https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 06 May 2026 11:17:07 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2517082 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 11:00:39 +0000 Boogs 2517082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We never found a name for the second we loved like the first one. I still like the name, but I wish I have chosen possibly a different first name and definitely a different middle name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2517077 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:58:34 +0000 LindsayLou 2517077@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. My husband has a 10 year old, and my husband has never been a huge fan of his name. So I knew going into naming our kids, that I wanted him to have more of a role in naming. I showed him my long list of girl names, more than 50 names. He liked two of them. He decided that we'd found THE girl name within minutes. I liked the name, eventually agreed to use it, and loved it by the time she was born. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2517076 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:58:27 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2517076@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like the name we chose alot, but not in love with it. If we had made a list of names LO's name would probably be in the top 25 for me. Given how strong DH was really attached to using his own name and having a junior it was important to me that he loved the name. @avivoca: can attest to how much a junior would have been awful. LOL</p> <p>We were able to compromise or maybe there wasn't any real argument about me having complete say over the middle and I love that I get to honor my side. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2517064 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:50:27 +0000 Adira 2517064@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With Logan, we never found a name that we both LOVED. We just had a name we both agreed on and we liked it the best of all the other names we thought of. But we didn't feel the same way about it that we felt about Xander's name before he was born.</p> <p>Now that Logan is here and has his name, I can't imagine it being anything else! It'll definitely grow on you, I promise! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2517061 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:48:21 +0000 MrsKoala 2517061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If we have a boy this time around, I feel like we will be in this boat. DH and I just haven't found a boys name that we love as much as we love our DS's name. We have a couple that we like a lot but we feel weird using a name we just like. This is a tough one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2517057 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:43:38 +0000 ModernDayJibarita 2517057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We both LOVED our girl name option (Carolina Isabel; It's the names of our hometowns in Puerto Rico) but of course our little one ended up being a boy! </p> <p>By the time we found out the sex, we had narrowed it down to about 10 names but as soon as we found out it was a boy, Lorenzo (nn Enzo) immediately stood out from the list as HIS name. So I love it andI love it for him but I LOVE our girl name for it's connection to us (rather than Lorenzo which is just a name we liked). We are using my dad and granddad's MN as his MN so that makes it a bit more meaningful. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2517032 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:28:40 +0000 ShootingStar 2517032@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I liked DS's name, but I would have put his middle name as his first name. Only problem was, we couldn't come up with a middle name that worked. DH pushed hard for the name combo we ended up with. I agreed because I liked it, but I wasn't over the moon for it. </p> <p>But now, I couldn't imagine his name any other way. He's really made it his own and he's definitely his first name, not his middle. He made his own nickname, Ducky, out of it, which I think is so adorable. And now he's saying his full name but with extra syllables, which cracks me up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2517025 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:26:16 +0000 avivoca 2517025@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't love her name at first, but it was really important to T and now I can't imagine her as anything else (I was pushing for Katelyn). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2517024 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:25:32 +0000 wrkbrk 2517024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@coopsmama: You have a Cooper right? We have a Cooper and while it was DW's fist choice and my second, I definitely love it now. Also we receive a lot of compliments on it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2517005 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:19:30 +0000 lamariniere 2517005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For my daughter, my husband picked her first and middle, but I picked our son's first and middle. I like her name a lot, but I don't love love it. She could have easily had a different name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2516972 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:56:06 +0000 catlady 2516972@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I liked it but didn't love it. The names I truly loved were either too popular or vetoed by DH. LO's name was similar to the ones I loved and DH liked that it was less common (for some reason, it is weirdly important to DH that his children have names that are not in the top 100). We chose her name midway through my pregnancy and by the time she was born, I had already grown to love it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2516965 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:51:13 +0000 lovehoneybee 2516965@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. We chose DS's first name because it was a family name...it's DH's middle name, FIL's middle name, and was his mother's maiden name (all with an S on the end). It was either going to be his first or his middle name. I don't really care for his middle name much at all, but it's MIL's maiden name, and it meant a lot to the family. </p> <p>I didn't have a choice in DD's first name pretty much at all. If I REALLY hated it I think D would have been okay with letting it be her middle name, but it was his beloved Grandmother's name, and DD is the first girl McK in 78 years, and it was massively important to D that it be her first name. I chose her middle name. </p> <p>That said, I liked both names a lot, they just wouldn't have been my first choices if it was only up to me. But I LOVE them now (except for DS's middle name, but I just sort of shrug about it?). Their names definitely suit them, and I think they sound great together, too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2516950 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:43:32 +0000 runnerd 2516950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. I adore adore adore F's name, but not L's. I am way too far down the the pregnancy road to backtrack, but I liked the name - it's in my top 10, but it's probably 8 or 9. L is DH's #1 or #2 pick and he is so accommodating of most of my preferences that I wanted to give it to him. I hope once baby arrives that I forgot that he could be named any other name at all. I feel bad though bc I basically am 100% hiding from DH that I sort of regret telling him we should use that name. :/</p> <p>DH was never going to agree to my top 2 names though so it seemed like a fair compromise (even though DH doesn't know that it's a compromise for me since I didn't pose it to him that way). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2516948 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:42:50 +0000 skipra 2516948@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We chose honor names more than names we were in love with. I really love LO2's middle name - it is a variation of DH's name so we didn't use it as a first name. I also really loved LO1's first name but had a bad association because of a coworker I disliked while pregnant with him which made the name less appealing. So out of the 4 names we chose I was only 100% in love with one if them but I would never think of changing them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2516942 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:38:24 +0000 sharpie 2516942@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! It's a family name on my husband's side. It was basically the only name he would entertain. Totally, totally plain. Like the most common male name ever (although not in recent baby naming history, more like most of our dad's are probably named this lol).</p> <p>But, it's totally my son's name and it suits him, and I'm (now) glad we chose it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2516941 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:37:26 +0000 Mrs. Chocolate 2516941@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes I dont love my second daughters name as much as my first daughter which makes sense since I have loved my first daughters name for years before she was born but I had a second place name I liked more than the one we used for my second daughter too. I was all set on using it if we had another girl and thought DH was on board but then as the pregnancy progressed he suddenly out of no where said no way. We went on discussing other names and came up with 2 alternatives, one I liked more and one my DH liked more and we ended up with my DH's choice since I had gotten my 1st choice with my first daughter when my DH wasnt totally in love with the name. I do kinda regret it now and told DH if we have another girl we are using my other name as Im so sad that I never got to use it in some way. I like my baby's name I just somehow dont love it in the same way as I do my other choice still. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2516931 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:29:42 +0000 LBee 2516931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes - I loved the significance, but would not have chosen it if I wasn't married to my husband. It fits him perfectly though! I will say that part of my PPA struggles were in regards to his name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2516929 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:28:21 +0000 catgirl 2516929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I did not really agree on names. DD came almost 4 weeks early and we were fighting in the hospital about what to name her. After two days I caved. I liked his pick enough to just let it go. He was never going to give in to my top name and the other names on my personal list were only slightly higher in my mind than his top choice. </p> <p>I will say for the first month of her life I only called her baby girl - I couldn't bring myself to say her name. Once I got over that it got better. It's still not a name I love, and I would never have picked it if not for DH. BUT it's her name and most days I think it fits her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2516922 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:26:31 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2516922@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS name was in my top 5 but I'm not sure it was my #1. Looking back now though, I can't imagine him named any other name that was on our list! I still like those names, but I really like the one we picked. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2516902 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:18:39 +0000 MtnBiker 2516902@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yeah, DH picked LOs name, I basically lost the energy to argue at the end of the third trimester and he genuinely thought I changed my mind! I like it now, but I more like the nickname I gave him. My big worry, which was not unfounded, was my family would use it as a two-name name and call him by both his first and middle names. We're working on that still... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-choose-a-name-for-your-child-that-you-didnt-love#post-2516895 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:15:00 +0000 coopsmama 2516895@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>And by that I mean, you liked it enough to choose it but you weren't head over heels in love with it? Did you fall in love with it after your child was born/as they grew?</p> <p>Just curious. I loved both of my kids names before they were even born (but was also the one in our marriage who chose them) and am realizing this time since DH's choice has more weight that I probably won't love the name in the same way. So I'm just looking for experiences that are similar and to hear if you loved the name more as time went on. </p>