Baby name change of heart last minute?

Question

I threw this question out the other night but didn't get many answers so I thought I'd try again.

Have any of you had the perfect name picked out for your little angel but after he/she was born you decided he/she did not look like that name and picked something else? What name had you planned on, what did the baby look like, and what name did you change it to? Or did you see the baby, you didn't think the chosen name fit, but you loved the name so much you used it anyway, hoping the baby would grow to fit his/her name?

Answer 1

My best friend, Rachel, changed her daughters name from Grace to Taylor the day after they came home from the hospital. She has blonde hair and green eyes.  

Answer 2

Yes, we went through this with our second child. We already had a little girl named Lanie and my husband wanted to name our son Logan. Personally, I hated the name at first. I knew a Logan growing up and SHE was a big bully. It kind of ruined the name for me. However, seeing how much he loved the name eventually made me fall in love with it as well and that was the name that we decided on. Plus, we thought that we would be done having children after he was born and that it would be cute to have a Lanie and a Logan. Well, a few days before we were to have him (maybe a couple weeks actually) he started second guessing himself. He then told me that he wanted to name him Jentry, after his great grandpa. It took a bit but the name started to grow on me. So, we went to the hospital and I was thinking that I was going to have a Jentry. Well, when he came out neither one of us could use a name towards him. He went unnamed for 26 hours! We discussed/argued over what we were going to call him for 26 hours! They finally told us that we had to name him before we left the hospital (which I don't think is really true.) My husband finally admitted to me that when they were trying to get blood from his foot and he was trying to console him that he kept saying "it's OK Logan." That settled it! We named him Logan and I don't regret it one bit. He looks like a Logan to me. He's got the greatest head of sandy blonde hair, amazingly beautiful blue eyes and dimples that will melt your heart. We are getting ready to have our third child now (a girl) and we haven't technically settled on a name for her yet. I THINK that it is going to be Junie Marie but we'll see what kind of stunt my husband will pull at the last minute this time around! :)  

Answer 3

Yes, my second daughter was going to be Victoria Mae but it did not seem right so we agreed on Olivia Mae.After that we decided to have two or three names we liked with us when we named our other children.My twins Owen and Evan were named after their birth.

Also my niece had decided on Zachary but changed her mind and named him Jason.

Answer 4

My mom was going to use my middle name as my first name, but she had a change of heart and picked a different first name at the last minute.  She shouldn't have.  The name doesn't fit me at all, and now as an adult I use my middle name as my first name!

Answer 5

Yes! well my aunt did.

She thought her baby will be like her (with dark hair and eyes) since her husband was blond and blue eyed (dominate recessive thing) so planned out to name her Lesly, but when the baby was born she was totally pale, green eyed and with blonde hair so she changed it to Scarlett because it just didn't fit.

Answer 6

I don't have kids, but my Mom has told me this story about my sister, Kimberly.

My Mom had another name picked out for her. She was the 3rd girl born, and my sister and I had light brown hair. Well kim came out with a head full of really dark hair, and didnt look like the name they originally chose....

So they named her Kim!  

Answer 7

I know someone who had their heart set on naming their baby girl Allison Lee even before her and her husband started having children! After she finally had her girl she named her Allison Lee but few days later after she was born, she started looking at her and the name just didn't fit the baby, so she goes through a baby name book and starts saying names out loud to the baby.  She came across the name Kristina and the baby smiled! lol, so that's the name she decided on and changed it. And she looks like a Kristina too!

Answer 8

my mom almost named me Jessica. I'm glad I'm named Charlotte now.

Answer 9

Ha!  Actually, I typed up a long answer to your earlier question, and my computer went "Poof!"  

The short answer is -- DEFINITELY!  In fact, it happened with both my girls.  You see, my hair is almost black (always  has been), and my husband is medium brown.  So of course we expected dark-haired children.  In both cases we had #1 names picked out, but had ranked back-up lists of 4 names (you never know).  As a side note, they  had to "work" in English and Russian, and both middle names were set in stone (Lydia and Veronica, respectively).

Now the long story...

For our first daughter we had what we thought of as "dark-haired" names -- ones that we could enivsion on the baby we had in our minds. Top choice was JULIANA, followed by Natalia, Melanie, Veronica, and Anastasia.  We thought that Juliana and Anastasia were "hair-neutral," but the others were definitely dark-haired girls.  Anastasia we were a bit leary of, because it leaned a bit too heavily toward "RRRRRRussian."  Lo and behold, she turned out straw-blonde, with lovely high Russian cheekbones!  This was not really a Juliana (nn Yulya/Julie) -- didn't fit her little face somehow.  Certainly not Natasha, Melanie, or Nika.  Oddly enough, my husband and stepson (age 16) were discussing the issue while I was being stitched up.  After I was in the room with my baby for a few minutes, my husband asked "So what do we call her?"  I immediately said, without thinking, "Anastasia -- Stasya -- little Stacey."  My men looked at each other and smiled -- they had reached the same conclusion.

OK, so you'd think that at least the SECOND one would be dark?   She was supposed to be Julia (Juliana was out, because I didn't want 2 potential Anas).  Back-up names Natalia, Genevieve (Russian nn Zhenya, which is really Evgenia), Kristina, and Mariela.  Hmmm... LIGHT BROWN hair?  Perfect skin, brilliant blue eyes (Anastasia's had been dark grey, and turned hazel).  We were torn ... Julia didn't seem to fit, we loved Genevieve but the French-to-Russian was a stretch, and Mariela was close but not quite it.  All along, my stepson had been pulling for Maria (which has Russian nn Masha), but we initially turned it down because with our surname the whole name was deceptively Spanish.   Her  looks seemed to match a "simple" name -- like Julia.  The more we thought about it, the more she looked like a Masha (there is a Russian children's story "Masha and the Bear"), so Maria she became.  My husband saying her name in Russian sealed it -- Maria Veronica -- /mah-REE-ah  vyair-uh-NEE-kah/.

Sorry for the long story.  It turned out that their names were very appropriate.  Anastasia really was a sort of "resurrection" for us (the meaning of her name), as she was unexpected but gave us a wonderful new life.  As for Maria, I had planted Blue-Eyed Marys in the garden a couple of months before she was born (her eyes are still blue, by the way), and when she was a year old I find another flower growing next to them -- purple Veronica.  

I suppose I am a little sad for not having a Julia/Juliana or Genevieve, as those are my favourite names.  We could have gone ahead and named Maria as Julia, and she probably would have grown into her name.   It  wasn't as clear a "no" as Juliana for Anastasia.  I suspect that loving the name combines with loving the child, and then you can't imagine them with any other name.

Answer 10

YES!!! It just recently happened to me! I was planning on naming our twin girl (had boy/girl twins), Sydney Grace. And when we met her and got to see her and stuff we changed her name to Gemma Grace. :)  

Answer 11

I know a couple who wanted a boy-no ultrasounds back then-they picked out the name Reginald Delmar-(I know-ewww) any way-they had a girl-she goes by Reggie :P

oh and my oldest son was going to be Steven Nicholas(after Steven Nichols-days of out lives ) my husband at the time said you're not naming my kid after Patch Johnson :P so his name became Anthony Joseph -he goes by AJ-can't imagine him by any other name :)

Answer 12

well with the help of modern sonograms (3D) it's SO much easier to put a name to a face and be happy with it before baby arrives.

i remember w/my middle son i had the name Douglas all picked out w/my ex husband. the sonogram pics 10 yrs ago were just the flat black and white pics. hard to tell much of anything.

as soon as he was born we took one look at him and said "OH NO! he looks nothing like a Douglas!"

we (my ex and i) loved Brandon instead and so he was named Brandon JonGuard. he's definitely a Brandon!

my oldest is my step son so i had no hand in naming him, but he most certainly looks like a Kyle to me! lol

w/my last two kids we (my current hubby and i) had the 3D sonograms so we bounced around names while looking at their faces.

with my daughter we went through a million names!

first chosing Tatum Olivia, then deciding on Kaitlyn Olivia, then on Veronica Kaitlyn, then Veronica, and then back to Kaitlyn. then when we got the detailed Sono pics we went a totally different direction! we had a hard time chosing between Delaney and Kaitlyn, but Delaney won out! and we paried it with my greatgrandmother's name Josephine.

w/our last child it was a bit harder. my husband was overseas for MOST of my pregnancy. we already knew my son's middle name would be Ronald, after my father. but i had NO clue what to name him. i just told my husband he could pick a name.

so the emails began. i sent a DVD of my 3D sono to him and he sent me a list of names that included Gavin, James, Colton, Braydon and something else (i dont remember).

i told him the only ones i would consider as first names would be Gavin or James, and that i hated Braydon but have always LOVED Hayden.

he told me Hayden was his great grandfather's name we had a very hard time after that picking between Gavin and Hayden. i loved both so much. i told him that he could pick, i would be happy w/either.

he chose Hayden Ronald.