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Names that are too cutesy/weird for anyone living in the real world

61 replies

littlemyyy · 23/03/2020 17:33

I love love love babyish and cute girl names like:

  • Sissy
  • Kitty
  • Bunny

but the incredible teasing of being a child with a name like that, in your typical school, must be awful. What are names you know you could never use?

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FizzingWhizzbee123 · 17/04/2020 11:31

I like

Tansy
Posey
Tassy
Dilly
Teasel

Would never actually use them though! Maybe for a pet....

MikeUniformMike · 26/03/2020 13:59

Loveday is a name that is used in Cornwall. Lowdy is supposed to be a form of it.

Scruffyoak · 26/03/2020 13:49

Pansy
Juniper
Tallulah

ellanwood · 26/03/2020 13:44

@Ohwhatbliss - that's quite out there. But I do secretly love it.

Ohwhatbliss · 26/03/2020 06:55

@ellanwood My son goes to school with a Wolfie. Not short for anything, just Wolfie Smile

ellanwood · 26/03/2020 06:38

@Ritascornershop - I'm not sure. She was an actress, so maybe she changed it to stand out.

123Dancewithme · 26/03/2020 00:50

I know a toddler called Peach

mynameiswah · 25/03/2020 23:11

Zooey
Princess
Blossom

Ritascornershop · 25/03/2020 22:53

@ellanwood - was that her real name though? I know the French don’t have to stick to saints’ names anymore, but they can’t use names which might be detrimental to the child, and I’d have thought “Framboise” might be a step too far.

CastleSalem · 25/03/2020 22:16

‘Cutesy’ is culturally relative, too, to an extent — I know a ferociously driven, rather frightening Pinky, which I gather is a standard enough Hindi name.

FeedMeSantiago · 25/03/2020 21:29

My parents used to know a couple whose daughter was named Smile. She had a popular classic name for her middle name. Think Smile Sophie. Her parents told my Mum the middle name was in case she sued them when she grew up!

I also know a family who re-used the same first name as a middle name - their children were Katie Katie, Lucy Lucy and Tommy Tommy*.

*names changed, but you get the idea.

I'm not a big fan of Maisie, Betsy etc. Elisabeth known as Betsy is different as she can be Elisabeth, Liz, Eliza, Lisa, Libby, Beth etc. when older.

ellanwood · 25/03/2020 19:41

@Ritascornershop - I knew a French woman called Framboise (raspberry). She was super-cool.

ellanwood · 25/03/2020 19:39

@Standrewsschool
Wulfric is ultra cool.

I made the mistake of telling DS that was a name I loved for him but didn't have the guts to give him. He was gutted and loves it and has told me more than once he's changing his name when he leaves home! Grin

Ritascornershop · 25/03/2020 02:44

Daisy and Juniper don’t seem cutesy to me. Tinkerbell is a step too far and Cupcake is just weird. Ditto Sailor, Skipper - I do not get the appeal. I do love Plum, the sound of it, but raspberry is a no from me (partly because “blowing a raspberry” is not great, innuendo-wise and because it’s not very elegant and germy).

TorchesTorches · 25/03/2020 02:39

My MP is Tulip! I dont think of it as cutesy!

I think of names like Ella, Amy, Mia as cutesy, but this is just a matter of taste.

Standrewsschool · 25/03/2020 02:26

Met a Tulip once, a tv correspondent.

Wulfric is ultra cool.

CastleSalem · 25/03/2020 02:06

@OhTheRoses, the (extremely posh) Plum I know is Mirabelle on her birth certificate (ie. a plum variety), but known as Plum to the family.

Honestly, I’d prefer half the names mentioned over the ploddingly inevitable Oliver, Olivia, Sophie etc.

I met a very impressive adult Rivendell the other day.

HiDuggee · 24/03/2020 20:01

What's wrong with Daisy ? I like Poppy too. And love love love Tabby, short for Tabitha

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SallyWD · 24/03/2020 19:43

I'm really sorry if I offend anyone but I find Betsy far too cutesy. Also Maisy.

Micah · 24/03/2020 19:41

That's you though @Awwlookatmybabyspider*.
Mean kids and bullies will not hold back*

Ime kids don’t bat an eyelid.

It’s when they go home, talk about their friend dotty, the adults take the piss, and the child carries that back into school.

If adults held their tongues there wouldn’t be half as much bullying.

HowIrresponsible · 24/03/2020 19:36

Teddy

BetelgeuseIsOrionsArmpit · 24/03/2020 19:36

A family member named their DD Misty. To me that sounds like a name for a pet.
I did have a Great Aunt Fanny, which my Dbro and I thought was hilarious

OhTheRoses · 24/03/2020 18:57

Plum. I have never fully recovered from hearing a child called that in the park.

Have never been a Flora fan but oddly I like Poppy.

AvonBarksdale99 · 24/03/2020 18:49

I think Daisy is fine

I love the name Glisten Grin