People's (not good) opinions on my baby name

Ada is lovely. It was on my list with lots of older fashioned names. My MIL said several times "you can't call your baby xxxx". Eventually I told her that I didn't care if she or anyone else liked the name but could she please stop asking me to not call the baby a specific thing. Her response? She said "I'm allowed to not like the name". I said yes. That's fine but very different from asking us to not name it something we like.

I went off all names myself but came around and named the baby the name she did not like. She even came to the hospital and when names weren't even mentioned the first thing she said again to OH was "don't call the baby xxxx". If I'd known that I wouldn't have let her in to visit.

My partner brought it up the other day and she denied ever saying it. Nuts.

So go with it and eventually they won't be able to have an opinion because that will just be her name.

My MiL was more concerned with what other people would think rather than disliking the name herself. She just thought other people wouldn't like it.

I knew a little girl called Ada. She was such a lovely child. It's not to my taste, but not a bad name by any means.

We didn't tell anyone our top 3 for either sex when pregnant with DD. MIL still managed to ruin our favourite boys name! She works in schools and just burst out with "whatever you do don't call it . All boys called are little shits". She guessed what she'd done by our stoney silence.
13 weeks with DC2 and no one has asked us about names yet.

I love Ada. It doesn't go with our surname or I would have had it on my list. If anyone says anything negative just reply: "each to their own. For example, I've always felt sorry for you having to live with your name.... it must be so hard for you...." (slow head shake)

Don't listen to me. I'm petty. although as a pregnant lady you can get away with a lot!

Ada is lovely. Are you pronouncing it as Aid-er or Adder? Because if it's the latter I could maybe understand people reacting curiously. I have a friend who called her DD Ada (pronounced Adder) and her DD is sick of correcting people who pronounce it the conventional way.

We have Henry too and keep getting, 'Very posh!' In a slightly smug, mocking way Tossers!

People are incredibly rude, even after a baby is born. We named our son Henry, and when introducing him to people we had three separate occasions of people telling us they prefered Harry and we should of gone with that, not Henry.

My dad even refused to call him Henry and kept calling him Harry as he thought it was 'much better'. I had to ask him to stop as I found it rude, but even two years later he will still call him Harry.

FWIW, Ada is a beautiful name that I don't hear very often.

What is wrong with people?!! Nothing wrong with Ada. It is charming and a classic! Please don't be put off by other people's opinions; you will never please everyone. We have a three week old and didn't tell anyone our name. Very glad now as my parents don't like it much and would have openly opposed it when I was pregnant. Good job he is not their baby huh?!! See Love his name and he suits it. Stick to your guns (but quietly!), just announce your babies name when they arrive x

Your baby - your choice

I ❤ Ada

Good I was expecting another Teddie-Blue thread!!

Ada is lovely

Uricon has a good point, it may be more to do with the age of the people who hate Ada rather than the name itself.

I remember when I was pregnant with DS1, my PILs being horrified at the mention of Isabella because it was so very, very old fashioned. IIRC, Isabella was one of the top 10 baby names the year DS1 was born.

My auntie was similarly shocked at a friend giving her newborn son the terribly rare and unusual name of Jack at roundabout the same time. Jack had been the one of the most popular boys names in England and Wales for ooh, at least a decade at this point.

My MIL was pregnant with my husband (back in the day) athe the same time as her SIL. SIL was about 2 weeks further on in her pregnancy. Together they had discussed names. MIL had said she had the names Martin and Anne.

Fast forward to the birth of SIL baby & she gave birth to a little boy called Martin!!!!!!!!! Which gave my MIL 2 weeks to choose a new name!!! Luckily she went 2 weeks over so had 4 weeks to choose a name.

So this has taught me NEVER to discuss your chosen names with ANYONE!

I'm dying to know...Ada or Aiden?

i think baby names do seem to be on a cycle and the names of 1890-1910ish (including Ada, which there is nothing wrong with as a name) are currently back 'in' (as an example, noone in the 1970s/80s would have dreamt of calling their child 'Alfie' as it was 'an old mans name'.... 20 odd years later it was ubiquitous)

Possibly some of the detractors of Ada have this in mind

I've always loved Ada.

Well? Are you team pink or team blue?

When pregnant with DC1 9 years ago, Ada and Elsie were names that were on our long list for special/family reasons.

Couldn't bring myself to use either as they felt like "old lady" names to us then. But were special to us. (A friend did have an Ada around that time anyway so we probably wouldn't have gone for that if it came to the crunch.)

Now: Really wish we had used one or both as I've heard them for little girls a few times and felt pangs.

Lovely name. Times have changed.

Ada was my girls name for dc3 but had a boy. I think it is becoming more popular (know one aged 5) and it is in style of a lot of other popular names (Ava, Edie) so don't think people would bat an eyelid.

Ada is bloody lovely!

And I also really like, and know, an Ada.

Ada is lovely!

I really like Ada OP