Would you change your baby's name if you had the choice

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My baby girl is 17 days old and since the day after she was born I have had doubts about her name, I haven't registered her yet but am a bit embarrassed to change it because it's on Facebook and have told all our family and friends..would you change your child's name if you had the choice

Personally, I wouldn't change my children's name because I love their names, but I think if I was really struggling to connect with it I would. And seeing as you've not registered it yet it makes things easier.

Do you have another name in mind?

I had a name I loved and I still do and it's hard to get it out of my head but DH said he wasn't keen on it anymore which is why we chose a different one, but he's seen how upset I've been and said he's willing to charge it

If he's willing then go ahead. You can always announce of facebook etc again that your daughters name has been changed as after some time with it you realised it wasn't the right name for her. I know a family who didn't choose a name for maybe 4 weeks as they tried out different ones.

Our baby had a different name to the one he has now for a few days. We still had a shortlist of names when he was born (in our defence he was born a month early so we thought we had more time) and it was only after telling our parents and hearing them call it him that we realised we didn't like the name we'd provisionally picked. He's called another name which I thought was completely off the cards for a first name as my husband had said he didn't like it... I assume 8 months on he likes it though!

It will be more common than you think, and whilst 3 weeks feels like a very long time now given everything that's happened in that time it's a small amount of time compared to what is (hopefully) a very long lifetime.

Change it. What other people think is irrelevant, and I'm sure most will just give a shoulder shrug and move on anyway.

Id change it if i were u, dont worry what people think its your baby and u have to have the name u want as its forever.
I love all my kids names wouldnt change any of them.

Honestly, just change it, in the scheme of things people will forget you ever changed it in a few weeks. It will be a short lived talking point.
On the other hand you'd have a lifetime of wishing you'd changed it.

I know this is slightly older post so OP has probably decided one way or another, for anyone else having same issue try using baby’s name a lot. I really liked the name we picked but it somehow didn’t feel right. We realised neither of us were using it, we often referred to ‘the baby’ rather than his name. So made a point of almost over using it when speaking to him or about him and within short time couldn’t imagine him having any other name. If I still wasn’t sure after couple of weeks I would have changed it though