I posted this elsenet, too

[maevele]

The almost 2 and a half year old hates her name, insists it is not her name, and gets ornery if you call her by it. At least now she has settled in to using the same replacement name for, geez, a couple of months now, maybe 3 months, whereas before she was switching what she could be called every few days, including a lot of "I don't have a name. Don't call me anything" days. And it's been going on all together for at least 5 months now.

But yeah, she says her name isn't a good name for her, and insists on being called Dora.

Anyone else have a kid who hates their name? Or just refuses their name? And how do you handle it? People in public think I actually named her frikking Dora.

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[raanve]

My niece went through a period between, I think, 4-7 when she refused to be called by her given name and wanted to be called "Hunter". Most of her family members refused to pay her any attention; it made her really happy when I just called her Hunter without giving her any guff.

She's 10 now, and back to her given name.

I really disliked my name growing up, because there were a million Jessicas. I doubt that's the case with your small one, but I eventually settled into mine (once I took ownership of it by discarding my mom's "no nick names" rule and going by Jess).