Have you changed your baby's name?

How classy to use MN to research your article, lenac.
Journalists usually have to pay for this.

Did anyone else used to watch Huxley Pig ? In the late 1980's......

RALPH?!!!!
no farking wonder

xp's aunt changed the name of her dd within a few days of her being born.
prior to the birth she was telling everryone the baby would be called one thing but when she was born it didn't feeol right so she named her something else.

literally within days so it was confusing for a while till the message got back to everyone.

i think at 6 months it will be ok for the child but difficult for everyone else.

i think huxley a fab name too(better than ralph !)

i would like to change my dd s middle name could you plese tell me lenac how i go about this ?

I wish i had had the courage to swap our dd2 names around as her 1st name seems so common unlike her middle name. But I wasnt brave enough when family seemed to disaprove. One of my friends then rubbed salt in the wound by nameing her second daughter my daughters middle name!! DD2 now 23 months and it seems to late.

I changed my ds's middle name just before his first birthday and i'm glad i did. No big deal.
Huxley - cool name!

i wish i had known you could do this! we chose a name for our dd, told everyone n then i changed my mind but felt because everyone already knew her name i couldnt change my mind so we registered it.by the time i really disliked it i thought it was too late cos she was registered! shes 2.5 now so abit old to change her name.

I like the name Huxley

Dd was born in Jan, we called her India Rose but every India i heard about had Rose as their middle name.

So i have changed it to India Bluebell.

Dh thought i was bonkers. I wanted to call her Bluebellas a first name in the end. Dh said nope. I call her it anyway

She get's called both, she may be confused as she gets older but i doubt it.

She will probably just say "Oh ignore my loony mother, she always calls me that"

Huxley is such a fabulous name. What a great choice. Everyone is probably going to copy you Well done for having the courage to change your baby's name. Ralph is a great name, but Huxley is soooo much better.

im thinking of doing this with my dd2 middle name, does it cost anything? and will her passport still be ok? or is it really complicated to do?
xx

My SIL unofficially changed her son's name after six years. She then expected the rest of the family to call him by his new name. My dh thinks that his sister is barking and still uses the old name. The poor child seems really confused.

oh i wish too that i'd given ds2 his names the other way round - now not as keen on the first name we gave him - its too long and i'm never liked the traditional shortened version! but he's nearly 3 so would be weird to start calling him by his middle name now!!

so instead we're trying out weird made up shortened versions of his name in the hope one sticks!!

or maybe we just try to call him his middle name!

lenac - love the name huxley!!

I haven't done it but have often thought about doing it.

Everyone told us that we had to have a name for DS2 when we brought him home from hospital, so that we could say to DS1 'Here meet your new brother ......' Quite why we went along with this idea I do not know. So we spent a day tossing round name idea's & came up with one we both quite liked.

And now we are stuck with it.I really don't like it now, it is a really nick-namey name. But he is 2.6 so don't feel I can change it.
We can't even use his middle name as it is DP's first name.

Should have guessed that as it took us 5 weeks to name DS1, trying out different names to see which suited that rushing it was not a good idea.

i want to add my surname as a second middle name for DD1. We did it for DD2 at birth. What do i have to do?? Need to do it sooner rather than later as her first passport expires in sept and i want her next passport to have her new name.

I think as long as you do it when they're little it's no big deal, you may live to regret it otherwise.

My friend swapped her DS middle name to first name when he was at nursery and soon enough we all got used to it.

When my 3rd DS was born, I was v. tempted to get his name changed when he was only few months old, we love the name Harry but after he was born and named did I suddenly seem to hear every child was called Harry and I panicked thinking it was too common.
I looked up ways on the internet and really considered it but didn't go through with it. Since grown to love the name and it suits him, although still don't like hearing all the other Harry's around!! oh well...

Do it I say!

Oh funny enough I have been thinking recently that dd2 looks morelike a similar sounding name to hers. I even told DH I wished I'd thought of that name as she is so like that. She's 15 months. It would not be a big deal to change it for her or her sister who liked it and thought we should change it but all the adult lookes at me in dibelief.
Luckily I still think her first name suits her so I doubt I'll change it. But think I would if really thought it didn't. So well done. It's very early days no one will remember.

When I had my DS (he was 1 last week) everyone had a porblem with his name (they all kept calling him Callum) and he did in fact really look like a Thomas - his middle name but he has grown into his name and really suits it.

My brother's first name is our family's traditonial name - Thomas but he has always been called by his middle name.

I have a double barrelled first name but changed it to an abbreviated version when I was about 13 as I don't think I look like my name IYSWIM, although I still get called all the versions by various family members.

I think if you are goping to do it do it sooner rather than later. For those of us who got married it took us ages to get used to our 'new' names I like the name Huxley too - unusual.

I would like to change DD1's middle name. It was bestowed upon her in a fit of emotional gratitude but is a bit cringy.
Would it be difficult now? She is 10.

I wish I had done this too. My dd is nearly three and I am still not comfortable with her name. When I had her I was pressured into naming her. It was all anyone could talk about. It is a huge regret and I wish that I had changed it.

Oh, I wish I had changed my ds name when he was much younger. He is 18 months. I have never been 100% convinced it is his name, on the way to the register office i said "I think we should call him X". I so wish we had used this name.
However, my decision is that I left it too long and he recognises his name now so I almost have to grin and bear it although I am currently in the process of adding X as new middle name for him.
Even if we had another ds, I could not use the name X as it belongs to DS1 if that makes sense.

I wish I had changed it - and good luck to you for the decision made!

changed dd's 2 names around officially just before her 1st b'day, I had been calling her by her middle name consistently since 7 months. So glad I did it, and now she's 3 everyone (family) agrees we made the right decision, although they were a bit reluctant at first. I think people get a bit emotionally attached to the initial name. Now the emotional attachment is to her new name, and everyone loves it!

I have always been called by my middle name, right from birth. My sister seriously considered changing her Ds's very unusual name because everyone seemed to hate it. It is very unusual. However, her DH would not agree to it. My nephew is now 18 years old and has weathered his name very well and she is very glad she didn't change it.

My friend has recently changed her daughters name from Chloe to Skye - her DD is 14 months old.

She changed it because she said she just felt that the name did not suit her and it was too popular.

Personally - I find it a bit odd and I think her DD was confused, she still answers to Chloe and most people are still calling her Chloe.

I don't think using a middle name is as unusual - imo that is the point of middle names - allows a child some flexibility.