Name regret?

[mammabing]

This may have been asked on here before so apologies.
I had my DS earlier this year and up until my pregnancy me and DP were set on a name. When I got pregnant the chosen name changed and then a couple of months before his birth it changed from a shortened version to a longer version (think Tom becoming Thomas)
I look at him now and he suits his name
perfectly. I can’t imagine him being called the original name we had picked out pre-pregnancy.
Which leads me to ask has anyone ever regretted the name they picked? And if so what did you do about it?

Lots do - there are many threads on here.

We didn’t, even though one of our names was an ‘instant’ pick (we thought we were having b-g twins but had b-b)
We didn’t agonise over it, just chose another from our list. It really suits him!

A fair amount of people do I think. It’s worth noting it can be a sign of postnatal depression so it’s hard to say how many actually regret the name. I do think some people get so hung up on finding the perfect name, I don’t really think babies suit a particular name either. They become their name and after a while you couldn’t imagine them being anything else

Yep, I have regrets on the naming of both my kids. We did not compromise well. So far I managed to live with it. I do feel sorry for the kids though.

I regret the name of my stillborn. Ended up choosing it in a hurry between finding out he’d died and being induced to deliver him. None of the rest of the family seem to like it. It’s engraved on his casket now though so there’s not really any turning back.

I regret choosing a name that was more popular than I had thought for one of my children. They hate having to add their surname initials or being known as little x

@ListerMummy so sorry for your loss, I think it's very unkind of your family to express any disapproval of the name chosen at such heartbreaking time 💐

@ListerMummy , sorry for your loss.

@mammabing ,the name regret is often a symptom of PND, but sometimes name regret can be because the name is too popular or only fashionable for a short time.

@ListerMummy My condolences.

I will probably never have children, but if - I am an overthinker, so I could see myself worrying about a name, or fixate about something being "wrong" about a name.

OP,
Many threads here on Mumsnet about name regret, so if you are interested in reading about it, do a search. But if you are happy with the name of your baby, it might be better to not read about name regret at all. Just be happy!

I love my DS name but my DH's cousin is called similar, and since my DS has been born my DH cousin's family have started calling him my DS exact name! It's infuriating, and because of this I wish we'd chosen a different name but not because I don't like the name if that makes sense!

Not quite the same but I gave my dd a completely different name to the one we had chosen when she was born. I don’t remember doing it as I’d had a general anaesthetic to have her and was clearly still under the influence.
Luckily it suits her!