can't say i have any regrets about my kids' names, but dh often laments the fact that he gave his cat one of the most common pet names in the world: max. shortly after naming him he realised he should have called him wilson, but for some reason he never changed it.
look forward to hearing whether anyone's actually changed their child's name - it would be a very hard thing to do, i think.
^ Lol the story goes in my family that my father was named 'after the cat' - my grandmother had seen a movie called 'A Man Named Peter' and loved it so much that whenshe got a kitten, she named him Peter. A few years later, when my father was born, she was still a big fan of the name Peter and so named my dad... of course she swears up and down that she 'just liked the name', which is fair enough, but everybody thinks it's pretty funny that dad was named 'after the cat'.
Well, at the risk of sounding rude I had a little "Only in America" moment when I started reading that ><;;
I dunno about giving a 4 year old a whole new name, they're their own little person by then with a personality that usually matches their name, I think. But I guess if they were still new born, perhaps...
I personally wouldn't do it.
In saying that though, we have a few family members that go by their middle name. And I have an aunty we never call by her real name, as when we were kids we couldn't pronounce it, so gave her our own name
hmm.. I'm not entirely thrilled with the flow of DS's full name.. should have picked a better middle name. Love the name, but we didn't use it right I don't think LOL. Won't change it tho.
My niece started off as Chloe, and a few days later became Madelene. No idea of the reasons for it, but I know my card to them welcomed Chloe, so I crossed it out and put Madelene. LOL.
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