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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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user3274826 · 24/03/2020 18:45

I've met a Topsy, Tallulah, Raspberry, Dolly, Mimi and Tiggy. I really love Tiggy. The others are not for me but I rather prefer them to samey trendy names.

TotesGodsWill · 24/03/2020 18:36

Buddy
Sonny
Junior
Teddy (As a stand alone name)

Pixie
Tinkerbell
Blossom
Honey

I do quite like Kitty as a nickname for Catherine but not on its own

ICouldHaveDancedAllNight · 24/03/2020 11:56

@DoctorBambino BLOUSEY!! Yes!

PNomintrude · 24/03/2020 11:34

Lettice. I love it, but just couldn't do that to a child.

DoctorBambino · 24/03/2020 11:33

Blossom, Blousey (as in Brown... Bugsy Malone), Alfalfa

Wheresthebiffer2 · 24/03/2020 10:54

Teddy - I like it but could never use it.

Whydoesit · 24/03/2020 10:48

@Allthebears I know but she’s not even that famous is she? We know who she is but she’s hardly going to be someone our kids know about. Also I imagine she’s fairly wealthy but not rich enough a la Beckhams for her children never to worry about working which is often the justification for having a weird name.
Also like you though I can’t help but find the name quite cute! I like Skipper, Sailor and Scout but would never use them.

Whydoesit · 24/03/2020 10:45

Oh I love the name Kitty!

It would absolutely be a nickname for Catherine for me. A fantastic name to have.

Allthebears · 24/03/2020 10:45

Nicole Appleton has just named her daughter Skipper. I'm torn between thinking it's ridiculous and secretly really liking it! (childhood Barbie fan!). Think only a celeb child could get away with it though irl.

TheWitchCirce · 24/03/2020 10:39

Cupcake Brown is an absolutely extraordinary woman, a lawyer and a writer.

ellanwood · 24/03/2020 10:23

I knew a Loveday. Don't know if she was teased but her brother in my class was bullied really badly by the other boys because of her name.

I love the Anglo-Saxon name Wulfric which would be Wolfie for short but you just couldn't.

Kitkatkatnap · 24/03/2020 10:18

I met a toddler called Twinkle once. She was Twinkle Caroline something double barreled and posh sounding. Twinkle as a precocious toddler? Adorable! Dr Twinkle the 40 year-old neurosurgeon? Not so much!

BruceAndNosh · 24/03/2020 10:13

Buttercup

ICouldHaveDancedAllNight · 24/03/2020 10:10

I've always been a bit swoony about the name Loveday, but can you imagine the hell that poor girl would go through?

Anyone know a Loveday?

userabcname · 24/03/2020 10:07

I like the names Honey and Bliss (I think I got them from watching Toddlers and Tiaras!) but would never use them. I have used them to name Sims characters though!

GinUnicorn · 24/03/2020 09:11

Posey I love it but only for a baby toddler.

MikeUniformMike · 24/03/2020 09:08

Nikita is a boy's name, adopted as a girl's name after a hit single. A plain No from me. Why do that when you have the added faff of two initials (N and K)? Kitty has a bit of class to it - Katharine more so - but Nikita doesn't obviously shorten to it, and the hit single association makes it look like you were born in the 1980s.

MikeUniformMike · 24/03/2020 09:03

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

A name is your brand, so an unusual name needs the character to go with it.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 24/03/2020 00:04

I’ve never known anyone be teased with their name.

Cattenberg · 23/03/2020 23:32

Bitsy for Elizabeth....

I remember a character in an Ann Tyler novel called Bitsy. I had no idea it might have been short for Elizabeth.

I’ve always liked Kitty short for Nikita.

Buutercupdawn · 23/03/2020 23:29

I love Bunny. A work colleague was called Bunny. Never heard it as a name before and not sure which name it originates from.

ellewarbux · 23/03/2020 23:24

I love Bunny🙌🏽 I think it's beautiful x

TitianaTitsling · 23/03/2020 21:31

Bitsy for Elizabeth....

Marmite27 · 23/03/2020 21:31

I know children with a great aunt kitty Smile

Jossina · 23/03/2020 21:29

Any of those names, or Teddy, Kit, Tommy etc, on the birth certificate. Fine if they're nicknames.