Am I apporoaching choosing a boys name all wrong?

I think part of it is finding one that feels special to you both, not necessarily one you automatically love.

Our girl choice (Liliana) is one that I now love but initially it was a like that we both knew was the one straight away.

Like you with boys names I can't find one I love that dp likes, but we have a couple we both like and 1 we both like the most (max/ maximus) so I think we'll go with that one :)

But we will see, if baby plays ball we'll find out next Thursday :D

The name you seek is Bruno.

You're welcome.

For both my children, I knew when I found the one. Never regretted either of them. (the names, that is - not the kids!)

I think choosing a name is a very personal process - everyone has their own way of doing it. I don't think there is a 'right' way. We took a month after his birth to name our DS. Obviously it was important to have a name that we both liked, but we felt it was equally important to think about how DS would 'live with it', e.g. did it work for child and man? did it have an easy nn? was it easy to pronounce and spell? was there any obvious potential for teasing? was it unusual enough that he would probably be the only one with that name in his class? We are both really happy with the name we chose, and can't imagine him being called anything else, although it's too early to know if he likes it or not!

For a mn, we went with a family name - that was the 'special name' for me, although I would never have used it as a first name.

I didn't love any names. We went with a name we liked and we felt he could live with. So we considered adulthood as well as cute toddler stage and how a name would work down the pub with his mates iyswim.

I am more than happy with my son's names. Never once regretted either of their names. On the other hand we went for a name we loved for DD and I wish we had taken the same approach to her name.