I made a mistake giving my four-year-old daughter a unique name…she hates it so much she’s changed it

IT CAN take parents months to decide on the perfect name for their baby.

For some, the choice is so tricky that it’s only made once the new arrival is here.

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An anonymous mum, who is from the US, took to Reddit and told how her four-year-old daughter hates her name. Pictured, stock image[/caption]

So imagine going through that whole process, only for your daughter to grow up and hate her chosen moniker.

That’s the situation one anonymous mum, who is from the US, had found herself in.

In a post shared to Reddit, the upset mum discussed her daughter’s dislike off her name and explained: “She’s four, lol. Her name is Philomena. We are in the US.”

“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 insisted her name is Pippa. She is not Philomena.”

The woman went on to ask whether she made a mistake calling her daughter, Philomena.

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“I still love the name,” she continued. “I don’t think it’s weird. Like it’s spelled properly and it’s not absurd.

Her brother is Malcolm. Called Macko. He’s 2 lol.”

“Idk I had a really hard time naming my kids.

“I didn’t want them super common, but I also didn’t want them weird, you know?” 

And social forum users didn’t hold back when it came to expressing how they felt about both monikers.

“Both Philomena and Malcolm are super old fashioned. Never heard Pippa for Philomena but all fine names I think,” wrote one.

A second commented: “I’m more bothered by Macko,’ while a third penned: “I have a Malcolm and this bothers me so much.”

A fourth penned: “She’s 4, and it’s a name that’s a b***h to learn to write. Just call her by the nickname she likes and see what happens.

Elsewhere, another added: “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 teenagehood, Agatha, so much that I never go by it and you won’t ever know that’s my name unless you look at my government ID.”

“No one knew how to pronounce it and I always got comments on it, most of them were even compliments but I hated all of it.”

“Kids are just weird, I was always jealous of girls with hip and ‘pretty’ names like Madison, Cassie, Stella, etc.”