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

We were thinking of naming DD1 Flora after DH's much-loved and recently deceased granny. Made the mistake of sharing our thoughts with a leery male friend who immediately raised one eyebrow and said "easily spreadable then?". That's my unborn daughter you LOON!

My MIL seems to be ok with my kids' names. But she has made no secret of the fact that she dislikes my nephew's (perfectly normal) name. Initially she wouldn't call him by his name but by a diminutive. My SIL went ballistic as "it wasn't his name", but my MIL kept at it. She started telling other people that his name was the diminutive - my SIL only found out when a relative addressed a card to the baby using the wrong name because my MIL had told her that's what his name was. Nowadays she addresses the baby by his full name (his second name is after my late FIL), and just a couple of weeks ago made some kind of snide comment to us about how she "would prefer" that he was known as something else. I usually keep quiet when it comes to her tiffs with my SIL but I couldn't help snapping that she wasn't the parent, what he's known as is not about her preference. I think it's incredibly rude of her to try and control what the baby is called against the parents' wishes. It's not like it's some cute nickname that has just evolved, it's a deliberate attempt to give him a name she prefers.

the reaction my mum got wad best, calling out to me in sainsburys when I was a kid she got confronted by an old guy who wanted to know why she was so crule as to name her kid after a potato (aparently theres a variety with my name . Oh and the registra decided she didnt like my parents spelling of my middle name and made up her own. Was meant to be after my nan but somehow no, as discovered when my passport and birth cert didnt match.

ok no DC's here (yet) but i've already been told no irish names by in laws. Yeah like im listening to them!

Well our boys have very Welsh names. Around where we live, mostly no problem as it is rural welsh speaking Wales. However, my Nan, on hearing of DS3 name said - does he have a middle one? I laughed. I saw a clip of my other gran the other day opening her birthday pressie and card from us - when she got to the youngest he become ' the baby'!!! The names are Rhodri Joseph, Heddwyn Michael and Brychan Samuel. Did I mention I am originally from Oz?

Ah just read back,another Delilah! I call her Dilly.

Oh yes I forgot the midwife when asking what name she should write on the form when we replied Juno she said "are you sure, maybe I should just leave it blank for now!"

On telling my mother DS was called Fergus "No, I don't like it. Everyone will call him fungus"

She and my step father also hummed "Waltzing Matilda" when she came to visit her granddaughter for the first time. She was apoplectic when I told her that dd's middle name was Scout. "Scout ? Scout?? What ? As in Boy Scout ?? Why ?"

Dr said at my post natal check,"what is her name?" me "Delilah" Dr " oh my god she'll love you" sarcastically.Cow.

The last words my friends granny's spoke before she died were "how could you have called her Elsie".

I have been told my dd's name sounds like a boat. People I know IRL are too polite but I remember telling some other new mothers in hospital the name to be met with silence. Which was pretty damning but their children were called super conventional names like James so just different tastes I guess.

MIL re DD (on the materity ward so didn't waste time) "That sounds like something from the back streets of Belfast".

(Isabella, Bella for short).

(And to dh on arrival of first grandchild, "Now you have someone more important in your life than me."

Our DD is called Juno Bella (Bella being her middle name!) and my DHs Gran left a message on our answerphone congratulating us on her birth, but on her name..."Well that's your affair!"
And a month before our Juno was born my SILs friend called her DD Juno Clementine and my MIL was saying how ridiculous a name it was until she tried to gobble her words back up as she saw the look between me and DH! Needless to say she 'loves' it now Juno is just Juno!!!

Im quite conservative with my names but still my mum had issues with DD - Kate (officially) but really katie. Mum said how horrible, she will be called Keyhole Kate after some comic strip many years ago. She started singing k-k-k-katie. Ive never heard of keyhole kate. My DD loves it at the moment (shes 4) as she is convinced she is really Kate Middleton and she will marry a prince!
With DS we wanted his middle name to be David after FIL but MIL went beserk as she believes its bad luck to name someone after someone who is still alive and that they will die. We were only trying to be nice. However his first name is after my brother who hasnt died yet.

I live in Brighton and so many of my friends have kids with what I would consider odd names. It is hard keeping a straight face sometimes but to each their own.....

xP- "well, that's a good name if she wants to be a stripper"

fair dos, though- it's Delilah

Ive had nothing but lovely comments about dds name (apart from one wierd woman in greggs pulling a face but she works in greggs so i dont care!)

untill the other day the woman in the changing rooms in a shop said 'oh how miserable!' about her middle name (Raine). she has a point but dont say it like that! and to my face!

There was a long silence after telling my Mum DD was called Lottie, followed by 'think of all the horrible words that will remind people of...snotty, grotty, spotty and potty!! She then said well Charlotte would be a bit better but Dad piped up what, 'Charlotte the harlot?'!!!

Someone once said to me c'mom.......Claudia, it's a bit pretentious isn't it!

My b-i-l when we discussed names for dd-Oh not Lucy-loose elastic!Not Claire-chocolate eclair
We named her Joanna Sarah and my mum put a birth announcement in the paper calling her Sarah Joanna!it wasnt an accident she wanted dd to have Sarah as a first name.

My little girl is Beatrice Annabelle and my Gran thinks that the name is terribly old fashioned and insists on calling her Trixie-Belle as that's much more suitable in this current age :) which is reather irritating as that name makes me think of a yorkshire terrier with a little pink bow 'tween it's ears. Makes me shudder everytime I hear it. The rest of us all call her Bea.

I know 2 Sachas and both are men. I know someone who named their dd Sascha and did think it a bit odd to give her a boy's name.

Beth Annabel is lovely. I think your mum just meant that it doesn't matter whether or not she liked it, because that's what you like and have chosen. Think she just didn't put it very well.

My mother's response on hearing DD's name was 'well I shall call her Pip'.

Her name is Ophelia

DD2's name is Beth Annabel. When I phoned my mum to tell her, I made the mistake of asking her if she liked the name. I wasn't expecting her to turn round and say "well, I don't have much choice, do I?". I still don't know what is wrong with Beth Annabel.

Always, for all three, very politely, 'Is it a family name?'

I never pass comments on anyone's name after the last time!

Person who shall remain nameless - oh god, you never guess what she called him (insert highly amusing name)

ME - Oh thats not THAT bad could be worse could of called them (insert very unusual out there utterly mental name)

Person who shall remain nameless - Thats my son's name.

Me - Great. (go very red, talk very fast and oh is that the time )

It. Could. Only. Happen. To. Me.