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?

They are fab names- I LOVE Niamh, one of my all time favourite names
I'm guessing you are Irish?
You have to have the Irish lilt in your accent to have them pronounced correctly (Loves the Irish accent too)

In Irish the shee sound is depicted by si.

Bh is a vee sound.

Caoimhe and niamh are on our short list

Lol yes I'm irish,big gang of us with irish names.Cathal,Donal,Siobhan,Naoise (me) and Saoirse.
Dh is from London and FIL is staunchly British and see's irish names as peasant names.

Moomin beware of some strange spellings and pronounciations.I have had Caoimhe called kayomi countless times.

And it should be Kee-vee?
Ive seen Saoirse befoore as well- thats Ser-sha
Are you Nee-sha?

No its Kwee-va and yes its Nee-sha.

Bumwiper that's my worry, dp is Irish so would like an Irish name but even when you look at some name pronounciation sites they differ

I like Aoife but I do wonder how people looking at the spelling would pronounce it

Truth be told its a pain having to constantly correct.

But then there are plenty of names nowadays from other countries and regions knocking about.I recently met a lady from Poland and her daughter is Katerzyna (Kat-ar-jshn-na).

I think Aoife has transcended and is a lovely name.

Aofie is it pronounced a-o-fee. Sort of like a scottish awfee, meaning awfully. Not that Aofie means awfully, but awfee does. As in 'That's an awfee good pick chure!'

Caoimhe, is that pronounce kee-vaa? I know it is not pronounced as it reads, but really have no clue as to how it ought to be.

I do like different names but it is difficult to get your head around reading gaelic ones.

I'd pronounce Caoimhe as Kwee va

My squids have English names because I couldn't bear the correction over correction that Irish names would require

I was living in England then...now back in Ireland everyone is a bit over my English name choices

My DD is Cairistiona, i think it's the prettiest name ive ever heard. I didnt realise quite how unusual it was when we named her though, she was a few days old when we heard it and we called her it straight away.

I've never posted it on MN before! I wonder what people think. Mostly 'too Scottish', i bet.

we like aoife but it sounded awful with DP surname. I have a very gaelic name and i do like it.

I wouldn't have even thought of it as Scottish?
Is the Cairist bit said fast iona more slowly?

oh, hang on. It is pronounce Cairist-eeona, not Cairist-Iona?

Cara-shteena, almost. We call her Cara for short.

it's a gaelic folk song.

Most of the names in this thread are lovely, the reactions are awful!

I know we'll get bad reactions, hence why we are keeping the names secret until the child is born. Don't want to have to listen to people trying to change our minds.

My DC are:
DS1: Jay Alexander
DS2: William Oliver
DD1: Ava Jean
DD2: Violet May

I constantly got told that William would be called Willy and Violet would be Vi,but they're 5 and 15 months respectively and never have been. ExH didn't like any of the names at first but I persuaded him and now he loves them. If I have a 5th baby I like Bella for a girl but not sure on a boys name.

My mum got talked out of my original name, and had to choose a more normal name.

Irony being that the original name would have suited me perfectly.

Determined not to do the same thing. Think mum regrets changing it, I know I do!

I also like Irish names, Caitlin is pretty and people don't have pronunciation issues with it!

I like Ava and Isabella have no boys names though