QOTD: 3/27

[Unknown]

I saw this on another board and thought about posting here, but I don't think I ever did. Let me know if I did.

Now that we are a ways out from having our LOs, how are you feeling about the names you have picked? Love them, Hate them, wish you did different spellings?, SS.

[Unknown]

I love our DD's name more then when we picked it, both first and middle. The only thing is it is really popular and we'll see how that works out as she gets older and is in school.

[marley629]

I love DS's name. It's special to both SO & I. I don't like certain nicknames people call him however. We had his name picked out before we knew we were having a son and have no regrets.

[joi922]

I love his name. As we expected and predicted, we got some grief about it from my family because it's my dad's name and the name of one of my uncles and great uncles. I have a huge family, and we were told not to use any popular family names, but it was our favorite and we never really considered any other name. Everyone has their own nickname for DS to differentiate between all the relatives, which I think is cute, even though we thought his name was pretty nickname-proof. We have no regrets about the name.

[redfraggle]

I picked them long before we ever had kids. They are family names (all of my kids got family names), so I will always love them for that. I did realize after writing it a bunch of times that DD's name looks kind of funny when I write the first and middle names together just because they have a lot of the same letters in them, but I love the sound of it when it is spoken. And my angel got 3 names instead of the 2 I originally picked out because I was so shocked when she passed that I used her nickname as her name when filling out the paperwork (nothing went to the government, but the hospital gave us a memento with her name on it), which was not the original name we had picked out; some time later, after I'd accepted her death, I added the original name to her nickname because it felt right to give it to her. DS's name is as melodious to me as it was the day we first picked it out.

[zoly1103]

Love his first name; I really feel like it fits him. One of his middle names (he has two) is my dad's name, which is still kind of strange to me when I use his full name but I'm sure I will get used to it.

[mommabakes]

I love her name more now than I did when we named her. It was pretty much the only name DH and I could agree on. I do wish we had spelled it the"proper"way. I didn't think about spelling at all, and when she was born we went by how it sounds, which is not the typical spelling. Gwenyth vs Gwyneth

[annarose]

Love my kids name! Love calling her by her first and middle name all the time. One of my friends husbands gave her a nickname that I couldn't believe I didn't think of myself - they use it all the time and it cracks me up. No regrets. Naming a next child will be hard

[happymama]

DD's first and middle name hold a lot of significance for both DH and I. We loved it when we chose it and we love it even more now since she is the most significant thing in our lives and it's her name

[Deleted]

Love them. I've always adored Ashley for a girl. Kayla had never ever been on my radar before, but DH loved it - I wasn't sold on it until I saw her. But it fits her so well and I just love it even more than I did when she was born and DH told me "This is Kayla." (He got to show her to me first.) Ashley has Rose for a middle name, after my grandmother, and I think it's gorgeous. Kayla's middle name is Dawn, which I've always thought was so beautiful, but never liked for a first name, for whatever reason.

No name regret here! (Although, if we have another girl at some point, I might push for Samantha Lynn, which was the name DH and I had thought about for Kayla before DH decided that he liked Kayla better.)

[legitsince86]

I love her name. It suits her well. I wasn't sure of the middle name (DH suggested to use my moms middle name). Now it just flows when I have to use "mad" voice lol.

If the next kid is a girl, I'm screwed. I only had one girl name picked out and LO has it.

[girlonfire]

I love her first name. My only regret is that it rhymes with Paris (which I reeeealy don't like). I kinda regret her middle name though. I like the name but there's no significance. I wish I went with my grandmothers name Gwendolyn, or just Gwen. I love that name but for some reason didn't think of it till well after dd was born.

[wowcheezits]

I love it. At first, it almost felt like a tongue twister, but I can say Evelyn no problem now. I think it suits her.

[carli]

Love her name. I was also one that had it picked waaayyyyy before she was conceived. It's always been a favorite.

LO 's name is decided and I'm hoping I love it. I like it now. He'll be the third and we are calling him Trey. I just have concerns of confusion. Dh was dead set on it though so I went with it.

[lilqt3929]

I love the first name we picked for DD but unfortunately it's one of the top baby girl names so hopefully she'll be ok with being in school with many other girls with the same name. What's funny is DH and I just recently talked about the other names on our list of possibilities for DD and had a good laugh, its so wierd thinking of what she could have been named. I kind of wish we would have picked a diferent middle name, one with a significance behind it but other then that I have no real complaints!

[af1004]

I can't imagine DD with a different name. Even though DH and I both went into the hospital thinking we'd pick our other name. I decided on her name while being stitched up.... just a few days after bring home I couldn't imagine her with the other name. But I'm hanging on to it in case we have another DD in the future. DD's middle name is after DH's grandmother. I thought her names make into a cute nickname, I thought I'd use it but never do. I try sometimes but doesn't from right. I still hope it suits her in the future.

[jlprybs927]

Still love it! It's a variant form of my departed mothers name. It's pretty and unique, not common at all. Middle name flowed perfectly with it.

Second child might not be as easy. My MIL actually found D's name and it was perfect, I hope we have a boy next time even though we have Everything girl! I like the name Benjamin, Benji for short or Miles.

[junewife]

We still like it and can't imagine him as anything else!

[fiveohfive]

I still like her name and am super happy we chose it. I'm having a hell of a time picking DD2s name because nothing seems to come as easy to us.

[sugarkissed]

We both still love her name.. myself even more than when we chose it. I was on the fence but it was literally the only thing that we could agree on. Now it suits her so perfectly and I'm glad we chose it! We are really, really struggling to find a name for baby # 2 though!

[nymama917]

We still love her name. I'm the kind of person who overthinks everything and regrets things later and I was worried that would happen but it hasn't. Her middle name is after my grandma who passed when I was young. I really wanted that as her first name but just couldn't make it work. Anyway I am thrilled with the whole name and get compliments all the time on it.

[RedDDD]

I love both my kiddos names. Both are easy to spell, not super unusual but different enough that there isn't anyone else i know with kids with the same names. I really looked a lot on the social security website and looked at names in the 200+ so they were no where near the top 50. I have a very common name and I freakin HATED it growing up. I still don't really like it so I think I was super sensitive about that.

[littlefoot]

I'm a little late on this but I found it super interesting. I still love DD's name, but wish I would have spelled her middle name differently. Before we picked her name, we vaguely discussed naming her after DH (his is a girls name now) but somehow never thought about it again. But it would have fit her as well I think