Absolutely hate my 1.5 year olds name

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Just that really. Absolutely hate the name we chose for her. We've called her a nickname since she was born (it sounds a bit like "baby" but it's not exactly that) and it's stuck 😳 she responds to that nickname and has absolutely no idea what her real name is.

Sometimes our family do call her by her real name and it makes my skin crawl I hate it so much.

What am I gonna do 😳

If she doesn't know her real name just change it. She won't want to be called 'something similar to baby' Baba? when she's at school do you'll have to revert to her given name. You may as well change it now. How come she has a name you hate? I wish I'd called DS1 by a more adventurous name, but I still like it!

Change it before she starts school.

Change it. What does your h think?

If you truly hate it I’d change it before school too

I would change it if I hated it I think.

Is she called ‘season’ ?

It's really hard to give an opinion without knowing the name.

Change it to something the nn still works with, assuming it's a contraction

Is she called pancake?

Is it Gaby, short for Gabriella?

Balonzina, Blonza for short?

Is there something else you want to call her though?

All well and good people saying change it.. but you can’t really change it to Baba/Baby or whatever it is you call her. You’d presumably need another name that you love that you can imagine saying 50x a day.

Change it then while she still doesn't recognise it. 🙍

Tell us the name? Its probably not horrible at all and anyway it can’t be as bad as Pancake OP.

Change it if she doesn't recognise it. Or use her middle banned if you prefer it.
I'd love to know what it is.

I’m not sure changing it formally is a good idea. Because she’s over 1 it would be via deedpoll & she would always have to fill in the ‘formerly known as’ section on all official forms passports etc.

Could you use her middle name?

@Theworldcouldbemymollusc naughty !

People saying ‘why did you give it to her then’ are being somewhat unhelpful / cruel.

What made you choose it in the first place?

It doesn’t really matter what the name is, even if everyone on here thinks it’s lovely if the OP has reached a point where it makes her skin crawl a bunch of internet randoms aren’t going to suddenly make her like it.

The best course of action is going to be to change it before she gets much older. There will be a few raised eyebrows from family I expect, but they’ll get over it.

It could be a perfectly lovely name, it's just that you don't know anyone else with it?

OP this thread is pointless unless you tell us what it is.

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It’s only been a few hours maybe she posted on a lunch break- mumsnet is savage

Why did you choose the name in the first place? You must have liked it then.

Do please tell us the name - Gaby is short for Gabrielle or Gabriella and a bit like 'baby', is either of those her name?

Mabel (Maby)?