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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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HugoYorway · 04/01/2025 15:04

@FizzyBisto , but Onya doesn't sound like honour.

FizzyBisto · 04/01/2025 14:13

Marine30 · 04/01/2025 11:33

You do have to think about the foreign translations it’s true.
Friend of a friend called Nova which means doesn’t go in Spanish, friend called Noel who got taunted relentlessly on the French exchange and worst of all, Hazel, which my Czech friend says means shitty toilet in Czech 😱

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Oh, yes - all the car model names that don't work in every country!

Also, Carens (Kia) means lacking or careless, in Latin; and Pajero (Mitsubishi) means idiot, boorish person or w*nker in Spanish!

FizzyBisto · 04/01/2025 14:03

HugoYorway · 03/01/2025 16:58

@daleylama , in the word, not the name. Anyway, I'm bored to bits with the discussion about the name now.
Honor (given name) - Wikipedia

I guess you could spell it Onna.

Or indeed Onya - as in Onya Doorstep, the roving news reporter from the new Wallace & Gromit film Grin

AlmaCogansFrockFan · 04/01/2025 13:20

The context of Dolores is the reference to the Mother of Jesus and the seven sorrows that she endured in her lifetime, hence the title of Our Lady of the Seven Dolours (or sorrows)

HugoYorway · 04/01/2025 11:58

Grammarnut · 04/01/2025 11:05

Yes, she did. And you are correct, that's how it's spelled. I am in error and apologise. Never post in haste!

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You've probably been insisting that Earnest is the English spelling of the name usually shortened to Ernie too.

HugoYorway · 04/01/2025 11:51

Humility nn Milly?

Marine30 · 04/01/2025 11:33

You do have to think about the foreign translations it’s true.
Friend of a friend called Nova which means doesn’t go in Spanish, friend called Noel who got taunted relentlessly on the French exchange and worst of all, Hazel, which my Czech friend says means shitty toilet in Czech 😱

Andoutcomethewolves · 04/01/2025 11:24

Mayana1 · 02/01/2025 21:02

There is some public person in my country(she is s journalist and her partner a politician) who decided they will name her daughter Princess. Not to call her 'princess' but they actually gave her first name Princess. And we don't use middle names, sometimes lately a child is given 2 first names, but still not very popular, so she can only go by that name. She must be a teenager now and I feel so so sorry for poor girl.

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I'm not sure I'd call Katy Price a journalist 😆

Grammarnut · 04/01/2025 11:05

RavenQueen · 03/01/2025 14:04

Well Honor Blackman was English and that is the spelling she used. She was born in 1925. Maybe people are just taking her spelling. And as far as I'm aware she didn't change her name either that was her original name.

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Yes, she did. And you are correct, that's how it's spelled. I am in error and apologise. Never post in haste!

Grammarnut · 04/01/2025 11:04

SemperIdem · 03/01/2025 13:40

Hello @Grammarnut, native English speaker here!

Honor is the correct spelling of the name in the UK. It does indeed differ from our accepted spelling of the word, honour.

Then I stand corrected. Thanks for info.

maudelovesharold · 03/01/2025 23:13

C36M · 03/01/2025 00:20

All names are socially constructed, so all names are made up

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I think the fact that I put ‘made-up’ in inverted commas was sufficient to convey that I was referring to names with no history of being a name.

CatherinedeBourgh · 03/01/2025 18:19

One of the most common names in Spain and other Spanish speaking countries is Dolores (frequent nickname: Lolita). It means Pains.

Another is Soledad, meaning Loneliness.

Bugaloo77 · 03/01/2025 17:05

FizzyBisto · 03/01/2025 16:55

I'm sure there was a MN thread some time ago where OP had family members expecting a baby whom they were determined to call Genghis. That wasn't you, was it?!

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😂😂😂 no that wasn’t me and we didn’t name him Genghis. My daughter told everyone she was going to call her baby Wolfgang, Wolfie for short and the amount of people that believed her was unreal 😂😂

Whoooaaa · 03/01/2025 17:04

Oh Christ I'm out of here. I could be here till fucking doomsday! OP it's a name for a kid who is not yours so why stress. Let her call the kid what she wants and if it gets bullied it's her problem 🤷‍♀️.

HugoYorway · 03/01/2025 16:58

@daleylama , in the word, not the name. Anyway, I'm bored to bits with the discussion about the name now.
Honor (given name) - Wikipedia

I guess you could spell it Onna.

FizzyBisto · 03/01/2025 16:55

Bugaloo77 · 03/01/2025 16:31

We told everyone we were going to call our son Genghis and not one person told us it was bad 😂😂 Could she be using you on?

I'm sure there was a MN thread some time ago where OP had family members expecting a baby whom they were determined to call Genghis. That wasn't you, was it?!

daleylama · 03/01/2025 16:49

HugoYorway · 03/01/2025 12:21

I disagree. The origin of the word is from honos. The -our spelling of the name looks wrong.

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You could look it up of course. It's correct in English. America and Australia drop the 'u'

fairytailcat · 03/01/2025 16:47

Is it Rectitude?

Rectitude Rose!

I like it 😆

HugoYorway · 03/01/2025 16:41

or Chitty. It's so important to have a name with options.

Minc · 03/01/2025 16:37

Chastity is a lovely name — can shorten to:
Chas
or
Titty

HugoYorway · 03/01/2025 16:34

Spell it however you like @Grammarnut , you've put me off the name for life. I'd never use it now.

Bugaloo77 · 03/01/2025 16:31

We told everyone we were going to call our son Genghis and not one person told us it was bad 😂😂 Could she be using you on?

Grammarnut · 03/01/2025 15:58

HugoYorway · 03/01/2025 10:34

The name is Honor. The word is honour.

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Afaik you can spell the name either way. The problem seems to be Americans of the United States objecting to the English spelling of the virtue. For example, pointing out the virtue comes from the name of the Roman god Honos, so the word is spelled honor (only by Mr Webster afaik).

Rosscameasdoody · 03/01/2025 15:57

ilovesushi · 03/01/2025 12:28

Sobriety, lucidity, insipidy, vomity, villainy?
Any of the above?

I especially like Vomity !!

ohime · 03/01/2025 15:42

CurlyhairedAssassin · 01/01/2025 17:13

Do you know what? I've worked in schools for 15 years. I've seen every type of name. And while I may do an inner snigger the first time I see them on a register, you quickly come to accept the name as totally normal and you can't imagine them being called anything else. I quite like the extremely unusual names.

Erm. As someone with an odd name that also lends itself to hurtful puns I can attest that, whatever the staff's opinion, one's schoolmates - even well into the teen years - generally do not simply snigger the first time and then accept your name as totally normal; instead the torture pretty much continues until you graduate and get the hell away from there. Thanks, mum, for the gift that kept on giving.