How did you choose your baby's name? Because you loved it,or for tradition,and did you ever change your mind?!

Question

With each of my four children I had names chosen,because I didn't know the sex of the baby I had to chose a boy name and a girl name! With two of the babies the name suited and they were called that from birth,however with the other two the minute they were born the name didn't fit and I had to choose another,did this ever happen to you? Or even worse, have you ever felt obliged to give a baby a family name that you hated?

Answer 1

Every name I had wanted was taken by someone else in my family.
Her father came up with a name, at first I didn't like it. I had told him to give me reasons for his choice. And everyone of them were somewhat strong reasons. It grew on me. So I gave her a normal second name, so she can go by it if she decides to want something normal instead of unique. Even now sometimes I look at her and can't believe I actually went through with giving my child an unusual name, but it fits her. Grandma hated it! But now it rolls right off her tongue...and she calls by her first name and not her normal second name.

Answer 2

I was a maniac. My husband and I chose a boy name (Giovanni) and a girl name (Angelina) a while back. Angelina suddenly became incredibly popular, and I didn't want to have my child have to be known as Angelina C. in elementary school. Our mothers absolutely hated the boy's name, which caused my mother-in-law to give us a baby name book (with 10,000 names). When we found out we were having a girl, I went through all the girl names in the book and wrote down all the ones I liked. Then I went to the Social Security website to see how popular each of the names is (I didn't want anything too common or too weird). I gave the shortened list to my husband, and he chose Marlena. (By the way, we never told our parents the new name until after she was born.)

Answer 3

Here is my experience....
Baby boy 1: Did not know sex and had two names picked out. We lost our first child and wanted to use the same initials, but different name. The name fit well!!

Baby Boy 2: We both liked the first name and the middle name is my cherished grandparents on my mom's side last name. It works very well together.

Twin girls: #1 Used the original girl name, I loved the first name and my wife liked it as well. The middle name is my wife's grandmothers first name. Fits very well...
Twin girl #2 - This is the hardest we ever worked for a name, but we just finally invented a name that we both agreed to and liked. It does fit the hit energy nut very well.

Answer 4

I have 5 kids and with each one, while I was pregnant, I named a thousand times. I have been looking at the sky and came up with names and looked in the mountain streams for names. Names just somehow hit you and you know what their name will be or it may come when the child is born. You are the parent and you have every right to name him or her as you see fit. My only suggestion is don't give a name that is easily made fun of

Answer 5

We had my son's name (Dominick Rayce Jovan) picked out months before he was born. We picked a name we both liked for his first name, a variation of a family middle name, and a second middle name, after his great-grandfather. HIs name has always fit him perfectly. My stepson's name (Holden Jet Kavi) (a first name and 2 middle names they both liked) was chosen while his mother was in labor, and his name has always fit him also. With my daughter, we had a name (Tatum Charlize Calista) picked out, then threw a few more into the mix in the last few weeks. When she was born, my husband got the final pick on her first name (her 2 middle names were after an actress we both love, and my grandmother), after seeing her, and he went with a name that he had picked out a week earlier (Talia Charlize Calista). Now we wish we had gone with the name we had originally decided on, because we feel it would fit her better! If you feel obligated to give a baby a family name that you don't like, try using a variation of it. Or take the first letter of it and pick a name beginning with that letter! Good luck!

Answer 6

I just knew the name, it was in my head as soon as I found out I was pregnant, it wasn't very common at the time (although in the last couple of years it's jumped into the top ten list of baby girl names, oh well, at least in her age range there still aren't that many with her name). I just knew I was having a girl and I just knew what her name should be. My husband took some convincing though, so I kept trying out different middle names and one day one just came to me and I wrote down the first name and the middle name and our last name and he liked it. Everyone says my daughter's name fits her very well.

Answer 7

As we knew we were having a girl we chose the name Madison. That was her name, and we had a few baby trinkets hand painted with her name. Then when she was born, I was mortified that I'd even considered such an awful chavy name and for five days she was nameless. When she was 5 days old we decided on Penny and have never had any regrets.

Answer 8

I always had our babies names chosen before they were born. I also don't choose for tradition, but for the name meanings. We have always thought the names suited our children perfectly too.

Answer 9

My mum chose the name Ben if I was going to be a boy, she had her heart set on it, then my aunty got a dog and called it Ben, my mum went apesh*t, but luckily I was born a girl!!

When my sister was on the way my mum and dad let me choose her name from a shortlist, even though I was only 5 at the time! She is glad I chose the name I did, so are my folks!!

Answer 10

When I was pregnant with my daughter I knew she was a girl, and had already chosen Phoebe for her name, but we also chose Ben in case she was a boy. When I was pregnant with my son, I was convinced he was a boy, so we didn't even think of a girls name. Weirdly Ben didn't seem to fit him, so he ended up as a Joseph, because it was the only name we could agree on!