It’s so hard to chose a good name...

It is hard, I had names I liked but Arabellas father didn't and then we worried about naming her before we saw her because I wanted the name to match the face (so to speak) Arabella only has one middle name and because I have a long last name I thought that was best. But it is personal preference.

LOL Kelly I have already named my next 3kids too whetther they suit it or not!

Best of luck choosing a name Sarah.

My perference was to have pacific island name in the name either 1st or middle didnt bother me, to have a family name again first or middle and for my son to have his fathers first name as a middle name. Also like unique names too, Mercedes was going to be Autumn but didnt suit it so her dad named her Mercedes and it matched perfectly!  Alize was going to be Alize girl or boy and Lesieli was named after paternal nana who passed away in 1988. Lesieli was 1st born grandchild so it was an honour to name her after her Nana.

Oh for the middle names we're just going to name them after their grandparents.
1st daughter after DHs Mum, 2nd daughter after my Mum.
Same for sons , but grandfathers names.

It's how all my siblings got their first names and it's saves the hassle of finding 2 names for each baby

Great idea on the middle names too. My daughter is best friends with twins in her class since they were 5 so now 12 and each girl was named after each granparent. Eileen and Lorraine (altho Lorraine gets called Lulu) they are proud of their names as they are after gparents so have never had a worry with their names either. Actually in Lesieli's class there are all different names and Eileen and Lulu are probably the only european ones.

Irish names are very popular in NZ there are lots of Kieran's and Siobhan's.

We've already chosen our childrens names for a girl it with be Catherine Sheryl - after Queen Catherine and my late mum Sheryl.

Boy will be James or Jamie as that is the one name DF and I can agree on. I want Henry or Fergus as a middle name.

We like traditional English names.

What would you call a boy Kelly(caitlynsmygirl)

Kels wrote: Pronounce Lesi is in lassie the dog and eli as in alley. Ver easy once people get their tongues around it. Go the Irish names!!!

ohhhh, thats beautiful, Ive been sitting here saying it to myself cos i've always wondered how to pronounce it

fleury -If im allowed to offer my opinion (and i will anyway ) I think James Henry sounds nice

sarahbetha wrote: How many middle names is too many?

My poor girls scored big in the middle name stakes, they are going to curse me when they get older and have to fil in offical forms etc. Their names ended up so long coz I wanted to include a Maori name as Willie is Maori and he picked the Maori names for them.

They are Maya Grace Te Irirangi Marama Davis, Sienna Marie Anahera Jayde Davis and Mercedes Kailah Waimarie Faith Davis.

We have a couple of ideas for baby but haven't really discussed it in much depth yet.

Maya wrote: sarahbetha wrote: How many middle names is too many? They are Maya Grace Te Irirangi Marama Davis, Sienna Marie Anahera Jayde Davis and Mercedes Kailah Waimarie Faith Davis.

oooohhh yeah Emma...the girls are gonna hate you ! (just kidding)

Working in a place around babies i can very safely say i have seen more than enough Ava's, Ella's Isabellas and gabriellas to last a lifetime in the last year, lots of Jacks and Jamies and daniels for boys.

It really depends on what you want to choose, Do you want it to be different (to lower the chances of there being 3 other kids in the class named the same) how different do you want it. like Out-there different or just nicely different or can't-ever-spell/say-it-right different.

Things to think about are whether its just a fad or name of the moment, whether you see them suiting it right through all age groups, whether it can be shortened to something - which some like and others don't cos they want their child called by their actual name (that was us), whether it can be turned into a horrible knickname, whtether the initials spell something undesirable, or if initials spell something that again can be turned into a horrible nickname, And also think about future kids, cos if you use kinda out-there name for the first, you can't really just have a Jane or bob for the second now can you.

lol

In saying that, while paris never gets her name said wrong, we often get people mistaking ayja's name for ayia if they don't see the j properly and think it's an i so she gets called something that sounds like "eye-ar" nearly everytime at the doctors, we also get a-jar. We also get people spelling it wrong on things, alot of people still get the y and j mixed up, or we get it spelt like Asia cos it kinda sounds the same.
I feel like saying "no - look at it!!!! you pronounce it Ay-Ja - sounds like you're saying age-ah.

Yep it's hard to choose a name, funnily enough we were set on Leo for a boys name if Ayja had been a boy, but when it came to pregnancy #3, Sage was just right, would have either been Sage (boy) or Saige (girl).

You'll find something, sometimes you just think you have one but it niggles at you and you know it's just not right, then choose something completely different instead - you'll know when you've found the right one, it just feels right.