“…One hallmark of becoming a parent is choosing a name for one's child(ren); although there are exceptions, including when parents adopt older children, who have already been named (cf. Firmin, Pugh, Markham, Sohn, & Gentry, 2017). Whereas the child naming process is understood as universal, the intentional and deliberate process of parent naming, also referred to as parental designation (Petit, Julien, & Chamberland, 2017) or parental referent or term selection (Bergen, Suter, & Daas, 2006;Colonna, 2013), that occurs in same-sex families (Bergen et al, 2006) is understudied.…”