Mums are very serious when it comes to giving names to their babies. Still some mums regret their baby's names. Speaking to The Sun, these mothers explain why they ended up regretting the names they chose for their little ones.
Lisa Tarr, 27, from High Wycombe was trolled after naming her twin babies Ronnie and Reggie, which also happen to be names of the infamous gangsters, the Kray brothers. Tarr, a mother of five, said that she never knew about the notorious gangsters but that was not enough for people to halt her trolling.
Nursery nurse Cassey Legge, 22, residing in Derby has named her son Archie. People think that she named her son after Meghan and Harry’s son but that was not the case because her Archie was born earlier than Meghan and Harry’s son. Cassey named him Archie because her partner had a cat by that name since he was 11 and he dealt with it as his son.
When her in-laws learnt that they were going to have a baby boy they suggested in a lighter vein to name him Archie. And the two actually ended up naming their son Archie, when he arrived. While she was showing off her Archie at work, she went public with her regret about calling her baby Archie. She said she would rather take it as a compliment if people told her it was such an unusual name instead of calling her a royalist.
Sign language interpreter Laura Smith, who dwells in Chelmsford with son Rupert, says that she knew beforehand from her 20-week scan that she was going to have a boy and decided to name him Rupert. She and her partner were already telling friends and all those they happened to meet that Rupert was what they had decided to name their son. They even bought towels with the letter R.
However, one of their friends turned out to be a killjoy and just two weeks before Rupert was to arrive, he told them that he had named his dog Rupert. Laura said when the friend told them this she was overcome with emotions and felt offended. Her husband asked the friend to change the name but he retaliated by saying that they are very boring who couldn’t stand a bit of fun. The Smiths have learnt a lesson though and have sworn to keep the name under wraps in case they ever have another baby.
Blogger Biba Tanya who belongs to Clitheroe is married and has 3 kids. Biba says she changed her daughter’s name from Hannah to Lola before her first birthday. They called her Hannah for the first 10 months after birth.
Biba says that she underwent a harrowing time during the pregnancy and had to be taken to hospital and put on IV fluids in the 18th week. It was in the hospital that she told her husband that she would like to call their baby as Hannah after his mum because of her loving and caring nature. So, the bump was itself named Hannah. Hannah’s birth was perfect in a birthing pool at home. But she couldn’t breastfeed properly. Hannah was not a happy baby in her initial days and used to scream all the time.
Biba said that she was overcome by depression. Although she had depression before, post-delivery depression was something very different, she opined. But Biba was able to fight back the depression and felt the need that a change in the baby’s name could symbolize it.
Biba said a name change was absolutely necessary given the trouble she had carrying Hannah during pregnancy and then after giving birth, so Hannah became Lola. Now, says Biba, she honestly feels that she is lucky to have Lola and not Hannah for a baby girl.
Care assistant Hayley Garbutt is 52 years old and she lives in North Yorks with her husband and 3 children. Hayley says she was told she had conceived on Christmas so she decided to call her baby Holly. However, because Hayley was living with her mum in those days, the latter gave a lot of inputs during her pregnancy.
After giving birth, Hayley was feeling tired and asked the nurse to let her mother holds the baby. A nurse appeared soon after and asked what the baby’s name was to which her mom replied it was Zola, Zona, Zena, Zoë, Zandra Zinczenko. It left Hayley baffled because no child in a Yorkshire village had such a name. But her mum had already started calling the baby Zola. Hayley tried to convince her mum to call the baby Holly but her mum turned a deaf ear. She instead told Hayley that Zola was the name of a filmstar and she would be fated to do great things.
School used to be so embarrassing because everyone was curious and kept inquiring whether the name she had was her actual name. The story was the same whether they went to get her a passport, a driving licence, or any other documentation. Hayley said that her daughter liked her name and couldn’t bear to be called by any other name. However, she changed her last name from Zinczenko to Garbutt to match with her dad’s.
It took just £6.50 to have the name changed. Hayley rues had she known that it was so easy she would have gone and got her daughter’s name changed years ago. She has had to face a lot of embarrassment and Hayley feels she could have possibly spared her that by changing her name. She blamed her mum for meddling in affairs that were of no concern to her.