Baby Names

We've been thinking a lot about boy names. Even though we are not planning to find out the baby's gender until s/he is born, boy names are really hard for me! It was really hard and finally yesterday I sat down and made a list. Gave it to Clayton to cross off some names and ended up crossing off a couple more myself. This is the list.

Connor

Corbin

Eero

Finnegan

Oren/Orrin

Rowan

Soren

I also went through the middle name options (family names) and the only ones I really liked with any names were

Eero

David

Henry

William

Some of my favorites were

Connor William

Corbin Henry

Eero Finnegan (Finnegan is not a family name, but Eero is)

Finnegan David

Oren Eero

Orrin William

Rowan William

Soren David

Soren Eero (this makes me giggle, but I love it...)

Maddox really really really wanted me to highlight some girls names in the baby book that Santa put in my stocking this Christmas, so I came up with a list. I'm kind of stuck on one name, so that might be why it was kind of difficult, but I ended up coming up with a much shorter list than when we were pregnant with Faye. I was surprised that I didn't find a lot of girls names I liked. (Clayton OK'd these names too)

Elise (this is actually my great grandmothers name rearranged)

Gwendolyn

Lorraine (my grandma's name)

Orla

We also liked Jane (which is also my middle name rearranged), but I didn't end up liking it for a first or middle name.

Our middle name options would be

Elise

Elizabeth

Lorraine

The favorites that I came up with are

Gwendolyn Elise

Gwendolyn Lorraine

Lorraine Elizabeth

Orla Lorraine

I'd really prefer to have Lorraine in the name. If it's the first name, we'll call her Lainie.