Do you still love your DC's name

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

I love his name (he is five months). We had real trouble agreeing on a boy's name and it was the only one we could genuinely both love. He suits it perfectly.

Yes, we both absolutely still love it (2 yrs on) and it suits him completely. I am slightly worried that if we had another child, how we would ever match it...

Yes. DD's name suits her down to the ground.

Hmm... I love the IDEA of DD's name, I always have, but I still feel a bit odd when I say it. I think it's because people had mixed feelings about it when I mentioned it before she was born and now I feel like they're judging me for using it (although it's nothing ridiculous, just a bit old fashioned or a bit too posh-sounding maybe?). A part of me doesn't care, I think it's beautiful and she'll grow up to like it, but a little bit of me feels a bit twattish when I talk about her

Is it wrong that I'm so, so curious to know what some of these names are?

1 out of 3!

DD1's name is fine but a bit blah.

DD2 got the name I wanted to give dd1 but DH vetoed. I still love it but can't imagine it being DD1's name as it is DD2 now IYKWIM.

DD3 we were struggling to agree any name so picked the first one we both liked. Still like it but been told its chavvy. I don't care but suspect my mother does!

Yes, all of them.

MrsDeVere - you don't 'know' me particularly, but I've seen you talk about your beautiful daughter. It is really lovely that your DS's have her name in theirs.

I love both my girls' names, but they are both still small. My only regret is that I wasn't slightly wilder with DD1's middle names.

Yes - love the first names we gave all three dcs.

However, if I could go back I would maybe rethink dd's middle name to add one that I kind of kept back in case we had another dd. A family name that we didn't initially use because dd would then have been named with BOTH my middle names. Felt a bit egomaniacal at the time.

FriendlyElephant, "a little bit of me feels twattish when I talk about her"

Sorry, but that did make me laugh.

Go on, what's her name? Give us a clue at least. I'm sure it's lovely

Yes.

Love ds2's name much more than I did when I gave to him (was a family name rather than a name we wanted in its own merits).

Honestly no... My DD has a traditional unusual name, it's lovely and it suits her, she's grown into it but she often gets called the shortened version which is common. It wasn't my first choice.

My DS has an unusual "new" name, I would definitely change it and hugely regret it. It was weirdly my choice and I loved it at the time but peoples reactions have tainted it, to the point I find myself being abit embarrassed when people ask :( I am hoping he grows into it which of course he will x

Yes, I've 3 daughters & each time I've had a name picked (boy & girl) at about 30 weeks & never really budged from it

I just picked my favourite name each time, I didn't think to look if their initials did anything strange! Their names are popular but again that never bothered me.

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.

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...

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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!

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