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Have you ever seen a baby or child and thought they didn’t suit their name?

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BeefRoastDinner16382927 · 01/01/2021 18:20

Just wondering really!

Sometimes I can’t explain it but I see kids and the parents reveal the name and I just don’t feel like the children suit the name?

I can’t explain why but yes I’m just wondering have any of you felt like this?

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MyNameHasBeenTaken · 04/01/2021 22:40

Many years ago I "worked with " a girl called mystery

The only mystery about her was her ability to keep a job, as she never turned up 3/4 of the time

Adirondack · 04/01/2021 14:22

I knew a little ‘Grace’ who was built like the proverbial barn door, had a solid, round, ruddy face, and threw frequent epic tantrums.

TaraRhu · 04/01/2021 14:10

Funnily enough a friend of my husband just changed her baby's name from Max to George, . She's an absolute nutter though. She also returned a puppy she'd bought because she didn't like it.

Sausagedog1 · 04/01/2021 14:09

I'm going to bear this in mind if we have another DC. If we have a girl I love Savannah or Autumn but I bet those are names that only suit certain children.

Sausagedog1 · 04/01/2021 14:07

I know a Claire that should definitely be called Laura. I have no idea why but I just really think she looks like a Laura and have to check myself before I say her name every time.

Hesperatum · 04/01/2021 13:31

I met a rather stout Poppy

Chilldonaldchill · 03/01/2021 22:37

I knew a girl whose name was not actually a name but a portmanteau of two words - imagine something like Moonshinebird. Her mother was about 16 when she was born. She herself was quiet, mousy and just tried to avoid attention but her name made it much harder. That name wouldn't have suited anyone but someone else might have managed to carry it off a bit and she really didn't. I always felt so sorry for her.

SleepingStandingUp · 03/01/2021 21:17

When DS was a baby we were in hospital next to an Ian, similar age so he'd be 5ish now. Not sure Ian would suit anyone under 40

wherewildthingsare · 03/01/2021 21:01

A boy at ds school called Douglas.

VienneseWhirligig · 03/01/2021 19:04

I went to ballet class in the 80s with a tubby bespectacled ginger Scottish girl called Biarritz. I have no idea what her parents were thinking. Her mum insisted that everyone used her full name, rather than Ria, which is what she introduced herself as.

One of the most attractive men I knew before I got married was called Trevor, which I can't see as a sexy name at all.

Mamascoven · 03/01/2021 18:58

The 5 year old I know called Derek. It just seems so wrong.

SilverOtter · 03/01/2021 18:55

I've been called Ruth by several different people, at different times in my life, so I must look like a Ruth!🤷🏻‍♀️😂

happylittlechick · 03/01/2021 18:46

@justineboober

I can't think of any occasions that spring to mind myself. But twice i've been told I didn't look like a justineboober* but looked like a "Zoe" instead. Two different occasions, two different people, both said they thought I looked like a Zoe.

*not my real name Wink

My friend consistently gets called by the same wrong name by so many different people. It's a running joke now.
happylittlechick · 03/01/2021 18:45

I taught a shy girl with mousy hair called calypso.

sweetchristmastime · 03/01/2021 18:31

I knew a child called Hope who was the sourest child ever

wherewildthingsare · 03/01/2021 18:27

Yea I have known a young girl called pure. Pure she was not.

MollyButton · 03/01/2021 18:17

A teenager called Ebony - who had almost white blonde hair and fair scandinavian skin.

Bobbiepin · 03/01/2021 18:15

Yeah the one I taught would be 18/19 now I think

justineboober · 03/01/2021 17:53

I can't think of any occasions that spring to mind myself. But twice i've been told I didn't look like a justineboober* but looked like a "Zoe" instead. Two different occasions, two different people, both said they thought I looked like a Zoe.

*not my real name Wink

Cindy87 · 03/01/2021 17:43

@bobbiepin
I don't know her surname. She would be late teens now I think.

Bobbiepin · 03/01/2021 17:14

@Cindy87 does her surname start with R?

I love virtue names, most commonly in my experience come from West African families and are more hopeful than predictions!

Cindy87 · 03/01/2021 11:52

I also once met a shy, little white girl called Beyonce! Also a friend taught a boy called Genius. He was very low ability.

Bluntness100 · 03/01/2021 11:46

A young girl called lulu. A frivolous girls name for a very unfrivolous girl.

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 03/01/2021 11:42

Two names I loved for my DD but didn't use in case she took after me:

Wren: I'm taller than average, and although slim have a curvy, athletic build, nothing wren-like about me. She's 4'8 at age 8, so this was the right choice.

Grace: I'm clumsy as shit. She, as it turns, is rather graceful, and probably could've carried it off - right up to point she's asked to do anything sporty, and falls over her own feet. Grin

EmmanuelleMakro · 03/01/2021 09:47

I once taught a boy called Wonderful.
He wasn’t.