Hate DD’s planned baby name. Is it ever ok to say that?

I'd stay quiet.

I love a Greek name, and wouldn't be phased at all by Io. There are several kids at my DC's school with Greek names. No one really cares about the story behind a name in my experience. Does anyone think badly of Cassandra or Dinah, who were also raped in Greek mythology / the Old Testament?

I don't think it's a problematic name at all.

Awful. And it even looks ugly as a word.

Is that Eye - O (IO) or Elle-O (LO).

Why does she want those names. I would simply ask if she is worried about teasing?

Rather than being a woman who has a sea named after her you think it is better she was abandoned by the man she loved and than married another - Dionysus who as a god probably gave her as much choice as Zeus did.

Hope he becomes a rapper!

I agree it’s a bit odd but not much you can do. I don’t know why parents like to call their kids odd names or with weird spellings. I have a hard time spell surname and it drives me nuts having to spell it ALL the time.

I really like it.

I knew a Welsh lad named Iorwerth - shortened to Io, but pronounced 'yo'.
I think I'd also think of...
"I spy in the night sky, don't I?
Phoebe, Io, Elara, Leda, Callisto, Sinope, Janus, Dione, Portia, so many moons"

You are joking!!??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sounds like two Erics.

Brilliant. I'll call my DC Crapper because surnames as first names are trendy..

I agree !

Where I live a child called James probably would get bullied (it's used in jokes as an old fashioned English butler/ servant or chauffeur's name and featured in a cheesy television programme known to everyone). Actually the only child I know personally who was bullied specifically for his name is called Benjamin - it's the name of a young children's cartoon character locally, but also a perfectly normal name, if slightly veering towards being a "dad name" in the local area.

The OP's grandchild is not going to be growing up in the UK, not that most UK kids would think anything of it as it's almost more usual to have an "out there" name than one a grandmother might pick as being "normal" (my mother hates one of my children's names and suggested John instead! That would not have been an inconspicuous name for a now teenager!).

Yep!

That's quite the reaction @2021x! 😅

This must be a wind-up 😂

They can pick what they want, and you can hate it .

My brother picked a name for his daughter that can be turned in to a personal
body part. But I shit my mouth not my business

I like it. And yes, I know the myth.

My DD1 was at nursery with an Io, don't think it was that far out. I've also known quite a few Nigerians who go by Ayo which is pronounced pretty much the same, so as a name it clearly sounds fine, is it the spelling you dislike?

Love it. It's their time to name their baby. Let them crack on.

Really, almost all female names from myths have negative associations - women haven’t had a great time through history! Most Ancient Greek names have some kind of rape connection - as a pp said, Persephone is romanticised but realistically she was kidnapped by Hades.

And Ophelia is one of the top names right now and she’s a tragic suicide victim! Not great either but no one cares because they think it’s pretty.

Cecily is so often suggested on MN threads but it means blind.

Io just isn’t as bad as you think tbh. And I like the sound of it.

Same here, I have never seen my name on anything and even in my old age I still look for it! I do like my name though, it is unusal without being "whatever were your parents thinking" and have only ever met one other person with it.

Have you asked them why they chose that name?

That's an excellent way to have grandma kept at arm's length and told less, involved less, visited less, and generally being slightly less part of her daughter's and granddaughter's lives than she might be otherwise. In some families the mother's parents feel like the "primary" grandparents, but where they act like this the father's parents will probably fall into that role!

But that would be constant, and inherent to the name?

We had Io on our name list for DD. It's a beautiful name, and people will get it wrong once and then remember it.
I don't know why we get so hung up on unusual names that people might misread, it happens all the time with surnames but we get on fine don't we? I have an unusual surname and people never get it right first time, but I've never been bothered by it (in fact have kept my name rather than taking dh's very common one).

Io is not hard to pronounce so that won't be an issue. And there's absolutely no reason to think a child would be bullied for being called Io. Children are bullied for all sorts of reasons but their names aren't usually a reason. Ti mm es have changed from the John, James, and Henry days and there are lots of individual and unusual names in every class.

I've just read its Io as in eye oh & not actually Lo. It opens itself up to all sorts of nicknames as you mentioned OP, such as 10 or Lo (resulting in HI) Some people try so hard to be different when picking names they end up condemning their chid to lifelong teasing. Again,I would have no hesitation in diplomatically & sensitively suggesting my concerns.

Oh no, that's a genuinely terrible name. Horrible to look at, horrible sound, horrible meaning and associations.

You can't say anything of course but I hear you. Not even anything you can shorten it to. I suggest you find a nickname quickly for the baby and just call her that.