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We had 2-3 possible names and named C after she was born. While I was angry at DH for not letting me choose one in advance, I'm glad we did it the way we did. Her name suits her and I love it. No regrets.

He grew into it! We chose his name, Jacobi, before he was born and we LOVED it. When I first saw him, and his first couple weeks he didn't look like a Jacobi to me; he looked like Parker (which was the runner-up and we chose as his middle name). But I let it be and didn't tell DH- but now we totally love love looove it and I'm so glad we named him Cobi (his nn). Although, I do think Parker still would have suited him perfectly.

I DO regret the way we spelled it. When we first saw/heard it, it was spelled Jacobi but then I heard some people tell me they would have spelled it with a Y. By that time we'd already done our maternity pictures with his name spelled with an "I" so it was too late to change it.

I was actually going to write a post on this. I don't think I'll have name regret. I love love love LO's name. But my situation is a little different because I didn't used to love it. I remember growing up thinking it was a stupid name actually.

Her name is Rose. I didn't like the name and I didn't like roses. I thought they were boring and ordinary. I always thought at my wedding I would not have any roses because I wanted something more unique. But then when I went to my florist and she asked if I wanted roses, all of a sudden it cliqued that they are classic and beautiful and I said yes. And when DH said that he had a great grandma named Rose and how about we name our LO after her, I loved it and thought it was perfect.

I don't know why I changed my mind all of a sudden.... but I just hope I never change my mind back. I don't think I will now that LO is here because the name is now associated with her, and obviously I love all things associated with her

So I voted "I changed it" just to represent that this does happen - a friend of mine did it! She hated her 2nd daughter's name from the beginning and was annoyed that a type of birth control came out with the same name and thought people would be forever associating her daughter with the pill. She changed it close to her first birthday!!! We all thought that was a bit late to be changing names, but hey... it's not our call. She's never looked back.

No name regret so far, I love our daughters name!

I didn't like or dislike the name Zoey but my husband loved it. He kept saying that we'd have babies until he had his Zoey. Once it was paired with a middle name, I loved it. When she was born I looked at her and realized she definitely is a Zoey.

i've made no secret I'm not too fussed on LO's name. At one point I actually looked at him and went - you look like a Nick. Or a Sam.

I'm sure he'll grow into it and I'll look back on this in a couple of years and laugh.

Because my husband was born at home, his parents didn't bother to fill out birth certificate paperwork for a year. In that time, they tried a bunch of different names on him until they found one they thought worked.

I have no regrets at all. I think it's a perfect name for LO.

We named DD Emma Kathleen after working through our respective lists and nixing things we didn't like. I was pretty sad that my favorite, Isla Rose, got cut because it was my favorite and it would've fit her so well.

She's a lovely Emma, but her gingy cuteness would've fit Isla a smidge better in my opinion.

i LOVE lil' CB's name, but i have a little regret because the meaning turned out not to be what we initially thought it was. name meanings are really important to us because in korean culture name meanings bear a lot of importance (or at least they used to!). when we first found lil' CB's name, we loved the meaning we saw with it, but then after we had decided on it, everywhere else we saw it gave it a different, less significant meaning. oh, well. in our heads, it just means what we first thought it meant.

I didn't like her name growing up, I thought it was lame. As I got older, I grew to love it, now I couldn't imagine her having any other name in the world. We named her after my maternal grandmother

@plaidpants: Maeve is one of my all-time favorite names

@Weagle: @plaidpants: Maeve is also one of my top favs, for many years (every since I was a teenager reading Maeve Binchy's books!) Sadly DH is a firm 'no' on that one...I AM hoping to put it as a middle at some point though

LO's name is quite uncommon, although not out-there, I don't think. Sometimes when I have to restate his name for people a couple of times, I wonder if we did the right thing with his name....but ultimately I love the name and think it fits him. Plus, I feel you can have even a common name like mine (Kristan) and still end up having to pronounce or spell it for people all the time because of how it's spelled.

Every times someone compliments his name I say "thanks" but inside all I can think is "I get to name the next one."
Nothing is wrong with his name but I don't love it. I also don't see him as any other name. (voted other)