AIBU to regret DD’s name?

[readysetcake]

My DD is 2.5 and I loved her name when I chose it. However, unbeknownst to me, when we chose it we picked THE most popular middle name ever. Every little girl I meet has it! I’ve also met two girls with exactly the same first and second name. I’m starting to really regret the choice of middle name now I know every girl has it. I feel like my DD will grow up to hate it as it’s so common. AIBU? Sometimes I consider changing it before she is aware but then think I’m going mad? I’m 30 weeks pregnant so names are in my mind a lot.

[SD1978]

Accidentally called DC by what is now a very common first name. Middle name also highly popular. I juts snigger that when I call out her name, usually a minimum of two other kids drop and freeze wondering what the hell they’ve done wrong...........

[lunaluv50]

I have an unusual first name and although I very much grew to like from about 18 onwards as a shy child I really wanted to be one of the girls with same or similar names because when my name was called at school for whatever reason everyone knew it was me.
I don’t have a middle name my parerents saw them as a unnecessary and tbh I now inclined to agree as both my DDs have 2 middle names (they are never used)
My youngest dd always uses a shortened version of her first name which very much suits her
Personally I wouldn’t worry too much unless it’s really bothering you, middle names are only usually required on official forms

[KnittedBlanketHoles]

My parents are idiots, both my first and middle name are unspellable unpronounceable jokes. You'd have though my mother would have realised the importance of at least one name being usable after she decided to change her name from her first to her middle name half way through life. Fucking twats. At least Rose is... just whatever. I certainly know a working class and upper class Rose, it gives some anonymity. Names give an impression about a person on screen/in person before they've even been met, so they do have a significance beyond what people just 'like'. Hence all the parental 'angst' and the studies that go into them.

Redland, there's a whole board on mumsnet dedicated to the angst and art of naming ones child - it is important and significant. Ever thought that it in't bruffin that's over thought this as a child, but more likely that you are an under-thinker?

[WineIsTheAnswer]

When I was born your middle name was Louise or jane. Our neighbours liked them both so much the first daughter was Louise Jane and the second Jane Louise. They are the only people I have known use both first and middle names in day to day life.

[schnubbins]

I'm irish and if you didn't have Mary as your first name , you had it as your middle name. I still like it though.

[Summerlovin24]

Middle names are good incase your child hates their name. I know of 2 peoplewho use their middle name

[Redland12]

Bruffin, I appreciate that comment, but as we get older we have the ability to grow on from that. Leave the past in the past. I'm sure you have made a good life for yourself.

[YoloSwaggins]

Sarah Jane?

[bruffin]

Redland, I do think it is you who needs to grow up and appreciate that some little things occasionally bother you.
I had some awful things go on in my childhood and this was just one more thing that set me apart from the others.

[Redland12]

Bruffin, still baffles me! A middle name with so much in the world going on! Makes no sense, grown up people!

[bruffin]

Redland, we all used to know each others middle names , it was something to do with a game we played in the playground. Still discuss with friends how we got our names.
My BIL is mature but he was hurt because as the oldest he didnt get the traditional middle name or a middle name at all.

[Redland12]

Bruffin, felt left out! I don't remember discussing middle names as a child, I have been a child minder for 20 years and not once had a child even mentioned their middle name, I think BIL needs to grow up! It's a name!

[bruffin]

I didn't give my son or daughter middle names. What purpose do they serve? No one cares. Don't worry about it. Speak for yourself but not for others.
My mum didnt give us middle names and I always felt left out as a child,as all my friends have middles names.my BIL also feels the same as he missed out on the traditional family middle name which went to DH .
Both dc have common middle names but they are middle names that go back generations in mine and dh families

[ForgotwhatIcameinherefor]

Haha Vanguard I am also a middle name Anne. Always hated it, never use it. Used to work with someone who went by her middle name Anne rather than 1st name Elizabeth, and can’t remember why I playfully annoyingly started calling her Elizabeth, to which she responded by thereafter calling me Anastasia

[Redland12]

I didn't give my son or daughter middle names. What purpose do they serve? No one cares. Don't worry about it.

[TheVanguardSix]

Life's short, OP. Choose your battles.

I have the most boring middle name ever: Ann (followed by a chorus of stifled yawns). I still love my parents, even if, at 15, I told everyone my middle name was 'Anastasia'.

[puzzledquiz]

dd1s' names are the two of the most common in her birth year, her first name had always been one of my favourite names(my favourite would not have gone with my married name-think along the lines of phillip pirrip(Pip) in Great Expectations) and her second name was after a much loved relative. I sometimes regret it, having grown up witha very common name myself( at one point 3 of us in an a level class of 15!) but it suits her and can't imagine her being called anything else

[tolerable]

you can call her anything you like,and request everyone else does too. i call my two "jay" and "cee".(their firstname initial) cos im lazy.

[Notasunnybunny]

I had to take a moment to recall what ds’s Middle name is such is the infrequency it is used, same for dh, I don’t think I knew his middle name until we registered our intention to marry. So I personally don’t think middle names are important. Dd’s Middle name is May, I hadn’t realised it had become popular, it’s my middle name and has been every first born daughters middle name for a good couple of hundred years in my family, to the extent I’m not completely sure who the original was!

[KurriKurri]

I have a first name that can be spelt umpteen different ways, and a middle name that always gets pronounced incorrectly when people see it written down. I alwasy have to spell everything out when giving my name anywhere.

Ordinary names that can only be spelt one way are great

[OliviaStabler]

Lots of Titanic fans pick Rose

[shonkyklingonmakeup]

My mate Sarah says her name isn't "common", it is "popular"

[YearOfYouRemember]

My first name is lovely and my middle name is awful.

[ChikiTIKI]

It's safe to assume most women my age have the same middle name as me. Doesn't bother me at all. My first name is quite unimaginative too. Do people really like or dislike their own names though? I am indifferent about my name. It's just my name- it is what it is!

[DarklyDreamingDexter]

Nobody takes a blind bit of notice of middle names. I never use mine and I think the only time I have to trot it out is on passport forms every 10 years. At least hers is a sensible one, not something which she'll have cause to be embarrassed about. You are over thinking things. Don't give it another thought.