I’m very picky when it comes to names and I do get some form of name regret now concerning my boys’ names.
[name_m]Prescott[/name_m] always gets called [name_m]Preston[/name_m] by accident which annoys me, [name_m]Theodore[/name_m] who we call [name_u]Teddy[/name_u] always gets nicknames [name_u]Theo[/name_u] by people who don’t know him and he hates it and [name_u]Teddy[/name_u]'s twin [name_m]Gideon[/name_m]…well we’ve never had a problem with his name! It’s quite distinctive.
I do think that now that I know my children that I might have named them differently. [name_m]Prescott[/name_m] would have made a good [name_u]Emmett[/name_u] or [name_m]Edmund[/name_m], [name_u]Teddy[/name_u] would have suited lots of names: [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m], [name_m]Baxter[/name_m] or [name_u]Tate[/name_u] are good for him but for [name_m]Gideon[/name_m] it just seems perfect. However, all of their names suit them and I wouldn’t change them but it is something I think about.
I would just switch the order of my son’s names. He has always seemed more like a [name_m]Silas[/name_m] than a [name_m]Levin[/name_m] to both of us. We still both love both names, though, and don’t regret using either. We can’t just start calling him [name_m]Silas[/name_m] now, though- at two and a half, he has strong opinions about his name!
I wouldn’t change any of mine - well, I’d change one girls name if my hubby would agree to my first pick (Zaylie) but he vetoed it then and would still veto it now so I’m just dreaming! Other than that, really happy with my picks
Nope, it’s blasphemy.
Their names are part of who they are today, especially our second one. [name_m]Will[/name_m] is an extremely strong-willed child.
I love my sons names just as much as I did when we chose them. The names are perfect for them.
But if I had to rename them, they would probably be something like [name_m]Killian[/name_m] [name_m]Augustus[/name_m] and [name_m]Caedmon[/name_m] [name_m]Maximus[/name_m]
weezieconstance, I love [name_m]Gideon[/name_m] and would be thrilled to use it if we have another boy (our son’s name is [name_m]Caleb[/name_m] – which I don’t regret at all!), but I’ve worried that it would be somehow difficult to use in real life. I’m glad to hear you’re happy with it and haven’t encountered any problems!
Well as someone who has a rare name that was mispronounced and misspelled, it doesn’t really bug me. I don’t know why you would want to change the lovely [name_m]Theodore[/name_m] to [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m], which is a nice name but not as great at [name_m]Theodore[/name_m]. I don’t think naming him [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m] would have necessarily fixed the problem anyway, everyone has spelling/pronunciation issues and people who decide they’re going to nickname someone, well that’s just rude and they could do it with [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m] just as well. I love my kids names, even more so than when I gave it to them. But I also realize that someday they may be nicknamed or choose a different nickname than I do, and that’s just how it is. Someday my [name_u]Theo[/name_u] may decide, or his friends may decide to call him [name_m]Ted[/name_m], or by his last name, or even something entirely unrelated to his name. If I’m lucky, he’ll let me continue to call him [name_u]Theo[/name_u].
Yes and no. I love my daughter’s middle name, [name_f]Louisa[/name_f], and I’m tired of how her first name is disrespected and misspelled and mispronounced (it’s the Welsh [name_f]Caitlin[/name_f]). So I might go with [name_f]Katharine[/name_f] now.
I love my son’s first name, [name_m]Thomas[/name_m]. [name_m]Caleb[/name_m] is what my husband and I settled on, but I’d wanted to name him either [name_m]George[/name_m] [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] or [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] [name_m]Gideon[/name_m]. So I would probably go with one of those now.
Part of me says yes only because my daughter’s name is [name_f]Willa[/name_f] and I think sometimes that it sounds like an unfinished sentence like “[name_m]Will[/name_m] a what?” Her full name is [name_f]Willa[/name_f] [name_f]Rose[/name_f] and [name_f]Rose[/name_f] was my grandmother’s name and now that she has passed on it definitely means a lot more to me than it did then. I wouldn’t change her name for anything, but I have my moments I think a lot of parents do.
