Being horribly judgemental (baby name related)

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Someone I know has had a beautiful baby boy. The name she has given him is a bit odd.

I know it's not my place to have an opinion but I can't help but think this poor boy will be made fun of as he grows up. I've name changed as I don't know for sure she's not on here and I don't want her to find the rest of my posts if she is. I know of no other children with this name. She's from a similar socioeconomic background as me.
She's called him Cloud. I can't even think of a nickname he could go by.

I like it, husband possibly a gamer ? (Final fantasy)
I know lots of kids with weird names, it’s the norm now .

Ashamed to say that even as a non-techy person, I immediately thought of 'The Cloud' - that magic place where all our photos and lost documents are stored, rather than the natural phenomenon

Reckon he will be OK at Primary. Once he gets to secondary, the kids will find all sorts of ways of teasing the hell out of him, poor kid.

I quite like it - and I've seen a lot stranger names than that.

I completely get that people are saying it's not my business and a terrible person (thanks for that by the way).
I went to the schools this kid will go to, fair enough 10+ years ago but I can't imagine it's changed that much. I honestly feel if she lived in a different area it would not be an issue. It's not a wealthy area with all sorts of unusual names going about, this child will stick out like a sore thumb. I still live in a a similar area now and there are no strange names that I have come across yet. There's definitely some odd spellings but nothing out of the box.

All those saying he’ll be fine at school, I’m assuming never went to the local comp and saw the merciless way kids pick on the tiniest difference, esp in boys? In fact I can imagine the same reaction at private school amidst all the Olivers and Sophies.

Yes, there all lots of names from different cultures. But something like “Cloud” is just a word, it’s not come to sound like a name yet, through regular use.

A teenage boy with a name that means a soft, fluffy thing is going to get a lot of needless piss taking at school, football etc. Unless he’s homeschooled or somehow grows up hard as nails, he’ll probably ask to change it to Jack or Charlie before he starts secondary!

I would judge away. Why give such a ridiculous and awful name to your child?

My vote is that they are Final fantasy fans too especially with the remake of Vii due this year.
I can't judge might have pinched a couple of FF names when naming my dc

WorraLiberty I can't be sure anyone I know isn't on here. I haven't been outed so far but there can't be many children named Cloud. There are many many Mumsnet threads that discuss things like this. The person it's about seeing it is always a risk.

You completely missed my point there OP.

My point is, if you think there's any chance of her being on here, why would you start a thread inviting people to criticise her baby's name?

It's not like you need advice or anything. It's just plain horrible really.

It's not as bad as some out there names but he'll definitely get some stick at school.We have a keith at the school I work at and unfortunately the kids call him "corned beef keith"

So she might be on MN, so you’ve bravely changed name to be unkind about her?

All class.

It isn’t an awful name

I know sisters wish and champ. Cloud isn't a patch on them.

@JacquesHammer I disagree. I haven't at any point said anything nasty about her. Just that I can see potential future issues with the name she's chosen. I haven't passed judgement on her as a person or a mother. I'm sure there are people that don't like the name I chose for DS I wouldn't get myself all bent up if there was an anonymous thread posted about me.

@WorraLiberty I wasn't necessarily inviting people to criticise and actually loads of people have complimented it?

I haven't at any point said anything nasty about her

Well you started off the thread saying you were being “horribly judgemental”.

Starting a thread about someone with the potential that they will recognise themselves is an unkind thing to do.

@JacquesHammer fair enough, I judged a very unusual baby name, I hardly think I'm alone in that.

WorraLiberty I wasn't necessarily inviting people to criticise and actually loads of people have complimented it?

Oh pull the other one! No-one here is that wet behind the ears to believe that.

@WorraLiberty I haven't counted the ratio but the name has been quite well received on here.

Oh pull the other one! No-one here is that wet behind the ears to believe that

More like a point and laugh at the name type thread where you'd hoped everyone would give you a little affirmation.

You are horribly judgemental. Do you have children? Want to share their names here?

@AdobeWanKenobi if you'd read my posts you'd know I have a 7 week old and that I also said I'm under no illusions that not everyone will like it. For the balance of fairness and not because it will in any way help me with the mental health struggles I'm having his name is Reuben. Please feel free to get stuck in.

Exactly AdobeWanKenobi

And OP, you had no idea the name would be 'quite well received', otherwise you wouldn't have bothered starting the thread.

I mean you wouldn't have started a thread about a boy named 'Jack' or something, would you?

Kids can be mean

Yes, and so can adults .

But we can’t make every decision in life based on whether someone may be mean about it. Anything and everything can get you bullied from you name to your haircut to your ears.

Teach kids not to be mean and stamp on adults that make mean comments.

If someone names their child something you think is odd, don’t be mean and judgemental. Smile politely and say that’s nice. And teach your own kid not to take the piss either.

I'm not going to get 'stuck in' because I can appreciate a parent will give their child a name they like and it's nobody else's business.

This comment in your OP though:

She's from a similar socioeconomic background as me

I'd love to hear you explain why you put that.

Because @AdobeWanKenobi we live in similar areas, we have similar interests and friends. Rightly or wrongly there are areas (the west end of glasgow) where that name wouldn't raise one hair on someone's eyebrow. That is the complete opposite of where we are and have come from.

Does she live in the west end? No one would bat an eyelid at his name.

Kids tease one another for absolutely anything anyway so even if he was called John, he probably would still get teased regardless.

So by your way of thinking, all parents should consider their children's names before moving to a different area?