregnant bc I didnt want kids. But after I found out I picked Marcus Allen for my son thats what I had and Chloe Faith for a girl. Marcus Allen bc his dad is Marshall Allen and his grandfather who died 7 days after my husband was born was named Marvin Allen. Chloe Faith bc I had a dog for many years and she was the smartest dog I have ever came across she was my best friend then she disappeared and never came back. Faith for my good friend that died in a car wreck my senior year of high school. Her name was Bonnie Faith. I had a son Marcus Allen. He is 9 months old.

Mashell - posted on 03/24/2010

my son's name is Takota Aaron. Takota is a cherokee name (his dad is 1/4 cherokee) and Aaron is his daddy's middle name. as well as his grandpa's middle name and his uncle's first name. Just runs in the family i guess.

Kayla - posted on 03/24/2010

when i found out i was pregnant i started thinking off names strait away.all the way through my pregnancy i would keep changing my mind i always said if i had a boy i would name him Ethan Paull or declan Paull (Paull is my parners middle name) . i had so many girls names but just could not pick one. 2 weeks befor i had my baby my mum said how about Emily for a girl and i loved the name but could not see myself calling my child Emily . i ended up giving birth to a amazing baby girl after i had her i hemeraged and lost a lot off blood and cant even remember picking her name but some how my partener said i call her Emily when the midwife handed her to me. so she ended up with Emily Ann ( Ann is mine and my mothers middle name so thought i would carry it on) .Then once we named her Emily Ann we also then found out that my parteners great Aunty's name was Emily Ann so it worked out realy good!!!! now i could not see myself calling her anyother name Emily fits her perfectly!

Jasmine - posted on 03/24/2010

I always thought if I ever had a son I would name him Daemyn, but then it changed when someone who's like a sister to me dated someone with the name (Idk...I'm just one of those ppl who doesn't want a name associated with anyone else >

Laura Zoey - posted on 03/24/2010

Eric Ryan because it means ruler of all and little king. Perfect for the oldest boy:)

Brendan Paul because Brendan just sounded nice and it's Irish like us! And Paul because in my husbands family the first grandson gets the middle name of his paternal grandfather and since my husband is the second son in his family we will give our second son his grandpas name. Second sons' second son

Molly Beth just loved Molly and Beth sounded nice and my sisters name is Bethany

Lucy Ella fell in love with Lucy from 7th heaven and lucy from narnia sealed the deal cuz I looked just like her when I was little. Ella from my middle name Elizabeth and we used to like the first name Elle but decided on Ella for a middle name. I also thought about Luciella as a first name but my husband didn't like that

Mikayla Madalyn I always loved Mikayla from dr Quinn and when my husband watched it with me he agreed it was a good name. I asked him if he liked Mikayla Kathryn or Mikayla Madalyn and he picked Madalyn so that's that!

Jason Alexander cuz we like it!

Bryan Elijah cuz we like Bryan and Elijah was a favorite first name for me bit hubby didn't like it so we compromised!

Laisha - posted on 03/24/2010

My sons name is Keiran Gabriel, I heard keiran on a show and i fell in love with it an knew i was going to name my future son that. And its unique becuz most ppl spell it Kieran with the 'i' before the 'e' and i love it. And Gabriel is the name of an angel and he is my miracle, my angel baby. And he also has mexican blood running through him and Gabriel is a popular spanish name, his grandpa called him gabe since he was lil and now he is known as Gabe but at 10 months he already knows to go by the name Keiran or Gabe :D

Carly - posted on 03/24/2010

My little boy is called josh but when i was pregnant i liked the name zac for a little boy but noone else like it so it was between josh and ryan when i had him so i wrote both names on different pieces of paper and gave them to his dad and picked a hand and josh was the name i picked, if he had of been a girl it would have been between katelyn or chantel

Kylie - posted on 03/24/2010

Well we had a really hard time deciding a name, I am a very indecisive person so in the end me and my partner decided to write afew of our favorites on pieces of paper and choose at random but that didn't work either so my partner chose Ellis and i love the name and my son. (but we've agreed that i get to decide the next name. I can't see that happening very easily lol)

Meaghan - posted on 03/24/2010

My fiancee is Croatian so we went onto sites and looked for baby names...most people in his culture don't have middle names so we decided not to give our baby girl one either but on the first site we went to I saw the name Andrijana and fell in love with it and Kris loved it too. She's 3 months old now and her name suits her so well! Andrijana Konjicija :)

Danielle - posted on 03/24/2010

Well I had tons of names to pick from. I knew I was having a girl and I knew that her middle name would be Jo because my dad's middle name is Joseph and my great grandpa's name is Joseph so I thought it was cute. I couldn't decide but then my mom said that her great grandmother's name was Emma. So that is how it happened. Emma Jo. :D

Jessy - posted on 03/24/2010

my baby girl has mine and two of my sisters middle names, girls names are not as important as the boys in my family as they are not passed often. soi kept all family names. hannah lillian rose. a boy would have been a john paul or robert/combination. (every male in my family is one or the other.

Stephanie - posted on 03/24/2010

Tegen, because it means beautiful and its unusual. Also the one of the many names we'd been thru. =]

Stacey - posted on 03/24/2010

with my son i knew right from go he was a boy, just knew it in my heart
and he was!
his name is Vincent Miles, Vincent after his Opa, or Vinnie for short
and Miles his father chose, know sonic the hedgehogs wee sidekick tails?, his name is Miles 'tails' Prower (get it?, miles per hour), hmy ex is a fan of sonic haha
my unborn daughter is Emma Lee
we didnt have any names chosen until well after we knew what we were having
and Emma was just a name we both liked, put it to the mans family and they loved it, Lee is after my big sister who is very unwell (cancer)

Missy - posted on 03/23/2010

brooklyn=because new york is my FAVORITE place...and its the only city that sounds like a girl name lol and mya=because is means 'mine', which is completely appropriate:)

Andrea - posted on 03/23/2010

My daughters first name came from a video game that her dad liked (kingdom hearts) but we spelled different and her middle name came from one of my sisters middle name who (when she got sick when she was a few months old) i got very close to so her name is Kyrie (ky-ree) Jade. My sons name first name is the name my 1st would have been if she was a boy cause i always liked the name. And his middle name is his dads and his deceased grandpas name =( so he is Zachary Paul.