Due September 4.5 🐣♥️🧡💜

[Xur]

Hello ladies,
as per suggestion in respect to the owner of the previous thread I’ve created a new (continued) thread for us.

@Cat2022 also I have a naturally low blood pressure so I am quite sceptical I’ll begin to suffer from high blood pressure now 😂

@SC126 Rowan is lovely. Are you finding out the sex for the baby? We'll have to concoct a good earthy list for you to throw at DH

@MudandMoet yes already got a private gender scan booked for a couple weeks from now 🤣 can't wait to find out.

I like the name Roman. It’s pronounced exactly like Rowan, but with M.

for girl names my spouse likes the name Ilona (pronounced E-lounæ), but I don’t like it.
I like Scandinavian names like Astrid, Ingrid.

@Xur yes we liked Roman a lot too but in the end went with Rowan. It's a good choice. I also love Astrid for a girl but my husband hates it 🤣 I like Dahlia and Juniper for girls but he hates those too 🙈

How have any of you dealt with names for previous babies if other people don’t like them?

my partner really like oisin for a boy (oh-sheen), he has Irish family and he’s always liked it. I am really easy osey and like it aswel but I know my parents would think it was a bit out there and probably judge it to themselves 🤣 how do you not care what anyone else thinks 🤣

My advice? Don’t tell them. I find that PRIOR to baby arriving, people are quick to pass comments and make verbal judgements. And it’s really disheartening, however, when being handed a baby and being told “they are called X” I find that people are much more accepting! X

thats really true actually I suppose once you give the name to a little cute baby they can’t say anything 🤣

still might not happen anyways don’t know what baby is yet but I’ve been thinking about it for ages and people have started asking about names and I just say awk we’re no where near thinking of that yet 🤣

Yeah 🤣 I really think that actually holding the living thing with the name, zaps any proper judgement out of them. When I was pregnant with my last (before we found out he was a boy), we had a girls name prepared which was after my nan. It’s not very common, but I thought it was so lovely and we both adored it. My friend who lives overseas was on the phone and was asking what names I had in mind, and I reeled off my nans and just her response (or lackthereof) was enough to feel like a punch in the gut. She was just like “oh..”

So from that moment on, I used decoy names 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😂 even when we found out he was a boy, everyone’s nosey and asks so I always said “Bobby” as my decoy. Because the name we chose was quite old fashioned and I couldn’t be fucked with the visible judgement so just threw Bobby at them and they left me alone. When he was born, we had no negative comments at all, but I would bet a fair bit of money had we told them it during the pregnancy, we’d of had some negative ones 🥲

Adding another girl to the gang here 💗💗

Ahhh congratulations 🥹🥹 is this your second or first? I want to assume second from your username but don’t want to jump the gun! X

I second not really telling names until you have the baby, I told my sister what we were going to call my daughter and she flat out said she did not like it 😂 put me off telling people but as soon as she came everyone said they loved her name! (My sister also now says it suits her)

When my mom was naming us all she wanted to give names that cannot be changed into nicknames or names that cannot be used for teasing or name calling.
I would like to pick a name that cannot be used in picking, cannot be derived into weird nicknames or diminutives easily.
Another thing that I cannot help but take into consideration is that I want to name my kids with words that speak for themselves. Words that make you feel like you need to speak the truth to this person, names of strength.

I really don’t like names like Gabriel (for Gaby), Michael for Mikey, Adrian for Ady and similar. The nicknames are so cringe and make me gag honestly.

@Ptfcangel I really like how Oisin sounds (Oh-sheen), but the way it’s written associates me with hoisin sauce. And it feels like it would literally days for someone to start deriving from that name. I can already see so many rude ways it could be used it’s scary. 😭
For me another topic of question is my surname after marriage, if you take letter by letter a it is, and just go and pronounce it in my mother tongue, it’s “sneaker” like a trainer shoe. Obviously me and my husband are from two different countries, but I have to be thoughtful about the name so that it doesn’t end up sounding really weird.

@Xur My mum’s approach was the complete opposite - she wanted to choose names that gave us lots of options that we could choose for ourselves when we were old enough! So for both me and my sister, we have first and middle names that gave us lots of different combinations we could choose from.

The names dh and I have chosen both have really lovely shortenings that we love as much as the long version!

The surname thing is a bit tricky though - our surname, if mispronounced, sounds rude in its own right (sounds lovely when said properly, but that doesn’t always happen!) so we had to think really carefully about what would not make it worse 😂

Thanks @Honeyandsunshine1 - yes we have a DD who is 20 months. At my 12 week scan the sonographer guessed/thought boy so I’ve spent the last 3 weeks getting used to one of each, so it was quite a surprise for both of us when they said girl today!

We have names because they are family names on my partner's side who left the house we live in to him. Also both begin with E, as do we. Emma, Eli and Esme or Eric 🥰 Hence the username TripleE

Yeah my partner is Michael and I cringe whenever I hear his family call him Mikey so def a consideration!

Thats the thing I like about telling people name ideas aswell though it’s considerations I hadn’t even thought of… like hoisin sauce 🤣🤣

We have quite a short snappy surname so that’s good it’s not really limiting.

@TripleESept24 they’re all really cool names. My nan’s middle name was Emma so if I happpen to have a girl I would like to honour my nan or my great grandmother who also had a really cool and rare name.
I really have a shortness of ideas when it comes to boy names. I have plenty of ideas for girls, but boys…hmmm

Totally agree!! We had this with my daughter’s name and my mum was constantly giving us other suggestions which said to us that she didn’t like it. But tough shit 😂 we ended up going with it regardless

We have middle names too because we are naming after my mum's parents (my grandparents) who both died early. My mum's mum died at 26 when she was a baby and my grandad died before I was born so it's Esme Ira and Eric William 🥰 mum wants a girl so that Ira gets carried on and because he's mum died so young ♥️

@TripleESept24 to be honest Esme Ira sounds amazing. 😻

I have another thing to consider when naming the kids, the differences of letters in my and my husband’s first language. In my language many men’s names include the letter “J”. Which is like “Y” in as in like yellow, yankee. But “J” in my husbands language is a diphthong like “z+h”. Like for “giselle or givenchy “. That means it would affect how the name is written in one or the other language and that is going to kill the names on the passports. 😒

Yes Esme Ira is pretty 🥰

Sounds like you have a lot more to think about!!!!! 😭 Let us know when you have some ideas! Xx

@Ptfcangel as an Irish person, Oisin is fabulous! It's a lovely strong name. My daughter is Róisín which means little Rose. Irish names are beautiful and I'm sure your husband would be delighted to have his Irishness honoured 😊 we don't know what our twins are, just know they're identical but Cúan (little wolf) and Oran (little green) are top for boys, girls names are still being debated.

So I bought a buggy 😅had been looking at the cosatto travel systems and just love the colours. They were over €700, no chance for something I'd use for a year and then want a stroller. Had a look on marketplace and there was one there for €70! So picked it up yesterday. Eek. V early I know.

Love Oisin but I'm Irish 😁I love Fiadh for a girl but my husband hates it.I agree. Don't tell anyone your names before baby. I just keep saying we can't agree.

Happy Mothers Day girls 💕🫶🏼