Adrienne Madsen and her then-husband decided on the name Jordan before their son was born 10 years ago. But "we never called him Jordan. Always called him bubba or pepi.
Something just wasn't right," said the 32-year-old mother who lives in King Country. It was a bummer that his birth announcement had already gone out in the local paper under Jordan. Ten weeks later, Madsen told Jordan's father that she felt Jordan was really a Benjamin.
He could take inspiration from great Benjamins in history: Benjamin Franklin, the US founding father, and former All Blacks Ben Smith and Benji Marshall. The father agreed. The next day, Jordan officially became Benjamin after Madsen pleaded with Births, Deaths and Marriages for a name change without the paperwork.
She still has cards from well-wishers with the name "Jordan." Madsen certainly isn't alone in not vibing with her kid's name. Kardashian clan member Kylie Jenner recently fleshed out more details about switching her son's name from Wolf to Knight before landing on Aire a year after his February 2022 birth.
"When I met him, he was just the most beautiful thing to me and I couldn't believe just how perfect he was," Jenner told British Vogue after appearing on this month's magazine cover. "I felt like such a failure that I couldn't name him. He deserved so much more than that.
It just really triggered me," she added while talking about the postpartum depression she experienced after birthing both her children. Close to 400 first name .