Parents of babies with unusual names...

I know a gorgeous 8 year old Effie and that is her complete name not a shortened form. I can’t think of a ‘long’ name with Effie for short...Euphemia??

I would love to share with you the only name that I have heard a dc called that has made me bite the inside of my mouth really hard it nearly bled.......
My ds was in hospital with croup over 20 years ago now.
The little girl in the next room - all had big paned windows for the nurses to check on them - I smiled at the dm as I looked at her as she was a stunning girl about 18 months, all frills and ribbons, not pj's like most.
The dm came outside as we weren't allowed in other rooms obviously.
I commented on how lovely her dd was.

Yes Gloria- Victoria was indeed a beauty.

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Of course, I was stuck on trying to think of names beginning with E!

Lovely name OP, ignore the stupid sniggering woman!

I met a baby with a name I may have raised an eyebrow about. Then a few weeks later the mother went out of her way to make friends with me, invite me to everything and pretty much handed me a friendship group I’ve kept for 8 years, held my hand through my divorce and was 100% there for me. I will never judge a baby name ever again

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Funnily enough I think it can be short for Josephine! I had it on my list for dc2, but think we're having a boy.

My DD has an Irish name. She has a common Irish name which is not common here in England. People generally persistently try to pronounce it how they think it should be pronounced based on an English phonetic interpretation of the spelling.

I have a similar issue with my own name here!

What is her Birth certificate name OP? Excuse my ignorance, Effie is really pretty but I don’t know what it’s short for

Effie is really sweet, OP and not silly at all, just ignore the cow.
I've read varying opinions of my DS's name on here and I'm pretty sure some people don't like it irl but that's their problem.
If we all liked the same things, the world would be very boring.

I ve had a few people ask if i named dd after where she was concieved.

I ve had many sniggers about her name in the past although as she is getting older (5years old) the sniggers are getting less frequent.

She went to a party last week with a twat of a childrens entertainer and i knew straightaway he would take the piss out of her name and i was right! Luckily she didnt know what the hell he was on about and nobody laughed

I've never had someone laugh but my ex's uncle did suggest my some was a 'poor little bleeder' to have been saddled with the name and asked me what he'd done wrong to warrant it ....... but since the uncle had chosen to name his own son Wayne I wasn't particularly bothered about his opinion

Nope. People will ask for clarification/mispronounce occasionally but never had anyone laugh. Names are not funny in any way though, just v unusual.

When I told my sister what we'd named my son she was horrified and asked me if I loved him!

Effie's lovely! Silly woman.

Ooh really want to hear ur name ! I wdnt worry about tht mean cow! My kids have interesting names and fairly wild nicknames , I get a few eye widens !
If u love the name, bollocks to anyone else ;)

Oddly, it hasn't happened to DS1 who has a traditional, but very unusual name (fewer than 10 each year), but it has happened with DS2 who has a name which hovers around the top 100 (and is also a traditional name). It was a schoolgirl who sniggered, but still.

After repeating DS's name a couple of times to this woman I'd never met before, she said "Well I'll just call him [long, more accepted version of his name]"... I was . Of course, her son was called Henry.

I just thought, 'well I doubt I'll ever speak to you again so that's irrelevant' I can't remember what I did, probably just this face

(Nothing wrong with Henry, it's DS's middle name, but they are ten-a-penny round here.)

Dd3 has the nickname of a traditional name even on her birth certificate. I toyed with the idea and sort of wish I had used the long version now but dd doesnt like it, she likes her shortened version though so I guess I made the right choice as she would be called the longer version now and again through school. I wouldn't worry about it you can't please everyone, some people have names I would never use as I don't like them but they probably hate my kids names. It's just rude though to laugh

I can’t imagine anyone laughing like that, how bloody rude!

I now have an irrational need to know what her name is

But if BC name is ‘normal’ then there’s really no issue, as you said when she’s older she can always go by her full name if she wants. But I’m sure you’re raising a confident lil girl who won’t care about twats others opinions on her name!

Everybody likes different names and nobody likes EVERY name, so we have all/all will meet people/children with names we don't like much at times in our lives. That's totally normal. Laughing or making rude comments about it is obviously not acceptable. She's the one with the problem, not you.

Yes. I just ignore it.

I went to a comedy show where the comedian asked a boy his name. It was a bit odd - can't remember what. He then asked the brother, who also had an unusual name. He then asked the dad, who was called something like John. He then spent 5 minutes taking the piss about these two boys names. Very unpleasant to watch.

It happened to my mum when I was a baby (and happens to me when people hear my full name) but I HATE my name as well so don't really blame anyone! Sorry tho that's not really much help! (For context my name is a drug reference)