I’ve named Four Kids, here’s my advice on naming your child

[Yohannette]

Hi, I’m Yohannette (everyone calls me Hanna) and I’ve hated my name for a long time. So I found out I was pregnant with my first two children me and my partner wanted to make sure the names for our expectant twin girls have to be perfect. I just want to say now that there are so many websites that can come up with the weirdest names for twins. While searching we found suggestions for things like Daisy and Maisy, Willow and Elm, and my personal faverioute, Blackpool and Liverpool. I have nothing against these names and I actually called my third girl Maisy, but the fact that you would rhyme it is beyond me. It was these terrible suggestions that made me and my wife realise that we wanted our kids to have names that not only sounded nice but meant something. We searched through diary pages to find memorable places that names weren’t insane, we talked to relatives about their or their parents names, sifting through all this history as well as numerous lists of what would be the “next big thing” in baby names. By using all this different sources we somehow managed to find two names that we love every time we hear them, Stella-Marnie (Star from the Sea) Audrey Thomas. This was perfect because we fell in love with the meaning of the first name and I proposed in front of an Audrey Hepburn film. And Georgia London Thomas, Georgia is the name of my wife’s grandmother, and we met in London.

I hope this hope has helped you in the search to find the perfect name for you new born.
Hanna

I have named all the tins in my cupboards after characters from Brookside. I hope this helps.

Thank goodness a man has come to mainsplain to us poor woman precisely how to name children.

Thanks for mansplaining that for us

The part in the OP where she says she found out she was pregnant, suggests it's possibly not mansplaining in this particular case.

I might swerve baby naming advice from someone who's gone down the hyphenating route, and used a city as a name. No offence, OP.

I think the best naming advice is just to go with names you like and / or have significance for you.

alpacages we did something similar with the dictionary. Baby Aardvark is 3 now. 😏

We had IVF, so thrilled with our little bundles of joy, Test-tube and Petri-dish. Great advice OP.

grumpy Why didn’t I think of that for Aaron-Two! It’s beautiful!
Do you mind if I save it for DC3??
I mean, no one owns a name right?

QOD keep 'em coming!

OP, here's your prize:

Have you considered using your knowledge to building a baby-naming website, OP? Perhaps one that generates names using your criteria rather than the type you've previously encountered? I think that would go down well.

Am I the only person who conceived all their children in the same city? What on earth can I do?

alpacages i'd be honoured.

I've only named three kids. But all their names are awesome 😁 I quite like your name choices op. We almost went for marnie and Maisie is a middle name and was my grandmother's name.

Both of our children are named after Buffy characters.

😂 seeing your dedication throughout the page just made it that much better @QOD

"Should we have a competition to see how silly the name would be if our kids were named after the place they were conceived?"

In my case, Harley is at least a real name (although I'm not sure about "Street" as a middle name).

I'd have 2 Glasgows and 2 Londons.

Should we have a competition to see how silly the name would be if our kids were named after the place they were conceived?

Then about a third of Europe would be called "IKEA bed".

So what’s wrong with William and Benjamin?

I really like the name London actually as a first name but living in London just would have felt a bit lazy if I had used it

For my dd, it would have to be Ivy-Eff. Better than Turkey Baster, yah for medical advancements!

I was contemplating

A-ah

ABCDE...

But DH shut it down... gutted! 🙁

And as for the alcohol that assisted the conception, it would be Raki and Murphy. Actually I like those!

did you want to get your head any further up your backside?

Anne Twackie Best comment on the thread! I'm crying! 😂

If we named our children after conception place we'd have Hull and Gloucester. Not convinced.

Presumably you're both female OP? Not that it matters, just want to check my understanding of the post is correct.