Fun with baby names!
So, I’m a mom. I know… hard to believe considering the title of this site, huh? I have a 3 year old little girl, named Kate, and an 18 month old little boy, named Ethan, and a little girl on the way. The poor baby girl doesn’t have a name yet, either. Unfortunately, baby girl names are the harder of the two genders for my husband and I to agree on. In fact, with Kate, that was the ONLY name that the two of us agreed on. So, with this one, we’re already in hot water.
The funny thing is that I’ve been to all the baby name lists on all the sites - you know, babynames.com, babynamesworld.com, and even babynamewizard.com (which, btw, if you haven’t seen their interactive Name Voyager graph it’s incredible - you can see the popularity of any name you’d like graphed out over the last hundred years. VERY cool!) and I still can’t pick a name!
My problem seems to be 3-fold. First, I taught school for five years. Ask any school teacher and they’ll tell you that there are certain names that are burned into their memory for the rest of their lives and will forever provide a knee-jerking, nervous twitching kind of motion everytime they hear it. So, right off the bat, there are just certain names that are off-limits… Secondly, I’m a stickler for meanings. If the name doesn’t have a great meaning, and not just ‘broken nose’ or ‘bald one’, I automatically rule it out. But, probably the biggest problem I’m having this go-around is that I’m stuck. I’m totally stuck on a name (and a nickname to go with it) that my husband just doesn’t like at all. And every time I try to find a different name, I wind up coming back full-circle to the same name every time. I’m blaming it on hormones…
The only good news in all of this is that I have a wonderful, patient, loving husband who’s willing to wait it out with me. And, we’ve still got a couple of months to come up with exactly the perfect name for her. In the mean time, I keep praying that God will wake me up with her name in a dream, or that He’ll just write her name in the sky or speak her name audibly from a burning bush or something… 
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July 25th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
Just an update - we are currently playing around with a couple of names! Yes, it’s true, we finally settled on some that we BOTH agreed on. In fact, Shawn is completely settled, so now, it’s just me… We have another ultrasound this week, so if it’s still a girl (we’re 99% sure it is), then we may have a winner!!! Whew, do I feel better!!
July 26th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Ok, I have a vote! For all the names that I didn’t, couldn’t use…here’s one to think on:) Liberty, and call her Libe(Li-bee).
I loved Avery for a girl, but the meaning…ruler of the elves– just couldn’t do it!!!-Anyways, I ended up with a boy anyway! I understand the school thing too! It’s difficult, especially when someone like family picks one of those names and you have to sew your lips shut!! I am a very traditional name person, but the above one just stuck on me! If we ever adopt and are able to choose the name, I may go against the flow and just use the name Liberty!! It’s got a great meaning! and you don’t have to even look it up to know it-hehe!!