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When thinking of a baby name I felt a lot of pressure, as you only get one shot and your kid is stuck with that name forever. I knew we didn't pick a super common name, but did not think it was that unique. However this last week one person told me that's "an interesting" name and another "that's really unique." Which to me translate to "that's weird."
Plus some random caller (which I'm blaming Chris for when he wasted $15 signing up for some baby model search, which he is still waiting for Addilyn's claim to fame) left a message and said Addilyn's name three times and pronounced it uh - dell - in.
Thankfully I'm still pretty confident in our name for our daughter, as I can't imagine her as anything else.
But it made me think about how I was pretty convinced ten years ago that I'd name a girl Sophia and a boy Noah. I also loved the name Ava.
Fortunate for me my mom made sure to point out that Ava Vale sounds ridiculous to spell. a. v. a. v. a. l. e. Too many a's and v's. And even worse than that I would've named my son Noah Vale. Like to no avail. Pathetically enough I think when she told me that I didn't even know what that meant. Given I was probably only 21, but embarrassing nonetheless.
Thank goodness for my mom.
Now after Addi was born I learned that my dad had jokingly called her Eddie (before we had decided on that name for sure). And my sister did once refer to Addilyn as Aladdin, but she was eight months pregnant and tired so I'm letting that go.
Did your mom ruin your baby name dreams (and okay, thankfully save your kids from future name calling)? Or did your family make fun of your baby names?
