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

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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.

Wait up, you can't put Rhonda in with Candy Rain

There has never been a stripper called Rhonda except probably in America

It could have been worse.

My initial reaction to reading the name on here was "fuck off!", at least you didn't say that out loud to your niece.

Did she get it from playing Candy Crush or something?

It's not as bad as the poster on this thread whose cousin called her child Katzy though. Katzy. There are no words for it.

Olive Clementine is not great, but its not Kandy-Rain awful!

My all time worst bame is Krystal-Pebbles, I think that is about the same level of awfulness as Kandy-Rain

I think Olive is quite an ugly name but I wouldn't feel a tsunami of shame and mortification introducing myself as Olive as I would if I had to say 'Hi, my name is Kandy-Rain'.

Every year Scotland release a list of every single baby's name registered that year. There are some belters on that, Kandy-Rain (before the spunk revelation) seems fairly in keeping with some names I read a few months ago. Still an appalling name though.

To the pp who wondered about the registrar not laughing - when we got married, our registrar must have been the only person in the place to keep a straight face after our nephew let out the loudest fart while sitting on the echoiest floor ever. The very epitome of professionalism! And therefore all registrars can keep a straight face at all times.

I've spent the last half hour looking through the Scottish baby names for 2014 (DH is watching the rugby plus making supper so I've got time on my hands )
There are indeed some humdingers on the list although Kandy doesn't appear either on its own or hyphenated with another name.

I've heard of a couple of local Pebbles, that's a truly shit name. It may sound cute to some for a baby/young toddler but a 13 year old or 35 year old professional, not so much.

I think the shittest name I heard of was Joop Armani (yes after fragrances), there was a load of siblings, all fragrance based names. And no I'm not making this up.

Remembered a sibling.

DKNY! Pronounced Dick Knee! FFS.

I have met a little girl called Remy. Unremarkable you say? Yes, but her surname is Martin!

His do you pronounce Remy?

Remmy?

I like remy

you will have to explain the Martin thing

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Aaah!!