Did you absolutely love your baby name?

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Just that really, I’m expecting a baby girl and we’ve settled on a name that I think is.. ok? It’s a compromise between DH and I as there were some names I was in love with but he said no.

Do you think it’s ok to pick a standard name you’re okay with but don’t love? I can’t shake the feeling I’m doing my baby a disservice (probably pregnancy hormones!)

Just for context we’ve decided on Charlotte, which I like but I had Clara, Matilda and Penelope on my list which DH wasn’t keen on 😫

Yes I absolutely love my children's names. They weren't on my original list of names. They were names I had never thought of. But we found names that we both loved. I guess we were lucky. I would not really like to name my children a name that I was only OK with.

Having said that, I love Charlotte!

I love my first DD name and we chose it fairly early and it was a compromise of what we both liked. In the end we loved it.

Second DD we had a list of names we both liked but hadn't chose. I thought I'd know when I saw her but it made no difference. We debated for a week about it. Some of the names of the lost I started going off 🙈 I really dug my heels in about one name and eventually I was like no I want to call her this. He gave in. He sometimes says her name is ok and he wishes he hadn't given in. I really like the name and I think it suits her so well. The other name he liked was very similar but more traditional and boring. Also very popular around here. Her name is the more modern version of it.

I totally get it, it's hard. U don't want to regret it later and feel that it isn't special enough but just ok. Prob what my DH feels 😂

My DD's name is Clara and I still love it - sorry if that doesn't help as your DH doesn't like it.
My former neighbours have a DD a couple of months younger than my DD called Penelope but she's known as Penny for short - would that be a compromise for your DH at all?

I wanted to call DD Clover
DH veoted it and all the others i chose apart from one random one i got off MN which i was "meh" on for months and contributed to a bit of PND.

4 years on and I've realised it's a bloody amazing name, my other choices were cutesy but this one is very strong and unique which captures DD's personality.

Yes, absolutely loved the names, still do. We kept looking (for ages!) until we found ones that we 100% agreed on. Probably helps that we have similar taste though.

Yes, I adore my sons name, it makes me smile every time I say it.
We didn't agree on a single boys name throughout the entire pregnancy.
It took us a good week after he was born to come up with this name. As soon as I said it, my partner agreed and that was that. We'd not considered it before.
I wouldn't have gone with a name I didn't love, but I wouldn't have expected my partner to neither.

@AliasGrape It might be the pregnancy hormones but this just made me cry! 🥹😂💜

I think there are so many beautiful names for boys and girls that is hard to choose just one.

My dds name I picked very early in pregnancy and after a few months I thought why did I pick that?? Why didn’t I go with what I was going to call ds if he was a girl.. that went on for about a year in my head and then she became a toddler and she just suited the name so much and I realised why I had loved it to begin with. She is now a teenager and it still suits her and she is sassy and just gorgeous and I can’t imagine her being anything else.

I love the name Charlotte for what it’s worth and the nicest from your list. Good luck

Yes. The 2 names I chose I would choose again now. I always loved my daughter’s name since I was younger. I wouldn’t go for a name I didn’t love.

Still love mine. Youngest is now late 20s.
Love Charlotte ❤️

I loved our girl name - DH suggested it but I really liked it anyway.

There were no boy names either of us loved like we love our girl name.

No, not love, but satisfied. DC are mostly adults & have never complained.