What Are Your Favorite Baby Na...

A CoJ reader named Apple requested a query that I can’t cease eager about…

“Can Cup of Jo PLEASE write one other child identify put up?? I do know Jo is possibly 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!”

*Nicely*, 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 woman! We’re so excited, and nowadays all we speak about 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 (here’s a video of the first 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 attempting to provide you with a reputation that matches, and, you guys, we’re struggling!

Again with our first child, Ella

We had stable plans after we named Ella and Emiliano. As quickly as we noticed the double traces on our being pregnant take a look at for the primary time, each Max and I agreed that if the intercourse was feminine, I’d 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 at all times knew that he needed to call a son Emiliano, a spin-off of his full identify — Maximiliano. So, throughout my second pregnancy, Max seemed over at me with the largest grin after we opened our physician’s e mail and skim “presence of a Y chromosome predicts a male fetus.”

This time round, although, we’re attempting to determine on a reputation collectively. For inspiration, I’ve been clocking each lady’s identify that I hear on TV, learn in books, and see on Instagram. We additionally seemed on the U.S. Social Security’s 2023 list of hottest names. The highest 10 names for ladies 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 favored the identify Joaquin for a boy, as a result of it sounds so sturdy.

Now I’d actually like to know: what child names are you into nowadays? Would you identify your child after a relative or place? Or what about a fictional character? I need to know!

P.S. Why my husband and I gave our daughter my last name‘ and 10 ways to help a new mom.