Baby names - running out of time - need to find one!

[Eulalia]

Well two actually as we don't know the sex of the baby. I am 39 weeks tomorrow and dh and I are still undecided.

Anyone know of a good website with names - I have had a look but can't find anything. We are after fairly traditional names but most of them seem to be quite bizairre.

Many thanks.

Hi Eulalia

Hard, isn't it? We've got a shortlist of about six of each, girls and boys, and a list of second names too (we are going for a Gaelic first name and English second name).

Do you want traditional popular (Jack, Charlotte, Rebecca, Joseph etc) or traditional unusual (Caleb, Rory, Mabel, Edie, etc)?

Alice
or
David

Martha

or

Oscar

I'd say go for books (from the library?) rather than websites, I've never found a really good naming website (ready to be corrected)

Catherine
Jonathan

Edward

or

Harriet

(ooh, can't stop now!)

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Emily and jonathon?

this sounds so corny but my sons name came to me in a dream not long before he was born!!!!

we didnt pick ds's name until the night before i was induced!!!

good luck!!!

We went for a welsh first name and scottish second name. Looked on the welsh boys name site, cant remember the name of it now, sorry.

i found most inspiration for baby names reading the titles at the end of films/tv programmes

ie directed by
starring
make up
costume

etc!

so take note, watch telly and read books/daily papers in a different light!

watch a footy match and say who ever scores the next goal we will name our son after!!!!

go for a walk round a few cemeteries - we got a lot of ideas there!

I read the birth and death columns in the local papers for inspiration too.

lol miaou i did that too

What about where baby was conceived! No no that wouldn't have worked for me as my poor kids names would have been something like Lofty and Safeway!

Behind the Name . Lots of different categories. What they call "traditional English" here but I don't think their idea of traditional is the same as one's...page headings are:

AAREN - BAILEY
BALDRIC - CAROL
CAROLA - DANA
DANE - ELIOTT
ELISA - GERRY
GERTIE - JACKSON
JACOB - KARLY
KAROLYN - LETHA
LETITIA - MARLON
MARLOWE - NITA (1)
NOAH (1) - RAYMUND
RAYNA (1) - SHAQUILA
SHAQUILLE - TITTY
TITUS - ZULA

Chortle!

nailpolish has beaten me to it, film credits it's the only way

Just looked at kama's most common baby names site, which is American, and checked out DD1's - she was born in NY in 1982. Look at them! Have you ever seen such unanimity?

(She is one of the 3,157 Jessicas! We had no idea it was so popular )

Michael
David
Andrew
Matthew
Jonathan
Robert
Stephen

Sarah
Louise
Claire
Marie
Eleanor
Anna

We like...Dominick, Noah, Elliot, Jayden, Alistair, Benjamin for a boy.
Our ds is called Callum.
For a girl we like...Poppy, Trinity, Grace, Lilly.

I hope you find something you both like.
I've still got 15 weeks to choose mine, though I'll still not have chosen by 40 weeks I bet!

Good luck with baby!
x

Ours were:
For child 1- Erin or Pascal
For child 2- Olive or Clement

Like nailpolish and suzy I used film credits for ideas and I sat once and wrote out a-z on a piece of paper and tried to think of famous actors/actresses old and young for each. Whiles away a sleepless night when you've got heartburn!