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...

[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!

[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.

[cherryboomstick.livejournal.com]

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

[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

[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.

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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 =)

[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.

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.

[wolfbane.livejournal.com]

LOL same thing happened to my parents. They thought Ashley was going to be a one-of-a-kind name. *waves to 10 other Ashleys in this community*

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

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

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

I agree wholeheartedly, incidentally.

[pegasus2o5.livejournal.com]

Yikes. Not to stick my nose in, but... supportive spouse fail.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

I love the name Desiree but... I think it's a name that doesn't really belong to me you know? It was my sister's name and intended for her, not me. I loved being named after my mother though ^.^ it's pretty awesome and well I am also named after my grandmother. My mom is Monica Elena and I am Monica Eloisa so it worked either way since our initials are the same. Everyone called me Eloisa for a long time because a) I looked like my grandmother to a T (it's kind of scary) and b) to distinguish me form my mom when I was little but now we're both Monica.

Long comment o_o sorry.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

that's why I asked about hat she thought of the names prior to hubby.. it's one thing to always hate the names but to change them because your hubby makes fun of them? That's kid of... sad...

[jordle.livejournal.com]

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

[kort-ni.livejournal.com]

I'm 28 almost 29 so right in the same age group as your sister. I generally meant that there are rarely women 50 and up named Courtney right now.