Our little girl’s name is…

After months and months of deliberating over our little girl’s name, we have finally chosen one. We definitely were not quick about this process. We wanted to find the perfect name for our baby. After all, she’ll have it for the rest of her life! Now that we settled on this for sure, we couldn’t be more in love with our daughter’s name.

Eleanora Rose Blair

The name Eleanora (a form of Eleanor) is of Greek origin and means shining light. It may also be a derivative of the Greek name “Eleos” which means compassion. We both liked the name Eleanora as soon as we found it, but the meaning made us truly love it. I hoped to find a beautiful name that was also equally meaningful. We pray a shining light is exactly what our little girl’s life will be. We hope she is bright ray of light that impacts the world for  the Kingdom of God. We also hope that her little heart will be one of compassion towards others, and that she will be one that is moved to action by love.

The name Rose, well, I probably don’t need to tell you what it means. We chose it mostly because it’s sweet and pretty. Plus, it was the only middle name that Jonathan liked at all from our very long list of possibilities. However, we do love the contrast of imagery it brings to her name. A rose is a lovely and fragrant bloom that has long been a symbol of love and beauty.

We thought we might wait until she’s born to announce her name, but now that we finally have a name we just couldn’t wait any longer. I also wanted to make sure we’d be able to change our minds once we saw her. I don’t think there’s any chance of that happening now. Eleanora has been the only name on our list for months, so we’ve had plenty of time to think about it. For a while I thought we might choose something a little different, especially since Jonathan really wanted something unique. Both of us have fairly common names (mine is very common for sure), so we definitely didn’t want her to be one of 10 girls with the same name in her class. I wanted something classic, long, elegant and meaningful. I think we managed to satisfy both of our requirements pretty well! (I also love that Eleanora has so many cute nicknames too! Elle will probably be my favorite.) Still, even though we have a name it feels strange for me to call her Eleanora. I guess it’s because I haven’t seen her sweet little face yet. I don’t have to wait that much longer though!

We are so excited to meet our little Eleanora Rose in 12 weeks or so! We love her so much already and are so thankful that we’ve been entrusted to be her parents.