Did you absolutely love your baby name?

They definitely grew on me, but they were compromises. I can’t really imagine them now with the names I would have chosen.

My DD’s name was a compromise and what’s more it had a spike in popularity the year of her birth so now there are many kids around with the same name. As a result it feels a bit boring but it’s a very classic name (like Charlotte) so will carry her through life well. She likes it too.

I chose DS name and luckily DH loved it. It's a name you don't hear often but not so unique that it's cringy 😁

I don't like my eldest child's name, it was a compromise name that I suggested and DH loved, but it's very normal and I don't think it's got much personality to it.

Middle child's name I absolutely love! I would rename him the same thing every time if I could go back. I'd wanted to use the name since I was a teen. Dh didn't like it but the birth was pretty awful so he let me have it and now says he loves it, it just took some getting used to as we had negative comments.

Third child's name is fine. It was on my list as a compromise name, but it does suit him. The names I originally wanted I still love, but they're quite "out there" for where we live and DH could not be talked around. If I'm ever lucky enough to have another child I know exactly what to call them though.

Yup. I picked our DD’s and dh liked it to so that was easy.

With ds it was a bit harder. He wanted one name, I wanted another. We settled on the one I picked but I kept dreaming of the one dh picked.

in the end we chose dh’s name

Yep loved my boys' names and still love them now 12&9 years on!

My daughter has the name I’d loved for years and imagined calling a daughter if I had one. Also, whilst she’s not named after anyone exactly (first name anyway) her name does have a particular significance to my family/ background.

We had chosen a compromise name which was a like but not love for me, however it was the one I liked most of all the ones we actually agreed on whilst I was pregnant.

Then when she was born DH looked at her and said ‘oh no, she’s not a compromise name at all is she, I think we should go with my original choice, I actually like it now. I’ll never know if it was a genuine change of heart or him just feeling like I should have my way after a very difficult birth! He definitely loves her name now, and you’d think he came up with it himself.

If she’d been a boy she would definitely have had a name I was just ok with, we struggled far more with boys names and I felt equally ‘meh’ about all of those we came up with for a shortlist - I’m sure I’d have grown to love whatever we eventually chose though!

No. They're traditional (in honour of family members). They're a little 'boring' maybe. But I love them now because they are the names of my babies. It's something for their whole life so I'm kind of glad I didn't have come up with something that I might not like so much in ten years.

I still love my DS1 and DD’s names - first choice names for both of us luckily. Expecting DS2 and have had to come to a compromise this time - probably my third or fourth choice name and his second choice but I still really like it, just don’t absolutely adore it. I’m sure I will once he’s here though :)

I am similar to you OP in that it wouldn't be my first choice but it was the only one we both liked enough and agreed on. I guess you have to have a bit of compromise in a relationship.

It might also be nice for you to both allow yourselves a bit of wiggle room in that when the baby arrives it might not seem like a Charlotte, but something else, that you can together agree on when she is born, that suits her perfectly. When you meet her you will know!

Luckily, as Justaponder mentioned, we both love the name, even 14 years later.

Both of my children would have different names to the ones given had it been my decision alone, however my partner and I came to a compromise both times. We both liked the names chosen of course and have grown to love them, given that they're now our children's names.
I think those who share exactly the same taste in names / have the same favourites as their partner are very lucky - it's makes for a much easier process!