How do people have a whole list of names?!

[Latenightanxiety]

I can’t even choose one name….and we are having twins!!!

We don’t know the genders yet, and in any case we’d like to be prepared in case they get it wrong but I’m panicking. We still have a long way to go but nothing even remotely takes our fancy.

It doesn’t help that our first child has an unusual name so we feel something top 50 would be out of the question.
So where does everyone find their children’s names?

I couldn't name either until after they were born and spent many hours reading baby name books for inspiration! There's no rush.

My suggestions for you

girl/girl - Melody and Lucy
boy/boy - John and Kieran
girl/boy - Melody and Kieran

I haven't taken Summer off my list

There's a baby name app (picture is an egg on yellow background) and it works like tinder, You connect with your partner and both swipe left or right, ones you both like go into a list you can both see. You can pay to upgrade to specify origin or names etc but I just used the free version

Type your daughter's name into magicbabynames.com. it will give you a list of 'like names'. Note any you vaguely like. Add them to your saves names. Repeat the process with those names generated and then add and cut as necessary.

Me and husband both did a list. I got mine from favourite shows, (old, not too hip though) books and meanings. Husband from top 1000 baby names. Wittled down from there. We like unusual names so our lists may interest you. (Omitting what we used 😂)

Arianne
Cora -Coral
Delphine
Ami
Mina
Ariadne
Cerys

Cole (Nicholas)
Drew
Oakley
Rowan
Casper
Tristan
Christian
Asher

Dd spent first two weeks unnamed as I couldn't decide so please don't feel pressured to firm up a name even after birth

Ellaria and ..

Vivienne
Clemency
Melba
Anneke

Cecil
Merrick
Victor
Jonathan

when I was pregnant with my second child I loved a name but DH didn’t like it much, but because I kept calling the baby by that name my DH said well he’ll have to be called that now because I can’t think of him as anything else!

DS1 we both just kept suggesting names till we both liked one, we didn’t tell anyone the name before he was born and I didn’t want any negative input!