Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I won on the first two girls. He won on the third and that's why you have a fourth Isabella in your child's class. I basically hate her name.

WTH? Isabella isn't actually that common, PP. You need to chill out.

This. And I love the name Isabella.

Then you go name your kid that. I really dislike it, and my daughter named that really DOES have four in her grade (and at one point, all four were in the same math class).

Total compromise.
I wanted very feminine names for our daughters. Husband wanted names that honored his cultural heritage, spelled in the original language which is not phonetic to English speakers.
We compromised with Americanized and simplified versions of cultural heritage names. No real regrets, although I'm a bit wistful whenever I encounter a little Juliette or Christina.

We went into the delivery room with a short list (1-5 names for each sex, we didn't find out in advance). The short lists were absolutely fifty/fifty, names we both liked.

When my son was born, my husband IMMEDIATELY became very attached to one of the three names we had picked. I mean, he was calling him that when he was less than a minute old!?! and I was like, "we have not made a decision!" But he was just SO SURE that that was his name. In the moment, I actually preferred one of the other names. But he was so, so sure, so we went with that.

We had a primary girls name when my daughter was born, with four "backup" names incase it didn't feel right. Name felt right, we went with it.