naming regrets?

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naming regrets?
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Mon, 06-25-2007 - 2:29pm

Hi all,

Just wondering if there's anyone out there who went through a period where they found themselves not entirely thrilled with the name they gave their baby? When DH and I originally chose our son's name I liked it, but several months later I found I'm going through all sorts of naming regret and agonizing over names we didnt pick (I know ridiculous, right?)

Anyone with similar stories?

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Tue, 06-26-2007 - 2:58pm
Nope...the whole set of initials spells nothing at all...PEBR...nothing, not even if I throw in mad vowels. Besides, at this moment he has quite enough personality to carry off anything and everything. (And, really, at two weeks, he was mad enough at the world to handle one off initial...which was why I was so blasted tired as to be bothered by it. Most of the time such things wouldn't worry me. Little bugger simply wouldn't sleep for more than an hour at a time.)
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Wed, 06-27-2007 - 12:31am

I love, love, love the name EDEN. But dh absolutely would not go for it. I'll always wish I had an EDEN but oh well. I do like all my kids' names. I wish that I had spelled my dd, Jade different. Never thought of it before her birth but I think Jayde looks more feminine. I also have a Jamee and get a lot of questions about the spelling. Again we never thought much on it before her birth. She's named after DH, James we dropped the s and added e. I still like it and what's more, the older she gets the more SHE loves the unique spelling. My sweet little Moise (Mo-ees)is severly disabled and I really questioned at the time if it was the right name but now I know that it's perfect he has been dubbed by my kids Meesy-Mo (don't laugh) and it's perfect for his beautiful eternally childlike personality.

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Wed, 06-27-2007 - 2:42am

With our daughter, I let DH do most of the choosing - I ran a long list past him of names that I thought could maybe work, and he chose Cassidy. I do like the name, and it's better than what I would have gone with myself in hindsight (Bailey - but EVERYONE we know has a dog named Bailey!), but I don't absolutely adore the name. It fits too many trends, and I really wanted to avoid an overly trendy name.


That said, I have never, for one second, regretted the middle name I pushed DH hard for - Drew. It's after DH's granddad who died before Cassy was born, and I really, really love it. It makes up for any part of me that doesn't like Cassidy. We call her Cassidy Drew and Cassy Drew all the time, and I love that the name has meaning. It also flows well with Cassidy. So overall, I don't really regret it, but I think I would have gone with Cassia

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Registered: 10-24-2005
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Wed, 06-27-2007 - 3:05pm

My DD is Audrey Katelyn. Her mn comes from my mom and great-grandmother (Catherine) and my MIL mn Lynn. But originally I wanted Avery as her first name. But the closer I got to my due date, the more Averys I came across, so we decided on Audrey. And it couldn't fit her more perfectly! But I do admit for several months after she was born, I called her Ave-Audrey on several occassions because Avery just wouldn't leave my mind! How embarrassing!

But now I just love the name Audrey.

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Registered: 01-08-2007
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Wed, 06-27-2007 - 5:39pm
When our first daughter was born I had a dream (while still in the hospital) that I changed her name to Paige without telling my husband/her dad. We actually loved the name Paige so much that we used it for the next girls name!
Bek
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Registered: 06-28-2007
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Thu, 06-28-2007 - 3:47pm
I wouldn't say that I regret naming my son "Reese," although I am concerned about the name becoming more and more popular for girls. I still love the name because we named him after my sister, Resa. I just don't want him being mistaken for a girl! Luckily, he has a manly middle name (Charles) to fall back on if he ends up with too many female Reese's in his class.
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Registered: 07-18-2007
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Wed, 07-18-2007 - 8:29pm
my name is Jade, and i never understood why anyone would want to name their boy Jade?? why? so either way you spell it, it's feminine. I remember in high school i wanted to change the spelling to Jayde, but that just because i was bored with having a short name, i don't think it makes it more feminine. Maybe more masculine because of the Jay in it.
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Registered: 06-08-2003
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Tue, 08-28-2007 - 10:20am
I feel so guilty and can totally relate. My daughter is 10 months and I still regret on many days that I did not go with my gut instinct and name her Avery Paige. We ended up naming her Brooke Avery. I felt so conflicted throughout my pregnancy, and my husband absolutely loved the name Brooke. So I felt we should go with that and really made the decision the day I delivered. I guess I felt somehow, someway I would really know if she was an Avery. I feel like I let her down in some way that she was supposed to be an Avery Paige. I really try to use her two names together as her first name, but no one else really does that. I think perhaps when she gets older, if she prefers Avery she can always use her middle name. I never experienced this feeling with her older brother. I knew from the time I found out he was a boy what I would name him, and have never regretted that decision.
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Tue, 08-28-2007 - 11:21am

When we were about 6 months into our pg with Solomon I suddenly thought of the name Bram. In a lot of ways, I kind of wish we'd used it. I mean, I LOVE Solomon...but I thought I liked the NNs that come with it (Sol, Solly) but I discovered that I HATE them, and I hate the presumptions that people make - people meeting him for the first time will call him Sol, and he doesn't respond, so they think he's stupid. Sol is NOT his name, though.
Max Amasa - LOVE his name and he loves his name, too.
I once asked Solomon whether we should have called him Solomon or Bram and he says "BRAM!" Sadly, though, changing it would not be an option, because we'd need to add another MN, too. If he were Bram it would have been Bram Simcha James, rather than Solomon James.

My only other regret is that we haven't had opportunity to use Mordecai yet, and I don't know if we will...



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Registered: 03-26-2003
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Tue, 08-28-2007 - 6:41pm
Oh, I love Bram for you...(I say this at least once a week about a different name...but it was on our list.)
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