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 😳

I am very ahem, biased, about that name, and have significant experience of its day-to-day use...

It’s always always always ‘Pol’. Polly is the ‘shit I’m in trouble’ version. ‘Tis a good name though.

Does she have a middle name you could use?

Or could you make a nickname from Polly? Lea? Or Lee? Maybe Pia (thinking outside the box here!)

I hated DD's name so much when she was a baby that I refused to say it I called her baby for 18m then one day just started calling her her actual name. I love it now 17 years on. Names grow on you and I can't imagine her being called nothing else.

I love Polly, it will suit a child, adult, old lady. I know a couple of children that are known by their middle names- would that be an option?

I love it.

I really do.

Change to molly so it's similar?

Polly is a classy name. But if you loathe it, change it. It’s irrelevant that we all seem to like it.

Oh I love Polly! But you can change it you know! What does your DH think?

Polly is such a brilliant name.

Did you suffer PND? I know it can be linked to fixing on hating a name & if it started a couple of weeks post birth....??

Could you use her middle name? Or find a different nickname you love? Pixie? Posey? Lee even?

What would you change it to?

It's a strong love or hate name. Bit like Sally. If you've been using a nickname anyway then change it! It's not ideal but I do know someone who adopted a child and had his name changed and he was 3 years old and has grown into it now he's 8.

I think changing it is the way to go. Not that there is anything at all wrong with Polly, it’s a perfectly nice name.

Then you can spin the story that she was always known as whatever it is so you decided to change her name to BiBi or something else and never mention to anyone or to dd that you changed it because you didn’t like it.

Change it x

Polly's terrific. Suits any age, phonetic (and therefore travels well), easy to spell, got something quite cool and confident about it.

She is still so so young in the grand scheme of things..if I was you I would change it now, before she gets any older..I think it would of grown on you already by now, and it hasn't..people might slip up and forget every now and then and use her old name, but they will soon get use to her new name 😊 Not that it's a bad name! But as her mum you should love her name..
What names do you like?

It's not been too much of a burden for me... @GinUnicorn those 3 names are mine, and 2 my sister in laws! Who would've thought!

I like the name Polly but if you really dislike it so much then change it.

I would change it if you hate it (and I'm probably biased because I don't like "polly" either--it reminds me of parrots and of industrial-filler-chemical type substances).

I'd change it.. But that's cause I don't like Polly either...

I would change it if you really hate it.

Changing it will me a lifetime of faff for her though because it’s too old to change the original birth certificate it’ll be via deed poll so always filling in ‘formerly known as’ etc

Do you just hate it because it sounds unfamiliar, or 'too big' for her. I assumed you did like it when you named her. Try and think about why you liked it and what is it you don't like now.?then if you really think you made the wrong choice you can change it. What does her father think?

Dory I have just seen she is called polly which is lovely. But my advice is the same. Try using it for a while to see if it grows on her. If you still hate it think about changing it but what would you change it to? And how can you be sure you won't also grow to dislike that name?

There's nothing wrong with Polly as a name (at least it's not Season) but if YOU don' t like it then there's no problem in changing it. Pregnancy does funny things sometimes to sense of reason about names - thankfully DD was a girl as I'd decided for reason I really can't for the life of me remember now that if she'd have been a boy, something "quirky" like Boris would have been a good idea!

So, make sure you are sure about what you change it to, perhaps spend time using it when you're on your own with her to check you definitely like it then go for it!

@sittingonafishfinger oh I feel psychic now!

All great names :)