Do you (still) love DCs names?

[Charlavail]

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.

Absolutely

I love his first name, I like his middle name that DP chose, I don't feel great about his surname because my awesome surname is hyphenated with DP's meh surname

Yes, happy with mine. Went with "heard of but not common" names and each of my children are still "singular" in their schools.
I don't really know why people still go for Emily/Oliver etc etc when there seem to be 5+ in each school year already, and I say that as there were 4 of Me in my year at school and I hated it.

Yes. To the point where I feel a brief pang of envy when I meet another child with the same name (its relatively unusual) until I remember I have one with the same name. And he's 24 now! 🤣

It's a name that often comes up on baby name threads and often divides between those who think it's amazing but their husband's vetoed it and those who think it sounds a bit wussy...

DD is 15 and there wasn't much discussion, my DH and DM liked the name. DH gave the name to the midwife whilst I was under GA post CS (very complicated story) and whilst it wasn't my choice, I sacked it up. In 2006 it was a top 10 name.

We have a single syllable surname and I wanted something after a female historical figure, or something much more flowery. Didn't get my way unfortunately.

My son is only 4 months so it's still all new I suppose but after being so sure of it since we conceived him I was surprised when I had a wobble about whether we chose the 'right' name a few weeks ago. I think it is because I read a thread on here where a few people were calling it a dull or 'meh' name. I've since fallen back in love with it though and realize that not everyone is going to love your choice. The majority of people say it's a nice name, online and offline 🙂important thing is that we love it!

I adore my little girl's name. She is named after an awesome scientist. Her name is pretty uncommon (but once met 2 others within about 5 minutes!). Most importantly though, she loves her name too, and often a tells me "good choice mama"

Yes. They are 9,7 and 4 and I adore their names as much as I did when we chose them.

DS we had a name picked. We both loved it. It's classic, probably fallen out of a flavour a little but it's a name we both liked immediately. We didn't know the sex of baby but we knew that was our boys name.

DD1 we went through lists and website etc. Nothing felt right. DP used to pop up every now and then with "what about...." but nothing ever stuck. One day he called me at work with another "what about...." and this was the name.

DD2 was also a suggestion by DP. It was even harder given we struggled so much with DD1. DP suggested the name (very "old lady") and then backtracked but that was it for me. DD had her name

• we knew sex for both DD's

DD is 11 days old and the name we picked for her 10 months ago is still just so perfect for her. I get the same little kick out of seeing it written down!

Yes, I love DD's name. It's unusual, striking and suits her perfectly. It wasn't on our shortlist but we decided to wait until we met her before naming her and none of our shortlist seemed to fit her. When we said this name out loud it just matched her! Still does.

I still like DD1's name although it's no longer v common fir children her age. I liked it because it's so versatile and can be shortened lots of ways and it's very classic like the name Elizabeth. DD1 insists on being called the full version of her name and at the moment doesn't like it shortened.
I'm a little meh about DD2's name. It was neither of our favourite names but the only one which the other didn't dislike.

Both DS yes, DD if I were naming her today, would probably have her middle name as her first name. But I don't dislike the name we used!

Absolutely yes and mine are all adults. I think I adore their names because I adore them. They are their name and their name is them. I love their middle names too.

I have 4 and I love all but #4's name!

We gave our DS an uncommon but not eyebrow raising name. It had just crept into the top three hundred. It’s become more popular in the last couple of years although I’ve rarely come across anyone else with it in real life. There are some well known people in a variety of fields with it but not too many. In my whole teaching career I’ve never had one either in my class or in my school. When people ask for suggestions on name threads I never put it forward as I want it to remain uncommon. I still love it.

I’m happy as I never see it on a card, badge notebook or any personalised item in a shop.

I loved the name I picked for dd1. I was so excited to call her it. It was Francesca. She was stillborn at term. Neither of my other daughters (or my sons) have such a lovely name. I wish I got to say it out loud more often. I didn’t pick names for the others before they arrived and picked in a bit of a rush. I like their names now, but I used my favourite choice and feel the other names don’t measure up! I love the kids themselves immeasurably, but secretly think their names are a little dull. Obviously I’d never tell them that- and they like their names ( the ones that are old enough for voicing opinions anyway!) my baby girl has just named her dolly “mamma” which I thought was adorable 🥰

We chose a boys and a girls name first time as didn't find out. Had a Ds.

I love DS name and middle name and DDs first name. As we had already chosen the girls name when Dc2 arrived we hadn't really thought much about it. I had a total mental block on middle names for her and just gave her my boring middle name. So I wish I had thought more about it, rather than obsessing for 9 months about not having another boys name I liked 😬