Just out of interest do you 'rollover' names?

[notsoteenagemum]

Just being nosey really after chatting about names with friends!

[belgo]

what do you mean by rollover?

[Gorionine]

If you mean use a name we had though for a previous child of different sex we did but we skipped a child in the middle, I do not know why though.

[notsoteenagemum]

For example my MIL had 3 boys then a girl and used the same girls name each time IYSWIM

Sorry if that makes zero sense I'm knackered

[notsoteenagemum]

Sorry x-post.

Thats what I mean Gorionine

[Gorionine]

So I understood right !
I am worried now!

[notsoteenagemum]

Please will you read the essay I've just written!

[notsoteenagemum]

For some reason I feel like that was the baby that never was.

Which is why ds is called my second favourite name.

[Gorionine]

I woukd love to. What is it about?

[Gorionine]

Well, you might be right. When I was expectingDD! we had a boy and a girl name.

When DS2 was born we gave him a name that was not the left over one from DD!, actually the left over one had not even come up when thinking about names.

When DS3 was born, the only name I could think of for a boy was the left over one from DD1 so really maybe names are destined to one child rather than another IYSWIM>

[notsoteenagemum]

Yawn, policies and procedures in the workplace.

Perhaps I should read it to ds then he would sleep and I could string two words together

[jeee]

Yes, DD2 called left-over name from DD1. She wouldn't have been called it if there hadn't been a DS between them, though, because the names are a bit too similar, IYSWIM.

[notsoteenagemum]

When I was explaining this to my pg friend she was as she said my 'theory' would mean she possibly had to choose 12 names as she's having non-identical twins.

[Gorionine]

I have trouble sleeping as well so please do read it to me!! I am sure it beats doing the ironing in the middle of the night!

[notsoteenagemum]

Poor you, you must be desparate if you're resorting to ironing!

jeee did you pick two names for DD1 then?

[jeee]

No, we had two possibles - couldn't decide which one, but eventually chose one because we didn't like the abbreviation of t'other. Of course, DD2 is always called the abbreviated version of her name - and, although I still don't really like it, it actually suits her really well.

[Lawks]

No.

Dd would have been Oscar had she been a boy, but Ds, born 2 years later, isn't Oscar.

[notsoteenagemum]

Ah I see. We had two possibles for ds and when they asked for the boys name in the labour ward dh said one and I said the other!

[mazzystartled]

dd's middle name is the name i wanted for ds (had he been a girl). it was her first name to begin with but it just didn't fit and after much deliberation (and the hospital chaplains two penn'orth, cheeky sod) we had a rethink

[notsoteenagemum]

Rofl at hospital chaplain!

[susiey]

Kind of dd1 would have been zach but ended up calling my ds1 ezekiel (zeke) so similar but not the same - got the middle name though

[hedgiemum]

NO! Have not used our shortlist for any of older three children (or the name we would have called if the opposite gender) on any of their younger siblings - which is why I've been asking for help here to find name ideas for dd3!

[cheapskatemum]

Yes - each time I was pregnant the chosen name for a DD was Gwendolen. Alas, it was never to be, am proud mum of 4 DSs.

[dinkymum]

i think so in one way, as in you had agirk name picked and then had a boy you'd keep the girl name for next time. But we had a DD first time and the girls name that was number two on the list for her i felt i couldnt use if second DC had been a girl as it felt like she was getting second best. But we had a DS anyway. Not sure if this makes sense though, its been a long day I need my bed lol

[frazzledoldbag]

Nope. But then we didn't even use the names we'd chosen for DD1 and DD2 before they were born when they came out (IYSWIM). And no, we won't be using the boy names that we had picked for DD1 and DD2 had they been boys for this next baby.

(In short my answer is NO in case you can't make head nor tail of that waffle )

[bananabrain]

Like cheapskatemum, we had the same girl's name for first and second dc - but both are boys so there is still no Heidi! (Four boys - lovely )
Like dinkymum, we didn't use second choice of boy's name for ds2)