Name Regrets?

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Anonymous wrote:Nimrod is literally from the Bible.

Yeah it’s funny that some biblical names are always acceptable and others are just...not so much. Like Boaz.

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Anonymous wrote:I regret naming my son Hayden. I didn't realize it at the time, but have since discovered that its also a girl's name. We had an encounter with a girl named Hayden when he was young. It was awkward. Fortunately, he doesn't remember that and no one picks on him. I am happy with his brother's name, which is a combo of my name and DH's name and it fits him well.

We almost named ours Hayden, and then went with Holden instead.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are named very classic, common (and many would say "boring") biblical names--think Thomas, Michael, etc.

Sometimes I wish I had picked something a little less common. I love Reuben and Abraham now.

Michael and Thomas are kind of boring, but at least they're not ugly like Reuben and Abraham.

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder!

Thomas is a beautiful name

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Anonymous wrote:Regret might be a strong word, but we named our second boy Alexander. It's a great name but I just don't love it the way I love our first boy name. There were a couple of other boy names I really liked that DH hated. He wanted to name our second boy Magnus, which I thought was nuts. Now I kind of wish we had gone with Magnus... it just kind of fits him.

I love the nickname Zander, if you want something edgier.

Alexander is a beautiful name

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No. I went with classic names because I knew I would regret using a trendier name that would fall out of trend. My sister did the opposite and I feel that her older kids names are already outdated.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I went with classic names because I knew I would regret using a trendier name that would fall out of trend. My sister did the opposite and I feel that her older kids names are already outdated.

And how ARE Sarah and Elizabeth doing these days? My, don't we feel superior.

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We changed a name at 3 weeks

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I have always wished that names could be changed at will. I never felt like my name fit me (I have zero nicknames). With my kids I chose names that have 5+ nicknames so that they could choose which fits them at different stages of life. And so far it's worked. We had babyish names when they were little that fit them so perfectly and their names grew as they grew. A favorite uncle has a favorite nickname for my son.

I still have name regret though. I wanted to name my oldest daughter "Elizabeth" SO BADLY. But my only cousin's only daughter was named Elizabeth. It's been a decade now and it's one of my top regrets. I should have just said whatever and named her Elizabeth anyways. My dd would have gone by nicknames and her Elizabeth never had a nickname.

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We named our daughter Astrid after my wonderful, warm Danish grandmother who died shortly before our child was born. I thought it was a beautiful name, and sweet nod to the woman who helped raise me and our family's heritage. Many friends seemed somewhat tepid about the name initially, but I didn't regret my choice until about eight months later when The Office had an episode full of crass jokes about a baby Astrid. Everyone, everyone, everyone seemed to bring it up to me. Maybe it was postpartum depression or an overreaction, but that sent me into a tailspin. I was embarrassed of our choice for months, and even explored how to change her name before deciding to just shut out the jokes and detractors and move on. It's twelve years ago now, but I still remember the sting. The name really suits my daughter now and she likes it, but I wish that I had navigated those early years more smoothly.

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Anonymous wrote:We named our daughter Astrid after my wonderful, warm Danish grandmother who died shortly before our child was born. I thought it was a beautiful name, and sweet nod to the woman who helped raise me and our family's heritage. Many friends seemed somewhat tepid about the name initially, but I didn't regret my choice until about eight months later when The Office had an episode full of crass jokes about a baby Astrid. Everyone, everyone, everyone seemed to bring it up to me. Maybe it was postpartum depression or an overreaction, but that sent me into a tailspin. I was embarrassed of our choice for months, and even explored how to change her name before deciding to just shut out the jokes and detractors and move on. It's twelve years ago now, but I still remember the sting. The name really suits my daughter now and she likes it, but I wish that I had navigated those early years more smoothly.

That sucks. It's a beautiful name. Adults making or bringing up jokes about it are only making themselves look bad and purposefully making things awkward for you, which isn't polite.

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I regret my DD middle name. The name I liked, my husband didn’t, so in the end we gave her my name as her middle name. (I also have my mother’s name as my middle name.) I don’t even particularly like my name, so I don’t know why I didn’t fight harder or find some other name. Oh well.

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Anonymous wrote:We named our daughter Astrid after my wonderful, warm Danish grandmother who died shortly before our child was born. I thought it was a beautiful name, and sweet nod to the woman who helped raise me and our family's heritage. Many friends seemed somewhat tepid about the name initially, but I didn't regret my choice until about eight months later when The Office had an episode full of crass jokes about a baby Astrid. Everyone, everyone, everyone seemed to bring it up to me. Maybe it was postpartum depression or an overreaction, but that sent me into a tailspin. I was embarrassed of our choice for months, and even explored how to change her name before deciding to just shut out the jokes and detractors and move on. It's twelve years ago now, but I still remember the sting. The name really suits my daughter now and she likes it, but I wish that I had navigated those early years more smoothly.

Astrid is gorgeous, familiar, but not very used, a classic, globally pronounceable and it’s meaning is great. It’s perfect.

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I have a very common name. I wanted to name a son after my grandfather but my husband’s sister named her son that 5 years before we had a baby.

Yes, we could have both used the name. But I was sensitive about the plethora of people with my name so we didn’t.

I’ve always been sad about it.

Still the name we chose suits DS.

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Miles or Myles have got to be the most common names for boys in DC among today's teens. Seems like there must be at least 3 in every class.

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Anonymous wrote:Miles or Myles have got to be the most common names for boys in DC among today's teens. Seems like there must be at least 3 in every class.

My DD has the toddler girl's version of Miles -- Josephine. It is so, so common in DC. I feel like we meet another one every time we start her in a new class or group. My heart sinks a little each time because I have a super common name and really wanted to give her something more original. She's named for my grandmother.

But I console myself with the fact that while we may have accidentally given her a trendy name in DC, it's not that trendy of a name compared to my name (or really any of the popular names from the 70s/80s. She might grow up with more peers with her name than I'd like, but it's not like it's ubiquitous in the world.

In the meantime, she mostly goes by Josie, which is at least a less common nickname than JoJo. Not much else we can do.