Inspired Baby Names

We Cannot AgreeProverbs 15:1

For the woman worn down by a partner who says no without explaining, who has stopped offering names rather than be turned down again.

AmirSouth Asian soul

9 min

1 Samuel 16:7

What A Name Means

I Stopped Bringing Names To Him

Messages

I Chose For Meaning And Lost The Sound

Being Called And Being Known Are Not The Same

It Has To Work In Two Countries

Lovely In One Language, A Joke In Another

I Have Changed My Mind Four Times

We Stopped Talking About It

The First Time A Teacher Reads It Out

I Stopped Bringing Names To Him

I Have To Be Happy At The Shower

It Will Be Said In An Argument One Day

Somebody Ruined It And I Cannot Use It

Somebody Made A Face And It Came Undone

She Does Not Know She Took It

We Agree On The Name And Not The Spelling

The Name Is Soft And He Is A Boy

The Middle Name Feels Like A Consolation Prize

I Am Forty One And Told I Am Overthinking

The First Child Carried One Side Already

It Works At Home And Not At Thirty

It Was My Mother's Name And They Got There First

The First One Came Easily And This One Will Not

Nobody Has Said It Yet And It Is Still Mine

The Meaning Is Beautiful And That Frightens Me

I Can Hear The Decade In It

We Chose And They Are Still Mourning It

One Day She Will Sign It

He Has Been Naming People Since The Beginning

It Sounds Too Grand For A Child

There Is A Form And A Deadline Coming

I Have Never Liked My Own Name

Now The Name Is Everywhere

The Nickname Is What They Will Actually Be Called

I Looked It Up And Now I Cannot Unsee It

I Built A Spreadsheet For This

I Want The Meaning To Be A Prayer

He Vetoed It And Will Not Say Why

His Mother Has Assumed For Months

I Wanted Weight And It Means Something Plain

She Changed Her Mind And Will Not Say So

I Am Naming A Person I Have Imagined

I Am Afraid Of What A Playground Will Do

My Father's Name And My Father Was Not Good

The Name Is Spoiled By Who Has It Now

I Am Not Close To Them And The Name Feels Borrowed

Our Name Does Not Mean Anything

One Side Honored, The Other Side Hurt

Three Websites, Three Different Meanings

The Family Name Would Mark Him Out Here

He Says Whatever You Want

I Want A Name That Lets Him Be Ordinary

My Cousin Used The Name We Chose

The Meaning Is Sorrow And It Was My Mother's

Everyone Will Shorten It Anyway

I Do Not Understand Why She Is Grieving

My Own Name Never Described Me

The Custom Skips A Generation And I Did Not Know

I Gave It Away Myself

Four Generations And I Want To Stop

We Have A Name And We Are Hiding It

Somebody Will Say This For Eighty Years

I Am Waiting To Feel Certain

She Is Dying And Nobody Has Said It Out Loud

We Made A Rule And The Rule Locked Us

I Have No Opinion And I Am Told That Is Wrong

I Am Asking A Child To Carry Something Unusual

I Will Say Her Name Out Loud Again

I Like The Sound And I Do Not Know What It Means

It Will Sound Different In Every Room

I Told Everyone It Was Decided

The Name Comes With A Whole Story

There Will Be Four Of Them In Her Class

I Want It Said With Love First

We Only Talk About It By Text

It Suits A Baby And I Cannot Picture A Woman

I Was Called Two Different Things

It Will Be Spelled Wrong For Eighty Years

I Want It And He Is The One Refusing

They Think It Is A Compliment