What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

My parents' first choice for their firstborn was 'Jutta'.
But since I was a boy, they had to change it. Thus, I got my (maternal) grandfather's first name.
Okay, for me, but I would have liked it a "th" (Walther).

I didn't get a middle name (most don't here). But a was baptised with one, "Maria", a tradition in our family since generations.

Walther Maria

One of the reasons given for "baby name remorse" is
My initials spell GAS.

Ave, Maria.
(You knew I going to say that.)

Salve, GAS!

Well, it's a Catholic tradition. In my paternal family at least since the 17th century for males and females. (But only 'churchwise', they were baptised but not registered with "Maria".)

I don't regret my name or my children's names exactly. The doctor wrote my name wrong on the birth certificate. My first name, Charles, is listed as Charlie and the middle name is equally screwed up.

In the case of my children, my first wife insisted on a mis-spelling of my son's name and we argued over my daughter's name, until we settled for the one we did not fight over. But I don't actually regret their names.

I don't regret my first name, which was my father's mother's first name. However, if I were to change my first name today, I'd pick the name Madeline
( or Madeleine).

I love that name , because it sounds so poetic and English...

The only thing that I'm frustrated about is that Texans appear unable to correctly pronounce my oldest daughters name.

There's a spot where when they need to say "ell" they inevitably say "ale."

This was my mother's middle name.

American Jewish boys in the 20th century tended to have English first names, to the point where local non-Jews (phew, that was tough; not using the word "gentile")thought the name was of Jewish origin (Barry, Irving, Stanley, Harold, etc., etc.). I thought this was a "thank-you" to the Crown for having the Balfour Declaration. Jewish girls had any name, sometimes a very Catholic Italian name, since many Jews in urban areas lived amongst Italian Catholics.

Anyway, today it can be any name. Sometimes for Jewish boys an Old Testament name. I guess the thinking might be that if the son marries out, he might attract a bible believing Christian. Not the worst place to put one's gene pool, in my opinion.