Baby girl name regret? Anyone else felt this way also

[Mummytoone7]

Before I was pregnant I loved the name Ocean for a girl. And when I found out I was having a baby girl that was her name for a while.

My whole family kept putting me off Ocean, they didn’t like it. So we waited until she was born thinking she would look like a name.. we also had Raine on our list - pronounced “Rain” and I loved the name Elodie but my partner didn’t.

When she was born we just couldn’t choose a name but my whole family started calling her Raine and my Nan even wrote Raine in her Christmas card. The day we got her registered, I just went with Raine but everyday I feel a sense of regret. I am also glad I didn’t go with Ocean in the end.

I just feel I was kind of pressured to call her that name but my partner on the other hand loves it and always says he’s glad we named her that. She’s 4 months old now.
Anyone else been in the same boat?

I had concern with both my DC’s names. For months. I think it was just hormones as now I couldn’t imagine any other names for them. Congrats on your little girl.

We called my Daughter a really popular name by accident. It’s in the top 3 most popular names and we didn’t realise for a month.

It seemed too late to change her name, so we stuck with it. I had a major wobble when she was about 6 months old and wanted to change her name. I wrote on here and everyone said it was too late to change it, but I wish I had gone with my gut and changed it.

I do love her name though, but there’s just 10 of them in every park that we go to 🤣

Elodie is really nice, it’s a shame your husband didn’t like it.

Raine is nice (a lot better than ocean) but I do feel like you need to be pretty cool as a teenager/ adult to pull it off.

Raine is nice. Ocean isn’t

How old is she, @Mummytoone7 ?
You can change the name quite easily up to the age of 12 months.

Elodie is the most conventional of those names, but I think it's a bit bland, and she'll probably be another Ellie.

The Raine I think of is Princess Diana's glamorous stepmother, and she was Barbara Cartland's daughter.

Ocean is a bit out there, but it's not too out there.

There are many threads on baby name regret. It's quite normal to feel you were rushed into making a decision.

If you are fixating on the name, mention it to the practice nurse or GP.

It does take a while to get used to a baby having a proper name.

With the names you have listed, check that each goes with the surname. Raine Coates or Raine Mackintosh might not be ideal.

I really like Raine.

Raine is nice, often a nn for Lorraine.

I think it’s lovely. As PP said it is often really hard to picture a baby with an actual name, they take a while to grow into it.

@HugoYorway she is 4 months!

I’m not really a fan of Ellie so wouldn’t have liked that to of been her nickname.

I’ve only recently found out about Raine Spencer and wasn’t she an evil women they called Acid Raine

I love the sound of Raine but can see how it might not be the easiest name to live with, because it sounds the same as rain. How about changing it to something similar sounding, e.g.

Wren
Raya
Raina
Remi
Romy
Seren nn Reni / Ren
Serena

Raine's a lovely name.

I like Raine very much. Unusual but not too unusual or whacky. I think it sounds classy. Probably because I’m old and associate it with Raine Spencer.

If there is another name you & your partner think would suit her better just try it out for a couple of weeks to see how you feel. We swapped our daughters name to her middle name at 3months & feel so much happier about it. I really worried about telling people but it’s actually been fine - The original first name we chose just didn’t feel right when we started to say it & like you I felt pressured into making a decision as she was born close to Christmas!
People definitely grow into names so if you decide to keep her name Raine she will become a Raine & it will really suit her - it’s a lovely name.
Hope you feel more settled on a decision soon xx

Or Lorena nn Raine is lovely ☺️

I know a couple of Lorraines and one is Lainie which is pretty.

Raine is lovely. We know a toddler called Raine, it really suits her. I didn't think it did as a baby but it's great on a toddler, and like any names popular in a certain generation it will age fine because others their age all have similar names.
A lot of names seem weird on toddlers. 2 of our 3 DC didn't suit their names until they were out of the baby stage in my opinion, I used nicknames a lot of the time until they started understanding things.

Could you change it to Raina? I absolutely love that and it was on my short list. I think it might be easier to pull off and very pretty. I think Raine is lovely too by the way, but I suppose Raina sounds a bit more like a ‘name’ that Raine
changing name is easier under 12 months old, so if you want to change it, do it
who cares what people might think/say
it will all be old news very quickly

I think Raine is nice for what it’s worth. I kind of feel ambivalent about my last daughter’s name. We just went with it because it was the only one dh liked and I liked. I didn’t love it. I do sometimes feel a bit irked about it but still can’t think what else I could have called her.
If there’s something else you like more you can still change it. She’s only tiny. Not keen on Elodie and Ocean is a bit daft

I’d rather be called Raine than Ocean or Elodie.

Raine is my daughters name , I always thought it was a beautiful name and not very common which is nice.

I love it OP, I actually know two children called Raine.

What other names do you like?

Can you change the pronunciation to Rain-e. My DC has a classmate with that name and I think it's lovely

I like the name Raine. I don't think Raine Spencer was ever evil. My daughter shares a name with Hitler's mistress... I forgot at the time of naming her. My daughter has a friend called Olive, in my day it would have been Olive Oil from Popeye. Olive is 12 now and this association has never come up. I wouldn't fret over Princess Diana's stepmother, we're 40 years on from her being in the news.

Raine is a lovely name. Congratulations!

Raina makes me think of Indian cricketers.