Do you ever wish you had chosen a different name for your LO?

I am happy with our son's name but not really our daughter's name. My husband had wanted to name her something before we even found out we were having a girl, but I just wasn't crazy about the idea. I liked the name but felt it was becoming too common and this is silly but the couple who leads the teens in our church have a daughter named that. When I went in the hospital at 33 weeks we still hadn't decided on her name. We had a list of names but I wasn't ga-ga over any of them. So I told him if we delivered in November we could name her the name he wanted but if we delivered in December we would name her this other name. Well they were born in December. Now I wonder if I would have preferred that other name after all or there are names I have thought of since their birth that I wish I had thought of sooner. And their names both start with the same first two letters, so I'm wondering if that will be confusing when they get older. I was just curious if anyone else felt this way about their child's name.

 

I am happy with all three of my kiddos names but I didn't realize how common they were until AFTER I named my kids! I hear there names all over and there is always someone else with the same name at the park, school, church etc....My three are DS Korey Aidan DD Kelsey Madisyn & DS Ryley Thomas....all unisex names ending in "ey"

 

I like my names as well but I often think maybe I should have switched who was given each name. My one girl follows my initials and the other my DH's. Baby B who follows my DH's initials was the one in my ribs and bothered me most of my pregnancy. I always joked that she was being named after my DH's for being a pain in my ribs. haha. And this is what I did before I even held them. BUT, baby A is the one who looks exactly like my DH and Baby B looks like me. So, if I could do it over I might have switched the names. But, Mackenzie is now mackenzie to me and Jocelyn is jocleyn. It's just something I think about sometimes.

 

I'm happy with all my kids names, but didn't know when I named Olivia that there were going to be tons of kids with that name in the following years. When I named her, there were hardly any Olivias around & now there are tons. Oh well, what can you do? ardon:

 

That's pretty much my complaint - I love my boys' names, Alex and Sam, but there seem to be a boatload of Alexes and Alexanders around now and even a bunch of Sams and Samuels. My DH (who has the ultra common name of Jeff ) says it's not a bad thing to have a common name. I grew up with a really common name (Becky) and wished for something more unusual!

 

I'm really happy with our lo's names - Kathryn and Owen. Kathryn you don't hear much for little girls and she was named after our moms. Owen is a "jr." but goes by his middle name. But now I think Owen is becoming popular again all of the sudden. One of my "requirements" when picking a name is that the name hasn't been in the top 20 for boy or girl for the last several years. I guess growing up in the 80's and 90's as Sarah makes me want to give my children something a little more unique but not strange.

 

I like my girls names but sometimes now I wish we hadn't let other people talk us out of our favorite name. My parents laughed at it and acted like it was the ugliest name they'd ever heard, so we didn't use it. If I ever have another daughter she will definitely get that name!

 

I ABSOLUTELY love our babies' names BUT I only wish that we were calling Madison "Ava" which is her first name. I'm sure there wouldn't be anything to it just to start calling her Ava, but everybody already knows her by Madison and she has a ton of things personalized "Madison". I don't want to create a big mess of confusion so we'll just stick with Madison.

 

Mine might be too new but no. Henry is laid back (unless you completely miss the mark and then he complains), jovial at times and mostly serious. Everything I pictured a Henry to be. Jacob is more demanding but just as laid back as his brother once you give him what he wants (bottle, change in scenery, swaddle). I know Jacob is the most popular boys name and has been for a long time but my husband chose the name for his great-grandfather, to repay his grandmother's kindness. I can't see either boy having different names.

 

I love my girls names! It's funny, i chose the name Ruby and then we went in search of a name to match it in some way. Df didn't like Sapphire or Jade so i got in a huff and told him to come up with something better lol He chose Amber, which i HATED at first!!! Given that he hated my other suggestions we agreed that he could choose it as i was getting my pick of Ruby. Funnily enough it has really grown on me, we decided at 25wks that twin a would be Amber and twin b would be Ruby. Now that they are here we know they have the right names for suure! Ruby has darker skin and hair and Amber is a blondie and paler just like the stones they are named after!
Ruby is quite a common name but it is rare that you here the two names together for twins.

 

I love the boys names, but I know they will be known by their first name and last name initial! I wanted to them to have names we would be able to find on cups and keychains spelled the right way. We knew Jake was going to be Jake, but Ryan was either going to be Ryan or Kyle. I can't see him as a Kyle now.

 

I do sometimes hear/see a name and think "Oh that's adorable, wish I had thought of that!" But no, I never wish I had named my kids differently! We like Irish names that aren't as common (especially in the south). My kids names are Sean David, Kaelyn Faith, Liam Carl and Rylee Ann. I was pretty picky when looking at names. I like short (so no nicknames), nothing rhyme-y sounding with our names of the other kids names, nothing starting with the same letters as the other kids....etc. I had a long list of requirements! (Call me OCD about names! ). In the end, our kids just "fit" their names! Our boys are both really laid back and relaxed, and our girls are a little more feisty and spirited, and I feel like their names really reflect their personalities! :wub:

 

I'm generally happy about my boys' names, but I'm finding that Jack's name is rather a problem with other people. He's named after my father, whose first name was "John", but always went by "Jack". Jack is a very traditional nickname for John, but NOBODY seems to know that any more!! It's driving us crazy with doctor's appointments, etc. because John is his legal name, but he will never be called that.

Now I know why my dad got annoyed with his name. I should have paid better attention... <_<

 

I wish I had had more time. With our first boy we picked out a name fairly early and then got sick of it and changed it. So with the twins we were waiting until closer to their due date to narrow down names but then they came to early and I found I had to rush to pick names. I bought a name book the night before my section and thumbed through it all night trying to pick my favorites. I do think that my names may have been a little different had my boys gone to term.

 

I love my boys names.

Growing up as a Tarin, I was the only one and I LOVED it. Grandt isn't too common around here, and of course the poor kid will have to spell his name everytime he tells someone, but so did I! Now Grayson on the other hand, I had NEVER heard of another one and now everyone says "oh well my cousins brothers nephews girlfriends sister has a friend named Grayson!" lol.

I had so many choices picked out for a little bit I was scared I made the wrong choice, but I think they fit their names perfectly!

 

My DH and I were just talking about this. I can't imagine the babies names anything other than what they are. To me, they just fit them. Dominic is the bigger one, and a bruiser, which is what that name sounds like to me, and Emma Rose is our little petite girl. Even with Emma being the most popular girl name, we named her that after DH's grandmother, Rose Emma. So, the name has meaning to us too!! But I do hear, "well you know that was the most popular girl name" all the time!! :unsure:

 

It's funny I was just reading a newspaper article on this the other day. The woman who wrote it changed her son's name (officially, on the birth certificate) when he was six months. According to the article:
"In a recent survey of 1,219 mothers conducted by babycentre.com, as many as 10% had considered changing their baby's name."
Here is the full article on the newspapers website if you're interested.