To not understand babies looking like their name

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We chose DS's name when I was pregnant. I loved it and hope he'd look like it. When he was born, DH beamed and said he looked just like a "DS name" and I just went along with it.

He just looked like a squashed up baby. I loved him dearly immediately but never felt he looked like his name. I still love his name and it definitely suits him now but ages, in my heart, he was squashed up baby.

Please tell me it wasn't just me

I could never get away with being called Joy.

Our family doctor once told my mother that my Dad's side of the family were the most miserable looking family he had ever seen.

We can't help it, it's in our DNA to look like we found the winning lottery ticket the day after it expired.

I was going to say we're quite cheerful really but that's not true either, we revel in our miseries

We'd suit unhappy names like Maud and Graham.

Dd2 was called rachel for 3 weeks becsuse mil said she looked like a rachel her names not rachel although I started to like it

If I'd given the beastly brats names that suited them at birth they would have been called Shaved Caterpillar and Full English. Now I think they'd need to be called Fuzzy Bushbaby and Nutjob Dangerboy. Happily I gave them 1950s binmen names, which DH was about

Bin men names I am naming dd cruella this morning she is being vile

We had beautiful delicate sounding names for dd picked on our shortlist, and then out popped this fat 9 lb lump of angry baby melon. She didn't look like ross kemp, more like one of those plastic trolls with the fuzzy sticky up hair.
We went with a 'robust' sounding name. And it was hers the minute I said it, it just was.

I had names already chosen in pregnancy. With ds1 and ds3 I stuck with those names but ds2 I just couldn't get away with the name I'd chosen, I kept looking at him thinking 'he doesn't look like an X'. It took a few days to chose another that 'suited' him.
I think maybe part of the problem was that I was convinced he was a girl and hadn't really concentrated while chosing the initial boys name.

Someone came up to me ina toddler group and told me my son (2.5) really suited his name and she couldn't imagine him being called anything else.
I gave her the same look as when a lady asked if he was a typical Sagittarius (or Capricorn, or whatever she had just informed me his star sign was).

We had a shortlist for our first. I was convinced that we would take one look and just "know" the right name. Took us a day and a half to just pick one after deciding he looked like none of them. In the end we went for preference and sound with the surname. He didn't look like his name to us though for weeks. :-D

Our second got one before she was born (something to do while waiting for the eviction date in hospital), and an extra one afterwards to make form filling harder for her when she's older. ;-)

My mother's friend had Lynne lined up for her DC3. She looked at her and knew she wasn't Lynne so called her something else. A few years later they had DC4 and looked at her and said 'Ah, THIS is Lynne.'