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Original poster

Aaliyah Reign?! Seriously?!

205 replies

SniffsandSneezes · 30/09/2015 19:41

So, Katherine Jenkins, a woman with about as regular and average a name as they come, has called her daughter... Aaliyah Reign.

AIBU to be sick of celebrities (who almost always have utterly ordinary names, Katie Price I'm also looking at you) giving their babies the most godawful names you could think of??

And worst of all, it's spreading to normal people. I occasionally wander over to the baby names thread on MN when I need a laugh and, genuinely, there are people on there suggesting all manner of ridiculous names, including... wait for it... Zebulon.

I mean WTF is that?!

I'm serious, there should be some sort of law against this, these people need to be stopped.

AIBU?

OP posts:
serin · 30/09/2015 23:17

Aaliyah is a beautiful name and the name of a lovely consultant I work with.

Reign goes nicely with it but I would have spelled it the traditional way 'Raine' as in Raine Spencer, Princess Diana's mother.

JobobeanHo · 30/09/2015 23:18

I think Aaliyah is a beautiful name. Reign isn't a name I've heard but maybe it has meaning or significance for the parents.

TheIncomparableDejahThoris · 30/09/2015 23:22

carabos someone said upthread that Reign is a Kardashian name - is that like a StarTrek thing?

No, Star Trek is Cardassians. Don't feel bad though. It took me ages to work out people weren't talking about the race from Star Trek: Deep Space 9.

The Kardashians are a celebrity family. All the daughters' name begin with K. One is married to Kanye West and they have a child called North West.

BarbarianMum · 30/09/2015 23:24
ALassUnparalleled · 30/09/2015 23:29

Aaliyah is quite a pretty name and not "out there"

So far as "Reign" is it "Reign" or "Raine"? Raine Spencer was Princess Diana's stepmother. It's one of those names like India and Phaedra which work if you are very posh.

Booyaka · 30/09/2015 23:30

It wasn't me who said it was, it was several posters up thread who were complaining that saying it was chavvy was racist because it was a black or Muslim name, they seemed to think that meant that people were equating being black or Muslim with being chavvy.

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SniffsandSneezes · 30/09/2015 23:34

I give up. I'm never attempting a jokey thread again.

Here I thought we would be chatting about how Princess Tiaamii, Reign, Royalty, Chardonnay etc are just plain bonkers but no... I'm anti Semitic and racist. My Indian grandmother and Jewish uncle will be most suprised!

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ALassUnparalleled · 30/09/2015 23:36

Shakira and Anastasia are perfectly nice names in their own right, but you just....... wouldn't, would you

Anastasia for me is a member of the Russian Imperial family who probably did die in the cellar at Yekaterinburg in 1918 along with the rest of them despite unfounded rumours to the contrary.

MidniteScribbler · 30/09/2015 23:37

I'd rather have an Aaliyah come through my class than yet another Ella.

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SniffsandSneezes · 30/09/2015 23:38

Is it bad that 50 shades has ruined Anastasia for me?!

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sproketmx · 30/09/2015 23:40

I apologise for my somewhat caustic response. It's a somewhat personal matter. A couple of mine have 'unusual' names and I get sick of Ridiculous responses from people about it. One of my boys is Ruaridh (roo-ree scottish fir roderick) to which people say why didn't you just call him Rory and spell it properly? If I has a quid Everytime I heard this I'd be mortgage free. Then there's Kelpie and dear god do I get it over hers. Did you think that up yourself? Is that short for Kelly? How cute a nickname etc. Kelpie is a Scottish water horse and there's a reason we called her this. It's none of anyone's business

ALassUnparalleled · 30/09/2015 23:45

my name was considered a stupid foreign name that most mispronounced in the 70's and 80's I love my name and often commented on now how lovely it is

Mine was a foreign name in the late 50s and early 60's. It's never been in the top 100 UK names (which I'm happy about) but it's become more popular, I love it and like you have had lots of comments about how nice it is.

DonkeyOaty · 30/09/2015 23:45

Sproke grrrr at them. Twats.

noeffingidea · 30/09/2015 23:46

OP, there's a difference between 'light and jokey' and bitchy.
That's how your OP came across to me.

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SniffsandSneezes · 30/09/2015 23:46

Ha sproketmx my Dad was Irish, we've got some pretty hardcore Gaelic names in the family- I feel your pain! Kelpie I've only heard of in Harry Potter

I know someone whose son is called Sharky. Genuinely. Something to do with it looking like he had a fin in his sonogram...

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hibbleddible · 30/09/2015 23:49

It's a Jewish name. Most wrong with it.

I do however judge people who name their children after their favourite alcoholic drink. Even more so if their children's names reads like a menu in a bar.

WorraLiberty · 30/09/2015 23:50

This thread has just gone really really weird.

OP, as much as I love the name Aaliyah and I think the OP is being awfully judgemental about it, hating the name or thinking it's 'chavvy' (awful expression!) does not make her anti-Semitic or racist.

Unless there's some sort of unwritten law that states if you're from another country or you're Jewish, you can't possibly be a 'chav'? Confused

It's also weird that the OP has said, "but no... I'm anti Semitic and racist. My Indian grandmother and Jewish uncle will be most suprised!"

Does having an Indian grandmother and Jewish uncle mean you can't be racist or anti-Semitic nowadays? Confused

Not that I think you are (as I said earlier), but it's not like it's totally impossible just because of your grandmother and uncle.

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SniffsandSneezes · 30/09/2015 23:51

effing well that was absolutely not my intention. I just wanted to have a chuckle at some daft names and go to bed. Now I'm sat here in the dark trying to convince a bunch of strangers that I am in fact not a Nazi.

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sproketmx · 30/09/2015 23:52

Haha. The irish. Weve got a fair few of them too. Kelpie was born in her waters. Hence the name. Upon explaining this to people they then comment that it's not possible. Yes it bloody is!!!! Grin she was originally going to be rosalie after the thin lizzy song. She prefers kelpie, says rosalie is an old woman's name.

GreatFuckability · 30/09/2015 23:54

oh oh me! me! i've met KJ! And i can categorically state shes a simpering dickhead. or she was when she was 15. lol.

but yeah. I think Rain/Raine would be better than Reign..

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SniffsandSneezes · 30/09/2015 23:56

I DON'T HATE THE NAME AALIYAH NOT ONCE HAVE I SAID IT WAS CHAVVY OR ANYTHING ELSE.

I suppose I expected people to home in on the middle name- much like I did- moan about how Kardashianism is taking over the world and soon we'll all my naming our kids after compass coordinates or titles of rank. Then suddenly it got hijacked by the chavvy brigade, and then the omg you're so racist brigade, and now here we are.

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Booyaka · 30/09/2015 23:56

That's supposed to be an omen she is destined for greatness, but I guess you knew that Sproket. I read about someone famous the other day who was too, but can't quite remember who.

FanOfSpam · 30/09/2015 23:57

This is why I hate a cluster of Mumsnetters.

QuickNameChangeToRant · 30/09/2015 23:57

Aliyah is beautiful. It has real meaning in Hebrew can't remember what . I think it refers to returning to your Motherland, and settling back where you first felt home. That is a powerful sentiment for a little girls' name.

Reign is shit.

noeffingidea · 30/09/2015 23:58

OP They're only 'daft' to you.
Personally I like both the names and if I didn't I wouldn't take the piss out of them. It's got nothing to do with anyone else.

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