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A little girl has joined DD's nursery.
Her name is CUPCAKE.

I suppose it is nicer than Fishfinger, or Potato.

(Oh. If the mum is a Mumsnetter: Hello mum of Cupcake!
So...
... cough...
...Are you going to the summer fair on Saturday? )

How unique!

How......sweet

I don't know whether to do or !

Maybe her mum was a strawberry shortcake fan when she was a child

I'm kinda like......hmm that's unique

Then the other part of me is saying....... That's got to be the pregnancy hormones

Pretty name for a little girl. But a woman?

And it probably isn't on the birth certificate.
But, it is still just silly.

«rummages in knicker drawer for judgey pants»

Cupcake.

I don't know. I'm just thinking "Surely that isnt on her birth certificate" but people are mad aren't they? So maybe it is!

Oh for goodness sake.

What next a lemon drizzle, or fairy cake?

How dare you sneer at my daughter's name on here

(just kidding, it's not me!)

Definitely her name and not a term of endearment?

I wouldnt like my name to be Cupcake. What sort of NN would you have? Cup? Cuppy? Cuppa? Cakey-Cake? Baby Cake?

It's on all the stuff, register, pegs, message boxes...
Cupcake Jones (but not Jones).

I did feel it would be too gossipy / sneering to ask the staff. I don't think I could keep the incredulity out of my tone of voice.

Maybe I'll try to spot the parent, and start a conversation.

Cuppa is a nice nickname actually! Hmm. It is growing on me.

I hope she doesnt become diabetic.

I likes it. I want to be called cupcake. CALL ME CUPCAKE!!

Oh my.

It doesn't really pass the high court judge test, does it.

We should start a new thread for sibling names

Muffin
Doughnut
Tart
Brownie

It has to be a nickname. Isn't it? Poor child. Surname Baker?

Vol-au-vent would have been more edgy

Maybe its just a nickname that all her family and friends call her. Her proper name could be Charlotte Elizabeth.

<clutches at straws - heard it all now>

Tch, how un-zetigeisty.

Cupcakes are so 2010. The child should be called Le Macaron or Whoopie Pie at the very least. Oh wait, does that make me sound very 2011?

<panics at not knowing 2012's trendy cake of choice>

Brilliant!

If I have any more, i'm going to go for chip, rich fruit, pecan pie or krispy kreme

2012 got to be chocopop! Butterfly bun or french fany would be fun.

Amazed at how polite everyones being!

Oxford Reading Tree were ahead of their time. They had a Chip.

How about a more recession name, in tune with the times. Cupcakes just make her sound a child of the greedy nighties.

FFS the greedy noughties.

Soreen is more recession sounding

I prefer Battenberg as a sibling name TBH

Ah it's a child who was born at the height of cupcake ridiculousness!

Perfectly fine then. Yep.

But all children born this year whose parents want to follow the cake related theme need to pick either Soreen or Eccles. Less frivolous than cupcake.

Needs a brother called cookie or crumpet

Haha Soreen!

Batty. Yes, would work.

Soreen is quite Danish sounding.

Maybe it's like this lady
Not her real name but her siblings always called her it and it 'became' her name. Even the BBC call her Piggy

crumpet... mmmm now im hungry!

Why would anyone look at their perfect beautiful new child and think 'I'm going to condemn you to a life of ridicule and embarrassment'?

Bloody hell! That is even worse than apple.

As I said to my sons Jaffa-cake and hob-nob.....

Is it hyphenated? Cup-Cake

Barm

maybe she has another name on her bc but is known as cupcake, my ds2 is oscar reuben but for ages got called fruitcake, he still does sometimes and i dont even like fruitcake, nasty stuff filled with dead flies!

Thats brilliant! Although I prefer CakePop, then the nickname could be Pops or poppy haha!

And our new baby, Krispy Kreme.

DS3 is starting school in September with a little (white, broad Geordie) girl called Cherish.

Can you imagine at a party "cupcake?"
At school "who likes cupcakes?"
Later on in life could get a name for herself "whos had the cupcak?"

Back later, my Flapjack and Linseed need feeding.

Could be worse, coulda been Mooncupcake .

Oh Barm is pretty whattodo. Well not pretty exactly, more ugly I suppose. But you'd trust a woman called Barm. She'd be stout and efficient. The sort of person who'd re-tile her own roof, just for fun.

What about her twin siblings, Bara and Brith?

Surely the sibling name must be Bunting? Bunty as nn? Lovely!

I knew someone called Egg (a long time ago).

I hope she doesn't develop a weight problem or an eating disorder.

You're all wrong, Cupcakes can become lawyers

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CupcakeBrown#

Wow Cupcake Brown had an interesting life

Better than Dumpling, I suppose.

Cupcake...

She'll be eaten alive at school.

Whoops just burst out laughing at my desk in work. 'she'll be eaten alive' hahaha

Ah yes sherbert Cupcake Brown! I've heard of her, she had a book out didn't she? That must be where the inspiration came from.

I wonder if the book was about overcoming a name like Cupcake.

I grew up with a little boy called Muffin.

I taught a Terrine 9 years ago. I always imagined green spam when I wrote her name. Oh and an Ikea. Guess what you could see from the playground?!!

There's a girl in dds' Brownies called Pashmina

I think you should call SS - that's just cruel!

Pashmina! I suppose it sounds like it should be a name. Umm, maybe. Pretty funny though.

It's like that Alicia Douvall person who named her daughter Papaya Coco Piri-piri. Sounds more like a shopping list than a baby.

It is probably a nickname.

When DBro was 5 he insisted on being called James. It was on his handwriting book, coat peg, letters, probably register too, for the whole year of school. He then reverted back to his usual name.

There were quite a few children in my class at school who were of Asian origin and had 'home' names i.e. their birth certificate name, and 'school' names.

The world's gone mad!!

sillybeardy I laughed at your last post! excellent!

I knew of a woman that apparently called her Dd Doily. You know! the paper things you put cupcakes on! maybe Doily is Cupcakes mum?!

But all children born this year whose parents want to follow the cake related theme need to pick either Soreen or Eccles. Less frivolous than cupcake. I agree, I am so not frivolous

There's a boy at dd's nursery called Lord. Which makes cupcake seem quite sensible, imo.

I was in a classroom the other day with a list of children's names on the wall: one of them was listed as Joke.

Sorry, I know it is not cake related but I just had to get it off my chest. (MN was the only place I could tell people about the boy named Soul-Jah too).

Terrine's baby brother was proudly announced to me as TJ. It may have been Teejay but we also had a Mercedes, a French, a Dre, a Fawn and a Shakira (with a very normal, typical, uneventful English surname) so who knows. I asked her to repeat it several times and the class were puzzled by my puzzlement.

Overheard a mum calling to her child in local A&E recently

"Wives, come here"

should have minded my own business but had to ask "Wives....that's ... um.... unusual. where did you get the idea from?

"well, you know...Wives saint lorent" she said, looking at me like I was an idiot

@squoosh - maybe cakepop!?! lol!

My last message makes no sense! When I clicked on this thread just now it only had 24 replies. After I posted my reply, another 48 appeared

So to explain - "cakepop" refers to squoosh wondering what is 2012's cupcake of choice back on page 1!

WIVES!!!! hahahahaaha!

Child called Circle at a school near me.

Why!?

My husband taught a girl called Eccles. Nothing wrong with Eccles!

Heard a Mum in the park calling her 2 boys Ocean and Amazon. Realize these names may not be that unusual but they surprised me. If anything I could imagine more being used for girls!

There's a boy in my sons class called Jumper. Cupcake is cute as a NN but even if the pregnancy hormones were playing up, why didn't the dad say NO!

I once called a child in from the waiting room. The name on the form was 'Chanel', so I called out for "Shanelle" (phonetically) and got corrected by her irate mum, who told me "it's pronounced 'Channel'".

I'll out myself here too.

When DS5 went to playgroup there was a boy called Squidgey there too. It was labelled on his peg and drawers and I really did think WTF!

Anyway, I think that that was all he'd ever been called so he didn't actually know his real name (which I'm not putting on here as I've never heard it before, but there were 2 at the playgroup strangely!) So they started by calling him by his nickname and by the time he was ready for school he was used to his real name!

Maybe Cupcake is the same? I'm hoping Cupcake is the same!

I know Cupcake, Daughter of Fruitcake, no?

When I went to ceremony to become a nationalised Brit there was an Asian family there in lovely traditional dress (as we were invited to dress in national costumes, I refrained from wearing a baseball cap). Anyway, Daughter1 had a very Asian sounding name. But their DD2 had a name like Twinkle. "Twinkle" was read out by the Registrar in jolly "welcome to our country" voice, confirmed on her Naturalisation Certificate and all.

Twinkle. Twinkle Patasianhisunihari, or something like that.

I just posted this over on the unusual things not on your CV thread. It ties in here. Here goes:

I have one on names that ties a couple of the threads together in a previously unthought of way. Background: In Swedish Winnie-the-Pooh is called Nalle Poo (a nalle is a teddy). Can you guess where this is going???

Yep, there was a girl at DS1s kindergarden called Poo. I really could not think of a nice way to raise the subject. And I don't think you can change your name by deed poll over there with all the ID card stuff...

Shortly after DS2 was born I had some bed linen that had a sample of every single human bodily fluid on it. I could list them. I hadn't heard of Tracey Emin then so went and washed it rather than preserving it for the nation.

There is a Tinkerbell at DD's gymnastics class!

One of my kids went to nursery with a child called Zillion. I still have no idea whether Zillion was a girl or a boy.

I have had to ban talk of infinity, the largest number you can think of, how does it divide by zero, inifinty and beyond, my infinity is better than yours, my gillion is this big, take that zillion etc at meal times so My Head does not implode. So Zillion could have taken it to the back of the queue.

I am a girl with a maths brain and Grumpy Husband has a Phd in satellite technology so I think he should supervise. When he is around planet earth...

MalmoMum- maybe I'm being thick but you're making no sense!

Re: names, all the children I trash have boring, normal ones! Alicia douvalls "shopping list" made me lol though! :-)

Erm, teach, not trash!! (thanks autocorrect!)

Poppy, Pixie, Cherry, Pippa, Bunny, Dippy, Doppy, Dappy, all SOOOO much more acceptable!

are you actually serious?!?! this is stupid! I am actually a fan of unusual names but thats just cruel for the child! Its probably a nickname, theres a doll called Baby Cupcake so maybe its because of that?!

lastly LOL!!!!!!!

CUPCAKE? bloody hilarious!!

I met a guy in Spain called: Kevin Costner de Jesus

Twinkle is a popular Indian name back in India!

So is Dimple.