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Friends awful baby name

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ThisIcyHare · 01/01/2025 16:26

My best friend is due to have a baby soon, they are having a girl and she has been talking baby names with me, which feels super special. She has got a few very lovely traditional girly names, and a couple of more unusual choices, but not ‘offensive’. They are names I would expect from her. However, she has one absolutely terrible name, that actually just feels very cruel. It would be bad even by American standards and ‘tragedeigh’ names. It’s not that I wouldn’t choose it, it’s just crazy stupid and the child will be ridiculed by peers and adults. Some of her choices are genuinely wonderful, but I’m so worried she will madly choose this one awful name, I can’t say anything can I?!

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Thunderlegs · 01/01/2025 23:38

It has to be Probity.

MerrilyOnhigh · 01/01/2025 23:28

Ilikeadrink14 · 01/01/2025 19:13

I, like many others probably, plodded through this post because I was sure the poster would give the name eventually. She didn’t! I hope she is happy that she wasted so much of our time with such a pointless post. It was like getting to the last page in a book and finding someone had torn it out!
I am pretty easy-going, and it takes a lot to rile me, but this post has, with knobs on!
I have made a note of her name so I can avoid her posts in future!

How did OP waste your time? She never for one moment suggested she was going to say what the name was.

You sound incredibly self-important.

OneKhakiFish · 01/01/2025 23:25

I worked with a Pretty once, I couldn't stop singing the song, I am pretty,
had to tell myself to stop it lol

TheRoundaboutHadLovelyFlowers · 01/01/2025 23:22

I've got a friend called Verity, and she's very nice. I wouldn't object to that name if your friend likes it.

FizzyBisto · 01/01/2025 23:15

saltysandysea · 01/01/2025 22:52

Calamity - as in Calamity Jane.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0045591/

Edited

That reminds me of the outstanding Last Tango In Halifax. They had a baby called Calamity Jane, although I think that was just a family thing and she was just Jane on the birth certificate.

DingDongAlong · 01/01/2025 23:11

I worked with a Happy. Met a guy named Divine, he was anything but!

The name isn't Climax is it? Or Orgasm? Obviously with some bizarre spelling.

user1492757084 · 01/01/2025 23:10

Equity
Rarity - Rita
Parroty - Polly
Vanity - Mira
Surity - Shortie
Nudity - Nudd
Rabbity - Bunny
Virility
Divinity
Dimity
Virginity
Clarity

BonnyBugbear · 01/01/2025 23:05

It's not..... Jimberly is it?

user1492757084 · 01/01/2025 23:03

If she reads this, your friend will already certainly be informed of the pitfalls of choosing such names.

user1492757084 · 01/01/2025 23:01

Liberty

BonnyBugbear · 01/01/2025 23:01

ThisIcyHare · 01/01/2025 16:59

It’s not a ‘made up name’, it’s a word that you’d use, a bit like Integrity. That’s the closest I think I can get without saying what it is

Tell her you cannot name a child with a virtue name incase they don't live up to it. Like Charity or Lucky IYSWIM

cosima4 · 01/01/2025 22:59

Perpetuity?

user1492757084 · 01/01/2025 22:58

Trinity
Amity
Allegretti
Fidelity

cosima4 · 01/01/2025 22:58

Morality?

Stardogchampion · 01/01/2025 22:58

Serendipity?

cosima4 · 01/01/2025 22:57

Equanimity?

Ginmonkeyagain · 01/01/2025 22:57

Could be Tonibler - a populae name in Kosovo in honour of you know who.

cosima4 · 01/01/2025 22:56

Vitality?

Celebrity?

NotTheMrMenAgain · 01/01/2025 22:53

Jenasaurus · 01/01/2025 22:49

Is it sincerity

I was going to bet on Sincerity!

saltysandysea · 01/01/2025 22:52

Calamity - as in Calamity Jane.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0045591/

MaggieFS · 01/01/2025 22:51

Honesty.

Jenasaurus · 01/01/2025 22:49

Is it sincerity

Cattenberg · 01/01/2025 22:48

I quite like Serendipity, although if I had been a “happy accident” I’m not sure I’d want everyone to know!

If I thought a name was awful (as opposed to simply not my taste) and would lead to a child getting teased, I would say something. If most of your friend’s list is fine, surely your feedback will be mostly positive?

cosima4 · 01/01/2025 22:45

She says it is a word "like integrity," but not necessarily with the same meaning. Does this mean it rhymes with integrity?

Nothing really rhymes with integrity, does it?

Identity?

Eternity?

TinkerTiger · 01/01/2025 22:45

TinkerTiger · 01/01/2025 22:43

I know a child called Honor, she’s fine. No one bats an eye.

Ok I’ve just seen that’s not it 😂

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