Names? ✨

We had several names picked out for our boys but none ever stuck until we found the gender out. Our 1st is Arlo from the disney movie as we picked out a dinosaur teddy and I was wearing a dino t shirt when we found out the gender. His middle names are of family members Our 2nd is Odin-rex as I'm into Vikings and rex to match dinosaur themed also my partners great grandad is named rex. His middle name is also from family member

We started choosing name after we found out the gender. My husband named our son and I totally love it. It was already around 3rd trimester when he finally have a first and middle name. He wants to name our son after his grandpa which name was Morris but he didn't really like that so he look for a name that starts with M and that's when he pick Matthew. With middle name we wanted to name our kids after someone great and we idolize like a scientist or in my 1st born we name him after Elon Musk. But we never really said the "Ok this is his name now" when I was still pregnant. My husband wanted to see him first to tell if he's a Matthew Elon looking baby. Lol. Then after seeing him, he said Yes he's Matthew Elon.So that's how we named our son.

We didn't have a name for my 1st born u till we new his gender they we had a full day in looking at names we both liked and we came up with Layton 👣 and it's perfevt for him Now expecting are second this one a suprise but we know the names if a girl then Lillie If a boy then Linkon ♥

For our first we waited until we knew boy or girl. & we couldn’t agree on anything. Then one night we were browsing Netflix & I said Xena & husband took that as a name suggestion so that’s what we agreed on plus I loved that show as a kid lol. Her middle name is Michelle like mine & my sil. I couldn’t find anything else I liked with Xena. We announced before She was born also. With my second my husband picked her name from a video game. & I picked her middle name. Liara Renee. I didn’t announce her name until she was born. & with our son I picked his name completely. We stayed with the “nerd” theme. His name is Jareth soren. His first name is from the movie labyrinth & his middle name is just one I randomly came across. I also kept his name a secret until he was born. I decided to keep their names secrets cause everyone had something to say about my oldest name.

We had no names picked out when we got pregnant! Boy or girl. I had so many cute ideas for boy names and was confident we were having a boy... NOPE it’s a girl 😂 so we had a really hard time picking out a name for a girl. I think we settled on Romee J. about 6 months into the pregnancy but didn’t tell anyone til about 7 because we weren’t sure if we were going to change our minds! Still haven’t announced it on social media and I’m 37 weeks 😂 we will announce when she’s born ;) J. Is after her daddy Josh and Romee came from a YouTube video of baby names 😂

I chose my baby girl name a year before I got pregnant I just fell in love with the name Amelia , and when she was born my hubby added the middle name right before leaving the hospital .

Well when things got serious with me and her dad he showed me a list of baby names that he had written down. He told me he shared this list with me because I was the one. I wanted a boy so bad so we decided on Galileo lol I still like that name! And the name wasn’t on his list. But when he showed me the girl name list Annelia was on there and I said it pretty and I never heard of it before. He gave me the backstory on the name and it sounds like my moms name (Ann) so I was down! Long story short.. We told our parents we chose the baby’s name as Annelia and we wanted to combine our names together for her middle name so we just went with Danielle (lol his name is Daniel) ...I never told social media her name until 3 weeks after I gave birth to her.

For months we went back and forth with names when I was pregnant with my first with everyone sticking their noses in for suggestions (which I found absolutely annoying) we both knew though that we wanted Gaelic or german names and my husband wanted to name both my children after his grandparents. I compromised and let him put it in as middles names. My first is niklaus (said as nick-klaus) wulff, the second I literally named on a car ride to work one day Ivan richard

Me and my fella were convinced we were having a girl so never considered boy names- the ones i loved he hated and vice versa (he wanted sterling!?!) It wasnt until he was born and we saw his face that we settled on a name. His first middle name is Martin - named after a fantastic human being who passed away 💞 and as he has his dads last name so his middle name is james (named after my dad)- Oliver Martin James Melody 💙❤💙

With my oldest, I looked for signs. 3 signs told me convinced me his name was supposed to be Tyler. His middle name was his grandfather's first name. With my (current) youngest, my husband heard the name Teran on a podcast and we fell in love with it. His middle name was my grandfather's first. With this current pregnancy, I've only come up with one name that I liked which worked out perfect once we found out the gender. Baby's middle name was another important person to me.

My sons name is Shawn Maxwell. I had my gender reveal at roughly 20 weeks and I quickly decided on the name Shawn, after my mom (Shawnalee). As for his middle name, that took a little longer to decide. I wanted something that would flow and sound pleasing to the ear so I actually went and googled boys names and Maxwell just stood out to me the most. I don’t remember exactly when I announced it to people. I think during the baby shower is when I first started telling a few people, then I made an official announcement online when he was born.

We had a boy & a girl name picked out before our gender reveal. Then we found out he was a boy. But then one day I came across the name Amari while my husband was watching football. It was one of the player’s names & it just stuck w/ me idk what it was about it, but I couldn’t let it go lol, luckily my husband loved it too. Also, I really liked the initials AJ.

When I got pregnant with my first son I thought that Lucas or Dylan would be great. But his father quickly rejected 🙅‍♂️ those names. So he actually searched for Irish names and came up with Malachi Finn. The perfect name because he cane out with red hair. He is so Irish. Lol as for my 2nd son I tried to work in the prior names but still no avail. Lol so I looked up names and we agreed on Mannix. His middle name is for their papa Kelly who died before he was born. So his name is Mannix Kelly. And our daughter...well their father had no say in her name. I knew I wanted it to be unique but also stuck with the Irish trend we have. And I wanted her to have my middle name but also share names with her great grandmothers on both sides. Her name is Amara Lynn-Katherine. And I love the name Orion. Beautiful and unique. And congratulations 🍾🎉

We were team yellow for both pregnancies so had to choose both girls and boys. For our first we had chosen 2 girl names we liked and 2 boy names. Then if it was a girl my husband chose and a boy I would chose. We had our little girl and he decided she was Aoife it is an Irish name which we are not but we fell in love with it. As for her middle name I wanted any daughter I had to share my name. So she is Aoife-Rose 😍 our second we tried to do the same routine but it took almost all of the pregnancy to agree on names. My favourite boy name was Arthur but it just didn't sound right with Aoife and that was a reoccurring problem I found. I found it much harder to find both a girl's & boys name to compliment it. In the end we had Rory Michael. His middle name was always going to be Michael after my grandad who sadly died before Aoife was born. God help me if we ever have a 3rd.

As for sharing on social media that didn’t happen until my babies were born and home. I kept my pregnancies personal. I didn’t share photos of my belly or how far along I was. If I was close enough to people then they knew because they seen me and talked. But fb or instagram are impersonal and most people on there never have anything good to say. So once I posted a picture their name I got a lot of ‘so cute’ ‘love the name’ and ‘i didn’t know you were pregnant’ lol

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Same with me on the social media front. Never posted that I was pregnant, like you say, if you’re close enough to people then you tell them when you see them 👍👍

We were sold on the first after I randomly heard it Nash Dean. Middle name after his gpa. The second we knew the first as it was our second choice for our first child Nolan Bryant (Bryant after Chris Bryant because he was born the year the cubs won the series) and the last we wanted something unique but not too unique where it wouldn’t be accepted but we didn’t have anyone to really name him after and I fell in love with his first name so we ended up with Oaken James

Me and my boyfriend started talking names the moment we found out we were pregnant we talked about both girls and boy names and even then his named wasn’t on the list and once we found out the gender we knew the middle name before we even knew his first name and that was just because we knew from the start if we had a boy it would be named after my boyfriend’s dad Huberto and I think I was around 5 months when Me and my boyfriend came down to two names and it was between Aiden and Sebastian and when i was about 7 months one day I just told my boyfriend I think I want to name I’m Aiden and he agreed and thought out my pregnancy we told our family what names we were thinking but we didn’t tell them till I was about 8 months we told our parents and for our baby shower we told everyone else. And till this day I still love his name after I had him and I held him I knew we had chosen the perfect name Aiden Huberto Solano 💙🥰

Boy or girl, I wanted our first to be named after my SO and/or have his initials (his name is Charles Raymond). We ended up having a girl so we named her Charlie Rose. 💕🌹

When he was born!

I had my name picked out from way back before there was a little one! I loved Molly for a girl and Nathaniel for a a boy. Found out I was pregnant, and those were my options. Until one day walking around somewhere, a little girl was running and her mom shouted “Nora, stop.” And I literally was sold. It switched right then. And I didn’t see it as a secret, nor did I care if anyone were to also use the name so I told anyone who asked! But I didn’t post it to social until after her birth!

My daughters name is Athena Rae 😍I’ve always loved the Greek goddess Athena so I knew I wanted that as my daughters name. Originally I was set on Nisí (knee-sea) Athena but I went with Rae after my stepdad Ray. If we’d had a boy he would’ve been named after my husband and would be the fifth Matias.

We used the first initals of our names and because hes our son , his name Is Kyson. We went back and forth throughout the pregnancy , I knew I was having a boy before I even got pregnant lol I found out on April 1st ( how ironic lol ) and made them recheck again 🖤 I was stoked . At about 5 months I presented his name and we kept it. For his middle name I had originally wanted it to be Elai but I saw a little boy his name was Elias and I thought it was so beautiful this name kept jumping out at me ! So now we have Kyson Elaias . We shared his name only with our immediate family around 8 months and extended family when he was born😌

I choose my daughters name before she was born her middle name is my mum great gran name who passed away, then she has a traditional name from her dads country and his surname

Our baby was unexpected so we had not really thought about names one name we had talked about before a while back was Orion which is part of his first name but still searched for his actual first name. I had an idea of what kind of names and what initials I wanted so I bumped into Cairo but changed the C for a K. Plus I wanted to give him a Japanese name. So I found the perfect one that meant birth of summer since he was due in August. So his full name is Kairo Orion Natsuo Haith. Long ass name but I love it haha ❣️ You will find your perfect name. I’ve heard a lot of people pick a name and once they see their baby born they go with a different one.

Originally, I wanted my son to be a jr, but my partner hates his name and doesn't really like tradition. Once we settled that, I really wanted something strong, but easy to spell and pronounce. Also, I knew I wanted there to be two middle names. First choice was Jon William Grant. My partner hated it. I told him that I wanted the name Grant for sure but if he had suggestions I'd be open to them, which is how Conall came to be (it's Scottish which honors his heritage on his father's side, it means "strong wolf, strong in battle") and then I chose Alan for my grandfather, leaving us with Grant Conall Alan! (Not a fan of the fact that he'll be spelling Conall for his whole life, as that's his use name.) It took a good minute before I really embraced this name... Maybe 2-3 months. I was about 8 months pregnant.

I love her name. So beautiful.

I chose my daughters name completely on a whim but when I heard it I fell in love! I knew the name for a girl before I found out the sex of the baby🙈 only close family and friends and obviously my partner know her name and will be revealing to the world and social media when she's born in May😁🙈

We waited to find out the sex of our baby and we didn't have any names pick out! Our boy didn't have a name until he was almost a day old! I love the names 'Luca' & 'Luke' (I really wanted a short boy's name but my husband suggested 'Lucas' and said let him choose if he wants to be called Luca or Luke! 😀 We told our parents and best friends and then social media (everyone else)!

My partner and i had chosen a couple of names for both girls and boys but when we went for one of my scans and she faced us we knew she was a Rebecca

I actually fell in love with my sons name while watching ghosts whisperer. In the show her sons name was Ayden. I loved it right away. I said if I ever have a boy that will be his name. Little did I know I was a month and a half pregnant with my son already. His middle name is Michael after his father. What’s funny is I picked out my daughters name the same way. I was watching a Disney show with my niece and fell in love with the name Avery. I have always loved the name Madison from a lil girl I use to babysit. So when we had our daughter that was it. My son and daughter have the same exact initials.

I knew since I was a little girl that my first daughter would be called meadow and have our family middle name to be passed down , just lucky my boyfriend loved it too

I knew since I was 10. Idk I loved that name so much. I wished it was my name. I made emails with that name 😆. I considered some other names after getting pregnant. But once we found out the sex my husband just looked at me and said we have to name her that. It just felt like that's supposed to be her name! For her middle name. I feel like she should have my last name. My last name was given to me by my grandmother and isnt the same as the rest of my family. It means queen. And that always meant so much to me growing up. I'd always remind myself I'm a queen and I shouldn't let my tiara fall. And since she will have my husbands last name as her last name it will represent his culture. And I feel like giving her my last name as her middle name will give her a piece of my culture. Since her first name isnt based on a specific culture.

Oh cool, Orion. My husband usually chooses the first names. I'm totally OK with that, he gives me two choices and I'll choose from there. As for middle names that's all ME! My first is Enrique, named after my beloved grandfather. Alicia is my second named after my most beloved grandma & my latest addition is Cecilia named after my Dad. My dad was born on the feast day of St Cecilia. I crochet baby blankets with their names and then around 25 weeks or as soon as i finish them, i post on social media. My family knows the name once we find out the sex. I have no problem posting our sharing their names.

I was always the kid who thought about having 20 kids so I thought about names a lot, a distance family member got a girl knocked up and I remember him coming over for a holiday and saying they were going with the name Nevaeh. And I instantly fell in love and ever since then I KNEW that if I ever had a daughter I would name her Nevaeh. I was 30 weeks along when I found out she was a girl, I had had dreams she was a boy, felt like she was a boy and everything. So I had been calling her “Isaac Thomas” haha 😂 Once I found out otherwise, I knew she was gonna be a Nevaeh, and Grace was the first middle name that popped in mind and I thought it flowed perfectly. So I named her Nevaeh Grace ❤️ Luckily her POS father didn’t want to have any part in anything and my boyfriend (who I consider her Dad) also loved the name Nevaeh Grace 💕

My partner and I wanted all of our kids names to be unique. So we heard some unique names or names that we liked in general and we whittled names down until we compromised one for a boy and one for a girl. We didn't pick any middle names until we knew the genders. When we chose the middle names, I did one name that I like and one name that my partner liked. We ended up with T'Aunie Sage Neveah for my first; Ajani Reuben Lorenzo for my boy twin and Ave' Hope Lorenza for my girl twin ; and my youngest Krystianna Rose Daija. For my fifth child we've gone with Sekani for a boy and Sevyn for a girl.

I love the name you have chosen, congrats! As soon as I got pregnant, I knew I will be having a girl. I have alwaus thought if I have I daughter, I will name her Isabel as it's very pretty, feminine, gentle. But as soon as I got pregnant, I thought of the name Mia which means wished for child from Latin, which she is. I debated myself for a while as I couldn't understand where Mia came from but I started calling my bump Mia very early. My partner was happy with both names so left it down to me. I confirmed the baby's name when she was born 9 weeks ago. Even our parents didn't know. It is a personal choice of what to name your baby, when to announce, etc. We all love our baby's name and as soon as she was born, she looked like a Mia 😊

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100% mia suits her - absolutely gorgeous :) x

When my SO and I said the same name when we first started. My mom's name for her middle name. We told everyone just her first name but held the middle name as a surprise for my mom.

So i dont know what im having yet. Hopefully right before christmas we will find out. I knew for the girls name when had a miscarriage last year. Rayna Hope. Rayna because she will be a rainbow baby. And hope because after my aunt passed away my sister and I made a promise to name our first girl after her. (My aunts name is/was Melissa Hope. My sister used Melissa for my oldest niece. Isabelle Melissa) Now for a boy, that was a lot harder. Nathan George. I was reading off names to my boyfriend off the internet. He was saying no to EVERYTHING. And then I said Nathan. And he started crying and said yes. He lost his best friend a couple years ago. And then George because that is his favorite character off of Greys anatomy.

I was always told "name your kid after someone you want them to be like," so we went through tons of names. But we named him after our favorite Doctor Who character Rory Williams, I just fell in love with it so much. The next one we want to name Winry Lorraine (a strong female lead from Fullmetal Alchemist and the middle is a family name). For a boy Grayson Don, I wanted to name him after my grandpa but was told Donnie is too much of an old person name. So we decided with Don, which is kind of after me too. My middle name is Dawn.

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OMG I love this so much! Rory and Amy were a few of my favorite companions! (Donna was my absolute favorite). Yay for Whovians!

All my kids I had their names picked out within weeks of finding the sex. With my boys...we all had city names including the dog so I stuck with that. Austin is obvious and my best friend lives in Cartersville, GA which is how I chose his name. Their middle names are their grandfathers first names. As for my daughter...new husband and new territory. I was not prepared for a daughter til she got here. I was set on Lilah Mae and I still love it. But after finding out she was a girl it just didn't fit. I came across Amelia written real pretty on Pinterest and my husband loved it. Grace seemed to ve the only acceptable middle name. We announced her name immediately. Same with my middle son. The first one we didn't until we announced he was a boy at my shower. Social media was just getting rolling then so not much announced but w her we didn't announce it to social media until 6 months. Any of it...pregnancy, gender, name all came at 6 months. Hard to hide a baby bump for that long

I have an Orion too! Love the name! Are you also having to correct people from pronouncing it “oar-ee-on”? I get it all the time, so I’m always saying “Orion, like the constellation” and then they get it.

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Aha :) I haven’t found that to be the case for me, but I suppose we’ll see once she’s born 🙈♥️

My fiancé had made a passing joke about naming our child after the lead singer of his favorite band, Neil Fallon from Clutch. Shortly after we found out that we’d be having a girl, so Neil was definitely out. Towards the end of my 4th month, we attended a Clutch concert, which had low attendance due to the weather, and we ended up front row. Through the concert, during my Fiancé’s favorite song, he got to feel her kick for the first time. After the show I asked him what he thought of Fallon as a middle name, and he was thrilled with the idea. We landed on the name Harper Fallon, and can’t wait to share the story with our sweet girl.

Fiance is a huge nerd and insisted on the name Arya (game of thrones) her middle was gonna be titania (fairy tail) but I was taught to go outside and yell the name youre thinking to see if you like it. I got winded yelling it so we changed it to rose (because of rose Leslie from GOT) now we have our miss Arya rose. For a boy name we were gonna have wade (deadpool) killian (once upon a time) but we'll save that if we ever decide to have another

I chose names i loved in a list and then kept repeating them to see if the rymed with my twins and daughter there initials are all AMA aiden manuel avalos abner mathew avalos and aubree mia avalos

My daughter didn’t have a name legally till 30 days pp, and even then for two weeks we just called her beanie 🤣 I thought we'd had her name picked for 10 years until my husband decided he didn't like the initials EAS. So I went hunting for other names and he fell in love with Elowen (elm tree). Next we gave her two middle names, Evie (for my father Steve), and Aurelia (for my husband's grandfather's middle name Aurilian). With our last name included, backwards my daughter's name translates to 'In a glen, a golden living elm tree.' We thought it was beautiful.

I named my first after my mums nan. And my nan died recently so I'm calling this baby by her name

We had a girl name picked out almost the week we found out i was pregnant. When we learned the sex I had an idea and my s.o. was looking up names on some website he looked up the name I wanted and it was mentioned, honestly I don't even remember what the name was... Ezekiel I think.... we found Ezra, Dane is s.o. middle name we went to our porch yelled it a few times and we knew then that was it:)

My sons name is Jayce tucker

Beautiful name! I’ve got names in mind but we don’t know what we having yet x

My boyfriend and I just left a music and camping festival and were having brunch at a restaurant with some friends who’d camped next to us. I was only about 6 months. We were searching for names and I found Orion and decided that would be his name whether he was a boy or girl as well. This post is very synchronistic for me and I felt that I’d share. It was the only name that truly resonated with my boyfriend and I. I just felt some pull to it. I am now 26 weeks and we have settled on the name Landon Orion instead, as we couldn’t find a middle name that flowed with Orion being the first name. I have loved the name Landon since I was a child, and my family fell in love with the combination.

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That is so beautiful! ❤️

Such a good name! Landon always reminds me of a walk to remember