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Name Nightmare!

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Otterlyadorable · 13/08/2025 02:19

Hello everyone,
So my daughter is called Naomi and I am due our second child (a boy) next week. We were completely set on Isaac.
However someone pointed out that Naomi is ‘I moan’ spelt backwards and Isaac sounds like ‘I suck’ and so together it would be like I moan and I suck which isn’t great.
AIBU to burden my children with this or do you think it will go unnoticed?
Thanks in advance. X

OP posts:
Shitmonger · 13/08/2025 03:08

However someone pointed out that Naomi is ‘I moan’ spelt backwards and Isaac sounds like ‘I suck’ and so together it would be like I moan and I suck which isn’t great.

I don’t know whose 14 year-old son you’ve been listening to but tell him to mind his own business. Hmm

amillionandone · 13/08/2025 03:03

I very much doubt this would occur to many people. Whoever pointed it out to you sounds immature, so I wouldn't take their in-put very seriously. They're both well-known names that won't raise an eyebrow.

Oldtiredanddone · 13/08/2025 02:28

That’s ridiculous. My name backwards would be nonsense, as would my daughters. Literally give me one example where a backwards name would even be brought up seriously in a conversation in their lifetime. Never mind putting that together with a well used common name. It would go so unnoticed that years later you’d think back on how silly you were to think this. Come on OP, seriously?

DrPrunesqualer · 13/08/2025 02:21

PinkGiraffe1 · 13/08/2025 02:20

That would never occur to me. Go ahead and name your children what you like.

Agree

Until you said it I’d never have thought of it

Both names are a delight

PinkGiraffe1 · 13/08/2025 02:20

That would never occur to me. Go ahead and name your children what you like.