Do you have baby-naming remorse? You're not alone, says new poll.

I hate all these trendy la-de-da heathen names like keeley and annabelle. That's why I named my three kids Freedom, Tea Party, and Constitution.

People please name your children something they can live with. They have to use these terrible names in class, in businesses, and on applications. We named our son with that in mind. I don't undersand how some of these names make it past the pregnancy phase. The entire time I was pregnant we used his name as if he were here, to be certain we could live with it. We chose to keep it simple enough that it isn't mispronounced and he isn't teased or embarassed to embrace it wholly. We planned his name and don't see ourselves having another child for a few years, but you better believe we've already chosen a name for the next child too. :)

i think the first mother in the article better change her son's name back to Ralph.

What is it about the name Apple that gets to everyone? It's no different than the names Rainbow, River, Stormy, China, Crystal, Sydney, Dallas, Rose, ...now if they had wanted to name her Orange or Jonquil, maybe it would be different.

I freakin' hate the name Brooklyn. It's so weird... it's a BOROUGH.

From having a uncommon last name I know how tiresome it is to always have had it garbled by teachers and everyone else...so a lifetime of parent inflicted oddly spelled names to be mispronounced constantly seems kind of mean. Also- dare you to think of all the "uniquely" named individuals who have changed the world....its not the name its the creativity and learning you encourage in your child. Really, if they are destined for stage stardom they can change it later like everyone else!

It does not matter in the least what you name your child or how long you searched for the perfect name. Once they are a tween or maybe even younger, they will hate it. They will wonder alound how you could have chosen such a dumb, lame, useless, dorky name. And they will suggest a dozen other names which would have been so much better. They will tell you they are going to change their name once they are of legal age and each week they will have a better cooler name they are going to change it to.
So pick what you like but have no illusions they will bless you for it.

Montana and Dakota souond like names for strippers just like Jeeves is a name for a butler.

my sons name is YGD(your godly deeds) and i love every letters of it and my son does too

i teach social studies and have often dreamed of giving my kids historic names: hadrian, julius, alexandria, octavian, josephine. i'm also into geographical names: narobi and cairo. lol, if i did use one of those names, it would most likely be as a middle name. i actually strongly favor irish-gaelic and arabic names.

Huxley is not a name.

Huxley is less "hoity-toity" than Ralph? Either way, the kid sounds like a butler.

We love the name we picked for our son, Darrel Joshua (so he will be nicknamed D.J.), and even before we decided on this we had a lot of options to choose from the beginning (for both boy or girl). It doesn't hurt to invest time and on a book to choose a good name.

So people, are you and your parents happy with the name you got?

I really hope some of these people were joking with the names they listed for their children. If not, I feel awfully bad for those kids.

Whatever happened to names like Arthur, Beatrice, Hazel & Frederick? All are solid, classic names, but you don't hear them everyday. There are ways to be unique without saddling your child with a truly hideous jumble of letters with no meaning or history.

Oh, and whatever you do, spell your childrens' names correctly! James will be considered for a job much more seriously than Jaymz will.

I think the names that are very funny are made up names with JA' in the front of it
EX: Ja'Nautica......Ja'Marria. I assume the parents think that those are classy sounding names, but they are just Ja' Funny

My daughter saw the list of possible names that I made while pregnant with her. Ever since, she has bugged me about not naming her "Billie." Her name is Emilie-Ann and she would much rather be Billie. She'll be 18 in a couple of months. I guess she could change it if she wanted.

My husband agreed to Finnegan as a middle name as long as Michael was his first name. He agreed to let me call him Finn, but now everyone in my family calls him by that name. My husband hates it.

WoW! I worry about my children getting along well in school and doing well in sports, and avoiding bad decisions and being influenced by drugs and alcohol, getting into a good school and college, I worry about the economy and the future wold my children wil inherit, What kind of parent has so little to think about that a name becomes so important?

WoW! I worry about my children getting along well in school and doing well in sports, and avoiding bad decisions and being influenced by drugs and alcohol, getting into a good school and college, I worry about the economy and the future wold my children wil inherit, What kind of parent has so little to think about that a name becomes so important?