A baby’s name is undoubtedly one of the hardest decisions to make as a parent.
That name will follow that child forever, after all, imprinted on their records for a lifetime, like their driver’s license, birth certificate, and so on.
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So when one mother feared that a name would cause jealousy between her kids, she took action.
Changing a baby’s name is top of mind recently.
That’s because Kylie Jenner announced this past week that she and Travis Scott changed their newborn son’s name from Wolf to something else. “FYI our sons [sic] name isn’t Wolf anymore,” Kylie wrote on Instagram stories.
“We just really didn’t feel like it was him. Just wanted to share because I keep seeing Wolf everywhere.”
Kylie didn’t mention whether the baby’s middle name, Jacques, would also be changed. This is unlikely, though, considering that it’s a nod to Travis, whose birth name is Jacques Webster.
One person who is breathing a sigh of relief over the name change is Wolf Van Halen, the son of late Eddie Van Halen.
He expressed his relief over remaining one of the most famous Wolf in Hollywood by retweeting an article about it and writing, “THANK [Expletive].”
Kylie’s not the only parent to change their baby’s name.
One mother shared her story to Good Housekeeping , writing that she always dreamed of naming her daughter, Luna, after Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter universe.
She liked that Luna was an icon, that the name paid homage to her Columbian-Spanish roots, and that it reminded her of the moon.
So when her first daughter was born, she was named Luna.
But she ran into trouble when she found out she was expecting another baby girl two years later.
“Throughout the entire pregnancy, neither my partner nor I could figure out what we wanted to call her. Betty, Matilda, Violet, Novia, Daisy, Plum, and Molly were all contenders for girl names,” the mom wrote.
Then, they watched the film, ‘Call Me By Your Name’ — a fitting title for their situation.
“’What about Elia?’ inspired by the protagonist ‘Elio,'” her husband asked. “His was a story about coming of age, about being queer, about feeling othered. We saw ourselves in so much of it.”
They were sold on the name until the mom watched ‘Mad Men’ and was introduced to the character, Sally Draper.
“She was so full of fire, rebellion, and sass, but still seemed tremendously empathetic,” she wrote. Soon, it became Sally or Elia?
After the baby’s birth, the name Sally won.
Still, something didn’t feel right. She was worried that Sally would be envious of Luna, her older sister, for having a cool and quirky name. “Would we be predisposing Luna to a life full of wonderment, and Sally to the existence of a perpetual wallflower?”
This anxiety led the parents to change the baby’s name from Sally to Elia.
They still paid homage to Sally by making it their child’s middle name.
While they hopefully dodged any sister jealousy in the future, their only hope is that they aren’t predisposing their kid to an even bigger identity crisis when she realizes she was once named “Sally.”
H/T: Good Housekeeping
