A mum has revealed she regrets the choice of name she gave her baby saying it's far "too common" and now feel stuck with it as her son is almost a one year old. Her son's name is Joseph, which the mum feels is not "unique" enough.
While the name would seem perfectly fine to most of us, the mum isn't keen on it as she's realised that it is not as rare as her other two children, who both have names outside of the Top 100 most popular names for her area.
In a post on Reddit, the mum also said she and her husband did consider changing at first, but now that he's a year old, they have decided to stick saying it would be "strange" to change it now.
She wrote: "Almost a year ago, I named my son Joseph. I love the look of it written (it looks nicely balanced to me) and Saint Joseph is important to my husband and me.
"But after we named him this I realised a few things, 1) we always discussed our name choices via text and didn't say it out loud much. I don't like the sound of it as much as it looks written.
"And 2) It feels too common. My other kids don't have top 100 names. I feel unique when introducing my other kids' names and love this.
"3) I adore the name Josephine and if I ever had another girl now I couldn't name her this. This can't be remedied, because even if we changed his name we couldn't have a Josephine now.
"We considered changing his name for the first few months, but no other names felt perfect to us. And now that he's almost a year old I would feel strange changing it and my other kids would be confused."
The mum has reached out for help on the forum to find a nickname for Joseph that she and her husband both like.
She added: "Help me find a nickname for Joseph that I love! I don't like Joe or Joey. I've heard Seph or Sep and they don't seem like him. His middle name is an honour name that is way too similar to my daughter's first name to call him by that. My husband doesn't like initial names like 'JC'. Are there any I'm forgetting?"
Commenters on the post offered the mum alternative nickname suggestions including Jojo, Josie, Jack, and Joss, but the woman replied to many of the comments to shut them down too.
However, she did take a liking to Joz and Jay.
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