CPW: Name Regret

[thatgirlrachel]

I really love EG's. It's classic and southern, which is perfect for us. And, since she goes by both her first and middle name, she likely won't have to share the name with any classmates once she starts school. I chose the first option.

[evenkeeled]

We had a few names we liked and a few names that each person liked but the other didn't. So fine with it. Her middle name is my middle name and my grand grandmother's maiden name so I LOVE it, Patton. I am so happy to pass down that tradition.

[geners]

I still love Charlie's name!

[RoLoMa]

We had a terribly difficult time choosing his name. I wasn't sure I loved it at first but it really suits him. I really love it now.

[christina]

I love both of my kids names and have 0 regrets.
Everyone thinks it's so cool that we named Harrison George after a Beatle. Plus I love that his middle name is in memory of my grandfather.
My only regret is how popular the name Charlotte has become. When we picked it we only knew a couple of Charlotte's.

[13liza]

We both love the name Ari and I'm happy that his middle name honors my dad. It's getting a little more popular than we thought, but that's ok.

[kida]

I love DDs name. I had her first name picked for my girl name before ttc, and it fits her so perfectly. I had never heard anyone named this and when researching the meaning, found very very few ppl or places relating to it. So I don't think she will share her name at all lol.

Her first middle name is my mother and h's mother combined which makes h's grandmother's name. We thought it was cool the way that worked out. Her second middle name is my grandmother's. So she is named after her 2 grandma's and great grandma's and also has a name of her own. Totally love it.

It's a big name for a little girl but her first name is only 4 letters so that shouldn't be hard for her to learn to spell and write in school.

[Unknown]

No regrets at all. Love both my kids names. The only thing I might change is the spelling of DD#1's middle name. There are more than one real ways to spell and I think I now like the other spelling better.

[Deleted]

I didn't vote because we didn't pick his name. It is a horrible name and spelled weird and we refer to him by a shortened nickname. If we adopt, we've talked a lot about whether we change his name to the nickname we use or change it to something that we actually pick ourselves. So as that gets closer I may be running names past you all! The nickname we use has a meaning I love but it is a pretty common gender neutral name so I don't know. The boys' mom seems to really like the name and we worry a tiny bit about hurting her feelings if we change it. That is not reason enough for us to keep it though.

[physiomeg]

I still love her name. I think it suits her perfectly. It's starting to get a little more popular, but I don't mind. My husband and I both have extremely popular names for our ages (think 3 people with the same name in our classes) and it never bothered us.

She shares my middle name (also my mother's) and I love that too.

[HelgaHuffle]

I love his name and would definitely pick it again. He was almost Milo. So I have wondered if he looks like a Milo lol.

[expatmama11]

Very happy with the name we chose.

[Deleted]

Do any of you have kids with names that start with the same letter or intend to do that with future LOs? If you did that, do you regret it? Our two littlest have names that start with the same letter and if we change their names I don't think I'll intentionally have their names sound so similar. It is so hard to call them the right name sometimes!

[Deleted]

DoesItComeInPink, yes definitely. Did you plan to do it that way or just happen to like two names that started with the same letter?

[cnf2013]

I picked the second option. I love her formal name but I'm not wild about her nn and it's popularity. I find myself calling her Eleanor more and more instead of Ellie.

[spidermonkeymama]

I really love it. Funny thing is I hadn't heard it much before and then my mom remembered it was her former cleaning lady's name from 20yrs ago. She keeps calling her current lady of 14 years C. It's really comical. She never did before.

[baylorbear]

I would pick both of their names again. Since our last name is one syllable, I stayed away from one syllable names for a first name and don't know if there are any other names I would have considered.

[tina515]

I love G's name, I do. But I'm starting to realize there's really no good shortened version. I'm a big fan of nicknames ( i go by a shortened version of my name) and whenever I call her by the shortened version (Gretch) i keep thinking of "wretch" and I don't like that. Maybe as she gets older another nickname will come along that's better or I'll stop having the association.

[byjove]

Happy with our names.

[emmylo413]

I love her name, but it's hard sometimes because people want to call her Isabella, which is more popular and they also misspell it a lot too and write Isabelle. We've had to correct a lot of people. But I still love the name, her nickname (Izzy), and the meaning (pledged to God) is special to us.

[kida]

Aug 25, 2016 7:37:41 GMT -5 @tifga said:

I love Haddie's name but I didn't realize when I picked it how many people would miss hear/pronounce it so now I worry I screwed up.

Tifga don't worry, my DDs name only has 4 letters and I have met the random person who has turned it into a 4 syllable 10 letter name. There's always the ss that will pronounce or misspell someone's name somehow lol. Ftr, I think Haddie is an adorable name. I love names that are not the normal name that 500 kids share.

Is the a pronounced like in add or aid? In my head I do add but now wonder if that's correct?