Parents, have any of you regretted the names you have given your children?

I used to work tech support with a guy whose name was Gandalf.

In the 70s, when he was born, Tolkien wasn't even a nerd thing.

It was a hippie thing.

His parents were big hippies and loved the books.

So they named him Gandalf.

His sister's middle name is Galadriel.

He said at first people rarely recognise the name. It was a weird name, sure,

but few people knew he was named after a fictional wizard, until the movies came out.

He hates Peter Jackson. Well, for one thing, leave Peter Jackson alone, the only people

that individual has to blame are their parents. And the other thing is, I don't know, maybe it's

because I grew up with a name that is very nice, but people bullied me and ridiculed me for it for years. But I don't know. I think

Gandalf could work. I think they can make it work. Twelve years ago, we had twin boys. We knew one

would be Thomas after my wife's uncle, but struggled to name the second. For about 28 hours,

he was Baby B, when we finally

settled on Jeremiah. Two days later, we introduced them to our pastor, and he said, oh, cute, Tom and

Jerry. I looked at my wife and we were both thinking, oh, we did not just do that, but we left it.

My God, the fights those brothers must have had. My friend's parents met during the 60s, and they were slash R crazy hippies, and they

have practiced a lot of different religions.

When my friend was born, they decided to give him 14 middle names, Dorsey, Abdul, Jaliel,

Francis, Brian, Albert, Barney, Willie, Kowalski, Jeffrey, Faith, Love Star, Breeze.

He has a common first and last name, and they said all of that at graduation.

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