MOTHERHOOD on BLURT | Choosing the Best Baby Name

Back when I was still a few months pregnant, I went on looking for the best name we could give to our baby if the baby is a boy or a girl. I thought the task was very easy but ended up a tiring process.

We were aiming for a name with some biblical meaning plus one which should have J as its first name because both my husband and I have names that start with a J.

I opened all the websites I could check on and got my hands into creating a name for our soon baby girl or baby boy!

Since we don't know the gender just yet, we have to come up with two names. James said he wanted Nathaneal or such but I thought it doesn't fit well. What I wanted was a European or Hebrew name on the first name and then a more modern one on the second or third name but of course, the meaning should be something related to a dream and gift from God because of course, we had gone to a heartbreaking loss before and we believe this one is a really gift from the heaven . So I searched all over and found these websites:

• behindthename.com
• babycenter.com
• prokerala.com

After a lot of filtering, scrolling, mix and matching, James and I thought this would be a fitting name for our baby:

Johan Aislinn Mattie/Myrtle - this is if the baby's a girl
Johan Athan Matti - if the baby's a boy

Johan means God is gracious; Aislinn means a dream or vision; an inspiration and Mattie or Matti is a European name which I liked and this is also a name of a photographer/videographer that we both follow. Athan is a short term for Nathaneal which means gift from God. I also considered Myrtle which is the equivalent of the name Hadassah in the Bible, the Jewish Queen Esther's Hebrew name.

So basically, James got what he wants and I too got what I wanted. I love that his or her nickname would be an acronym of the three names which is JAM, short for James.

But when I was almost due and learned that we were expecting a baby boy, we decided to keep two names instead and ended up with Johan Matti, we now call him Matti.

How did you get your baby's name? What's the story behind it?