how do you choose baby names?

[raffy]

Usually I'm the one that comes up with names and DH either says yay or nay, with DS1, being the first, I had an abundance of both boy and girl names. For a girl we had decided or Aaliyah Jayde and neither or us loved anything else, for a boy I had a short list of about 4 names and on that list DH only liked the fourth (which I wasn't totally sold on) but we didn't come up with anything we liked any better so he is C o o p e r. With DS2 we realised we had made an ABC pattern and if we found a 'D' name we loved we'd go with it so that narrowed it down a bit, because DH had got the final day on DS1s name I said I get the final day on this one, again we found loads of girls names we loved and narrowed it down to Delany, Della or Delta but not much inspiration for boys then found out he was in fact a boy lol I remember driving along one day and thinking of the names Dylan and Hayden which I liked but thought they were to 'normal' I then mooshed them together and got D a y l e n and loved it and DH didn't come up with anything he liked better so agreed to it if his middle name was DHs first name. With this baby again I'm the one doing all the searching and suggesting and DH is just saying yay or nay. 'E' names are hard but and we've agreed we'll ditch the pattern if we don't find something we both love,

[Charlotte91]

Oh, congratulations!

We picked out a Isabelle with DD, but thought she was going to be a boy so didn't really get fussed on girls name. DH had a boys name picked out for YEARS and so we just chose that and his middle name. Then about 18w when we were on holiday in Bright DH just turns to me and says "What about Hannah?" And I shrugged and said "Yeah OK, but it's a boy." And DD has my middle name as her middle name too.
Isabelle was so popular at the time, too.

With DS, I had picked a girls name. When DD was in NICU there was a little girl in Room 2 with DD who's sister was Tallulah and I fell in love with the name, upset I hadn't heard it before DD was born.
A boy's name was harder. We chose Cody, then changed it to Coby, then Colby. And we were looking at a metal magazine that had an interview of our favourite artist (Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Stone Sour) and DH jokes "What about colby ta yl or?" and we laughed and just stared at each other and said "THAT'S IT!"

So, my advice would be to chuck a few name around and if it just feels right, do it!