'My husband loves our baby's name but I'm starting to regret it'

A new mom is considering changing her son's name as she regrets naming him in honor of her husband's hobby .

The baby's father is a scuba diving enthusiast and the couple named their son Dyver to reflect his love of the sport. However, the new mom fears her baby's name will be associated with dive bars rather than diving.

The mom now wants to change her two-month-old son's name and sought advice from Reddit users.

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She said: "I had my son two months ago and named him Dyver. My husband loves it.

"He and his family have always been diving enthusiasts and grew up with scuba gear all over his house, so he has a major soft spot for the name. I’ve always been on the fence about it, but I had no better ideas for naming him so I went along with Dyver.

"I'm aware many people don't like the name, and people have very adverse reactions when I tell them his name. When we picked it we never considered any sort of weird connotation but I see online that people associate it with “Dive Bar”.

Posting on Reddit, she added: "It's super weird to me that he'll be an adult named Dyver. I can't tell if I just don't like the name, or if people online hatong on it is making me have second thoughts. I’m really struggling. I get changing his name now means he will always have to fill out forms with his previous name.

"Having this discussion with my husband is also really going to be tough now that we have been calling our son Dyver for two months. We have baby blankets and hats, and it’s plastered on the nursery wall."

Some parents encouraged the new mom to change her son's name .

One Reddit user said: "We changed our son’s last name when he was two months old. We had given him his father’s last name, and after a bit of discussion, I told him how badly I wanted him to have mine as well.

"My sister had gotten married and taken her husband's last name and my dad had two girls and so did his brother, so it was the end of his last name.

"My boyfriend agreed that we should add it to keep the family name going for us, so that’s what we did and we didn’t tell his family because they would be livid and we surprised mine and everyone was so excited to see it continue on!"

Another parent added: "I changed my kid’s name when she was three months old and I’m so so glad I did. Dyver is awful.

"Maybe change it to the middle name ? I found another mom who also changed her daughter’s name (same name) and she was much happier as well. Do it soon.

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"Thankfully we had been using a nickname almost since birth mostly because everyone disliked the name so much and I was able to use the formal version as her government name. Thankfully even in her all-girl’s school she’s never had another girl with her name in the whole grade which surprised me."

However, other parents said the new mom should be proud of her son's name. One social media user said: "If you are weird about it then people will react in kind. Be proud of the name, your son and how much joy that name brought to your husband. Maybe when the next baby comes along you’ll be able to pick the name yourself."