Namer's Remorse!

[Antheia]

I wish i had stuck with DS1's original name i had for him when i was pregnant. I was going to call him Roman but everytime i said it to someone they would screw their nose up at it and i was in a very fragile state then so i decided to chuck it. I didn't name him until after hewas born and all i could come up with that i would even consider was Charlie. But it is so popular and i don't like that. But i would never legally change it because he looks like a Charlie and that's who he knows himself as. I also wish DD's name was not so popular but i love her name. And i adore DS2's name. I have never heard another child nor adult named Orson (except for Orson Wells). And i hope it stays that way.

I don't like my name either but i hate my middle name even more so have just put up with it. My godmother on the other hand changed her name to her middle.

[Sequoia]

And i adore DS2's name. I have never heard another child nor adult named Orson (except for Orson Wells). And i hope it stays that way.

On Desperate Housewives, Bree's DH is called Orson.

For me, I've never had 'buyer's remorse'. I still think DS's name is the coolest and best boy's name I've ever heard. I was unsure of the girl's name we had picked out but since then, a few of our friends have picked names I consider even more unusual than what we have picked out so I feel more confident next time if we have a girl. Yes, I know I shouldn't care what others think!

[rhyb]

I wish I had named DS Kiah instead. Aiden isnt really my kind of name. I wish he had my last name too.

[Snowy Love]

My grandfather is known by a nickname that has nothing to do with his given names. His mum named him Herbert James while his father was away (at war I think) & when he came back said I'm not calling my son that, we'll call him Joe. He's been Joe ever since.

I don't have remorse about DS's name or my own, although I like to be called a shortened version of my name, but find it difficult to introduce myself by the shortened version if I'm giving my surname.

[Pandora]

I know lots of poeple who go by their middle names but not who've actually legally changed their name to something else.
I love DS' name. I really did prefer the other name we'd chosen for him, Arlo, but similar to Nelle, I hate the way its pronounced in Australia i.e. -Ah-lo instead of Are-lowe.

Im acutally more worried about this time around, cos the anme we've chosen is somthing of a compromise, there is nothing that we both really loved.

[Mumma2three]

This is why I insisted to DH that DS has the name I have loved all my life. I did NOT want to regret the name we picked if it wasn't the one I wanted. I know very well DH wouldn't regret anything, he's a male and the child grows into a name and he'd be happy with anything, but for me, a name is soooo important (i've been obsessed with baby names for as long as I can remember). I adore all my three kids names and that's because I was lucky and chose them all and they were all names that were very special to me.
However if I did want to change a name, I'd use middle name or just make one up, but wouldn't change it legally.
I have an old friend who still doesn't like the name she gave her son, 6 years later. She never changed it but always goes on about it. dont' think that's very nice for the son..

[Bathsheba]

Absolutely no regrets about the names we have given our children... and just as well... the research was soooo rigorous!

My name is quite unusual and my parents said they gave me a plainer middle name just incase I didn't like my first name... but I'm ok with my first name, it suits me. We did the opposite with our kids, gave them unusal first names... but REALLY unusual middle names! LOL If this wasn't a forum with general public access i'd share the names but I don't want the world to know the names of my children.

Personally i couldn't change a child's name... well, it would have to be a REAL good reason. I think past generations got it right with simply allocating an alternative name, or using their middle name instead without an offical change. JMO.