When we were thinking of names - and I know this is going to sound silly hehe...But...

For boys - We wanted a name that didnt sound 'mean'...  You always tend to get an idea of what a person is like based on their name (at least I do and I find most do! - maybe this is because of people we knew with that name throughout our lives?)...So when we thought of a boys name, we tried to picture him - if the name sounded 'mean' (hehe) we didnt like it!   and...

For girls - We wanted a name that didnt sound....erm...'slutty'  hehe...  (I told you this was going to sound silly !) - I always get an idea of what a girl is like by her name and if her name made her sound 'bit*&y' or 'slutty' we didnt like it!

For both boys and girls, we wanted proper 'nice' sounding names - A name that would make you think 'oh what a proper little boy/girl' type of name if that makes sense! hehe

When I was thinking of names for my baby, they had to pass a couple tests,
1: The stripper test... does it sound like the name of a pole dancer? If it does, it's out (Lily barely passed, according to her father)
2: The banker test... can you imagin someone in a powerful position with that name? That's why I gave Lily the strong middle name Addison, just so she has a choice when she is older. Some names just command more respect than others.
3: The nick name test... if you hate the name Vikki for instance, don't name your daughter Victoria, or you'll be fighting her entire childhood correcting people.

Peace

With our first child we just wanted a name that sounded good with my partner’s last name, after many arguments about choosing our daughters name; I pretty much had enough and told him that I really don’t care what we name her.

In the end he chose Crystal Lee (Lee is my mothers middle name).

That was the last time he had any input in naming our children.

Kurt Jason was named after Kurt Cobain as I was totally in love with Nirvana at the time (still am) and Jason is his god-fathers name.

Our third son I named Trae Bailey, Trae was a name that I had loved since I first seen the movie Boyz in the Hood and Bailey I chose as I just really like how it sounds when you say his whole name.

Phoenix Rose…..I was 5 months pregnant with our bubs at the time and one day out of the blue the name just came to me if that makes any sense.

With our 5th bubs I searched long and hard for a name that would define my idea of perfection which I found (well in my opinion it is perfect) and that was Ethan Cace (pronounced kay-see).

With our last baby I wanted a name that was different, yet beautiful and I think I managed to achieve that when I named our precious daughter Kayten Sydney.

my sons name is Craig which we picked coz no1 we knew had it and we wanted sumthin different and his middle name William is his dads middle name coz if it was a gurl she would of had my middle name. but 1st names really jus sumthin different that u dont know any 1 by.

luv hailie

We had always wanted the name Nathan for a boy, it being quite a rare name in the UK at the time.  I got pregnant after we had emigrated, we had a boy, called him Nathan (Naith or Nate for short) and found it to be a quite popular name here. 

Our daughters name was quite different, we puzzled over names all through the pregnancy.  If she had been a boy, that was quite easy, she would have been Jayston.  However, out popped a little girl and suddenly Jaylene (Jay for short) sounded just right.  Don't know where that name came from but it fitted her to a tee.  Have never met anybody else with her name although I have been asked by other new mums if I would mind if they  used that name too.

It was important to me that both our children have names that could be shortened as mine can't and growing up I longed for a pet name/nickname.

William is a handed down family name... My father begged me not to call our son William as there were way to many bills in out family, my sister included..

Her name is Billie-odelle. 

Our son was easy, named after his great grandfather Francis and Luke skywalker... :)

We are still trying to agree on names for our baby but we still have plenty of time as she is not due until 2007.

One bone of contention between us is that in my husbands family the name Thomas has been used a lot (it is my father in law's name, my husband's middle name and the middle name of his nephew).

Andrew is keen to follow on with this and have Thomas as a middle name if we have a boy.  However, I'm not keen (believe it or not I had a hamster named Thomasina and it's put me off the name for our baby) and would like to take a middle name from my side of the family instead, with Brian or Joseph as a middle name.

For girls I like the more unusual names and Andrew is more traditional.  I suggested Sabra, Isola, Claudia and Romilly and all of them have been turned down flat.  We might finally have agreed on Elisabeth as the perfect name now because although it is traditional it can be shortened or changed to so many different pet names, anything from Ella and Libby to Lilith and Leisl, so it satisfies us both.

When I was pregnant with our first daughter about when I was about six months pregnant our stereo would only play one song. It is from a band called Butt hole Surfer......( I know  )but the main chorus was nuh nuh nuh Kristina and it played for months so we decided if it was a girl we would name her Kristejna (that is the original spelling of Kristina). Plus I have an odd name and know how nuch touble you have growing up with one so we wanted tradional names but ones that were a little different. So our second daughter was named Adriana (Adi for short).

My husband and i also argued through the pregnancy over names the only thing we could agree on wasif it was a boy its middle name would be the same as his Anthony and that we wannted something different that couldnt be twisted some horrible way so my child would be teased and i t had to have a nice meaning not like caleb which i was alway brout up to believe meant dog or mark that meant trouble maker or alway getting into trouble.

Neway he want names like axle or raine for a boy I thought axle made hime sound like a grease monkey and raine a drip. And for a girl he wanted cindel and he couldnt think of a middle name and i wanted SKYLAR ROSE needless to say we had a girl and after seeing all the pain i went through giving birth to her hubby agreed i could name her as i saw fit after all.

and do u know what she lived up to her name she flew out head shoulders and half the after birth in one contraction she even hit the end of the bed before the nusres could catch lol I glad the bed was there!!!

We argued the whole pregnancy over what name to chose, but after Stephen seen all the hard work that went into the birth, he gave in!!lol

When choosing my daughter's first and second name, I pretty much held the reigns.

We agreed that our daughter should have her father's last name as a symbol of respect and commitment since me and my boyfriend aren't married yet.

Her first name we both had to agree upon and we decided upon Summer as we both liked it (thanks to the OC). It's not an overly common or rare name.

Her second name was entirely my choice since she has her father's surname. I'm Chinese born in Australia and wanted to choose a Chinese name for her even though I don't actually speak the language. I consulted a few relatives that did know a thing or two about the language but in the end did my own research. I ended up with Mei Xia (pronounced may sia) then played with the spelling to make it Meisha. Mei means beautiful (a common Chinese name) and Xia means glow of the sunrise/sunset. I believe her second name is definitely unique yet easy enough to pronounce.

My choice to give my daughter a Chinese middle name was partly to do with tradition since I have an anglosaxonised Chinese middle name and partly because she is the first of her generation on my side of the family and I wanted to honor my heritage by exercising my rights to create the first name (Mei for girls) which will be used for all the girls of Summer's generation that will surely follow.

If you are interested in how the Chinese name their children, you can send me a private message.

Hi,

My daughter's named after her great grandmother and grandma on her fathers side,

my son is named after his father /, my husband.

If I am lucky enough to fall pregnant again, this time I am just choosing names I like,

no meaning behind it.

I am a video game junky and first heard the name raya from a video game a long time ago and when I found out that I was having a baby I was watching some cheesy sci-fi movie with my husband and one of the characters in the movie was named raya. When I heard the name I said to my husband that if we have a girl we are naming her raya and that was that. Now it was alot harder trying to pick a name for a boy. I really liked seven and salem. But we had our girl. But I was just talking about names the other day and if we have another little I want to name her willow. I just thought it sounded so cute and elfie..

And like allyp said too i also couldnt find a meaning for raya anywhere online.

My sons first and second name is Christian Digger My husband wanted Digger for his name but I had to put my foot down on that.I wanted either Soul ( a Danish name) or Christian. We could not come to an agrement though. So I dicided to comprimise( and Digger was starting to grow on me). So I waited until my hubby was holding our baby and said so how about Christian Digger ,my answer was OK.I didn't think Soul Digger would be to good.