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?!

[QuintessentialOHara]

We need to know her surname.

Hopefully it is neither Sins or Thumbs, or .... Smithers

And she better not move to a country where they find the TH - pronunciation difficult, she may be Fourteen before she knows it!

[ZZZenagain]

I don't mind original or unusual names but Thirteen is daft

[EldritchCleavage]

ryanboy, she could be Thirtie for short. Problem solved!

[ZZZenagain]

hah Thirtie for short!

[BikeRunSki]

If you are going to give a number as a name (but why?) that's probably the absolute worst number to give! At least she'll be the only one in her class. Probably!

[QOD]

Omg at the hi I'm Fred
Hi I'm thirteen scenario!!

I know a Friday. Ridiculous

[IneedAsockamnesty]

I don't only know nice children but the ones I know who do tend to bully pick on other things often things that their parents also pick on.

Obviously that's not all children just the few bullying ones I know.

Names would not make a difference to people's lives in a negative way if people didn't judge things as simple as names. Fine judge actions and behaviour but judging things like a name unless you are doing so to chose it yourself for your own child is pretty piss poor, and says much more about you than it does about the person you are judging.

[StuntGirl]

I'll be honest, I've been thinking about this thread all day and the name has grown on me.

I think their reasoning is slightly clutching at straws but to the children she grows up with/goes to class with Thirteen won't mean anything but the little girl who sits on their table, iykwim.

[squoosh]

You're being very charitable StuntGirl...........now snap out of it

School is only a fraction of someone's life. The number 13 will appear everywhere, buses, Chinese takeaway menus, car reg, house numbers, all the hilarious 'unlucky for some' references that will happen day in, day out.

[Egusta]

Nicole Kidman named her daughter 'Sunday' after a famous Australian painter.

Rather unfortunately, the middle name was 'rose' so she has been nicknamed Sunday Roast.

I like Sunday. Sigh. I really wanted to name DS 'Winter'. Well- he was born in Winter in Oz, but sadly, in Summer here. There are lots of Summers around (love the name) but they are all girls.

[Egusta]

Thirteen though..,.. as someone said upthread. Not sure it will catch on.

(Mind you though, My DFather said that windsurfing would never catch on, so declined the chance to invest...... that turned out well too.)

[HorryIsUpduffed]

Leaving aside the meaning, it sounds pretty. The meaning though...

I don't get the link with the cousin's birthday though, unless that was the conception date ::vomit::

Hormones do odd things to brains.

[Egusta]

Indeed horry and that is why you get 6 weeks to register.

Otherwise DS was potentially Winter or Tobermory.

[squoosh]

Typhoid is a pretty sound too.

[HorryIsUpduffed]

Sunday Roast Kidman was also not born on a Sunday.

I know someone who was a bit disappointed that she wouldn't be able to use her favourite name April as she was due in June. Baby was obligingly premature and little April is now five.

[nooka]

I think calling your child any number is a pretty poor joke but 13 is just asking for trouble. I am relatively conservative about names (have a very unusual name personally which I like, but didn't choose very unusual names for my children because much as I love my name it is also pain) and have always thought that if you want to go for something wacky you should try it out yourself first.

Go into Starbucks and have it written on the cup to yell out when it's done, introduce yourself a few times to new people etc. If you feel uncomfortable and get really odd looks bear in mind that your child will have that for the rest of their life, and possibly just possibly think again.

[HorryIsUpduffed]

squoosh don't tempt me. I am 12w but don't dare write name lists until/unless a safe scan.

[perplexedpirate]

I quite like it.

[Egusta]

[actually i love Tobermory]

Congrats horry. :)

[schobe]

Ah Mrs Devere the voice of reason. Totally agree.

Live and let live and all that.

If the only way we can teach our kids not to bully is by making sure everyone has 'approved' names, then we're fucked aren't we?

[amandine07]

Surely this is a wind up...?!

[GrowSomeCress]

Oh dear. Bet she will change it, or just ask to be called Tina.

[Gingerandcocoa]

Please try to talk some sense into them, think of the poor little girl!