20% Parents Wish They Had Chosen Other Names for Their Kids

Faye Mingo of bounty.com, commenting on the recent poll among 3,000 parents concerning the names they chose for their children, said: “Choosing a name that you and your child will love for the rest of their life is one of the first most important things that you’ll ever do for your child.”
It seems to be not an easy thing to do, for the survey revealed that one in five parents would prefer to have given some other name for their kid for various reasons.

19 per cent said that they regret having picked a common name like William, Oliver or Jack and letting the child share his name with so many other kids.

Alfie and Thomas are also names much regretted because of their commonness. Girls’ five most regretted names for the same reason are Chloe, Ruby, Olivia, Emily and Grace.

Some of the parents that named their children so as not to have too many namesakes around went for unusually-spelled names, which 20 per cent now wish they hadn’t.

15% discovered that they had opted for names that are often laughed at, sometimes even by other family members.

8% found that other people tend to mispronounce the names they picked for their little ones, so they and their children are now involved in the tiresome procedure of putting other people right.

Which goes to show that naming can be a bit more important issue not to be taken too lightly!

Source of the image: sxc.hu/profile/bjearwicke.