What did you call your pfb?

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Why? And, do you still like it?

Samuel
Last time I was pg FIL was reseacrhing his family tree and found 5 generations of Samuel Surname prior to his father. I had also always wanted a son called Sam but DH didn't need any persuading.

3 years on. still love it. I really suits him. It is top 15 ish,but have never met another of his age group, and rarely meet any others at all.

Now, what to call No.2?

Edie, plus a middle name and family name. Love it still, really suits her, vaguely in homage to Edie Sedgewick (apart from the dying of heroin bit), plus I had a great aunt Edith. Also, she has the best surname ever ( I can't reveal as would give me away) so I didn't want to go to ott with her first name, but I adore her entire name and am really, really happy with it.

Madeleine. I still love it. Due to unfortunately tragic events it took a down turn in popularity.

Phoebe Elisabeth

I'd go with something less popular given my time again but she suits it.

Phoebe 13 years ago she was named after JD Salingers "the catcher in the rye" as dh read it as a young teen saying if he ever had alittle girl he wanted to name her Phoebe as she was the " coolest sister in the world"

It suits her I still love it would have liked it to not become as popular as it has been but on the other hand she is now in 2ndary school and there are no other Phoebes in her year (one below but )

Fintan nn Fin

It was 20 years ago - so am amazed now to find that Finn and variants seem to be becoming so popular: I have only ever met one other Fintan in the last twenty years.

Romilly

I wanted her to be Romilly Poppet but decreed this was pregnancy hormones. Funnily enough she gets called Romilly Poppet more that she gets called her actual middle names.

I still love it - though she's a bit miffed she can't get a water bottle for school with her name on.

Alice started out as Alice Elin, then I added in Patricia after my mum, as she died when Alice was 3 months old. I absolutely love it, and it means an awful lot to me. Trouble is I'm now expecting another girl, and can't find anything I love as much

Mya which I still love I just wish that I spelt it Maya instead.When I was pregnant she was going to be called Troy but when she was born she looked like a Mya and NN is Milo

Dylan, 13 years on and I still love it.
My Gran went mad when I called it him and said I had given him a cowboy name !

Imogen. She gets called Mim or Mimi owing to the fact that she couldn't say Imogen at first, it came out as Mimogen. We love it and it suits her perfectly.

Ruby. Me and DH struggled with a name for her. I wanted to call her Lydia, but he said it was too posh and too thin . I also quite fancied Zam Zam which would have been fine in Oman, less good in Warrington.
I was adamant that we would not have a family or religious name. Luckily enough, upstairs downstairs was on telly continuously and the poor scullery maid tugged at my heart strings and hence, Ruby was chosen.

Leila. I heard Eric Clapton's unplugged version of Layla on the radio when i was pregnant, i thought it was a lovely sounding name, not too off the wall, but, a little different. 11 years on, i don't know any other Leila's, it suits my daughter and i still love it. I am not crazy about the spelling of it, as people pronounce it Lee-ah, Lie-la and lee-la.

Nina. I love it. We call her Boo a lot of the time though.

Edward Henry Sascha but we call him Teddy!

Ewan ... he's nearly 15 now and I still love it

Helena. I still adore it, she chooses to be called Len, which probably suits her more than Helena tbh!

Jack Michael. Jack after my grandfather & Michael after my dad. Yes, 14 years on, I still love it. Despite Jack having been the most popular boys name for almost all of those years he is still the only one in his year group at secondary school! .

Lily, and yes i still like it. She is 19 now ...

Cameron Howard - Cameron after much deliberation and indecisiveness. Wanted something that sounded good for both child and adult, and sounded 'strong' with a Scottish feel but not too 'obvious' (e.g. Hamish, Gregor). Howard is DH's family tradition, and is his own middle name. Still like it v much, although get gyp from my Glaswegian step-ma for shortening it to Cam .

Linus

cos i am a Schulz nut. and yes, i still LOVE it

Minxy
Not her real name, but that Is what we have always called her

Noah. I love it but am a bit concerned as it seems to have become so popular recently. DS is only 15 mo and before he was born I didn't know of another. I now know of 3 others I really would like him to be the only one in his class at primary school.

Brandon. And yes, I still love it. Couldn't care less if it's considered a 'chav' name or 'common'.