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?

Neither here nor there*

I've never had it said to me, but I've had to say it to someone else. I can't say the name because it will make me instantly identifiable, but suffice to say it was so awful and the mum had no idea what it actually meant. I did it to point out what she was actually naming her DD, rather than to judge her name choice, and she was grateful for it. This was before she had the baby btw.

I laughed when my sister told me her DS1's name. He'd been baby for 3 weeks as they hadn't got a name form him and I honestly thought she was winding me up when she told me what they'd come up with. Think 70s milk advert...red and white stripey straws...?

It has grown on me though

We txt everyone the name we'd chosen for ds2, everyone wirh the exception of my mother txt back to say 'ooh lovely' or 'fab name' (and to be fair its polite to do this even if you dont like the name someone has chosen).
My mother didnt txt, she didnt phone for almost a week, when she did she said 'i needed time to get used to it, i was so shocked, i just couldnt talk to you'

I will never ever forgive her .

I'm having people being a bit when I say I want to call soon to be born DS Caspar.

I'm just going to get over it. That's what I want to call him and that should be good enough for them.

Anyone I know doesn't seem to be happy with any name suggestions that aren't the ones you hear every second DS called.

My dm couldn't stop laughing when I told her our name choices for dc4.
To be fair to her, she was drunk at the time, and said we couldn't call a boy XX because they had an accountant called that and he was awful.
I had a boy, and called him the name, she hasn't mentioned it since :)
It is a bit of a marmite name though, people either love it or hate it.

My Nan once told my cousin that she would not be calling her DD by the chosen name because it was a 'boy's name' Bless her, it was a feminised spelling of a boy's name but a genuine girl's name, just maybe too modern for my Nan.

So, she used her middle name with her forevermore

Caspars a lovely name! Ignore anyone who says otherwise - they are wrong!

ex-MIL was is and remains grossly offended that we did not follow the family tradition of naming first born son after father. Means my ex has to go by his "middle" name. DS1 did have a family name as a middle name, but his first name (either the nickname or the full version on his Birth Certificate) is just for him - as are all my children.

DS2's name is a shortened version of a well-known but fallen-from-popularity name. Dh told mil the name on the phone and she said, "Oh X, as in short for Y?" Dh thought she was just clarifying so said, "yes," but she took that to mean that we were calling him the full name but would refer to him as the shortened version. She immediately fired off a 2-page letter on how we were going to ruin his life, how he would never shake-off his full name as a result of 9/11(??!!) blah blah. She'd got the wrong end of the stick anyway and claims to like his real name, but still...

Actually, lots of people did a kind of rictus smile and a high-pitched, "Oh!" on being told the name. I've had some very positive reactions too so think it's a bit of a marmite name .

Tinateaspoon
Sjuperwolef
Labmonkey

Etc etc

Can we all fess up to the dreadful names weve called our dcs because i bet we all go dont see the problem

for some reason, people, especially family, feel they have a right to make negative comments about names. My MIL was told the name of our son ( i was still pg in late stages, but clearly the name not a suggestion) and said she didnt like it. I explained it was my grandads name and I had always wanted to call a son by that name. She still proceeded to tell me it was a ten a penny name and loads of boys would have the same name in his class. He is the only one in his class with the name, even though i know it is very popular. [GRIN]

Thanks faverolles, I will be ignoring them as I like the name far too much. :)

Amélie

(thread said too much like Emily, common, faddy, trying to be fashionable but I love it, and dh is French so we wanted a French name! And given that since having her I've come across about 3 other Amélies in 3 years it's obviously not that common!

Loads of people made comments about my 10 week old babys name and I got really self concious about telling people what it was for a while - most people either love it or hate it. I have to repeat it 2 or 3 times until they get it right. Its Córmac.

I genuinely love Amelie, it woyld have been one of my choices for a girl.
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Yup! MIL here too, only last week. She objects to the (we think, lovely) name we have chosen for our son because it's not the traditonal family name that all first born boys in my husband's family get (not DH, BTW, she's good at making exceptions to her own rules!). Oh and the name we have chosen is the name of one of DH's cousin's who is, in her view, 'really quite simple' (which is not really relevant and not to do with the name he has!)

But it's all okay apparantly, as she's just going to call the poor child by the name she wanted him to have in the first place (bizarre!)

I love Amelie. :) I love French names though, my actual name is French but it's a last name. So I have only ever met about 1 other person with this name.....

What are yours moss? what hideous name have you landed your dcs with?

My mum's dad said my name was not a real name, and until the day he died, he called me a completely different name to what I am called.

My mum chose quite an unusual name for my sister (northern Ireland, late sixties) - my nan refused to use it and called her Belinda instead!!! I in turn got the most common name ever - 4 in my Primary1 class!

Well, I like Casper and Cormac

I have no idea why Cormac came out bold then...

misstina I love Amelia (different but similar) and wanted to call dd3 that but dp insisted on Emily (which is really nice too but have met loads of little girls by that name whereas my other 2 dd's have slightly less common names)