If you could go back in time, would you give your children different names?

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I’d be more adventurous I think.
My dc have lovely traditional names but if I could change them I probably would ( way too late though as they’re teenagers )

How about you?

I love my dc names and they suit them. But I have 2 names left off our list that I wish we’d got to use, Sebastian and Georgina. No more babies for us to use them on though.

No I love them all

I love my DD's name too. She's named after my grandmother, and I absolutely love it. And she likes her name, which is great.

My only 'thing' about it is that in RL I have a single-syllable name (think 'Anne' - not my real name) and I was always really jealous of (especially) Elizabeth and Rebecca because both of those names gives you lots of choice and options.
People occasionally think my name is a shortened version of a longer name (think 'Annabel') and I have to tell them "no, it's just Anne on my birth certificate"
But what I have noticed is that people who love me choose to lengthen it ('Annie'). I've never asked anyone to, and I prefer my actual name to the longer version. But I always think as it takes more effort to add the extra syllable, then it's a compliment, so I do just take it.
So I was always determined to give any child a name with flexibility. But bugger me, her name is a single-syllable as well. they fuck you up, your mum and dad, they may not mean to, but they do....

I would name DD Viola if I was naming her now. It is a beautiful name, her actually name is lovely but it is now v v popular.

RickOShay, Alexandra is a fabulous name.

I still love my dc's names. They are perfectly them. Traditional but uncommon, at least here.

Not the names as such but with dd’s we very quickly started calling her by a shortened version of her name. Fast forward to her teens and no-one calls her by her full name (apart from my mum occasionally) which is a real shame because I actually prefer her fully name to the shortened one.

Doubt it. Boring names, but they do nicely.

Thank you elderlylady.
It is lovely but she is always Alex.

Definitely. We saved our second name for DS2, except DS2 was a DD... so knowing what I do now, I would have used it as a middle name for DS.

DD's name suits her now but I dislike it, always have. Then found out DH only suggested it because it was what BIL would have been called. It's caused upset because no one spells the short form correctly (foreign name, several short forms but pronounced differently in DH's language and English). And because DS didn't have two names DH wouldn't agree to have my grandma's name as a middle name.

I’d keep DS but change DD’s, she really suits it but it wasn’t my favourite name and I felt we rushed into it somewhat.

Traditional names are lovely op, I’m not a fan of names that are considered ‘adventurous, ‘trendy’ and could you care if in top what ever with millions of kids all called the same because it’s the in thing no thank you.

couldn’t care**

My DD is only 9 weeks old and while I don’t think I regret it I do wish we’d spent longer thinking about it.
I do like her name but I don’t love it. There’s so many names I like and ever since we named her I can’t stop thinking about three other names and thinking maybe we should have used one of them instead.
We didn’t decide for two weeks and I already felt under pressure to name her and in the end DH made the final decision as I just couldn’t decide.

I would add more middle names (or have more children).

Don't regret their first or middle names but wish we'd given the DDs my surname and the DS DH's surname rather than them all having the same surname. They identify much more with the side they share a name with which is a shame.

Just one. DS1, DS3 & DDs names are perfect.

DS2s was chosen when I had horrendous antenatal depression and wasn’t really thinking straight. It was chosen when I was pregnant so it felt impossible to choose another when he popped out not looking like his name. I wanted to change it at 6mos but DH said no. He’s 10 now so it obviously isn’t going anywhere but I wish I’d picked Nathaniel (Nate) like he looked like!

I had my names for future dc ready from when I was little so I don’t regret them. Dd is 15 and her name is more popular now though but with 5 and unders but I still would name her it now. Ds1 and Ds2 I love their names and wouldn’t change them at all.

And thanks to @70isaLimitNotaTarget I now have Josh on my list for dc#4

No, I’m so glad I gave them traditional but not common or boring names. Their names suit them perfectly as well. I gave them the sort of names I would loved to have had.

Nope, love my DD's name.

It was very unusual when she was born (Italian origins) but has become very popular in last two years. Her teachers could never pronounce it when she was little, but it's odd now to hear parents calling their children - I always turn around as I think they must be calling her!

She describes herself as a trendsetter...

The only thing I'd change about my DDs names is adding their middle names.

My husband really hates having a middle name so I agreed we wouldn't give our girls one. But now I hate they don't have a middle name and both girls love the middle names they would have had.

They've been baptised using their middle names and DD1 is determined that when she's old enough she's changing her name officially to include the middle name.