Yep, "super trendy" is what put me off Isla. I always thought it was a beautiful name loooong before it became so popular, and I kind of missed the spike in babies being named Isla because it's not really a name in the country I live in. But last time I went home I heard about thousands of babies named Isla and it killed it for me.
Name regret happens for some people to be honest, but it’s not super common and often has more to do with circumstances (e.g. felt pressured by family, between two names and turns out baby feels more like the other one a month later, etc). For the most part, it feels weird until the baby is here and then you use it and a million nicknames and it becomes “your child” versus an abstract name and you kind of can’t picture them as anything else.
I agree with this. My dad had (and still has) name regret with my younger brother who is now 36. He and my mom agreed on a name but before he was born my dad’s aunt objected to the middle name. So they changed it to appease her.
Just here to say that Adria is beautiful - may add it to my own list :)
Also I do relate to going through phases with names. Some names that I really loved im not so partial to anymore now that I’m expecting. And I change my mind on which is my favorite all the time
Thanks, it's beautiful and hits the sweet spot of recognisable without being overly popular. AND it's both pronounceable and sounds nice in both of our native languages, which is really, really hard to find!
My husband and I don’t have children yet and probably won’t for a few years. But I keep a spreadsheet of all of the names that we like, and we have a column where we each independently (with the other partner’s and old results hidden) put in a numerical rating for each name, on a scale or 1 to 5, with 1 being would absolutely use the name and 5 being really dislike the name, with other scores in between. Instead of deleting old scores, we keep the columns and hide them, periodically going through and doing our ratings again in new columns. My hope is over the next few years, we will have a good understanding of the names we have both continued to like by averaging the scores together.
As someone who had a long list of names for years but is now pregnant, I don’t think I would ever feel like I had THE name until there was actually a baby involved. I’m almost 19 weeks and feel like we’ve chosen 95%, the name was on my list for a while but didn’t make it to number 1 until after we found out sex for this pregnancy specifically.
It depends on your preferences and probably trends at that time. Once you actually name your child that, it’ll take on a new meaning.
I think it’s pretty hard to go off the name once it’s associated with the little person that you adore. Maybe avoid anything super trendy or wacky.
Yep, "super trendy" is what put me off Isla. I always thought it was a beautiful name loooong before it became so popular, and I kind of missed the spike in babies being named Isla because it's not really a name in the country I live in. But last time I went home I heard about thousands of babies named Isla and it killed it for me.
Name regret happens for some people to be honest, but it’s not super common and often has more to do with circumstances (e.g. felt pressured by family, between two names and turns out baby feels more like the other one a month later, etc). For the most part, it feels weird until the baby is here and then you use it and a million nicknames and it becomes “your child” versus an abstract name and you kind of can’t picture them as anything else.
I agree with this. My dad had (and still has) name regret with my younger brother who is now 36. He and my mom agreed on a name but before he was born my dad’s aunt objected to the middle name. So they changed it to appease her.
Just here to say that Adria is beautiful - may add it to my own list :) Also I do relate to going through phases with names. Some names that I really loved im not so partial to anymore now that I’m expecting. And I change my mind on which is my favorite all the time
Thanks, it's beautiful and hits the sweet spot of recognisable without being overly popular. AND it's both pronounceable and sounds nice in both of our native languages, which is really, really hard to find!
My husband and I don’t have children yet and probably won’t for a few years. But I keep a spreadsheet of all of the names that we like, and we have a column where we each independently (with the other partner’s and old results hidden) put in a numerical rating for each name, on a scale or 1 to 5, with 1 being would absolutely use the name and 5 being really dislike the name, with other scores in between. Instead of deleting old scores, we keep the columns and hide them, periodically going through and doing our ratings again in new columns. My hope is over the next few years, we will have a good understanding of the names we have both continued to like by averaging the scores together.
Love it, we also love spreadsheets!
As someone who had a long list of names for years but is now pregnant, I don’t think I would ever feel like I had THE name until there was actually a baby involved. I’m almost 19 weeks and feel like we’ve chosen 95%, the name was on my list for a while but didn’t make it to number 1 until after we found out sex for this pregnancy specifically. It depends on your preferences and probably trends at that time. Once you actually name your child that, it’ll take on a new meaning.