Well my hubby says that he gets to pick the name if it is a boy, but if it's a girl I may go with my 2nd choice name from my last pregnancy which was Anya Jae-lynn, but my daughter's name was going to be Makayla Elizabeth before we got pregnant and then a totally different name just came to me and I and everyone else loves her name. Natalee Grace. I dunno. I defintely want to go through some meanings becasue I believe this baby needs a very strong, meaningful name. As he/she was a miracle and held our family together.

My DH and I have had our girl name picked out for ages. He has a French family background (french canadian) and is fluently bilingual. We've decided that we would like our children to have names that work in both French and English.
For a girl, our first choice is Miriam. Our second choice is Elyse. The middle names would be our mothers' names.
For a boy, we are far less sure. We have a list that includes Blair, Stefan, and Duncan. The middle names would be our fathers' names.

We are very fond of names that can't be shortened into anything else. As a teacher, I've worked with so many children, that it's important to me that we choose a name that I don't associate with any students. I kind of like that the names we've chosen aren't on any Top 100 lists. You don't hear them too often.

It's nice to have a place to tell people our names because we've decided to keep them a secret from our 'real life' friends and family until the babe is born. It's harder to criticize a name when it actually belongs to a cute newborn baby!

Wishingonastar: Alexander and Lauren are lovely names!
mabng: we're kind of hoping that we don't change our minds when we see the baby! I know that it happens though!

both me and my DH lost our Dads and we will use both dads middle name for either our "son: or "daughter"

Boy---Noah Wayne (my dad)

Girl (we have a few)---Tristen Lynn (his dad)
Kailee Lynn
I also like Makayla, Lillie

I want different names and where im from these names are not the popular

awww, all those names are so cute. And Mizbootz, I'm with you, boy names are sooo much harder for us to come with!!! For a girl, we like either Avery, Leah, Hailey, Kylie, and a whole long list of others. The middle name if it is a girl, in fact all of our girls if we happened to have all girls wis going to be Rose, that's my middle name, and my mom's as well, and we would give it to all of them because my younger sister got a different middle name (Chantelle) and has always felt kind left out that she doesn't share my mom and I's middle name. My mom has of course always felt bad, and told her that they should go to the courthouse and have it changed, but my sister never wanted to go that far. For a boy, we like Landon, Ryan,..... and that's about it.... We will be outa luck if we wend up with all boys because we won't know what to name them haha. For the boy's middle name it would be DH's middle name, Thomas. So we'll see when we for sure find out the sex of the baby, then we'll start cracking down and thinking about names. So fun!

My hubby and I choose Biblical names for each of our children, but I also like to pick names that are unusual...so that way there aren't 10 kids with the same name in their classes at school, ya know? We're still hanging on to the girl's name we picked out when I was PG with K1, and we've got one boy's name "left over" from K3, but my hubby doesn't like the middle name I picked out. I have a book of Biblical names and their meanings (the meaning of the name is important to us, too), and I found another boy's name this weekend that I like. At first my hubby said he didn't like it, but then after a little while, he said it was growing on him. So I guess we'll see. We're keeping names a secret, too!

even from us?

My DH and I are both Jewish and it is tradition that you use the first letter of the name of someone who passed away. Usually you use the name of one of the grandparents. Our daugther Ashlyn Lacy was named after my grandmother Anne and my DH's grandfather Lewis. We will name the next child after other grandparents and the letters we have to work with are A, E, F, and R. I really like the name Evan (for a girl) and Levi for a boy, but then we would be using the L again.

We are thinking about Leah Elizabeth for a girl, Elizabeth after my grandmother and Colin Edward for a boy...Edward after my brother. I'm not sold on Colin and my DH isn't sold on Leah so we have a long way to go.

I also like Fiona and Sierra for a girl and Ian and Coen for a boy. Right now I'm leaning towards Coen over Colin but Colin comes from my husbands love of auto racing and the driver who just recently passed away did so much for the underprivilaged he would be a good role model. Coen is a german name and we spent much of our honeymoon in Germany. The girls names really dont have any special meaning except that Sireea means mountains and my DH and I love to hike and camp.

Bethany,
Ha, ha. Yes. Even from you gals. For now. (No offense intended.)

This will be the longest disagreement that me and DH will ever have. When I was PG we were already tossing names around. Nothing seriously, but we learned quickly that we do NOT agree on anything when it comes to names. I named my DS by myself because his father was such a loser and not involved. So I didn't have to have anyone else agree with me. My DS is Jackson Blake. We do not call him Jack. He has gotten the nickname "Jax" but usually only me and DH and grandparents call him that. And that is not too often. My DH likes extremely unusual names. I do not want to name the next one a very common name but my DH is a little out there with his names. I mean things he makes up and names you have never heard of.
Markelle- I love the name Landon. We were thinking about that one for this last pregnancy. (Well, I was! DH didn't like it too much). I also like Lincoln (call him Link), I like Kennedy for a girl. But my DH had a good point. He was like..."Are all of our children going to be named after president's?" I totally did not have that intention but for some reason like last names as first names. Hence...Jackson!