Mummascribbles – Choosing a baby name! – Mummascribbles

When we were pregnant with Zach, we had his name sussed from very early on. It was actually our friends who helped us by one night sitting in the pub coming up with names. When one of them blurted out “what about Zach?”, we both looked at each other and agreed that it was a really great name. We decided that we liked it as Zachary and spelt that way too and then after adding a couple of others to make his full length name – it was decided. We didn’t at any time falter on our decision and I absolutely love his name. It is absolutely perfect for him. 

Second time round – well it seems to be a little harder! It’s not that we don’t have any names, we do. We just can’t agree! There is a name that the other half loves that I very much used to love. I even suggested it as a name back when we were pregnant with Zach but he didn’t like it then. The problem I have is that it’s the name of my boss’s son and she has spoken the name every day for the 9 months that she has been back at work and so to me, it’s just been run down on me! It doesn’t feel like my name if you know what I mean. 

Then there is the name that I love. The other half likes it but not as much as his fave! I adore it. I love the sound of it, love it written down. It’s a popular name but I haven’t heard it every day for the last nine months! 

So how do we decide? 

Who compromises? 

I just don’t know! 

Choosing a name for your child is probably one of the hardest things to do. This name technically has to stay with them for life (although we all know they can change it if they really wanted to) and so you want to get it right! Both of the names we like are lovely names – whichever one we do choose will be gorgeous because they are both gorgeous names. I can just see us when baby is born still trying to work out what on earth we are going to call him. We’ve even had the baby name book out to see if there are any others that could replace our two favourites but I really don’t think there is. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens – maybe one of us will decide we actually prefer the other and it will all be simple. 

How did you decide on your baby names? Did you have to persuade your other half to come round to your way of thinking or was the choice theirs?!