UPDATE: She’s here! Amanda writes: Thanks to everyone for SO many good ideas. We appreciated the encouragement to use Charlie, and definitely will if we have another son in the future. After LOTS of back and forth, we got our list down to Tessa “Tess/Tessie” and Elizabeth “Ellie/Ella” only to decide she didn’t look like […]
READ MORE >>Name Help: Honoring Grandma Lou
UPDATE: Kayla writes that daughter Louisa Kate arrived last month. Everyone is doing fine. Thanks for the help! Kayla writes: We’re expecting a daughter in March, and we know we want to name her after my grandma Lou. My grandmother’s name isn’t Louise or Lucille or anything like that. She was Phyllis. We don’t know […]
READ MORE >>Name Help: Getting Over Piper
UPDATE: Gemma Larkin is here! Thanks to all for your help. Lauren writes: Our journey to parenthood has been a long one, but we’re finally expecting our first baby in just a few weeks. It’s a girl! I feel so lucky and blessed, and cannot wait to have my daughter in our arms. Here’s the […]
READ MORE >>Name Help: Which One?
Kara writes: Sorry for not writing sooner! It was all a lot of worry for nothing. Lucy Josephine is here, and we’re all so in love. Once we chose the name, we knew it was perfect. Thanks to everyone! Kara writes: We have two daughters, Violet Marie and Eliza Grace. Now we’re expecting our third […]
READ MORE >>Name Help: A Brother for Phoebe Danielle
He’s here! An update from Kalie: We absolutely loved the suggestion of Hugo, but it wasn’t a great match with our last name when we said it out loud. Calvin, Jonah, and Malcolm were three front runners, but they all were kind of like Emmett. We liked them, but they just didn’t feel like the […]
READ MORE >>Name Help: A Brother for Adam
UPDATE: He’s here! Welcome Peter Wesley. Scroll down for some thoughts from Stacy. Stacy writes: When we were naming our first son, we had a lot of rules. No nicknames, no family names, nothing too hard to pronounce or spell. Something with history, but not like a William-James-David kind of super-traditional name. No Top Ten […]
READ MORE >>Name Help: A Brother for Gunther
He’s here! Welcome to the world, Bruno. And thanks to Billie for the update. 🙂 Billie writes: We have a 3 year old named Gunther William and we are expecting our second boy in June! While we are so excited, coming up with a name for Baby Boy has been a challenge. A few things: […]
READ MORE >>Name Help: Unusual Boy Names for a Fourth Son
UPDATE: He’s here! Welcome Caius Adrian Wolf! Thanks to all for the suggestions. Arianna writes: Our three boys are Sebastien, Nikolai (Niko), and Torin (Tor/Tori). I am looking for a unique (definitely not top 500, preferably not even top 1000) but not too “out there” name for our fourth son. The name should have good […]
READ MORE >>Name Help: Our Girl List Feels Wrong
Update from Jaime: Thanks for all of the suggestions! She was almost Vera, because we love the meaning. I liked Sylvie, too, but my husband said no. And then he read the comment about Ivy being IV. Not only is she our fourth child, but she was born on January 4th. At first I thought […]
READ MORE >>Name Help: A Brother for Rose and Henry
Update: He’s here! Welcome to the world, Leo Arthur. Congrats to the family. Channelle writes: Just found out we are having our second boy, our third child. We have a Rose and a Henry. A girl would have been Lucy or Alice. Easy to choose-classic and unexpected I feel. But we are having the worst […]
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