Regretted an unusual name?

[MickeyAndMallory]

Reading comments on other name threads, a theme seems to be people saying they loved 'insert unusual name here' but stayed safe and picked a more conforming/normal name. Wishing they had been braver to pick those wilder names they loved- but has anyone gone the other way- picked the unusual name and regretted it??

Both my husband and mother were given 'unusual' and 'uncommon' names. My husband started calling himself by his lovely middle name when he was 10. As an adult virtually noone knows it's not his actual name(real name got a small wave of giggling at our wedding).
My mother didn't have such a nice middle name, but it is less 'flamboyant' than her first name. She has also used her middle name since late childhood.
They are a small sample, but both would have preferred a 'normal' name(both of there's were borderline made up though).
As an aside, to the person who said that having an unusual name makes someone interesting/gives them character, i have never experienced someone being intrinsicly more interesting due to their name.

I've known two people who were very happy with their unusual names. One was called Sally and she said she'd rarely met another. The other had an Old Testament name so unusual I'm not going to say what it is, she's probably the only one in the U.K. When I asked her about it she said 'my father gave me that name, it's from the bible'. She loved her name and the fact her dad had chosen It for her made it very special to her.

My name is unusual (not made-up). If you type it into the names.darkgreener search bar it doesn't pop up at all... (so less than 3 babies a year, I think?). It doesn't look made up in my opinion and it clearly sounds like a name (not sure if this makes sense). I've only ever gotten compliments for it ;)

I really like my name :)

In their infinite wisdom, my parents decided to make me a Phyllis. It was in memory of a dear, male relative (Philip) but as I am relatively young I have found it to be somewhat of a burden and a turn off on the dating websites as lots of men assume I'm lying about my age.

Was it on one of these name threads someone commented the next generation are going to call their kids Barry's & Sharon's

But people with common names change their names too so I really don't think it's always one way or the other. It just really depends on the name, their personality and the things that can happen in their lives to affect how they feel about it.

Plenty of unusual names are not bully material

Phyllis, what about going by Phy?

crabbo if it's Leilani then I bloody love it!
Also a fan of Meilani

Dd1 is 13 and has an extremely unusual name, fewer than 3 in her birth year. DH has since met one lady with the same name but about 5 years older. We love it, and so does she. Dd2 has an unusual name that has since got more common, and Ds is top 100 i think.

Phyllis, what about going by Phy?

Thanks, how would that be pronounced?

Fi? Or you could have it as Phi?

My dd2 has a name that consistently registers 4 births a year. Which is odd because we know three other children with the same name, so we didn't realise how unusual it is. When I tell people her name, the response is usually "What? Did you make that up?". It's an old testament name and the diminutive is to a very common name, so I feel glad we've given her a choice over what she wants to be called by when she's older. I've regretted the choice on occasion (normally when trying to explain it to people) but I think she's growing into it.

Youngest daughter has a very unusual name, it's also the name of a male American actor. We have never come across another woman with this name.
Youngest daughter is now 30 years old.
We did give her a very traditional middle name though.
No, we have never regretted it.

I have a friend whose parents gave her an incredibly bizarre name - I can't even remember what it is, but it's unpronounceable and almost certainly made up. Apparently they came up with it when they were on drugs holiday in India. She is so mortified by the name that she never uses it and goes by her middle name. I didn't even know about it until the run up to her wedding when she had to confess that the name we all knew her by wasn't the name we were going to hear at the ceremony. She was clearly terribly embarrassed about the whole thing and it must have spoiled her wedding a bit. I guess she hadn't formally changed her name to her middle name because it would upset her parents.

I also know a boy who calls himself Blue, which seems rather unusual, until you discover what his real name is: Furious. Poor lad.

My sons name is not unusual but is more connected with being a girls name. The name actually used to be a boys name years ago and it wasn't because I was being controversial- it was the only name I liked when scouring boys names for eons. I didn't realuse it was such a girls name but my baby name book had it as a boys. My son has said he's been teased but frankly best that than something else. ANYWAY he seems fine. Unusual names are becoming the norm and some are lovely and wished I'd thought of them first!

Mu mums name is Junita. She's not Spanish! She hates it as she was brought up in a small town where no one had ever heard it before let alone pronounce it. She goes by a nickname now.

No, not for a second!

I did regret not giving my DD my mum's name as a middle name thought. I think it would have meant a lot to her and DD, whereas the middle name we chose - although pretty, doesn't mean that much to us really. I wish I'd given it serious thought at the time, I don't know why I didn't.

I have an unusual first name, it's not "out there" or even unpronounceable but everyone has always commented how unusual it is and I have always only had positive comments. I have only met a handful of people with the same name and I am now in my forties.
We named our youngest DS a very, very unusual old gaelic name and chose it's original spelling. People baulk at pronouncing it even though it is pronounced the way it is spelt but we do get all sorts of mis-pronunciations.
But my boy is a very precocious 4 year old and corrects them almost immediately, even telling them off if they continue to say it wrong as he is very proud of his unusual name.
We have also given him a get out clause as he has a more common middle name if he decides in the future that his first name is just too much.
Since we moved to a mainly celtic community a few years ago we have also received less of the raised eyebrows and looks of panic when people try to say it.
In general we have no regrets as my DS's name really suits him.

Can everyone go name change and then tell me all these unusual names, I'm dying to know!

I'm happy to share the unusual name I didn't use, as I won't be using it. I won't say my DD's name as it is fairly unusual for her age group so would out me. I can't change my username without deleting my whole account for some reason , which is an arse pain.

Anyway, the unusual name I wanted to use was Maple (as in the lead / syrup).

*leaf

I posted a potential baby name on this board and the daily telegraph picked it up and ran with it in a 'crazy parents ruining their kids' lives with stupid names' type article.

I used the name anyway and have no regrets. She loves it, never any issues with pronunciation or spelling from anyone, and lots of NN potential that I hadn't even realised at the time but she uses when she wants to (but mainly prefers her full name).

I kinda regret using my dd1's name which was unusual when I chose it. I wish I'd chosen something that stands out more. I wonder if it is the same as crabbo's dd.

Kiana?

totally looked for the Telegraph article but couldn't find it