Has anyone been 100% set on a name for years

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And partner like it too, and ended up not using it? If so, why?

We've had our future baby names set for years (and the boy name long before I met DP) but now we're getting closer to making actual babies I'm starting to doubt our choices. I still love the names but I just don't feel so sure.

Highly theoretical conversation I know but interested to hear from others.

I really loved the names Lily and Eve/Evie. By the time dc were a reality for me both names were ridiculously popular and had been used in my own family. Also dh had other ideas and I ended up moving abroad and choosing names which suit the country we live in. I think it's interesting that so many other people in my generation had the same ideas. I liked the names as they are beautiful but were a bit unusual at the time. Obviously I'm less original than I thought!

I didn't but my DH had a spreadsheet of baby names he liked from before we met. Our DD's name isn't on it.

I had a name that I read in a book years and years ago that I had never heard before and fell in love with. When we fell pregnant, I told my mum this was one of the choices and she said it was chavvy and nasty, I couldn't possibly call my child that. I was heartbroken. My dd was nameless for ten days whilst I tried to find something that I like even a little bit and in the end, my partner said this is the only name she can have and she is called that! I love her name, and everyone who hears it tells me they love it. I doubt my mum even remembers as she has never mentioned it since

I know not quite what you was asking but we very nearly didn't give her that name, but nothing else suited her