Different name ideas for appearances

[Lelophants]

With ds I had one name so that was it really. I have some friends who say they always kept a couple of names depending on how their baby looked! For example one friend said a blond, blue eyed baby would be Ava whereas a brunette more her colouring would be Erin.

Does anyone else do this as what would you think?

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@Lelophants

With ds I had one name so that was it really. I have some friends who say they always kept a couple of names depending on how their baby looked! For example one friend said a blond, blue eyed baby would be Ava whereas a brunette more her colouring would be Erin.

Does anyone else do this as what would you think?

We have two we can't decide between so keeping two and "seeing which one fits" but I think that's only because we can't decide 😂

[Lelophants]

Also any ideas? I definitely don’t have a redhead name yet!

[Twizbe]

Rufus is the obvious one for a red head.

We didn’t know what we were having either time. I had a boys name sorted but several girls names. I thought I’d decided on a girls name by the time DD was born, but she just didn’t suit it at all. It wasn’t her. Still love the name though.

[Lollipoplollie]

You can't really tell colouring when a baby is born though. DS had dark hair at birth an is now a very blonde little boy. Babies don't usually come out with hair and eye colour that they will have going forward!

[YourNameGoesHere]

@Lollipoplollie

You can't really tell colouring when a baby is born though. DS had dark hair at birth an is now a very blonde little boy. Babies don't usually come out with hair and eye colour that they will have going forward!

Exactly. It's a very flawed logic.

We had one name but friends who had more than one have said in hindsight a newborn baby does not look like any name so actually having multiple options didn't help.

[Bubop]

Don’t most babies have blue eyes to start with? Both my DC had dark hair at birth that went blond too.

I did think one DC immediately suited his name though. The other took a few weeks to grow into it (or for us to get used to it).

[CastleTower]

I had a favourite name, and imagined my baby as dark haired (the most likely), so I associated the name with that colouring. And I did then think that if she was very blonde at birth my second favourite name would suit better, just because my favourite felt like it would "suit" a dark-haired baby.

Didn't really make sense, but it was more about how I pictured her as a newborn and my imagination of what she would be like. She turned out dark haired but blue-eyed, which was a surprise!

Didn't have the same thoughts about my son, actually, maybe because it was so much harder to pick a favourite name.

[Halo8]

I used to eye roll at people waiting to see what the baby looked like before deciding.

DC1 arrived, we had one name picked, no issues at all.

DC2 arrived, one name picked again. But we both immediately said within moments of the birth that he was a (name that was fifth on our original list of possibilities). No idea why, but it was a unanimous decision and the planned name was swiftly ditched!

[Whatsthepoint1234]

For ds1 we only had one name as it was the name of a late relative.

For ds2 we had two names we liked equally and when he was born we chose the name that suited him the best.

[Lelophants]

@YourNameGoesHere

Exactly. It's a very flawed logic.

We had one name but friends who had more than one have said in hindsight a newborn baby does not look like any name so actually having multiple options didn't help.

That’s what I thought but another friend had a name picked out (both her and her dh have brown hair, quite slender and darker eyes) and baby was big, chunky and blond with big blue eyes. So they picked something else!

[Lelophants]

Can anyone tell me the names?

[SloaneRangers]

I didn't do this myself but I do think certain names suit specific looks more - although it really doesn't matter in the scheme of things 😂 but it's just an association I have. I think it's more to do with names that have colour associations.
For example if I had had a DD I liked the name silver - but in my head it suits a pale, dark haired child.
Marigold (nickname Goldie) or Sonny for a Ds suits a blonde baby

[FranKatzenjammer]

Are the names Jacob and Boris? 😉

[PickledScrump]

I don’t think any baby suits their name to start with, they grow into their name. A lot of babies hair colour and eye colour changes so trying to match a name to a certain look is difficult.