when your little ones were born .. who picked the name for your baby? Was it your choice, your husband/wife or grandparents? or anyone else?
I’m asking because I know a couple they recently had a baby girl.. and they kind of arguing about the name. I suggested to give her both names that they each like.. but ehm.. I was just curious.. how others chose the names for their angels..
I have a little boy and my husband picked a name for him.
oh and does it matter if someone in the Family already has the name? by this I mean relatives you hardly see.. once/twice a year or so.
Our process was I would obsessively come up with a long list of ones I liked. He would cut out ones he didn't like (unless I felt very strongly about them). We'd run them by close family. And eventually we found one that stuck.
Our daughter's name was our choice...mainly my husband's.
I did all the name searching and list making , we finalized so many names but somehow never stuck with any one of them for long.By the end of the pregnancy I was in love with one name (mostly because of its meaning) and the husband loved another one.When our daughter was born she was given the name my husbnad loved ,which was actually my second choice.
We took suggestions from my parents too.My parents, and I think one or two of my close friends knew beforehand what we had decided.
I have not got my Bacha/Bachee yet but when the time comes and it will be soon I am determined to amalgamate all the good names the clan can think up and just pick the one that suits my child best.
I was named becuase of my rebelious nature even as a newborn I was frightening so my Great uncle and Grandfather got first dibs on me…
well i loved the name enaya and i was pretty sure was gonna name her that. hubs liked it too but its mainly my choice... he always preferred me to look up other names too as i mite find names more appealin than this one. he was rite abt it.. but i fell in love with the name the moment i saw it so i was pretty adamant that ill name her that.. we knew the gender. mil seemed v interested in thrusting her choice on me... for a sec i thot no one will let me name her enaya :( anyway we asked for enaya and ppl liked it alot.. they said its unique and asked me the meaning. so far everyone seems to like it. i think it dusnt matter... i love the name ayan for a boy and i will def name my baby boy that IA.. so if my mil and hubs want other name i mite use that name but in the end i know the mother wins :D cus i will call him ayan no matter wot... passport pe naam se zyada real life mein jo pukaara jaye that counts. my devar is called by the name other than his passport one so it is possible. those of you who are indeed pressurised by hubs or mil to name the child... remember the ball is actually in YOUR court :) let them have their say.. silly ppl dunno that the child will remember the name used mostly to call him/her rather than the name rarely used.
In our case the name decision making was the toughest. It didn't matter whoever chose the name as long as it was a nice name with a nice meaning & yes had to be unique. We were open for suggestions from friends & family.
At the same time hubby & I kept on adding names to this list we were making. Any name we would come across on the web or someone's suggestions we would consult each other & if either one of us liked it a bit we'll add it to the list.
I do know that 8 years back I sat in "Aiteqaaf" & although we are not supposed to be thinking about "duniyawee" stuff I don't know where & how but the name "Ibteha" came into my mind & that instant I knew that I was going to give this name to one of my children. Funny thing is back then forget about kids, I didn't even think about getting married or didn't even know what this whole issue with guys was.
Hubby knew I liked the name Ibteha but it sounds more for a guy than a girl. So we kept on adding & eliminating. I remember surfing on the web we found the name Ibtehal & we saw it together & smiled to each other because even hubby liked it. At the end we had two names short listed Ibtehal & Aaimah. Then a day before I was induced we found out Aaimah was also plural for the word "imam" in Arabic.
I remember we started looking for names again & even after our daughter was born it took us almost 48 hours to finally name her.
Hubby says I named her. I say we both named her :)
And yeah we both wanted a name that wasn't in the family at least. Doesn't matter if the person was living across the continent.
we've got our names picked out, and like most of the ladies, i was the one making lists and finding names i loved. i'd then run them past hubby and he would veto the ones he didn't like and/or we'd argue about it until we agreed haha :p
my main criterion was a good meaning and a cross-cultural name since hubby is hungarian and i'm desi. i didn't want something too anglo and he wasn't too keen on the super hardcore desi-sounding names or anything too arabic because he felt it was a bit alienating for his family. i completely understood that because, i, too, wanted a name my parents and grandparents would be comfortable with. so over the course of a year we've arrived at our top two choices. we've run them past very close friends and parents and gotten the thumbs up, so now its a matter of waiting to meet the Bean iA and naming him or her! :)
My mom suggested the name of our elder one, wife suggested the name of the younger one. I said suggested cause the final decsion was ours (wife and mine)
I am determined to amalgamate all the good names the clan can think up and just pick the one that suits my child best.