to find naming our baby difficult

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I am currently in a dither about what to name our impending bundle of joy and however hard I try, I just cannot make a decision. I think the main reason is that the names I really like don't go with our rubbish surname and therefore can't use them. That means she will end up with a name that is not my favourite if you see what I mean.

So, this might seem like a daft question but, how did you come up with a name for your DC - especially if you couldn't use the name you would have liked to for whatever reason.

Lovely DH has no opinion whatsoever on the issue of names - 'names are just words' apparently - so no help there. I know it all sounds a bit daft but this is a genuine enquiry - how do you go about choosing a name?

And the Christmassyness can go on into January what with the twelve days of Christmas, and Epiphany when the three kings visited Mary, Joseph, and the baby.

Good luck with it all, including settling on a name. Remember inspiration could come to you after he's born and you get to know him better !

Took us 6 weeks also and went with the only names we both individually liked for both dcs.I found it really hard actually.

Worra

Re: you comment about a child being named "Difficult"

There's a boy round here called Maverick.

I tend to think that's placing a lot of parental expectation on a small child.

Dont worry about making a decision until the baby is born. We had shortlists and tortured ourselves for 9 months, and when she came out I looked at her and not a single name we had thought of suited.

I did feel a bit pressured to name her but in the end it took us three days and the name we picked was one we hadnt mentioned before. But it suits her (as much as any name can suit a ten day old baby :o ) and goes well with her middle and surname and her big sisters name.

When you see your baby you will just know!

Oh Christ...another bout of MN snottiness I've not come across before

Thou shalt not pick a name from a book as it lacks gravitas, it must be 'insprirational' so the poor child spends its life trying to live up to its namesake

Of course a name to other people is soooo unimportant we give it no thought and just pick a name form a book

I know I should of gone with 'Barman'

You really cant go wrong with traditional, sturdy, biblical or teutonic names.

There's a boy round here called Maverick.

Spooky, I know one of those too.

Our surname makes everything sound like an Abba song or a disease . So my favourites were out, I had to test everything on DSis's and they laughed at most.

Anyway as well as having a crappy surname we needed something that had a "good" meaning (traditional in Asian families) and worked in Arabic but wasn't too unusual for English or Fatima that my mil wanted.

In the end we discovered DH always cared about the abbreviations for a baby, think "Tilly" real name "Matilda" so we worked out a few short names we liked and looked at the variety of long names that would be applicable.

DDs ended up with unusual (but authentic not stupid names) they can use when older if they want and nicknames for now.

I really liked four girls names and four boys names and then had four of each.

turnleft Have you considered Blanche?
I believe it goes with all surnames. Even rubbish ones.

Blanche Blanche Blanche

C'mon Blanche!