Unpleasant comments you have received when revealing baby name

Oh people can be so rude can't they?!
I sent a text with picture, 'you have another grandson, blah blah, weight etc' to my DM, she replied 'he looks like a Louis' !!!!!
Most of the family hate DS2's middle name, but if he doesn't like it, he can drop it I figure.

I'm pregnant with DC2.

DS's name has 4 letters and because of that my dad seems to think that the next child, irrespective of gender, should also have a 4 letter name

Don't know where on earth get this from, as his own 3 children all have names of varying lengths!

MIL took my list of possible baby names and stuck a black line through those she didn't like.

Upon us choosing a name (that she didn't like) she insisted on calling DD by another, totally unrelated, name. Still does on occasion.

I wanted to call my son Dominic, but my Dad spent 4 weeks calling him Domino so I gave up - I know he would never have dropped it and it wasn't worth subjecting my son to it.

My mum's reaction to DS1's name "How pretentious" Within two weeks of being born "Ooh, the girls at the nail bar think he's got a film star's name".

Alice is a lovely name.

I was met with "Are you planning on dying?" when we told my SIL that we were calling dd2 Annie.
My mother hates dd1's name, Nicky. She thought it was Nikki at first and grumbled about reality TV shows for weeks. When we realised and corrected her, she was stunned and very apologetic - "I'm so so sorry! I thought that you were having a boy!" - completely sincerely. She called me Laurence, which is hardly a feminine name!

And when we said that we were giving them all my surname as their second middle name, she was horrified. My middle name is Smith - again, a bloody surname! People can be so hypocritical!

I would be furious if someone refused to use the name I had given my child. Seriously, I'd be gnawing kneecaps.

My mother didn't like DS2's name. When I told her what we were going to call him, she said 'Well, I don't like that'. I said 'Well, I don't care' . She got over it.

Just to add, DS is now almost 10 months old and I nearly always get people saying what a brilliant name it is and how much it suits him. Happened quite a few times in front of my in-laws and I smile very smugly .

My DS is called Wilfred, which we shorten to Wilf. My FIL (although MIL and SIL were also bad) were all quite off as an old bloke in their village who died on the day our DS was born was called Wilf. FIL turned up at the hospital with a poem he's penned, printed and framed addressed to Freddie.

Too long passed with them refusing to call him Wilf, plumping for Freddie - even my own mother said she preferred Freddie. My SIL stupidly told me that she'd overheard her mother telling someone at the gym that she was embarrassed of his name . That really upset me.

FIL's finest moment was asking when DS was a week old if we were going to just put Frederick on his birth certificate if we were going to call him Freddie. That's when Iwentfuckingmental.

DH had a word and after an apology, no-one aside from FIL has called him Freddie since. Occassionlly he does now call Wilf Freddie and DH and I look at one another and say "who's Freddie?".

Alice Elizabeth is a beautiful name - really feminine IMO.

When a friend of mine told her in-laws they were going to call DD1 Keziah, MIL and SIL announced that actually they'd been talking about names and both really liked 'Olivia', so they were going to call her that instead. Um, what?

I had a colleague arguing with me that I was naming my daughter a boy's name. He kept on and on about it being for a boy and I'm not allowed to call her that. Her name's Nicole.

DD1 - Charlotte - 'oh well, you can call her Lottie, I suppose'. 'You'll regret calling her that when she has to learn how to spell it'

DD2 - Rosie - 'Couldn't you give her a proper name? An English, proper name?'

DD3 - Eloise - 'Ellie Louise? No? Ella Louise? El-o-ise. Well, no-one will get that'

All from the inlaws, of course....

from my sister re: DS - 'that's a very weak name, I don't like it, it's too common, and you can't use the shortened version of it, it's too gay'

my father also made the 'too gay' comment.

parents and sister refuse to use the shortened version of his name too, as it's too 'tacky and common' to use nicknames.

Other sister is known by a shortened version of her name though...

And the name in question (DS's)? Oliver.

Can't WAIT to hear the reactions to DC2's name! (mum and grandma have already been hassling me about what middle name we'll be using, which is fun for all concerned...)

btw, DS was going to be Alice, I think it's a lovely name :) I know 1 Alice Elizabeth and 1 Elizabeth Alice (both under 2) and both are beautiful wee girls with lovely names!

My mum said while holding day old DS1, 'James is a nice name'. 'Yes', said DH calmly on walking into the room 'but his name is x'.

My MIL couldn't bring herself to tell my sister in law DD1's name. Poor woman had to ring up and offer her congratulations and ask 'Er, what have you called her? MIL didn't tell me'. I was confused knowing that the message - name, weight, hair, etc. had been passed on until I realised she just couldn't say the name aloud and then I was .

I think everyone has settled down now.

My sister has the middle name Doris after both our grandmothers who happened to have the same name.

When my Dad's mum got told my sisters name she said got in a huff and said 'Oh, I See, you've named her after her other grandmother have you'

My dad calmly pointed out that it was her name too which she eventually had to concede was a fair point.

I have 2 sons (and one daughter). DS1 is Gabriel and I've lost count of the number of people who've told me he'll get called 'gay' and be picked on. DS2 is Robin Alexander. My father on hearing this said 'we thought it was such a shame you couldn't have those names the other way round, but I suppose that would be worse with his initials'...(our surname begins with an S)

Areyou - mothers... So what was the boy's name your mum liked?

Mother, about 12 hours after the birth of DD. Face like a sour lemon "Well, I suppose you can't choose what they call your Grandchildren can you".

What made it laughable is that me and my siblings each have the most boring and most popular names for the year we were born.

Woman from playgroup "oh, so have you made that name up then?".

My mum said "It's very Notting Hill," when she heard dd2's name. Told her what the boy's name would have been (we didn't know the sex) and she sighed and said: "What a shame, I really like that." (She then asked me if I was disappointed to have two dds)

"You're not going to call him that silly Irish name are you?"
"Oh, so is he a girl then?"
"Oh... ok"
"Oh right, so did you make that one up?"
"What made you pick that?!"

When everyone leaves a small, but very telling, pause before saying 'ooh, what an unusual name.

Queenkong

Some people

FiL kept banging on about DS's name being a good Hebrew name. He was chuffed as he has recently discovered his Jewish 'roots' ("that's why I talk with my hands so much, because I'm Jewish" ). Fine, whatever. But he kept going on about that being the reason we named DS. After saying it for the umpteenth time to anyone who would listen, I snapped and said "we just liked the name, we didn't choose it because of your Jewish heritage." He then called me an anti-Semite.

We don't see him very often.

"It's like you want her to be bullied" random old man who asked me DD's name in the street.

Most people have been positive though