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Lottie Gibbons

Mum slammed for choosing 'common' baby name - but is she right?

Every parent knows the the struggle of choosing a baby name.

And a study has now revealed that one in seven parents admit to making a mistake  with the name they chose for their child.

But what's even worse is that one in 10 parents said their children have told them they don’t like their name themselves.

In Liverpool, the most popular name  given to a boy in 2017 was James, for a girl it was Ava.

Yet baby names can be a common source of arguments for new parents.

And one mum says she has been criticised by her own partner over the baby name she has chosen.

Taking to Mumsnet, an anonymous user wrote: "We had chosen a name. She had a name! Now that she's here, he is refusing to call her the name we had picked, Sophia, and is saying she looks like an Audrey or an Arden.

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"He appears to be leaning towards Arden. He's refusing to call her Sophia and I'm at the end of my tether.

"She's two-weeks-old and she doesn't have a name. I wanted Sophia, Alice or Sophia Skye."

The mum continued: "He keeps babbling on about how popular it is and how it doesn't feel like her name and that he knows too many little Sophia's and Sophie's.

"It's completely thrown me off track as we had planned to get her letters painted for her name and my parents are asking the name and everytime I say Sophia, he says we haven't really chosen and it's just getting to me!

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"He wants Audrey, Delilah or Arden Katherine. Am I being unreasonable to say that we chose Sophia so she's Sophia now?"

Her rant prompted a big response of varying opinions.

One parent responded: "I think you are not being unreasonable. He can't randomly decide her name is Audrey of all things.

"I love Sophia, even if it is popular. Even the most popular names are not "everywhere". There is no Amelia, Olivia or Sophia in dd's (darling daughter's) class."

Another said: "I like Sophia as a name, but I know two and would avoid it for being too common.

"It's unfair if you had already 'agreed', but if you dislike his current choices so much, you just need to start again."

However, a third wrote: " I don't think he's being ridiculous. He's gone off the name for your daughter, which is fair enough.

"I do think you both have to agree on another name. It's really not relevant how many posters like Sophia, the baby's father does not want to call their baby that."

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