Did you chose a name you like but don't love? How did you feel?

Through both pregnancies I had names which I loved. DH wouldn't engage with the decision making process until near the end. Both times he vetoed the names I was really set on and I had to go through a few days "mourning" for the names. The second baby's name is his choice. He knew that I didn't love it and really appreciated my compromise.

Now I do love it. It's her name and I also love some of the short forms that I thought were my main reasons for objecting.

I had a name chosen the whole way through my pregnancy and I loved it. Then contractions started and for some crazy hormonal reason I told DP he could choose the name?!
DD's name is lovely and her DF chose it so that's a nice story for her but I wish I'd called her the name I'd chosen.
If we have another I'm choosing the name.

I think it's probably totally normal. Most people I have spoken to about it say it was hard to find a name they both agreed on.

I loved the name Eva but my DH wanted something more unusual. It felt really sad letting go of the name I adored.

But when he did eventually go for one of my suggestions, which had in hindsight always been at the back of my mind, it felt like a triumph too, just as you describe!

And I love that name more than anything in the world now because it is our DD's name.

But I do feel fleeting sadness whenever I meet babies called Eva. One of my best mates had just had one...it was actually a compromise for her as her DH hated her first choice!

Naming children is an odd thing and I think it takes a while to adjust to whatever you choose.

I am sure your choice is the right one.