Mom Grappling With 'Baby Name Regret' Asks Internet For Advice

Some parents admit that when they are trying to decide on a name for their children, they feel pressure to pick the best name.

Sometimes, the pressure can be so much that parents just settle on a name that they don't truly love. And, sometimes, parents regret their name choice.

One mom, going by the user name "Andfeelingsad" on Mumsnet said that she's been regretting the name she chose for her daughter and has been wanting to change the name.

"I basically have always regretted my daughter’s name. My husband wouldn’t discuss names before she was born and we ended up choosing something really popular in a rush to name her," the mom said.

"He then refused to change it when she was tiny which I so so wish we had done. She is now 3 and I still can’t get over it," the mom added.

"All these threads where people talk about names being overused and boring make me feel guilty. I hate that people will be thinking these things about my lovely daughter and worry she’ll go through life hating her name," the mom shared.

"I had some fairly unusual names on my list and I wish I had used a more special name that I truly loved.

But obviously she’s far too old to change it now so I’m just not sure how to move on and stop obsessing. Has anyone felt the same and found it got better," the mom asked.

"For what it’s worth I have a name that was very popular in the era I was born. As a kid I wished I had an edgier, more 'original' name, but as an adult I am very grateful for my classic and, dare I say, boring name.

I am grateful to not have to spell it out, that everyone always knows what it is and how to spell it immediately and it’s also a name that suits an adult woman just as much as it suited a little girl. My perspective is further enforced because my best friend has a very unusual, unique-spelling type name which is the bane of her life and has only become more so as she’s gotten older," one person shared.

"You really need to try and get over this. Popular names are popular for a reason — they’re nice. That’s why a lot of people choose them. I’m sure you’ve chosen a lovely name. If you’d picked something strange your [dear daughter] might not like it because it was too ‘out there,'" someone else said.

Do you agree? Would you change your daughter's name?