This IS Our Baby Girl's Name!

I have not yet read any of the responses you have received, but I wanted to say I think Tallulah Anne sounds sweet together. People will never know how to spell it and some may not be able to pronounce it the first time, but I say this from experience. My girls are Leiloni, Summer and Shara. I also have Grandchildren with unique names. However I have to say if my husband didn't like a name, I was back to the drawing board. Not that he is in charge, but it is his child too. I know you love it, but you might find another name you could both love just as much. Hope this helps. It is certainly not meant to offend. Good luck!

My 2 boys both have pretty unusal names, Giovanni and Luciano. I went through tons of names with my husband and we could not agree, but when all was said and done, I said, well you know dear I am the one whole is carrying him. I think that I should at least be able to have the final say in names. I picked one that I loved and that he was pretty okay with.

Don't worry about name calling and such, Giovanni is 11yrs old and has not had a problem. Most people really like his name. Also you just tell them that the other kids are just jealous because you were so cool as to give them a special name.

Good Luck :)

W.

I knew my son was Noah, and no one liked the name but me. I stuck to it, and eventually everyone else came around. Now I can't imagine him named anything else. Stick with it, and maybe the same will happen for you. I know exactly what you mean about knowing it is the right name. Good luck!

I picked both of my daughter's names, Antigone Grace and Lilly Faith, my hubby just went with it. Our youngest (Lilly) looks EXACTLY like her daddy and nine months later he told me he always wished we would have named her Andi, even before we saw her. His name is Andrew (Andy)... Anyway I would have totally went for that. After our first was born he informed me that it would be difficult for her to learn to spell it, so true. Wish he would have spoken up! Not that I would have changed my mind. So listen to your hubby maybe he has some good insight as to why he does not like it.

My name is S. (my mom made it up) and I have always liked my name. Growing up it was never made fun of, although I often had to pronounce it and explain it.

YOU know your baby better than anyone else because you spend the first 10 months with her!! Stand your ground and name her the name YOU feel fits her!!!!!!! Maybe just lay off the subject for a while and then bring it up to him again. Hopefully he'll trust your mommy intuition!

My daughter was 2 days old before we could agree on a name! The name my husband chose looked just like her, so i had to give in (It was Elizabeth- very dark hair, blue eayes and very white skin)i hate nicknames so that one was really taboo for me. he promised not to use a nickname and we still use her full name.
The name i LOVE is "TYLA" but couldn't use it because i had a grandmother alive with a "T" name and it is against our tradition to do that. I have only known one Tyla and she was so beautiful as is the name. If you love this name too, i would come up with your favorite, his favorite and 2 possiblities and wait till you see her and stare at her and you will know. Hopefully...before you leave the hospital. good luck. (my girl is the middle between 2 boys)

This might be far fetched, but our friends could not agree on a name for their fourth child. So, they both put the names they wanted on a piece of paper. When they were in the hospital they had their nurse pick a name out of a hat and that is what they named her.

Mom won, but dad chose a more meaningful spelling of the name, so she ended up being named after two aunts.

Personally we couldn't agree on a girl's name and on our last date before our son was born(we didn't find out what we were having)we went to the movies. While watching the movie, we heard a name and both turned to each other and said, "That is it, that is what we will name the baby if it is a girl!"

So, give it some time. Don't pressure him. Don't bring it up for awhile and see if you or him might have a change of heart.

Hi K., My name is not common and I wanted my kids to have uncommon names. I actually made up my daughters name 13 years before I had her! I LOVED IT and thought it would make a cute girls name eventually. And I had to convince my husband, but not too much. And it grew on him eventually. We liked that no one else had her name. So I say stick to your guns if you feel so strongly. There are a lot of kids with unusual names and I think it makes them more special!

JUST DON'T DO IT IT :-) Okay, So I don't ,honestly, like that name neither and feel sorry for the girl that has to deal with being a Tula.
But... YOU do the paperwork when assigning a name to the kid. You could always just write what yuo want without your hubby and he can be angry about it later. IF you really want to have that long life fight!!
If not...find something else that might make your husband and you both happy. What are your sons' names?
How about Terney... (pronounce it like tear-knee)

We decided our girl's names by me going through the baby name book and keeping my ears open and him coming and crossing everything off. There was only one name left the wasn't crossed off and so that was it. It is really important that your husband at least like the name too. Maybe use that as the middle name.

I wanted to name our daughter Hannah Mae. Hannah after a story my mom shared with me and Mae after his mom. He didnt like it he said there was something missing so I kept trying others and he didnt like them. One day we were talking to our friends and they were talking about a girl named Trinity and he said thats it that is the name.

So I said how about Trinity Hannah Mae. He liked it called her Trinity up until a week before she was born. Then he came and said I think we should call her Hannah. I said okay Hannah Mae it is for the Birth certificate. He told me no we will still name her Trinity Hannah Mae we will just call her by Hannah or Hannah Mae.

When she was born he came to the hospital after picking up our son. He walks in and says we should change her name to Xandra Rose (another name we talked about). I told him too late I already filled out the papers.

Guys you never know what they will do or agree to. LOL.

Good morning K.!

After reading everyone's comments i can remember the agonizing procress of choosing a name for our children. One thing that we never even considered was choosing a name we both didn't agree on. You probably already thought of using tallulah as a middle name and can even consider a new name and middle being talluah-anne. I really wanted to name our last child ronnie after my mother. I was very strongly protesting for that, however my husband had a boss he hated with that name and wouldn't hear of it. To this day i'm a little sad about not honoring my mother with that but i love the name we decided on together. It's far more important to honor eachother in the decision making process. Before i sat to write you i shared this with my husband and kids and they brought up great points. Tallulah is a cute name. When your little girl is small it sounds cute and she'll look like a cute little tallulah, but think about it. She will spend more time being older than younger. Look about you every day and think of each women that you come accross as if her name were tallulah. Think of her in the workplace, at college, visiting with other moms and in social circles. I love different names so don't miss read my advise. My family is filled with them! I'm not a fan of nicknames. We named our children so they wouldn't have nicknames. The name we chose we wanted them to be called. If i were you and had to compromise... I'd use tulah. It's masculine yet famanine. Cute and yet beautiful. Sassy and sweet! My family all agree, tulah anne m.

Good luck and be sure to share all these comments with your husband. I'm sure it will really help and encourage you both.

P.

Hi K.,
It took me four daughters before I got to use the name I loved which was Shallon. If your husband is not too against the name you like use it anyway. or ask for your name this time and he can name the next one. By the way I like the name you choose. Also knew a woman named Lulu. She was an Author.
Good luck, M.

i know this doenst have anything to do with human names but we have a dog named Tallulah ad we call her Tally. it is not a weird name i think it is a perfectly good name.

I just want to say that I understand your situation, although I don't have any suggestions. I lost that battle with my husband with our daughter. I loved the name Savannah and had thought of that name any time I thought of us having a girl. When we finally found out that we were having a girl, he decided if her name was Savannah that we would have too many S names (mine is Sarah and our son is Sebastian). So we went with Keira. Now that it has been her name for 15 months, I can't imagine her as Savannah, but I still love that name. Good luck! Oh and I like Tallulah, its sweet. :)

If it makes you feel better, I love that name too. Tallulah was on my list of names for my girl, though we did not end up choosing it. I think it's different without being too weird.

Does your husband know how much it means to you to have this name for your little girl?? I picked names for our two youngest children before they were even born (we have five kids). I just knew in my heart that these were the names destined for my children. The second youngest came 19 months after a miscarriage at 19 weeks, the name I chose for her meant "one who heals" which was fitting. With our youngest, I turned the ultimate descision to my husband(he liked one name and I liked another), and when he took him into his arms for the first time he knew the name I had chosen was the right name. If your husband isn't dead-set for or against any particular name you never know, you may get your little Tallulah. Just don't push things so hard to where it may cause fighting between you and your husband at this time, give it time to grow on him. Please keep us posted after you welcome your daughter in January to let us know what you both decided.

i dont have any advice, just to say that i had a son in august and if he was a girl, tallulah was an option. i like the name too. happy baby!

K., the best advice I can give you is to try to imagine what it will be like for her to bear the name--to be a kid in the playground with it. YOU may LOVE the name, but will little Tallulah? I have found that kids will generally find any way possible to tease and torment another child. My kids get teased already about their last name (Shumaker). Other kids have managed to tease them about their first names: Believe it or not, my oldest gets called "Michael Jordan". My daughter gets called "Aman-DUH", or "A-MAN-da". My youngest gets called "Geraldo" or "Geraldine". I thought they were perfectly harmeless names and, truthfully, they are normal. I picked them for their meanings: Michael means "He who is like God", Amanda means "Worthy to be Loved", and Jerald is a very old fashioned name, one that was given to honor a wonderful Great-Grandfather. There are other reasons to name a child something than the fact that it "matches her brother's"...and a teenaged girl with a name she does not like isn't pretty when you add puberty to it. Lets also not forget that her Father DOES have a right to be in on the decision-making of her name, too. My husband and I took the time to agree 100% and we were both much happier for it. Life is tough enough without having to deal with a name that will surely cause her to be teased. Just really think about it, and if you do it anyway, be prepared to have to toughen her up to match the name, or hear her cry from her first day of preschool on. Been there, done that, and with way more traditional names. Sorry...Hugs, Kat

Every time your husband has to introduce your daughter for years to come, wouldn't you rather have him say it with a smile instead of a wince? It would be a constant reminder of how you put his feelings ahead of your own. That is the sign of mature love. I would keep looking for a name that you both could agree on. Your marriage is a partnership and it should be WE LOVE IT! not I LOVE IT!. Your daughter will love the story of how you came up with your name if it came from both of her parents.

I bet you after he sees you give birth AGAIN he'll say you can pick the name. The name is adorable. I named both my girls unusual names. My husband didnt like them at first, but couldnt picture them with any other names now.

I love the name, it's beautiful! I had boys so I never had the joy of picking girl's names. But my husband & I did not agree on our youngest son's name ~ in fact, we never did. But I was stubborn (I was a grumpy prego) and didn't budge and he did give in. It's funny that we hadn't talked about it in 15 years until last month. He had forgotten all about us not agreeing on the name! In the long run it wasn't a big deal because suddenly this new little person is the big deal!
=)

Here's what I did:
My husband and I couldn't agree on a middle name if we had a girl. I wanted it to be my mother's name, he was undecided.

I had a long labor, and he stayed by my side the entire 40 some odd hours. Moments after she was born - literally maybe 2 minutes - I looked up and asked him, "Can her middle name be Laurel?" He said "Of course, anything."

Sneaky. Good luck.

When I was picking out names for my 3 kids. I let the father pick out a name. With my first daughter he picked the middle name - it was made up. With my middle daughter he picked the first name. With my son his dad picked the first name.

I am sure if you give him some of the decision on part of her name he will be more receptive to an unusual name.

I haven't exactly been in your shoes. I have always loved the name Emily, but my husband doesn't so it never made it to the list of possibilities if we had a girl. We had a boy and already had a boy's name that we both liked, so the girl name battle was moot.

If I didn't know someone who calls their daughter Lulu (Her name is Lucia - said as Loosha), I would be a little wary about Tula/Tallulah. Has your husband said why he doesn't like the name you deeply love? That would be a place to start, I think. If you can get to his "why" then you may be able to have a discussion about why you love the name as much as you do.

Good luck!

I think Tallulah is a beautiful name. I enjoy unique names that aren't "too weird" and have found kids to be very receptive to such. Kids will find a way to poke fun at ANY name so, I wouldn't worry too much about that part because it could be as simple as A-MAN-DUH as one other responder said. I agree that you and your husband have to come to agreement you both LOVE. Have you thought about switching the names with Anne as first and Tallulah as middle? I have a friend who named her daughter with an unusual middle name because she loved it and her daughter goes by her middle name as her nickname! Maybe a nice compromise ... ultimately you and your husband will know what is best for you.

This is hard. My husband and I couldn't agree on a girls name and the one he like I hate. What we did was he picked tha boys names and I picked the girls. If one didn't like the first than the other could pick the second or they could pick the spelling of the name. BTW it's a beautiful name, not weird or anything. I wouldn't worry about kids in school and what not becuase children will make fun of you regardless of your name. Whether your name is john, jose, or Tallulah. If children don't like you they make up a nickname anyways so why worry about it now. My Daughters name is Cenisa Marie. I picked the first my husband picked the second and the spelling of the first.

I think you two need to come to a compromise of the name and then all will be okay. Good luck and Congrats!!

N. M.

I think it is very important to have a name you both agree on. I suspect very few of us get our first choice. Occassionally it works out. We discussed many names and the list ended up being ones we both liked but probably were not first choices for either of us. I don't regret it, we put a lot of thought into it and we are both happy. My stepfather's mother was forced to name him something she didn't want and she ended up calling him the name she wanted. Now he has to explain why he is called something completely different from his actual name and it can be a problem professionally.

My husband and I had a similar situation naming our first son. My advice is to give it a little more time and to come up with some equally cool alternates. I wanted to name our son Maxwell and my husband would have nothing of it. (I mean I wanted to name a child Maxwell for as long as I could remember)We were flipping through the book and found the name Ainsley (Could be a boy or girls name) and we were actually both really good with it. That was about a month before he was born. The hilarious thing is that because of his hearing impairment our son chose to be called Max (with no prompting from me) so that he could better hear when his teacher called on him in school so I actually got the last chuckle on that one. My husband is now the only one that calls him Max. The moral of the story is that you could pick just about any name for your daughter and she will end up calling herself whatever she wants. Sometimes men have a hard time with names that they associate with celebrities kids, and he may not be a Bruce Willis Demi Moore fan. Maybe you could suggest naming your daughter Friday Afternoon and he would react more warmly to the name you really want. :)

Be very careful with a very different name. Think of a life lived with something that others may make fun of when in school or adults make unpleasant comments about. My advice is to try one of the nick names you like so well and see if your husband agrees to that.