To have told my niece I'm not mad on her choice of name feel a bitch

[Everythingwillbeok]

My niece has a little boy, 6 with a "normal name" popular and nice.
She's due in about 7 weeks I think with a baby girl. She lives about an hour away so don't see her loads, we've just chatted on the phone and she's mentioned her choice of name. I really wish I'd have said oh that's cute or something and as we were on the phone could probably have got away with it.

But I think I went quiet and said "oh right....Mmmmm I'm not mad" argh I feel like a cow, it's nothing to do with me.

My sister(her mother) has just text me saying I believe you don't like daughters choice of name, she's offended.

How can I put this right, we aren't particularly close but I really don't want to make anyone feel bad,especially when pregnant.

It's just a silly name, sorry but it is.

Jesus Titty Fuck - it's mind numbingly awful.
I would really struggle to have something nice to see and I'm the muthafuckin queen of diplomacy...

Laughing so much

I don't think you really can sms her back and say its a lovely name darling niece, because that is just lying....and then you have to pretend to like the name for the rest of days. Just say something like, sorry I upset you, didn't meant to hurt your feelings. Just for gods sake, don't say its a cute name to make yourself feel better. Because its most certainly isn't......

Do you think its a trying hard here cool take on Carly Rae, she is that singer.....

Kandy Rain..... sounds like a Barney the dinosaur song....

I don't think you have to lie. I'd go the honesty route.

"Yes actually I do hate it, it's really not to my taste at all. But that's just because I am so very very old and square. Fortunately it's not a name for my child, it's a name for DN's child so as long as she loves it that's great."

Mind you I'd have no choice in the matter because I am the world's most incompetent liar.

The K is the horrific bit.

Candy is a lovely name that has belonged to some lovely women.

Raine can and almost inevitably will be dropped by kind people and maybe the girl herself.

But that 'K'....

Maybe you could put the focus of your explanation on the 'K' issue?

C'mon someone's having a larf

Do they know you use MN ?

Oh dearie me sou 0nds like a game you play on your phone anyway you are going to have to apologise and say im sorry i upset her/you then say it doesnt matter if i am not keen she likes it,

Oh stop it. I keep trying to leave Mumsnet and then all do this to me.

Lets hope the scan was wrong and she has a boy

EXCUSE ME.

WTFingF is wrong with Rhonda?

I'll have you know, every Rhonda I've ever met has been bloody awesome. Well, the only Rhonda I've ever met. Okay, the one I see in the mirror every day.

Beware all ye the wrath of Rhonda!

I suppose it's better than Acid-Raine

The Beach Boys like the name Rhonda

Kandy Rain, not so much

Inspired by this thread I've been wandering the internet in search of a definitive answer to the question, 'Can a Registrar refuse to accept a name?'

Not that I think Kandy-Raine can be refused purely on the grounds of appalling taste, but I was wondering if registrars have the right to not accept a name that is spelt like something or sounds like something really rude or offensive. For example, Fuk or Niga. Anyone know?

I do remember the registrar carefully writing out the initials of both my twins to check that they didn't spell something awful or embarrassing, and in fact we shoved in one extra middle name to save one of our dds from having her leg pulled in later life. But I'm not sure if that was just something that particular registrar did from wisdom and experience, or standard procedure.

Sounds like a great porn star name!!!

Oh no i would have thought she was pulling my leg. Poor kandy rain.

On a more serious note you could say it's grown on you it was just that your not keen on rain as a weather It's a miserable weather

Just watching some celeb twaddle and one of the..ahem.. Ladies was called Cherry Ryder. Fucking fan bloody tastic.

You should point out to her that foot Locker do a trainer/sneaker called 'candy reign'.

At least it wasn't spelt with an I. With a little heart over it. Or Kane instead of Raine.
See could be loads worse.

Staywithme those trainers! I always wondered what had happened to Fenella from Chorlton and the Wheelies...

Fenella. Much better name.

KANDY FUCKING RAIN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

You were very restrained, it's an awful name. Poor child.

Fair to say you are right
Every child has a right not to be insanely named
A BF wanted to name his son Hercules Lothario. Didn't speak to me for weeks when I told him he was being egotistical.
Said son christened Sam and am godfather
There are some happy endings

Are you sure it is not Candice Raine?