anyone really regret the name they chose?

[littlegreyrabbit]

Ds is 9 now so it's just a little late to change his name but I wish I'd stuck to my gut feeling and tried to persuade dh on my first choice name.

Instead we compromised on a name that was second choice for both of us. There are 3 boys in ds's class with the same name and it's a name that doesn't even match our surname very well.

Anyone else feel the same?

I wish dd's hadn't become so popular although it seems to be on the wane again but I still love it. DS has the best name EVER and love that too so no I don't regret either of mine.

The one thing I would say is that children can find something silly about any name. I remember a little boy in year 2 coming in crying after playtime because some other boys were calling him Jacket potato, even ordinary names aren't safe! I do think there are some trying too hard to be different names that people give their children that their children won't thank them for though.

I felt the responsibility of naming DD very heavily. We had a (very long) shortlist before I went into labour of names that we had discussed a lot, to avoid the hormones doing something strange to me! And then we picked once we had met her and seen what she "looked like".
I do sometimes wonder if DD's name is a bit ordinary and perhaps not posh enough but it does really suit her. Her middle name is much more unusual and we will let her decide which she'll be called by when she's older.
I'm now PG again and if it's a boy then DH is keen to give him his GF's name as a middle name. It's a very old fashioned name though, and I have put my foot down because I want this baby to have the choice of two good names too.

Now regretting my daughters name as i have hyphenated 2 names together and decided i prefer the second one(which no one uses!)It is a very popular name but i do like it and think it suits her more than the first one i chose.Wandering wether to alter her birth certificate as she is only just over 3 months old.Wondering whether it might be complicated with child benefit,medical records etc.Does anyone have any experience of this?

mumtobe2, I think someone on the first page said it's pretty easy to change names up to 12 months old

My best friend and her sister both changed their names when they were teenagers; they decided that the names their parents had given them didn't suit or represent them in any way, and just announced that from now on they'd be called and ___ . Everyone agreed and I can't even imagine them as their old names. The birth names are on their birth certs, apparently, but nothing else - when my friend got a passport she had to get letters from her bank and her dad confirming that her name is actually the new name and not the one on her birth certificate, but otherwise it's never been a problem.

I've always had tremendous respect for this act - it shows a level of self-knowledge that is pretty unusual at that age, IMO.

Hi thanks yes i know you can do it up to 12 months but was just wandering wether i would have a nightmare with medical records and child benefit if it was already on the system?That was all i meant.Thanks cyteen anyway.

OI SQUIFFY... Hannah is a fab name.

I actually think it's better for both parents to like a name than it is for one to hate it and the other to love it.

We had to do some real negotiating on the boy name and ended up with one we both liked, but not first choice for either.

The girl name was agreed in about 30 seconds.