My baby girl is a few months old and I’m having a wobble about her name (it’s Hallie). Although we had quite a few names on the shortlist throughout my pregnancy, I never felt I got to the “love” stage with any of them. Hallie was DH’s favourite name by far, so we chose that. I didn’t feel 100% sure but I also didn’t have another name that I felt really strongly about either.
I think part of the problem is the reaction from people. I’ve found that people our age/younger tend to have a really positive reaction, saying how nice it is etc. However, with older people, although they don’t say anything outright negative, we get a lot of blank looks and comments about it being “unusual”, “what made you choose that”, “is that foreign”. It’s making me anxious to say her name to people and worried me that we’ve given her a ‘weird’ name that people will question all her life.
She’s obviously registered now and although I know you can change names for the first year, I don’t want to do that and I don’t even know what other name I would choose! I’m not really sure what I’m hoping to get with this thread, just felt I needed to say how I’m feeling somewhere as I don’t want to mention it to people in real life.