i dislike the name I've given my girl WHAT can i do?

[chrissi]

my daughter is now 9 weeks and i don't like her name, would i be balmy or brave to change it?... bearing in mind i changed it once already. am i just being fickle and postnat or will i feel like this forever?!

Fleur Philipson is a bit f f f f f 'y' iyswim.

1. Megan

2. Sophie 3. Hannah 4. Fleur

(Aloha, the only parents I know who changed their child's name post-registration changed it to Cecily. Irritatingly, I can't remember what she was to start with, which maybe proves a point. She was around 3 mths when they switched.)

Well, they are clearly people of taste and discernment!

When I named dd I actually felt sad for the little Nina, Viola, Edith etc that I would never have. But no more for me, sadly.
So BK, planning number three already? Ah, it's buying a four bed house that does it!

i am rather broody, but just can't see how we can have another, unless i win the lottery and don't have to work any more - we've filled our house already! plus i am pants at being pregnant.

i changed my daughters name when she was 2!

Ah yes, the lottery = another baby fantasy..I know it all too well.

If you really want to call her Fleur then do it, you nwill only be thinking "what if" if you don't.

FWIW, I think Fleur is very pretty and I prefer it to Megan and Hannah

Change her name and then have a special naming day party for her with your close friends and family with a Fleur theme, thats what i'd do

I think:

1. megan
2. hannah
3. Sophie
4. Fleur

I like Fleur. But I'm always careful of giving a child a name that may seem daft in another language. I grew up bilingual, and sometimes people will name their kids stuff in Spanish that just sounds naff. Then the kid grows up and decides he/she wants to study Spanish and then move to Mexico/Spain/some other Spanish-speaking country. But they get chided about their daft name.

I knew a gal called 'Jolie' once. She studied French w/me, and wherever the poor gal went in France she'd get these puzzled looks once her name was announced. Poor soul.

I won't if you won't, BK.

That's it! Until the birth I couldn't see myself with a daughter cos I expected another boy (my 19 month old is Samuel/Sam). Hannah seemed nice but bugged me, and Megan was plunged for, but Sophie or Fleur seem more 'me'. I know the name is for her not me but somehow Megan isn't clicking... hellfire, if i wasn't breastfeeding I'd have a bottle of wine then sleep myself back to sanity. If my kids would sleep that long too!!

My favourite is Sophie, thats my niece's name and she is lovely

Can you call her Fleur as a nickname? My sisters have two names each and we have always used nicknames with them (which are totally unrelated to their names and... I'm guilty of them )

I love Hannah as well, I believe if you persevere people will end up using Hannah instead of Anna, as long as the family and teachers (in due time) call her Hannah things should be OK

I'm the person mentioned by motherinferior as having changed ds' name after A YEAR (I'm glad you called me 'a very nice MNer', MI, not a ditzy cow who couldn't stand up to her MIL for a whole year )

I would try calling her Fleur for a couple of weeks and see how it feels. I did spend the first year of ds' life telling people I would really have liked to call him something else, and seeing how they responded, so in my terms you have all the time in the world. We went just over the year, so ds has two birth certificates - an initial one and an annotated one - but that hasn't been a problem so far.

I do like the name Fleur myself, and would have considered it for dd, except that a) I thought people wouldn't be able to spell it; and b) it's unfortunate that it rhymes with 'ugh' (pronounced errr) in English. So personally my ranking of the names you're considering, bearing in mind your surname, would be the same as Emily05's, namely:

1. Megan
2. Hannah
3. Sophie
4. Fleur

But I had peculiar, personal, gut-feel, mummy-type reasons for wanting ds to be called what he now is, and if you have them too, and as strongly as I had them, then I'd say go with them.

DH's great uncle calls DH's mum Fleur. It is blatnantly not her name but his pet name for her.

Can you not do that?

Personally:

1. Hannah
2. Meg or Megan
3. Sophie
4. Fleur

If you can't get Fleur our of your head then I think you should go ahead and make the change, but I wouldn't do it if it's just the Hannah/Anna thing bothering you as I would imagine some people will struggle with the name Fleur too (spelling/pronunciation-wise).

I really like Fleur best followed by Hannah but don't like Megan at all

Fleur is pretty and different! Prfer it to others - like megan least!

Fleur is pretty and different! Prfer it to others - like megan least!

I think you need a one syllable first name with no 'f's to go with Phillipson. Fleur is lovely, but too many F's.
(Had same issue with DD name - single syllable surname with 'L', needed longer first name with no l or reference to flowers otherwise would have sounded daft)

Lawn?

Nice try Enid

i love the names megan ooooh and sophie