Regretted an unusual name?

I dislike mine but it's because I was bullied with it.

OneHopShop I too would like to know what lots of the names on here are :) not so I can steal any ideas for my next DC at all no no.

Isis is a name of a 10+ dc I know. His parents regret his name choice but tbf they couldn't have predicted it and I thought it was lovely when he was born.
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I can't say, it'll out me! grin

Think Brenda, Alan, Tony, that sort of name.

I want to know Fakenamesfornow's 10 year old's name...

Basic Zara is a lovely, lovely name

Nope, don't regret it one bit. I've never come across another child with DD's name, but there's a reporter and an MP with the same name. I like to bring that up when people ask me if I think she could be a judge with her name.

And Greeeen's too. Your names sound lovely and intriguing

I would love to know Rockaby's names

Not quite what you wanted but I have a very unusual name for the UK and I love it. It's hard to spell and pronounce for most English speakers but I wouldn't change it. I don't think my mother regrets it

I wanted to choose an unusual name for DD and gave her a name I loved which was almost unheard of at the time (only 3 years ago!). Suddenly the buggers are everywhere! I still love her name but i wish it was a bit less popular.

Last point. All three names are easy to read, spell and pronounce.

No regrets here. DS's name didn't appear on the stats for his year of birth, which I believe means fewer than three babies if that name were registered. There were six girls with my first name in my class all the way through primary, and it was grim.

My children are 8, 10 and 11 btw.

I have three

The oldest has an unusual (ish) name. Still top 100 though. We have met other children with the same name but never shared a school with one.
Second has a very unusual name for 2000s but a name everybody would have heard of and was common in the 1960s/70s. I think he may have been the only child given that name the year he was born.
Youngest also has an unusual name, never met another child with the same name, probably not top 100 but has been mentioned on MN though.

All three a real names, not made up, well, thinking about it, middle child's name was probably made up, but in the 1950s!
No regrets.

No. Well except that which was unusual 24yrs ago may well be a top 10 name soon! ( no 61 in 2016 apparently , unheard of when we named dd well apart from 2 instances in the music world that we knew of)

Ds name was not that usual either but every 2017 boy we know has it.

Can't wait to see what 2018 will do do youngests name 😂

I really want to know what the names of your DC are now!

My dd has an uncommon name. I have moments of 'ffs' when I have to keep repeating her name/spell it out and have the same conversation about where it's from/why we chose it etc. I don't regret it but it is certainly influencing my choices for any future children. I don't want anything too common but I will probably choose something that is top 200 in popularity rather than top 1000

my 3 are called recognisable but not common names. Ds name is now in top 50.
dd1's name is abbreviated to Lucy, which she now prefers (actually her name isn't recognisable, it is Dutch, but it isn't difficult to say)

dd2's name still remains rare, but recognisable.

They have all been the only ones in their class/year, until secondary and now I think there is another one with ds name (good job he isn't 10 years younger)

That seems to have worked well, I avoided the top 100 as far as I could. My parents did similar and they chose well, we liked our names, not common, not a PIA to repeat/ pronounce etc

My older daughter has an extremely unusual name - and one that most people have not heard of. It is pronounced as spelled and doesn't look unusual (and isn't made up).

I still love it and don't regret it. She got sick of people not being able to pronounce it. So she goes by a short version (first 3 letters) which is also a name and very easy to pronounce. I don't think she regrets her name though and I can see her going back to the full name some day. When people discover her full name now they always so "how lovely".

My parents gave me a name with ambiguous spelling/pronunciation and regretted it. It is constantly mangled.

• I actually love the name Oliver, but ya know, it's number 1 so obviously she wasn't a fan of unusual names anyway

No didn't regret it at all! 7 babies with his name born in his birth year (2015).

Exactly what Jooni said though, I found myself explaining where it came from/spelling it without even being asked. A lot of 'say that again?'s etc but people seem to like it now. I did have 2 people (random snooty mother of an Oliver *, and batty great aunt who is a horrible person generally) refuse to call DS by his name, but luckily I don't see these people ever/more than once a year.

DS' name is similar to a MUCH more popular name (top 20), and I just accept that people will call him that name unless it's somewhere important eg doctor, nursery. People spell my own, much more common, name wrong all the time, and I just can't be arsed to mind. Hopefully DS will learn the same gracious attitude and/or be confident enough to correct them :)