Do your children suit their names?

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If you were naming them now, would you choose different ones?

I'm happy with both our choices.
DCs are secondary school age.

Edited to add - Do they like their names?

Ds1 uses a middle name now. In hindsight, i’d have called him something else. I was 16 (it’s a regular name, nothing controversial).

DS2 and DD suit their name, no regrets.

@Zanatdy You already answered my edit!
When (what age) did your DS1 start to use his middle name?

All 3 of mine like their names now (all quite traditional names).
Dc1 went through a phase of not liking it because teachers shortened it and dc1 didn't like that version, but refused to correct teachers.
Dc2 I was going to call Grace, but someone in the family used it so I didn't in hindsight shes anything but graceful and am not sure if that would have meant it didn't suite her (I love the name though).
I dont regret any of my name choices but do have a few I wish I could have used. One never would because with our surname its someone famous (and not for good reasons). My would have liked to use names were Lucy and Nancy but didn't have enough girls.

Mine are 10 and 8 and both like/suit their names. They are not terribly exciting or uncommon names but obviously we liked them.

I've told them some of the other names we talked about when we were deciding and they both say they hate all the other options and are soo glad we chose the names we did 😄

Although I believe that they probably wouldn't actually feel that way if we had chosen differently, they just don't like the idea of being 'someone else' I think.

@Audhumla I posted this because DC1 came up to me at the weekend and said Dad had told them what our other choice of name was going to be.
Pulled a face and said "Well, I am glad you didn't!" 😂

DD1’s middle name is a bit boring, I’ve now got a lot of more interesting girls names that I regret not having used.

But I still love her first name, and both of DD2’s.

I dislike my second Dd name.
Exh chose it.
I was too traumatised after a horrific birth to care at the time and went along with it but it really bugged me.
My Dm suggested about one year in i change it, she was probably fed up listening to me go on about it, I wish i had.
She is beautiful and exotic looking and I dont think she suits it at all.
Also, many years later I found out exh and his ex from teenage years who got pregnant and miscarried around 12 weeks, named baby my daughters name.

They got back together after we broke up.

My DS suits his name, but I did wonder if it was more a dark-haired name? Rather than a blonde name, he is fair-haired. Does that make sense? MN often says you can only use names from your own culture, this is not the same, but similar?

The boys, yes. If we were naming DD today we'd probably use her middle name as her first but I wouldn't say the name she has doesn't suit her...we just underestimated exactly how popular it is and there has been a fair bit of confusion around whether 'the right Sarah*' has the right bookbag, invite etc over the years and her middle name wouldn't have had any of that!

*Her name isn't Sarah

DC1 couldn’t suit her name more if she tried.

DC2, well, we gave her a classic elegant sort of a name and it doesn’t suit her at all. She’s a boisterous ragamuffin, full of character and mischief! I joke sometimes with DH that we should’ve called something sillier. Coco or Cleo or something….

Just in last 3yrs so when he was 28ish

My eldest doesn’t like her name. She’s 24 and loves to tell me how much she hates it. It’s a beautiful name! Honestly I think no matter that I called her she’d hate it. I suppose if I’m honest maybe it doesn’t suit her but it’s still lovely. My other 3 all suit and like their names.

@MyQuirkyFinch I'm guessing DC2 is Grace? 😄

@Onefortheroad25 she can legally change her name if she dislikes it that much.
How would you feel if she did?
It's a tough gig isn't it!

Yes.

It's a name that's growing in popularity, and my husband moans about the frequency of it, but it's cute enough to be cute on a kid whilst also being a good adult name. It's quite a "cheery" sounding name, and my son is a cheery little boy. He's very physically advanced, and always gets right stuck in with activities to the max, no holding back.

I think his name suits him perfectly for that.

I'll throw nominative determinism into the mix though - I know a Margot who's mum sent her to ballet lessons at the earliest opportunity and is always getting her to pose and preen.

It annoys me because she's always chatting shit complaining about her mum doing the same with her!

Mine all have pretty normal first names that sound fine for a child as well as an adult.

I hate DS2 middle name, there was a family bereavement when he was born and we were pressured to use that family members name to honor them but it doesn't suit DS2 at all.
DS1 moaned about having a "boring" name but was horrified to learn that the other names in the running when he was born were Thor and Rafferty! 😂

DS1 didn’t like his middle name when he was young. He used to say his name was ‘First Name Then-the-bit-I don’t-like Surname.
The name is Henry, Very common now, less so on 1971.
I told DS2 that I wished I had called him Rupert. “Thank God you didn’t, Mum.”