Story Behind December LO's Names.
"Layla Grace is our LOs name.I was diagnosed with Endo back in 2005 and met DH in 2006. He's been with me through every surgery, procedure, etc etc etc. We knew that having kids was a long shot for us (my Endo had blocked my left tube & was slowly taking over my right. It had already totally covered my uterus, bladder & bowels), but he always said if we had a daughter we would name her Layla. He liked the idea of being able to sing the song to her :)
On the day we found out we were having a girl, DH and I were sitting in the docs office trying to think of middle names. He said what about Layla Grace? Since she was a TOTAL shock (I had just had a partial bowel resection 8 months before), he called her out little Grace of God. I thought it was a good idea. Coming out of the docs office my older sister called me and asked what we were naming her, I said Layla and she said that we should call her Layla Grace for the circumstance. DH and I were like, okay, that's weird. Then later on that evening one of my good friends says the same.exact.thing. That we should name her Layla Grace since she decided to "grace" us with her presence." -TtotheG
"Harrison comes from our love of music and the Beatles. Seamus because we conceived on St Patty's Day and I'm a tad Irish. If this LO was a girl we were going to go with Layla (Eric Clapton's song) elizabeth(his mom's mn) Jean(my mom's mn)" -futureCLJ
"DS will be William Deane. William was DH's favorite grandfather's name. (Conveniently, it's also the name of his best friend). Deane was my mom's maiden name. We're both getting to honor two very important people who've passed on." -KatieGator
"Holden Christopher = My husband's favorite book is Catcher in the Rye, hence the Holden. My brothers name is Christopher and he's always been my best friend and biggest defender throughout life.
or if we have a girl...
Carley Elizabeth = Carley is my maiden name and Elizabeth is my husband's great grandmothers name." -lcarley045
"If its a boy...Charles Douglas. We wanted to find a name that could be for a little boy as well as a man. No offense to anyone who likes the more popular boy's names these days - DH and I just don't see how a 35 year old man can be a "Skylar." Someone suggested Charles to us and we loved it. We'll call him Charlie. If when he gets older he wants to be Chuck, Chip, or Charles...then so be it. Douglas is my brother's name and he is one of my favorite people in the whole world. He doesn't know we hope to use it - it'll be a surprise.
If its a girl...
Cadence Grace. Yes, cadence like a drum. I've loved the name Cadence since high school and DH immediately loved it when I suggested it. Grace just sounded right with it and we've been hooked since. We'd call her Cadie Grace for short. " -OhSewCrafty
"Our little girl will be Veronica Mae. My grandmother's name was Mae and she was a very important in my life. I always knew that if I had kids and if I had a girl that her middle name would be Mae. We had no girls names picked out when we found out the baby's gender, but on the way home my husband thought of the name Veronica which was the name of his mom's adopted mother. I called my mother-in-law that day to make sure she was comfortable with us using her mother's name and she was thrilled. We haven't revisited the name discussion since so I think we may have found the right name. I am named after two of my great grandmothers so we're continuing family tradition even though we didn't do that on purpose. " -Tamzin418
"Giavanna Mae Giavanna after my grandmother who was such a special person in my life. She passed away in 2003 and I always knew I would name my first child after her (using the first letter of her name "G".) I always loved the nickname Gia, so we kind of fell into Giavanna and both loved it.
Mae is after DH's grandmother. Her first name was Mabel so we decided to shorten it to Mae so LO would be named after two of her great grandma's. We later found out his grandmother's middle name WAS Mae, so it seems like it was meant to be." -elaforgia
"Kellie Grace- MH wanted to name a boy if we had one Kelly after his all time favorite hockey player from the Stl blues. I really like the name Kelly and it went well with our last name, but for fear of our son getting made fun of we decided that if we had a Girl that we would use Kellie instead. Grace I have always loved and it was my nickname when I was younger because I was super ungraceful..." -jessrenee11
"LO's name is Ryleigh Marie. My older sisters middle name is Leigh and my twin sisters middle name is Marie. So we incorporated their middle names into LOs name." -hbchristie
"Our sons name will be Emanuel Gerald Emanuel was DH's Grandfather's name and Gerald was my Grandfather's name. They were both wonderful men and we loved them dearly. So we wanted to honor them.
If we were going to have a girl, she would have been named after our Grandmothers...but that's a name we are saving for the next baby." -mrs_shep
" We will be naming our son James Andrew James is my grandfathers name but it is also DH's great great grandfathers name. We both have huge families and I have a cousin named James Landon (but goes by Landon) and DH has an Uncle and cousin named James M*****. No one actually goes by James, everyone either uses the middle name or goes by a nickname. When my grandfather found out we were having a boy he looked at me and said "We don't really have a 'James' you know." Andrew is DH's name." -firsttimeaunt
"Chance Andrew - Hubs and I both like the name Chance. It goes well with our last name and it means fortunate and luck. We believe we are very lucky to have our boy." -Sunnyinseattle1
"Gabrielle Dawn Marie When we were discussing names I had so many boys names that I loved and only a very few girl names. The day before our ultrasound we decided it was down to two girls names Charlotte(my choice) and Gabrielle (M's choice).The middle names are for our mothers Dawn is my mothers middle name and Marie is for M's mother. M said since he had gotten his pick with the boy first name I could have my choice if it was a girl. I think he said it because he was convinced she was a boy.
When the ultrasound tecnician told us she was a girl I was so excited and a bit worried, (only worried because I knew how much M wanted a boy first.) I told him as we weredriving hime that we were going to have a little Gabrielle Dawn Marie. He was shocked and so happy. I love the name we have chosen and can't picture her as anything else.
If my some fluke chance she is a boy the name will be Sebastian (M's great grandfather) Marshall (for my father)" -britne08
"Evelyn Grace was DH's grandmother's name. If we were having a boy, we were going to name him Everett after his grandfather, and Evelyn is close to that." -flgirl79
"Samantha Georgina is the name, we debated for 7 months (remember the clicky polls) and we definately did not see eye to eye. DH suggested Samantha at the very beginning and even though i liked it, i knew someone child with that name so i said no. then starts 7 months of arguing and while one day hanging out with bff she suggested it and i gave it a more serious thought. i was trying to avoid naming LO after a minivan!! LOL i brought it up again and the more i said it the more i liked it and DH always like it so we made the decision. Georgina was decided because it is DH's mother's middle name. She cried when we called her and told her, she is very emotional and lives in england and won't be here for the birth." -sil222
"Emily Virginia- Virginia is my grandmothers name, and my middle name. All the men in my family (each and every one of them) are named after my grandpa, and I am the only one named after my grandmother. I have always known that if I had a girl her middle name would be Virginia.
Emily came after a lot of discussion about names that are short enough to flow with Virginia and our long (8 letter) Swedish last name. Then one day, we were talking about names and DH said he was jealous that she got to be named after my grandma. That's when I realized that both of his grandma's have names that start with "E", so I suggested Emily so that we could cover both of them with one name." -lvmcc
"Alaina Anne- We both have always loved the name Alaina, and we knew long before we got pregnant that this is what we would name a daughter (and call her Lainey).
Anne is my DH's mom's middle name. She was a very, very dear person to both of us and she passed away in June (when I was about 15 weeks pregnant). Part of our decision to have a baby was influenced by her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. We kind of pushed up our timetable for her. She wanted to have this grandchild so badly, and I am happy that we can honor her memory in this way!" -Schink'sChick
"Diana Jane. Diana after DH's mom who passed away from breast cancer in 2001. Jane is after Janie who was a great friend to Diana. She and Diana went through breast cancer treatments together and she has really been there for DH and BIL since losing their mom. I never got to meet Diana but I know that she and Janie were a lot alike and meeting Janie makes me almost feel (in a really weird way) like I've met Diana too."-jedrumwright
"Family is INCREDIBLY important to me. My Old Nana and Baba (great-grandparents) passed away when I was young... My husband is not as close with his family, but he is all about his ancestry and background. Our name choices were based on our Great-Grandparents names. My Old Nana and Baba's names were Marion and Gordon. His Great-Grandparents were named Charles and Theresa, so our name choices (since BEFORE we even got engaged) were: Boy - Charles Gordon Girl - Marion Theresa We thought it was a great way to honor our loved ones and our family histories." -ChristyPooP
"I've always had a girl name I loved since I was around 9 or 10 years old. Sometime a few years ago I just fell in love with the boy name Evan and thought it went well with my favorite girl name too. It took a few years to get pregnant and we were told by doctors that our only other chance was probably going to be through IVF. Then, as we were going through additional tests for IVF, we found out we were pregnant. Once I became pregnant we started seriously talking names and I looked up the meaning of Evan and found it to mean God is gracious/good. Dh and I immediately fell even more in love with this name than before as we felt God had been very good to us to bless us with this baby we had prayed for so long for.
James was my grandfather's name and is Dh's father's name. DH is extremely close with his dad. Since Evan and James are such short names, I have definitely thought about changing James to Jameson. I think it would still be in honor of my grandfather and Dh's dad, just a variation of their name. We're still not 100 percent yet as to whether we're going with James or Jameson." -SmilingMrsF
"Briony is a British name (I'm English). It is also a botanical name from the turn of the century, it just never took off like Lily or Violet. I also love that it's a literature name thanks to Atonement. Ann is my mother's middle name. " -KJKNAJ
"Benjamin Graham.... There's no special meaning to it, really. We arrived at Benjamin while out for a walk with the dogs way back in March. My favorite boy's name, William, was out because it's my FILs name. So we were tossing ideas around and I said "What about Benjamin?" and DH paused and started saying "Benjamin. Ben. Benjamin Lastname." which meant he liked it cause it wasn't an outright veto.However, we did due diligence and went thru baby name books and each compiled a list of names. We then combined that, then separately ranked the names on the list in order of preference. We both picked "Benjamin" as our #1 choice.
Graham was similar but we actually had it picked out before officially deciding on the first name. I saw the name in a book and mentioned it to DH, who said he liked it but not as a first name (I do). So we decided that it would be the middle name." -curlydoglover
"Emeline Arley is our daughters name. Since DS's name is super Irish, Landon Patrick, we decided that we wanted a German name this around since DH spent a good part of his life in Germany growing up because his dad was stationed there. So, we went through lists and lists of girl German names. It came down to Emeline or Lorelei for the first name. We decided against Lorelei when MIL remembered that in German mythology Lorelei was a Siren on the Rhine River that lured sailors to their deaths on the "rocks of Lorelei." So we both liked Emeline and firmly decided on that! Arley is a name that DH has loved since we were looking at names for DS. I agreed to it as the middle name for this reason and also because it means the same as my grandmothers name on my moms side that I never met, but my birthday is the exact day she passed except 5 years later." -luckystarz
"Molly Anne. Molly because we like it (and it was the only name we could agree on) and Anne after Anne of Green Gables." -So Long Astoria
"DS will be named Kiernan John (or Jonathan) Rhys. My two girls have two middle names, one of which is Irish/Gaelic. I'm a bit of a mutt, my mother's family is Irish and my father's family is German and English (dad's mom is from Brighton, England).
So, Kiernan is Irish/Gaelic and I just love it (mean is Son of a Lord). It's not even in the top 1000 names and I didn't want him to have something too common. Johnathan or John, I haven't quite decided yet, for all the men in my family. They are all John's: my father, both grandfathers, and both great-grandfathers. Rhys I adore and it was in the running as a first name for awile" -eaburger09
"Benjamin Scott is the name for this little one.
DS #1 is Parker James. James comes from my cousin Jim who was murdered in Miami a month before Parker was born. Jim and I were really close and it only made sense to honor him. It meant the world to my Aunt and it makes me smile knowing that Parker will always have a piece of Jim with him.When we found out we were having another boy, names were hard. DH was stuck on Benjamin and I wasnt. He wouldnt even consider another name. I told him that if we went with Benjamin I got to pick his middle name and he said that was fine. I chose DH's name of Scott. I think middle names are a chance to honor people you love the most. DH wasnt crazy about it at first but loves it now. My two favorite guys will have names of my two other favorite guys." -JenRob
"Benjamin was the name we just agreed on. DH shot down almost everything I suggested, so when I threw that out there and he said "I like it!" That was it. His middle name is going to be Paul, and that is my Dad's name." -melissa4252008
"Robert David- Robert is DH's dad's and his grandpa's brother (who died in High School from a football injury)'s name. So that is a fairly important name for us. David is DH's grandpa's and my brother's and DH's childhood hero who passed away's name. DH's grandpa is super important to us, so it just makes sense to use it" -harshbarger2010
"Ava Ruth Marie- Ava is a name we both like and agreed on. Ruth was my grandmother's name who I was very close to growing up. She passed away in 2007. Marie is MIL's middle name. DH wanted to have his side of the family included in LO's name so they wouldn't feel left out" -mrslucid
"We decided on the name Talan Aaron, because I just liked the way "Talan" sounded and I told my SO that the baby's name would be nature related like his (which is Forrest), however, we would spell it with an "a" rather than an "o" not to be confused too much with a claw. I chose the middle name "Aaron" because I have always had the utmost respect for my dad, and that's his name. Talan's last name is a very unique nature-related name also, so it just all kind of works for us! " -deziyou
"DH is Steven Timothy __ Jr. When we found out LO is a boy, I was all for carrying on the tradition, since I love the name Steven and it has significant meaning in my family as well. When I told this to DH, he immediate said "NO WAY". He isn't such a huge fan of being a Jr, apparently! So we decided to keep the middle name in tact, but to look for a different first name. We decided on James after my grandfather. He is thrilled :] ." -AmberLoryn2629
"On my birthday in Nov it will be the 13th year of my mothers passing. She was a Dec baby, and we wanted to do something to honor her. We wanted to use her name Sue Carol somehow. So my H came up with a variation that uses the middle names of my mom, me, and his mom. Put together, Carolyn Sue was created." -zeadfly
"DH and I kept a running list of names we liked after finding out that we were pregnant. We're team green, so we needed two lists. Around month 4, we went through the list and each person was allowed to kick names off the list for any reason. We narrowed each list down to about 6 or 7.
We waited another month or so before doing anything else.
When the time came, I wrote each list on a piece of paper for DH and one for me. Separately, we circled our 3 favorites off each list. For the boys, the only one we had in common was Wyatt, so if we have a boy, Wyatt it is. :) Paul for the middle name was also easy, as that is DH's middle name.
Unforunately (or fortunately), we picked all 3 of the same girl names. So, over the course of the next few weeks, we talked about which of those three were our most/least favorites and why. DH actually surprised me. Of the three names (Hannah, Charlotte, Honor), I thought Charlotte would be his favorite and Honor his least favorite. But I was wrong. He actually liked Honor more than Charlotte. Because of the popularity of Hannah and Charlotte, we decided to go with Honor. It took a lot longer for us to pick a middle name for Honor. We really liked Honor Faith but thought it sounded too goody-goody. We eventually settled on Honor Elizabeth, if we have a girl." -chornback79
"Our baby boy will be named Regan John. I always knew I wanted to name one of our children after my Grandmother since she was very special to me. Since this is our second boy, and likely our last child, we chose her maiden name "Regan" for his first name since Geneveive clearly wouldn't work. lol. The middle name of John is a common name in both mine and H's families. It is H's middle name as well as my Grandfathers first name and we both have uncles named John. I wanted to choose a middle name that would make it easier to find a nickname. I figured there is a chance he may not like his name and it doesn't have a nickname so he can also be called RJ." -LIBride6-16-07
"Rocco's name honors someone special from both James and Toni's family. Rocco was James' great uncle. He was a special man in the family. He was kind-hearted and funny. He never had children of his own so James wanted to name Rocco after him to let the family name live on. Philip was Toni's grandfather. He was an amazing man and a great patriarch of the family. He was also kind-hearted and funny, and it was never a dull moment when he was around! A year after he passed away, on March 31, 2010, Toni found out she was pregnant. She had this feeling the entire time it was a boy and it would be just like her grandfather, so she KNEW that she had to have Philip in her sons name. Both men were WWII vets, which makes James (the history buff) love the people even more! Because both men were strong, loving, and funny, James and Toni just know their little boy will share these great men's characteristics as well. Their lives and stories will live on forever through little Rocco Philip." -bubbles231211
"His first name is an 8th generation family name. Since he would have that first name, we wanted him to have the same initials of his great-grandfather that passed away when I was 17 weeks pregnant. His name will be Walter Luke. We will call him Luke." -4-8-06
"Our son will be named Erik Franklin. Erik has ties to both of our families: My father's name is Rik and I have a brother, Derrik. DH also had an Uncle Erich. Franklin is DH's middle name." -Cheshire187
"Because I have this nagging bad luck feeling about sharing her name before she's born, I will tell the story but not the name.
Her first name is a variant on my great-grandmother's name. My great-grandmother died when I was 21. She was kind of crazy, and a little off, but she was a wonderful nurturing woman who raised 3 children and always really cared about everyone. Since Jewish tradition is to name after dead relatives, it just made sense to use her name (and she is the only great grandparent that I have who doesn't have someone named after them, and all my grandparents are still alive).
Her middle name is after DH's grandmother - who had a very dated and not baby-appropriate name. We took the first part of the name and started searching for names that would start the same. We couldn't find any, but there were other words - one of which was a fruit. I wanted to name her the fruit, but DH thought that was silly, so we ended up shortening it to just the first part...this will make more sense when I announce the name, I promise." -GreenPapa