Does your baby's name feel strange?

[ZooMa]

Just wondering if anyone out there feels weird saying their baby's name.

I can't tell if I really don't like my son's name or if it just feels strange and I'll grow used to it. I have some emotional issues still surrounding medical complications of his pregnancy/ birth, so I think that's clouding my judgment. He's three months old though and I want to predict when I'll think the name really is his!

FWIW, hubby and I didn't really discuss names before our son's birth! We picked one when he was 4 days old, and though it was off of my list, I had only considered it for a middle and hadn't imagined it as a first. Hearing it out loud is such a different vibe than seeing it on a list....

Anyone else surprised by the baby and the name not meshing?

 

[PrincessTaz]

I had a list of names but we didn't know what we were having so baby didn't have a name before he was born and we also hadn't shared our names with anyone so not really said them out loud too much.

I was pretty sure about the name I would choose but once he was born it felt so weird calling him by his name, and honestly I avoided it calling him baba babu or other cute nicknames. It was a good few weeks before it felt natural using his proper names and a hew weeks longer than that to use it without having to think about it.

I also had for me a traumatic birth, not physically, but it really wasn't what I'd wanted so maybe that was part of it too.

 

[Larkspur]

I feel like my daughter will probably not suit her name (Manon) until she is close to school age. I think it's very pretty (it's French) but it's not a name for a baby.

We call her Noni, which to me is a cute, babyish name. I also call her Baby and Booboo a lot.

Funnily, the nickname bothers my OH a bit. He adores her real name, and is anxious that if we call her by a nickname, nobody will ever call her by her real name.

 

[LoraLoo]

Manon is absolutely beautiful!

I think it does feel a bit strange at first, especially when you haven't had a name locked out in pregnancy. They grow into their names I think.

 

[Kirsty3051]

Yep. So much so that we changed his name 3 times between the day I delivered and the day we registered him. I didn't like the name my husband picked out but we were literally sat in the registry waiting room, trying to agree on a name.

 

[Rhio92]

Not so much with DD, but with DS it felt weird for ages! With both I decided their names at around 30 weeks pregnant. I think after months of dreaming of having your baby and it having a name that only you can choose, it feels weird to have the baby here with that name x

 

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[HoneyBee144]

I was always certain with both our boys, we had our second sons name picked out straight after our first son was born.

However, I've never really found a girls name that just clicks with me. I have one name that I adore but still cant imagine our little girl (if we ever have one) being called it. Maybe that's because we have 2 boys and I don't ever see us with a girl.

 

[staralfur]

It did feel weird at first, I don't remember how long, but now that she's a toddler I feel that she very much suits her name. It didn't help I'm sure that I had no girls names I loved at the time and my DH picked her name because I had no other suggestions.

 

[LoveMyBaby786]

My sons name i picked it out the day before i registered him (lol) but even though it was on my top 3 it still sounded really weird at first.

Same with dd. Picked her name out like a day after birth. Felt soo strange saying it so ive been calling her 'baby' for ages until only recently!! It's not even an unusual name its just i feel weird calling babies by their names... yeah that sounds silly writing it like that lol

 

[upsy daisy1]

With both pregnancy we had the names picked out a few weeks after finding out the sex. With my first she was instantly my mia when she was born but we still called her all the nicknames... With this baby my daughter and husband always refer to her by her name and my daughter is always talking about her so when she is here I think.she will.fit into the name.easily....I hope

 

[minties]

Thomas didn't feel strange, we were calling him that from 26 weeks. But Sophie wasn't named until a few days after birth and the name felt really strange for a long time.

I still feel like she should have been called Sophia Irene and not Sophie May. Sophie is a nickname, not a proper first name :-/

 

[MrsT&Ben]

My first his name suited him down to a t and never felt weird. But I just feel my daughters name just doesn't suit her. I love it but it's just not her. So I call her lots of nick names. I'm hoping as she gets older she will grow in to it. I feel like we gave her the name because it was the only one we could agree on. Which makes me sad.

 

[staralfur]

Thomas didn't feel strange, we were calling him that from 26 weeks. But Sophie wasn't named until a few days after birth and the name felt really strange for a long time.

I still feel like she should have been called Sophia Irene and not Sophie May. Sophie is a nickname, not a proper first name :-/

If it makes you feel better I've always much preferred Sophie over Sophia! I think it totally holds its own as a proper first name, much like Sadie, Effie, etc.

 

[bbbbbbb811]

I feel like we gave her the name because it was the only one we could agree on. Which makes me sad.

This is exactly what I feel, it's a lovely name we've chosen but it doesn't feel like 'the name'.
I hope she grows into it because atm we call her Mimi which I feel suits her better right now, sounds strange people(even myself) calling her by her actual name!

 

[twobecome3]

both oh and I just called her baby for at least the first month as she just seemed, too small for her name ?!

 

[Mushymilkfor2]

My son's name felt right from the very beginning. It's a name we had for ages, even before we knew we would actually have kids and when we heard boy we knew without a doubt he was Alexander Thomas. We even went through a ton of names to come up with alternatives and wrote them down the the future.

Now that we're pregnant with another boy we referred to our list and hate all of the names we had picked then. Even the one we deemed "perfect" for our second son. We've now picked a name that's 100% different then we ever imagined using and it just feels right. If that makes sense.

 

[Buttercup84]

It did with DD1 but not DD2 for some reason. I think because I 'knew' DD2s name from very early on and was sure we'd use it if she was a girl but with DD1 we decided quite late and even when she was born it was between her name and another one. It definitely suits her now though

 

[Literati_Love]

My dd's name felt really weird for the first couple weeks. I think it was mainly because we kept it a secret from people the whole pregnancy despite knowing her name from even before I got pregnant. I got so used to holding it in and not saying it (because I almost accidentally blurted it many times) that after she came out I kept saying her name and then thinking, "oh no! I shouldn't have said it! Oh wait - she was born so it's ok" haha. So it took a little while to adjust to it not seeming like a 'dirty word' I guess. I am very used to it now and feel it suits her very well.

 

[tulip1975]

We decided on our name a week before delivery, and it took me until DS was about 12 weeks to get used to it.