AIBU to think that when the baby is born the midwives should pull a Harry Potter Style 'sorting hat' from their bag and HE should name the baby?! This is far too hard!

[Litterbug]

I agree, don't know what flavour ours is yet but if it's a boy we're in trouble, it'll never have a name.

I have 2 lads already so am finding it hard to find names I like but haven't used yet.

I really can't imagine finding something i like! and that DH does too!

I concur, I have had enough of thinking of names.

MN "PLease name my baby thread"
The person who gets the 1000th post wins with the content of that post?
No exceptions!

What and risk baby Fanjo Jones?

No thanks!

ohhh pleeeeeeeease
What's wrong with Jones?

Litterbug, a first Letter that you like might get you some new ideas, do you want an average name, uncommon name, name with meaning?

i know one mumsnetter who was struggling to name her third child who was a boy and she already had one of each but they put in their first two lo's name in google and it turned out they were both towns in this state in the us and they then found another name they liked from the other town names in the state

that is the story i was told any way i am quite gullible will have to go check now lol

Oh do it for me! [hijacks]

No "F" sounds as a start, thanks to surname.
No "J"

Not too common, nothing ridiculous though. I hate wrong spellings.

Please!

It's not finding names we like that is the problem - it is finding names that none of our friends have named their children.

I think we might use Matthew if this one is a boy. Not way out, not overly popular, and the shortened version of Matt is also nice.

What are your other dcs called so we can get a sense of your naming style?

I have a jake, and am after a girls name, but I feel differently about boys and girls names.

I like

Evelyn
Penelope
Eleanor
Cecily
Meredith

Dh likes

Ruth
Megan

We cannot agree and I need new inspiration in the hope if finding something we both like.

Girls names i like are

Aimee
Megan
Eden
Jade
Maya
Tia/Thea
Grace
Leah
Emily
Georgia
Ellie
Holly
Sophie
Maddie/Maddy
Heidi
Neve
Darcy
Skye
Hope
Bethan/Bethany
Amelie/Amelia
Zoe

Ds would have been Aimee Jo if he'd been a girl.

I like Amy and Zoe. ....*ponders

My boys are Addison and Dexter

Don't know the sex yet so am struggling to think of names for both!

lazypainterjane, havn't we been down this road before?

I think they should just be known as Child 1 , Child 2 etc and then they can pick their own names at say 21. Whatever you give them, they will not like anyway.

Omg, not on your life should you let him name baby (or at least, not if he's half as much a kernob as my XH. No offence, I'm sure your dh is not).

XH wanted to call DS1 Paris. Very nice name, except we live on a housing estate where life ain't easy for a boy named Gay Parree.

Don't let him! Keep thinking

I like Eleanor and Ruth. They go very nicely together.

Sim, am sowing my oats!

Lazypainterjane, have you narrowed it down to any yet?

Give yourself a break and think of some of the most unsuitable names to go with your surname! Caused much enjoyment in our house.

Did someone say that Matthew doesn't have an "F" sound in it? It does in our bit of Kent!

No Sim, we haven't
cries

Am fed up. Am asking DH to write a list with 10 names on it that he would seriously consider as him only coming up with 2 is seriously pissing me off. He also thinks that because he has only thought of 2, they should get more serious consideration than any of mine. He thinks it is not possible to come up with 10 names....

Lucky dip?

Grace is nice LLPJ

Litterbug love those 2 names :
B-Hayden
G-Brooke