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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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PerfectEm · 22/01/2009 18:57

*her

PerfectEm · 22/01/2009 18:56

No way! It's terrible. I think she let her son name him. Bleugh!

MrsStig · 22/01/2009 18:54

hotcheese...I bet there is a sibling called Havana. Or even Havanah.

wetwipe · 22/01/2009 18:48

A few that get me are names that 'everyone' has. Jayden.............

Helenismadwife----BJ really?
Perfectem--thats kind of cuite tho!

PerfectEm · 22/01/2009 18:40

I've had that recently actually, someone told me their daughter's name was 'Sparkle Jewel'!

hotCheeseBurns · 22/01/2009 18:33

The girl in the bed next to me in the hospital ward named her baby boy "Cuba" and kept saying it in her awful awful whiney chav voice... Erghhhh...

helenhismadwife · 21/01/2009 20:12

Yes I have had a few names that have made me choke; toffee, Edgar,wolf, bj and diesel were the most memorable Im sure there were a few more. Part of the fun of being a midwife

mrswoolf · 21/01/2009 15:04

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NattyPlus2andAHalf · 21/01/2009 14:55

chesmai...

Bubbaluv · 21/01/2009 14:54

Surname I mean!

Bubbaluv · 21/01/2009 14:53

sirname - Woody, Ds's First name...BJ.
And BJ was the actual name, not a contraction of a Benjamin James or something.

hannahsaunt · 21/01/2009 14:36

Bono.

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 21/01/2009 14:21

I nearly wet myself laughing

PadDad · 21/01/2009 14:07

I was holding forth in a family restaurant about how how both of us liked the name 'Medea' but would never actually give it to our DD, because of the connotations.

A goth next to me chipped in with how he had been thinking of 'Imotep', but had rejected it.

When he left, he called out for his daughter, 'Come on Loki'!

Fable · 21/01/2009 11:46

I work with an Ignatius, he's african

jellybeans · 21/01/2009 04:54

The bounty thing is saying all names are number 1 at the moment!

Stitchwort · 20/01/2009 22:56

In the park recently met very cute twins, the girl was called Chardonnay and the boy Rio.

I don't like to judge people on name choices (but I obviously do or I wouldn't be writing this) but I did nearly choke when pregnant lady in cafe next to me announced baby would be called Ignatius.

ChristmasPenguin · 20/01/2009 22:37

oi! my uncle and a very old friend are called Roger, what's wrong with that?

dan39 · 20/01/2009 22:31

Evanee for a girl.

WinkyWinkola · 19/01/2009 21:16

Bobby Dazzler. For a girl or a boy.

hotCheeseBurns · 19/01/2009 21:16

I was unreasonably disgusted with my dp's friends who named their DAUGHTER Beau.

PoloPlayingMummy · 19/01/2009 21:14

Ocean.. for a boy. He has such beautiful long curly blonde hair that from the back I had assumed with that name he was a girl - Oops!!

nkf · 19/01/2009 21:12

Someone once told me their son was called Scipio. Skippy for short. I mean to say, Skippy was a bush kangaroo.

ElfOnTheTopShelf · 19/01/2009 21:10

OMG

tell me how the bounty popularity checker works, my DD name was number 257 and is now number 1!!

Noooo!!

IsThereAnybodyUpThere · 19/01/2009 21:01

Ha ha, I really like Elmo, but I would never have gone for it because I concede it is TOTALLY ridiculous but I sort of admire their balls for going with it