Baby Boy Names
When my husband and I found out we were having our first baby, we were ecstatic. We knew we wanted to find out the gender of the baby. We figured knowing the gender of the baby would help us in planning. We also felt that choosing the name early on in the pregnancy would help us to bond with the baby before he was born.
How do you choose a baby boy’s name? We felt that choosing a girl’s name is much easier. There are tons of cute baby girl names. Picking a name for a boy is much harder because there’s more of a chance of a boy getting ridiculed about his name than a girl. We didn’t want to go with a generic name like “Mike” or “Bob”. But, we also didn’t want him to have such a unique name that he would be teased all throughout school. School aged kids can be very cruel. You have to remember that his name will be with him forever.
There are so many factors we had to consider when choosing a name. Does it sound good with our last name? What’s the meaning of the name? Will our family like the name? We also had to agree on the name together. This was the hardest part for us. We both had different tastes. My husband liked names like “Casey” and “Sawyer” that could be used for both boys and girls.
I didn’t like those non-gender specific names. I was more interested in the meaning behind the name because I felt like it was going to represent who they are or would become as a person. We weren’t interested in naming him after any of our family members or friends either. We wanted him to have his own identity.
We found it best to write a list of all potential names. We wrote all of the names down along with our last name to see how it looked. That alone seemed to eliminate a few from our list. You can ask people what they think of your list, but in the end, it really doesn’t matter what other people think.
It’s your baby. You have to like the name. I definitely felt that it was not helpful asking others for their opinions. It became too confusing since almost everyone has a different opinion. For both of our boys, we decided upon names that were gender specific, had great meanings, sounded great with our last name, and were not generic, yet not run of the mill.
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