To think this really isn't a bloody name?

[ballinacup]

My cousin and her DP have just had their first baby together (she already has three sons, it's her DP's first).

Cute little thing, very sweet.

They've called her Thirteen.

Thirteen

Apparently this is because she was born in 2013 and cousin's birthday is on the 13th of June. I'm sure they think they're very unique and interesting, and yet I can't help feeling that they have forgotten that they're naming a person. Someone who has to go to school and introduce herself as Thirteen. Someone who has to apply for university as Thirteen. Someone who has to, every time she says her name for the next (hopefully) eight or nine decades, put up with a confused pause followed by '... Thirteen?!'.

I know name snobbery gets bashed on MN and I'm fully prepared to be told it's a beautiful, unique signifier and that no one will ever bully her for it but seriously... Fucking Thirteen?!

[AKissIsNotAContract]

I don't think it's that bad.

Won't this thread make you terribly conspicuous, I shouldn't imagine there are many baby Thirteens at the moment.

[SoupDragon]

To be fair Soup the bullies used your name, but if your name had been Jane Smith, and they chose to bully you, they would just have made up a name to call you.

No, they bulled me because of my name. That is the point.

If my name had been Jane Smith I would not have been brought to their attention.

[MidniteScribbler]

Reminds me of a lotto commercial here in Australia when they were giving away 13 million. "Thirteen! THIRTEEN!!!" (Sorry, only aussies will understand, and they're up to nineteen "Nineteen! NINETEEN!" now).

Should be a law against it.

[WhereYouLeftIt]

"Won't this thread make you terribly conspicuous, I shouldn't imagine there are many baby Thirteens at the moment."
It wouldn't do the OP's cousin any harm to have the point that she's being idiotic hammered home.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

In my opinion, bullies will seize on the person who stands out. In my case, it was because I didn't have the local accent, and was a bookish child, and an incomer, all of which marked me out for the bullies, who then used my surname as the basis for my bullying nickname. Giving a child a name like Thirteen is going to make them stand out in a way that the bullies will notice - and whilst I don't think you should give in to this, equally, having been the bullies' target and given that I am still suffering for it, I wouldn't paint a target on my child's back, as I fear this name will do.

[sherbetpips]

even worse it will probably end up called Tina for short

[PeppermintPasty]

Can I gratuitously drop in that the tea lady at my old place of work had two grandchildren called Canderelle and Dune? The latter was definitely named after the perfume, but when I asked if Canderelle was named after the sweetener(albeit with a different spelling), she looked at me as though I was er, mad.

Different strokes and all.

[FairPhyllis]

Holy mackerel.



No, still can't think of anything to say.

[EasilyBored]

Really? People are fucking stupid. If I was the clerk doing the registration, I would probably have politely asked if they had been smoking crack when they decided on that one.

Idiots.

[TheApprentice]

Naming children after numbers, days of the week etc is just confusing. I once did a day's supply teaching in a class with a child called Wednesday. Obviously i didnt know this when I walked into the class. The teacher had helpfully left a pile of worksheets and put the children's names on them. At the top was one saying "Wednesday".. I left these worksheets as I assumed they were there ready for the next day and the teacher had written Wednesday at the top as a reminder (I was working on a Tuesday!) . It didnt occur to me that this was a child's name! It was only after that I realised my mistake.

And of course the other kids will rip the piss.

[Sallystyle]

I knew a Sunday, she hated it.

[GlitterySkulls]

i don't think thirteen's that bad, tbh.

not one i'd choose, but it's not horrific.

[Viviennemary]

This sort of nonsense makes me think there should be a government list of approved names such as they have in some countries.

[BonaDea]

Yanbu. Stupid thing to lumber someone with!!

I hope she doesn't post on mn though or you are outed.

[Fakebook]

Blossom's friend in Blossom was called Six. Just some useless trivia there.

[ballinacup]

I don't really mind if I'm outed, I just feel for the poor bairn.

In fact, Cousin and Cousin's DP, if you're reading this, even Nana thinks you're enormous twats for naming your daughter Thirteen, so there.

[gingeme]

What are her boys names ? 10,11 and 12? .

[EldritchCleavage]

A relative of mine knew someone whose father was an obsessive Elvis fan. She was called 'Elvismania'. Couldn't he have just called her Elvira Presley [surname] or something? Poor woman.

[ceebie]

She might marry someone with the surname 'Flowers'

'Thirteen Flowers' isn't so bad. Perhaps her parents should seek to arrange a marriage along those lines...

[olivertheoctopus]

Wow. That's proper daft. I hope your cousin isn't on MN though as she isn't going to be too happy with you slagging her new baby's name off to all and sundry even though it really is a fucking stupid name

[Loulybelle]

Its a shame the boys arent forthright in saying "Thirteen, what a stupid name".

[gallifrey]

maybe they are fans of House? If I remember correctly her real name was Remy which I love.

Also reminds me of that sketch from The Young Ones where Vyv is pregnant and wants to call the child Shut Up or Piss Off because it will be very handy for getting into fights and things in later life!

[JaxTellerIsAllMine]

Thirteen is just ridiculous. cant they just call the baby April?

I always thought my name was horrid - called after my mother, but I'd rather have mine than thirteen.

[Alligatorpie]

I just asked my six year old what she thought of Thirteen as a name, she said when the girl is at school and counting, everytime she hears the number 13 being called, she will say "yes?" I think it is awful.
Didn't Nicole Kidman call her dd Tuesday?

[ryanboy]

*Guy: Hi - I'm Fred.
Thirteen: Hi - I'm Thirteen.

*

LMAO!!!!