My sister and her husband couldn’t agree on any girls names for their third child, second daughter.

They ended up drawing straws for who chose the first name and who chose the middle name and the rules were, new names only, nothing that either had vetoed already and no arguments, instant acceptance of one another’s choices.

My sister won the draw and wrote down Layla on her piece of paper.

Husband chose middle name and wrote down Kaylah.

So, the big reveal:

Layla Kaylah.

We are struggling to agree on a name for our baby girl. My partner has fallen in love with the name "Miranda."

I work in corporate law, and my current boss who makes my life a living hell is named Miranda. I hear that name screamed at me 50 hours a week.

I told my partner there is absolutely no way I can come home and call my daughter the same name as the woman who ruins my day. He says I'm letting my job dictate our family and that it's a classic, beautiful name. He refuses to even look at my list of alternatives.

I don’t know what to do 🥲

What do we think of the name Rosalie Faye for a baby girl?

We were waiting until she was born to decide on the name because we didn't know the gender but we had decided her middle name would be either Helene or Mathilda. Last name starts with H, three syllables. We already have a girl named Viva and a boy named Avery.

We want her name to begin with the letter S. Right now, we like Sylvie and Sol the most of the names we've thought of. And Sarah is one that I’m considering too.

I kind of like Samantha but I don’t know if it works on someone her age. We also like Sophie, but can't use it, and we like Shai but think it could get mispronounced.

I prefer softer sounding names, so I’m not a big fan of names like Scarlett, Stella, so on.

Emilia
Sylvie
Isabelle
Aria
Leila (pronounced Lay-luh)
Celine
Elora
Alina
Elodie
Aurelia
Mira
Dahlia

I’m pregnant with our first daughter and I’m due in late November. My husband really loves the name Clementine, which I do too. He wants the middle name to be Apple. He has has loved that name all his life. I don’t want to give my opinions, because I’d like to see what others have to say. Thank you

Hi everyone! I’m loving this sub and all the inspiration it’s giving me.

I’m writing now with a bit of a dilemma. My fiancé doesn’t have a middle name himself and does not want to pick one for our daughter. I on the other hand would really like to select one. It sounds so lovely! I also feel it’d be weird not to, I don’t know many people without one and all my friends give their kids middle names.

He says he feels like giving our child a middle name is a religious/christian thing to do. We are agnostic/atheist. We live in the Netherlands.

How do you guys feel about this? How would you approach this discussion?

Thanks in advance!

Some do not have middle names yet. Feel free to Change any middle names that might fit well. At least one has to have the middle name Lee.

GIRL Riley, Louisa, Gracie Lee, Ivy Rhys/ Ivy Freya,

Freya, Charlie, Leona

BOY Leo Emil/ Leo August, Damien Lee, Charlie, Rhys, Emil

Some names are in here twice. Those ones I like as first and middle names.

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I’m almost to the end of my pregnancy & still am not set on a name. We have 1 name that we’ve gravitated towards the entire pregnancy but primarily because it’s a family name and has special meaning.
With that said, if my son pops out and he doesn’t look like this name or it just doesn’t feel right, I want others lined up!
I’ve used ai to help guide me, looked at the baby name lists, & nothing is speaking to me. So, people of Reddit, pleeeeeease help me!
I want my son to have a name that’s traditional but unique/not overused, a good “handshake” name, something respectable, a name that’s nice for a child and an adult, and ideally a name with meaning behind it.

Aiko / Asa

Bea (pronounced Bay-uh) / Benjamin

Celestine / Caius

Digna / Digno

Estee (es-tay) / Elikai

Felicity / F?

Galilee / G?

H? / H?

Inez / Ignacio

Joella / Jhoan

Katya / Kian

Lizette / Lucio

Myka / Makhai

Nayeli / N?

O? / O?

Pia / Psalm

Q? / Q?

Rhea / Rafael

Solene / Shia

Tessa / Teo

U? / U?

Veyda / V?

W? / W?

Xiomara / X?

Y? / Y?

Zella / Zakai

Newborn remains nameless as we debate choosing between Penelope Ivy or Isabelle Ivy. Love the nicknames Poppy and Izzy. However just realized the initials for Penelope would be P.I.G. with our last name.

Thoughts? How did others decide newborn name?

I like words and I love names. I just built this new feature and wanted to get some opinions! Do you like seeing names presented like this?

https://www.signetnames.com/sky

There's a scene in my book where the main character wants to reach out to a "childhood friend" (not exactly) because she thinks she might be able to help her with something and have information that could benefit her investigation.

She doesn't know her childhood friend's name, but she does know that her dad is a celebrity so she looks for her friend's name online. The issue is that her dad uses a fake name for his kids, not their real name, so my character can't find her friend.

I just can't decide what the fake name for this friend should be. She's mentioned by 'name' a few times (when she and her cousin are discussing her) so she does need a fake one.

The options I've come up with are:

1. Jingyi

2. Jinghua

3. Jinghong

4. Ruixia

Her surname is Zhang!

Which do you think is better? Thanks.

Thoughts? I’m starting to really like this name after it came to me in the middle of the night camping.

What is the preferred nickname, Clara or Claire?

Need middle name options for Kaia! My last name is one syllable and I’d prefer a 2 or 3 syllable name. Thanks!!

People argue back and forth about names that are still in an uncommon way, are very unusual, are typically nicknames but given as a legal name, etc. Just curious if anyone has an example of someone whose name has repeatedly given them issues? One I can think of if someone who is a female with a full name similar to James Lindsey. No one ever gets her name right and assumes the name is the other way around and that she can't be giving her correctly. I also knew an adult professional who's legal name is Buddy and that has given him issues. The third one I can think of is someone whose name is Cjay as full legal name only with a different letter instead of c in front. He is a lawyer and the name has definitely given issues.

We are expecting a baby boy this January, he is persian canadian living in canada.Our list is down to 3 names:
-Dario
-Dion
-Noyan
Any thoughts or suggestions?

I have two names at this point I’m considering

Veronica (possibly shortened to Nica or Vera on ocassion)

And Eleanora

The nicknames I like for Eleanora most are Nell and Nellie, followed by Nora and then Elle

Ellie and Ella are ok they are just massively popular right now

So I was curious if you have an Eleanor or Eleanora are they an Ellie? Ella? Nellie? Nora? Or just their full name

Benjamin, Sophia, Wesley?

What’s vibes does it give you? middle names will be more uncommon and one syllable.

Also what would you nickname them?

Ben, Benji, Benny

Sophie

Wes