Did you absolutely love your baby name?

No, not love, but satisfied. DC are mostly adults & have never complained.

I loved our girl name - DH suggested it but I really liked it anyway.

There were no boy names either of us loved like we love our girl name.

Still love mine. Youngest is now late 20s.
Love Charlotte ❤️

Yes. The 2 names I chose I would choose again now. I always loved my daughter’s name since I was younger. I wouldn’t go for a name I didn’t love.

I think there are so many beautiful names for boys and girls that is hard to choose just one.

My dds name I picked very early in pregnancy and after a few months I thought why did I pick that?? Why didn’t I go with what I was going to call ds if he was a girl.. that went on for about a year in my head and then she became a toddler and she just suited the name so much and I realised why I had loved it to begin with. She is now a teenager and it still suits her and she is sassy and just gorgeous and I can’t imagine her being anything else.

I love the name Charlotte for what it’s worth and the nicest from your list. Good luck

@AliasGrape It might be the pregnancy hormones but this just made me cry! 🥹😂💜

Yes, I adore my sons name, it makes me smile every time I say it.
We didn't agree on a single boys name throughout the entire pregnancy.
It took us a good week after he was born to come up with this name. As soon as I said it, my partner agreed and that was that. We'd not considered it before.
I wouldn't have gone with a name I didn't love, but I wouldn't have expected my partner to neither.

Yes, absolutely loved the names, still do. We kept looking (for ages!) until we found ones that we 100% agreed on. Probably helps that we have similar taste though.

I wanted to call DD Clover
DH veoted it and all the others i chose apart from one random one i got off MN which i was "meh" on for months and contributed to a bit of PND.

4 years on and I've realised it's a bloody amazing name, my other choices were cutesy but this one is very strong and unique which captures DD's personality.

My DD's name is Clara and I still love it - sorry if that doesn't help as your DH doesn't like it.
My former neighbours have a DD a couple of months younger than my DD called Penelope but she's known as Penny for short - would that be a compromise for your DH at all?

I love my first DD name and we chose it fairly early and it was a compromise of what we both liked. In the end we loved it.

Second DD we had a list of names we both liked but hadn't chose. I thought I'd know when I saw her but it made no difference. We debated for a week about it. Some of the names of the lost I started going off 🙈 I really dug my heels in about one name and eventually I was like no I want to call her this. He gave in. He sometimes says her name is ok and he wishes he hadn't given in. I really like the name and I think it suits her so well. The other name he liked was very similar but more traditional and boring. Also very popular around here. Her name is the more modern version of it.

I totally get it, it's hard. U don't want to regret it later and feel that it isn't special enough but just ok. Prob what my DH feels 😂

Yes I absolutely love my children's names. They weren't on my original list of names. They were names I had never thought of. But we found names that we both loved. I guess we were lucky. I would not really like to name my children a name that I was only OK with.

Having said that, I love Charlotte!

No. I couldn't go with the names I really loved for one reason or another. DC1 was a boy but the name I had loved and wanted since I was young didn't go with my husband's surname. In fact it sounded terrible so had to let it go.

DC2 was a girl and DH didn't like the name I loved so had to go for a name we both agreed on and really liked but can't say I loved. I do now though.

DC3 was a girl and was the only name that I can honestly say I really loved. DH and I went through a very rough patch when I was pregnant with her. She was planned but he changed his mind and told me he didn't want her. So frankly I thought there's no way he was getting a say in naming her. She needed to be named by someone who loved her so I named her. He didn't like my choice but I didn't care. He likes it now.

Charlotte is nice but not special and there will always be multiples in school.

What about Lottie? On its own or could be nickname if you do go for Charlotte.

I do like Clara and Matilda though.

I’ve loved my sons name since I was 14. I love it. Same with my daughter. Hers is not that popular but it’s also not weird or unusual and I genuinely adore it. She just suits it. Put it this way, it irritates me if we meet another one, she’s 5 and we’ve only encountered one other who is a grownup. You’ll meet tons of Charlottes.

I’d go for Penelope over Charlotte any day.

Yes and still do a couple of decades on. Oldest was going to have my dad’s name as a middle name (tribute) but once he was born we decided to use it with a different diminutive and it really suits him. Youngest got the other name we loved which didn’t quite seem to fit him the same.

I adore my DCs names - timeless but not overused.

My daughters name wasn't my first choice but I truly love it. Her dad vetoed two names I loved and didn't come up with any suggestions himself. We wanted a name that wasn't popular but also not weird or off the wall either. One day, i suddenly thought of a perfect name i hadnt considered, but was almost scared to ask him what he thought in case he hated it. Luckily he loved it as much as me, so it was decided.

Neither of my dc have the names they would have if I’d been naming them on my own. But DH and I both love the names they have.

I think Charlotte is a great name 😁

We both loved DS1’s name equally from the moment we heard it. DS2 I had a named I loved and it was DH’s second choice so he let me have it. For the first couple of weeks I then didn’t like it and almost changed to DH’s first choice. But we decided to stick with it and I’m glad we did as I love it now. DH’s first choice name for DS2 is his middle name as we don’t plan on having any more.

Yes, absolutely loved my DS's name, and we didn't have any other names on the list, just knew it was the one. I'm pregnant again though, and totally stuck for another name for the new baby!

I can’t say I really loved my children’s names when we chose them (boys names are so hard!), but I love my sons, so by extension I now love their names because they suit them and belong to them.

When you think about it, it doesn’t really matter if you do love their names because it’s your child’s name not yours and you’re making a gamble that they’re going to grow up and like the name you’ve chosen for them anyway. So don’t worry, you’re not going to be doing her a disservice!

Charlotte is a lovely name. It was on our shortlist if we’d had a girl, although like you I would have loved to have something more like Penelope if my husband hadn’t vetoed, so I completely understand where you’re coming from!

If I made the decision myself, my children would be called Gerard "Gerry" Nicholas and Linus Zachary. I love those names. Unfortunately, my DH is a co-creator of our sons and got to have a say in the names. He loved the names Ford and Merlin. We both compromised. Neither of us love the names we chose, but we both love our boys and they both suit their names.

The name we settled on wasn't either of our top choices but it was in my top 5 and my DS warmed to it whilst I was pregnant. So there was an element of compromise.

10 years later, I'm still happy with our choice.

my child has a name that I like, but don’t love. It was on my list of say top 10 names, but probably wouldn’t have been top 3. It was the only one my other half really liked though, so he kind of got to “win” that one
due our second soon (opposite sex to first) and a name I really like is front runner. OH was not keen at first, I’ve just stood my ground more with this one as he got to have final say 1st time round. Obviously, if he hated it, I wouldn’t force it, but after a few weeks he’s come round to it more and says whilst he doesn’t love it, he likes it.
if you’re not due for a while I wouldn’t give up on the 3 you love, maybe get him to pick his favourite of the 3 and try pushing that a bit more.

I didnt love my DD's name, I didnt find I loved any names at all but it was the one I kept coming back to and was most drawn to. I love it now as it is a part of her. I think it can sometimes be an unreasonable expectation that you will fall in love with a name... it has to be partly a reasoned decision based on context - your surname etc and the baby is such an abstract thing until they are here its hard to imagine I think.
Expecting a DS now and again cant find any I LOVE... I say remove the pressure and its fine to go with a 'like' over a 'love'