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

CitizenBloom no when we were discussing baby names when I was pregnant. They hated my choices for DS too! Even the sonographer told me I couldn't call my son that, but I didn't get any of my choices when he was born anyway. I think I know quite a lot of frank and honest people lol

Karen, Ada is lovely, Adam for a boy, just tell 'em to do one 😉

Loads of people told me they don't like DDs name.

You mean, after she was born and you had actually named her, rather than 'Oh, we're vaguely thinking about X if it's a girl'? Do you know a lot of rude people? It strikes me as fairly obnoxious to tell a new parent you don't like the name they've given their newborn!

Loads of people told me they don't like DDs name. I don't care and I can only remember who one of them was now and I really dislike their name choices for their children.

My one year old daughter is named Andie. I got a world of shit for naming her that an some relatives point blank refuse to call her it. People are strange. Ada is lovely.

It doesn't matter what name you give a baby, people will have their opinions and some will be unnecessarily rude about it. It has nothing to do with them. My advice is to say you are waiting until s/he is born to see what name suits and then introduce your baby with the name you have chosen and leave it at that.

Rookie mistake. Never ever tell anyone in advance, they think it means you want an opinion.

Once you present a baby with that name all but the most ill mannered will keep their mouths shut.

I like Ada - lovely choice

Ada is one of my top girls names! Love it! But again kept names from everyone, especially our boys name as we know grandmas in particular will hate it.

It's a beautiful name! People are so rude. And everyone seems to ask which makes it so tricky - you either have to lie or be mysterious. We had the same and it's made me question our choices, but names are always going to divide opinion, so like everyone says, presenting the baby fully named sounds like a good plan

It's a lot easier for people to say "I hate the name Ada" when it's presented as a concept than if you say "this is my baby, her name is Ada." as a fait accompli. Just stop telling people, and those you've already told, if they say 'you can't call her that' you just smile sweetly and say 'yes, actually I can.'

Unless I really admire and respect someone their opinion on what I do does not matter a jot to me. As for people's taste in names, clothes, decor etc etc it's so personal that we should learn to trust our own instincts. One woman's Jack Daniels (an actual boys name) is another woman's Hector (surely the best boys name ever, if you ask me).

My great gran names was Ada Agnes. It's a lovely name.

I worked with someone who told everyone that the baby was going to be called "Horatio" or "Moby Dick". I can't remember the exact names he used. Everyone was horrified.

When the baby arrived it was called Jack or Ben (again can't remember what exactly). But is took the pressure off and to be honest he enjoyed the drama.

I agree. Keep very quiet if people ask. People will have the decency to just wince behind your back once the baby's here!

I told no-one our names. For my dd the only comment I got was that it was 'boring' and they were surprised because I'm quite 'arty'. Er....ok.

When I was pg with ds (didn't know the sex) my BIL commented on all the "awful names people were giving their sons these days". Little did he know he'd mentioned our chosen boys name amoungst others (a fairly traditional and common name so have no idea why he mentioned it). I kept completely quiet. I think he must have forgotten his comments when we announced the name - or at least he kept quiet!

Ada is lovely by the way.

Definitely agree, don't tell people the name until after the baby's born.

You never tell people names until after baby is born! Then they won't share their opinions so much. Mind I really like the name Ada, it's very very close to my own name (outing myself haha).

As others have said, don't tell anybody any names you like.
My mum asked what names we had come up with when we found out DC2 is a boy. I showed her the list we had made, and she turned her nose up at all of them. She was most disappointed that they were all English names and only one was Polish.
Turns out we've chosen his name, it wasn't on the list I showed her, and when she asks if we've decided on a name, I say "not yet, we are still thinking." I know she will hate the name we've chosen, but I will not tell her until he is born. Once he is named, that's that. She had her chance to name her babies 20-odd years ago!!

P.S. I think Ada is a lovely name for a little girl!

Ada is lovely, but why on earth are you telling people? They clearly implicitly think you are asking opinions or seeking approval by telling them the name, The first anyone other than DH knew of our son's name was when we sent around a text saying that little X had been born at 10.30 am weighing eight pounds!

Good name, though. But just stop talking about it. In your circles, it clearly invites rude behaviour.

It's not to my taste but there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. I thought it was going to be one of the ridiculous ones you only really hear on here.

Ada is such a cool name, do not let anyone tell you otherwise.

Ada is delightful.