This was originally posted on February 27, 2014
This week the “Mirror” revealed that Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan are already in the process of choosing baby names – despite the fact that Michelle isn’t pregnant. The article suggests that Michelle prefers ‘unusual’ names, while Mark prefers more ‘traditional’ choices.
As we see with many celebrity couples, there is the suggestion that the names we might normally come across just won’t do (well at least for one of the potential parents!) – even though the trend we have seen on babynames.co.uk suggests that you are more likely to choose a traditionally classic name rather than something unique. This is a change we’ve observed over the past couple of years, and so far in 2014 it’s undoubtedly going to continue, unique names just don’t hold the same gravitas they did in the first decade of the new millennium.
But did you choose your baby’s name years before they were born? It is an interesting question which we’d love to hear your answers to. Plenty of us grow up with names that we like, and think ‘I’m going to call my baby that one day’, but once you have fallen pregnant and given birth does this change? Perhaps you always thought that you were going to call your daughter Daisy, but when she was born you realised that she was definitely a Hannah!
We’re sure that discussions like this go on in households across the UK and the world, but what happened to you? Did you choose your baby names long before you fell pregnant, did you choose them when you fell pregnant, or did you wait until after the birth? Let us know!
