Baby name regret stories

[yarathegreat]

I saw a couple of threads on here about baby name regret and I'm both intrigued and inspired.

I never really loved DS's name and he's 3 months. I have DH's full blessing to change it but I just can't seem to pull the trigger. It's almost like his name is "his" now and I feel so horrible thinking of changing it, but hearing it makes me cringe a bit each time.

Have any of you had baby name regret? What did you do about it? If you changed your baby's name, how did you feel during the process: excited, anxious, sad, happy? How long ago was it and how do you feel now?

Me 👋🏼

I really disliked my first child's name ( old fashions,her father chose it) I refused to call her it until she was one 🙈 I love it now and have only ever met one lady with the name and that was whilst standing in the cue at matalan lol

3rd child name I like when naming her but really dislike it now 🙈

I think your opinion of a name changes over time, I liked unusual names 14 years ago but today i like old names ( that's why I dislike dd3 and love dd1 names)

Our last child we couldn't decide on a name and let her brother and sisters name her and my dp still doesn't like it 2 years later 🙈 he says he can't get used it

I disliked me son’s name but my husband loved it so much I agreed.

Never fully loved it, but it was okay.

DS swapped to his middle name a few years ago, and almost all of his social circle know him only as the new name.

I wasn't expecting a girl (daft really as we didn't find out gender but I thought we were having a boy)

Thus I didn't think much about girls names and just went along with my husband's favourite. In hindsight I wish we'd named her something different as she has to spell out both her first and last name. I never changed it, mainly because I was out of it for the first few months and after that it was too late. I wish I had though

It's very very easy to change a baby's name at 3m old! That was the age I changed my daughter's name! It just didn't feel right.

It was 2 years ago now and nobody except very close friends and family remember her old name. I had no problems with comments, in fact everyone just said nice things tbh!

For a baby under a year just call the reg office, it's a simple amendment on the birth cert and £10. Job done! This is your chance now before the name sticks and she starts learning it.

It was surprisingly simple all round once I made the decision and I never actually slipped up and used the old name once! I started using her new name straightaway then got the birth cert done a few days later. 3 months old feels ages at the time but a couple of months later it's like she was always the new name!