Im 30 weeks pregnant and my partner and i can't agree on a name..? What to do??

Question

I know i still have a couple of months to decide but we have honestly gone through every name you could possibly think of for a girl. I really like a couple of names but there is no way he will agree to them...What do i do??

Thankyou to everyone who has responded, it has helped already..

Thanks x

Answer 1

I am sure that if you wait until your beautiful new daughter is born and you are looking down at her precious little face and realise what a gift you have been given, that a name will come to you both and you will realise how unimportant it is who chooses the name but that you have been blessed far beyond you could ever imagine. Her name will be perfect, just for her.

Answer 2

If you truly want to work with your guy on picking out a name then there a few ways to do it. Go buy or print off the internet a couple of baby name books. You get one color highlighter, pink, he gets another, yellow. Each of you go thru it separately and highlight all the names you like, put F for first, M for Middle if you want to be specific. You can use a reg. pen to make star ratings on the side to show whether it's a one star or a five star. When you agree, the pink/yellow mix will highlight the name orange. I've had friends who didn't name the baby until they were required to fill out the birth certificate paperwork to leave the hospital. Since the baby is called baby ___(last name of mom). So stop stressing. It will come together, there are thousands upon thousands of names out there, especially when you start internet searching.

By the way, my partner had no choice and he was happy. I picked the first name, he got to choose between two middle names that I was torn on. He told me I was picking a weird name, and I said good. It didn't take him long to adjust to the name, and he was so thankful that he didn't have the responsibility for naming.

Answer 3

I know what you mean! But with us, there's a brother and sister also trying to chose a name for the baby. I dreamed I had a baby girl named Iris even before I found out i was pregnant and so I've been thinking about my little girl as small Iris from the beginning. It was fair that i asked the father an opinion and just to involve the kids with the new baby, asked them their opinion...we haven't agreed to any name yet but I feel heartbroken when trying to imagine my baby with other name other than Iris. it doesn't seem like her anymore...I am 26 weeks preg and of course there's still a lot of time but I do want to name my unborn child and it's being hard, too!

Answer 4

My parents were exactly the same when it came to choosing my name! In the end they had decided on 1 name each and then they asked the doctor who delivered me what he thought! lol I thought that was a great way to decide, by the way the doc went with my mum for the first name. The only other idea i can give you would be to just tell him if can deliver the child then he gets to name it! or the name in a hat thing. Good luck to you and a BIG congrats

Answer 5

Both of you make up a list of your own of the names you both like. Then sit down and compare them and perhaps there will be names you can both agree on. Another way is for each of you to choose a name, one for the 1st name and the other as the middle name. Good luck!

Answer 6

My son's dad and I couldn't agree on names until almost a week after he was born! He turned down around 30 of my suggestions, putting each one down. He suggested names like Ajax, Achilles, Leonidas ... every Greek war hero/god name short of Hercules. UGH. No, we're not Greek.

How we did it was we fought bitterly, until I kicked the nurses out of the hospital room to yell at him that the baby's last name was his, he was getting his way on only one middle name (I wanted two), that middle name was his choice AND I didn't like it,****it I wanted to actually at least LIKE my son's first name.

Not the most mature way of settling things.

Ideally, a couple agrees without problem. But I think that's rather rare.

Try suggesting those names you think he'd never agree to. He might surprise you.

Try each of you writing a list of ten names you like. See if there are any matches.

Try writing a list of ten names you each would find acceptable. Allow the other to cross out half. Put the remaining into a hat, and choose one.

"You name this one, I name the next one."

Hope one of those helps!

Answer 7

What names does he like? You could make up your child's name with attributes in mind you might want to encourage--i.e., Melody as you hope she has the gift of music
Joy as you know she will spread sunshine in your hearts
or name her after a flower*, or the month she's born in, or something significant about how you two met... Let there be understanding and signficance as this will build your child's self esteem and world consciousness.
I knew a lady who enjoyed hiking in the Sierras and named her daughter after a beautiful and rare flower called Trillium. Today, children can have unique names pretty easily without being teased. Keep that in mind, though, so you don't choose something that would be embarrasing like Mayor Pegg who named his daughter Ima had no brains.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Let one of you choose the first name and the other choose the middle name. if you cant decide who flip a coin and call heads or tails on who gets to pick what name. that way you each give her a name you like.

Answer 10

You could pick out the first name and let him choose the middle name or vice versa. or tell him to write down all the names he likes and you do the sameand then compare papers and if any match that will be her name.