to think this is unfair?

[itsSantanaLopez]

Friends of ours are due their first baby any day soon. They've sent a email and announced the sex and said that they will announce the name when baby is born.

BUT

They've also the name 'will surprise everyone' and 'we'd appreciate it if you don't make any comments that aren't positive- this is our decision'.

What the fuck have they named this child? I am DYING to know. It's just unfair!

Marion.

To the people saying it must be god awful or really out there if you have to preface it with a threat, all i can say is you mustn't have met the nasty bastards i know. I know people who've chosen normal names to be met with negative comments. Some people just can't keep their gob shut. My friend had a baby called Jacob and people (including her MIL) was really rude about how 'religious' it was. I could understand if they'd chosen Jesus, but Jacob is fairly normal in names nowadays i think.

Actually 2 of the names mentioned here are DH's genuine choices. Horatio and Tiberius. :)

People can be really unkind about 'normal' names, my SIL called her baby a really ordinary name, think along the lines David, Steven etc. The midwife asked her what she had decided to call him, she was acting all excited when asking, when SIL told her she said 'oh' with a bit of a face. SIL was really upset as it was her dad's name who passed away when she was a young child.

I didn't consider this actually until MrsKoala mentioned it, but they could be naming after a family member so it is a normal name and they think people will comment about it.

...or 'Nova Gina' ?

Barry Geronimo Smith has been mentioned before to universal approval.

I seriously cannot wait til potentially the middle of Feb before you unveil this bloody name...

Mordecai Rigby Jake Finn Gumball Waterson

at the

at the MIL and traffic lights!!

It's not my fault she's due end of January I knew it was January sometime but I doublechecked the last few emails to make sure.

Am I missing something with Gideon? Its not that outlandish and little red trousers?

doodlekitty our dear chancellor of the exchequer, George Osbourne, was originally named Gideon. After 13 years of living with it, he reflected on his experiences and decided he could do a better job picking his first name than his father, Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet, had done. In my opinion, he was right.

At least he got one thing right in his life then.

I know of someone whose child has Danger as a middle name. I think it's pretty cool tbh.

You I think it was the high point of his decision making. It's all been downhill from there...

P.S. I think stats show that the most common deed poll name change is to add Danger as a middle name!

Achille?

(I am rather taken with that one at the moment)

Bilbo and /or Baggins?

my moneys actually on Nelson or Mandela TBH

Calliope

Calliope is lovely.

It's pretty, definitely. Def unusual though. Have met a Princess, but never a Calliope! Pronunciation-wise and spelling-wise, there's potential for confusion. But then, these days, everyone seems to be subject to them. My children have the safest names ever, and still bring stuff home where the staff have switched or left letters out.

A child might also feel pressured to be the next Poet Laureate!

Jaeger Jinger.

Roger after a relative. Algernon Ernest in homage to the play by Oscar Wilde.

The third child (oh God this is going to out me if she ever comes on here) was called Louie.

Spelled like that because they didn't want to call him Louis and have people call him 'Lewis' by mistake.

MIL was going "Louie? LOUIE?" in a Bronx accent....

Titus?
Quince?
Boris?
(Adolph was my immediate thought when I read the OP.)

Sadly, I agree with PP - it's probably gonna be a name they find 'unusual' but there will be 4 other little boys in his year group that will have the same name...like Felix, Dexter, or Arlo.

Your all wrong it's clearly going to be Hitler. Well what's wrong with that?

(To clarifly, there's nothing wrong with the names Felix, Dexter or Arlo - the 'sadly' bit was referencing our collective hot anticipation of a really heinous name!)

I have it

It's Jeremy. As in Kyle. Except it's after someone in the family.

Philip

i once met someone in RL who said that he had googled his kids names and found them ridiculed on mn.