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Have you ever meet someone who regrets their kids name

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Olga03 · 30/11/2021 23:06

I'm curious because names and their associations are constantly changing. I know someone who regrets giving in instead of finding a name both parents love.

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CasparsWineBar · 01/12/2021 02:20

Yes I know a lady who has an Elsa-born about 6 months before Frozen came out- she wishes she'd used a different name.

Scarby9 · 01/12/2021 02:09

@MysticCT
He always said he would change his name when he left home, but by that point he had brazened out his name so often that he has stuck with it. It has never stood in his way, but he doesn't like it!
Interestingly, my name is also now completely out of fashion, but I still love it and am convinced it will soon have a revival...

YokoOnosHat · 01/12/2021 01:26

Yes, my best friend’s mum. Her kids have very of-the-moment 80s names (think Kayleigh) and she says she wishes she had given them more classic ones now.

MysticCT · 01/12/2021 01:20

@Scarby9 It is an extremely old fashioned name and definitely not a pretty one. I have never met anybody who has said it is a nice name.
I suppose it isn't as bad as having joke name, your poor brother.

Scarby9 · 01/12/2021 00:45

@MysticCT Sympathies!
Would you say your name could objectively be viewed as 'lovely' and it is just that you don't like it, or would many people not think it was nice?
My brother's name is now universally a joke name in this country. It wasn't when he was born and named, but times have changed, sadly.

Greytminds · 01/12/2021 00:32

I know someone who changed their DC’s name when they got to a year old. Her DM had pushed her towards choosing a name she wasn’t sure about and increasingly she regretted it.

MysticCT · 01/12/2021 00:23

@Scarby9 It's exactly the same for me. They knew how much I hated it but still insisted it was a lovely name.

Scarby9 · 01/12/2021 00:19

My parents don't regret my brother's name, but he does.

Scarby9 · 01/12/2021 00:17

When I was 11 or 12, a couple round the corner of our road changed their 3 year old daughter's name from Frances to Nicola. It seemed very late to change the name for the poor kid. Apparently they had been unsure when they had named her and just became increasingly convinced that she was more of a Nicola than a Frances as she aged.

MimiDaisy11 · 01/12/2021 00:14

I’ve heard a person make comments about how they were young when they named their child which lead me to believe they do regret it as it sounded defensive the way they said it, and to be honest I can understand why. Though I didn’t ask outright as it’d be rude.
I imagine a lot of people that do aren’t going to be so open as it won’t be nice for the child to hear.

Redsquirrel5 · 01/12/2021 00:04

Give him a nickname.
Just because it is associated with someone else doesn’t mean you should think like that. It is your son’s name and you love him.

Honkytonkyhonky · 30/11/2021 23:59

Me-I ended up with a name for my second child that I wasn’t keen on but my ex loved it and my mother seemed to think she had a final say on the name so I got pressured into it
It’s now associated with a man that is a ‘twat’,’wife beater’ and ‘chavvy’
I’ve gone from not really liking it to downright hating it
He’s not a twat,wife beater nor a chav but it’s still there in my head that I could have done better and named him something much nicer