How did your baby get his or her name?? I like to hear how everyone comes up with there babies name. Its something that a lot of thought has to go into. This is something you give them that they will have forever!!!

Kayla - posted on 01/28/2009

I am a new mom to my first son. His name is Bryson Xavier Michael. I had a big list of names I wanted to name him and one of them was Bryce. His dad wanted his name to be Xavier but i couldn't see myself calling my son Xavier so i agreed that it would be one of his middle names. After he was born we were just sitting there looking and him and his dad said "Bryson Xavier Michael. "(michael is his dad's middle name and iw anted to make sure that was in there too. His dad thought since it was a boy he should be able to name him so that why he changed it from Bryce to Bryson

Kayla - posted on 01/28/2009

I am a new mom to my first son. His name is Bryson Xavier Michael. I had a big list of names I wanted to name him and one of them was Bryce. His dad wanted his name to be Xavier but i couldn't see myself calling my son Xavier so i agreed that it would be one of his middle names. After he was born we were just sitting there looking and him and his dad said "Bryson Xavier Michael. "(michael is his dad's middle name and iw anted to make sure that was in there too. His dad thought since it was a boy he should be able to name him so that why he changed it from Bryce to Bryson

Jen - posted on 01/28/2009

Well I always liked the name Zoe for a little girl, but my friend named her daughter Zoe so we decided to go with something different. I was reading a Nichloas Sparks book and the main character's name was Savannah and I really liked that. The name stuck and my husband really liked it too so we named her Savannah. Her middle , Kelly, comes from her godmother and my best friend. I was hoping to get a boy because we found out we were pregnant after my brother passed away, but when we get our son his middle name will be Javier after my brother.

Marianne - posted on 01/28/2009

My daughter's name is Elayna Rowan. My husband's name is Bayly so I zeroed in on Irish-welsh origin for the names. Then I had to pick a nick name that fit so we call her Laney. Now I have another girl on the way in May. We picked Makayla Rhiannon. Also I am a huge Stevie Nicks fan...LOL. We are going to call this one Kylie.

Rebecca - posted on 01/28/2009

We named our daughter Harriett Regan. We chose Harriett because my husband and I were close to his grandmother who passed away and that was her name. We chose Regan because it was a name that we both liked !

Abigail - posted on 01/28/2009

When I was working in a school, one of my students name was Anayah. I just LOVED her name!! She was the perfect student..smart, nice, not too shy..she stood up for herself but was very sweet!! I just loved spelling her name!!! When I found out I was having a girl.. i almost forgot about Anayah since I havent seen that cute little girl for about 2 years..but i REMEMBERED!!! :) AND HER NAME MEANS: LOOK UP TO GOD!! :)
HAVE A GOOD DAY!! :)

Brittany - posted on 01/28/2009

My son got is name from two poeple. My DH said that his name should be david lee. I ask him why and he said his grand-dad name is david ( he passed before DS was born)

and his uncle his name was david lee (passed way when he was 1 day old). So that is how we got David Lee.

Stacy - posted on 01/28/2009

I have three kids a girl and two boys. My daughters name I picked out its Alexandria  Brook but we call her Lexy for short.Her first name I picked out and the Middle my husband found the only think I did to the middle name is take the E off of Brook. My first boy is named after his daddy and pop so hes James Daniel Edgin III so  I was so tired of James so we call him Trey cause he is the III. My last son was a big deal for me His name is Lucas Harlan Lucas is the only name my husband liked out of thousands of names and Harlan was my granfathers middle name he passed away two years before I had Lucas and he and my grandmother raised me so I named my last son after him.

Alison - posted on 01/28/2009

Sadly, for us, it was just the names we could both agree on. Unfortunately my partner and i have very different tastes, in many areas, and when it came down to it, we just had to settle on the ones we could both agree on. Our kids are Daron and Miley.

Rebecca - posted on 01/28/2009

Morgan was somewhat named after the lead singer in the band Kittie. We love listening to hard rock. We could not agree on a name for the life of us, and we were listening to the song Spit by Kittie when I blurted out "What about Morgan?" He loved it. Her middle name, Elizabeth, just seemed to slide in there. Morgan Elizabeth Miller.

Rachel - posted on 01/28/2009

I didnt so much choose the name.. he has a daughter that he still was never able to meet and the mother never told him about her until she was a year and a half and asking for child support. :(  ~~he might be getting to see her when he goes to court this march to try to get it modified :) ~~  ANYWAYS so he had obviously NOTHING to do with the name choosing of her.. and he really hates that. so i said that he can pick out a name.. as long as i agree.. so our sons name is Theron Anthony.. i picked the middle name out.. he has to have SOMETHING italian in there. he got Theron from a friend he went to elementry school with and always loved the name.

most people see it and pronounce it wrong so if you are wondering its Theron.. just like how you say Sheron.. but with a TH instead :)

Rachel - posted on 01/28/2009

I didnt so much choose the name.. he has a daughter that he still was never able to meet and the mother never told him about her until she was a year and a half and asking for child support. :(  ~~he might be getting to see her when he goes to court this march to try to get it modified :) ~~  ANYWAYS so he had obviously NOTHING to do with the name choosing of her.. and he really hates that. so i said that he can pick out a name.. as long as i agree.. so our sons name is Theron Anthony.. i picked the middle name out.. he has to have SOMETHING italian in there. he got Theron from a friend he went to elementry school with and always loved the name.

most people see it and pronounce it wrong so if you are wondering its Theron.. just like how you say Sheron.. but with a TH instead :)

Leigh - posted on 01/28/2009

When I had my 2 year's ultra sound we were told that we were having a boy...so we were looking at boys name's.....we then found out later on on the pregnancy that we were having a GIRL....so we had everyone in our family..I mean EVERYONE calling us with udeas...my sister-in-law actually called with the name Lyla, and since there was a popular song out called Lyla (by Oasis), my husband was sold!!! So her name is Lyla Elizabeth (Elizabeth after both of my Grandmothers)

Then we just had B/G Twins, we named my son after My Husband - Justin Brian (we call him JJ), and my daughter...I always wanted the name Presley for a baby girl, and since my name is Leigh...we made her name Presleigh Irene (Irene after my Husbands Grandmother), so we incorporated both if our names with the twins!

Wanted to be a bit unique with the girls names anyway!

Chavione - posted on 01/27/2009

Well my 20 month old son was named after one of my favorate names in the Bible "Joshua" and after my lil brother that was killed "Anthony". Hes was a good brother so it ment alot for me to name my son after him. My 8 month old lil girl is named after her great grandma (my grandma). My maternal grandma's last name was Mckenzie and I just loved that for a fisrt name and both of my grandma's shared the same middle name of "Mae". Funny thing is my mother in laws middle name is May also but spelt different.

Rachel - posted on 01/27/2009

My first and only son i named Samuel because to me it sounds strong and Samuel was a prophet in the bible who God spoke to while he was sleeping. Samuel was dedicated to God to serve him. I just love the sound of that name and I know that he was meant to have that name....especially with his circumstances of him being born premeturely. Jesus spared his life.

Michelle - posted on 01/27/2009

Quoting Brandis:

my fiancee and i once we found out the sex. we bought a small simple little baby book so we wouldnt get too overwhelmed with so many names. and each of us separetely went thru the book and picked out all the names that we liked. then he looked at my list and picked out the ones he liked and i did the same to his list. then we had one solid list of baby names that we liked. aidan happened to be one of them. so we decided as aidan for the first name and then we paired aidan with all the other names from our solid list and said each one aloud with the last name included to see which one sounded the best to us. and so we came up with aidan james....coincidently james is a family name. (my fiancee's grandfather was james and his cousin's middle name was james who just passed away) so its kinda coincidental.

If i was having a boy Aidan James was possibly going to be his name but we had a girl and ended up naming her Ashlin Isabella, but i laughed when i saw your response. But Aidan is a really nice name it is very unique i think :)

Mschelseamac - posted on 01/27/2009

Since we met my Husband and I love the name Logan for a boy! However by the time we were expecting we knew 6 different kids named Logan. So we flipped through the baby name book and found Terrance. We both agreed on it and neither of us knew anyone from our past we hated name Terrance.

Should I ever have a girl her name will be Cassidy Lee. My Mother is Cindy Lee, I am Chelsea Lee. That way even when she marries and takes a different last name she would still share the first initials of her Grandmother and Mom.

Vanessa - posted on 01/27/2009

My middle daughter is Teyana MaRae Aleena and her name came from many places, My moms name is Teena so somehow I finagled it to her first name, Her first middle name MaRae mt moms middle name is also Marie, I have a grandma Maria, a grandma Marie and a best friend whose middle name is Rae so I combned those, then her other name My other grandma passed away and her name was Aleen so I added an a and gave her it as a second middle name, then my son CODON i have 2 brothers Cody and brandon so I combined them.

Jacqueline - posted on 01/27/2009

I decided that if I was pregnant with a boy, I was going to name him Malachi (God's Messenger and also his dad's name is Melvin so got the whole "M" thing going on) Curtis (His father's middle name). But I found out I was having a girl. My husband wanted to name her Diamond from "Player's Club". Of course I was not having that. I was writing on a tablet one day just writing names. I remember that I went to school with a girl named Zykia but I didn't want that to be her name so I named her Zykira. I have always liked Imani (Faith) so her name became Zykira Imani. Well, I got pregnant again. I knew that I wanted the new baby's name to go with my daughter's name. If I was having another girl, her name was going to be Zabre' I'Driahna. Well, I found out I was having a boy. It was hard coming up with a "Z" name that I liked. I found one name but the meaning of it meant, "Song Bird". That sounded to feminine for me. I am a strong believer of looking up the meanings. People gave me suggestions but I just didn't like any of them. One day, my older sister-in-law suggested Zhamel for his first name b/c his father's name, her brother, is Melvin. This way, he will be named after his father w/o having the exact same name. I did know that I didn't want my kids to be named after my husband or me b/c we are both named after our parents. It has to stop somewhere. LOL... My daughter's middle name is Imani so I had to figure out something that goes with that. I thought of I'mon and Imari but I really didn't like the flow so I came up with Imarion. His name is Zhamel Imarion. Kinda lengthy but that's where Zykira Imani and Zhamel Imarion got their names! :-) Hope this helps you and that you have enjoyed my story.

Ashley - posted on 01/27/2009

My son is Camden Blake(2.5 yrs old) and my daughter is Brenna Carys(almost 7months old).

When my husband and I had been dating for awhile, we talked about names. He liked Cameron for a boy and I really didn't. When we got pregnant a few years later, he mentioned it again and I suggested Camden instead. We are Orioles fans too, but that's not why we named him that! We couldn't decide on a middle name and one evening, he was reading Sports Illustrated and I was reading a baby name book when he suggested the name Blake after reading an article on the tennis player, James Blake. He's not named after him though. I like both names because they are different without being weird. Although Camden is becoming more popular.

I'd always liked the name Brianna and that was our girls' name when I was pregnant with my son. When I got pregnant with my daughter, I didn't really like that name so much anymore. I love girls' names that end with A. I like Brenna because it's uncommon and simple. I love Catherine Zeta-Jones and her daughter is named Carys, so that's where that one came from. My husband worked with a girl named Carys, but it was spelled differently, and he always liked that name. I couldn't remember him working with a Carys before but...

So that is how my children got their names!

Amelia - posted on 01/27/2009

I kept thinking of names and making a list. When my husband would get home from work he would look at it and it was always NO NO NO NO. We agreed on Kai from the get go but our last name is Way. So Kai Way just didn't sound right. Finally, months down the road I thought of the name Dominic. And my husband loved it. So we now have our amazing son, Dominic Kai Way.

Jennifer - posted on 01/27/2009

that is really nice! love it!

Sarah - posted on 01/27/2009

well we named our daughter Jolie Rebecca. Jolie for my husband's grandfather (on his mother's side)...i know a little girl named for a man..but his name was Joe Lee. I didn't have a grandfather to be close with except him. I loved him so much. So we made it a little girl's name jolie..which means beautiful girl in french. And Rebecca for my husband's grandmother (his father's side). We are very pleased!

Holly - posted on 01/27/2009

My kids are bryan, 7, and Sylvia, 3. Bryans dad and i both really liked the name Ryan, but that was his cousins name. So just stuck a B in the front of it and TA-Daa! Bryan!



My daughters name comes from my high school days. I was in French class for 4 years and my name in class was sylvie. I loved it so much i named my daughter after that name! plus i loved my french teacher, that also had a lot to do with it.

Becky - posted on 01/27/2009

my one and only daughter got her name from a lifetime movie She Faught Alone... My middle boy got his name from yet another movie but more popular Kindergarten Cop. Anthony was kinda of a joke between my father in law and myself, both being fans of nascar he wanted me to name him Jeff as in Jeff Gordon well not the biggest Gordon fan he dislikes Tony stewart and it stuck Anthony. As I tell al new parents a good yelling name is always good.

Haley - posted on 01/27/2009

my boys names r calib an raiden, i used an i in calib instead of an e cos i thougth it looked betta and i got raiden of the internet i wantd a diff name tht nt many ppl wuld hve

Shanetta - posted on 01/27/2009

My daughter Essence was named after the magazine. Always thought it was such a beautiful and unique name. She loves it too. I came up with it and my husband agreed. Our son Mekhi is named after the actor Mekhi Phifer. Just have always loved that name too. It's unique and strong. Wanted our kids to have names that they wouldn't later hate.

Ashley - posted on 01/27/2009

My husband and I both have fairly common names and didn't want to give our child a common name. Immediately we decided on the name Vedder (After Edie Vedder from Pearl Jam) for a boy, but we couldn't agree on a girls name. I have always said that I would name my daughter Guinevere but I happened to marry a man with the last name Lariviere and the two names just don't go together. Not even a month before our daughter was born we we're watching Scrubs and I said Jordan isn't bad for a girl...that was it.

Elizabeth - posted on 01/27/2009

My sons name is parker because my husband is obsessed with marvel comics.  We were at the hospital and when he came out he had that falling reflex and he kept putting his arms out- he was only 6 pounds with these super long skinny arms and we thought he looked like spider man so we started calling him spider man for the rest of the day and then my husband was like okay honey it can either be peter or parker....... (spider mans real name is peter parker) so i chose parker!

Ashley - posted on 01/27/2009

my husband and I decided that we were going to give our daughter my mothers middle name being Tamora we needed something that went with that and our last name Terrell, we went threw a few but we didnt like the short version she would be called, we liked Naomi but we liked it sounding Niomi, my mom said that it would be comfused and she would most likely be called Naomi so we decided to spell it with i instead of an A, We didnt realize no one had ever spelled it like that so it is very orginal. her name is Niomi Tamora Terrell. we get complements on it all the time and coments like why did you spell it like that it is because we didnt want her to be confused with Naomi.!

Amanda - posted on 01/27/2009

Quoting Angela:

How did your baby get his or her name?? I like to hear how everyone comes up with there babies name. Its something that a lot of thought has to go into. This is something you give them that they will have forever!!!

Well I have to children and Joshua is my son there is no story behind picking out his name, he is named after his daddy. Joshua Alonzo ( 2yrs)

My little girl has a story though.. I loved the name Ashley. It was one of them names that you used every time you played baby dolls when you were little!! So we were going to go with that until my husband, Josh, wanted to go with Marie as a middle name. Well I couldnt see having his grand mother name and not using my grand mothers name. So we were ging to go with Ashley Ann-Marie... Well then we found out that we would not be able to have anymore children then got to thinking, both of our mothers had the same middle name Lynn. So we came up with Ashlynn Ann-Marie. That takes care of everyone name!!
Long story but something to tell her about when she get older!

I like all of the  names and your little girl sounds so special how loverly and caring.

Randalee - posted on 01/27/2009

my daughter was born a week before christmas and we are italian, natale being the word for christmas, i slightly changed it to nataila and her middle names ruby grace, ruby after my maternal grandma and grace my youngest sister, and my son nunzio john, was my husbands grandpa and my husbands middle name and john after our fav uncle.

Siobhan - posted on 01/27/2009

my son is called joshua no reason realy i just liked it he has 2 middle names which are Antony Philip .Antony after my dad and philip after my grandad.

Brandis - posted on 01/27/2009

my fiancee and i once we found out the sex. we bought a small simple little baby book so we wouldnt get too overwhelmed with so many names. and each of us separetely went thru the book and picked out all the names that we liked. then he looked at my list and picked out the ones he liked and i did the same to his list. then we had one solid list of baby names that we liked. aidan happened to be one of them. so we decided as aidan for the first name and then we paired aidan with all the other names from our solid list and said each one aloud with the last name included to see which one sounded the best to us. and so we came up with aidan james....coincidently james is a family name. (my fiancee's grandfather was james and his cousin's middle name was james who just passed away) so its kinda coincidental.

Andrea - posted on 01/27/2009

I love names that aren't common and I looked up a ton of names online and wrote down the ones I liked. My fiancee and I decided if it was a boy it would have his middle name and if it was a girl it would have my middle name. So we decided on Gage Michael.

Keestal - posted on 01/27/2009

omg i love it! brady is an awesome name im a days fan so i love it that much more lol

Amanda - posted on 01/27/2009

My son's name is Brady Matthew. There really isn't too much of a story. I wanted an Irish name for him and one day i was watching Days of Our Lives. I got to thinking that I like the name Brady. I looked up the meaning and it ment Large chested and it was an Irish name. So it just stuck from there. His middle starts with the Letter M. I came up with that cause my middle name starts with an M.

Keestal - posted on 01/27/2009

My kids Names Are Tru, and Serenity.

No one has them and they are amazing names.

Jaylene - posted on 01/27/2009

My daughter was also named after her Grandmothers.  My daughters name is Amaria Rose.  My mothers name is Maria and we put a A in front of it and Made it Amaria and his mothers name is Rose so that was her middle name.  Maria means Blessed and rose. So her name stands for a "Blessed Rose"

Paula - posted on 01/27/2009

My son Joshua Matthew got his name becuse my husband and I both liked the name Joshua. Joshua is a name he can live with as a child and an older adult. That is what we wanted and we do call him Joshua, not Josh. He can make up this mind when he gets a little older what he likes better. His middle name Matthew is a tradition in my husbands family. The son recives his fathers first name as a middle name.

Alisa - posted on 01/27/2009

Well I 4 children. My youngest is Jaici Rae. We combined two words J'ai and ici which could be combined to mean I am here. And Rae is my mother's middle name. My youngest sons name is Roegen, which I got from the host of Fear Factor, Joe Rogan, and I just changed the spelling!! I like to be original, I haven't heard of another child named Roegen!!

Andrea - posted on 01/27/2009

My son's name is Landon, which is just a name my hubby and I liked. Originally, it was going to be Lincoln, but once I got pregnant, I just couldn't imagine naming my little boy with what sounds like an old man's name (no offence to anyone named Lincoln LOL). His middle name is Manuel, after my dad who passed away shortly after I got pregnant. He never did get to find out I was expecting, as we didn't want to hurt his feelings, and make his situation harder (he knew he wasn't going to be around very long). And there you have it, Landon Manuel :)

Leah - posted on 01/27/2009

My daughter's name is Kiara Jaye. I was pregnant when The Lion King movie came out, which had the name Kiara in it and we like it. My mum picked Jaye because she had us three girls and said if she ever had a boy she would call him Jay.

My son's name is Byron Samuel. I've been asked if i got his name from Lord Byron the poet, but i just got it out of the baby names book and liked it...having not known anyone to that name as well. Samuel is my Great grandads name and i just like that name.

Leah - posted on 01/27/2009

My daughter's name is Kiara Jaye. I was pregnant when The Lion King movie came out, which had the name Kiara in it and we like it. My mum picked Jaye because she had us three girls and said if she ever had a boy she would call him Jay.

My son's name is Byron Samuel. I've been asked if i got his name from Lord Byron the poet, but i just got it out of the baby names book and liked it...having not known anyone to that name as well. Samuel is my Great grandads name and i just like that name.

Alexandra - posted on 01/27/2009

Our daughter is called Emily Kit

Kit is what my recently departed nan was called so we saw it fit to honour her in that way. We hjave also since found out that my hubby gt gran was called Emily so we like think her name was passed on by fate xxxxxxx

Jenny - posted on 01/26/2009

The day before my daughter was born my mother-in-law suggested the name Honey, I scoffed and said that was the stupidest name ever. Then she was born and my husband said why not Honey Elizabeth. I still don't know why but that is her name. I really did grow on my and now after almost 4 years I love it. I am not really mean but they had induced me then sent me home that first day so I was in labour.

Heather- - posted on 01/26/2009

My father in law passed away while I was pregnant with my daughter. His middle name was Maria, so we named our baby Sydney Maria.

Monica - posted on 01/26/2009

Quoting Angela:

How did your baby get his or her name?? I like to hear how everyone comes up with there babies name. Its something that a lot of thought has to go into. This is something you give them that they will have forever!!!

Well I have to children and Joshua is my son there is no story behind picking out his name, he is named after his daddy. Joshua Alonzo ( 2yrs)

My little girl has a story though.. I loved the name Ashley. It was one of them names that you used every time you played baby dolls when you were little!! So we were going to go with that until my husband, Josh, wanted to go with Marie as a middle name. Well I couldnt see having his grand mother name and not using my grand mothers name. So we were ging to go with Ashley Ann-Marie... Well then we found out that we would not be able to have anymore children then got to thinking, both of our mothers had the same middle name Lynn. So we came up with Ashlynn Ann-Marie. That takes care of everyone name!!
Long story but something to tell her about when she get older!

Well my first son got his name from my dad i love my dad so much his name is Solomon Christian no middle name. I didn't want Solomon as his first name so i chose Christian as his first name and he got my last name Toyer... I thought it would be nice to have my son carry on his grandads name even though he never got a chance to meet him cause he passed away in 91 of lung cancer... my baby boy Michael jr. got his name from his dad of course Michael

Jasmine - posted on 01/26/2009

Now that I read the rest of the posts I have to explain the rest of her name lol... Patricia is her second name and after my Aunt /Godmother who I lost 2 years ago in Feb to an Aneurysm, and Rose as a third name after my grandmother. Poor kid is gonna hate her momma when it comes time to learn to write her full name lol, oh well she will appreiate it someday.

Jasmine - posted on 01/26/2009

A week after I found out I was pregnant, I had a dreamand  in the dream a woman appeared holding a little girl and told me her name was Lily and that Lily was my little girl. I didn't find out until I was 34 weeks pregnant that I was having a girl. But all along in my heart I knew it. and never settled on a boys name. Lily is now 4 months old and I can't imagine naming her anything else.