When Bec Judd revealed the gender of her identical twin boys in an Instagram post earlier this week, she was full of joy – but there was a note of regret in her announcement.
“Wish we called Billie a proper girl’s name now,” she joked, referring to name of her adorable two-year-old daughter.
With two more boys on the way, it makes sense that she might joke about rethinking the masculine name choice for little Billie.
(Although, we happen to think ‘Billie’ is a glorious name and we’re pretty sure Bec does too.)
But, as it turns out, baby name regret is a very real thing.
Mothers from all over the world have come together on a NameBerry forum to discuss regret over the names they gave their children.
One woman gave her son the unofficial name “Sam”, realised it didn’t sound right, and officially named him “Beau”. Now, she writes:
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My husband and I agreed on Bella and Jade for our twin girls, but once they were born they looked nothing like their names, so we ummed and ahhed and we finally settled on my favourite name, Peri, and his favourite name, Shaini. I still would never have picked the name Shaini, but I think she has definitely grown into it.
My Mum named me Stormy-lee at birth, she loved the name and probably still does, but in the 80s such a name was ridiculed so she changed it to Neeshah. Still bizarre and a little out there I never really liked either choice though after almost 31 years of being called "Alicia" or "Teesha" (just to mention a couple of many variants of the name) and asked thousands of times what cultural background I come from (Im a freckled, blue eyed, 100% Australian, a lot of people assume I must be of Indian or Asian decent based entirely on my name) Ive finally accepted it.