Middle names are after a family member (DD1 after my sister and DD2 after MIL)
First names - old fashioned from our family heritage (so either English, Irish or Welsh) with one or more possible nicknames. Preferabaly not top 100 (DD1 fits, DD2 fit at the time of choosing, but there was a resurgence in popularity of her name and nickname that year)
No same initials (even though it did mean I did not use one of my favourite names)
Yup. Dd has a color, a Word relating to the sky or heaven, and a flower. We had another girls name picked which followed the same theme (different order). The colors related to naming them after us in one way it another.
Boys names would be named after us as well (but again Not directly using our names as we did with girl names)
I didn't have a theme as such but it turned out that both my bubs have my number 2 choices as their names. I had picked out names before meeting DH. DH didn't like my choices lol! Before even TTC DS, I had picked out a second girls name since DH hated my girls name choice so much. Then I changed jobs and it was my bosses daughter's name . When pg with DS, I did a list of about 20 names of each that I liked & put them in order of preference. DH picked my number 2 from the boys list. The number 1 is his middle name. When pg with DD, it was a bit harder as I had taken her name off the list due to the boss's daughter. Since we had so much trouble, I ended up putting it back in. Guess what we choose? Yes, my number 2 name again. Her middle name is a family name though. Funnily enough, my former boss has recently had a baby and given her the same name lol! Because I had dismissed it, it didn't come up in discussions if DS was a girl and we choose a different girls name for him. A friend then named her baby the girls name we had chosen for DS in between DS & DD's births.
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. When pg with DS, I did a list of about 20 names of each that I liked & put them in order of preference. DH picked my number 2 from the boys list. The number 1 is his middle name. When pg with DD, it was a bit harder as I had taken her name off the list due to the boss's daughter. Since we had so much trouble, I ended up putting it back in. Guess what we choose? Yes, my number 2 name again. Her middle name is a family name though. Funnily enough, my former boss has recently had a baby and given her the same name lol! Because I had dismissed it, it didn't come up in discussions if DS was a girl and we choose a different girls name for him. A friend then named her baby the girls name we had chosen for DS in between DS & DD's births.
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