Anyone named their kids names they don't particularly like??

So we have a dilemma!!
DH and I have had a TERRIBLE time this time around trying to find a name for this little girl...
NOTHING seems 'right', nothing we both love, nothing we haven't gone off pretty quick.

BUT...
There are 2 names that keep popping into our heads, and have done since the beginning, and they keep popping up day to day in randomness... The problem being they seem to 'fit' but neither of us particularly like them! :wall:
Is this odd?

The two names are Chloe and Imogen.

Like I said, neither of us are in love with either, in fact if I had told myself I would consider naming my daughter Chloe I might have stared at myself then broken down laughing. Really not a fan. ... Not sure why, maybe every Chloe I have ever known has been a stuck up cow? :shakehead:

ANYWAY! So, my question is, has anyone named their child a name they didn't really like just because it kinda felt "right"...?

Can't see you with a Chloe OR an Imogen.

I love all my kids names, but DD2's wasn't at the very top of my list.

yep. Vy's name.
I really didnt particularly like it at all...the boys were hooked on it and it just didnt sit right with either of us but it felt right and so we choose it anyway.
We decided to make it our own via spelling and it did take a while for it to fit us but now, I couldnt have named her any different.
FWIW - Ive known a few Chloe's and they were the same as you mentioned ;) :ROFL:

DD2's wasn't even on my list, and while I liked the name it wasn't one that I absolutely loved. It just fitted.

But now knowing its meaning - she's definitely my "delight".

Yup Sienna. Not big on the name but it suits her. To think my least favourite name is the one Im yelling all day :lol:

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Really not a fan. ... Not sure why, maybe every Chloe I have ever known has been a stuck up cow? :shakehead:

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meh!
Or should that be moo!!

We're only stuck up because we're so ****ing awesome :p

BTW it's actually spelt Chloë

Ds1
I liked it, bit I didn't love it and it wasn't in my list but was the one I liked most from DHs after e flat out refused to consider any of mine
I do like it now though.

I really really like your own name though, would you consider using that or a variation on it?

:rofl: Obviously there are awesome exceptions to every rule ;)

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I really really like your own name though, would you consider using that or a variation on it?

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Thanks :)
Never really thought of it... hmmm Will have to think on it :think:

Yep, my youngest. His name was chosen purely by elimination... his name fit a looooong list of criteria: Had to be a short name with one syllable, couldn't have the same initial as other family members (everyone had to have their own intials so that when i do cross stitch samplers etc we all had our own letter), it also had to fairly uncommon, reflect our Swedish/Irish heritage, be easy to spell, and can't have belonged to anyone that we have ever known!!! So after flicking through baby name books the choice was fairly limited... which made it kinda easy in the end. Oh and yes, it "felt" right.

rofl Onyx!

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meh!
Or should that be moo!!

We're only stuck up because we're so ****ing awesome :p

BTW it's actually spelt Chloë

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:lol: was waiting for that!

I was never 'in love' with DD2's name. Brianna. It does suit her though.
DD3's name was never on our list. I said once that I liked it, but didn't really want to use it (think about it... Skye & Summer?? lol) But when DH suggested it after she was born, it felt right :) Now I love it!

At the moment we are in the same boat as you with a name for our little man.

His middle name is already chosen as it is DH's father's name (DS has my father's name as his middle name). I really, really dislike DH's father's name but have resigned myself to the fact that I don't have much choice in the matter, and in the end it's only a middle name.

There is only one name that DH and I have agreed on so far, I certainly not as much as DS's name. I feel a little guilty about that too...

Yes. My DS1 has a name that I completely dismissed the entire way through my pregnancy. I considered having it as a middle name, but never as a first name because I knew too many losers with that name (his name is James)

But the minute he was born, he just looked like a James. I am glad I named him that because it does suit him so much and now I know an awesome James :)

that's pretty much how DS got his middle name. we had settled on his first name(ish) but couldn't work out a middle name, but wanted to give him one. after he was born (moment of panic as we realised we would actually HAVE to get ourselves into gear & make a decision), DP went home that night & went through a book of names. similar criteria to bath's - one syllable, a bit uncommon, easy to pronounce etc.

actually - i think we ended up with a middle name that is the same as bath's DS :lol:

now i really like it.

No, I actually liked Rhiannon but DH wanted it a bit more girly so she is Rhianna & I can't imagine what else we would have named her.

I don't love Chloe - I like it but it is my nieces name :-) I looove Imogen but it sounds awful with our surname

GL

*takes a big deep breath*

I don't like Ianto's name. I was hoping I'd be able to change Scott's mind about it in those last eight weeks, but obviously they didn't happen. I like looking at it, it's a good name on paper, but saying it out loud makes me cringe sometimes. If you're talking to me and I bring him up, now you know why I always hesitate before saying it. It's not that I don't want to talk about him, it's that I'd rather his name was something else. If he'd lived, I bet we'd be calling him by his middle name by now, or some nickname unrelated to his real name.

i couldn't help but pop into to say the name Imogen if i had to chose it for my own child it could easily grow on me :D

charlotte and isabelle work well together ;)

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charlotte and isabelle work well together ;)

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Can't use Isabelle, our surname begins with Bell lol And it is too common for me now.


Smiles - Yep, same here, Imogen is one I could warm to.

Imogen was on our shortlist for a while. It could grow on you. I was thinking Immy or Gen for short.

I know a lovely little girl called Chloe. She's a really girly girl :)

I dont like Chloe... it was going to be a middle name but so over it.

I LOVE IMOGEN though (mog ;)) I think it sits really well with Charlotte. They are both a bit old fashioned, or classic (though charlotte is pretty popular I guess).

Ive loved it forever but DH hates it.. :lol:

As for the actually question... Alexander was a 'fall back'. We could not decide on anything else so Alexander it was and it suits him sso well now I wouldnt call him anything else.

I think Cordelia is better than Imogen.

I like Imogen :) It goes well with charlotte...but I also know a sweet sweet chloe!

I guess DD's name wasn't really on my radar at all, I had my girls name picked out years ago, but DH wouldn't have a bar of it....Darcie was the only name we both had on our lists....I even had a cat named d'arcy once!!!

I think you both need to love the name. I think Imogen is a beautiful name, actually its on our very short list too :)

Funny you say that about Chloe. A close family member named her daughter Chloe cause it was all her and her partner could agree on and she still hates it. It doesn't suit them as people to have a daughter called Chloe and it would really suck to regret naming a baby something 7 years later.

Like others i agree that Imogen goes well with Charlotte.

I love Imogen, on it's own or with Charlotte.

Pie's name came from Google... I really wanted the name to mean 'promise' and googled it, and it was the first name DH & I both liked. As the pregnancy went on I kind of got a bit 'over it' but couldn't find anything I really loved, so we went with it... it fits her well though I think. I like it better written than out loud :lol:

I don't really like either of our boy's names, DH got me when I was all high on hormones & stuff... one reason I chose Pie's while I was PG :p but they are ok, I can live with them.

Dont give up on finding that "just right" name yet, research, research, research. With #6 i was stressing because we couldnt find that name that gave us that "wow" factor, i trawled baby name sites and looked at movie credits and read everything i could really, then one day, there it was!!

With #1 though, i did find that we had a name we both loved and when she was born, every time i looked at her i kept thinking she was Rebekah (shes Ebonee), for about a month i struggled to call her Ebonee because the rebekah feeling was so strong but DH wouldnt change her name. So it can work both ways, u think u have the right name and they are born and they totally suit another name.

I say go in with a list, even if it takes you several days to name her, her name will come to you :D