In thinking its not ok to pass negative comment about names unless directly asked?

[IneedAsockamnesty]

No issues at all if your actually asked your opinion but if your not asked

if you are not one of the parents of the actual baby being named or recently named you should do nothing other than smile or say something nice.

Anything else is overstepping rude and hurtful.

[IneedAsockamnesty]

Yes, it was laughed at and ridiculed for about half an hour along with "you can't possibly inflict that on the child"

Her dh is very hurt and upset (it was his parents and an aunt) that they dd it.

And really its a very normal name fuck it its Amelia.

[KateCroydon]

What on earth is wrong with Amelia?

[Catsize]

I really like the name Hermione but fear the reactions, to be honest. Also like Persephone, but think that would provoke even more wrath! Perhaps bump will be a boy...
The only time I have bodged on this is when I thought a friend was joking when he told me his son was called Clive and I said 'no really, what's his name?'.
And Amelia is fine! but perhaps I am not best judge due to liking Hermione

[Apileofballyhoo]

What's wrong with Jupiter or Clive?

[IneedAsockamnesty]

I'm not sure apparently as soon as she said the name the aunt started laughing and the mil said something along the lines of it being an up itself sort of a name and she would be bullied and they all went on about it.

She was ever so upset

[MarcelineTheVampireQueen]

I have a top 10 every day run of the mill name for my son. Someone in my last job asked me his name and when I told her, she sid "Thats a dogs name, you should change it" I said, thats rude, besides he is fucking SEVEN I am not going to change it!

Point is people are rude. Fuck em, name the baby Amelia (Which I like btw, not that it should matter!)

[CharityFunDay]

I am responsible for a woman with the surname "Hagger" not calling her daughter "Sophie"...

[Catsize]

No! Are people really that dim?!

[FreeWee]

Amelia is very popular as is Amelie. Definitely not to be laughed at. This is why we didn't tell anyone any of our names so they couldn't veto them with smirks/laughs/comments. I liked Leo for a boy but my DH doesn't. I said "I was thinking of Leo" knowing we'd never go for it as my DH doesn't like it just to see what people would say. Lots of "Oh no. I don't like that" So I'm glad I didn't try it with names we were really going to go for.

Height of rudeness if the baby is already named, and, named or otherwise, definitely rude if it's a family name so someone dear to the couple is called it.

[CharityFunDay]

No! Are people really that dim?!

She was a bit of a prize plum, to be honest. I once asked her if she could change my £1 coin for a £2 coin, and she handed it over without question.

I did wonder whether it was my place to say anything at all, but when I considered the torment that poor girl would go through during puberty, and which would follow her around for the rest of her life, I thought I had to say something.

[jacks365]

Wish someone had mentioned something before baby jacks was named. Now there's a child who will have problems with her initials as a teen. I would however think it rude if you pointed it out now.

[Thesebootsweremadeforwalking]

What's wrong with Sophie Hagger?

[squeakytoy]

S.Hagger......

[DisappointedHorse]

S.Hagger did amuse me!

I have also been told DS has a dog's name, many times. It's not liked we named him Rover FFS. It is rude.

[picnicbasketcase]

What the hell? Amelia is a lovely name! There is no reason for anyone to react violently against it other than to just be a cruel shit.

[Thesebootsweremadeforwalking]

Oh



I did once meet twins called Sam and Ellie at a baby group, and had to leave the room for a moment.

[Sparrowlegs248]

I love the names victoria and edward. But our surname is wood.....

Tbh i wasn't keen on my sisters name for her second child and expressed preference for one of her other choices. But she chose the one i didn't like so i shut up.

Amelia is lovely.

[Thesebootsweremadeforwalking]

Posted too soon.

ButI would not have dreamt of saying anything to their mum as it's none of my business.

[TheBigJessie]

Amelia is fine, surely. I may be biased, as I named my chair that.

Look, I was seven, alright? was weird child Our dictionary had a section for boys' and girls' names. This means I have used up most of the girls' names I like on Barbies. If I have more than one daughter in the future, this will make things awkward!

[VisualiseAHorse]

Wasn't Amelia the top name last year for girls in the uk?

I would be nice in real life, but I give my honest opinion online. Because I think the world has plenty of Braydens, Kaidens and Loo-cees.

[VisualiseAHorse]

What's wrong with twins called Sam and Ellie?

[ColderThanAWitchsTitty]

salmonella?

[delasi]

an up itself sort of a name

I'm coming across this more and more, some people thinking that certain names are 'snobby'. I could possibly understand that some people might think that a name like Jonty Tarquin Chalmondeley III was on the 'posher' side of things, but it's just a reflection of the parents having named the child. Ridiculous to attribute something like snobbery or 'up oneself' to a baby's name

DS has a name that seems to divide people into 3 groups - it's posh, it's for an old man, it's lovely. Maybe when he retires he'll be all 3

[captainmummy]

I knew someone with a dd called samantha and a ds called samuel - apparently she never called them by the diminutive...

Also when I was in hospital having ds2 the cow woman girl across from me told the nurse her newborn dd was called 'Amber'. Nurse says 'oh I used to have a dog called Amber.'

[DreamingofSummer]

Apileofballyhoo Really?

Naming a boy Jupiter would lead to a lifetime of ridicule. It's the name of the largest planet - a gas giant with a great red spot or the King of the Roman gods who hurled thunderbolts every which way. Either way the poor lad will have the piss taken out of him unmercifully