Baby Name Regret Is A Lot More Common Than You Might Think

A survey by UK website Mumsnet has found that almost one in five parents suffer baby name regret.

The number one reason? That the name is “too commonly used”.

Quite a lot of the time, the 'regret' didn't set in until their children had started school, presumably due to sharing classes with other kids with the same name.

Many parents have said the name “just doesn’t feel right” or “doesn’t suit him/her”. 

But there were also more specific reasons: 

• Eleven per cent say it causes problems with spelling or pronunciation.
• Six per cent say everyone calls the child by a shortened form of the name, which the parent doesn’t like.
• Three per cent say there’s been a shift in public perception of the name since their child was born.
• Two per cent say they worry their child won’t be taken seriously.
• One per cent say a celebrity has chosen the name for their baby.
• One per cent say the child’s initials form an embarrassing acronym.

Only a small handful of 50 parents had actually changed their kid's names. 

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