Anyone changed baby's name after few months?

[OxfordBaby]

Hi, I want to change my baby's name after 4 months I have decided name on birth certificate does not suit her. Anyone else had this experience, what did you do? Can you change the name on certificate? What did your family say? How did you tell everyone? Any advice? THANKS!!

Yes, I'm Sophie to everyone. I can't imagine myself as an Abigail but I think I would have liked Abby. It would have been less trouble at school, which is the only downside of the name: Soppy, Soapy, Sofa...god, I heard it all. Mind you, that was back in the seventies and no-one else was called Sophie/Sophia then so it was ripe for teasing. It's more common now, which is a relief, because I don't have to keep spelling it for people anymore, and only one person I know persists in spelling it with an F! It's a lovely name, I don't think I'd swap it now.

my dd is sophia, so an excellent choice! her nickname is "fia" which is what she used to call herself when she was a baby, before she could pronounce it. it is only used in the family though, to everyone else she is sophia and she has had no problems at school or anything. she is 6 now btw.

I got one of my ds1's middle names wrong (mixed up great grandads).

Went back to the reg office straight away but not allowed to change it - we had to write to the home office for permission.

The name WAS changed but on the full certificate the original has to be in, crossed out and corrected. On the short certificate it is the name we required with no alterations.