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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I never keep up with the official lists/rankings but I should probably start! :-)
At the time, I thought I had made it up!!!! I had never ever ever heard it before in my life. I had met the CUTEST little boy named KRADEN while I was pg and was pondering different versions of his name came up with Cayden. DH like this name too, but part of me worried that no one would pronounce it right (again, thinking no one had ever heard of it before). He was born early 2000 and now we know TONS of little ones with the same name!!! Sounds silly, but I cringe when I meet someone else with a kid named Cayden. Can you believe I couldn't even find it on the Internet before he was born, now there are tons and tons of sites with it!
I tried to balance familiar but not popular names with a set of family middle names with all 3 of my kids and I think I succeeded. Leo Sebastian, Simon Ambrose and Josephine Rosamel. The boys are 18 and quite fit their names, Josie's still growing into hers but I just adore saying her whole name!
Yep my only "regret" is that people are using the name Rhys (usually spelled as Reese) for girls more and more often. I still love the name but I find that kind of irritating (of course it seems to happen a lot with "cool" boys names so I guess I shouldn't let it get me bent out of shape!)
Steph
Steph, momma to Rhys - May 17, 2002
momma to
Rhys, Niamh, Isla and Deirdre!And then I had twins. We had been throwing names around when I went into preterm labour and had the twins confirmed just hours before they were born. We wanted names before they were born and in our haste....decided on Sarah Geordi and Karen Melissa.
Sarah Geordi....her mn is after a daughter of friends of ours, who had died. They are big Star Trek fans. And now...many years later, we don't even speak. Oops.
Karen Melissa....Though Karen's name suits her, for years I second guessed this name. Even wondered if I should have spelt it Karyn. Karen sometimes seems so plain and old fashioned and all the letters are on one line...nothing dips below or above the other letters. And it is mostly the reason why I lurk here, to see if it is even used anymore.
We know a couple who named their sons after two great-uncles and later on one of them went to prison for some really embarrassing reasons (I won't go into detail) and the other one became really distant and has no contact with them. So that is awkward to say the least :-(
Tara mommy to Kaden 9/24/01 Jamison 4/26/03 & Baby Boy (Maybe Carter) 2/1/05
I've had several friends regret naming boys certain names because the name was later "appropriated" for girls. I try to stick to classic boys' names for this reason.
My second DS is Romeo Luis and I love both names and have only know if one other child named Romeo and Luis is after his great-grandfather.
My oldest DD is Alexandra Isabel and I love her name despite the fact that Isabel is so popular I think it sounds beautiful with Alexandra. One thing I regret is that her NN is Lexi and I run into other Lexis all the time. One time we were in McDonald's and all of the other 4 girls in there were also called Lexi. Fortunatly she was the only Alexandra the rest were Alexis.
My youngest DD is Maia Janelle and I had never met another Maia then but now I hear other little girls about her age with the name Maia all the time. She is the only one with that spelling though and despite the fact that is one of the original spellings of the name no one seems to know how to pronounce it. I don't know anyone else with the name Janelle though.
All in all I love their names and think that they fit them perfectly but sometimes I hear a name that I love so much that I wonder what it would have been like to give one of my children that name. Its a good thing that I am done having kids because I would have had to have about 20 kids to use all the names that I like so much. LOL
Nikki
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