Mum worries that she’s given her son an awful name… 17 years later

We all pick names for different reasons.

Some of them mean something to us, or are family names that we want passed down in the family and then sometimes we pick names just because we like them. However, one mum is now worried that she's given her son a weird name as he is now in college and people are pointing it out. She wrote:

"I have a 17-year-old DS who’s started his second year at college, and we chose Ernest Leopold as a first and middle, after my DH’s great-grandfather. Recently, he’s become very aware of it as people are telling him how ugly/old-fashioned/frumpy/strange it is. What do you think?"

Many replied to the thread saying that they like the name. One wrote:

"I like it. Kids can be total dicks though and single anyone out for having a more unusual name. In a few years time he won't even remember their comments."

While another gave a few suggestions:

"I think it's a great name. But teens often might not like their names -part of their self-consciousness. Ernest is probably ahead of the curve, so will be unusual for boys his age, but there seem to be a few younger ones named it now. Can he nickname it? Nesto - from the Italian Ernesto - has a bit of swagger about it. Or Leo is great."