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Name choice just "ok"?
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Does anyone else feel like the name they have picked out for LO is just ok? We have Ian Craig L******** picked out for LO, and I do like it, and I like it better than all other name options we've thought of but it is still just "alright".
I dunno, I just thought that we'd find a name and know instantly that it was the one for our LO and that we would looove it. Does not being over the moon about a name mean that it's not the one and we should keep looking?
(And, I think I'm referring more about the middle name, as I really do love the first name)
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Re: Name choice just "ok"?
We're very much in the just ok camp.
We've got it down to about 5 or 6 names that are all ok, but nothing spectacular. I'm not super worried about it anymore. Maybe the name just isn't a big deal to you?
He's the single greatest thing I've done in my life and reminds me daily of how fun (and funny) life can be. He's turned out pretty swell for having such a heartless and evil mother.
11-15-08
12-1-10
I understand how you feel. Although the name we picked for LO was one of my two favorite names (Sloan), I am having a little bit of "buyer's remorse" as I'm nervous that it's not "classic" enough...
But I have to remind myself that I do love the name, I'm very happy with it, and just when LO is born, I'll make sure it fits her properly.
11-15-08
12-1-10
Every now and again I question if it's the 'right' name, but I really love it. You can keep looking around if you're not sold. Then, if you don't like anything better, you know you have a name picked out that you at least like.
When we were looking at other names, nothing compared to the one we had picked - we kept coming back to it. That's how we knew it was the right one.
I'm with you. I love our girl name. I am meh about the 2 boy names we have now.
Thanks!
It's funny, because I would have said it was a cliche, but as soon as we chose B's name (or more accurately, her nickname) we just *knew* it was the right name. I've never had second thoughts about it, either before or after meeting her.
BUT I'm sure that's not the case for everyone, and I really do think that if you end up naming your son Ian Craig, you'll grow to love the name because you'll love the child.
I love our first name, but I don't love the mn we have right now. I know that sounds terrible cause it's my husbands name, but I just don't love it. I can't find anything I like better so I think we are going to go with it.
He wants Christopher or Ryan. I'm not naming this baby Nolan Ryan!
Blah.
Maybe you'll feel different when you look at him and name him? I really love the name we picked out, but it is still 'just a name'. When there is actually a baby attached to it, I know it will become something else in my head.
If you actually don't like the name, that is something else!
That's how I'm feeling about our girl name... we narrowed it down to 2 but both just felt "okay" to me. Dh finally asked me to choose, so I did (Mila)... but in the last 24 hours I have read 2 different threads on the pronunciation of Mila and both have me right back to why it's only OK to me... because I fear our child will spend her whole life correcting pronunciation.
When we were Team Green, I loved the name we picked out for a boy. When we found out that we are having a boy at the baby shower, I started questioning whether or not I was really into that name for the little being I've been carrying for the past 8 months.
Mr Techie loves it and I'm happy with it. I'm not sure what else we would name him, so Wyatt Jameson is probably going to stick.
We haven't really found the "one" I think we found a winner for a first name, but some days I wonder if it is the right one or not. ( p.s. Telling people IRL is not a great idea, someone will be an @ss and tell you they don't like it, no matter what name it is and that makes it harder to feel good about it)
We can't agree on anything for a middle name, not even close, I am beginning to wonder if we will even find a middle name for LO!
I love the name I chose and it took a lot of debating between it and others. It was on a list of about 5 that I really liked. I recall making name lists with my first two and nothing exactly jumped out at me, especially with my first child.
If you're not so thrilled with the middle name, keep playing around with other ones that you like with Ian. Good luck!
Try using the name when you talk about your LO, and seeing how it sits. If you continue to feel this way after a while of consistently using it, then maybe something else would be better...
You could also just wait for the big day, and I'm sure you'll know when you see him... it either fits or it doesn't. Hehe.
I know, with us, we had been tossing around issues with a name for a little boy, thinking that was what we were going to have. When we found out LO is a girl, we kinda tossed a couple names and then I just clicked on one. The middle name was the hard part for a bit there, and then I realized that my mother's middle name fit perfectly with the first name we'd chosen, so it's all great. Hehe
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
We are not sure what the gender is so we have to come up with names for both a boy and a girl. We absolutely love the boy name but are just ok with the girl name. Being Jewish we have to name the baby after a relative that has passed and we are naming the baby after my DH grandmother and her name starts with J so we have to go with J. For a girl we have Juliet Michelle, which is nice, but we don't love it like the name for a boy which is Jacob Dylan.
I guess we'll wait and see what we have and I am sure no matter what we will love the child and the name will just be part of what we love about him/her.
Not sure if anyone else mentioned this (cuz to be honest, I don't have much time to read all the responses) but imagine years down the road and answering the phone and the person on the other end is asking for your child. Would hearing a particular name all the time drive you crazy?
So far for a boy I like Jackson Royce and for a girl Rylee Rose. I've changed my boy name at least three times (and I'm only at 13 weeks), but my girl name has stayed solid.
~Karen
I think it's different for everyone...my best friend let her DH choose a boy's name & she choose a girl name. Their baby is a boy, & she wasn't crazy about the boy name until she started using it. Now she says that she couldn't picture her son as anyone else.
DH & I chose a boy name & a girl name as soon as we got a BFP. We are in love with both names (Declan Patrick & Adaline Reese) & haven't second guessed our selves at all. I think we talked about it one evening for an hour or two. We find out Monday if we will buy pink or blue! So excited
I'm definitely in the same boat. We had so many girl names picked out at first it was overwhelming. We finally narrowed down, many times, until we landed on Lilianna Grace.. and now everyone's telling me it's a common name these days. And yet it's taken me so long to pick a name that I'm just settling on it until baby comes.. and when she arrives, if she fits the name she'll keep it, if not, we'll use a backup (since we have so many!) and hope for the best.
Picking a name is overwhelming. It's good to have a favorite name picked out, with some backups ready just in case. I wouldn't stress too much.