RAGE- inducing baby names

I think we are honest, rather than rude. People come on here wanting opinions, and we give them. personally, I don't start threads asking for people's opinions of my chosen names, because I don't need the approval, but some people do, and that's fine.

I do hate it when people just dismiss a name as 'chav'. It's an ugly, snobbish word, and a lazy description.

I lie IRL-if someone is set on a name it would be rude to tell them it is dire and their DC will be the playground joke. I manage some bland comment. If they ask on here I assume that they want to know the truth otherwise it is pointless.

Chegirl is right- people IRL will lie. On MN they tend not to!

I dont agree that the reaction you get on Mumsnet is indicative of the one you will get in RL at all!

There are tons of Baileys, Morgans, Demis and Kaydons round here. People love those names.

On Mumsnet you so much as mention any of them and the place virtually explodes

I dont ever comment on 'what do you think of this name' threads (well very rarely). And I wouldnt dream of asking anyone their opinion of a name I had choosen.

I dont understand why people do it. But if they DO they will get an honest reaction on MNs and they need to deal with it really.

Why ask if you don't want the truth? I wouldn't ask in the first place.
In RL I say something diplomatic but these people ask! I am convinced that some are trolls and come up with outlandish names just to see if someone agrees it is nice e.g. Apricot has to be a joke-surely?!
I think that if you can save some poor child being called Ivy, Hilda or Ethel you are doing them a big favour.

I think the worst ones aren't when people say the OP is nutty as a fruitloop but when they say it's a wind up or that perfectly normal names are poncetastic because of the combination. I've seen threads where a name is lovely and approved of but the next thread it's put with a sibling and people have a completely different view.

I would certainly have supported your plan Dizzy. I think that rather than genuinely trying to help a mum choose a name, these people are attempting to be funny and popular at the expense of others.

duelingFanjo I loved blue as a middle name for DD2 but dh said no

slightly off topic.

Irisblue one of the manes I would consider for a daughter is your username! Iris Blue. Weird. I like it

Spidermama I did start a slight crusade encouraging people to just state that a name wasn't to their taste rather than trashing it completely - it lasted for about 5 minutes!!

I agree that some posters are unecessarily rude and nasty about certain names. It's hurtful when someone sneers at a name you've chosen or are considering.

That said I would never ask the opinion of anyone let alone MN on something so personal.

Can't people just tone down the insults about names since it's well known now that people feel hurt.

thanks Boys - she really has made it her own

Ming is lovely, dizzy

mingtastic - brilliant

reminds me of DD1's name - Ming, the Merciless

Surely the convention with threads on this topic is that, if someone comes along and says 'I'm thinking of naming my DS Beelzebub, what do you think?', then we let rip. They asked for an opinion.

If, however, they come along and say that little Beelzebub was born last Friday weighing 7 pounds we say congratulations and what an interesting name...

I like S'nout for a boy

and Vapid for a girl

I never heard that particular pronunciation either......

wtf is wrong with P. Neece???
My son is called just that
You should follow your own advice

I think if a name gets a negative reaction on Mumsnet, it's a pretty good indication of what that child is going to face going through life with that name. Some 'creative' names work really well. Others are plain awful. MNetters will give you an honest opinion as to which camp your choice falls into.

I'm very straight talking about names. Because people are asking for opinions. So opinions is what they get.
Utterly absurd names don't induce rage in me though. Pity, maybe, derision, sometimes, rage I save for the breastfeeding threads.

Don't ask if you can't handle the truth.

In RL, our friends will lie to your face and say 'Ooh, Vulvamydia....how unusual'. On MN, you will get told straight it is mingtastic and you are a fruit loop for even considering it.

I have to say that I think people who are being "rude" about names are usually just giving an honest opinion for which they have been asked.

When a parent chooses a name, they aren't choosing it for themselves. They are choosing it for a different human being entirely, someone who will have to go through life saddled with it. I think these posters are just trying to prevent innocent babies being called ridiculous names and suffering a lifetime of humiliation.

RAGE???