My sister introduced me to your blog a few months ago, and I am hooked! And now I need to ask you for your help. I\u2019m 25 weeks pregnant with a precious little baby boy (due in early July), and the husband and I cannot agree on a name for him. My name is Maggie, hubs is Kevin, and our last name is Pearce. We have a two year-old daughter named Molly Rose, and #2 may or may not be our last child. We\u2019re thrilled to be adding a boy to our clan\u2026\u2026.except that we CANNOT figure out his name!<\/p>\n
We were actually kind of surprised to \u201csee blue\u201d on the ultrasound, and maybe part of the reason is because we had already compiled a list of girls\u2019 names that we both loved. In case it helps at all, they were Heidi, Charlotte, Alice and Claire. But when it comes to boys\u2019 names, the hubby and I have very different tastes.<\/p>\n
My current favorite is Weston, nn Wes. Husband\u2019s response: \u201cis that even a real name?\u201d Close seconds are Gavin, Connor and Austin. I also love the name Parker, but something about Parker Pearce sounds silly to me.<\/p>\n
Husband likes more traditional names, and strongly prefers that whatever name we choose be two syllables so that it flows nicely with our one-syllable last name. He brings up Andrew a lot. I\u2019m turned off by it only because it seems kind of ordinary to me. That being said, we are planning to use a traditional, honor middle name\u2013either David or Francis. So I\u2019d rather have something a little more modern (but not too popular!) for his first name.<\/p>\n
When we first discussed baby names about five years ago, we both really liked the name Ryan. It\u2019s still in the running, but I think we both find it slightly boring having had it on our list for so long. And more importantly, I\u2019ve seen it pop up recently as a girls\u2019 name. We\u2019re both really not into gender-neutral names, so that\u2019s a definite strike against using Ryan.<\/p>\n
Choosing Molly\u2019s name was so simple \u2013 we both loved it as soon as we heard it, and while we pretended to consider other names, we were pretty much dead-set on using Molly from the start. Rose is an honor name, and so are both of ours, so we\u2019d like to continue with that tradition.<\/p>\n
Since we had that \u201ca-ha!\u201d moment with Molly\u2019s name, I was hoping the same thing would happen for this baby boy. Am I being too unreasonable? Should we just go with a name that we can both live with, but one of us is not overly excited about? We\u2019re completely open to any advice and\/or new ideas that you can add to our list, and I promise to share what name we pick when he makes his big entrance into this world!<\/p>\n
Thank you!!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nIf your husband’s tastes are more traditional, I wonder if he’d like Wesley instead of Weston?<\/p>\n
To do this in reverse to your husband’s choice of Andrew, I think Anderson is super sharp. Or there’s Drewan\/Druan<\/a>, which is like a perfect combination of Ryan and Andrew, but is probably too modern\/invented to appeal to your husband.<\/p>\n
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