The pressure of a name!

What about Fat Rabbit jnr for a boy after dad?

We used to drive back and forth between Newcastle & Sydney a lot when I was pregnant with our eldest. Trips down the F3 were great for working out baby names. We started at A and would each come up with a name (boy’s and girl’s) for that letter – then right down through the alphabet.

If someone said one they liked, the other had power of veto.

My best recommendation is also check the top 50 lists for the last few years, and try to avoid them. My daughter’s name is uncommon (but not unusual), and she is the only one in her school of 600 kids. Makes her feel pretty special.

We didn’t know what we were having with either. Our first was going to be Isabella Grace (my grandma’s name) and it was so hard coming up with a boy’s name. My husband didn’t like any of my suggestions yet came up with none of his own. I remember sitting in the car one day firing off names at him and his response was, “No” “No” “No” “No”…..argh….frustrating.
Isaac was one of those names. When I brought it up again a few weeks later (because I’ve always loved Isaac) he said he liked it but he didn’t like Zac, I said we didn’t have to call him Zac…he’s never been called Zac, he is Isaac.
For our second I still loved Isabella Grace but it was too popular by then…I saw Ava Gardiner on TV one day and asked my husband if he like Ava. He said yes and that was it. She’s Ava Grace Isabella. Thank God she was a girl because she would have been Abraham if she was a boy…I liked Abe but wasn’t totally sold on Abraham.
Whoa…long comment…sorry!

Oh, AMI! This is the hard bit!

With our first son, we knew from even waaaay before we got pregnant what we wanted as a boys’ name. So that was easy. But with No.2…not so much. We both wanted different names, and we spent the whole 9 mths working on it. Then the 6yo was born, and we still hadn’t come to an agreement. Two days before I was due to leave hospital, I sent Hubby home to go back to the Internet and try again. He came in with a loooong list of names, the one on top being a name I had suggested and REALLY liked, but he had shot down. We went with that name in the end. (He still thinks he thought of it, so this is an ongoing argument!)

I joked with Hubby that it was so hard to find a name, that we may just have to go with his main choice if we had a third boy. And we did! By then, I’d gotten used to the name, but even when I said, “Right…we’re calling him [3yo's name]” he was like, “Well…I dunno…” AAAGHHH! I got my way though, and that was that.

As for a girl’s name, we would have gone with Greta had we had a girl. I like girls names that can be cute when they’re young, but then can then sound womanly. That’s just me. Everyone has their thing. My friend wanted “strong sounding names” for her boys, cos she didn’t want them teased. Even though she likes my boys names, she would *never* have used them herself. For example, even her brother’s name “Daniel” wouldn’t be strong enough – she’d rather “Dan.” But that’s just her.

You’ll find it. Good luck!!! xxx

I’ve already named my future daughters. At this point, it looks like any boys that come along shall remain nameless. No doubt I’ll be continually checking the comments on this post for inspiration!

I’m sure that when Tic Tac finally arrives, you’ll be able to find him/her a perfect name, and even if you and Hubby aren’t in total agreement, you’ll both eventually come to love the name! Or you just stick with Tic Tac….

Great post xx

The way we decided was – I went through the baby names book, wrote a list of every name I liked and gave it to my husband. He was only allowed to choose from that shortlist (I’m a bit of a control freak!!!), so he went through and crossed names out and we were left with one boy’s name and three girl’s names. When our little girl was born, we looked at each other and both said the same name, so that was that!

Ami, you were always going to be called Tara, but I think when you hold that precious little human being in your arms it is only then that you seem to know what to call your son/daughter. Ami you were so tiny and Ami being a small name and meaning beloved friend just suited you.

This is something that I think about, a lot {good luck for when bub does arrive!}

I actually wrote a post on my two favourite names: http://www.shedreamsbig.com/2010/05/name/

I am just sorry that I used up some of the names I actually really like on pets! LOL