Change baby's name?

[Hatsoff89]

My daughter is almost 5 months old. The name we chose for her is troubling me as there are a few different pronunciations and I don't want her to have to correct people all her life. I'm wondering whether I should change it to a new name?
Is it too late?
I'm scared I'll change it and then regret that because of other people's comments and judgements. Is it cruel on her to change her name?

You have up to one year to change her name whereby she'll get a completely new birth certificate.

Do it ASAP, though. In a few months she'll know her name.

Have you got something in mind that you love and think would suit her better.

She's a person already, its her name. Lots of names have different pronounciations, it doesn't matter

I have another name that I also love and would use and would suit her

You can change it if you wish. However, as someone who has a name many can't spell and some cant pronounce. You just get used to it and get on with it. So if that is the only reason for changing I would not do so if you otherwise love the name.

Could you keep her current name as a middle name? Then it's still part of her identity.. My friend swapped her ds's names round - nobody cared...
Use the new name and get her bc changed. Or years of regret imo.

Thanks I do love the name, but everytime I think i feel I want to keep it, someone will pronounce it wrong again and it throws me. Sometimes I feel that the other pronunciation affects my love of the name as I really don't like it

Just change it if you are still stressing after 5 months.
Start calling her by the new name immediately and see how it feels.
Then you can do the official thing before the year deadline (assuming babyspider is correct)

Or move that name to her middle name and then she can choose later which to be known as.

I have thought of that Sunnydays but unfortunately the names just don't go together. So it would be a straight swap

Cossed posts there - to be honest it doesn't matter if the names "go" together. There are hardly ANY times someone is called by their full name.
They are called first name or Ms Surname or First name (middle initial) Surname and only very occasionally in official circumstances (when in trouble with mum or dad) - their full name.

I would change it, I would feel the same way as you

It's easy to change it, if you want to you should. She's tiny, she's going to have her name a LOT longer going forward than she's had it already.

If anyone says anything just say 'we were fed up if people not saying it properly & didn't want a lifetime of that for her'

What they think really really doesn't matter and most people will just think 'oh right' then be thinking about something else.

Just make sure you love her new name & can handle any abbreviations or mis spellings/pronunciations!

I agree with the other comment about trying to call her by the new name for a week and see how it feels.

Thanks, I might try using it and see how it feels. I feel people are being more reasonable on here than they would be in real life!

I have a friend who changed their daughters name after a few months of people pronouncing it incorrectly. A few people commented that they liked her original name but now its just a distant memory and she fits her new name perfectly.
The process of easy within the first 12 months and you do get a new birth certificate with the new name in the amendment section.

Are you sure people will pronounce the new name correctly?