Anyone have any regrets??
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Anyone have any regrets??
| Thu, 11-04-2004 - 2:30pm |
Just wondering if anyone here has any regrets about the names they have given there children. Whether it be the way a name is spelled or the name itself. Anything at all.

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Janet~
My DD was almost Mary (Molly) Elizabeth.
I don't remember, too, why I was so adamant about using an A mn. I just was. Maybe because my mn starts with A...who knows!
~ Liz
step"mom" to Christopher Dale, Jr
mommy to Nicholas Aidan 10.21.03
I also liked the meaning of Aidan (little fiery one) because now my son IS a little fiery one! LOL He's got his daddy's temper and his mommy's mood swings. Heaven help us! LOL
I'm rather glad we didn't name her Mercedes (our other choice, which was after my mother and grandmother...both carry that name) since I don't think it would have suited her at all...
Don't know if it will make you feel any better or not, but I think that if I *hadn't* been familiar with the name Rowan from hearing it used a bit more often recently, I might have thought the name was odd--for a boy or a girl. I have personally never met anyone with the FN or MN of Rowan, and it wasn't until I started reading posts on this board that I even noticed that it might be getting used more often. It's still not one I would think of as a popular or trendy name, though. Maybe it will be this year, but if you check last year's Social Security lists of baby names, Rowan barely made the top 1000 for girls, and isn't even in the top 500 for boys either. I guess what I'm saying is that now that I've become a little more familiar with the name from seeing it more often on this message board, I've come to appreciate and even like the name; whereas, before I might have thought it too unusual due to lack of any familiarity with it. And even if the name is getting used more often now, I still think it definitely fits what you were going after in looking for a "different" MN to go with Natalie. You shouldn't have any regrets or be disappointed, because for some people (like me!) knowing that there are a few more Rowans out there--even if I've never met any of them--makes your DD's MN that much more appealing by giving it a familiarity that it wouldn't have otherwise had.
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