Did you absolutely love your baby name?

I love both of my children's names. I would remame them the same way if I had to do it now. I wouldn't want to name my child something I was feeling 'meh' about.

@Ylvamoon , I think you need to proofread before posting. I think you meant certain

We gave our DD an unusual name- we just couldn't decide on something more common together. We have never met another person with the name, but historically there are a few, the majority male and often a different spelling!
I love her name, it's unique and suits her personality. She's off to uni this year, and just like her name, she's studying something unique, that many people haven't heard of. (No worries, it's within healtcare with good career prospects!)
So yes, I love the name, but I love the person behind the name more!

I always knew I would have a DS with a cretin name, So no negotiations at all! Again, at the time his name didn't even make it onto the top 1000 list. Sadly a few years later it's firmly stuck in the top 20.
It's a beautiful soft sounding name- just like my DS. (He's beautiful with a soft centre to his personality- if you can say that about a 13y boy!)
So yes, I absolutely love the name & the person behind it.

I'm 19 weeks pregnant with a boy and I love his name, I'm so glad my dh liked it as nothing else would have come close for me.

A girl was much harder, there was nothing we could agree on and had one we both liked but I didn't love it, I like to think with time we'd come up with something we both loved

It's only a name. You don't need to love it. Just pick something that isn't ridiculous and they'll grow into it.

My DDs name we both just liked straight away. I still like it but in retrospect there are things about the spelling and pronunciation that can cause confusion which I hadn't anticipated.

My DS name was a struggle to decide and actually I felt quite low about it at the time. I would say it was a head, not heart decision but is a good solid name and it feels very natural now.

I don't think you do always find the perfect name and I think it can cause a lot of anxiety if you don't, so whilst it's worth considering your options don't let finding a perfect name break you.

Ditto this!!

At the very least Charlotte can have plenty of nn's

I know a Charlie, Lottie, Charl and Oti (pronounced Oaty)

Charlotte is much nicer than Clara, Matilda and Penelope.

We picked names and they were just right when the babies appeared.

Would

Sophia Arabella Emilia Isabella

Work for both of you? Kind of between Charlotte and your choices

I love Clara! (Sorry unhelpful)

I think you do need to love it. Put Charlotte on the maybe list and keep your mind option for others I only 'found' my boys name at month 7 before then was planning to settle

There are hundreds of thousands of names and combinations to choose from. With that many out there, I refuse to compromise, it has to be something I love. If you don’t live it, just keep looking until you do, I’d suggest.

i think If it was just me naming our daughter it would’ve been something totally different. I remember it we’d known the gender was a girl and I said one name which he replied back with literally it with an a on the end instead of an e and that was it. I found out later that day it was his boss at the times idea. I’m not keen on her middle name and wish I could remove it but her first name is her identity and I love her and it.

No. I was convinced we were having a girl and had the chosen girl's name in my minds eye clearly. The boys' names had been much harder to choose however and we had ended up choosing a "this is the least worst option" name for if it was a boy.

When the midwife said it was a boy I remember feeling shocked and then not believing his name was therefore X forthe first couple of days.

I soon got used to it though and now I can't imagine anything else! I love his name!

If I had a name I really loved and he was just a bit 'meh' about it, I'd expect to have the casting vote.
Sorry but after carrying and then delivering this baby and all that comes with that, like fuck am I going with a name I don't love.

I absolutely love both my DD names, probably DD1 name slightly more (loved it since I was a child), but you name the first born the favoured name as obviously it’s not guaranteed you will get another chance to use it! But my DH didn’t have loads of ideas of his own and gave me free rein on choosing names. Although they are quite traditional ‘safe’ names.

Nope, I had to compromise a lot due to differing nationalities and religions of dh and I - along with names that work in the UK. At the time I called my dc names that I thought were too ‘boring’ but now at 13 and 7 I love their names!

I very much love my children's names. I adore them.
Both names look beautiful written down, sound lovely to say, will work at any age and really suit our children.
Our daughter has a name I fell in love with back in the 90s. The name has recently gained popularity but was really rare when we named her! Our son has a traditional name.
Charlotte is lovely OP and has cute nickname possibilities too (Charlie, Lottie). But if you aren't completely sure please remember you don't need to commit to the name yet. Baby isn't here yet so you can wait and see when she arrives.

I don’t think you sound sure, maybe there’s another name that you’ll both love?

I really like your choices, some other ideas might be:
Rosanna - the one I know goes by Zanna which is lovely, and there’s always Rose/Rosie/Annie
Zara
Beatrice/Beatrix - Bea, Trixie, Bertie
Verity
Flora

Fingers crossed you find the perfect name!

I have a Charlotte - we both absolutely adore the name. Only pick a name you really love imo so maybe back to the drawing board for you.

We couldn't agree on a name either and had very different taste.

With dc1 we made a deal where we made a shortlist of acceptable names and dh picked the girl name. I picked the boy name. We had a girl and used the name dh picked. I liked it a lot but would have picked something more unusual.

For dc2 we again whittled it down to a shortlist and I picked from the shortlist (because dh picked for dc1).

I now love both names. Dc1's is very classic and easy to spell etc. Dc2's is an Irish name (I'm Irish), and I love it.

What not go round again.
You've found names you both don't love... so keep going until you find one you both do!

Better to take longer than one party compromise imo.

I adored it from the moment I heard it- still love it now. Though someone on MN thought it was a joke name!

I love dd1 and dd2 names - both my first choice. For ds we never agreed so compromised. It's fine. I can't imagine him as anything else now but it's only fine.

My three boys are in their 20s and I still love their names. Luckily DH agreed with all the names I chose, middle names included.

It sounds like you really aren’t sure.

I remember having a boy name and a girl name for DC2 (we didn’t find out the sex) and the girl’s name was my husband’s suggestion. I’d convinced myself it was the right choice but I did have doubts.

We had a boy and my first thought was relief that we wouldn’t end up using the name, which says a lot I think.