{"id":14835,"date":"2020-07-08T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=14835"},"modified":"2020-07-08T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T12:09:10","slug":"baby-naming-worries-that-turned-out-to-be-unfounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2020\/07\/08\/baby-naming-worries-that-turned-out-to-be-unfounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Worries that Turned Out To Be Unfounded"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commenter Dori suggested that a good follow up to Baby Name Regrets of the Many-Years-Later Kind<\/a> would be a post on the things we worried about during the naming process and then they turned out to be no big deal:<\/p>\n

people who were really worried\/hesitant about a name, and then it turned out to be fine down the road \u2013 meaning, spelling\/pronunciation didn\u2019t end up being an issue, or the SIL was fine with the \u201cname theft\u201d, or it was a mouthful but the kid embraced it, or there were no other Sophies in the entire town \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We did a post like that once (Baby Name Issues that Weren’t Important in the Long Run<\/a>), but it was seven years ago and it certainly seems due for a redo. I went into a lot more detail on that post, but here are a few of my own worries that came to nothing:<\/p>\n

\u2022 I worried that my daughter’s name was way too long: four names, twelve syllables, thirty letters. But…it doesn’t matter at all. It never comes up as an issue. No one ever remarks on it. I don’t know why I was so concerned. I believe one of her middle names might have had to be shortened on her Social Security card because they ran out of room, but I don’t remember for sure; if that turns out to be a problem later in life, I will update here. But it shouldn’t, considering the Social Security Administration doesn’t consider middle names part of the legal name<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 I was worried about the spelling of one child’s name: it’s an honor name, and it’s the less-common spelling. It has not been a bothersome issue: I just spell it when I say it. Maybe once or twice it was spelled wrong somewhere, and then I just corrected it? It doesn’t even lodge in my memory, it’s been such a non big deal. I’ve been more annoyed by the regular misspelling of another child’s absolutely traditional spelling.<\/p>\n

\u2022 I was worried that William’s actual name was too common: while pregnant and in my third trimester, we ran into TWO new babies with that name in the same day. And he was indeed one of three Williams in his class in preschool, and a couple of other times over his school career. And it was totally fine: they called themselves “the Williams,” they still call each other “William T.” and “William K.” and “William J.,” even when it’s not necessary, just for the fun of yelling it out in the school hallway or at graduation.<\/p>\n

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What issues were you nervous about during the naming process, but it turns out they haven’t been a problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commenter Dori suggested that a good follow up to Baby Name Regrets of the Many-Years-Later Kind would be a post on the things we worried about during the naming process and then they turned out to be no big deal: people who were really worried\/hesitant about a name, and then it turned out to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Rh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14837,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14835\/revisions\/14837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}