I'm the same as you thisisyesterday. DS didn't have name at all for about 10 days and we felt really pressurised to give him one. Choose one name (didn't register it, but announced it on Facebook, I'm classy me ) then after two days I really hated it and dp didn't think it suited him either. So we chose another name that had been one of our favourites (more DP's favourite in hindsight) and that seemed to fit and we registered him.

I've gone through a stage of completely hating the new name (made worse by PND) to accepting that at 10 weeks old that is his name now, but I still don't like it all and keep imagining what it would be like to call him something else.

The feeling still hasn't gone away and last night I thought I might ask DP that we spell it differently and that might help, but realise I'm being stupid. Sorry I'm rambling but I completely understand how you feel.

I reckon it must be a hormone thing for me...around the same time every month i feel funny about her name, but today i love it !!...aye?..I chose her name and love it ! xx As you should...it is a great name ! xx

I think it's a beautiful and unusual name! In 12 monthstime youy will find it hard to imagine him with any other name! He's a little individual!

Do u know what ???..i felt the same !..we named our daughter Alice Macie. Beautiful name but couldn't settle. So after many sleepless nights i added Rose to her name..so she is now Alice Macie Rose. To this day i feel better but not completely sure. But then i think well, thats her name and thats that. I was always worried it wasn't pretty enough, but she is such a pretty blue eyed blonde Alice..Lissy for short xxx I know its hard, you have picked a gorgeous name though xx

With our DS1 we took 3 weeks to name him and I love his name.

BUT with DS2 we felt really pressured to bring him home with a name and so he got called something that even 2years later I am not sure about - every time I bring it up my DH tells me to choose something else and he will go along with it but that makes it worse because that means he has no passion for DS2's name either.

As you have gone for a strong name I say stick with it - I have tried to come to the decsion that they will grow into it and be it.

If they hate it when they grow up they can always change it - my sister was a Debbie but changed her name to Harriet when she was 18 - every one calls her that now. She just is Harriet.

it's ok notkeenonfish, if i had been sensible i'd have just not said!
i do remember with ds1 wondering if we'd chosen the right name despite it being our number 1 choice and both adoring it.
so maybe it's just one of those things. I think i am over-analysing it becuase I know dp wasn't that keen on it and because it took us so bloody long to decide on it lol

Asa is really nice
i think maybe its normal, i started to have 2nd thoughts with my ds aswell. dh told me i was being silly, we stuck with it, it suits him really well and i love it. he was right i was being silly

Sorry for asking thisisyesterday, in hindsight it was a mistake.

I think in your situation I would live with your registered name and if, in a few weeks it still didn't feel 'right' I would talk to dp seriously about changing it

There's a surprise Thisisyesterday. I think yu should stick with it the way it is and if it evolves into using a shortened version of Asa's middle name then so be it.

you see this is why i didn't put the names in my first post.
i knew it woul turn into a thread abo9ut which name other people prefer. and that isn't the point,
i guess i just wanted to know if other people had felt the same when they named their baby, and whether i was just being silly,
now it has turned into a discussion about the specific names

Like I said quite a few posts back

yes tis pronounced ay-sa

oh is it pronounced Ays-a?

That would be an improvement if so.

How does Asa sounds like ass?

In my head I'm pronouncing it Ay-sa, is that wrong?

Wouldn't be a fan of Enda, but at least it doesn't sound like Ass and doesn't have some very strange meanings.

I like Asa, different but cool

Asa sounds bad but Enda is acceptable? <boggle>

what are your other DS's names? so we can see which 'goes' better...

Just going on Asa and Nico alone I prefer Asa, more unusual and nicer sounding

Asa sounds like Ass? how do you hear that? I hear acer, no ass there.

Change it to Nico while you still can.

Asa sounds like Ass in English. It's Spanish for handle or bail, depending on context. Very odd. And I LOVE unusual names. Margot, Dulcie, Polly, Bruno, Thaddeus, Bruce, Victor, Donald..... I'm not the mum of a Jack or an Emily. (just to help you 'process' my post more effectively iyswim).

What about Enda if you like boys names ending in a?

Asa is much cooler/interesting than Nico. I'd stick with it!

Asa is lovely . Nico/Nicholas is becoming quite popular, so take that into account too.

dp would gladly change to Nico, he prefers it to Asa.

The thing I am worried about is that if we change it then i'll feel the same about Nico and wish i'd stuck with Asa lol

maybe I just need to call him Nico for a few days and see how I feel then, although i am wary of confusing the other ds's/

on which note twosunnydays, don't even jokeabout another little brother! 3 is plenty lol

ASa is really nice i think. stick with it...

Live with it for a while and see how you feel in a few weeks or months. I think you have a year (check that!). There is always the option of Nico for a little brother...

what does dh think?

It's early days, if the name is just wrong, why not change?

oh dear i like Asa, but you could always use the other name as a nickname..DH wanted to call our DD1 penelope but i didn't want it as a first name so she is Lara Penelope, DH calls her Pen most of the time, which is fine.
xx

nico is getting very popular

lol don't feel bad lockets. I was dead set on Asa, and we even tried it out for 2 days and I loved using it.

but then, seeds of doubt started creeping in. I started calling him Nico in my head to see if it was "better" and now i think it suits him more!

it is true that I am an indecisive bint though haha. i have to keep stopping myself fvrom thinknig about the other names on the list too pmsl

Don't think it's more one than the other - so I shall amend my view to nico being daft unless you're Greek or Italian

But, honestly Asa is...ace - really unusual without being at all wanky. No baby suits their name, they all suit 'baby' more than anything else. Asa is quite grown up so it might take a while to settle. But I think you should stick with it!

Nico is actually Italian
Nico is a fab name, so is Asa- which is exactly why you are stuck

No, Nico is daft (unless you're Greek). Asa is cool.

You know what I think?

I think you should stick with what you did and there is always the Nicholas-Nico thing.
I feel bad though because I told you to go for your fave name.

I like Asa

You bloody indecisive bint.

we called him Asa. second choice was Nico

What are the names?

did anyone else have this?
it took us forever to decide on ds3's name. I managed to persuade dp that my favouritest name of all was ok and we went with it and got him registered.

but now i am just feeling like it isn't right. i wonder all the time if we should have called him the second choice name

argh

but then, i worry that if we change it i'll still feel the same, but the other way round?