Can your child say their own name?

Can your child say their own name? DS is 2 1/2. He's been a slow talker. He definitely responds to his name, but makes no attempts whatsoever to say it. If you ask him his name, he'll either say nothing, or say "me". I think this is normal, but up until what age?

[egoldber]

Is his name hard to say? Like does it have a "th", "sh", "s" and "r" sounds in it? My DD did not master saying her own name until she was close to 3, mainly because she was also a slow talker and her name has lots of hard sounds. But if he does not even try to say an approximation of his own name by 2 1/2, (DD called herself "sa-sah" for a long time), its worth mentioning to your ped I think.

But its interesting that he says "me", because pronoun usage is a 3 year old skill.

[Marisa6826]

We've never tried to teach Sophie her name, so I don't know the answer! :)

She knows the pigdogs' names - she can say Tickie, but not Willy. She calls him "pot pie", which we figured out is actually "puppy". :P

-m

[MelissaTC]

Matthew has been saying his name now for a couple of months. He turned two in June. It is more clear now than it was. He used to pronounce it like Mat-chew, now it is more like Matthew. He has definitely not been a slow talker though. Perhaps it is something you may want to give the Ped a call about if you are concerned? Couldn't hurt to ask. :) I am sure he is fine though....

James has never said his name, either. A few times when I have tried to get him to say it, he has said something that sounds like "me," but I don't know if it's the pronoun or his attempt to get some sound from his name.

Elizabeth, Mom to James, 9-20-02
EDD #2, 10-30-04

DD said her own name at about 30 months and at first she did it 'Elmo-style' (ie: Amy wants milk! Amy up!, etc.).

DS doesn't say his own name yet but he will say Moma, Dada and Amy, as well as the names of some of the kids/Moms we see regularly.

[slknight]

Alex isn't talking much yet - I'm concerned he's a late talker. But, he does sign his name. If I ask him who he is, he'll sign Alex. Or sometimes if he catches a glimpse of himself in a mirror, he'll sign it. Of course it helps that one of the kids on the Signing Times videos is named Alex, so we know the sign pretty well.

[cmo]

DD just turned 2 and has been saying her name for 2 months or so. However, talking is one of the few things she did early (late crawling, walking, etc.). Many of her playgroup friends (ages 2 through 2 1/2) are not talking much at all, including their names. We would ask DD "what's your name?", and tell her the answer. She "parrots" a lot, but will eventually re-use what she's parroted in an appropriate context. It took about a week for her to learn the answer to the question. There seems to be a wide range for what is normal, and since your son will answer to his name, that seems like it would fall under normal!

[lizajane]

schuyler is a BIG talker- he will repeat almost any word you say to him. and he often learns more than one new word/day. (this weekend, it was no, yellow, leaf, grandma...) BUT (the point of the story isn't to brag, i swear!) he doesn't even come close to saying his name. his name sounds like "sky-ler" and it is just too hard right now. he does call his friend morgan by name (muh muh), but i honestly think learning his own name is harder than learning another's name.

[Andrea S]

Andrew calls himself "ew"

Andrea
mom to Andrew 8/14/02