Lengthy but please read. I regret my baby’s name. Backstory - We live in Southern US and were hit by a hurricane when I was 33w pregnant. Our home was severely damaged and is still unlivable. It has been a complete mess and very stressful. The night before she was due we had to evacuate yet AGAIN for another hurricane. 2 hurricanes in less than 7 weeks sounds made up, right?! This time our apartment had severe water damage and we were back to the impossible task of finding another place to live. I was past due and ended up having to go to hospital immediately bc fluid was low and placenta was calcifying. So picking out a name was the last thing on our to-do list obviously. We were just trying to stay afloat those last 7 weeks and were so relieved she was born healthy and safely. During my pregnancy, we loved the name Margot but then realized it rhymed with our last name so we vetoed it. We never really agreed on any other names. My husband liked “Camilla” but I was never fond of it. My youngest loved “Rosie”. I loved tons of old names but he didn’t. Everyone told me “when you see her, you’ll know.” Well, I didn’t and I panicked. After utter exhaustion, I just let my husband name her. He named her Camila Rose. For some stupid reason, we decided to spell it “Camila” but pronounce it “ca-mill-luh”. As he handed in the birth certificate I felt a tinge of regret but thought it was just hormones. I didn’t sleep at all that night because I felt like we made such a mistake on her name. I knew it wasn’t exhaustion and that the feelings were real when strangers would ask me her name and I’d cringe. It has been a process to say the least. She’s now almost 4 months old and I still don’t know what her name should be. I dread telling people her name bc it just doesn’t feel right for some reason. It’s been mispronounced quite a bit - Camille, Camiyya, Ca-me-lah. We have to do something. We either add an “L” to make it Camilla to help the pronunciation or just change it. We have talked and he was very reluctant at first. But now that he’s witnessed the mispronunciations, he’s willing and wants to make a change - whatever that may be. I don’t know if adding the L to make it “Camilla” would help any. Here in the South, Camille is a super popular name. We also have Camellia trees which a lot of people misspell them as “Camilla” trees but pronounce it like Camellia. I just feel like I’ve screwed up. Naming her siblings was not this difficult. We named them and never looked back. I’ve been calling her Rosie like my one of my children does because I just still haven’t warmed up to Camilla. Yet now I’m questioning whether Rosie sounds like a dog’s name. Does it? My mom suggested maybe calling her Millie. I feel at 4 months it’s too late to give her a new name but something has to give. I don’t know what to do. These are the names we like and our thoughts on them. I’d like to hear your thoughts too:

Sophie - his fav, its pretty but I worry it’s overdone but it is a safe name with no mispronunciations

Rosalie - my fav, prob his least fav but doesn’t hate it (could still do Rose or Rosie with this)

Rose - unsure if this is too “plain”, Rose Margaret would prob be the first and middle, sounds classic

Vivienne - another one of my favs, he doesn’t love it but doesn’t hate it either (I prefer this spelling over Vivian for some reason)

Or we just add an L and do Camilla Rose. (I do however loathe the NN Cami. Down here we call an undershirt a “cami”)

This isn’t a question of DO we do something. Bc we are. It’s a question of do we amend her birth certificate by adding an “L” or by changing her name entirely. I’m so confused to where I don’t even know what I like anymore. I think my poor husband is too. I’m tired of this and want to move on. Please help us!