After months of agonising over a name,why am I still unsure we picked the Right One?!!

I love it. My DS name is a marmite name for sure. We had exactly the same reactions as you describe! With DD's name, which is much more mainstream we have had "oh what a lovely name!" which we never or rarely had with DS.

I struggled with DS's name when introducing him for a while because I was worried about people's reactions but now it doesn't bother me at all :)

Love Greta!

Beautiful name.

I think it's a really awesome name. Really cute, quirky and strong.

I have four children, and both my girls I could have given umpteen different names to. One has a very popular name and the other a name that is swiftly gaining popularity yet I considered uncommon. I often wish I'd been brave enough to use the more unusual names we liked. Sometimes I feel like I'll just have to have more babies to use up all the unused names I loved.

Sounds fabulous to me. One little thought, Greta can be short for Margareta, so perhaps you could adjust to that, but not use it, if it felt more usual? But, ignore the nay Sayers.

It is an absolutely beautiful name :)

LOVE.

I remember your threads too. I really like your taste in names, loved your other DC names and think this little one has got a really unusual but pretty name which is easily pronounced.

Love the nickname too.

I remember your threads. Everyone had great fun helping you to name your baby . Greta/Etty is really lovely. Etty is cute while she is little, and Greta is a name she'll grow into & make her own. It sounds strong rather than harsh to me.

I remember your older DC's names, and they are both gorgeous too. You've gone for interesting, unusual names that aren't too "out there" and go very well together.

I'm sure you are overthinking this . Be confident in your choice & ignore what everyone else says. It's a FABULOUS name!

Greta is beautiful. I don't think it is harsh at all. My dd has a cutesy name which gets complimented a lot but I sometimes wonder if we should have gone more grown up.
I have taken to naming ornaments and dd's cuddly toys (complete with middle names) to satisfy my urge to use other name combinations

I adore the name Greta, I hadn't heard or thought of it for years but suddenly I feel like it needs to go on my list!

I wouldn't worry about people's reactions, especially those of your parents generation - names were so different in their day that they can't always get over the fact that times change and so do people's choices. My parents didn't like my DC's name at all as it is an old-fashioned type name, but everyone my age seems to love it!

If you have no other name in mind is say keep it, Etty and Etta are gorgeous nn's and Greta is just lovely

I think the name you picked is lovely!

Love Greta, beautiful name.

You say you were unsure about dd1's name and don't really like it and now you are querying dd2's name, is that correct?

In that case are you sure you aren't over thinking this?

Greta isn't common, but it is a name that people will be familiar with and know how to say and spell.

Only you can decide. If you do change it, I think you'll need to be sure you've got the right name, you won't want to change it again.

Gorgeous name. Was my lovely Nans name and she was an amazing lady. Everyone always commented on her lovely name, never met another one and if I have a girl at some point it would be my number one name. Also love Etty.

I remember the thread when you chose the name, it was one of my first visits to the baby names section on MN. FWIW I thought it was gorgeous then and I still do now.

Greta is such a cute little girls name and will grow with her so well. It has a strength about it that will stand up if she doesn't turn out to be the flowery girl.

When i had my daughter i only chose the name a week before she was born and have always considered it as a very feminine name (it means paradise and feminine beauty). I got lots of compliments and i love it.
When i announced her birth alit of ppl inboxed me saying do u know its a boys name, famous footballer with this name... I started having second thoughts.
I was convinced i should of called her millie... All her clothes were tiny baby asda's millie and ted so kept seeing this name.
But i looked at her and she was definitely an 'eden rose'...
All i'm saying if you like the name, which you clearly do stick with it, greta is strong and classic and etty is lovely. I also like etta as a nn.
Congratulations on ur little lady x

I love Greta. It is an amazing name. I totally agree with using a cute NN when they are small, but with the possibility of having a grown-up name when thay are older.

(and the wavering could well be hormones or sleep deprivation - I remember the 6 to 8 weeks stage being particularly hard).

I like it.

I was like this with dd2. Tbh I still am with her middle name, but for other reasons. She's one now and she's such a little dd2 that I can't really picture her as a Penelope now, which was our front runner up until the birth.

Love Greta, it's fab. And Etty is sweet for a wee one.

With our DD1 we went for a top 100 but not top 10 name. Still love it, but got a bit peeved when it later became a lot more popular. Went for a much more unusual name for DD2 (partly because of this, partly because we could only agree on this name). DMum wasn't keen, DMIL hated it (mutterings about how 'fancy' it was. This was not meant positively.) We wobbled.

But... it's her name. To change it felt like it would be like denying the first few weeks of her existence. And we had some awareness that hormones and tiredness were possibly making us a bit less rational and secure than we would otherwise be. I still sometimes wonder if we should have chosen something more popular (usually about the sixth misspelled Christmas card) but it's just her, now. She couldn't be another name. And there have been no more family mutterings (at least in our hearing) although we do get strangers asking why we chose it.

Do you think this is just a momentary wobble for you too? Or do you feel strongly that she is another name? I think if it's just a vague sense of the other possibilities you can safely ignore, but if a particular name is drawing you to it, I suppose you should consider changing. If you stick with it, Greta is easy to spell so you've done well on that score aling with choosing a lovely name!

It's an amazing name. Strong and individual and Etty is really cute.

I think you're just having a 'grass is greener' moment, caused by reading what other people have called their babies.

Step away from the baby names websites

You chose a gorgeous name! I adore Greta (if I didn't know a 2 year old I'd consider it as my grandmother's sister was Greta and I've always loved it). Etty is one of the nicest nn I've heard.

I love Clementine and ivy too.

Gorgeous names op!

Think about it this way: if you changed it, would you be ok with letting go of Greta? Of that name disappearing, not saying it anymore? Would you miss it?

I like that Greta comes up as Great on my phone.