How can you name ur baby ?

lil-buttons

Heres the thing, Im pregnant and cant wait! I dont want to know the sex of the baby & thats fine. Me and my partner have decided on a girls name and its lovely - but the boys names we have choosen are being slated by my parents - his parents - sisters , brothers & friends!!

How can we choose a boys baby name without everyone gettinn their knickers in a twist ?

walshb

Well basically try picking a name that seems pretty normal, well to us in Ireland of course. Stay away from celeb names, names that resemble fruits or even doubling up. I'll never forget being in Arnotts and hearing the shouts of 'Sue-Ellen, com ere'!!!. A few names which I'm sure wouldn't be too much hassle are Andrew, Mark, Jason, Alex (a real mumm'ys name), Derek, and even the daring like Lewis or Callum or even Ethan....

Stay right away from Jordan, Jack, Levi, Blake, Dylan etc. God them names annoy me and are typical of Americans and English, but the Irish only make them sound damn skangery!!!!!

Raytown Rocks

lil-buttons wrote:

Heres the thing, Im pregnant and cant wait! I dont want to know the sex of the baby & thats fine. Me and my partner have decided on a girls name and its lovely - but the boys names we have choosen are being slated by my parents - his parents - sisters , brothers & friends!!

How can we choose a boys baby name without everyone gettinn their knickers in a twist ?

Easy

Because your the child's parents, if you like it thats all that matters.
Although do consider the childs future, if he has a rather comical name
This could lead to bullying and slagging etc,
so try to consider how he may feel if his moniker growing up leads to a lot of hassle.

Sasquatch Byrne come in and get your dinner.........!

Chef

MyBaby

At the end of the day, its your child as chef stated, so you choose. Fair enuf its nice to have all the family etc like the name but your parents chose your name, as did your partners, so now its your turn to pick a name for ur own child. You 2 will the ones caring for the child, bringing him/her up etc etc.

Happy name hunting.

www.babynames.com is a good site for names.

lil-buttons

Well the names I have actually chosen are old Irish names which I think are Gorgeous and so does my partner he likes them too. But every1 seems to want a say and they say - EHHHHHHHHH u cant name ur child thats horrible- that sounds terrible - and some of these names I have to say I love ! My parents are mad so I cant say anything! Its just frustrated me a little

viking

Ask LadyJ to pick the name for you.

From this thread about Baby Names.

Funnily enough, if you haven't fully decided when baby is born, you'll take one look at him/her and you'll know what name to pick...

ArthurDent

I'd recommend not discussing your choices with anyone
a - you'll always find someone who doesn't like your choice
b - you could find your choice knicked by a close relative/friend

It's your choice not anyone else's, best of luck.

BTW our 5 week old was one name the whole way through ther pregnancy - we knew the sex and we changed our minds the morning she was born!;)

deisemum

Don't tell anyone what names appeal to you. People will have no problem giving opinions good and bad on names but once baby is born and you decide on a name just introduce baby by it's name.

First time round I called my bump Luke but in the week or two before he arrived Adam was one of a couple of choices. Once he was born and I held him we went for Adam.

Second time round I called bump Elliot and the amount of negative comments I got were unreal. 4 days before he was born I was watching tv and 3 programmes one after the other had a Nick, Nicholas and Nicky so I went for Nicholas once I saw sprogy

embee

OP,

Ignore what people say to you! When I was pregnant, I made the mistake of thinking it was important to me what people thought of the name I'd picked out for my daughter. Her name is unusual (purely because I didn't want a common name for her), and the amount of people who balked at the name was unreal... Her name is Rhiannon, and that was the name I'd picked from the get go, but I wavered a bit. Seconds after she was born though, she was Rhiannon. I was half considering Olivia, but as soon as I saw her, Rhiannon was HER name, if you know what I mean.

gymrabbit

just call him Kevin tbh.

gymrabbit

embee wrote:

OP,

Ignore what people say to you! When I was pregnant, I made the mistake of thinking it was important to me what people thought of the name I'd picked out for my daughter. Her name is unusual (purely because I didn't want a common name for her), and the amount of people who balked at the name was unreal... Her name is Rhiannon, and that was the name I'd picked from the get go, but I wavered a bit. Seconds after she was born though, she was Rhiannon. I was half considering Olivia, but as soon as I saw her, Rhiannon was HER name, if you know what I mean.

ri-ann-on? nice name. fairly funky.

V1llianous

I found the best way was to decide on a Boys and a Girls name that we (the parent's) both liked and keep it to our selves.

I had seen too many cases of expecting parents having their chosen names slated because someone's second cousin was called that and they were a bit weird etc.

When Benjamin arrived in January it seemed to suit him so it stuck.

Even now ten months later someone went and asked me what we would have called him if he was a girl and I just replied "If we have a girl you will know then !" - just to save the whole rigmarole again.

I would think the whole hassle of agreeing on names would act as a good form of birth control

Raytown Rocks

lil-buttons wrote:

Well the names I have actually chosen are old Irish names which I think are Gorgeous and so does my partner he likes them too. But every1 seems to want a say and they say - EHHHHHHHHH u cant name ur child thats horrible- that sounds terrible - and some of these names I have to say I love ! My parents are mad so I cant say anything! Its just frustrated me a little

As I previously said it is up to you.
But I have 2 kids and they both have Irish names.
Also any new arrivals will also be given Irish names.
Go with your heart.
Regardless of what the rest of the family think, once the baby is born and named they will have to go along.

Chef.

Ickle Magoo

lil-buttons wrote:

Heres the thing, Im pregnant and cant wait! I dont want to know the sex of the baby & thats fine. Me and my partner have decided on a girls name and its lovely - but the boys names we have choosen are being slated by my parents - his parents - sisters , brothers & friends!!

How can we choose a boys baby name without everyone gettinn their knickers in a twist ?

Ignore what everyone else says & pick the one you like best! Everyone has an opinion on everything you will do with your chid, it starts with naming them, lol! Set a precedence & tell them while you apreciate that they care - it will be up to you & your partner!

We had various family members trying to stop us using names that they associated with exes & things (?! like that affects us ?!) but we just chose our top 5 names & waited for babs to be born...incidentally neither of them are called what we planned to call them, when they were born another name jumped out at us that suited them better!

lil-buttons

Yeah but I suppose Tiárnach is a bit wierd but I love it! But I dont know it jus feels right. We decided on a girls name and that Sáoirse- I love that too.
At the end of the day its my babóg beag after all!

beans

Careful where you stick your fadas on the big day though, you could end up with something else entirely!

Sleipnir

I have to say I do hate weird names; just picture your poor child having to spell it for every single person they come in contact with for 70-odd years.

I know a chap who called his kid "Ruairi", nothing wrong with that.
Then I met him and called the kid "Ruairi" and he said
"no, it's spelt Ruairi but we just call him "Rory"

What was the ****ing point then? He has an Irish name but we call him by the English version. Why not just use the bleedin' english one then!?!?!?


Here's an article from today's Indo about names in the U.K.


Parents failing to realise the affliction of a naff name

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lil-buttons wrote:

Heres the thing, Im pregnant and cant wait! I dont want to know the sex of the baby & thats fine. Me and my partner have decided on a girls name and its lovely - but the boys names we have choosen are being slated by my parents - his parents - sisters , brothers & friends!!

How can we choose a boys baby name without everyone gettinn their knickers in a twist ?

We had same problem - we had decided on a girl's name from very early on, but couldn't decide on a boy's name. We mentioned a couple of choices to our families and there was always someone with a comment on the name, so we decided not to discuss it with anyone again.

We went into the hospital with no name for a boy, but it was a girl (Daisy) so that solved that.

Don't listen to what anyone says about your child/future child's name, it's your choice and when you see your little one you'll know you made the right choice.

embee

Saoirse isn't unusual at all these days OP - I dunno why your family are telling you not to use it!!! Tiarnach is lovely too

At the end of the day, you could name your baby Smallpox and its no one elses business but your own!

Blush_01

Only two real things matter about a baby's name - will it get them beaten up, and if so, can it be abbreviated so that they don't have to worry about bullying. After that, it's all gravy. There are some names I personally find a bit silly, because they're cute while the child is young, but are a bit mad for adults. Then again, there's always deed poll.

BTW - there was once a girl called Unicorn registered in the Uni I attend. (Edit: a friend of mine also babysat a little boy called Banjo. I tried not to laugh. I failed. It might make me a bad person, but I don't care.)

OP, as far as I can see, a name that isn't stupid - and there are lots of them out there - is all that's required. The names you have chosen sound lovely. If you're happy, and think they'll suit your child, then stuff family. They'll get used to the name, and it's unlikely a family feud will start over what you call your sprog.

Embee - Rhiannon's a gorgeous name!

embee

Blush_01 wrote:

Only two real things matter about a baby's name - will it get them beaten up, and if so, can it be abbreviated so that they don't have to worry about bullying. After that, it's all gravy. There are some names I personally find a bit silly, because they're cute while the child is young, but are a bit mad for adults. Then again, there's always deed poll.

BTW - there was once a girl called Unicorn registered in the Uni I attend. (Edit: a friend of mine also babysat a little boy called Banjo. I tried not to laugh. I failed. It might make me a bad person, but I don't care.)

OP, as far as I can see, a name that isn't stupid - and there are lots of them out there - is all that's required. The names you have chosen sound lovely. If you're happy, and think they'll suit your child, then stuff family. They'll get used to the name, and it's unlikely a family feud will start over what you call your sprog.

Embee - Rhiannon's a gorgeous name!

Thank you, Blush-01!

Anyways, Blush makes a lot of sense here... as long as the name you choose isn't one that will have the child ridiculed and picked on, you're grand!!

Personally speaking, I really don't like ANY of the names that appear on the top 25 boys or girls names chosen in Ireland in 2005 http://www.cso.ie/statistics/top_babies_names.htm, but again, that is just a personal thing.

hunnymonster

I think your chosen names are beautiful. They tick all the boxes for me, Irish, just unique enough (we had 4 Niamhs in my class at school) but not so unusual that People will constantly comment on them. They also sound beautiful.

I have to admit the first time I heard Saoirse as a name I was a bit put off. I guess that was my 1970's northern ireland upbringing showing through. The name has really grown on me though, in no small part because of a beautiful 5 year old girl with a smile that would melt your heart.

LegacyUser

I remember hearing a woman on newstalk one day talking all about baby names.

The one thing that stuck in my mind was her advice that if your surname is quite long,try and chose a short first name for your child and vice versa....

A long first name coupled with a long surname just wont have the ease of rolling off your tounge....anyway that was just my 10 cents worth

hazeler

How can we choose a boys baby name without everyone gettinn their knickers in a twist ?[/QUOTE]
why are you worried about everybody else. if you and your partner both pick a name that ye like, then i suggest teling everybody else to like it or lump it! this is your baby..let evreybody elses knickers twist!

OTK

Consider the first name and last name combination.
Do the names complement each other?
Do they make a stupid joke?
What about the rhythm of the syllables?

Caoimhigín Forbes
River Molloy
Trojan Condon
Beverly Hills

Imagine shouting the name out to the child after school. Does it make you cringe?

Have a look at the most common names for the year in Ireland and decide if you want to bring a kid to school and four others with the same name in his class. Maybe you do.

Most common boys names in 2005:
Jack
Sean
Adam
Conor
James
Daniel
Cian
Luke
Aaron
Michael

Most cmmon girls names in 2005
Emma
Sarah
Katie
Amy
Aoife
Ciara
Sophie
Chloe
Leah
Ella

Irish names don't seem that popular anymore.

One way to choose a name is to look at the grandparents and greatgrandparents' names. If you find one you like it should promote family harmony.

magnumlady

We had names chosen before both of our children were born but the minute we saw them we changed our minds, they just didn't 'look' like the names we had for them.

davidoco

ArthurDent wrote:

I'd recommend not discussing your choices with anyone
a - you'll always find someone who doesn't like your choice
b - you could find your choice knicked by a close relative/friend
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I'll second that. It's in your families’ nature to give an opinion on the name but no matter what you call the child (apart from the some of the more colourful ones like Peaches) everyone will love and adore the baby.

Also I found you know when you look at him/her (it does help to know beforehand) whether it is going to suit.