Anyone have any regrets??

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Anyone have any regrets??
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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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Registered: 06-01-2003
Sat, 11-06-2004 - 11:02pm
Thank you! That does make me feel a lot better actually!

I never keep up with the official lists/rankings but I should probably start! :-)

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Sun, 11-07-2004 - 1:41am
I named my son Cayden.

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!

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Registered: 11-04-2003
Sun, 11-07-2004 - 8:10am
Wouldn't change a thing!

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!
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Sun, 11-07-2004 - 8:11am

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!

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Sun, 11-07-2004 - 6:27pm
Well, kind of. I have always loved my firstborn's name...Nicole Dawn.

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.

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Sun, 11-07-2004 - 8:31pm
Your story about naming your DD for a friend's DD is one of the reasons I've always hesitated to name a child after anyone. It seems like a great idea but you always wonder in the back of your head, "what if?" For example we considered naming DD #2 Lorelei after her grandmother (my mom) but honestly my mom and I have never gotten along GREAT and I worried, what if we had a huge falling out, you know? I'd hate that.

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 :-(

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Sun, 11-07-2004 - 11:08pm
My sons name is also Kaden, though spelled differently, and I also thought it was a virtually unheard of name. I wanted something different, and had never heard of anyone using this name, and only found it on one random baby names site. He was born in 2001, and that year the popularity of the name skyrocketed, and now I hear other kids with the name quite a bit. It also bugs me that it's so popular now. But I do still love the name, and feel that it fits him, but I wish it weren't quite so popular now.

Tara mommy to Kaden 9/24/01 Jamison 4/26/03 & Baby Boy (Maybe Carter) 2/1/05
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Mon, 11-08-2004 - 2:31am
I still love Cayden's name too. I think it's such a wonderful name, so I guess I shouldn't be so disappointed it's gotten popular. That means others like it too!
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Mon, 11-08-2004 - 9:31am
I'm expecting and if it's a girl, we are considering Karen. People use so many elaborate, frilly girls names these days that the simple ones stand out more to me.

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.

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Mon, 11-08-2004 - 1:42pm
My oldest DS is Benjamin Jacob and I love Benjamin but Jacob is such a popular name that I wish that I would have given him a more unique middle name.

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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