Revealing our Triplets' Names!

We have had the names picked out for about 3 weeks now. We thought about it from the time we found out we were having triplets and seriously started thinking wen we found out the genders at a little over 16 weeks. We spent several weeks trying to decide on names and I think we thought of every name possible.

We are both 100% Irish and our heritage is very important to us so we wanted to use Irish names. So that narrows it down a bit but there were still tons of options! Both of our names are pretty popular and we like that they are easy to say, spell, and remember. But, we did not want our kids to have the same name as 4 of their classmates. So we were in search of slightly unique but common names. If that makes any sense. We also knew that we wanted the middle names to be more traditional and hold some meaning to us. We thought about using my maiden name but decided against it. For about a week we had 5 boys names and 2 girls. We couldn't make any decisions so we moved on to middles. Those were easier to pick because we only really thought of family names. Once they were picked, the first name kind of fell into place. They sounded the best together and were really the ones we loved the most.

So why have we not announced? Because we then had to decide whose name was whose. Obviously our girl was named but we still had to pick which name was for A and which was for B. This took a while and we kept going back and forth at ultrasounds and when one would do something. After our scare last week and seeing the babies again today we have finally decided! Without further ado...

Baby A (boy).... OWEN TADHG O'CONNOR (We will call him Owie, Big O, or O-man)

Baby B (boy).... DECLAN SEAMUS O'CONNOR (We will call him Dec or Dex)

Baby C (girl).... EVELYN AOIFE O'CONNOR ( We will call her Evie or Ev)

(For some reason the awesome ultrasound pictures that we got of them today will not upload to blogger so I will try to figure that out and post them soon!)

Now to explain, for all of their first names we used the anglicized versions of the gaelic names: Eoghan, Deaglan, and Aibhlin. We absolutely love the names and feel they honor our heritage and family perfectly. As for the middle names, they are all family names. Tadhg (pronounced Tige. Like the animal tiger without the -er sound) was my great-grandfathers name and Patrick's grandfather's and father's middle names. Seamus (Shay-mus) is my dad's name and Patrick's Grandfather's name. Aoife (EE-fa) is both of our great-grandmother's names and numerus relatives' on both sides middle names.

We are so excited to let you all know! Now we can finally start calling them by name and its already feeling that much more real!

(And also, we did not really go off of rankings or anything so some may seem more popular, but in SF we do not hear any of the names very often or at all!)