What's worst response from people about LO name??

When my PIL and gran-in-law came to visit me and DS in hospital they asked what I'd called him.

I told them his name and there was a slight moment of silence in which gran-in-law said, "Oh, nice modern names, then."

I was a bit as his first name is Adam (first man ever created on Earth!) and his middle name is a name from the Old Testament, some 2000 years ago! So not quite modern, but thanks for the comment.

DH excitedly rings his DM to tell him the good news. Melika has just had a little boy!

She said 'great news, what are you going to call him?'

DH replies 'Jacob'.

Phone goes quiet, she tells someone in the background, Melikas had a boy and they are going to call him Jacob but I think he's joking!

This will always make us laugh as she has now passed on, but she always pronounced it as 'Jacub', like she didn't know how to say it.

I know this is from way upthread but re: Marcus being a name for black boys what utter bullshit...

I'm pretty sure Marcus Aurelius (Roman general, philosopher...) would have been very surprised to wake up and find himself a black man.

Some. People. Are. Twonks.

Apparently DS's name is chav, according to MN. It happens to be my maiden name.

MIL always says that her friends "have to pull a face" when they pronounce DSs name. It's Finn. What face would this be? Just how much can one syllable contort your face?

(What she really means is that she doesn't Finn but she is too passive aggressive to say or just let it go!).

PIL was there not long after DDs birth (thankfully only for a few mins). On announcing her full name we just got a cats bum face from MIL, we also said we would commonly call her by the shortened name so reply was eventually 'well the shortened name isn't too bad'

btw I think it's poor form for the few posters on here to have criticized some names.

When my DD was born her name just flew out of my mouth as though she had put it there, but my DH had not really thought about names and so I left it open for a few days after she was born as to how we spelt it, what middle names to choose etc so he did not feel he had nothing to do with her name.

Well, seven days later, we proudly announced DD's full name to my mum and stepdad, thinking they would gush and coo over her now they had a name... instead stepdad's first comment was "errgh, Is-a-bell-on-a-bicycle-strictly-necessary".

Both then suggested why don't we call her Isabella instead, and started debating second names between themselves...as though their opinion would be persuasive after being so mean.
I wish I had read this thread before it happened, as I might not have been so scarred by such a stupid thing. I now know this is a really common schoolyard taunt going back to their generation, but how horrible to dump it on my beautiful moment with my daughter.
Ultimately all new mums and dads want is a bit of a verbal hug and a hip hip hooray for their new baby.

We joked all through the pregnancy that if DC was born on Christmas Day (and was a boy) he would be called Damian (apols to any Damians out there) but the baby was due in January anyway.

Fast Forward to Christmas Day DS was born. On ringing MIL to let her know he was born and we were both alive (a bit touch and go for the moment) the first thing she said to DP was, "oh you are not going to call him Damian are you, please say you arn't".

We didn't, but weren't going to anyway - oh and MIL I was fine thanks.

Should mention I'd just had my 20 week scan and discovered she was a girl, the name was just right, straightaway.

My best friend: You can NOT call her that!
Me: You've got 4 months to get used to it.

Her name? Florence. (And a yummy little Florrie-pop she is too!)

DS2 was seeing a doctor at the hospital once and at the end of the appointment she said. " I have a grandson with the same name, I thought it was one of those silly made up names" his name is Lucas! I turned and said "no it is greek"

When I said Sophia - a "friend" said "sophia, well it's not very you, is it?", well no, obviously! Only leaving to wonder what would be more 'me'?

And with DD2, my entire family including my hubby have decided to say her name as they chose not as I wanted and I felt I had to fall in line with their pronunciation. For any about to be mums - my advice is to be as clear as you can before the birth on the names you like and stick to your guns when bubs is born - and before the SERIOUS hormones kick in!

at some of these!

There was silence when we said our dds perfectly ordinary name. Didn't find out until later that we should have called her Margaret as the first girl in each generation has been called that. How did I not know this? And would it have made any difference of course not

Checkout girl "isn't he lovely, what's his name?"
Me "Gabriel"
Checkout girl "Gary?"
Me "No, GABRIEL"
Checkout girl "Where on earth did they come up with that?"

I think she thought I was his granny or ancient childminder.

"Ah yes, like that little girl that went missing."

I actually want to change her name.

From my mum: "No, that's a Blackpool donkey name.' (Lucinda)

Luckily it was just me running through some ideas while I was still pregnant and the baby was a DS anyway.

a good - but self-confessed green-eyed (i.e. jealous!) - friend, couldn't quite be happy with our good news when our DS was born and her reaction to his name was, " I mean, for fuck's sake, you might as well have called him Apple!". the look i gave her triggered an instant withdrawal/apology and she is suitable doting these days!

I hated my name. I was named after my nan and never liked having a "granny" name.My brother was named after my Dad, but his name was such an awful name and I think he escaped lightly. But,when I was expecting DS and we were discussing names I made the mistake of saying that I didn't like the idea of naming babies after people as it felt like putting pressure on them from babyhood. My mum did not take kindly to this....

My DS was eventually called Wyn, which is a relatively unusual Welsh name,especially in Dublin where he was born. Most people misheard it as Wayne, which drove me up the wall, but my favourite was this exchange with a stranger while walking down the street:
Old Lady "Oh he's lovely. What's his name?"
Me "Wyn. It's a Welsh name. His Daddy's Welsh" (That just rolled off my tongue due to the amount of times I had to repeat it)
Old Lady "Oh well, never mind"

WTF?? I didn't know how to respond to that!

We called Ds1 a shortened version of a fairly popular name. A friend of ours used to do those wiggly finger inverted commas whenever she said his name or introduced him to someone else. For two years!!

DM simply said "But why?"

Erm, because we like it.

My stepmum seemed to think she was allowed to choose the middle name of my DD. She and my dad came to visit us in hospital and we had only chosen her first name, and wanted to have a few days to decide on the middle name(s). She sailed into the room saying "i've got a middle name for you - R Jemima!"

Nothing against Jemima, but it's meant to be my baby, love!

Thats not there objection thou, and this was raised before we got married.

I get the awkward pronouciation business (my name has been a pain) and trust me no full on gaelic, but quite frankly I am Irish, if I want an Orla or a Patrick and DH had no issues then thats that.

Have had no comments about my dd's name (which being Tess could have invited them I guess), but I did put my foot in it with SILs first dd.

All happily standing around the bed on the post natal ward, MIL pipes up with the usual 'well, what are you going to call her?' question and we all discuss names we like. I say the one I like and everyone goes quiet, MIL says I'll tell you later and it's brushed over - complete confusion on my part. Turns out SIL had been best friends in school with a girl who was abused by her father. She went on to have an awful life, with a lot of addiction and bad choices made then finally killed herself still quite young. Same name I'd suggested on what was meant to be the happiest day of SIL's life

She hasn't held it against me

at some of these!!

No one has really said anything nasty about DDs name. (Well, not to my face)

The only odd reaction was 'Oh, you named her after the character in Friends then?' Erm....No, we just liked the name alot!! (DD is Phoebe btw!)

MrsTwinks your in-laws have a point:

With Irish girl's names, the spelling gives no clue to the pronunciation.

And when your eventual DCs start school, you'll find most of the troublesome boys have Irish names: Callum, Connor, Kieran, Craig, Liam etc

all my children have pretty average names (DH is very boring when it comes to agreeing names)
If I had my way I would have Aubrey or Aubrianna because Aubrey has been the name or middle name of all my grandfathers on one side of my family (its my dads middle name too)for at least 6 generations that i have discovered on my family tree so far!

but I think MIL would actualy break down in tears esepcially at aubrianna. DH woud NEVER agree to it! DC5 due next year maybe i should start working on it now.