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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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Gonners · 01/01/2025 17:30

Hubris would be lovely for a boy. Vainglory for a girl.

Nanny0gg · 01/01/2025 17:30

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

Didn't your face give your thoughts away?

cartagenagina · 01/01/2025 17:30

Honesty
Morality
Character

Wakeywake · 01/01/2025 17:29

If it's Virginity you really have to say something

Meltedwelly · 01/01/2025 17:28

Veritas

CeceliaImrie · 01/01/2025 17:28

Is it Comfort? That's a lovely virtue name imo, one of the TAs at DS school is a Comfort, hearing the kids say it is very sweet.

AngelinaFibres · 01/01/2025 17:28

AngelinaFibres · 01/01/2025 17:16

Oh these are so beautiful. I think Pewberteigh needs to be a boys name though. Just getting that vibe.

You could also shorten it to Pewb. Oh thats perfect .

Myfluffyblanket · 01/01/2025 17:27

Parsimony ?

Hankunamatata · 01/01/2025 17:27

Is it one of the virtues - faith, hope, charity, patience, prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance etc

arcticpandas · 01/01/2025 17:26

ThisIcyHare · 01/01/2025 17:15

No! It’s not honour, charity, faith. It’s like Integrity.

Ask your friend if she wants your honest opinion than tell her Honor is a horrible name😉

ghostfacethriller · 01/01/2025 17:26

Oooh I knew a Felicity and a Verity years ago - I'll say no more but I wonder if we went to the same school as they are not common names!

Honor is a great name, popular in Ireland I believe way back when. I had a great, great aunt named either Honoria or Honor and I considered Honor as a possible name choice. But as you've said it's not OP, I'll shut up 😁

PandyMoanyMum · 01/01/2025 17:26

Is it Destiny?

speaking as a parent of a Faith and an Honour who is happy with my choices 😊

AngelinaFibres · 01/01/2025 17:25

Perspicacity . Cassie for short

Meltedwelly · 01/01/2025 17:25

BusyPoster · 01/01/2025 17:24

Intensity

OK Kurt Angle.

BusyPoster · 01/01/2025 17:24

Intensity

AngelinaFibres · 01/01/2025 17:24

oakleaffy · 01/01/2025 17:12

That’s a lovely name for a fine Draught horse 💖

Or a large regimental goat.

Notimeforaname · 01/01/2025 17:24

Could just not be to your taste. Can't comment without the name.

TerrysCIockworkOrange · 01/01/2025 17:23

Is it Chastity? An old fashioned name for sure but I actually think it’s quite lovely

LividBauble · 01/01/2025 17:23

Ngl Serenity, Liberty and Verity are all high up on my girl list.

Some of you might be happy I was not blessed with a daughter...

Connected1 · 01/01/2025 17:23

ThisIcyHare · 01/01/2025 17:15

No! It’s not honour, charity, faith. It’s like Integrity.

It's Chastity isn't it? 😂

AngelinaFibres · 01/01/2025 17:22

Littletinytarzanswingingfromanosehair · 01/01/2025 17:18

Think Deffleigh-phart is the one I'm going to name my next one.

If only that were a surname. Sir Charles Deffleigh-Phart esq. Such gravitas. Definitely get into Eton

WoolySnail · 01/01/2025 17:21

BusyPoster · 01/01/2025 17:20

Harmony

Not weird enough or like the word integrity x

KateDelRick · 01/01/2025 17:21

HPFA · 01/01/2025 17:19

What's wrong with Verity? I don't think of that as a particularly weird name.

I think it's a lovely name!

Livelovebehappy · 01/01/2025 17:20

It’s all personal choice though. Whilst you might think it’s terrible, another person might not think so. Can’t think it’s obviously bad, as assume your friend would be aware. I hear names, even on MN, thrown about that I think are genuinely awful, but each to their own.

BusyPoster · 01/01/2025 17:20

Harmony