How did you...?

[Million Pieces]

... find the names for your kids?? 

Looking over the "How many kids" thread, I see some really sweet names, I'd like to hear how you chose those names for your kids!

My son Geordie is named for my hubbie's grandfather.  My son is actually a George the 2nd.  My daughter's name is one I always liked after a friend of the family named her girl Kendra, and her middle name is my mom's name.  My last son, Cameron, is also a name we liked.  He has two middle names, one is my mother's family name, and his daddy's middle name.

What was your inspiration???

 

[Blynn]

I picked biblical names.

I have Andrew, Adam Christopher(means Christ bearer) and Kathryn Elizabeth.

 

[LilyLamb]

I chose names for their meanings and the sentimentality of the name.

Mandy Elisa means "worthy of love" and "consecrated to God"

Heather Renee for the flower and "born again" (which I didn't realize the significance of until after her death at almost 4 months old)

Suzanna Louise because it's a good southern name (Louise is also my middle name and means "victorious handmaid" or something like that) LOL

Joseph John - his dad picked this out - took him three days to come up with it - talk about nurses harassing you (rolleyes) - he's named after his uncles

Donovan Charles - named after his grandpa (who also happen to be a breach baby - wish I had known that ahead of time LOL) and his daddy

 

[VOW]

My husband was in grade school when his mother gave birth to a little girl who lived only five hours. He tucked the thought into the back of his mind that if he ever married and had children of his own, he'd name his daughter after that sister who died.

So our first-born, a girl, is named for his sister: Theresa Elizabeth.

Hubster didn't seem interested in naming a son after himself, so I told him that I'd like any son we'd have to carry my maiden name as his middle name. My grandfather had sons, but none of his sons had sons, so that particular branch of the family "died out" with my father's generation. I thought naming a son with my maiden name would honor both my father and my grandfather. (too bad my grandfather wasn't alive when our son was born, I like to think he would have been tickled blue!)

Well, our last name begins with "W" and we weren't too keen on having the poor kid's name spell a word, since my maiden name begins with "O".

/me points to her member name here at CF

I mean, let's not give the poor boy problems with initials which spell "COW" or "POW" or even "WOW" yanno?

We figured a nice boy's name beginning with "J" would work.

So, our son's name is James Odle.

(JOW isn't too bad!)


Peace,
~VOW

 

[Jenna]

I'm not exactly sure why I chose my son's name. I think that the biggest factor was that I have a thing for names that aren't really common. That and the fact that I read a beautiful (yet tragic ) story about a welsh knight by the name of Tristan. I really loved the name and the story, but to change things around a little, I spelled his name with a 'Y'. Because his father and I were not married when he was born (yeah, I know. lol) , I used his father's first name as his middle, as a way of incorporating him in the memory of our child. Trystin Michael

Now, with Annabelle, we went back and forth forever trying to find something that we both liked. Every pretty name that I had picked out, he thought was disgusting. Anyway, I started asking him about another name and as we kept going, it morphed.....and then suddenly we heard someone say the name "Annabelle" on tv. Well, I asked him what he thought and he said it was nice, and from that moment on we swore that we wouldn't talk about it again, that her name was picked. As for her middle name, both his mother and mine have "lynn" as a middle name. To encorporate them, we used that for her middle name too.

We are hoping that one day we can have another little boy again some day, because I promised my grandpa that I would name him after him. My husband and I used the names of both of our grandfathers to build a name for a little boy if we had one. I guess now we just have to sit back and see what God wants to do with us. It sure would be nice to have a
William Marshall Pinson around.

 

[Million Pieces]

Oh I love the sound of William Marshall.

I was hesitant to give all my kids' names on the Internet, but since you all went out of the limb, I guess I can! Dontcha just love mob mentality?!

Geordie is George William F*,II. My daughter is Kendra Merrylin F*(cool spelling huh? My sister also named her girl Merrylin). and Cameron is Cameron Anderson Blair F*.

I had a couple of friends years ago who used their own names to create a name for their child. I wanted to combine our names the same way, and the name I ended up with is... get this... Glendon. Doesn't Glendon Anderson just roll off the tongue??!! BUT!! And this is a huge BUT... my birth father is Glenn, (and a cruel, violent man, but that's another story...) and my DH simply didn't want a child with a name that could be shortened to Glenn. Unfortunately, that's my name too!! So I told him (and my own mother by the way who was tremendously offended that I would even consider naming my child after him) that the baby wouldn't be named for that other nasty man, but ME. I was almost in tears telling them how devastated I was that they wouldn't let me give my own name to my baby.

So from then on, I use the name Glendon as my internet name... my Hotmail address has it, a lot of screen names I have use it or something like it.

 

[LilyLamb]

My mom will not call my son, Donovan, by his birth name ... because she is no longer married to my dad. She calls him by the pet name "pooh" :/

 

[LilyLamb]

Hmmm, we should start another thread with "pet" or "nick" names

 

[Job_38]

I think Im gonna go for Biblical names. Like John, Mathew and Luke and maybe Solomon, but then he would get made fun of. Basheeba, Mary and satan...Eh?

 

[E-beth]

The night after we had the ultrasound and found out the "peanut" was a boy, I combed through the baby name books. My husband wanted to name him after dead relatives, which gave us names like William, Paul, Edwin, and stuff like that. I do not like the name Paul for a first name, and then I found out that the real Paul was an alcoholic that committed suicide. So NO! William was OK, but it just didn't sing to me. I liked literary and British names like Christian and Heath and Taylor. So we started arguing...

One night soon after I had a dream. I don't remember what the dream was, but I woke up feeling very pressed upon about what name to give our son. I checked in the baby book about what the name means, and I knew that the name suited perfectly. Matthew means "Gift from God" which is exactly what he is. His middle name is Roberts, which is after my beloved grandpa Robert and my hubby's Roberts side of the family.

I call Matthew "Matt-moo" and my husband calls him "Magoo"

 

[VOW]

I've always loved the name "David," after I found out it means "Beloved of God."


Peace,
~VOW

 

[Hojo Hominygrits]

We named our daughter Sarah Elizabeth. It just sounded nice. And we weren't really looking for a biblical name either even though "Sarah" is one. The boy names we'd picked out were Ethan Scott and Jack Alexander. Maybe the next baby will get one of those......provided it's a little boy of course!

 

[andrea_andrea]

my mom knew i was going to be a girl and she lieks the nam Andrea
and it stuck

 

[Kristen]

I named my daughter "Jennifer" because I just loved the name, her middle name is "Christine" after my cousin.

I named my second daughter "Cassidy" cause, well I just loved that name. I let my older daughter pick her middle name to feel a part of our experience and she picked "Jade".

I am due in November and I am having a girl. We are naming her "Jodi" after my dad who I just lost in June. Her middle name will be "Ann" after my Mom who died when I was seven. I think that will be a special name.

 

[Tini]

For our son Alex. We did not want a family name. At that time in our lives we did not feel it was needed.

We called the baby "Chillipip" as we both absolutely loved Chillis! Elmarie ate them right throiugh the pregnancy if you can believe it! Si "PIP" stuck. We liked the name Pippa (not Philipa - but straight Pippa) and Alex was to be the second name.
Along came a boy so we had Alex (defender of man) Gavin (little hawk).

Our second son was Lloyd (just a name we loved) John (after his great great grandfather who has left a great Christian legacy on our family)

 

[EJO]

My wife and I always go for the original, unique names. But we do not want hard to spell or pronounce.
Our first: Georgia Belle- She got her middle name from my wife's grandparents, and we both have always liked the Georgia
#2 is my 1st son - Zane Mathias - What a cool name, we loved the name, and Mathias is my grandfathers middle name.
# Maisie Ray My wife has always loved the name Maisie, even before Nickolodian came out with the cartoon mouse named Maisey
And lastly #4, who has not been born yet. His name is Dach Theophilus (like zach). I have always like the name Theophilis from the Bible. But it was turned down when mention by my wife. When I was finally convinced of the name Dach I offered Theophilus as the middle name.
There you have it, don't worry, not a lot of people like the name Dach. It is so different. Thats ok.We are cool with that.

 

[Kristy]

Mne just happend to be names I liked. My oldest son Travis Joe has his fathers middle name
my daughtrer I like shea, lynn, and faye soi put them together
her name is Shealynn Faye.
my youngest middle name came from my brothers last name shane william

 

[HopeRenee]

I just love hearing all of these stories! It is so interesting to me. A name is a really important decision, something the child will live with the rest of his or her life. (I suppose they could change it.) I like unique names, my hubby doesn't however. So it took a while to agree on a name for our daughter. I actually woke up one morning while I was pregnant with the name Hope. Her middle name is my mother's middle name. I thought it sounded pretty and my hubby agreed. So there you have it.

 

[VOW]

When my daughter was in grade school, she decided she loved the name "Crystal." I mentioned to her that when she was baptized, there were a LOT of baby girls at the time who were named "Crystal," or "Krystle." (What was she on, Dynasty? LOL!)

Theresa had a fit. She wanted to change her name to Crystal.

Well, I told her the story behind her name. And I said that when a parent decides to name a child, a lot of thought goes into it. In her case, this is a name her Daddy had chosen for his daughter years and years and years ago. This was something close to her Daddy's heart, and she should respect that.

"When you get older," I told her, "perhaps one day you will have a daughter, and you can name HER Crystal. Or, if you ever have a pet, the pet can be named Crystal. You could even name your BICYCLE Crystal. But YOUR name is Theresa!"

I think if you go to the Fellowship forum, there's a thread there about cats. I posted about our four cats....and one of them is named Crystal.

LOL!


Peace,
~VOW

 

[waterwizard]

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