To ask if you've ever had a bad reaction on announcing your new baby's name?

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Also posted in Baby Names, but I guess a lot if the ladies there don't have DCs yet.

So - did anyone ever have the gumption to tell you outright that they think the name you chose for your child is awful?

I know a guy called Rufus, he's a great big Dark, & very handsome hairy biker bear of a man, & lovely natured with it too - though you wouldn't want to get on his bad side & certainly wouldn't tell him he was named after a dog

I told my ex friend my som's name, and she said " is he a fucking Labrador ?? "

He is called Rufus.

I've noticed that posh/educated types love the name, and chav types just don't get it.

Every time I tell someone DD2's name they ask if I got it from a particular English celebrity... which it isn't. But it is a pain in the ass to explain its a great aunt name.

My DD has an unusual name (well depends where you are really..) which caused much ado with ILs. I am Indian and STBXH is English. DD is called Lakshme after the Indian Goddess of Wealth and Good Fortune (pronounced Luck/shh/me). We both nearly died when I was pregnant with her and so I wanted to call her that.

It suits her. She is beautiful with exotic looks. Her friends call her Lucky . We are in Australia where names are always shortened or a -y added. DS is called Ben. DS and I call her Lush 'cos she is!

ILs were worried about name but could not say much as ..you know..me being foreign and all...

I know someone who stopped telling people the intended name for her son as everyone hated it so much. i have to admit I did kind of think 'why would you give your kid a name that everybody hates? Wouldn't that make you reconsider just a tiny bit?' he was also a Rufus.

I like 'old lady' names. When I was pg with DD I had about 6 on the go, all of which I loved and couldn't decide between: Maude, Mabel, Ada, Martha, that kind of thing. Everyone, just everyone, I told screwed their faces up and said it would be cruel. Even my lovely MIL said that one of the welsh names I liked would be like 'an English person calling their child Maude' thereby screwing 2 name choices.

I ended up calling DD something that they all loved, but I now regret as it's so common and so twee.

I should have stuck to my guns grrr

I don't really like the Rufus or Rex thing myself (well educated and still sounds like a dog to me) but didn't comment when a good friend named her child one of those names- if she likes it that's the main thing.

Well, now you have to tell EveDallas . :)

i like rufus and i am slightly above chav in class levels i also really like travis seen that mentioned upthread, but travie mccoy put me off blimmin daft thing is he probably wont be around in 5 yrs as is the fame game.. my great grans name was jessie but i like it as a boys name too only prob is where i live its another name for a gay guy :(

Several of my ante-natal friends are teachers and feel it is their duty to tell me that all of the naughty kids at school have the same name as my DS and they would never call their son that!

What a f.cheek!! The thing is they haven't just said it once, they say it practically every time we meet up and the conversation (inevitably) turns to our DCs.

One more time though I will let them know how silly I think one of their DCs names is!

Rufus Wainwright the musician is just scrummy - so Rufus gets my vote.

DD is Freya which we love and chose due to love of all things Norse. I don't mind that it's relatively popular (I have a name that was less usual at school and was desperate to be Clare or Sarah!). No one has been rude to us, but I was upset to find a thread on here saying it was really chavvy. I certainly never thought of it as chavvy and hate to think we might have saddled her with a name she won't thank us for.

I love the name Rufus and think of him

As I always say, a name isn´t "chavvy", a person is.

My MiL wanted to add a bit to DDs birth certificate. She was steaming angry that DD didn't have the name Mary anywhere in her names.
Apparently, it is OK to ammend BCs of children born out of the UK because 'they aren't real really are they?'

cupnoodle - you are correct.

My mum HATED the name we had lined up for a girl and when DS was born she said "thank goodness it's a boy". That made me even more determined to use it and we did when we had DD. Ha ha. My mum is incredibly rude and always making personal remarks, and I would never take account of what she thinks. I know it's childish but I still enjoy the fact that she can't do anything about it. (And still love the name as do most who meet DD...)

My parents objected to 'Mark' because 'it is Catholic' apparently and he might get beaten up if he goes into 'the wrong pub'. A good excuse not to go into those kinds of pubs then?

Dp vetoed Athena for dd cos his family didnt like it. Now shes stuck with a dullsville name I hate.

Cheerful - She's Maisie .

Names have been a bane in my family history.

Im Rhiannon (Ree-Ann-Onn). Pretty outrageous in 1985, my Mum had some very odd looks. So far I've collected 23 different spellings in various cards and letters as no one seems to be able to pronounce or spell it unless they know a Rhiannon or are Fleetwood Mac fans. I love it but save myself time, hassle and a certain chorus of 'Umbrella-ella-ella' and call myself Rhi. If I ever meet Rihanna Im going to punch her, I swear.

My Mum then outdid herself with Olwen for my sister. Again, no one can spell it or say it (Oll-Wen). She usually gets 'Oh, isnt Owen usually a boys name?" ~Shes given up and is called Oz much to Mummys misery.

My daughter is called Mollie Heather Olwen. No one says anything about it other than a 'aw its likes something out of a storybook' (eh?) which Im happy with. Everyone spells it with a 'y' though even when corrected and it drives me nuts.
MIL hated Olwen for a middle name and just pretended it didnt exist. She wasnt supposed to have Heather in there but just weeks before she was born MIL told her best friend who was dying of a brain tumor that we'd name the baby after her. She was so happy that I couldnt let her down. I love it now but was furious at MIL for forcing my hand.

Oh, and said MIL reacted like id just murdered her dog when we suggested the names Abraham or Aria. BF also took to calling Aria 'Oreo' which really put me off :(

My gran hated Dd1s name. (Martha). And asked why we wanted to name a child after a serving girl!

I have looked after 2 Rufus's. They were both lovely! I love the older girls names too esp Mabel. I have that on my list for #3.