Our son officially has a name! Although in actuality he's had a name since before we were even married. Michael and I had first talked about this name I think when we were engaged (so about 4-5 years ago) and we both really liked it. We have gravitated more towards uncommon first names paired with a traditional middle name. I think this stems from both of us having the #1 names for boys and girls for like 15-20 years. While we love our names, we also had lots of classmates and friends with the same names as us. We decided early on we wanted our children to have names that weren't as common, but also not completely bizarre.
And even though we've known and loved this name since before we even were married, once it was no longer hypothetical for a future child, but about to be a permanent choice for a real person, we wanted to test it out a little bit before sharing. So all week we've been referring to baby boy by his name, and we're happy to say that it fits! So without dragging this out anymore, his name is...
Titus John Gist
Titus is just a name we both liked, and we also did appreciate the biblical reference as well. I didn't even look up it's meaning until this week, but it means defender, which I also love. John is Micahel's granddad's name, who he is incredibly close to. He always knew he wanted his first son to carry this name, and so it's a perfect fit for us. John also means God is gracious, and I can't think of a better phrase to describe our journey to our son.
So that's it! We love it, and we can't wait to meet Titus in September!
2 comments:
ohhhh i LOVE titus. great choice!! i know a little titus and sometimes they call him ty & he is soooo cute!! p.s. we KNEW sophie was a boy too. hahaha!!
It's perfect!:) such a cute name!! Totally feel ya about having friends with the same name. In fact I had my friend of 25 years, lauren Over last night and the hubs referred to me as lauren reid. Made me laugh that he didnt just neaves!
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