Has anything ruined your DC's name?...

farmerswifey - my mum did that too. We only mentioned it in passing but every time I hear the name now I can hear her trilling it.

We chose a name that we thought wasn't very popular. When ds was about 8 months old, a restaurant opened in our high st called the same name.

Two things have upset me but I wouldn't say ruined. One was a fellow mumsnetter labelling it as chavvy (not in a thread I was on, it was suggested for an op who was snobby about IT!) and the other a disgraced politician (hopefully soon to be forgotten by the wider public consciousness). These things made me cry at the time but in the end DS's name means him, if you see what I mean, so i still totally love it and think it suits him!

My dd Grace is the least graceful child would will ever meet!

If James' are naughty, they are also clever and good looking.

I told my Mother we were going to name DD1 Isobel - "Is a bell necessary on a bicycle" she chirped. After that I couldn't hear the name without hearing my mothers tag-line.

The same year DS was born, an American with the same, very unusual in the UK, name became a mass murderer :(

We also have an Annabel

Is James a name associated with naughty children then?

My DSs name appears on the list of naughty children that teachers are suposed to make judgements about before they join their class. I know this isn't true at primary but he goes to secondary next year. What if they do then? He is well behaved and motivated but would also like to be called James!

Only choosing an unpopular name, which became really popular really quickly.

DS is the oldest person we know with his name, but when we were on holiday in the summer, the beach was full of little boys with his name.

Still love the name, though.

DH was very careful about not choosing a name which had been ruined in some way - although DD does have a name mentioned in an obscure song by an 90's band...the only person who picked up on it was DH's friend, who's into the same band.

I know a little Isis as well! I think she's about 5. I have wondered how her parents feel about the name now...very unfortunate.

Wonc Preston would make me think of Chantelle Houghton's ex husband, but then maybe I read too many celebrity magazines. I think the name shot up in popularity after he became famous (although he's now slunk back into obscurity).

I've been planning to name my first daughter Isis since I was a teenager but I'm not sure it will ever be usable again now. :(

A very irritating, attention seeking celeb named her daughter the same as my DD. The name was very unusual. Now it is top 10, amd I think it will date horribly. I still love it, but I worry it will become pretty naff amd old hat in a few years

We have a little Rhidian. About six months after he was born, there was that guy Rhydian on X-Factor and for about two years everyone assumed that was why we'd chosen the name. We have never watched X-Factor in our lives - we just wanted a nice, unusual Welsh name that english DH and his family could pronounce. Very annoying!

We liked Isis as a middle name if we had a girl a few years ago. We had a boy. Won't use it now.

I loved Phoenix too, but Scary Spice used it, so I wrote it off.

Our DS2 has a fairly uncommon name, and when we chose it, had only known one person of that name, an American DH once flatshared with.

After he was born, MIL was speaking to someone she knows, told them DS' name and they told her that their daughter was called the name! I was gutted. Now they are both at the same school but about 4/5 years between them. Have since heard of it used as a girl's name but i think it is predominantly a boys name.

When I was at school I knew a Roxanne. Pretty unusual - I'd only ever met the one. Then The Police brought out their song about Roxanne... the prostitute.

Best one ever though (maybe you have to be a certain age? I don't know how popular it stayed with younger people) was I vaguely knew (brother of a friend) a lad who was called Adrian Mole, and would have been in his teens when Sue Townsend Book 'Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 and 3/4' came out. I did feel very sorry for him - hardly predictable from his parents pov though!

This is why it doesn't bother me when looking at names if they already have brand or tv show associations, because there is no guarantee a brand isn't going to use the name at some point.

I have a Rory. I still adore his name and it really suits him - I wouldn't choose anything else as I'm perfectly happy with it. But...

When we chose it, we patted ourselves on the back - it's classic without being Old Man Name Twee, it was nicely outside the top 100 so not popular, but not a weird made up name either. Oh, we had cracked this naming business, we thought. Then when he was about a week or two old, we turned on the TV to watch the new series of Doctor Who...and the character of Rory was introduced. Cue big surge in popularity for the name and everyone saying "oh, is he named after Rory in Doctor Who?" NO HE IS EFFING WELL NOT.

MN tried their hardest to ruin the name, by insisting that no-one at her Welsh-medium primary school or in her Welsh family would be able to pronounce her Welsh name (but using an English nickname would be ridiculous because you can't control nicknames dontcha know)... oh and that everyone would call her Ceiling.

Not happened so far

Names do go in and out of fashion.

Both my DC are in their 30s. I gave them names which were not widely used at the time, but now their names regularly feature in the top 10 year after year......

Orla fucking Kiely. No I didn't name DD after some women who puts 70s leaves on everything.
When I was in horrendous 3 day slow labour , the midwife asked if it was after Ola Jordan from Strictly . Cue name panic fuelled by gas and air !

We used my maiden name as DS1's middle name. It was obviously a surname used as a middle name. Since then it's started to be used as a girl's first name and it's been described on MN as a chavvy girls' first name. Meh.

We named our son Rex in August 2012. In February 2013 Fearne Cotton named her son Rex as well. The following day someone asked me if we had copied Fearne. Yes, my 6 month old was named after a one day old.....

For the following month all I heard was 'Oh, like Fearne Cotton's baby?'

It hasn't ruined the name at all but that annoyed me a tad!