Did you 'love' your babies names?

@MrsH497 I’m so tired that for a moment I thought you called your baby A... and one of the reasons we wanted to know the sex was because we couldn’t decide on boys names, it got really tense whenever it came up! I had two I liked and my DH didn’t like either. I don’t know if it’s harder as a straight woman when a number of nice men’s names may have been ruined due to past relations, good or bad! And it just felt like there was way more ‘normal’ (not super out there) but still not that common girls names. I remember boys with uncommon names being really bullied at school, e.g. Gabriel was one that springs to mind.

No, I liked them, they met my personal criteria but there are names I love more. I kind of feel like they were their names and I’m glad I didn’t use names I really loved as I’d have had preconceptions of what they’d be like.

I’m so indecisive, so dds name was decided at a few hours old from a narrowed down choice because I had to make a choice at some point.
I liked it, but didn’t love it. 2 years on I adore her name. It’s very her. I do believe babies grow into their names. We’re having another in November and the thought of choosing again is stressing me out, so I don’t think think about it!

Yes
We loved all three of our children’s names before they were born and I spoke to them and called them those names

I still love them and wouldn’t change them

I loved the names of my DD and DS before they were born. They are still my favourite names

When I look at these threads I'm always drawn to feminine,"frilly" names but DD2's name is quite different, I think fate took a hand because her name suits her perfectly in a way that names like Antonia or Miranda just wouldn't.

Although my ds’s suit their names perfectly, they weren’t you first choice, and I wouldn’t say I “love” them. Although I do like them a lot.

With ds1, dh and I didn’t agree on any names at all, so we ended up calling him a family name.

When ds2 came around, dh was more open to some of my ideas that I had for ds1, but they were names that we then couldn’t use for various reasons.

I love ds2’s name, but I hate the fact that I pronounce it differently to dh and most other people I know because I’m a southerner living in the north. I’m self conscious every time I say it which I know is a bad thing but we are too far down the line now to do anything about it.

But at the end of the day, it’s not about me, or dh, it’s about those boys who have to grow up and live with this names their whole lives, and I think they are great names that they will be proud to have.

I absolutely loved my two boys names and they were named during pregnancy too. Never changed my mind and still love now. However, I can't settle on a girls name. Nothing feels right! It's so frustrating. I don't want her to feel like her name wasn't loved as much as her brothers.

I adore ds's name. I just love the sound of it. I think dd's name is beautiful but we call her by her nickname and now her name doesn't really seem like her name anymore!

We had narrowed it down to two names but it took 5 days once she was here to decide and then it took quite a while to suit her.

I don't 'love' either of my DS's names.

They're actually a bit random.

Eldest is apostle name plus one of my granddad's names. Who afterwards, sort of 'let the family down' a tiny bit.

Second has two random names; first an apostle, second random, tho as much 'out there' as DS1's middle name as my granddad didn't have a very conventional name! I wish, now, I'd incorporated DH's father's name in there, but MIL had pissed us both off so much at that stage, we didn't.

I would have found it impossible to love a name before baby was born. We had a list of names/combinations that we liked but were fairly meh about all of them. When DS was born, one of the names just seemed right and now I can't imagine anything else and it's just perfectly him.

We didn't know babies sex so had boys and girls names on long lists. Narrowed down to 4 each before the birth, as she was shown over the sheet we said it's A or B looked at her again and said A

I love both names but I never felt they were the one

Nope, I'm pregnant with my third. My first 2 were boys and I really struggled to find a name. I ended up letting dp pick ds2 name. I quite like I now, but I wouldn't have picked it myself. I have no names at all for this baby, girls or boys, I'm stumped.

I have a girls name I absolutely love - it just "clicked" if that makes sense when we were looking at names at about 18 weeks. But now I know I'm having a boy there isn't any names that I love

We didn't want to find out the sex until the birth so we chose a boys and a girls name.
The boys name was easy and decided 100% from when I was about 7 months pregnant. We both loved it, it was the only boys name we wanted, there was no others we even liked. For girls we couldn't choose a name at all, there was only one I really liked, but my husband wasn't as keen as I was, and there was none he was keen on either.
Obviously we would have been happy either way, but in some ways I'm glad we had a boy because the name was definite.

I like DS's name, it's fine and it suits him but I don't love it.

I love DD's name, it was DS's 'girls name' and we still loved it when we had DD.

I love my daughter’s names. I knew what her first name would be if she was a girl, but I didn’t choose her middle names until the morning I registered her! I love the meanings and the background to them, and I’m so relieved she was a girl because I didn’t have strong feelings for any boy’s names.

Meh. Ds is nearly 5 and I'm still not fussed on his name . But it was the only one that DH loved that I didn't hate.

I do love both names, but I'm not sure if I did before they were born? I just really liked them, then once they were actual people with those names I properly loved them.

We chose both our sons names before they were born. Luckily they were boys as we didn't have a single girls name we both liked

Don't worry OP.

I have twins and we were set on one name, but for the other one there just wasn't "the one" right up until, two or so days, away from their birth, and then it clicked. It was a name we had had on our list the whole pregnancy, but it just didn't feel... Like "the one", just like all of the other ones. We were actually planning on a different name I never got to love.

Love my kids names.

Yes with all my kids names. Especially with DD. I spoke to someone with the same name for work and called my DH crying saying I’d be really sad if we couldn’t use it (before we knew she was a girl)