Did your taste in names change with each child?

**BigRedV** · 19-07-2009 18:09

If you had a name picked out for a baby and then it was the opposite sex, were you going to use the same name for next baby.

Eg. If you had Stephanie picked for a girl and then you had a boy, did you keep the name Stephanie for when you had girl or did you change your mind? IYKWIM?

**Mummaholic** · 19-07-2009 18:24

I changed my mind. For some reason, I just had a 'feeling' about what suited my belly babies.

**lizeyhud** · 19-07-2009 18:26

hi there
yes i have changed my mind just in process of starting ivf for # 2 when i was pregnant with my ds he was going to be Ella since then the name has become very popular and other friends we know have a girl with the same name now all our friends are having bubs its tricky because the name usually gets stolen LOL

**Bubs'n'Roses** · 19-07-2009 18:33

With DD1, if she'd been a boy we were gonna name her Kaden.
With DD2, if she'd been a boy we were gonna name her Perry.
So our names did change because it just felt different. IF that makes sense.

**BigRedV** · 19-07-2009 18:39

Originally Posted by Rosebones

With DD1, if she'd been a boy we were gonna name her Kaden.
With DD2, if she'd been a boy we were gonna name her Perry.
So our names did change because it just felt different. IF that makes sense.

It does make sense.

I had DD's name picked before I even knew she was a girl. Now, not even pg again yet, I am sure that I will not change my mind from the boys name I like. I also have a name picked out for another girl

**h086** · 19-07-2009 19:07

When I was pregnant with DS, we had one girls names picked out.

I am now almost 15 weeks pregnant with #2 and don't know what I am having but I don't think we would use the girls name we had picked out. It has become popular since he was born and it's not really a favourite of mine anymore.

**squiglet** · 20-07-2009 01:22

The same names that we liked first time went onto the list 2nd time round, but never made it to the top.
We chose different ones.

**sweetseven** · 20-07-2009 01:25

My children each have their own boy names. It wasn't a changing of mind, but that the previous name belonged to the previous child (even though they weren't using it since they were a girl) and thus was not available for the new child.

That said, they style of name I chose for my girls did change over the years.

**LeeJ** · 20-07-2009 04:16

totally changed my mind!

I had isobelle rose picked out when i fell pregnant, LOVED IT, then, saw how many isobelle rosess' there were, and by 30 weeks it was off my list indefinatley,
(haha, but i named by son Josh lucas, 2 names in the top 10 anyway)

These days im liking ruby rose, or kate.

**Ruby_Slippers** · 20-07-2009 09:46

Keeping the same boys name as last pregnancy - just can't seem to find any boy's names that seem to "fit".

We used our favourite girls name, so some of the other names on our top 10 list are still there for a girl but there are also some new additions.

I actually wanted to call DD "Poppy" but only after she was born it wasn't a favourite. I just woke up the morning after she was born and thought she looked like a Poppy. DH mind was set on Matilda though so we kept it as it was.

This time round for a girl I do like Poppy but I feel it was Matilda's name (if that makes sense) so don't feel right about using it. Sometimes I call Matilda my "little Poppet" so it kinda is still her name in a sence.