Does anyone regret their name choice?

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I'm just interested, I suppose it's not the sort of thing you hear people openly confess. But do you?

Or any that you regret Not using?

My mum regrets my sisters name (sister is 37 now!). She wishes she had given her a welsh name like I have. I think she should shut up about it now as that ship has well and truly sailed and most welsh names are awful 😬

My mum has said she regrets my sisters.
She has a name that is positively unheard of outside of the UK. My parents are keen travellers so we went abroad a lot as kids and they quickly learnt they’d always have to introduce my sister by the first letter of her name, as foreigners just couldn’t get their tongue around it.
She’s inherited their love of travel (28 and already lived in 5 countries) but always goes by her initial when abroad instead of full name.

It’s definitely made me think about when I have kids I want them to be names that can be easily Pronounced anywhere.

My mum has said she regrets my sisters.

Yikes, there's a sentence where the meaning is changed quite dramatically by an apostrophe!

Me. I picked a boring normal classic overused name, I was so close to picking alternative classic underused name but chickened out on the day of registration because it was quite marmite. I regret that. I hope I have another chance to use the name that got away. I know prior to finding the Mumsnet forum I think I would have been happy with the boring name I selected. But I think reading so many opinions on here, a lot of us have mini regrets because we are constantly reading about other names (potential names we could have picked) and then negative opinions on our chosen names.

I do sometimes. I'm trying desperately hard not to. We didn't agree on names and in my opinion DH was far too pushy. He didn't like any of my style of names. It has never felt quite right but I adore my DS so much so I really want to love his name. It doesn't help that people keep mispronouncing it.
I'm hoping as he gets older it will just become him and I will love it more.

I regret giving my children my boyfriend's surname name. We aren't married and never will be, been together 12 years, he promised we would get married. What a mug I am.
My surname is nicer too.

Well the twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee, have never forgiven me.

Might you I was rather drunk at the time.

Love my child’s name but regret not giving him my maiden name as a middle name. It’s both a forename and a surname.

I have. DS’s name was a name I never considered until the end of my pregnancy so it wasn’t a name I had loved for years. I hated his name for the first couple of years but it was a symptom of PND and I really love his name now.

With DD again a new name came up towards the end of my pregnancy which I loved but when she was born I was terrified of making the same mistake I did with DS and instead in a hormonal blur choose a name I’d loved for years. I now wish I’d chosen the other name as it’s so much prettier but I do like DD’s name because its her name,but there is some regret there especially as no one ever says “ooh what a lovely name”

No, I love them still! The youngest has a very marmite name, hated on mumsnet but often loved in real life. The eldest has a name that used to be hated on mumsnet (but again gets a lot of love in real life) but is mentioned on a lot of threads in a positive way now. It's strange how things change.

I regret not giving my eldest a more unique middle name - its Rose and her age group Rose or May is very popular as a middle name! Never come across another with her first name, she was the only one in her 3 form entry school 😁

My youngest we were going to call Loki had she been a boy, some days i regret not using it maybe as a middle name as she really would have suited it 🤣 she is just full of mischief!!

My Roan is 19. Still love it.

Yes because it's so popular now but 23 years ago I chose it as it wasn't in the too 100. It's about 12th now.

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Yes because it's so popular now but 23 years ago I chose it as it wasn't in the too 100. It's about 12th now.

I can sympathise. We deliberately picked a name that was uncommon but not unheard of. Think it was about 186 in the list of top names. Now 20 + years later it’s becoming increasingly popular. For the first time ever there’s one in my school. I don’t regret the name but I want it to remain uncommon. If I start to see it on pens, key rings etc I’ll be totally disappointed.

I love both my kids names, the eldests was a no brainier, it’s always been one of my most favourite boys names and 15 years on I still love it and he suits it so much. DD’s name just popped in my head one day in my pregnancy, I loved it and I still love it. I think girls names are harder, there are sooo many beautiful names and it’s easy to go ooh why didn’t I pick that... but I wouldn’t change it..

I think it's a hard one, I don't regret my son's name. But I know in the future I'll regret not having used other names I loved. Like the name Harry, very popular, but I absolutely love it and hope I get to use it 1 day, but if I don't, I'll be quite sad about it.
My mum says she regrets my name, she always wanted to call me Tabitha, my goodness, I'm glad she didn't get her way! And my sister went through 3 different names before she was 5 months old!

I love DS's first name but we gave him 2 middle names and I wish we'd just kept to 1.

My mum says she regrets my name, she always wanted to call me Tabitha, my goodness, I'm glad she didn't get her way!

Tabitha is beautiful! I wish was called that.

@Dededa I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope you found some comfort in finally admitting it and 'saying it out loud' as such x

No regrets at all. Loved ds1’s name since before I was pregnant but struggled for find a name for ds2 as DH and I couldn’t agree and ended up going for a name that neither of us hated. I love, love, love it now because it is ds2 and I can’t imagine him called anything else and genuinely love it as much as ds1’s name.

I did when DD was young. For me, it was a symptom of PND and now I can't imagine her as anything else.

Ditto @MonaChopsis

But I also now can't imagine her as anything else. She really suits her name.

No and I’m surprised, I love names, have many favourites but I gave my children names that fit certain criteria, not names I loved and it’s paid off so far, no regrets at all and they suit their names, even though someone described them as poor children because of their names on here I still don’t regret them and because it was never love if they hate them and want to change them I don’t mind at all.

@Grufallosfriends bit late coming back to you, but as lovely as the name is, I remember all the nicknames my so called friends gave me when I told them! Not so good!!