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Second Thoughts on Names
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Does anyone ever have second thoughts on the name they picked for LO? We had our son's named picked out before I was even pregnant with him and we love it. I even joked with my SIL that if I never had a boy she needed to have a boy and name him Noah, because I love the name that much. Come to find out soon after DS was born that it is number 4 on the top ten list. My Aunt called and told me and was like, there are going to be a lot of Noahs in his class. I'm pretty confident that we would have named him that regardless, but it would have given me a moments pause. No point to this post really, just wondering if anyone can relate?
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Re: Second Thoughts on Names
I was hesitant about DD1's name, because I really liked Olivia, but DH wanted nothing to do with it, and now I can't imagine her with any other name. Personally, it wouldn't bother me what number my kids names made on a list. If I like it, I like it.
I think they grow into their name, and it becomes an association of who they are. Exactly like why I wouldn't have given them certain names because they associate in my mind with people that I can't stand. DH wanted to name DD2 Kylie, specifically with an "ie" at the end. The exact name of his ex-fiance. Noooo thank you ha.
I have an uncle named Tobias. He was called Toby a lot growing up and went through a phase in young adulthood when he absolutely hated being called Toby. Insisted people call him by his true name... Tobias. I love that name!
To OP: My son's name is in no way unique (John) and I'm fine with that. It's DH's middle name and combined with his own middle name (Ryan) DS is named after a character in several Tom Clancy novels. DH and I were team green and made a deal over naming that he would pick the boy name and I would pick the girl name. Tom Clancy is one of DH's favorite authors. My girl name will have to wait.
We loved Olivia as well as PP, but I didn't like how poplar it was, so my husband said "how about Ophelia" the day we found out she was a girl and I was on lard ever since.
When my mom heard, she said "oh. Really? What will her nickname be? Ophie?"
yes, her nickname for now is ophie and I love it. She can choose her own nn in the future if she wants.
I went through that with my middle child, Emma. I fell in love with the name in the 90s, when I read Jane Austen's "Emma" and had wanted to use it since. When Rachel had her baby in Friends and named her Emma I got upset because it would mean a sudden surge in popularity and Emma ended up being the most popular name for the decade.
But I decided that I had loved the name before it was popular, I still loved it and it just fit her. And it was the right name for her, so I have no regrets even if there are 5 in her class lol!
DS2 is named Simon. We picked it mostly because we liked it but I was glad that it wasn't a popular name. I think it suits him nicely.
we named dd Emma because my husband and I had a list of names and we ranked them with which ones we liked and Emma Harper was number one on both our lists so we picked that, and then I realized how popular it had become again but I didn't care because I loved it and so did DH!
Yeah, while I didn't specifically want the most popular name, it's just such a pretty and classic name!
I love Emma too, but thats my dogs name! She will be 5 in Dec so it was before the big boom. My LO name is Ava and it is one of the most popular names now...uggg!!
Sometimes I worry I made a bad choice, but everyone always compliments it. Of course, I wonder if they're just being nice.
IDK, I really love his name, so I'm not planning on changing it.
My Mom chose my name Because it was the most popular name the year I was born, haha. It's really not that bad to grow up with a common name. Sure there was always another Jennifer in my class, always. I probably have more than a dozen Jennifers in my contact list. Maybe it bothers other people, but it really was never a bad thing for me. Don't worry if the name is popular.
I had a friend who tried to change her DD's name at about 4 months old to her middle name, but everyone called her by her first name so much so she gave up.
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I teach 6th grade and a few years ago, I had two girls named Kennedy in my class roster. The second day of school, the mother of one came up to me and said, "We want her to have her own name. Please tell all her teachers to call her by her middle name." Can you imagine? She's 11 years old! So all year she went by her middle name. Needless to say, that kid was quite a challenge.
That was the girl name we had picked out. It'll have to wait tho.
Not the name so much as the spelling. I love the name Ansan, but dh said the only way he would agree is if we spelled it like the Korean city. He is Korean and wanted something to go with that. I would have been fine spelling it Anson, like it usually is. I loved the name so much I didn't care how he wanted to spell it. After all it wasn't too far off of the real spelling and it didn't have some random y or strange unpronouncable spelling.
A few weeks after the birth cert. came I told dh I would rather have spelled it Anson and he asked why we didn't. "headdeask". I told him he said he only wanted the city spelling and he said he wouldn't have cared. Only a few weeks too late to change the birth certificate but oh well.
It grew on me.
Not the name so much as the spelling. I love the name Ansan, but dh said the only way he would agree is if we spelled it like the Korean city. He is Korean and wanted something to go with that. I would have been fine spelling it Anson, like it usually is. I loved the name so much I didn't care how he wanted to spell it. After all it wasn't too far off of the real spelling and it didn't have some random y or strange unpronouncable spelling.
A few weeks after the birth cert. came I told dh I would rather have spelled it Anson and he asked why we didn't. "headdeask". I told him he said he only wanted the city spelling and he said he wouldn't have cared. Only a few weeks too late to change the birth certificate but oh well.
It grew on me.
Jacob has been the #1 name long before Twilight was published.
We sorta regret our daughter's middle name. She is named after my brother (Kyle), which is a unisex name...but so is her first name (Morgan). We wish we had made it Kylie or even just K.
We were set on Desmond until we found out we were having a boy and then my husband insisted on Jackson. I caved even though I loved Desmond. I wish we would have chosen something a little more special.
Thank you for this. I'm embarrassed to say I never even checked the meaning of the name, we just loved it so much, that there wasn't a question that would be our son's name. What a beautiful meaning! It fits my son so well. I was a nanny for a lot of years and honestly I have never seen a baby so calm and peaceful!
I didn't with my first DS, but with the second one, Desmond was the name that we most agreed on but there were others that I loved as well that FI wouldn't budge on. I like the name Desmond, but I don't absolutely love it like I did with DS's first name.
Both names aren't totally out there, but they aren't super common either, so that's a plus for me. What's funny is that even though I didn't go gaga over the name, but I liked it enough, I can't imagine either of them having different names.