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has anyone ever told you their dearest newborns name and you've had to choke back a giggle?

314 replies

peacelily · 06/12/2008 22:29

prob offend some people this but can't please everyone.

For me it was when uber competitive Mum at baby massage introduced me to Hubert.

Apols to any mummies of Huberts out there

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Fillyjonk · 07/12/2008 07:03

Whenever I see these threads I am always dying to know what the piss-ripping posters kids are called

I think you all have Jack, Chloes and Alfies

seeker · 07/12/2008 06:44

I'm sure I've said on here before that I met a Toulouse and a Glint in the summer. I do worry that writing them down will make some poor person whose brain has been softened by pregnancy hormones think "Oh they are lovely names - perfect for the twins" and it'll be all my fault!

Peabody · 07/12/2008 06:27

Young lad at work told me he wanted to call his child Jester. I had to bite my lip then.

sherby · 07/12/2008 02:06

oh god yes

can't put it here in case she recognised it but it was only when you put it with the surname that it was so silly

Niecie · 07/12/2008 00:49

DS has just started school and has a little boy called Tyton in his class. I must admit I had a quick grin about that one.

But then his other mate is called Stan and that isn't much better imo even though I know it is a bit more fashionable these days. I still think Stan Ogden from Corrie.

DontEatYellowSnowItsWeebump · 07/12/2008 00:40

I once heard a woman shout for her daughter "Ivonneeeee! Come 'ere." And then I twigged it was YVONNE.

Quattrocento · 07/12/2008 00:33

I did want to call my daughter Sappho. DH refused point blank ... Sorry if that falls into the Hubert category.

theramones · 07/12/2008 00:21

Marjory-Storm.
Both are okat in their own right .. but imo DO NOT go together.

MenaMilou · 07/12/2008 00:02

Placenta? Surely not!

goodasgoldfrankincenceandmyrhh · 07/12/2008 00:02

Never had to bite my lip. Of course there are names that we prefer, and some that we downright don't like.

We thought ds was going to be dd3 so we spent the whole pregnancy quarrelling about girls names. My first choice was Maude, his was Fiona. We agreed on a name a week before I had the baby, and didn't tell anybody.

After ds was born my mil asked what we would have called him if he had been a girl, we told her, expecting her to hate it, and she said 'I thought so.'

It was her mum's name, but silly old dh didn't know.

I said 'we were going to call our dd3 after your maternal grandmother'

He said 'What! Nanny Smith'

Her name was Winnie Smith

Megglevache · 06/12/2008 23:58

Ahh neither of mine slept even when newborns for more than 10 minutes during the day- knackering! Ds is brilliant but dd very patchy and has been ill so sleep is all over the place and I think to myself, gawd I couldn't do all that again every night.

I take my hat off to parents who aren't sleeping and then have another, then another!

My BF heard "Placenta cummm 'ere!" In the Primark in Hammersmith last week.

WhatSheSaid · 06/12/2008 23:51

Luciabelle

I didn't bite my lip. just (tactfully I hope), said how Lucia was Italian (I think?) for Lucy and how pretty is was. Bit about adding belle to the end of it but didn't say that.

Oh and Alloradenim. Classic!

Lockets · 06/12/2008 23:50

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Megglevache · 06/12/2008 23:47

Ahem-

pretendy son alright...

LivingLaVidaLurker2 · 06/12/2008 23:46

No, I've mever had to stifle a giggle. I think all parents put alot of thought into their children's names and I respect that. I have had people tell me they hate dd's name and I want to shout "but I chose it!!!"

Lockets · 06/12/2008 23:42

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Megglevache · 06/12/2008 23:41

Bibi he'd never get away with that if he looked like a wimpy Harry Potter.

There is a Spike at my ds's school. He is so cool it hurts.

Megglevache · 06/12/2008 23:40

Yep Rog and Babs god here too.

My next boy is going to be a Douglas/Digger or another old fogey name so I'll have all the snurkin' on here first to get me ready in RL.

BibiJesus · 06/12/2008 23:37

I know of a Blade too, you have to be a pretty dynamic kinda kid to carry that. Blade looks like he's destined for accountancy to me tbh.

andlipsticktoo · 06/12/2008 23:34

My ds1 is called Hubert!

Lockets · 06/12/2008 23:31

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andlipsticktoo · 06/12/2008 23:31

I LOVE Ivy. I know a girl called Ivy and she is gorgeous, her name so suits her.

Have I missed Lockets' son's name? I'm sure I'll like it...

Finona · 06/12/2008 23:30

When I was in hospital having Freya another woman announced to the cleaner that her wee boy was Spike. The cleaner laughed and said, 'Aye, right, what's his real name?' It was Spike. Much biting of lips and hiding behind curtains from the rest of the ward.

MistleSQUONKandWine · 06/12/2008 23:28

twas Lolita that made me snurk to myself.

piscesmoon · 06/12/2008 23:25

Ivy