Do you still like your choice in names?

I have had a few interesting conversations with friends over the holidays and a few of us spoke of how we named our kids and some now have second thoughts. I happen to still like my choice in names even though I had to compromise with my husband for my top picks. But after hearing and saying their names thousands of times over the past three years, I really wonder if they will still be names I love in another ten or twenty years. Is there anyone on here with regrets?

 

Nope, I love, love, love my boy's names!

But I have cringed recently when I heard of two different people naming their daughters my boy's names: Finley and Sullivan.

 

I really love the names we chose. They're classic and strong and will work well for kids as well as adults. My only slight disappointments are that the nickname for name one is pretty popular, and a celebrity chose name two for her daughter who's a year younger than my twins. Those two small annoyances aside... I truly love the names and I'm glad we chose them.

(oh - for what it's worth, my kids aren't really named Piper and Cricket. I picked those as Internet names three years ago when I signed up with TS)

 

I did not love Orion as a name at first but it fits that little boy very well and I can't imagine him with something more conventional.

We are naming our soon to be 3rd baby Annabelle and I'm having doubts. (shh!) I used to love the name but we've had it as our stock girl name for so long... I had personalized necklaces printed with all 3 kids names in different metals for the grandmas, though, and don't feel like I can change it.

 

I love our names!!! I always wanted an Anthony like dh(not named after), and loved the name Nicholas. Annabella was a name dh and I had long before we were even engaged!

And Michelle-how funny you say that!! I flip flopped between Annabella and Addison. I loved the name Addison as well(thank you Greys/private practice!). I was almost leaning towards Addison. But, like you, we had Annabella for so long, I felt like, I owed it to her. We had dreamed for years of having an Annabella(didn't know the sex), that I felt like I couldn't go back on it.

And let me tell you-she is no Addison!

 

If I could I would change Nathaniel's middle name. My ex only agreed to Nathaniel if I used his name as a middle name, so Nathaniel got Nathaniel Scott. I really wanted Nathaniel Jackson(a family name) or Nathaniel James. That is my only regret.

 

Love all of our names so far. :good:

 

Ahh, so my doubts are a natural Annabell a/e thing. :lol: that's good to hear. My DH wanted Abigail originally but our last name is pronounced 'E-B' and Abby Eb sounded stupid to me.

 

I love all my kids' names. Sage was easy, it's a name I've loved since I was a teenager and DH liked it fine. Trey was a compromise. It's not actually his given name, he's named after DH who is a II, so Trey is a III... hence the name "Trey." I knew from the outset that our first son would be named after DH, so the only hard thing was coming up with what to call him. DH goes by his middle name (as does his father) so that was just too much to call him. And I didn't care for the first name. It really took going the rounds to come up with Trey and it wasn't until he was a couple days old that DH finally came around and agreed. With Adam we had a hard time agreeing on anything and one night we were looking through a name book and I commented that it was too bad the name Adam was taken (my brother) because I did actually like it a lot. DH agreed and suggested I ask my brother if he minded if we used it. He didn't, so we did. But Adam has a different middle name than his uncle. With Sydney and Sabrina, we couldn't agree on names and finally I made a list of a bunch of names I liked just fine. I handed it to DH and told him to pick 2, any 2 and I'd be fine with them. I'd never planned to have "matching" names or names that started with the same letter for my twins. But he picked Sydney and Sabrina and I was ok with that. Now I love them and can't imagine them as anything else. And they fit so well. Sydney is a tomboy and very strong and athletic (though I'll admit that she'd do it all in a princess dress, if possible). Sabrina is a girly girl. The one thing we did change was Sabrina's middle name. My MIL was dying when the girls were born. She passed away when they were 5 weeks old. One day shortly before they were born, I had the sudden idea that we should give her my MIL's middle name (Sage has my mom's middle name). After my MIL passed away my SIL was visiting and suddenly got really teary. She said she'd just realized that my MIL was the 3rd daughter and had that middle name, she (my SIL) was the 3rd daughter and had that middle name and now Sabrina was the 3rd daughter and had that middle name. That had never occurred to me. Spencer was almost going to be called by his middle name. We came up with 2 names we liked, but couldn't decide which to call him. He's also the only boy in the family to go by his first name. Adam actually goes by his middle, as does DH, his dad and both my BILs.

 

Love my kids names!
I wanted classic names and not trendy ones, except I did not realize that the name Sophia was actually popular (D'oh) until DH's aunt told that it was the most popular girls name in 2007. Oh well. But I wanted names where they wouldn't be one of 5 kids with the same name in their class. I remember going to elementary school and having 5 variations of Jennifer and 3 variations of Stacy in my class. Even in my husband's office, there 5 people with the same name as him :faint:

I've always loved the name Sophia, ever since I was a kid. I love the meaning of it and I love the sound of it. I never thought her middle name would go with first name but it really does. Her middle name is DH's mother's name (Eileen).

Now for Luke, we had a few boys names that we loved. I actually could not decide between Luke or Matthew and I took an informal poll of my co-workers as to which one they liked better and Luke was the winner.
And his middle name is Robert after DH's Dad.

Given how nutty my DH is for Star Wars, the family was kind of surprised that they were not named Luke and Leia, though my one BIL always calls Sophia "Leia".

 

Both of my boys' names were compromises (I think they were both my husband's and my second choices - our first choices did not line up). Now I can't imagine my kids being named anything BUT their names! Love them!

 

We named our kids after family members as well and they really fit them well. And I wanted something timeless that is available in classic and modern literature so they'll be able to find their name in stories. So we did okay on that front.

 

Still love them, but I've loved them for 10 years. Totally common and they'll probably meet 20 other kids with the same names, but oh well.

The only thing that's weird is that we never call her Elizabeth.. we call her Lisa. And she absolutely doesn't look like a Elizabeth to me now... definitely like a Lisa. So... I don't know, maybe we should have called her Elizabeth from the start. But I guess when she's older we can call her whatever she prefers anyway.

 

Love our names! I've had Hannah since I was in 5th grade and luckily DH liked it JT (Jeffrey Thomas) is both of our father's names and was picked before we were engaged/married. And Jack was just a name I liked....and booooyyyy is he ever a Jack!!!

 

I love their names! We picked out Kiefer before we even knew his gender. Of course, we'd have a chosen girl's name if it turned out he was a girl, but We loved the name Kiefer. Cameron was more of a compromise for DH cause I really liked that name and he didn't like any other name I suggested. We love both their names now. DH sometimes likes to think about what other names they could be, but we both agree they have the perfect names for who they are.

 

I love ours too. When we found out it was two girls we decided to each pick one name. We each made a list and vetoed the others names that we couldn't live with. I was on TS at that time in my pregnancy and I kept seeing babies named Lily but I just loved the name so much I wanted it anyway and DH liked it okay too. It's worked out well bc we've not known another Lily in real life. dH chose Amelia's name and although less often seen on this site it seems like we've known several born in real life since 2007. DH named Amelia Margaret after his grandmother and Lily is named Marie after me. For the baby boy it was a lot more difficult - only one baby. I really wanted him named after my dad but compromised after much discussion on Cooper. DH was dead set on another Douglas but I refused to have a brother, son and husband all with the same name, too confusing. Now I love my little Coop though and can't imagine him by any other name. He is cooper the super pooper!

 

Love them! My husband kept telling everyone BEFORE we even knew the genders that if we had a boy he'd be named Clayton ____ . I was not happy with that, but since it was the name of his grandfathers, how could I reject them. I do think that name is perfect for him. I came up with a 'name from the heart' (Audrey) and then her middle name is my sister's middle name. I was surprised that my husband agreed to it! arty: then we went back and forth with a name for Evan. He came up with a name and I did not want a 'top ten' name, so I rejected it. I then came up with several, and then finally Evan. He even agreed to put my grandfather's name as his middle. He said that he really didn't care.. he named Clayton what he wanted and he was great with that. I am happy. Evan is a little more popular than I would have liked, but I would not have changed a thing. Now if Evan had been a girl...

Ha, does that mean you are not done??!!!

 

Still love all my kids names!

My hubby's first name is John (goes by middle name David), his dad's name is John (goes by Johnny), his grandfather's name was John (goes by John), and all 3 lived in the same yard. I knew our first born son was NOT going to be a John. We decided to stick with dh's middle name, David. We loved the flow of Sean David, and turns out Sean is the irish form of John. Sean David he is.

Sean was 4 when we were pregnant with #2. We figured it was boy #2. In 100 yrs DH's family only had a couple of girls born, so odds were pretty good it was a boy. We all liked the name Kaden, Sean had his heart set on it too. Well, when we found out it was a girl, we had issues! Sean was adamant we name her Kaden. Then it was KT (not katie, a K and a T! :lol, I finally found the name Kaelyn and Sean and I fell in love with it! It only took a week to convince DH. We chose Faith because it took us so long to conceive her. Kaelyn Faith.

As soon as we found out the twins were b/g, on the way home from the ultrasound, we started throwing around names. I had a very very short list of boy names I liked, since our first two kids had irish names we wanted to stick with that. Sean and DH both loved Liam. Since they chose the boy name, I got to chose the girl name, Rylee. We decided to use grandparents names for their middle names. Liam Carl is named after dh's papa. Rylee Ann is named after my grandma.

 

We still love our names. When we were going through infertility treatments we threw around a lot of names and even kept a list of our favorites, but after my 1st IVF treatment I remember laying there on bedrest, holding my tummy, and saying "hang on Max & Lily" even though we transfered three embryos. When we found out it was twins and then boy/girl twins we just knew we had to use the names.

The only thing I wish is that Max would realize his full name is Maxwell because he still argues with me that his name is Max not Maxwell, but I figure that is his age and everyone calling him Max.

 

I love our girls' names. Emily (8), Faith (6), Sarah and Rachael (almost 3 year old twins) It's a good thing we had all girls because we always had the hardest time coming up with boys's names. My husband sort of picked Emily and then I picked Faith (after my aunt). Faith was almost a Sarah...we had liked that name for a long time but I was really leaning towards Faith for some reason. So when we found out we were having twins we said that we'd name one Sarah if we had a girl and then I can't remember how but we pretty easily came up with Rachael (which I love!) Then we were killing ourselves trying to come up with boys' names until we found out they were 2 girls and we were like, "Well, that was easy!" I love my girls...they make me crazy, but I do love them!

Shannon

 

I still love my kids names; Dannik, Amélie and Audrée. The only thing that slightly bugs me is that the girls names start with the same letter. Had we known they were ID I might have given some of our non-A names a chance! When said in French the A's have completely different sounds so they don't sound the same at all but when said in English they sound similar.

 

I love all my kids names; Dannik, Amélie and Audrée. The only thing that slightly bugs me is that the girls names start with the same letter. Had we known they were ID I might have given some of my husbands non A names a chance . In french they are totally different A sounds so they don't sound alike at all but when said in English they sound a little too similar.

 

I love the names we picked. Luckily my husband and I both have the same taste for unique names so we didn't have to compromise, we just liked the same things. Also, our girls were extremely premature and so we picked names that we not only liked but had special meaning and significance to our situation. I can't imagine my girls being called anything else!

 

We love our boys names, fits them perfect...I could not imagine any other names for either of them

 

I always laugh because my whole life I was going to have a little girl (if I had one) named Annie. Everyone knew this, then in the end I picked Zoe and Jude. I picked Zoe because the name is so crazy and happy to me and she was so crazy moving in the womb, and turns out it was a great pick for my always smiling little girl. And Jude was on our boys list and we loved it so much we named our second girl Jude. And she is such a Jude! I can't imagine anything else attached to them now. Very fortunate.