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baby names

kissmiikissmii
in November 2012 Moms
ive been thinking alot about what to name my baby, and i managed to come up with a few. out of all of them ive been starting to settle on one and i really like it. but ive been feeling some pressure from my mom and my brother lately because they dont like the name i picked out and so i started thinking that maybe my sister and friends whom ive asked (who said they liked it) dont really like and were just trying to be nice when they said they did. im just starting to have alot of doubts. now i dont know what to do. thoughts? /:
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  • SoCoGirlSoCoGirl member
    Not everyone is going to love the name you choose.  Just pick a name that you love and don't worry about what other people think.
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  • techg0ddesstechg0ddess member

    imageSoCoGirl:
    Not everyone is going to love the name you choose.  Just pick a name that you love and don't worry about what other people think.

     This!  It doesn't matter what name you pick, someone's not going to like it. It's about what you and the dad like, not what everyone else likes :).  

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  • shutupanddance07shutupanddance07 member
    I had this same issue. I basically decided, after lots of tears and stress, that I don't give a crap if they don't like it. I like it, DH likes it, and he's our kid. I'll name him what I want to. Your mom named her kids what she wanted, and your brother can do the same. This is your turn. 
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  • starfish717starfish717 member

    Ditto what others have said - choose based on what you like, not what others think, especially older generations. I was initially like you and very concerned about having the "approval" of my parents and ILs, then I stumbled across this article about the generation gap in names. Read it, it's quite fascinating and makes a ton of sense about why older generations don't seem to like "modern" name trends.

    Now we aren't sharing our final decision until she arrives, just to avoid being influenced by others. The decision is ultimately yours, so trust your gut! :o)

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  • kissmiikissmii
    imagestarfish717:

    Ditto what others have said - choose based on what you like, not what others think, especially older generations. I was initially like you and very concerned about having the "approval" of my parents and ILs, then I stumbled across this article about the generation gap in names. Read it, it's quite fascinating and makes a ton of sense about why older generations don't seem to like "modern" name trends.

    Now we aren't sharing our final decision until she arrives, just to avoid being influenced by others. The decision is ultimately yours, so trust your gut! :o)

     

    THANKS! that article totally made sense. tho my family from the father's side is another story and i wouldnt even want to bring anything up to them until the baby is here. and i guess it is a good idea to keep it to ourselves for a while. and i really do love the name ive picked out for her ((: 

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    imagetechg0ddess:

    imageSoCoGirl:
    Not everyone is going to love the name you choose.  Just pick a name that you love and don't worry about what other people think.

     This!  It doesn't matter what name you pick, someone's not going to like it. It's about what you and the dad like, not what everyone else likes :).  

     

    Yes yes yes to all of this!!! 

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    You can't please everyone - you have to please yourself.  Nowhere in life is this truer than with baby names.

     

    Honestly, I don't understand how people ask for advice on naming.  I have NEVER heard of a situation where everyone agrees - I've rarely heard of such a situation where more than A FEW people agree.  And once you ask, you're forced to reject SOMEONE's opinion ... so it seems better just not to ask at all.  You're a braver soul than I. Smile

     

    its not that. i never asked anyone for names, its just when THEY ask me what i want to name the baby and i tell them, thats when it gets weird, like "oh thats an ugly name" and blabla. so yea. 

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  • CatnipTrinketCatnipTrinket

    Go with what you want, not with what others want. You're always gonna run into somebody who has some reason to dislike the name you want to use. But it's not their child, it's yours.

    Just for an example, before I knew the gender of my baby, I had names picked for either a boy or a girl. And I had two different people protest the names I wanted to use because they had "bad experiences with someone named that". Like their supposedly bad experience had anything to do with my baby or even the name itself? It was the person they had a problem with, not the name. So, you see, you'll always end up with somebody saying something negative. And for them, it's just their problem. 

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