Changing Names

[traezer.livejournal.com]

What do you guys think of renaming a child later in life if their name just doesnt fit?

A friend of my mom's has a son named Jordan. Well, after he met a bunch of girls in school named Jordan he began to get upset. Then his mom found out a friend's boy named Jordon died, so she decided the name was unlucky. So now Jordan is now Jayden. I dont know if it was legally changed, but he is never called Jordan anymore.

Jackie Onassis had a sister named Lee. Lee had a son named Antony, but then later legally changed it to Anthony when he was 10 or so.

Mia Farrow had a son named Satchel with Woody Allen, which was changed to Seamus when the couple broke up.

Thoughts?

Comments

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I think it's weird

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[searchingstars.livejournal.com]

I think sometimes it can be a good thing, like when someone from another culture comes to an English speaking country with a name that would be inappropriate there. Not because there's something inherently wrong with the initial name, but imagine the teasing a boy named, for example, Venus would receive during schooling.

(And yes. I did know a family that named their son Venus.)

I definitely agree with renaming Satchel; nouns are not necessarily good names, people!

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

I've known one person in real life to change her first name (from Melissa to Melia), and she is a freakin' weirdo.

So I don't know. I think it's weird. Why not just go by a nick name?

[lneef.livejournal.com]

Antony to Anthony doesn't bother me. Same name in a different language.

My mom's name was legally changed at age 5 to her nickname because in the 1950s, few people could understand or spell her full name. No one ever used the full name anyway, so again, no big deal.

I don't generally mind but after a certain age I think it should definitely be up to the child, not the parents.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

I don't like the idea. It just seems...weird.

Then his mom found out a friend's boy named Jordon died, so she decided the name was unlucky.

*rolls eyes* I'm sorry, but that makes mom sound like a nutjob. I'd be willing to guess that of all the names out there...at least 75%, if not more, have been the name of at least one person under the age of 18 to die. Off the top of my head, we can add Seth, Jesica, Shauna, Katie, Tamera, Blaine, Tyler, Shayla, and Amber all to the list of "unlucky" names.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend's mother tried changing my boyfriend's middle name when they changed his middle name as well. There was some mix-up, and his middle name ended up deleted. I had never met someone who had their name changed by their parents. I think it's stupid in most situations.

I think your mother's friend just decided that she liked Jayden better. Baby namer's remorse.