Note to Husband: Work With Me...

Honestly, I don't know how my husband and I are going to get through the process of naming our soon-to-be-born son. We are pretty sure the middle name will be David.

Our rules are this:
--The first name cannot end in Y or IE since our last name ends with a long EEEEE sound.
--No crazy-weird-obscure names
--Straight-forward spellings

I like the idea of a J name to go with David, so if our son chose, he could be a "JD" for short. (Reminds me of JD from the show "Scrubs.") At one point, my husband suggested the name John. I felt it was plain and we each have an Uncle John who we are NOT fond of nor close to. Recently, I suggested the name Jonathan (we could call him Jon) and my husband freaked out suggested it was a sissy name that would cause our kid to get teased and beaten up. What the hell? John and Jonathan are not all that far from one another. Work with me for crying out loud!

Seriously, please tell me I'm not the only person having trouble naming her kid with her partner. I guess I had visions of enjoying the naming process...and I'm NOT finding that to be the case.

--Paula

Jackson
Jacob (Jake)
James
Jared

Just a few suggestions :)

What about these...

Jace
Joel
Jaden
Jacob
James
Jamison
Jared
Jeffrey
Jackson - I know you don't want odd spellings but I like Jaxon so its not so much like a last name
Jesse
Josh
Justin
Josiah

I am bored, so I thought I would give you a few names to think about LOL

jordan...jason... jackson... james... joesph... julian...jonah...joshua...jude...justin...

Our JD is Joseph Douglas.  But I don't think I will ever call him JD, he is Joey to me. 
We had a hard time with Zachary, I wanted Mathew.  But sometimes it isnt worth the fight and I figured I usually get my way with everything else so I gave in with Zachary and I love it now.
Whatever you pick will be perfect and it wont be such a bid deal when your little guy gets here.
Chrissy 

Maybe since he likes John you could name him John but call him Jack.

I totally understand your frustrations! My husband is set on the name Anberlin if it is a girl. I love that name BUT hate the name Anber which sounds like Amber. I can't stand it! I don't like Ann or Lynn either. Too boring. I like the name Bella for a girl. I don't know what we're gonna do! I like the name Bennett for a boy but I have an ex named Ben and my husband isn't too fond of that idea... Were stuck too!

Good Luck!

-Ashlie

Every male in Johnny's family is a "J" name. So I had to go with it. LOL.

Here are all the male "J" names in the family so far.....

Jack
Joseph
James
Johnny
Joshua
Justin
Jason
Jordan
Jaylen
Jaden
Josiah
Jonah
Jantzen

As you can see, my little "J" was the last one and were were running out of options with names! LOL

Good luck.,.....it will be fine.

You have touched on the reason why this little bundle remains - BABY. LOL  Sooner or Later we have to start the process...but I am scared.  It was so easy with DD..she was Sophie from day one of "looking" at baby names.  My DH suggestions of try something Hawaiian (he had no real suggestions) or the actual 2 names he suggested (which I can not remember because they were so awful)....has ME dragging my feet.  I figure we'll know before she arrives or else we'll know before she goes home with us. The one name we really like means that we would end up with two little girls with S's first names.  I told him if we did that then we had to do the middle name play too. (DD middle is Elizabeth, next child would be Lizbeth). He seemed less then humored with me.  I would make name suggestions but I tend to like the unusual- probably because I was one of 50 million Jennifer's. 
Let me try more common names with J:
Jarrod
Joel
Jefferson
Jason
Okay-I suck. I hope you can agree soon for your sanities sake.

 

 

We had Emma Grace (or zachary thomas)picked for years, literally because it took us so long to conceive. With this one though we never thought we would have another baby. I just always thought if it was a boy it would still be zachary thomas...but hubby said, no..."that was the name we picked if our first baby was a boy...not this one." So I told him to decide. Micah was in the running for number one and I liked it so that was easy...but his middle name will be Abel (uh-bell) after his dad and grandfather. I really don't like it. I mean really don't like it. I am sure that since it is a hispanic name and we are in America that people will say Abel and not uh-bell. uh-bell flows with out last name, abel does not. Either way I just love my husband enough to let him have this one. I mean it will not change how much I love this little one and it will make me happy the sense of pride hubby will have over choosing the name and a family one at that.

As for your names. I looked through all the suggestions and my favorite is Jaxon....but I know you aren't fond of odd spellings. What it boils down to is compromise. Maybe you might have to give in a little with the compromise now, but a promise of you get to choose the next one. Good luck... I know its tough. I know a lot of people that literally don't name their babies until they are born and see their personalities. Shari