I named my daughter after a piece of furniture and I regret it

A mother is feeling deep regret after confessing to her grown daughter the uninspiring inspiration behind her unusual name.

“I feel like I made bad choices because I just told my daughter how we came up with the name and now she hates me,” says the woman on the Tragedigh Reddit thread.

“When I was 22, her father and I were lying in bed right after we found out we were having a girl. We were trying to think of names. I looked at a lamp and jokingly said, ‘What about Shade?’, and for some reason, he liked it.

“It’s kind of stuck”

“It kind of stuck, so I called it, except I spelled it ‘Shaide.’

After 25 years of assuming her unique name had a more romantic history, while at work her daughter discovered she was actually named after bedroom furniture and she wasn’t happy.

Now that it’s too late to go back to the origin of the name, the OP asks the forum if she made a mistake, and most people in the hundreds of comments agree that yes, she probably did.

“Well, telling a kid they’re named after something completely ordinary kind of takes the mystique out of an unusual name,” says one commenter.

“You might want to go with something like it’s a beautiful sounding word with a lot of mystery and depth, just because the light bulb brought that word to your mind.”

While this may be too little too late for poor Shaide, others couldn’t help but have a little fun with the idea of ​​bedroom furniture and suggest more.

“My mom saw my name on a toilet paper dispenser at work”

One cheeky poster wrote: “Curtains would have been a good name: That would have given her closure.”

“And whenever she had a hard time, she could just pull away,” another joker added.

One woman commented to share her equally common and funny name ‘origin story’.

“For what it’s worth, my mom told me she saw my name on a toilet paper dispenser at work and thought it was cute, shared it with my dad and he liked it because it’s a one syllable nickname that I go by.

“I think it’s funny and I like my name: Kimberly [Kimberley Clark] I mostly go by Kim!”

Another woman pointed out that just because her partner liked the name ‘Shade’, it didn’t mean they had to go with it.

“When my ex-husband was pregnant with their second child, they asked their son what the baby should be called. He said “The table”. They didn’t call it Table. He was four. You were 22. He had an excuse.

“You had no common sense. How you came up with the name is funny. Why you stuck with it is strange.”

“Yeah, you’re messed up”

But another poster felt that all things considered, the name could have been worse suggesting that it was lucky they were in the bedroom and not elsewhere in the house when deciding on the name.

“If they had this conversation over dinner, it could have ended with ‘Gravy.’ Or ‘Asparagus’. ‘Potato’ or ‘Salt Shaker’!”

One person thought that although it was wrong to be too honest, there might be a way to make amends.

“Yeah, you’re messed up, but since you commented that your daughter doesn’t like being called Shady and wants to change the names, it seems to me that if you help with the expenses/red tape, she might forgive you more easily.

“They laugh at him now”

Finally, one kind soul said she hoped one day she would be laughed at, as her mare Carrie does.

“I have a friend named Keri because her mom saw a bottle of Keri lotion in the hospital after she was born. Is it stupid? yes. But it’s still a nice name and they laugh about it now.

“This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think this kind of thing is so terrible as to change your name or hate your mother forever for it.”