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When you picked your name, did it just feel right?

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LittleBoyJuly2020 · 04/04/2020 20:27

Hello all, I'm having a baby boy and I've spent months looking through thousands of boys names. I honestly dislike them all ...I had no idea I'd struggle so much. DP is the same, neither of us could find a single name we even half liked.

Then the name 'Owen' came to me and it instantly felt like 'the' name. Since then I've felt 100% sure that this is the right name for my little boy. DP likes it too so we're both happy.

My question is, did any of you struggle with a name but when you found a name, you instantly knew it was the right one?

Also, do you like Owen?

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catfeets · 04/04/2020 20:50

We struggled with our baby's name for months. Couldn't find anything we liked and eventually got a list together and whittled it down. One name seemed to grow on us over time but we weren't 100% on it. Took us over a week after she was born to settle on it permanently.
Our families both hate it but friends etc love it. It does suit her but took us a while to confirm that it was the right name for her.

Owen is a nice name, if you're both happy with it I'd use it but be wary of confirming the name with family in case you change your mind later.

zigaziga · 04/04/2020 21:14

Owen is a great name.

Kind of. With my first it was definitely his name. With my second we disagreed a lot more. We both like her name but sometimes I find it weird that it is her name still and she’s almost a year oops. It’s not that I regret it, because I don’t, but I’m weirdly still fixated on names and I feel like there was a name out there that didn’t occur to me. I think what I also find hard is that the nickname is evolving and there are sort of two routes to go down and I don’t know which one she’ll end up being.

Standrewsschool · 04/04/2020 21:18

Owen is a lovely name.

With dc1, he got named the name we chosen.

When dc2 was born, he didn’t suit his chosen name, so got named something else (swopped first and middle names around).

homeschoolchaos · 04/04/2020 21:26

No, not really. It took us weeks to name each of our children; the second was only actually named in the registry office. I really like both of their names but it took us ages to settle on the one that we both liked. Eldest has a fairly unique name - other people do have that name but we’ve not met one yet and he’s nearly 6. It’s very much his name, and everyone at school knows who he is because of it. Youngest has a very popular name, which I still love, but it’s never going to be like eldest’s name, he will always have to have his surname as an identifier or be ‘eldest’s brother’

Lollygaggles · 04/04/2020 21:29

I think it's really important to meet your baby first and see what suits him. DS was nameless for a week before we decided, because we wanted to get it right. It wasn't a name that was in our top 3 that we plumped for, but it just popped up and there it was.

Yes, I like Owen.

MikeUniformMike · 04/04/2020 21:30

Yes, with both DC. Loved the names, still do.
They have quite classic names, very popular for their age group but the names haven't dated.

Owen is fine. No spelling or pronunciation issues, unless you are in Ireland - there it would get mixed up with Eoin, which isn't related.
Owen is a version of Owain but Owain rhymes with wine... mmm. wine...

Cornettoninja · 04/04/2020 21:35

Owen is a great name

We didn’t find out the sex but we’d convinced ourselves we were having a boy (slight abnormality picked up on a scan that’s much more common in boys) and picked names to choose from once he’d arrived - out came a girl!

We’d picked a name before my epidural had worn off because it just is her. I don’t think it’s a name that would have made any short lists if I’d had a girls one but it suits her so perfectly. Even now I get the odd comment that it’s a really good fit for her.

Tigger001 · 04/04/2020 21:36

Yes, we love our sons name and when he arrived, he simply, just looked like a "Bob".

I didn't realise until we started our groups it was quite popular, I hadn't heard it used for decades, so a bit disappointed but we still adore it.

I employed and Eoin and it was the first time I heard it @MikeUniformMike

Yes, I think Owen is ok.

Iwalkinmyclothing · 04/04/2020 21:40

Yes, with all three when we had finally decided it felt absolutely right.

I like Owen :)

Staffori · 04/04/2020 21:42

I love Owen - really good choice.

I knew my favourite two names for my DS from the start and there were others I would have been happy with but my partner didn't like any of my liked names and I hated all of his. In the end he was prepared to compromise give in and let me have my two favourites but the other way round from my initial suggestion, which was fine by me because I loved both names the same. And he turned down my generous offer to add one of his preferred names as a third name.

Win-win.

Aria2015 · 04/04/2020 21:44

Owen is a lovely name.

No didn't feel like I'd found 'the one' in terms of baby names. My dh and I weren't struck on any names ahead of the birth and then lo was born and went 3 days without a name and we felt pressured to pick the one was the most likeable so we did. It was weird to begin with, we had to keep saying the name again and again for it to sink in. After a while though we really came to like it and now couldn't image lo being called anything else.

Whatelsecouldibecalled · 04/04/2020 21:45

Also freaky struggled with boys names. I’m due today and we have decided but it still doesn’t feel quite right! 🤨

Flippyflo · 04/04/2020 21:49

Ah we where the same !

Didn’t like any names, we even had a competition going to see whoever won could name the baby!

2 days before induce day, partner sat down (again for the 100th time) and looked at names we narrowed it down to two names then flipped a coin.

There’s an app called Kinder we used .. if you ain’t heard of it have a look! (Again didn’t help us haha) but others have used it and found ‘the one’

Good luck ! Xx

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LittleBoyJuly2020 · 04/04/2020 21:50

Thank you for all the replies! Really nice to hear your experiences. I'm 100% set on Owen now, and feel so happy that we've finally found a name we actually like.
It's made everything more exciting for me now.

@Whatelsecouldibecalled Aww good luck!

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DramaAlpaca · 04/04/2020 21:51

I really like Owen, good choice.

We didn't really struggle with names for any of our boys, but we knew their names were right when we thought of them.

LittleLittleLittle · 04/04/2020 21:52

Yes.

And yes

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LittleBoyJuly2020 · 04/04/2020 21:52

@Flippyflo We used that app! Was no good for us either haha

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Cucumbersalad · 04/04/2020 21:53

Fab name, love it!!

Llyn · 04/04/2020 21:57

We had talked about lots of names for a boy or girl but hadn’t found anything we liked. We went to the 20 week scan and found out he was a boy. As we left the hospital I said ‘how about ?’ Don’t know where it came from. And he said ‘yes’. We agreed not to tell anyone, and wait and see how we felt once he was born. So we carried on calling him the ‘bump’ name we’d been using. Then when he was born and the midwife was filling in the red book she asked if he had a name, we both just answered . She wrote it in and we both looked at each other and shrugged and that was that.

Llyn · 04/04/2020 21:57

I like Owen.

MooseBreath · 04/04/2020 21:57

DH and I agreed on a girl name almost immediately. It was too good to be true, as we found out soon after that we were having a boy.

Boy names are hard. We looked at the top 1000 names and found next to nothing that we both liked, so looked at the top 2000. We're 99% sure it's the one now, but it's still not as strong a contender as the girl name was!

Owen is very sweet. We both liked it, but it sounds horrendous with our surname.

Pineappletree33 · 04/04/2020 21:58

We really struggled. We didn’t know the sex either so had to have boys and girls names. We had 2 girls names and when she was born one of them suited her. We still dithered but people were asking what she was called so we just went with the one that felt most right.
Couple of years later now and I love her name and suits her so well.
Dread naming this one though.

Tillygetsit · 04/04/2020 23:06

My first 2 dcs were with exh. I chose ds name fairly early on and he wasnt sure but agreed on way to hospital. Dd1's name was a compromise but it gorgeous and it really suits her. DD2, second husband, we went backwards and forwards and I probably drove MN mad but we got there in the end and it suits the chubby little love! Had DD2 last month but sadly he didnt live very long.
His name was beautiful and so was he.

yummyscummymummy01 · 05/04/2020 00:52

Tillygetsit so sorry for your loss

Sillysausage2 · 05/04/2020 01:43

Owen is a lovely name ❤️

We thought my first was a boy and had his name from the start, had a girls name just in case but it was only a week before that we considered we might have to use it and did we like it!

Second we found out he was he and he had the original boys name that we loved.
Just had no 3, he’s 4 months and still call him the baby, his proper name is still slow to come to me!

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