Do you actually like your kids' names?

[toratoratori]

I feel like I totally settled on C's name. I really wanted to name her Samira. Hubs wasn't having it because it was "too ethnic" (whatever that means). So we named her Cecilia. Which is fine, I guess. But I don't love it.

More than anything, I hate that people constantly call her "CeCe." That's not her fucking name, and it's certainly not a parent-approved nickname. It was like when people tried to call me "Vicki" when I was growing up. SO not okay, but I don't know how to stop it. Everyone does it - even the grandparents who should know better.

Do you guys actually like your kids' names? Did you have to compromise / settle? What would you have named them if you had gotten your way?

[ilovebed]

I love Blb's name. H picked it out and as soon as I heard it I started wishing we would have a girl so I could use it. If we had a boy we can kind of settled on Jeremy, which I don't really like very much but we couldn't agree on anything else.
I grew up with this really cool lady named Cecilia and she went by Cilia which I always thought was really cool. All you can do at this point is politely correct people and then eventually you won't have to b/c she'll do it herself.

[dana86]

Now thats its been some time I like both girls names. With M I totally settled since it was the only name on our small list of 3 after she was born that H liked. Poor thing doesn't know that her name came from a part off H's old truck. As for J, I liked her name from the get go. It was one of the names I picked out on our list and H didn't hate it. He wanted to name her Holley (yes, spelled that way) but it was to cliche for me since she is a Christmas baby. So I won that one lol.

But it took me a couple weeks after both girls were born to really have the names grow on me and register that they fit and all that. I love them both now though.

[toratoratori]

Dec 23, 2014 17:11:01 GMT -5 ilovebed said:

I grew up with this really cool lady named Cecilia and she went by Cilia which I always thought was really cool. All you can do at this point is politely correct people and then eventually you won't have to b/c she'll do it herself.

I've dubbed "Cili" her official nickname, but Dan refuses to call her that. He pretty much never uses her name, actually, which kind of makes me wonder why he cared so much about what it was.

[toratoratori]

Dec 23, 2014 17:20:00 GMT -5 dana86 said:

Now thats its been some time I like both girls names. With M I totally settled since it was the only name on our small list of 3 after she was born that H liked. Poor thing doesn't know that her name came from a part off H's old truck. As for J, I liked her name from the get go. It was one of the names I picked out on our list and H didn't hate it.

If you liked J's name from the beginning, I'm curious - how come you didn't use that for M?

[dana86]

Dec 23, 2014 17:29:33 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

Dec 23, 2014 17:20:00 GMT -5 dana86 said:

Now thats its been some time I like both girls names. With M I totally settled since it was the only name on our small list of 3 after she was born that H liked. Poor thing doesn't know that her name came from a part off H's old truck. As for J, I liked her name from the get go. It was one of the names I picked out on our list and H didn't hate it.

If you liked J's name from the beginning, I'm curious - how come you didn't use that for M?

It wasn't on our list when I was pregnant with M. We have a 3yr gap between the girls so likes changed and we had friends who names their daughter one of the other names on the list. So when we found out #2 was a girl we started a new list and H only contributed Holley since he liked the fact of both girls having similar origins for their names lol. I got the upper hand though since both girls middle names are after women on H's side. 

[shevacc]

I LOVE both their names. My cousin (who will soon be A's godmother) texted me that we should name our daughter Elizabeth Genevieve when I was 30-something weeks pregnant. We had a short list we both mostly liked but threw it out and both agreed that Genevieve was perfect. When I found out A was a boy, DH said he wanted to name him Alexander. It's been a favorite of mine for years but I had no idea he liked it too. I had to get used to the popularity of it, but that was my only hesitation.

[toratoratori]

shevacc I am so jealous that picking names was so easy for you guys! Dan and I BATTLED. He wanted the name Samantha, and I was like, "Dude, have you NEVER heard of Sex and the City?!"

[shevacc]

Dec 23, 2014 19:47:16 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

shevacc I am so jealous that picking names was so easy for you guys! Dan and I BATTLED. He wanted the name Samantha, and I was like, "Dude, have you NEVER heard of Sex and the City?!"

It was strangely easy the second time around. For G, if my cousin wouldn't have texted me I think we both would've felt like we settled. We both like our moms' names, but each prefer our own mom's name as FN and the other as MN. Better to avoid, methinks...

[mrslefty]

We loved a few girls names but dh hated all boys names except this. I really wanted Parker, Graham, or Oliver. I still love those names and a second boy will have one of those names. I put my foot down about H's middle name (it's my dad's name) so I was okay with settling for his first name.
We both love Cecilia as a side note. If it wasn't DH's mom's middle name we'd use it. Can't stand her. A girl would have been Isla. I also really love Pearl and Ivy but DH is so not on board. Probably for the best lol.

[cdmay]

J's name was a top pick of mine. Dh took a while to come around to it (while we were still coming up with possibilities), but we both love it.

[picksthemusic]

I love M's name. B's name... I'm growing to love it. I wanted a different middle name, but J wanted the one he has, so I compromised.

[stretchad]

We had two names we liked, fairly equally...Miles & Wesley. But even with that we weren't super super excited about them... When he was delivered, it was abundantly clear that he was a Wesley and it is absolutely perfect. I LOVE it. I can't imagine him being named Miles now!

[alias]

I liked E's name, but it was a compromise b/c it was the only name we were both OK with. It took a long time to grow on me and I didn't call him by his name much as a baby. But, I love it and it grows on me all the time. I can't imagine what else he'd be named.

[toratoratori]

Dec 25, 2014 23:54:35 GMT -5 alias said:

I liked E's name, but it was a compromise b/c it was the only name we were both OK with. It took a long time to grow on me and I didn't call him by his name much as a baby. But, I love it and it grows on me all the time. I can't imagine what else he'd be named.

FTR, I LOVE E's name. 

[alias]

Dec 26, 2014 12:55:14 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

Dec 25, 2014 23:54:35 GMT -5 alias said:

I liked E's name, but it was a compromise b/c it was the only name we were both OK with. It took a long time to grow on me and I didn't call him by his name much as a baby. But, I love it and it grows on me all the time. I can't imagine what else he'd be named.

FTR, I LOVE E's name. 

I either get, "I LOVE that name!" or weird looks or smart ass comments about him being named after a city.

I like it, but it's not a baby name to me. It just didn't suit him as a squishy little baby. He had to grow into it. But, it'll be great when he's all grown and an NFL quarterback/lawyer/Dr./senator.

[alias]

Dec 26, 2014 12:55:14 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

Dec 25, 2014 23:54:35 GMT -5 alias said:

I liked E's name, but it was a compromise b/c it was the only name we were both OK with. It took a long time to grow on me and I didn't call him by his name much as a baby. But, I love it and it grows on me all the time. I can't imagine what else he'd be named.

FTR, I LOVE E's name. 

And, also, I love Cili.

[georgeharrison]

Dec 26, 2014 13:38:06 GMT -5 alias said:

Dec 26, 2014 12:55:14 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

FTR, I LOVE E's name. 

I either get, "I LOVE that name!" or weird looks or smart ass comments about him being named after a city.

I like it, but it's not a baby name to me. It just didn't suit him as a squishy little baby. He had to grow into it. But, it'll be great when he's all grown and an NFL quarterback/lawyer/Dr./senator.

I get this.  Tman went by lots of silly nicknames when he was a baby, because it's just not a baby, cutsie name.  I love E's name, though, and if you weren't in the Seattle metro area, no one would blink an eye about it also being a city name - if they even knew.  It's like naming a kid Austin, but not as popular.  No big deal.

[toratoratori]

Dec 26, 2014 15:13:21 GMT -5 georgeharrison said:

Dec 26, 2014 13:38:06 GMT -5 alias said:

I either get, "I LOVE that name!" or weird looks or smart ass comments about him being named after a city.

I like it, but it's not a baby name to me. It just didn't suit him as a squishy little baby. He had to grow into it. But, it'll be great when he's all grown and an NFL quarterback/lawyer/Dr./senator.

I get this.  Tman went by lots of silly nicknames when he was a baby, because it's just not a baby, cutsie name.  I love E's name, though, and if you weren't in the Seattle metro area, no one would blink an eye about it also being a city name - if they even knew.  It's like naming a kid Austin, but not as popular.  No big deal.

I used to advise a kid whose last name was Davis, and he was from Davis. I made the mistake of pointing that out once, probably for the billionth time in his life. He was notably unimpressed.

[alias]

Dec 26, 2014 15:13:21 GMT -5 georgeharrison said:

Dec 26, 2014 13:38:06 GMT -5 alias said:

I either get, "I LOVE that name!" or weird looks or smart ass comments about him being named after a city.

I like it, but it's not a baby name to me. It just didn't suit him as a squishy little baby. He had to grow into it. But, it'll be great when he's all grown and an NFL quarterback/lawyer/Dr./senator.

I get this.  Tman went by lots of silly nicknames when he was a baby, because it's just not a baby, cutsie name.  I love E's name, though, and if you weren't in the Seattle metro area, no one would blink an eye about it also being a city name - if they even knew.  It's like naming a kid Austin, but not as popular.  No big deal.

It doesn't bother me, but dumbasses point it out sometimes.  Including a very insensitive nurse at the hospital who asked why not Renton or Seattle?  She's lucky I couldn't get out of bed or I might have punched her in the face.  Not really, but I wanted to.

[toratoratori]

Dec 26, 2014 22:04:46 GMT -5 alias said:

Dec 26, 2014 15:13:21 GMT -5 georgeharrison said:

I get this.  Tman went by lots of silly nicknames when he was a baby, because it's just not a baby, cutsie name.  I love E's name, though, and if you weren't in the Seattle metro area, no one would blink an eye about it also being a city name - if they even knew.  It's like naming a kid Austin, but not as popular.  No big deal.

It doesn't bother me, but dumbasses point it out sometimes.  Including a very insensitive nurse at the hospital who asked why not Renton or Seattle?  She's lucky I couldn't get out of bed or I might have punched her in the face.  Not really, but I wanted to.

Wowww. She sounds like a real winner.

[jennlin]

i love both my kids names, except sometimes i wonder why i bothered even naming them. we call my daughter by her chinese name more (which is traditionally assigned by paternal grandpa), and my son we call him "little brother" in chinese...so we use neither of their legal names.

we decided on bjl's first name before we officially started dating, so that was easy..her middle name we decided when the nurse said "either turn in the paperwork now, or mail it in within 2 weeks". i'm not excited about it, but it works.

boys name we had a lot of struggle with, and didn't name him until a few days before he was born. i was very very unhappy with all name choices until the last few days. i was pretty depressed that there wasn't a name that we loved, but i do love it now. his middle name had been decided for years, though (FIL's first name).

[jennlin]

Jan 6, 2015 18:41:34 GMT -5 spunbutterfly said:

De?

Haha.

Funny story... friends of ours who are a couple, they always call the wife's younger brother De the entire time I've know them. So, naturally, I assumed his name was De and when he came up to visit for Halloween, called him De.

All the people who speak Mandarin died laughing.

He still is called De and not by his given name.

Yes! It's technically didi pronounced deedee. But it's very common for every member of the family to call the youngest male didi. A lot of our friends have stated calling him that too because that's what we call him.

[toratoratori]

Jan 6, 2015 18:41:34 GMT -5 spunbutterfly said:

De?

Haha.

Funny story... friends of ours who are a couple, they always call the wife's younger brother De the entire time I've know them. So, naturally, I assumed his name was De and when he came up to visit for Halloween, called him De.

All the people who speak Mandarin died laughing.

He still is called De and not by his given name.

What does it mean?

[kwpnjumper55]

I got to choose both Donovan and Kieran's names so I love them. Justin wanted to name Kieran, Tyler. No way dude. If we had a girl, I would have gotten to name her too since the only one we could agree on was my suggestion.

[jennlin]

Jan 14, 2015 18:45:20 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

Jan 6, 2015 18:41:34 GMT -5 spunbutterfly said:

De?

Haha.

Funny story... friends of ours who are a couple, they always call the wife's younger brother De the entire time I've know them. So, naturally, I assumed his name was De and when he came up to visit for Halloween, called him De.

All the people who speak Mandarin died laughing.

He still is called De and not by his given name.

What does it mean?

Little brother