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To think this really isn't a bloody name?

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ballinacup · 23/04/2013 10:27

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?!

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ParadiseChick · 23/04/2013 19:08

I like it!

TidyDancer · 23/04/2013 19:11

I've heard it all now.

Hands down the worst baby name I've ever read on MN.

Shinigami · 23/04/2013 19:30

It's not even a paticularly attrative sounding number. Where I'm from it would be pronounced thur'EEn.

Poor child.

breatheslowly · 23/04/2013 19:37

I imagine that when she is older there will be plenty of "thirteen, lucky for some" nudge nudge, wink wink comments. Bleurgh.

AnnaKissed · 23/04/2013 19:38

I was chatting to someone today who has a DD called Sixtine (pronounced Sixteen). They are French but living in an English speaking country. I tried my hardest to be polite and but was secretly Shock

PuppyMonkey · 23/04/2013 19:41

I think I prefer Th13rteen Grin

YouDontWinFriendsWithSalad · 23/04/2013 19:43

I quite like it.

JuneChurch · 23/04/2013 19:43

DH is Southern Italian and apparently it used to be quite common to name all your children First, Second, Third etc.

Alliwantisaroomsomewhere · 23/04/2013 19:44

I want to call my DC 4,398. Now THAT will be unusual (unless someone higher in the thread made a comment similar to this - I cannot be bothered reading it).

LillianGish · 23/04/2013 19:45

Annakissed - Sixtine is a v Catholic name in France. It is what the French call the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican - nothing to do with the number.

MummytoKatie · 23/04/2013 19:59

The reasoning seems slightly tenuous as well. Had both parents been born on the 13th, got together on the 13th, married on the 13th and she be born on the 13th then it would (sort of) make sense. But roughly 1 in 15 people have a parent whose birthday is on the same day as the year they are born so it really isn't worth the naming rights.

(Come to think of it, dd was born in 2010 and dh's birthday is in October which is the 10th month. Or maybe dd was born on the 27th, dh and I got together on the 27th, dh's dad's birthday is on the 27th and we found out I was pregnant on the 27th. And I'm not even trying!)

They should have called her Remy. (Only House fans will get that!)

Loulybelle · 23/04/2013 20:01

Suddenly my desire to call any sons i have Ezio and Altair, are not so stupid.

greenishfingers · 23/04/2013 20:22

On the subject of number names, I'm a little surprised that no-one has mentioned the fantastic episode of Seinfeld where George plans to call his baby Seven. DH and I were planning to tell everyone that's what we'd call our first-born, and see who got it, but Posh and Becks put a stop to that.

greenishfingers · 23/04/2013 20:24

"I defy you to come up with a better name than Seven!" Grin

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ballinacup · 23/04/2013 20:42

MrsD I honestly think you're wrong on this one. If I called my baby plant pot, would it automatically become a name?

I'm not judging a child I don't know because of a name perceived as chavvy. I'm genuinely concerned about the future happiness of a relative because her parents are too fucking stupid to think beyond the next couple of years.

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ballinacup · 23/04/2013 20:45

And yes MummytoKatie I agree. DS was born in 2012 and DP was born in December... However I did not feel the urge to name him Twelve.

Probably because I'm not fucking stupid.

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everlong · 23/04/2013 20:49

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OrangeFootedScrubfowl · 23/04/2013 20:55

Meh. I can't get worked up about it.
I know people with totally unique names, and to be honest, you just get used to them. You don't think about it at all unless you're introducing them to someone else.

squoosh · 23/04/2013 20:59

I agree that you get used to all kinds of crazy names and after a while a name just sounds like a 'name', funnily enough! But I feel weary on behalf of a baby called Thirteen just knowing the daily questions and gags she'll have to take on the chin. Every time she introduces herself to someone new......ugh...............I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

toffeelolly · 23/04/2013 21:02

No way, this is a joke right?

NoToast · 23/04/2013 21:44

Tidydancer I knew a girl who called her son 'Tuna'. Is that worse? Smile

raisah · 23/04/2013 21:50

report them to social services for child neglect! Seriously, has anybody said anything to them or are they just keeping schtum to maintain the peace? I wonder if they would be allowed to register the name as its not really a name is it?

MrsDeVere · 23/04/2013 23:06

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StuntGirl · 23/04/2013 23:17

It does come across as very try hard but like I say I'm warming to it. Depends on the surname too. If it was something like Thirteen Jones it would sound brilliant Grin

I guess it depends on the family and what they're like too? A kooky/hippy family could probably get away with it more than your average Normal Bloggs family.

GlitterySkulls · 23/04/2013 23:19

raisah , don't be so bloody ridiculous! Hmm

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