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Mum fears people will mock her after accidentally naming twins after TV characters

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Published 17:38 18 Oct 2022 GMT+1

Mum fears people will mock her after accidentally naming twins after TV characters

The new mother admitted she may have 'rushed' into the decision after giving birth

Emily Brown

Emily Brown

Featured Image Credit: Vadim Kachkov / Alamy / Oh Baby Productions / Alamy Stock Photo

Topics: Parenting, Life, TV And Film

Emily Brown
Emily Brown

Emily Brown is the Community Desk Lead at LADbible Group. Emily first began delivering news when she was just 11 years old - with a paper route. She went on to graduate with a BA Hons in English Language in the Media from Lancaster University before contributing to The Sunday Times Travel Magazine and Student Problems. She joined UNILAD in 2018 to cover breaking news, trending stories and longer form features, and now works as Community Desk Lead to commission and write human interest stories from across the globe.

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A mum of twins has been left worrying that her children will get mocked after she accidentally gave them the same names as two TV characters.

Given that it's our parents who choose our names, it's hard to imagine them ever regretting the decision - no matter what we might think of it ourselves.

I'm sure we've all heard the alternative contenders for our names and wondered what life could have been like if our parents had gone a different way, but one mum has admitted that she's considering changing her children's names just months after welcoming them to the world.

The mum said she felt 'rushed' when choosing the names.
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In an anonymous post on Mumsnet, the mum explained she had been taking the strong painkiller Tramadol after giving birth, and that she felt 'rushed' into deciding on names for her two kids.

She'd settled on the names Charlie for her son, and Lola for her daughter - though she now acknowledges the fact that Charlie and Lola are characters in an animated series which some might remember from CBeebies.

"I needed some advice, I have twins which I named Charlie (boy) and Lola. Don't get me wrong I love both the names but I feel like I made the wrong decision and I always get awkward reactions when people ask," the mum wrote.

As she hadn't officially registered her children's names at the time of writing, she explained that she was feeling 'under pressure' to make a decision on the names before they became official.

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Charlie and Lola are fictional characters from books and TV.
CBW / Alamy Stock Photo

"If I do change a name it will be from Lola to Lila, so only one letter different and not too confusing for anyone, including the baby," she explained.

In a comment added under the post, the Mumsnet user revealed that her partner thinks she is 'being ridiculous', but that she can't help worrying 'about them being laughed at because of the program Charlie and Lola'.

"I'm the one who spends more time with other parents and children and I always dread people's reactions when they ask their names," she added.

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Thankfully the mum received a lot of support from kind internet users, some of who pointed out that the 'fictional Charlie and Lola are lovely', while others claimed that no one would remember the characters by the time the twins were in school.

As names go, I think it's safe to say there are much worse characters the twins could have been named after!

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