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Cunning Plan

57 replies

KateTTC123 · 25/10/2018 17:02

Right, so my mil has been happily announcing that she doesn't like our choice of names; Angus and Scarlett. I'm pretty frustrated by it as she regularly tells the story of how her mil didn't like her choice of name and she didn't use it and has always been disappointed by that. So my mum suggested we throw her off the scent with some awful decoy names that we say we will be using, to the point where our actual names seem like a blessing. I'm thinking something very posh sounding like Bartholomew or Sebastian as she would really hate those. She thinks I'm posh so would probably believe them. Then, after using these for the entire pregnancy, a wee Angus or Scarlet would seem welcome! Any other suggestions for decoy names?...

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OhFlipMama · 25/10/2018 19:15

How about a shift and use Verruca, tell her you're a big fan of the character in Charlie and the chocolate factory. 

Theweasleytwins · 25/10/2018 19:12

When pregnant with my dt my family called them quentin and perdita

This time my Dsis said my lg was going to be called Soniqua (im guessing she meant after the walking dead lady)
I told my lovely grandparents that and they were very polite and said its a lovely name (it is but not for us)

FastWindow · 25/10/2018 19:03

I did the decoy. Tabitha and Jack. After my chosen name for my first was met with 'boys named a nickname don't run Fortune 500 companies' er... Steve? Bill?

AllStevesPals · 25/10/2018 19:00

Haha Crypto I actually met a baby Dave the other week Grin

CryptoFascist · 25/10/2018 18:57

Hercules
Arnold
Bertha
Mercury (for a boy or girl!)
Clive
Geoff
Dave (be firm with MIL that he will by no means be named David)
Elvira
Apple

YettaTessieMarmelstein · 25/10/2018 18:55

I met kids called Fennel and Basil once.
My mum’s cousin was called Lauderdale.

KateTTC123 · 25/10/2018 18:51

These are great suggestions folks!

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TheWoollybacksWife · 25/10/2018 18:49

Oh yes @ThanksItHasPockets Baldrick for a boy and Bob for a girl.

MushroomMushroom · 25/10/2018 18:44

@Peachbubble St John is an excellent suggestion! Especially if she would struggle with the pronunciation OP?

ThanksItHasPockets · 25/10/2018 18:42

I am REALLY disappointed that this thread isn’t about the excellent name Baldrick.

Shadow1234 · 25/10/2018 18:28

Quentin
Montague
Hector
Digby

Or just go with Romeo and Harper - tell her you like the Beckham influence! (Unless, of course, she would see that as a good thing!)

FekkoThePenguin · 25/10/2018 18:02

Or vice versa to be really naughty

Bubblysqueak · 25/10/2018 17:29

Lucifer for a boy and Bertha for a girl.

TheWoollybacksWife · 25/10/2018 17:26

I did this with my mum  to stop the constant barrage of well meaning suggestions with DC3 (she had already tried to interfere with naming my first two and also objected on the grounds that I chose 'posh' names)

Her overriding criteria was that they had to be saints names or religious names. I told her that our choices were either Elvis or Tiffany (apologies to anyone called either of those names). I could show her the entry for St. Elvis on the saints database and Tiffany is an old name meaning born at the Epiphany.

DS has a perfectly normal top 10 name and she was much relieved.

PawneeParksDept · 25/10/2018 17:26

Fabian
Barnaby

Araminta
Santa
Jocasta

PersisFord · 25/10/2018 17:25

CRACKING idea though.

PersisFord · 25/10/2018 17:24

Inigo
Artemis
St John
Delilah
Hortensia
Augustus

(I should admit that I love all of these names!)

NarcolepticOuchMouse · 25/10/2018 17:23

Hebe

FekkoThePenguin · 25/10/2018 17:23

Decoys were always my mums choice of persuasion. I use this at work when I want to get a project through.

We can have a) dancing elephants from the zoo to open the AGM (they are a bit messy though), b) ask everyone up on stage to sing the new company song that I've just penned, or c) get the CEO to suit up and say a few words...

Aprilislonggone · 25/10/2018 17:22

We let ds 6 tell everyone the baby was Oleg after the meerkat on the ads!!
They believed him!

Peachbubble · 25/10/2018 17:22

St John
Algernon
Digby
Tarquin

Augusta
Tatiana
Juniper
Araminta

DC2018 · 25/10/2018 17:19

Persephone... I think it's a bit awful name! It makes me cringe when it's suggested on here.

iggleypiggly · 25/10/2018 17:18

Mungo... I just laughed out loud Smile

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 25/10/2018 17:18

(Like Otto but your MIL might freak out).

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 25/10/2018 17:17

Otto and Fanny.

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