Could I change his name?
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Could I change his name?
| Sat, 09-01-2007 - 10:56pm |
My husband I could not agree on a name so...he is just Ty.I am really afraid that he is going to hate not having a "full" name.He is 22 months old so my only option would be to change it to something that starts with Ty like Tyson or Mekhi and calling him Kai to get him use to it.If I changed it to Tyson I would only call him Ty.Would you bother or do you think he will hate his name.Erin

Hi there, I'm a teacher and I had a student last year whose name was Ty - just Ty, not short for anything, and no middle name either. He was clearly not bothered by it. It also doesn't seem odd for Ty to be a stand alone name. It would be weird if his name was just Bill or Jim instead of being short for William or James. But Ty is a name by itself.
If you feel strongly about it, change his name to Tyson or Tyler or Tyberius or something. Mekhi is a great name, but I think it would be awkward to change from Ty to Kai. Save Mekhi for your next kid. Ty is a good name by itself!!
HTH
Tracy
No matter what you name your kids, there's a chance they'll hate it.
I typed "Ty" into the Internet Movie Database and came up with 174 actors who go by Ty professionally (including Ty Pennington, whose first name is actually worth not going by, in my honest opinion...Tygert.) So apparently it works for a lot of people. It's one of those good, solid nickname names...sure, it's usually short for something, but it doesn't have the "ie" ending that can make a nn seem childish.
I'm usually all for a formal name, but I wouldn't change what you call him to get it at this point. If you would really like him to have a longer formal name, take Tyson or Tyrel or something similar down to the courthouse and make the change on paper, but I definitely wouldn't make the jump from Ty to Kai. My son is just barely older than yours and they definitely know their names by this point--I wouldn't monkey with the everyday.
For example Thomas Yates or Thatcher Yates or Tristan Yates
I love the name Yates:) i doubt theres alot of Y mn options but i think Yates is cool.
I'm not crazy about the name Tyson but it's ok are there any other Ty names besides that and Tyler?? If he's not too old you could change it to Kai since they sound the same. Kai is way cool! But I'm not sure how I feel about changing the Ty that everyone is already calling him.