Do you regret your children's names?

My personal taste in baby names has changed so much in the last few years and it made me wonder : do some of you regret picking out a certain name for your sweet one? If so, what would you like to change it to?

I love my all my childrens’ names. While names are a hobby of mine, my husband and I never actually discuss our babies names until the baby is born - so we weren’t deliberating for months over them, most of them developed over a day or two.

That being said, or names weren’t chosen in whimsy. They are all meaningful for very specific reasons and either family or biblical namesakes. Of course we love the names and the sounds and all that. Our kids wear their names with pride :slight_smile:

The only name I think I regret using is [name_m]Wyatt[/name_m] as a middle name for [name_m]Jasper[/name_m]. At the time I didn’t obsess and pour over names as much as I’ve done since joining nameberry and [name_m]Wyatt[/name_m] is a name used for no particular reason other than my husband suggested it, I had no better ideas and we both liked it quite a lot, but not LOVED it like others we’ve used. Nowadays, also knowing [name_m]Jasper[/name_m], I feel like [name_m]Wyatt[/name_m] doesn’t suit him so well… I wish we could have gone with [name_m]Henry[/name_m] or [name_m]Frederic[/name_m] which are more meaninful to us and were on the first name short list in that pregnancy.

Not at all.

My taste has developed, I like more eccentric, longer names now. My oldest is Senia and her name is not one that I reckon fits my current style. If I was having my first now I likely wouldn’t have chosen her name, but I still adore it. It’s HER. It becomes so much more than a name because it belongs to a little human who you love more than anything else in the world.

I’ve never regretted my son’s name. I still love everything about his first and middle name and I can’t imagine him being called something else. [name_m]Even[/name_m] if my personal style would have changed by now (which it hasn’t really), I would still feel it fits him perfectly.

I actually love my son’s name way more now (he is 2 years old currently) than when my husband and I picked the name after he was born. I had a really hard time wrapping my head around the idea of naming another human being. I felt the weight of all the responsibility and pressure that comes along with naming a human. What if we messed it up? But now, I feel like his name fits him perfectly. I love all the nicknames we have for him, saying his first and middle together and hearing him tell you his name is the cutest thing ever. Because I love his name so much, I am a bit worried about getting pregnant and naming #2. [name_m]Will[/name_m] I love it as much? [name_m]Will[/name_m] I love it more as the child gets older? Thank goodness I found Nameberry because the help and support here is amazing especially since we keep the baby’s name a secret from family and friends until after they are born.