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Do you (still) love DCs names?

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Charlavail · 17/05/2022 12:51

Did you ever love them? With DD her name almost felt decided for her. We didn't even seem to discuss it. But I still get such a kick out of seeing her name written anywhere and love saying it especially her full name.

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Gemzee · 17/05/2022 12:59

I like my son's name Thomas because it is my maiden name so I get a kick out of my old surname and married surname making up his name. Kind of like the 2 familys coming together.

Not a massive fan of the name Thomas in general as such, although he is only 3 so call him Tommy which is cute 😊

EarringsandLipstick · 17/05/2022 13:00

Yes. I love my 3 DC names. They are all Irish names & I love saying them & hearing them used.

ohidoliketobe · 17/05/2022 13:04

DS and DD#1 - yes love them.
DC3 (DD#2) I struggled with choosing a name. Felt like we'd used out 'best' name for oldest DD and nothing sung out to me in the same way if you see what I mean. We settled on a perfectly lovely name and I still like it, just don't love it the same way I do my other DDs name.

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DockOTheBay · 17/05/2022 13:13

First names yes, I was just recently thinking how cute DD2s name is and it really suits her. Though we didn't even consider it for DD1!

Middle names not so much, they're family names so we didn't choose them so much as the first names, and they rarely get used.

BlossomWind · 17/05/2022 13:17

It actually took me a while to get behind DS2's name, it's four syllables and usually abbreviated to two, I didn't like the two syllable abbreviation and was meh about the four - but now it is one of my favourite names and I love it.

Tulips21 · 17/05/2022 13:19

Love mine still.
I dont know anyone with my children's names ( friends/School ect)
The middle names of the younger were also picked by the older children, so extra special.
One of my children does have a harder name to pronounce ( Welsh) and that is the only one I might have reconsidered, once you are used to it though, its fine.

JanglyBeads · 17/05/2022 13:36

Tbh my DD/DC1's was an error - we chose a name that has lots of shortened forms, but tried to use a particular shortening that we both liked.

However that one just didn't seem to suit her so she stayed (full name) until about Y5, which I loved. Her then best friend decided she was actually a different shortening, she adopted it, it's stuck. She's now Y12. I don't like that shortening at all. It's a common one and I should have thought through this happening.

Of course I still love what she wants to be called now because it's her IYSWIM, but I don't love the name per se.

merryhouse · 17/05/2022 13:52

S1's name is perfect. Practically everyone I know with it shortens the 3 syllables to 1, but while I don't mind other people doing that I still use - and think - his full name. It was one of the half-dozen we'd agreed we both liked, and in the post-birth drugged-up haze I looked at him in H's arms and decided that this was definite.

S2 we'd had a name we loved in mind but 5 months before our closest friends had named their son that so we had to come up with something else. We plucked from the aether one that hadn't even made the longlist for S1, that was uncommon in our childhoods but was reaching peak popularity at that point. (My dad hmphed a bit when we told him and said "he'll get called [shortform]". Still, we paved the way for his cousin the following year, who has a (girl's) name now almost as popular but which dad considered fancy and forrin and possibly a bit posh - there was a definite note of incredulity in his voice when he told us Grin).

It wasn't long before I couldn't imagine him being called anything else. And mostly he doesn't get called [shortform].

seasaltstripes · 17/05/2022 13:55

3 kids. I like all their names still. I might have chosen slightly more unusual names than we chose together, but I am pleased with all of them. I wanted to avoid -ie sounds at the end of my girls' names, which narrowed things down nicely!

DD1 we wanted to use a Cornish name that we love, but eventually decided it was a bit too unusual and opted to use it as a middle name. We live in Cornwall now, and if we had done at the time we might have used it for her first name. But it's lucky in some ways that we didn't as it's her best friend's name! I love the flow of her whole name.

Younger DCs both have a family middle name. I don't love one of them as a name, but it's important sentimentally. And she has a great (Cornish) first name that really suits her. We came up with a completely new list for DD2 as we felt the close runners for DD1 might feel a bit second best.

DS has a fairly common name that I like the sound of. His whole name flows well too.

itssquidstella · 17/05/2022 14:00

I’m 39+2 and so excited for DS to arrive so we can announce his name - I love it!

Lndnmummy · 17/05/2022 14:06

Yes love mine. DS one was tricky we actually had decided on a different name but my mother in law hated it and told us as much. In my very fraught post natal state I changed it on the spot. In hindsight I can't imagine ds1 being called anything else now and it is such a beautiful name for him. Ds 2 was easier, we agreed straight away and the name suited him. He is so proud of his name which is really cute as well. So overall, still in love with both names.

user1471538283 · 17/05/2022 14:14

I love my DS's name both the long and short version and all his middle names. I mostly call him by a nickname. Oddly enough he chose to be known by the king version even though I use it very rarely.

veronicagoldberg · 17/05/2022 14:30

I have a small regret about naming DD Naomi, because EVERYONE apart from people who know us calls her Nigh-OH-mee. I call her Ney-OH-mee, and DH (who is Israeli and a Hebrew speaker) calls her Ney-oh-MEE.

So confusing.

I adore her middle name though. It's Yiddish, and was her great-grandmother's name.

Mydogisagentleman · 17/05/2022 14:46

I am ambivalent about our DDs name.
she likes it, I think she sounds like a stripper

Madmog · 17/05/2022 14:47

I do despite the fact it ended up being the most popular girls name the year we chose it - I'd always liked the name though.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 17/05/2022 16:28

Yes. Both classic names that won’t date.

DinosApple · 17/05/2022 16:36

DD1 has a top 10 name and a less popular nickname that she is known as at home and to friends. I still love the nickname - she was that before we had to come up with an official name. It suits her to a T and is a character from a film I loved when I was younger.

DD2 has the name of a queen I was reading about at the time. The queen was pretty formidable and it suits her.

Notmytiep · 17/05/2022 16:39

I still love his name. We struggled to pick a name at first and it was down to 2 names but once we came home with him from the hospital, we knew which one we would go for. I'm really glad we picked that name.

KohlaParasaurus · 17/05/2022 16:42

I insisted on having the final say on my children's names and I still love them all now that the children are adults, though the youngest didn't thank me for giving her a name that rhymes with "smell" when they were growing up.

SoggyPaper · 17/05/2022 16:46

I like my kids names but I find over time they become theirs rather than feeling like something I’ve given them.

Notdoingthis · 17/05/2022 16:51

Yes and as they grow I am more and more convinced that you shouldn't give a baby a cute name. Just a name you love, that you would like to be called, and that could suit any age.

Cliftontherocks · 17/05/2022 16:52

My kids names are highly unusual and I love them. Both kids love their names and don’t want to ever change them. Daughter is in a school of 2000 and no one has got her name - son is the only one in the U.K. both of them love their names so that’s is all that matters of

Narwhalelife · 17/05/2022 17:10

Yes love my DD’s first & full name. She is 12 & loves it too.
It’s classic and even in an all girls grammar school appears to be unusually so that’s nice!

Bumpsadaisie · 17/05/2022 17:11

Yes, if I see either of my DCs names written down I get a little buzz!

Ginandslippers · 17/05/2022 17:16

My DC is 12 and we've never met another child with their name! It's got a great short nickname as the first part of the name, and which is also a cool name in it's own right. They love their name but have found that through school some other children have not been able to spell it although we haven't had that issue with adults.