I Don't Like My Daughter's Name Anymore

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Sophie believes she and her husband picked the wrong name for their daughter when she was born three years ago, and now they want to change it. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my Call of the Day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.3	Sophie and Sean, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. So we're calling you today because we have a three-year-old daughter and we're thinking about changing her name.
0:24.0	So a little bit of background.
0:25.9	I'm sorry.
0:26.6	Are you guys married to each other?
0:29.2	Yes.
0:30.3	For how long?
0:32.8	Four years now.
0:34.9	And is your little child a product of the two of you? She is. We actually have two kids,
0:42.7	both a product of both of us. Oh, so you want to change her first name, not her last name.
0:49.3	Why after all of these years do we care about what her first name is?
1:00.1	So when we picked her first name, it kind of felt like we picked it rather quickly.
1:01.4	We thought we were having a boy.
1:02.0	It was a surprise.
1:02.7	We had a girl.
1:04.9	And I've just never been happy with it.
1:06.2	I kind of agreed to something.
1:07.9	And we went with it. And it's kind of a crazy time when you first had a baby.
1:10.6	But since that day that we named her,
1:13.8	I've looked at her and thought that's not her right name.
1:16.2	It's not the name for her.
1:17.8	Okay.
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