Are you embarrassed about your name choice?

I love Barnaby for what its worth and it is on my list for this one...I think Barney is a great nn, though my ds1 (5) links it to a purple dinosaur...you really cannot please everyone but must go for a name you love.

I have an Archie and a Tom, nothing out of the ordinary but they massively suit their names and couldn't imagine them being anything else!

I called my DD Eva after my great grandmother when it was still fairly unusual. There has now been an explosion of Evie, Ava and Eva's. I still love the name and it suits her but I get fed up with people calling her Evie or Ava. Plus lots of people say 'I know lots of Evie/Ava/Eva's' which makes me cross as I thought I was being original!

Her middle hame is Josephine which I love so I'm thinking she could always ask to be called that later in life if she finds herself amongst too many Evie/Eva/Ava's!

But you can never please everyone. There will always be someone who doesn't share your tastes and not like your name. You've got to be able to live with that.

We should be teaching our children to be more accepting of different tastes/values so that hopefully the next generation will be less judgemental .

errrr not sure you can compare names with clothing choices....you can just take the clothes off!

Also, the point is not whether you care about people judging your DC's names - the point is whether the DC will care.

I don't like DD's middle name, I think it is chavvy.

People do sneer at names. A girl in my office had a baby, birth announcement sent by email and my boss was openly laughing - about what a strange name it was. I know a couple who have 2 DCs with unusual names and another friend asked me the names and literally said "what the fuck?!" when I told him.

People also sneer at the popular names - I overheard a father in the playground saying "FGS not another xxxx" about one of his DS's friends.

So choose what you want but there will be some people judging whatever it is you choose!

Love my kid's names and couldn't care less what random people think about them or whether they find them chavvy or posh or whatever. I really don't! I know my true friends will accept me, whatever I chose to wear or call my kids .

I love my childrens first names, but DD's middle name makes me cringe - I blame it on the pregnancy hormones.

I love my dc's names. I couldn't give a fig whether people think they are chavvy or not. Although ds' name is very common, there are 3 in his nursery class. That does bother me slightly.

Of course not everyone is going to like your name choice. And many people will dislike Barnaby. Just like you will probably not like their name choices.

But thats ok. Thankfully we all have different tastes. Why be so judgemental about other people's choices (whether they be hairstyles, shoes or their children's names)?

Choose the name you love and feel confident about it .

Barnaby is nice! Not weird at all. I don't think people would raise eyebrows at Barnaby.
Hey, some weird names I heard last week: two British boys, Tallinn and Baxter. I think they are quite odd. Barnaby, not odd.

Haven't had time to read the whole thread but my take is that I'm really relieved I didn't go with one of my favourite names as it's turned out to be incredibly popular and rather pigeonholes the child and the parent in my opinion (bit like Lola, Scarlett etc).

We went for what I think of as a 'classic' name, not too traditional, always fairly popular but quite neutral. I genuinely don't think you would know from her name whether my DD was born in the 80's, 90's 00's or any other decade or get much of a clue as to her background (or for want of a better word, class), and that works for me.

I adored the other name but in retrospect I am very glad DH wasn't keen as I do think it might have embarrassed me a bit and possibly DD as well.

Nope, not at all embarrassed. My children are called Joe and Esme and the only thing I regret is that they're getting more popular now (they're 11 and 10). I love the names, they suit them very well.

I love Barnaby, btw. It's one of my favourite boys' names. I used to have a boyfriend called Barnaby (Barney) when I was a teenager and he was utterly lovely :)

Unless you call your child poopoohead or something silly, why on earth would you be embarassed about calling his/her name? I really struggle with that concept - thankfully we all have different tastes and like different names. Why is there this pressure to 'conform' to some naming rules that seem to prevalent on mumsnet?

Oh I love the name Septimus!

I now cringe a little sometimes at my eldest's name. I loved it all those years ago and it does suit him. He is the only one in school, It is Welsh in origin, simple and not OTT. But recently it has become more popular and ... er....common. I have heard it screeched by boiled-ham-armed, chain smoking harridans, wielding cans of stella on the seafront...can't somehow imagine that happening to an Inigo or a Septimus somehow...or a Barnaby :)

She is Mathilda but is rarely called that. She calls herself Tildy. I call her many, many things. Mainly Squigsy. I have no idea why.

I could probably have an army of children and never run out of names.

We've trained just 4yo dd to shout boo hiss at the television and she does it with great gusto.

Sukie is fabulous. I need to have many children immediately. There are some brilliant names out there. I like Josephine. Especially Posy and Sephie as NNs. Might be up your street?

Clemmie's cute but not a patch on Sukie. Freya is meh, precisely. You have excellent taste.

Albie's fabulous too issy. I really like it.

I am mainly nice else. Until Bono or David Camerham come onto the radio/television and then I swear like a good un. Sometimes throw things too.

What have you picked for a girl?

Ds2 's name is Albie Albert, friends and family hated it when he was born made me feel really bad and low, he is 2.5 now sometimes wish I had called him something else. Although it seems to be quite trendy now so don't think he will have probelms with it.

I know I have been shocked at work since returning after having DD that many baby announcements have been met with sneery 'they called it what? Oh no I don't like that' rather than 'how lovely our colleague has had a baby'. I can just imagine them slagging my choice off. It's the British way in the last decade or so: negative & judgey.

What on earth is wrong with Delilah? Or Barnaby? Or most of these names? I suppose the first is a biblical whore but I know two Delilahs under 4. People are reclaiming it.

Barnaby is lovely and goes fabulously with Caspar (which I adore).