Do you still love your DC's name

[Fifibluebell]

Or would you pick something different if you could go back?

[TheSporkforeatingkyriarchy]

I'm similar to MrsDeVere.

I love the names we picked for us, the names I picked to fit in for traditional reason I'm more wobbly on and would likely choose something else now that I'm more confident (except DS1 who followed a tradition on his father's side for first born boys and it has really grown on me).

[Shoutymomma]

First, yes; second, no. As soon as she developed her personality it was clear that, nope... that's not her name. Her nickname is her name.

[cupcakeicing]

Yes, very much it really suits him but DS doesn't like it at the moment. He wants it to be something you can buy personalised christmas door hangers and chocolate bars in garden centres.
Had a bit of a falling out about it today so I am just about to order some personalised stuff for his stocking.

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

Yes, I better do too. Screech Say it quite a lot.

[CuriosityCola]

I love both my ds's names. They are both popular and ds1's name is often on the mumsnet dislike list . The only thing with ds1 is I think it's a naughty boys name. It's the one I always hear screeched at the supermarket I also can't abide the way his cousin says it.

[Baileyscoffeeandcampfires]

Love my sons name - it's a sturdy, solid and calm name, just like him.

Dd's name is a very girly name and she is an absolute tomboy so it has been shortened to something that seems more apt for her.

[MrsHelsBels74]

Absolutely, I cannot imagine either of my boys being called anything else. Our boys are both named after our grandfathers so have personal meaning too.

[AnyFuckerWillDo]

Friendly name change and tell us...

[higgle]

I still love the names I gave my two sons. If they had been girls they would have been Ottilie and Felicity, so it was probably a good job they were boys.

[Matchthecase]

Yes, I love them. We had a girl name & a boy name and got b/g twins so got to use both.

[WelliesandPyjamas]

Yes, still love them. They are their names and their names are them, iykwim. One of them is not pronounced quite properly where we have moved to and DS has insisted lately that his teachers' pronunciation is right, not his parents' one , but I still don't regret the choice.

[FriendlyElephant]

Haha, I don't want to "out" myself because I've posted some quite personal things under this name, but DD's name is nothing outrageous, it's not made up or anything, it's quite a classic name. It's just that we're from a northern, very working class area and when I suggested the name before she was born I got a few raised eyebrows and funny looks, and comments about it being either too posh or too old (or jokes about something the name immediately makes most people think of). I still do think it's lovely though, I don't regret it, but I do cringe a little bit inside when someone asks her name.

[CoffeeChocolateWine]

Still love both my DCs names.

The only thing I would say is that I didn't realise how popular my DS's name was before I gave him that name...it was only when I started going to playgroups and playgrounds and there were several other boys with the same name...! But I'm not sure I'd have changed my mind on it though as it's my favourite boys name...even more so now as it's my own boy's name.

And in fact my DD also has a very popular name with variations of the name equally popular. I knew this this time but went with it anyway as it was the only name DH and I could agree on! And I love it

[Flozle]

I do, of course, realise why no one has, but I really wish I knew what names we were talking about here..!

[lljkk]

I am bored of all of them but I would be bored no matter what I chose (just am easily bored).

[flipflopson5thavenue]

When DS was born we immediately started calling him by his nickname as we didn't want people to call him by the other popular nickname for his name. Now he is rarely called by his full name and I regret being hung up on which nickname he's called by, as really it was the full name that I love so much. Not sure if he'll ever really be known as his beautiful full name now although he's only 16mo so maybe there is still hope!

[Squeakygate]

I have never loved one of my dc's names. I can see
He is kind if growing into the name now though
Which helps.
If I had been braver I would have gone with a different
Name / names for him.

[rallytog1]

I love my dd's name. It's traditional and used to be popular, but is rarely used at the moment (200ish babies with the same name last year). People always comment on what a lovely name it is and I think it fits my dd just perfectly.

[MadameDefarge]

DS name is fine. But it was not the name I was desperate to call him. It was a compromise name with exp.

Now DS says he wishes he was called by the name I wanted.

Bah!

But he is now his own name, and its lovely

[BadRoly]

I still love all 4 dcs names but would switch dc3's first and middle names if I could. But dc1-3 have very normal, popular names. Dc4 has a very unusual name (unique possibly) that I love still!

[Mumbrage]

Maybe more now for my dc1. It was a real magnolia compromise name, but now that i've seen the names I preferred at the time seem to explode in popularity or date quicker, I think I like it more now than I did 11 years ago. Like, not love though.

I'd love to know what friendlyelephants daughter's name is; that it makes her feel faintly twattish when she talks about her. ha ha. I kind of know what you mean because some of the names on my list were so fanciful. Azalea for one. I'd be mortified now calling out Azalea in Lidl. Maybe it was all for the best. Luckily I don't care now. I think that's to do with letting a lot of other things go, I was railroaded over, bulldozed over around that time and my daughter's name and my lack of say in it came to mean more than just her name. Every time I said it it reminded me of how my voice wasn't heard. For years. And then suddenly,not any more. Phew

[justhayley]

I love my DS name - he's now 19 months. It really suits him and I like saying it when people ask lol.

[LastOrdersAtTheBra]

DS1 loved at the time and still my favourite name.

DS2 slightly less certain about, but can't think what else we would have used instead...

[AuditAngel]

DS's name we use (actually his second name) I adore. I only know one other child with the same name, a friend's son, who blatantly pinched it (but admits it). I wish we had chosen a different name to go with it, mainly because it is a pain that we use his second name.

When choosing names for DD2 we nearly used Raphael, wish DS had that with his name.

Also, we later found out that DH's grandfather's middle name was Espantaleon (lion scarer). We wish we'd used that!

DD's, I wouldn't change them. DD1, Spanish spelling of a name everyone knows, unusual abbreviation.

DD2, unusual name in the UK.