Naming a future kid you haven’t laid eyes on yet has to be one of the hardest things in life. I mean, choose wrong and your child could be ridiculed for all of it’s school years and beyond (some nicknames stick fast!)
Last night Hubs and I were discussing baby girl names.
Me: How about Hope?
He gets online and googles some baby name sites…
Him: How about Beatrix?
Me: as in Potter?
Him: well, it might be from Harry Potter but it was just a small part.
Me: Um, no. It’s Beatrix Potter the author of the bunny rabbit stories.
Him: Ahhh right. Well, how about Belinda?
Me: You’re fired.
Interesting fact: Beatrix Potters actual first name was Helen (according to Wikipedia anyway) and Helen isn’t an option either thank you very much. (I’m sure most people named Helen, Beatrix or Belinda are very lovely people…don’t freak out cause I don’t like your name for my kid mkay?)
And it’s been pointed out to me that Beatrix is pretty cute (and I agree) however it has HUGE potential to morph into TRIXIE.
Not. Going. To. Happen.
We struggled naming our 2 girls. I loved the name Lexie for our youngest but all my husband kept hearing in his head was Sexy Lexie. So yeah, we went with Emily. Now our son (due in Sept.) needs a name and picking one just might lead to our divorce, we can NOT agree!
I like the name Emily, I tend to lean towards classic names
Best of luck in naming your son!
I remember how we thought long and hard about Josh’s name. I think it was a good choice in retrospect, although throughout school it seemed he was always in a class with some other kid named Josh. I sort of wish we had the tradition of “use names.” You give a kid a name as a child, and then when he or she reaches a certain age they get to decide what their adult name will be.
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I wonder what percentage of people would change their names if we used such a system??
I love Beatrix Potter, but I would NOT name my daughter Beatrix. I still love Hope. Good luck on choosing a name. We had the hardest time naming #3. 1 and 2 was easy for us
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thanks Paula, I imagine each child gets harder and harder to name!
Ummmm … yeah. Beatrix would be on the NO list for me. Then again, I considered the name Cinnamon once for my eldest, until my father-in-law asked me if I thought she’d grow up to be a stripper.
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Cinnamon? You aren’t serious?!?! Of course you’re not…what was I thinking
Man… I thought our little man would never have a name. We argued about it for months. IT is very hard, a name is with you forever.
I know…FOREVER! It amazes me there aren’t more Joes and Janes out there
LOL, funny convo! We actually agreed right away on what to name Taylor, it just so happens she is named after several of our friends, but not ‘actually’ we just let all of them think thats why we named her that LOL
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that’s funny about your friends…Taylor is a strong sounding name..a good name
While I think Beatrix is a perfectly fine name for some, I can totally understand the concern over it turning into Trixie.
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are there any doctors, lawyers or professors named Trixie? I doubt there’s many. It’s so odd how we put these stereotypes on names isn’t it?
my favorite dog’s name was Trixie.
But, you know, she was a dog.
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Haha…Trixie is a perfect name for a dog. Wasn’t there a Trixie in Lady and the Tramp?
lol! I think so.
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We struggled with boys names. Girls name came easily for me. I love the name hope and beatrix is cute as well.
no matter the gender, it’s all tough for me
Oh man, I remember those days. We decided pretty quickly, and I think we already have future babies name picked out! I just hope we agree on it and it ‘works’!
Future babies? Pffft, over achiever :p HAHA!!
Beatrix is kinda cute, I’m a bit bias though, my Mom’s name is Beatrice, her nickname was beet, lol! I always loved the name Grace but my hubby didn’t, I do have a niece named Gracelynn, I thought that was pretty.
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Beet! How cute
I like the name Grace too…very serene. One could only hope the child was relaxed and easy going!
But I think Bea is a really really cute nickname. Or, there’s Good King Wenceslaus, as already discussed.
cute on the beginning and sassy on the end…just asking for trouble! Little H wants to name it Dora for a girl and Boots the Monkey for a boy. No Joke.
I can’t remember that name of the site, but when I was looking for a name for my daughter, I consulted a site where people rated how pleased they were with their name & whether they would change it if they could.
I thought it was pretty cool.
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That is hilarious, because I was strongly leaning to name my daughter Beatrix. While I was pregnant, I read a book about her. Annnnd then someone said Trixie.
Good luck, I had narrowed it down to 60 names when I went to the hospital.
I think I still have my list somewhere, I’d be happy to overwhelm, er, help you.
Good luck!
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My ex and I once considered a name for our first son that would’ve given him the initials BLT. Took us all of five seconds to decide that that would not work. My father’s youngest sister was named Ruth Ellen, but came very close to being named Ruth Ann. Fortunately, my grandparents came to the same conclusion my ex and I did about initials: it wouldn’t do for Ruth to go through life with the initials RAT. So, yeah, initials can be just as important as the names themselves.
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I hear you, it took me 9 months to decide LOL
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Baby naming is quite difficult. We wanted all of our names to have a “y” in them so that made it even more difficult. But it all turned out okay after stressing for 9+ months
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A site with a feature such as Robin mentions above is http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com. For each name there is a “Considering this name?” tab with survey results from people who have that name.
I agree, it’s a tough decision! I think it’s why God gave us 9 months to figure it out…but even then I wasn’t sure of our kids names until I actually saw them in my arms and could “place” them with their new name! LOL