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’. I get so much hate for putting make-up on my daughter, two, but she begs me to do it - she loves contour & lipstick
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 origin and means “lover of strength, loved one,” and “courageous lover.”
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Another commented: "Both Philomena and Malcom are super old-fashioned. Never hear Pippa for Philomena but all fine names I think.
A third said: "A friend named her daughter this (family name) and she mostly goes by nicknames. I think it’s beautiful though.
But someone else added in: "It’s okay for me, it’s a bit complex and unique, but Pippa is way better.”
Another remarked: "Nothing is wrong with the name.
“I think the kid hates it the same way I hated my old-timey name my whole childhood and teenage-hood, Agatha, so much that I never go by it."
Another Reddit user stated: "She’s four and it’s a name that’s a b**** to learn to write.
"Just call her by the nickname she likes and see what happens.”
