The moment a couple finds out that they are going to be parents, they start thinking about the name they will give their baby. There are parents who already have their names in mind before pregnancy (I would say that mothers tend to think more about it than fathers), but most have about 8-9 months to agree on the name.
In that period of time there are those who decide quickly and keep the name until the end and there are those who, like us, choose one, which varies as the months go by.
It is for this reason that I ask: Did you have a hard time finding the baby's name?
Our first child
It was more difficult for us to find the name of the first than that of the second. Or rather, we doubt much more with the first, since we came to decide a name that later changed.
I remember that at first it would be called Jan in case of being a child and Júlia in case of being a girl (very common in Catalonia, where the "j" is pronounced as in English).
However, as the months went by and explained to the people that his name would be Jan or Júlia, we felt that the names were “worn out”, both when we said them and when we heard them in other children with the same name (here are two of The most used).
Then we learned that our son would be a child and we realized that Jan was not the name we wanted for him. We search the internet for typical databases with hundreds of names and, finally, we find a very similar one, but much more exclusive in these lands: Jon.
We immediately liked it, for various reasons (I already knew it, since I am from La Rioja, a neighbor of the Basque Country) and we decided that it would be called that.
Our second child
With our second child we did the same exercise, we looked for boy and girl names and we decided immediately. I don't say that as a child, because I don't want to “wear it out”, since we have it reserved in case one day a girl comes. You know him as a child: Aran. We found it beautiful, exclusive and very much of this land (through the Aran Valley) and I also liked it because in Sindarin (the elven language invented by Tolkien) it means “king” (geek What is one).
With the second, as I say, it cost considerably less, perhaps because of the fact that with the second, things always go faster, since they are not an exclusive child, namely.
And to you, Did it cost you a lot to find the name of your children?
