CHOOSING a name for your child is not an easy task and must be well thought out.
A woman regretted her baby’s name after letting her husband decide.
On a Reddit publishuser Transportbackto explained her issue with her one-year-old daughter’s name.
She revealed that her son’s name has already been the target of family jokes.
“It never sounded like her name to me,” explained the mother of one of them.
She said that she and her husband debated over their daughter’s name during her pregnancy.
“My partner and I could never agree on a name, and I finally got so stressed about it that I let him name her,” she wrote.
“[I] I literally just told him ‘I give up, just pick one’ and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t regret it.”
The original poster named some of his top choices for his daughter’s name.
“The names I loved, in no particular order, were Juliet, Diana, Beatrix (Trixie), Esmeralda (Esme) and Mercy,” she said.
She revealed that her husband wasn’t a fan of her choices, saying he “hated them all.”
Instead, he chose a rather unique name for his daughter, which the Reddit user said she wasn’t convinced by.
“He called her Selma. Now I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it,” she wrote.
She explained that her partner is Swedish while she is American and that they live together in Europe.
“My whole family made some kind of civil rights joke and several people asked me if her middle name was Alabama,” she said.
The mother revealed that she loves her daughter’s middle name and would have preferred it to Selma.
MIDDLE NAME
“My partner was adamant about keeping her middle name as it is his grandmother’s name and he thought it would be weird to name her after his grandmother,” she said.
She shared that her daughter’s full name is Selma Inga-Lill.
“I’m ready to refer to her just as Inga, as I wanted,” the poster explained.
“Right now, I literally never call her Selma and refer to her as Belly, which has become her nickname.”
Reddit users shared their thoughts on the name in the comments section.
“I think Selma is a really cute name, but the first name should be a two-yes situation,” wrote one reader.
“Selma is a beautiful, problem-free name. But your feelings of regret about the commitment are completely valid,” said another person.
“Selma is beautiful and I’m American and I didn’t think about Alabama until you mentioned it. I thought of Selma Blair and Salma Hayek, two incredible and beautiful actresses,” commented a third Redditor.
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