are you happy wite the names you have chosen after ? years

dd1 12years Phoebe Margrethe still adore it Phoebe was dh's choice ( named after JD Salingers the catcher in the Rye) and Margrethe was after my paternal grandmother I still love how it sounds together I still look at her and think yes you are 100% a Phoebe

dd2 10 years old Eloisa Jacqueline love it even more than I did when we named her it 10 years ago I love the sound of them togehter I adore how people react to it (oh that is SUCH a beautiful name) I love how it made Sil cry we named her after her and omg I love I got to name her what I dreamt we had a little girl

ds 8 years old Conrad Paul Yes I still like it I still look at him and nod thinking yes right choice Paul is after my late bil and I actually love how people do a double take over this one it is not considered a popular name I have noticed people react strongly I love that either they are 100% behind it going OMG thats gorgeous or they are really not liking it (and usually to polite to say so)

dd3 6 years Aoife Sørine I adore it I love Aoife I love how no one can spell it I adore how they go OHHH thats so pretty when they realise how to pronounce it and as my dearly loved grandpa whom she is named after (Søren) passed away when she was only 6 m old I still feel so happy we did pick that name for her

so yes in answer to the question I very much feel happy with the choices dh and I made so many years ago

my DD is Sian and i LOVE her name as do all the family and DH was very proud to have her as his name-sake (sort of he is Sean)

my first choice of name for her was Elinor but DH hated the name so we had to look for one we both loved she would have been Adam if she had been a He

i have already chosen the names for our future DC and DH is in agreement (up to now) with Alexia (Lexxi) for girl and Aaron (Ronnie- after DHs grandad who was Ronald but i WILL NOT call my DC Ronald so a name with "ron" in it was my compromise and i LOVE Aaron) for boy

There are some really lovely names on here!

I have a Catherine (Nearly 3yo) and a Joseph (6 months), both of which I love. The only thing I would possibly change is the spelling of Catherine to Katherine as I shorten it to Katie, but people assume that if it is Catherine then you shorten it to Cathy. Fine if she was older, but doesn't seem right on a 2 year old! (I get fed up of saying 'It's Catherine with a C or Katie with a K!' My own fault really!)

But DH loves the spelling, where as at the time I wasn't too fussed either way, so I can live with it! DH calls her Catherine/Cat/Cats anyway, so will probably migrate to that when she gets older.

i've got 3 children and i only really Love ds2's name - Theodore. dd is Alexandra, i wish I'd called her a flower name. Ds2 is Gus. I was beyond desperate to call him Gabriel, but I couldn't budge dh and god I tried. Gus [Angus} was a real compromise. He's 6 months now and I still think of him as Gabriel, I asked dh the other day if we could change his name and got the withering glare.

I never thought my children would have the names they do.

DS' names I still love, although his 1st name often gets blank looks. His middle name, chosen by DP, is just as great, and could be used as a fall-back name if, in future years, the 1st name gets too much hassle.
I don't think it will, in an increasingly diverse society, but you never know.
DD's 1st name was chosen by DP, and I'm OK with it. What I'm most disappointed in is her middle name - it's just meh - and doesn't fit her. I chose it, though, so tough.

DS is William which I still love and it really suits him. I wanted a name that would suit a child and an adult but that he could shorten if he wanted to...so he is either William or Will. He is most definitely not a Billy-doesn't sound right for him for some reason! I really wanted to call him his middle name which is George after my Grandad but when you say it together with our surname it sounds like someone out of Shooting Stars (if anyone remembers that!) and even though in 10 years nobody will remember it I just couldn't saddle the poor child with that...especially as DH bears more than a passing rememblance to Matt Lucas lol!

Am not even pregnant again yet but have got names already picked out:

Charlie Edward or Thomas Edward for a boy and either Emily Grace or Evie Grace for a girl...my mum is called Evelyn so thought it would be nice to have that for a girl.

Considering how DS's name is fairly "common" he is the only one in his year at school!

DD is called Evie. Like a few other posters, I still love this name, but it has become hugely popular. It does suit her though - she's a very sunny, confident girl.

OK bigweehag how do you like it pronounced (in case I ever meet one)?

Ds1 name I love still - Reilly

Ds2- he is called Jamie and I wish his first name was Levi, which is his middle name

dd1 - I like her name, Millie (mimi) but again wish her name was Jessamy - it's now her middle name

dd2 - LOVE her first name, Lacey. But am meh about her middle name. I hormonally wanted her middle name to be Lilac but mum said no lol. Her middle name is Nicole

I do love DD's name (she's an Áine) but the English part of the family say ON-ya which jars a little. DS1 suits his name perfectly, I wanted Dara for him but it was vetoed on the grounds that it sounds like a girls name , but I am glad he has his name now. DS2 has a tree name, and it makes me smile every time I say it, I love it so much.

I'm not sure, I sometime here other names and think "I wish I'd called her that". I sometimes wish I'd been more adventurous.

Would agree that chavness is about spending money on show-offy things, why a nouveau riche person and a traveller can both be classed as chav. Is purely sour grapes on behalf of middle class people with mortgage and tax moans.

I like ds2's name, but it is quite a popular name. At school boys with this name are almost always the naughty ones - seriously! So I do wish we'd chosen differently for him.

I love both DDs names DD1-Kaya I chose..although I was skeptical about DD2-Bethany my DH picked it but she really owns the name..and they sound good together

chav means child...it has been corrupted and now means as abovedepending on where you live and what you read..

I still love both ds's name (quite rare, only used 13 times last year ) and dd's name (unfortunately becoming a little more popular now...).

I think chav means spending your money on non-sensible things that non-chav people disapprove of. I'm not posh, but I'm miserably tight with money. spend money on your finger nails ??

we all think it means something different. something which is the opposite of something that we are!!!

Well yes, that is what I take it to mean. Actually, I tend to think "uncultured" but that is just my own brand of snobbery.

But it is a term of abuse isn't it? You wouldn't call someone a chav and mean they were nice.

Doesn't "chav' just mean "working class and with bad dress sense'? What used to be 'common"?

Really? I thought chav was universally acknowledged to be a term of abuse.

Fascinated by the idea that you can't be a "chav" and a "nice boy". Some of my ds's best friends are chavs!

Ah, OK NDP, thought you were someone else for a moment