A CoJ reader named Apple requested a query that I can’t cease fascinated about…
“Can Cup of Jo PLEASE write one other child identify publish?? I do know Jo is perhaps now not within the child identify zone, however there are such a lot of readers who would admire an opportunity to get identify concepts from different readers — myself included!”
*Properly*, I, too, have been hanging within the child identify division as a result of coming this October, my husband Max and I can be welcoming our third child, a candy little lady! We’re so excited, and lately all we discuss is who we predict our new little nugget will resemble, how Emiliano goes to regulate to being a giant brother, and what we predict Ella will say the primary time she meets her little sister (right here’s a video of the primary time she met Emiliano).
However the matter that that retains us up late speaking in mattress? The child’s identify. We’ve been racking our brains making an attempt to give you a reputation that matches, and, you guys, we’re struggling!
Again with our first child, Ella
We had strong plans after we named Ella and Emiliano. As quickly as we noticed the double traces on our being pregnant check for the primary time, each Max and I agreed that if the intercourse was feminine, I might select the identify since I already had three names I adored (Ella, Ilana, and Remy). If it was a boy, Max would get to decide on the identify. Since I ended up getting identify rights with Ella, we made a pact that if we had a second child, Max would get dibs on the primary identify. He all the time knew that he wished to call a son Emiliano, a spin-off of his full identify — Maximiliano. So, throughout my second being pregnant, Max appeared over at me with the largest grin after we opened our physician’s e mail and browse “presence of a Y chromosome predicts a male fetus.”
This time round, although, we’re making an attempt to determine on a reputation collectively. For inspiration, I’ve been clocking each girl’s identify that I hear on TV, learn in books, and see on Instagram. We additionally appeared on the U.S. Social Safety’s 2023 listing of hottest names. The highest 10 names for women had been:
– Olivia
– Emma
– Charlotte
– Amelia
– Sophia
– Mia
– Isabella
– Ava
– Evelyn
– Luna
The highest 10 names for boys had been:
– Liam
– Noah
– Oliver
– James
– Elijah
– Mateo
– Theodore
– Henry
– Lucas
– William
We nonetheless have 5 months to brainstorm, however thus far we love the names Aaliyah (after the singer) and Margot (quick and candy). I’ve additionally appreciated the identify Joaquin for a boy, as a result of it sounds so robust.
Now I’d actually like to know: what child names are you into lately? Would you identify your child after a relative or place? Or what about a fictional character? I wish to know!
P.S. Why my husband and I gave our daughter my final identify‘ and 10 methods to assist a brand new mother.
