What did you call your pfb?

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Why? And, do you still like it?

Abigail still love it

Isabelle - wish we had gone for a different spelling though (isobel) but she doesn't like people shortening it to Izzie (unless they are a very cool 20 year old riding instructor) and she wishes we had called her Isabella.

The thing about names is after about a day you can't imagine them being called anything else.

Lewis, after my great grandma Louisa (mostly know by Louie), she passed away just before I found out I was expecting him :) We mostly shorten his name to Lew or Lewie and yes I still like it, in all versions :o

Connor, and yes I still love it, 18 years later. Not many 18 year old Connors around here either.

Rex. Was always a bit of a joke name and he would call people Rex as a mickeytake. I didn't realise he was serious for our baby and just humoured him while I thought of other names. However, drugged up after my C section, I just agreed! Since then, I have loved it and it suits him.

Declan. 15 years ago. Love it still.

Ivan. After my Grandad - I wanted family names and the only ones we could come up with were all on my mums side of the family - Ivan, George, Carlyle and Donaldson so Ivan he was. DP didn't want a name that could be shortened.

So we called DD 18 months later...... Elizabeth :o gets shortened to all sorts of things. Libby mainly. She is named after my mum.

oooh, by the way, I still love it and it really suits him.

Maisie -never met any other Maisie's up until 18 months or so ago - now there seems to be quite a few. Still love it though

Jaimee-Leigh - read My girl when i was younger so from a young age if ever i had a girl she was to be named after Jamie - Lee Curtis.
Lee is a family name so thought it very apt, I love the name still 7 years on as we don't know any others, although it gets shortened which she prefers

what on earth is a pfb? Some kind of child obviously but which one?!

James.

Named after my dad. Still love it.

Manic, pfb is precious first born.

DS1 was meant to be named by his father but he came up with an idiotic name so I passed it over to my mum

He is called Karl Barrie Emmanual

Kaya Honey (Naa Doley- Ghanian name)

PFB has been known by a diminutive since Day 1 so that now his real name feels like the name of some other child. The short version is him through and through, though.

Lucia.

A result of many blissful hours of lists, colour coded pens and spreadsheets

Not telling, it was a 'settling' name because we couldn't agree.

However, her middle name is Ava which I love so much and wish was her first name.

ah ok, thanks.

Savannah. I still like it but everyone calls her Vannah which I'm less keen on.

Alexander, for the same reasons as Flaneuse, and also because it's a family name. Still love it and so does he.
I don't know anyone who doesn't like Alexander as a name.

His middle name is my maiden name, which, in the last few years, has become a first name usually given to girls. Who would have expected people to start using surnames as girls names?

Maisie.

I love a granny name! Still love it, just a bit miffed that it's become a lot more common in the almost six years since DD1 was born!

Skye - we had a holiday to the Isle of Skye booked for the start of my maternity leave. However, DD arrived at 27 weeks, 7 weeks before the holiday was due to start! We knew we wouldn't get to go away for the holiday, so, in DH's uncharacteristically soppy words, "We couldn't go to Skye, so Skye came to us."

As a new born he was LB for ages- Little baby (low birth weight)

Now he is Fergus, or Ferg or baby gus gus.

Still love it, he is almost 3.

Harriet. Was top of our list years before we had her. Suits her down to the ground. Middle names are family names.

Emily and almost 18 years on I still love it. I hated and still hate my name and that is what I wanted to be called. (Still madly in love with her too, funnily enough!)