Tad and I have been talking a lot about baby name ideas lately. It’s been slightly difficult to find baby names that meet all of the criteria we are looking for.
Of course, we want a name that we both like (this is harder to find than you would think!).
We want a name that is unique and not super-common.
And, most importantly, we want to give our baby a name that is rich in meaning.
How did you choose your baby’s (or babies’) name(s)?
Meaning was very important for us… also I didnt want anything that was terribly hard to spell for the child…
With Taite I wanted him to have a name that Caleb could say… and at age 2 Caleb wasnt talking well… but he COULD SAY TAITE 🙂
With this baby name same thing goes… I want my boys to be able to say it hehe… and meaning is very important.
Basically, Andrew Christian was the only name that we both liked, and liked the meaning of. (You should hear some of the names Jed picked out!!) And calling him Drew makes it a little different. I had a girl name all picked out when we found out he was a boy. For some reason girl names are easier to pick (for me anyway)!
I wanted something unique, but not weird, and also no weird spellings. Just makes it terrible for your child when they are in school, I think. Meaning wasn’t as important for me, but I didn’t want the name to have some really strange meaning either 🙂 It was really hard for us to find names!
I actually think I always liked the name Andrea, a name that a few hispanic celebrities have. LOL…٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ I looked in baby name books too. Libraries have a bunch of those. Keep in mind the abbreviations too. For example I liked the name Bryan, but our last name is Main…so that would be BM…so we chose Kevin for our son. Actually his abbreviation now is KLM (a European airline)
Hi! I came over from Drea’s blog. I know the excitement of picking names. My little girl is just 11 months old and is called Nanma.
Nanma means goodness. (a reminder of God’s goodness in our lives)
We wanted a name that had a meaning that was special to us at that time, 2 syllabled, easy to pronounce and Indian (we’re Indians)
Some of the other names we liked were Dia = Lamp (So let your light shine…) Asha = hope and Daya = mercy.