Would you still call your kids the same names.

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I think I would,I still like them and they suit them.

Yes .. definitely.
My eldest ( age 40) has / had a very unique rare name.. but it's become popular in last few years... but mostly spelt the English way.. we chose the original version.
Youngest named after a woman in my favourite book.

Yes. Although if i knew then what I know now, I wouldnt have given them their Dads surname.

Probably not. I wanted to call her Eva or Madeline and I wish I'd gone for one of those.

Yeah 23 and 21 years later I still love our children’s names.

Yes, they all look like their names imo.

Yes. No regrets.

DS1 is 23 and I still love his name. At the time he was born it was pretty rare. About 5 or 6 years later though his name suddenly became really popular, particularly with (hate to say) ‘chavvy’ families. It did dull the shine of his name for a bit but it’s a fab name, chavvy or not. Not sure I’d pick it now though purely for the ‘chav’ connotations.

DS2’s name is a cool classic that really suits him. I’d still pick it but maybe I’d have rethought how the shortened version sounds with our surname.

No . Wish I had fought for my first choice . Think my DS doesn't like his name that his father chose.

Yes. My DD suits her name, it’s very her.
She’s 35 and when I had her in 1988, I’d only ever heard her name once before, in a film I’d watched years before I met DH.
It took off and became a lot more popular in the 90s.
You don’t hear it much now though.

Only DS2, which is a bit more out there. His name is so cool. I regret going ' safe' with DS1. I thought the name I wanted would be too unusual. I wish I'd been a bit more determined and brave. DH and I kind of talked each other out of our more unusual choices.

Yes. DC are 24 and 21 and both like their names.

Yeah they all look exactly like their names. For one of my daughters she has a 3 letter name and I slightly regret not choosing another 3 letter name that actually sounds very similar

Yes I would. I was ahead of the fashion curve with two of their names. One became popular the year after he was born and the other more recently. For some totally irrational reason this annoys me!

First two happy with, last one would have gone for something more elegant then edgy, however she is definitely more edgy than elegant in personality!

DD1 yes, I still love her name and it is classic, vintage, not too common but well known. It has really lovely personal links for us too, both first and middle.

DD2 no, I’ve not been keen ever since she was born and I wish I’d have dug my heels in with my first choice, which I still absolutely love and think really suits her. I actually feel a pang of jealously when I hear other children with that name.

There have been a few times over the years that I've seen or heard of a name that was new to me, and I really liked, and for a brief moment wished I had heard the name before one of mine was born.
However having said that, the names I chose for my children I liked very much,especially the boys.
My daughter, (first born) I had a very difficult time choosing the right name.
My mother wanted to have a say in it, and I really disliked the names she chose for both a boy and a girl.
They have all grown into their names, I love them, and I love their names because their names are who they are.

I still love my DS and DD names and so do they now older at 26 and 29.
At secondary school DD expressed disappointment there was no one else of the same name but lots of duplicate popular names. Maturity has made her appreciate her name. DS as you would expect of boys never mentioned it.
They both in primary school moaned about not having a middle name as we don’t have them in DH side. They’ve got over that now though.

She's only two but absolutely she was always that name before she even existed.

Definitely 😍 would spell the eldest’s with an extra letter but DH got his way on that one.

They all ARE their names. Love them so much!

The other day I remembered I wanted to call DD Maple, and I wish I had as it really suits her…. But then I realised it’s a bit too whacky for us, plus a bit doggy, and I CBA with other people’s surprise (we get that a bit with DS1), so glad we chose what we did in the end!

I didn't like one name but understood why DH did so I went with it.
Now it is my favourite of all the names, even over the ones I chose.
It just suits them so well

Yes, they're all conventional but not commonplace names that they can take anywhere. The one thing I regret is deciding not to give DD1 a middle name because her godmother is the one person in my generation of my extended family who doesn't have a middle name and I intended it as a sort of tribute.

No. I thought I’d go classic for DD and a bit off the wall for DS.

And now I’m stuck with the constant ‘hope your Liz and Boris turn out better than the other ones’.

Probably not, I picked what turned out to be the top name for several years and secretly wish I had went with Brodie which was really unusual at the time.

My daughter has a name that was very unusual 31 years ago . It is now really common which we are both irritated about ! My sons both have lovely names,one is quite common for his generation and my youngest has a name that we love , definitely not popular .

More importantly, do adult DC like their name? Any of them changed it. One relative on DH’s side officially changed his. Most people have no idea it wasn’t their original name