Regretting Baby Names

[aleadfeather.livejournal.com]

Have you ever heard of anyone regretting what they named their baby?

Have you ever regretted what you named your baby? Why?

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[babyleah15.livejournal.com]

My friend's mom said she regretted naming her daughter Ashley. She was born in 1985 and she thought it was very original, unique name! I think she still likes the name though, just not how common it got...

[cherryboomstick.livejournal.com]

Ashley is terrible... and it's my name! Woo... *twirls finger* :P

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

same thing happened to me! i was born in '89, my mom thought ashley nicole was SO original. if i could even count the number of ashley nicoles i've met.

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

Not exactly. I really regretted giving my first son such a kick-ass middle name when I was pregnant with my second son, though. We couldn't find any names we liked except that one, and you can't really reuse it :D Hopefully our third will be a girl, since we used our last decent boys name on the second's middle name!

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

lol that is the number one reason i'm afraid to have boys. i can't name more than one boy.

[hwar.livejournal.com]

I know someone who has regretted both her kids' names, off and on. Her first was a boy and they started out calling him a nickname that she no longer likes (his name is classic but the nickname is very trendy). The second is a girl with another pretty and classic name, but one she feels does not fit her daughter. She thought about changing it when the baby was about six months old, but didn't. I think she feels the name fits better now that her daughter is a little older and more expressive.

Her kids both have great names that will age well. I think maybe she chose "safe" names based on her husband's or family's preferences and then second-guessed them when she met kids with more creatives/unusual names.

[soul-inside.livejournal.com]

I am overall happy with my name choice for my son except that my inlaws who are Spanish speaking pronounce it like the girl version which drives me crazy so they call him by his middle name now which is Spanish. I just wish I could've found something that worked in both languages. But we didn't find anything we both liked. Also, I am concerned that his name is becoming more and more popular- I just hope it doesn't jump in popularity over the next few years!
After he was born I also regretted a bit not giving him my grandpa's name, George. I kinda wish I did in order to honor him, but at the same time "George" --Im just not sure would fit this day and age.

[kort-ni.livejournal.com]

My mom has said she regrets naming me Courtney instead of Corrinne. They wanted to call me Corey (after a Harry Chapin song) and so they went with the first full name that had it listed as a nickname. She has said she wishes she had thought of Corrinne though. And sometimes I wish she had as well just because Courtney feels like a name that doesn't age really well just because there are so few women that are older than I am with the name. But things like that are cyclical. When I am 70 there will be plenty of us.

[jordle.livejournal.com]

How old are you? My sister is Courtney and she's 32.

[penguiny7.livejournal.com]

My mom has kind of mentioned regretting not making mine and my brother's middle names honor someone. I've always disliked that my name had no extra meaning to it, so all of my kids have/will have honoring names as middle names.

I don't regret my son's name at all. I knew it would fit him perfectly before he was born and he's 17 months old now and it still fits him perfectly.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

My mom has said that she doesn't like my sister's name as much as she used to, and if she had her now, she wouldn't name her that. Other than that, I've heard lots of stories about people naming their kids then realizing that it's not "them" and changing it when they're still a baby.

[auxoriousrex.livejournal.com]

My friend regrets naming her son Keagan. She always calls him K

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

My dad has said that he regrets not giving my youngest sister the middle name Kathleen. They were torn between Kathleen and Susanne, and they went with Susanne in honor of my mother. But my sister came out with red hair and a firecracker personality, and my dad thinks the Irish-flavored Kathleen would have fit her better.

My mom has said she regrets calling me by my middle name because it has caused so many problems for me over the years. They had settled on the names Laura and Elizabeth and felt like Laura Elizabeth flowed better than Elizabeth Laura, but still wanted to call me Elizabeth. Now she thinks they should have gone with Elizabeth Laura after all, it would have been easier on me.

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

I agree wholeheartedly, incidentally.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I know my mom wanted to name me Desiree but then that was the name intended for my oldest sister, who died a few days after birth so she went with naming me after herself. Sometimes she says she thought it was unoriginal but the name does fit me like a glove. I also know very few girls named after their mom so I am glad to be named after mine =)

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

That's my name and I give this reply a thumb's up.

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I don't regret my kid's names, I'm very careful in picking the name that sticks and nothing else will do, something I can say over and over again and still love. The only thing I could almost regret are my son's middle names. Because I really didn't care and my mom had a request, names that were important to her, so I went with it. But a few years later and I meet my husband and he HATES my son's middle names and has bashed them and made fun of them to the point where I'm embarrassed by them. Eventually we're going to give him my husband's last name; and I've been secretly thinking of changing his middle name at the same time. I don't want to hurt my mom, but I feel it's more important that my husband be happy with our kids' names. And especially since we've had two girls and I don't really see anymore kids in the future and we have a wonderful boy name picked out, I'll just use that.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

mind if I ask if you were happy with the middle names BEFORE your husband?

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

I regret naming my hunter pet on WoW "Dog". He's a Lynx and I thought it was cute and ironic. I have a "certificate of ownership" where I can change it, but he's just DOG now! I can't think of him as anything else, even if I tried.

I take screen shots of him standing next to pets named "Cat", too.

[solitudete.livejournal.com]

Lol!! I've often thought of rolling a hunter just because I like the idea of getting to choose a pet and name it :P I play a shaman though and I love it

[pinkslit.livejournal.com]

I'm one of a million moms with a Kayleigh. She'll soon be 8 and when we picked it, we didn't realize it was so trendy. In fact, I thought we were being unique by using both Grandma's middle names (Kay and Leigh) then both Grandpa's names of James as a middle name. Soon after she was born and we realized that we'd gone super-trendy, she started being called Jimi as a nickname.

I'm not sure I'd rename her since it has familial ties but I sure as hell wish Kayleigh wasn't so popular.

[aleadfeather.livejournal.com]

Names becoming super popular makes me scared to name my kids.. you just don't have any control over that sort of thing

[clutterbang.livejournal.com]

Not regretful, but I didn't realize how popular Fin was when I chose it, either. It's Fin, though, as in, a waterbirth, definitely not Finn (which strangely I loathe)

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Kinda...my folks thought my dad's family had a tradition of giving the first born son the father's name as a middle name so my brother is Brian Allan. Problem is, years later my dad got into genealogy and it turns out the tradition was using John (or an ethnic derivative) going back hundreds of years LOL. Brian should have been Brian John or something. Brian used a family name as his son's mn (Alex Arthur), but it was actually my younger sister who brought back the John(athon) LOL.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

One of my friends had her name changed when she was a baby. Originally her name was Julia, but then changed to Meghan because her parents hated that people called her Julie instead of the full Julia. I think both she and her parents liked Julia better than Meghan but thought of Julie as a totally different name.


I'm kind of the opposite. I loathed my name as a child because it wasn't trendy enough and I was jealous of all the Tiffanys, Ashleys, and Jessicas. I'm a Kathryn/Kate and I love my name as an adult. :)

[wizened-cynic.livejournal.com]

I've come across a blogger who named her youngest daughter Presley but then decided the name didn't fit the kid and so she renamed her daughter Summer. I like Summer better.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

My dad was originally named Dennis, but a few weeks after his birth, my grandma decided Daniel was a better fit and had it changed. I think she made the right call. My dad has always gone by Dan/Danny, and it fits him. I could not picture my dad as a Denny! Hah!

[lilfaeriegirl.livejournal.com]

My friend was unsure about her baby girl, she sorta regretted it after she named her, i'm not sure of her feelings now though.

Her son is Cameron Wayne and her daughter Keely Marie

[aleadfeather.livejournal.com]

Keely Marie is extremely misfortunate

[aleadfeather.livejournal.com]

To answer my own question, I like the name Willow, but if my kid ended up having red hair I would regret it

[rubie-dubidoux.livejournal.com]

My mom almost named me Molly, but felt it had a negative connotation because she had a fat cousin named Molly. Um, okay, Mom. In any case, she says she doesn't regret choosing the name she chose, but that she would have been just as happy if my name were Molly. I don't care either way; I like both names.

[lolzabeth.livejournal.com]

My cousin regrets calling her daughter Ty-Leigh. I don't blame her...