My husband and I are really bad at naming kids. My son wasn’t named until he was three weeks old, and we only picked the name about an hour before our appointment at the registry office (which we’d already had to postpone once due to not having a name), and decided on the spelling on the walk over.
That was really stressful and I don’t want it to happen again. I’m now pregnant with a girl. We had a name for a girl first time round that we both loved, but it has since become v popular and we don’t want to use it anymore.
Amazingly, we have managed to find another name that we both love, it’s unusual, but simple and classic. It’s got character, and there are lots of nice links between the name and his family background, and mine. I’ve never met anyone with this name, but I have seen it (v rarely) in the media.
The only thing putting me off is that a girl I went to school with (& haven’t seen for about twenty years) had a stillbirth several years ago, and the child had this name, and she posts about it regularly online. Although I didn’t really know the girl at school, we do have many friends in common, and they will know that it’s the name of the daughter she lost. Do you think it would look really odd / naff if I use it? Would you use it?
If it makes a difference, I don’t post about my children online so she wouldn’t see it, and I really, really do love the name. I think it’s perfect.