Baby names threads - I want to win!

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This keeps happening to me, I get lured in and offer some great overdone, unoriginal, silly suggestions. The thread runs its course and the OP says thanks and they will probably use one of the lovely names suggested.

I want to know which one! did I win?!

Am I the only absurdly competitive namer? well AIBU?

YANBU. I hate it when a poster does this. TELL US THE BLOODY NAME.

Was it mine? Was it mine?

Is it Algernon? Or Bernard?

Wilfred, please let it be Wilfred

I have seen Mildred go down well on baby names

I picked a name lots of posters hated, not sure why I asked opinions really as I ignored them!

honeytea naming is so personal and people have very passionate opinions about their choices (good on you for sticking with yours). I stay off the threads asking "should I choose Agnes or Dorothy?" and "What do you think of Albert?".

The ones that bother me are when they are asking you to come up with a name with three syllables that start with the letter N. I, and everyone else chip in but we never find out who wins

Does anyone remember the one about the name having to fit in with OH's tattoo. Some kind of weird human scrabble. Think OP was asking if Poa or something was a good name because it fitted in. Hilarious she got a roasting for it.

I've got a thread on there now- promise promise promise to update once DC3 arrives, sorry....

What I find weird is when the OP says, Henry, Charles or Edward - which do you prefer? Then someone comes on and says Don't like any of those, what about Artorius or Tristan?

doorbell, dang missed it

AndFanjo please do, prizes?

My baby naming days are passed so I'm living vicariously through others

I don't go into baby names any more. Quite frankly I find it a terrifying place where normal rules of manners and common decency don't seem to apply.

Seriously, it's vicious! It makes the doghouse look like child's play.

Fair enough say "I don't like that name" but "that name is the worst possible name there has ever been, you are a terrible person, your child will hate you and never find a place in society" is a bit harsh IMO.

I do find the competitive I love names all you plebs would hate stuff quite amusing though.

I ventured in there when pregnant with my one and only, new to MN, high risk but miracle pregnancy and horrendously ill with HG. I gave a list of about 4 (I think) names. All fairly common, non offensive, two syllable names. Or so I thought.

Apparently one was the same as a character from a kids show so using that made me a complete nobber, two were far too common so unacceptable simply for that reason, and the last one I couldn't possibly like because - and I quote - "he'll be a twat".

It was brutal.

I enjoy a good baby name thread. Of course, people are allowed to name their children anything they like in this country (though other European countries do have restrictions, which I actually think is quite sensible), but when you work in a school, you do see how people are getting progressively more "adventurous" with names, year on year. The wildest names I have seen recently being: two Rockys, Pinky (I kid you not, it's not a pet name, this is the poor child's legal first name), and the mysterisouly named Boy-Boy... that's it, just Boy-Boy...

i would never offer an opinion as somebody else said its a very personal ,passionate choice but i do agree some people will say i,m having a baby boy i want a traditional , modern , out there name [delete as appropriate ] than some body comes along with a long list of so not traditional, modern ,out there names!

:o

I never thought if it as winning.

UNTIL NOW! :o

The worst ones on baby name threads are the bastards who list about 100 names as suggestions.

That's cheating - just putting down every name you know to increase your chance of winning.

You're meant to pick a few names carefully and then win be ause you are the best at guessing what names a random stranger off the Internet might like to name their (possibly fake) child.

Those are the rules

I better go see if I can find mine and up date it!

The only time I have been really flamed was on a baby names thread where I ventured a comment on a name which I said was Turkish as my Turkish dd-i-l has a grandfather with that name. A mumsnetter who can be a little volatile went for the jugular and it descended into farce when I texted dd-i-l to confirm and was scolded for not realising that because someone had a name it didn't mean the name was from there. Which is true eg Michelle or Daniella etc but I was only saying.......

I once answered a query from someone who was unsure how to pronounce a welsh name. Being welsh I felt fairly well qualified.

Apparently I was wrong. You can pronounce it whichever way you think sounds nicest

I also read a baffling one from a poster who had found a name she absolutely loved but didn't know how to pronounce it.

I gently asked how it was possible to like a name if you didn't have a clue what it sounds like.

I was handed my arse and shown the door.

I hadn't realised it was such a scary place, I discovered MN long after I chose DS's names so I have never started my own thread there. But I agree there are some very blunt posts and I have learnt never to countenance a name beginning with K even for my cat.

I think that the fact that there are no rules makes the game even more attractive, I could suggest Santaclause and I'm just as likely to "win" as someone who suggests Eric

As for the cheaters who suggest hundreds of names in a long list; they should be banned to the naughty step and told not to come back until they can compete fairly like the rest of us with hundreds of separate posts

Ooh whats wrong with names beginning with a K?

I never head to baby names, I lack imagination. Both DDs are in the top 10 for popularity .

I swear people in Baby Names just pull out the most terrible ones they can think of and laugh if the OP actually puts it in their final solution. Like some sort of undercover betting game.

I've never been on baby naming threads, I may start if it's so interesting!

I don't go onto Baby Names, because of the sneering responses to non English names, often called "made up", because of the posters ignorance.

There seems to be little knowledge of other cultures or history (even UK history previous to the last centuary).

As Freyas post indicates, as Rocky is far from a new name.

I have seen, what i though of as well known biblical names, laughed at, as invented.

good question kitCat

When i was pregnant the baby name thread made me cry . i honestly thought it would be a gentle place, where people were just helpful and wouldn't be so fucking rude to slag of something which is for your precious offspring. But nooooo.

I said what name i had chosen and got 3 pages of a good old fashioned shoeing! i was

I was told it was stupid and mean to name my child a name which ment elf, many posters told me how cruel it was until someone came and pointed out that Alfie also means elf. must update my name thread.