We've had four children, over a period of just under 6 years and our style has definately changed. It changed fairly early on, from our second child who was born 2 years after the first.

This has led me to question my first child's name. While I like it, I don't love it like the other three. It's much too common for my style now.

I find myself choosing alternate names that fit better. Of course though I have never said anything to her (who loves her name and the fact it is common so she can find every manner of merchandise with her name printed on it while the other 3 cannot)

So has your naming style changed over your childbearing years?

Im about to go 12 years apart and I think the only thing different in my styles in names I like was that my first partner agreed with me a bit more - style wise so number 2 and 3 and now 4 have different battles with my wonderful husband now.
I still love most of the names I loved then and the ones I dont is because of people I have met along the way

Not really with names I'd want to use personally, but there are other names I've previously disliked that I've come around to more.

Mainly seeing them pop up as suggestions and the like here on EB has managed to disconnect the names enough from what was 'tainting' them in the first place, so I can appreciate the names more for what they are and not the persons who were impacting my opinions of them.

The most drastic change in preference and style was from child/teenager to adult. They are a little more 'grounded' now.

Yes most definitely. Although i still love the names i chose, i'm much more traditional in my preference now.

Yes i think i have somewhat, i still love my daughters names and do still like names that are more unusual, however i also love the names like Hannah and Aubrey now so definately have changed a little.

I think so. If I were to have another girl now I would probably give her an old fashioned family name rather than the big 'statement name' we gave our daughter in 1999. Big difference between my 1999 dd and my 2003 ds names too. I think that was partly to do with the difficulty of finding any boys names that we both liked.

My taste changed drastically when I actually got pregnant - suddenly the idea of naming a human being seemed much more important and the names I claimed to like as a teen were off the list.

I went from liking trendy names to liking rarely-heard, traditionally-spelled, widely-recognised names.

Oh God yes 15 years ago I named my first born Tyler something I would NEVER use now I'd like to think I have improved greatly since than I've gone from bogan to Biblical to Shakespeare so new skool to old school - I've either improved or gone rather mad

Nup.

Not really, I still love their names But then again, my eldest is only 7.
If we have another baby and it's a girl, I would probably still use the name we would have used if DS2 had been a girl

Yes, but in the opposite direction to the OP. My children are spread over 11yrs and I much prefer traditional names now. I liked unusual names in my 20s. Two of mine have unusual names, two have traditional names that are fairly common. It's not that I don't like any of their names but the two with unusual names would probably be something like Audrey and Claire if they were born a few years later.

Not at all!
I recently found my names list from when I was expecting my first child. And I was amazed to see almost all my 6 children's first and middle names on that list, even though I hadn't seen it in years!!

I don't think our taste's have changed, but we've grown more bold! I know we were much more conservative in our name choices with #1.

Not really. But we did go off the girls' name we had picked to use if DS1 was a girl. It is unisex and became much more popular for a boy during that time so we didn't feel we could use it for a girl.

I still love the girls' name we had picked for DS2.

I think my taste has become more interesting, particularly in relation to boys' names. I always thought if I had a boy it would be Samuel or Thomas or Henry or something along those lines... Claudia would've been Alexander if she'd been a boy. By the time I was pregnant with Rafael we knew so many Sams, Toms, Wills, Jameses and Lachlans that DH and I were both determined to use a name that we were unlikely to encounter among our family and friends.

I found a list of names that I emailed to myself in June 2004, so I was just pregnant with DD and they were names I had liked for years, the names on the list were:

Isobel
Charlotte
Esther
Anna
Nicola
Bridget
Lucy

Samuel
Oliver
Simon
Spencer
Alistair
Elliot

I still love all of those names, however, I have added quite a few more to my favourites list that I may not have back then.

Yes, absolutely. I was 23 when I had my first daughter, and we gave her a unisex name. It doesn't totally suit her as she is the most girliest of girls. I really wanted to call her Annelise, but my husband wouldn't agree. We gave her the middle name of Elise, and I only realised last year that her first name ends with an 'An' sound, so I kind of snuck it in there anyway.
By the time I had my second daughter, I had completely changed, and gave her a really girly name.
But I am still glad we went with more unusual names, that hasn't changed.

I don't think my style has changed, I still like the things I liked years ago though I think I'm a bit more 'refined' these days.

Not really. I love my boys names & always will. I couldn't imagine them with any other name, even if my tastes did change.
If we ever had a girl we'd use the same name we were considering for both our boys and DS1 is 5, even though that name is quite popular at the moment, by the time we get to use it, it will probably be not that heard of again LOL

I think my style is still pretty much the same as it was 14 years ago