If so, would you change it legally?
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No. We thought long and hard about all the possibilities before she was born. She gets misspelled but it's usually just to another form of her name.
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I honestly properly wouldn't have changed it over that spelling and just started pronouncing it the way I wanted. But no, I love our daughter's name and know it fits her so perfectly.
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No, but my mom tried to have my middle name legally changed when I was a baby!
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I am not as in love with her middle name as I think I should be, but I don't think we will change it. On my birth certificate, my middle name was crossed out and a new one was written in. I keep meaning to ask my parents for the story!
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I would wouldn't change either boys names. but I do wish that D's name wasn't only from his dad's family. I just gave him a middle I liked and I shoulda used a name from my own family for it. But it suits him.
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No regrets, although everyone pronounces it "wrong" (it's actually correct in English but in DH's native language, it has a soft "a" rather than a hard one and that's how we say it). I think her name suits her perfectly but I hope she doesn't hate us down the road when she has to constantly correct people.
As for the article, I guess I see where the parents are coming from -- it was a bit of a hassle but small when you consider he'll (probably) have this name the rest of his life. I think my state allows parents to amend the baby's birth certificate for up to a year so you don't have to go through so much red tape if you decide after a few weeks the name doesn't fit. Also, I personally can't imagine naming my kids Olive and Lev...the second sounds kind of like a nickname for the first. But if that's what works for them, I'm glad they're happy with it.
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Nope! I love his name. I wish I had spelled it differently. Dh and I argued about it lol
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Not her first name, but I do sort of regret her middle name. I really loved the name Mae both because I just like the name and also because it is my grandma's middle name and I am close to her (hence my name here). But my husband immediately hated it. Also it sounds sort of dumb with our last name so I just let it go.
Now my grandma is terminally ill and I'm realizing that my daughter will have no memory of her and it breaks my heart. I wish I'd fought harder (or at all) to give her the middle name for my grandma so she'd have more of a tie to her. Also its really petty but one of my cousins is pregnant with a girl and planning on giving her the middle name Mae to honor my grandma and I'm sort of jealous she's doing it.
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I don't regret his name, but I feel a little bad that people seem to have a hard time understanding me when I say it.
It's pretty unusual in the US, but common in the UK and Australia. At least its spelling is pretty straightforward.
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Nope. I really love T's name! I'm not a fan of his middle name really...it's my dad's middle name (and the name he goes by) so it's special in a few ways. But it doesn't flow well and I'm just not a fan of the name had it not had a family tie. I wouldn't change it though.
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Strangely I read a few articles like this and became concerned. Over time a few of the front runners were pushed aside Poppy & Gemma for a much more unusual name my husband chose (it's a family name). But I refused to call her the selected name until I had met her. I was pretty sure but could not name her until I saw her sweet face. No offense to anyone but it always boggled my mind that people would buy monogrammed items and decorate a nursery with a large proclamation of said future infants name. What if you met them it it was not their name.
Anyways, I just asked M this week if he had any regrets and he said no, neither do I. She's 12 weeks. I'm relieved it suits her so well.
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I have never regretted it- we agreed on a girl name so easily I thought maybe we were missing something, but it's so perfect. We never settled on a boy name (team green) and I'm afraid we would have regretted our top boy choice, though.
@youboots: I am the same way. Besides being TG, I couldn't commit to a name whole heartedly until meeting her. Even after she was born we waited to hang it with her for a few hours before announcing her name to our families. The text literally said, "it's a girl! Name coming soon."
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Never!
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No, I love it! It's very pretty and unusual, and almost everyone pronounces it correctly.
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A little - I love E's name (and it has family ties), but it is similar to a top 5 name, and she gets called that all the time instead of her actual name, which is less popular (though still in the top 100). I never anticipated this issue, and I feel bad that I inadvertently subjected her to a life of correcting people. I will also say that it passes me off a little how often people don't actually listen when I say her name or read it when it is written down, it is clearly a different name than the super popular one!
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@mediagirl: dh picked dd's first name, i chose middle and i think her name is perfect. now he's picking both the first and middle name for ds and i don't even like writing it out.
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@andthewildones: then why is that the name?!?! I would go with something you BOTH agree on and like.
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@hellobeeboston: there's no changing his mind on this one!
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@andthewildones: That doesn't seem very fair...
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@mediagirl: yooooou're telling me
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