Love or loathe your own RL name?

[stripeybumpsmum]

Trying to choose a name for baby is doing my head in. DS1 btw has a first name in the top 40-50, a second name in the top 90-100 and a very unusual third name. Our surname is not that common but easy to say and spell.

I have a relatively unusual first name (which I love) with a very unusual spelling (which I hate). DH has the most common name of his year, so his generally known by nicknames by family/friends but 'named name' IYSWIM at work. Complicated by named name being second name so actually known officially as something else again. He hates his name.

Are we normal? We don't want our kids to have common names (not in the top 10 for instance) but we don't want them lumbered with Princess Timotei or whatever.

Did your name influence what you call your kids?

I am loosing inspiration so suggestions for baby names (either sex) please!

I like my name. It's a common one, just a nice sound.

Another loathe here - common and sooo 60's/70's. Could have been worse - my dad wanted to call me Patricia which would have made me a Pat - even worse than my name now (no offence intended to any Patricias on M/Net!)

Loathe. 70's, dire, hideous. I wish I was called Elspeth, or Mhairi, thats what I wanted when I was 8 ........

And no, my name didn't influence my kid's names, I chose dd1's name when I was...5? And dd2 was the only name dh and I could agree on, so they both got lumbered with mildly Celtic names, like everyone else in their decade