FINDING the perfect baby name is both exciting and worrying. It’s a massive decision and one that you will spend a lot of time thinking about. But once the child is born, and the name is used, everyone will get used to it.
Unless you are one mum on Reddit, who has been left worrying because her daughter dislikes her name. The concerned parent took to the online forum to ask for other parents advice. In a post called "My daughter doesn't like her name", the US woman, who went by the username Escalus90, said her four-year-old hates her name and refuses to accept it.
The woman explained: "I read the name in a novel and I absolutely loved it from a young age. “So when I had a daughter I named her Philomena. "We call her 'Pippa' and she insists her name is 'Pippa'.
She is not Philomena. "Did I make a mistake calling her Philomena?” She asked. The post continued: “I still love the name.
I don't think it's weird. It's spelled properly and it's not absurd." The woman also had a two-year-old son, who she had named Malcolm, but his nickname was ‘Macko’.
The mum-of-two admitted she had a "really hard time” naming her kids and “didn’t want them [to be] super common”. “I also didn't want them weird,” she remarked. “Do you think Philomena is weird?" The post drew a big response from Reddit users, with a variety of mixed opinions on the situation.
One person said: "At least they are real names for once so this isn't that bad." Philomena is a feminine title of Greek.
