# Most-regretted baby names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730 "2023-07-07T13:45:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ArtBeforeScience](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@ArtBeforeScience](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtBeforeScience)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/41 "2023-07-07T19:28:35Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > But there are probably a fair number of Karens these days who grind their teeth on a regular basis but aren’t likely to take action as a result. I know at least one who did. She legally changed her name and wrote everyone in the office a long, long email about why. She’s a very conscientious person and it hurt her so deeply to have all this hate connected to her name. ---
**Author:** ![ArtBeforeScience](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@ArtBeforeScience](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArtBeforeScience)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/42 "2023-07-07T19:29:45Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > His parents wanted to raise a Ruckus. Along with his brother Cain… If his siblings have kids he’ll be Uncle Ruckus, like the character on Boondocks. ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/43 "2023-07-07T19:37:01Z")
Some years ago I ran into several children who had a hyphen incorporated into their name – for example ‘A - a’, pronounced Adasha. I’ve often wondered how many did legal changes asap. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/44 "2023-07-07T19:57:30Z")
To Ahyphena? ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/45 "2023-07-07T21:44:41Z")
When I was a food stamp lady, one of my clients named all four of her children after Diablo characters. The only one I can remember now is Imperious. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/46 "2023-07-07T21:44:54Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I wanted to name my daughter Lizard. Of course she’d go by Liz. But when people would ask if it was short for Elizabeth, she could honestly answer, “no, Lizard”. Well, my dad was named Lazard. He went by Larry. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/47 "2023-07-07T21:59:24Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > I have seen Schuyler spelled “Skylar” ! - That’s very common nowadays, as well as the spelling “Skyler”. I haven’t seen a “Schuyler” in many years. Similarly, Ashleigh is more commonly spelled Ashley nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/48 "2023-07-07T22:00:22Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Worked with a fellow that was named ‘Trip’ Sounds like something Sarah Palin would name a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/49 "2023-07-07T22:01:05Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I wanted to name my daughter Lizard. Of course she’d go by Liz. But when people would ask if it was short for Elizabeth, she could honestly answer, “no, Lizard”. It’s shit like this that make you one of my favorite Dopers! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/50 "2023-07-07T22:07:48Z")
Some websites offering advice on picking baby names refer to “Issac” as a “variant” of Isaac, and “Chasity” as a “variant” or “shortened” version of Chastity. Apparently it would be judgmental to refer to parents as dumbasses for not bothering to check on how to spell the names they foist on their children. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/51 "2023-07-07T22:27:45Z")
It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of Schuylers would prefer to spell it Skylar so people wouldn’t address them as “Shiler”. Or even “Shooler”. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/52 "2023-07-07T22:35:30Z")
I knew a lady with a kid named Knowledge. She had high hopes for him. Too bad his knowledge of laws didn’t keep him from the penitentiary. I can’t talk. My kids have weird names for the grandwrex. It’s all so silly. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/53 "2023-07-07T22:54:55Z")
Yeah, I’ve posted my grandson’s name before, but maybe I shouldn’t. There can’t be many kids of that name running around. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/54 "2023-07-07T22:57:46Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I wonder if we have the same surname? Mine is also four letters and a dirt-common Anglo-Celtic name everwhere in the English-speaking sphere (not quite as ubiquitous as _Smith_ or _Brown_, but in the next tier down; I can think of a handful of famous examples, including a senator, an actress, and a porn star.). Yet in the 250 years my family’s been in this country, it’s been spelled five different ways. I wouldn’t consider mine common. But, yeah, a senator has the same name. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/55 "2023-07-07T23:27:02Z")
It’s not just weird spellings that are an issue. I saw an article about the 100th anniversay of Conan Doyles first Sherlock Holmes story, and one young man mentioned in the article was named, you guess it, Sherlock Holmes. His mom had been a fan. I fully expect someone to name girl and boy twins Cersei and Jaime. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/56 "2023-07-07T23:41:15Z")
Imma name my twins Cecil and Adam ☺ ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/57 "2023-07-08T02:37:20Z")
I saw a news article about parents who had named their daughter Isis, before it became known as the name of a terrorist group. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/58 "2023-07-08T03:01:01Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > I have seen Schuyler spelled “Skylar” ! I don’t think I have _ever_ seen “Schuyler” as a first name. It’s always Skyler or Skylar. The Schuyler one seems like the weird one to me. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/59 "2023-07-08T03:37:11Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > > [@DPRK](#): > > > > I have seen Schuyler spelled “Skylar” ! - > > That’s very common nowadays, as well as the spelling “Skyler”. I haven’t seen a “Schuyler” in many years. Similarly, Ashleigh is more commonly spelled Ashley nowadays. OK, but how did the misspelling/variant spelling become established en masse, while all the Issacs keep changing their names? > [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of Schuylers would prefer to spell it Skylar so people wouldn’t address them as “Shiler”. Or even “Shooler”. Could be. > [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I don’t think I have _ever_ seen “Schuyler” as a first name. It’s always Skyler or Skylar. The Schuyler one seems like the weird one to me. Wikipedia lists a few Schuylers with various dates of birth between 1823 and 1996, but only a couple of Skyl[a/e]rs born before 1980 and those are outliers, the vast majority being under age 35. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730/60 "2023-07-08T03:44:01Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > OK, but how did the misspelling/variant spelling get established en masse, while all the Issacs keep changing their name? - The Skylars/Skylers are simply being spelled phonetically. Issac is an obvious misspelling, as phonetically it isn’t Isaac. Issac would have a short “I”. Isaac would have a long “I”. The general concensus is that the exhausted parents accidentally misspelled it. Or it was transcribed incorrectly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-regretted-baby-names/986730.md?page=4)