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AIBU?

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

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YouDoTheMath · 21/08/2011 20:31

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?

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YouDoTheMath · 21/08/2011 20:57

I've heard of people (usually ILs) throwing a strop and calling the child by their preferred name.

Pretty disrespectful to the parents, confusing for the DC and generally quite childish, IMO.

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SchrodingersMew · 21/08/2011 20:58

WantingSun I had that said about me too.... It is, it's just a surname.

Think famous French perfume.

Tina Thanks. :) At first I was really scared about how I am going to tell people and if he will get bullied but I don't think it will be a big problem. I already know someone with the name and they love it! :o

And Cormac is really pretty as well!

lydiamama · 21/08/2011 20:59

my sister told me "No, no that name, I had a colleague at college named that and was horrible............."

GilbonzoTheSecretPsych0Duck · 21/08/2011 21:00

I got told I was boring as hell and my dcs would hate me by several people. Their names are William and Sarah. They may be boring but everyone can say them and spell them and they're not going to date much. And I'm a boring bitch anyway!

mosschops30 · 21/08/2011 21:00

My dc2 was named satan Noah ( you would think it was satan with my mothers behaviour)

faverolles · 21/08/2011 21:00

Ds was going to be called something else up until a couple of weeks before he was born - my dm did threaten (drunkenly - same occasion as laughing) to stick to the old name instead of the new one.
Luckily she forgot all about it :)

Lady1nTheRadiator · 21/08/2011 21:01

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pinkhebe · 21/08/2011 21:01

ds2's name is a dogs name according to my great aunt

faverolles · 21/08/2011 21:02

Moss - did you have an AIBU thread about it at the time? Or was it someone else with a ds called Noah (which is another gorgeous name)

NotJustKangaskhan · 21/08/2011 21:02

Yes, from my mother, but only about their middle names. On announcing my eldest's full name to her, she declared that he was going to get bullied in the playground for his middle names. With my second, she went on about how her first middle name is after such a bad person until I said who she was actually named after. Third time around, I let my Grandfather announce it to her so I don't know what she said.

My MIL is more subtle, she just misspells them or says she can't remember their middle names.

Their middle names are part of their Hebrew names, and neither mum is fond that we converted, so I think that has way more to do with it than the actual names themselves.

sjuperwolef · 21/08/2011 21:02

fucking kayleigh. my gorgeous beautiful amazing little girl has a gorgeous french name with french spelling but her name is basically fucking kayleigh.

fuckers.

SchrodingersMew · 21/08/2011 21:02

Xanthe is bloody gorgeous!

GrendelsMum · 21/08/2011 21:04

My mum and I inadvertently offended a neighbour's daughter, who had brought her new baby to a party.

My mum saw the baby, admired her, and asked her name. The woman said she was called Clementine. 'Oh, how lovely', my mum said, 'like the song'. Woman looked blank, so my mum began a chorus of the song 'Clementine', ending 'now she's lost and gone for ever, dreadful sorry Clementine' (we used to love singing that song on car journeys when we were little). Woman looked extremely pissed off.

Half an hour later, I saw the baby, admired her, asked her name, and launched into a chorus of 'Clementine' myself, including 'so I kissed her little sister, dreadful sorry Clementine'. Woman was now outrageously pissed off. She had never heard the song before, couldn't work out what we were on about, etc etc.

I think it's a lovely name, I just like the old song! (Also, bet you anything she's called Satsuma at school).

happygilmore · 21/08/2011 21:05

My sister asked me if we'd thought of any names, I told her one and she replied with "have you thought of any others?"

1980Sport · 21/08/2011 21:05

I met another mum at swimming and she had a gorgeous little girl, I asked her name - it was the same as my male labrador! Thank goodness I stopped myself from saying oh that's my dogs name!

GrendelsMum · 21/08/2011 21:05

I really like Xanthe as a name, but it always reminds me of a radio comedy that used to be on, where Xanthe is the really drippy girlfriend. Anyone else remember that?

mosschops30 · 21/08/2011 21:06

Probably faverolles, was it the same thread where she rang to ask me what ort of winter coat she should buy 2 days aftwr my emcs?

mosschops30 · 21/08/2011 21:08

Lol ive just remembered that someone suggested i should get her a large badge saying
'IM NOAHS GRANDMA'.

I still threaten her with it

faverolles · 21/08/2011 21:08

Yes, could have been. I remember reading it and expecting an awful name, then seeing it was Noah . What would she have liked to call him?

stirlingstar · 21/08/2011 21:10

My lovely and very tactful DM confessed that one of our top-of-list names for DS2 "would not be her favourite choice because it sounds like a dog's name" but that we should go ahead and make our own choice.

We thought she was being ridiculous and chose the 'dog' name.

At 3 days old me and DM were pushing DS2 in pram in local park. Naturally, we hear someone calling "DS2, DS2" and a large labrador bounded past...

IsSamNormansDad · 21/08/2011 21:12

Everyone tells me that our DCs names are 'common' and every second child will have those names. Not up here in Aberdeenshire they don't! DS now has another boy with same name in his nursery and I don't know many Scottish DDs name.
They are both much more common in England (think ALWAYS to 10, usually top 5).
Anyway, me and DH like them, and they suit our children, so we just make at anyone who remarks on them.
FWIW I wanted Xanthe for a girls name, but DH wouldn't have any of it.

MissTinaTeaspoon · 21/08/2011 21:12

What's wrong with Noah? I really like Noam too, what would be her opinion on that?

randomness · 21/08/2011 21:15

MIL, on being told our twins' names were to be X and Y:
"wellll, I could sort of get used to Y...."

germl · 21/08/2011 21:16

I had a stranger tell me they didn't like the name of DS1, but everyone else I've met has liked it. With DS2, however, my Nan asked how we were going to shorten it (don't know if she was that in love with it!) and when we told other people they said "oh that's different" with this look on their face .

Before I found out we were going to have a boy, I had chosen Lyra Dawn June (middle names from DH's mum and mine) and a few people weren't that enamoured with it! However, we had a boy and everyone got used to our DS being called what he is and no-one bats an eyelid.

My doctor at the 6 week check for DS2 did ask after DS1 and saw they have the same initials and asked why we had done that...would cause terrible problems with post in the future and she hated how her parents had done that to her....I just smiled nicely.

magicmelons · 21/08/2011 21:18

My mum didn't call dd by her name for about 3 months, she called her bella, which in no way has anything to do with her name. It was only when a French tourist enquired about dd's name and started raving about what a chic name it was that dm got enthused over her name. She liked ds's name so no orbs there but told her our boys choice the other day and she laughed for about 5 mins and then said oh you are serious.

Dm is very opinionated as you can see.

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