Another name question - did you chose your child's name before they were concieved?

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Was discussing names with (childless) friends - and everyone I know has names they like for future babies but I just wondered if anyone actually used the names they had planned on before they got pregnant.

We have names we like, but I can't imagine ever using one for a real baby! (reason no. 471 I am NOT ready for children yet!).

We like Thomas and Caitlin BTW.

Always had names I liked... DH hated some, liked others, we had a reasonably definitive list of first names by the end of my first trimester, just argued about the middle names after that

naily - that is a shocker, but to be honest, I'd have gone ahead and called my child the name I liked anyway - there's only so many names in the world!

Thats good naily.

Am still coming to terms with the fact that some of names I loved when I was single we will never use because DF does not like them - how sad am I?

lapin, i did seriously think about just going ahead anywya

dh and mum said everyone would think i had copied my cousin, i hadnt told anyone else

but i didnt care

then when it came down to it, i decided to go with the name dh had chosen
dh was so lovely they way he broached the subject with me, i could tell he loved the name, i am so glad things turned out

second pg i didnt tell a soul

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the boys name i have always loved dh doesnt!

but i dont think we will ever have a boy

I knew what i wanted to call dd1. but the others weren't named until after they were born - with dd2 we finally decided on the day it was the deadline for registering her (I remember discussing with dh on the bus on the way to register her) - it was very difficult to stop calling her baby!
I generally had a shortlist of names I liked, but dh wouldn't discuss it until after the babies were born.

Both boy & girl names were chosen befoe DD was born. Both began with 'A' - so I guess we got bored of looking in the books!

DP and I always had our boys and girls names chosen even before we thought of having a baby. Girl was Abigail Boy was Elliot.

DD1 came along and was called Abbie when we found out at the scan.

DD2 we couldn't decide on a girls name for ages, I would like one DP wouldn't, we narrowed it down to two and chose one when she was born which I now adore and is just so her.

potential DD3 would be an utter nightmare so I may just have to have an Elliot instead

Oh and our surname when we are married doesn't go with a name I love.

I need to get a grip. I am not even planning on TTC for 2 years!

i had heard my ds' name when i was 16 and decided it as definatly the one when i was 7 months preggers at 18

DD1 is named after my dad (female version!); decided on DS's name whilst pregnant - loved it and then two weeks before he was born, DH mentioned he didn't like it anymore! DD2's name is the name I gave my Tiny Tears when I was 5 and still like the name!

I had to see her face before deciding, although from the age of 16 I'd always loved the name Ruby (from Ruby Ruby Red by Soft Cell), only to find it had become really common (as in ubiqitous).
As it was we couldn't agree all through pregnancy as my DP shot down all my proposals and all his were truly appalling (Ada and Drusilla were a couple of his faves for a while ). Originally we were going to have 1 English name and 1 local name but in the end DD has 2 local names, chosen in haste and weariness, but at least I got my way and have something quite unusual for the first one.

Had DD been a boy it would have been a total nightmare as all the names I like are Russian and I'm not sure how many, if any, I'd have got past DP. He likes really staid boring names that half the male population already has. My SS has the most boring, common name on this earth, if you go and call him in the park 80% of the boys there turn around.

Yes for some reason at our wedding DH asked what happens to the top tier (they took it away and stored it) and I said it gets kept for (boys name) & (girls name) and he said "who are they" and I said "our children" so it just kind of stuck.

3 times yes
ds was going to be Jack but he didn't suit so he ended up Max
dd was going to be Siofra (gaelic for little elf) but ended up being Emilia.
Both kids just did not suit the names

However my latest 1 wk old Finn has been Finn the whole way and he suited it!
Hooray!
But I never hankered after a name from like childhood or anything

Yes, but didn't stick with it - I wanted a Rory, but none of mine was a Rory (iyswim).

only that i always knew if i had boy hed be called james.and first ds is!luckily suits him lol!

I have one all-time favourite boys name, and have had since well before I planned children. So ds was sorted.

We had two boys names that we picked about 8 years before we had children. It was one of those late night, in bed discussions, so we didn't tell anyone about it. Couple of years later, SIL has her DS1 - picks one of 'our' names. OK, fine, one of those things, we've still got one left. Two years later she has her DS2 - uses our other name........ very weird coincidence, but highly irritating!
Our DS1 and 2s names were picked once I was pg, but before they were born. When I was pg with DD (and knew she was a DD) we picked Sofia, and I loved it right up until I saw DD. We called her Babynoname until Dh came up with the perfect name a day or so later

I had a name for a girl picked out before we concieved. I can't even recall where it came from.

It stayed with us, through numerous changes & when we had dd we used it.

I had a boy's and girl's name before I even met dh but the boy's name became our ds' middle name as Dh doesn't like it as a first name. The girl's name makes a rude word with our surname

No, just about managed to come up with a girls name before dd was born.

Boys are easy dh wants to name after his dad who apart from his wife and children has no family. Both his parent had died by the time he was 16yrs.

Now pg again i/we have to find another girls name we can agree on.