Do you regret the name/names you gave your children?

[Poultrybonkers]

I don't have kids but if I had one her name would be Yulia katina and I woundn't regret it for the world.

 

[punk-a-doodle]

I'm also posting on what I think of the name my parents gave me, since the topic seems related.

I like it because it has become very common. There are three other people at my workplace alone with my name, and one of them is a male. I'm super shy, and hate attention being drawn to me. It also isn't a name that carries a lot of baggage in how people view you. It's very plain and because so many people have it, most don't associate it with anything positive or negative (ie. 'I knew someone with that name, and I hate it because they were a twit', or 'I love that name because this one famous person has it'). It's a stealth name.

People do often mistake it for a similar sounding name that is also popular, but I can't say it bugs me. I really don't care what people call me, just how they treat others.

In contrast, I like my husband's name because it is so awesome in sound and background. It is technically an Irish name, so it also reminds me of my childhood in Europe. The story goes that his mom (whom I adore...she is such a character) was fed up with trying to find a name, so she closed her eyes and pointed to a map of Canada, and named him what she pointed at. Sure glad he didn't end up an Ontario though. X)

 

[ChickiKat]

I love my sons name: Matthew - for Matt Dillon, the current tv/movie actor, Sheridan - which is Gaelic for the wild one...... the middle name really fits!

 

[SourRoses]

Speaking for my mother... She still loves my name, Rebecca. I love my name too

I already know what I am going to name my children, including middle names (5 names picked out

) ... and I don't care what the father thinks, cause they aren't changing

I don't understand how other peoples husbands are going behind their backs with the names? Don't you go in and submit the birth certificate together?

I wouldn't allow it any other way... because of what my brother did with his first kid

The mother had just given birth and the nurse asked him for the babys name. He named him what had been agreed upon, sure....
But he spelled it, in actuality...

Dillion Ecsavior

Apparently that is how you spell a name you say "Dillan Exavier"

 

[QuinnP]

the name given to me at birth was Debra Jean, which my adopted parents detested because it made me sound like a hillbilly (which my birth mother sort of was lol) I was given a new name at 12 weeks (Megan Ann) which I grew up hating, I had the revolting (to me) name legally changed in 1997. I kept the middle name Ann because it was a family name, & my daughter's middle name is Ann. My parents still call me Megan tho. (ewww)

Megan--waaaay to dainty for a person such as myself!

myliving child is Aaren Elizabeth Ann, & my two Angels are Susannah Elizabeth Rose (my mother is named Elizabeth) & Seanna Pol

 

[faerielady]

I like my real name, but I get tired of people singing Irish songs to me

After I divorced my first husband, I added a middle name and took a completely different last name. I kept it after my second marriage too, and I don't plan on ever changing it again.

I also love my daughter's name, it is pretty unique. However, I feel kinda bad for my oldest nephew (he's a year older than my daughter). My middle sister gave him a decent first name, Alexander... and then stuck him with D'Artagnon for his middle name. My oldest sister (the oldest and middle sisters are twins) sometimes calls him Dart if she wants to work him up.

He usually rolls his eyes at her and tells her to stop trying to be mean.

 

[Spookwriter]

Hana Nicole Elizabeth, a big name for what was a little girl.

I liked it then, I like it now. And it's a good thing I named her
Hana too, because that's one of the first things she learned to
spell and she wrote it everywhere, on everything.

One of her best friends is also named Hannah.

They are Hana 1 and Hannah 2.

 

[ECBW]

My dad is still proud of the name he gave me, even thought it was after a B-list womanizing movie star. I just shake my head when he regurgitates the story.

 

[Lothiriel]

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I wished the same thing! I wanted to be named Isabelle... Don't really know why... But I did. I'm happy with Heather now though. Heather Rose.

(My middle name is the short version of my grandmother's first.)

Squishy, I have names picked out for my kids too! A whole big list of first and middle combinations for boys and girls, so when I really get married and have kids, my husband will have some choices, but they'll still be mine too.

 

[key west chick]

I have an Amanda Elizabeth. I was a single mom and got to name her all by myself! I liked Amanda and Elizabeth was my best friend in colleges middle name. My son is Alexander Franklin. Benjamin Franklin is his 6th great grandfather, or something like that. Most of the men on my husbands side of the family have Franklin in their name.