In saying twin girls called Chummy and Bonnie is a big no?

[KateUpton]

This is all light hearted, because of course I wouldn't repeat this to my friend, but I can't help but bloody feel for her girls!

No word of a lie, the girls are going to be called Chummy and Bonnie! AIBU to say these names are a bit.. Something?

Roseanne Barr named her son Buck. It's still not as bad as twin girls I knew named Mary Cecilia and Mary Cecile. Both go by their confirmation names for obvious reasons. It was confusing for everyone. Alice and Anne are a pretty pair. I loathe nicknames or shortened versions as given names.

Naming children for virtues always ends badly. I know several Victorias who are slutty losers.
Chum is Australian slang for vomit. Not a good idea for a name!

Hopefully she'll get stopped when she tries to register Chummy's birth?

Someone has called their kid Rayon????

There is a Rayon in my ds' class.

Chummy will be given the nickname 'pedigree chum' at some point at school. That child will grow up hating that name.

Bonnie is a bit 'meh' I couldn't really care either way about it.

But Chummy is downright cruel

Bonnie is fine. But CHUMMY?

Someone seriously needs to have a word.

Bonnie is fine (quite pretty in fact) but for the love of God, CHUMMY??

Do you think she is perhaps naming the child after the 'Call the Midwife' character, and is too daft to realise that it is not, in fact, an actual name? Just an old-fashioned nickname (and by nickname I don't mean a shortening of a proper name, eg Lizzie for Elizabeth). It's the equivalent of 'Chalky' or 'Nobby' or something. Apart from CTM, where on earth could she have got it from?

It could equally well be for a boy and has nothing feminine or attractive about it at all. Ridiculous. She needs to be stopped, because it's actually quite cruel to the baby.

On reflection, it would be equally cruel for a boy really!

Chum is the fish entrails they throw off boats for deep sea fishing or as shark bait. So it's a toss up between dog food or fish entrails, and Bonnie bonita, the dancing banana.

The registrar will refuse those names, right?

My aunt gave her twins names in utero that were designed to make people go a bit and to stop asking. Mainly, I believe, my beloved DGM who as a mother was being a little pushy. Everyone referred to them by these 'names' - by birth they were given nice, normal names that everyone loved, DGM included.
Suuurely this is something like that????

"The registrar will refuse those names, right?"

Nope. In places like New Zealand, the registrar can bar names on grounds on 'no you bloody can't call a child that, it's unfair' and other places have even tighter rules. But not any part of UK, where is is just basic things like must contain only letters (plus hyphens or apostrophes, nothing else). Or obvious swearing/blasphemy.

I thought Bonnie was mainly used by motor-bike obsessives (who found the more obvious choice, Harley, was vetoed).

Bonnie is naff - one of my horses was called Bonny. But Chummy is NOT A NAME.

An old family friend is known as Chum, but it's short for Cholmondeley, and he's a bloke.

Still, it will be character-forming, and she'll become an adept in legal matters as she researches how to change her name at 16.

If these are actual real live baby names then let's hope the poor mum doesn't see this thread. She may have a breakdown!

Ah well, if she uses Mumsnet or Googles the names she knows that one of her (so called) friends is having a good old laugh at her expense on the Internet.

Bonnie is not to my taste, but it's a recognised name, so okay.

Chummy, though..... that's a terrible name to inflict on a child for all the reasons given above.

Are you really sure they aren't made up bump names?

I hope that she does google the names to see honest reactions. Because her daughters will live through those reactions nigh on daily until they can change their names.

I bet mum has a really "normal" name too. her poor poor girls

I know a grown up Bonnie (which is a nn for a totally unrelated name) who is, literally Bonnie in the Scottish sense and also I would t describe as pretty either. It's an unfortunate name.

I hope the mother DOES read this.

Far better for her to get upset now and change her mind than to have a child's life ruined by being named after dogfood.

I don't get why some posters are slating Bonnie.
It might not be everywhere, but round here (north England) Bonnie is quite a normal name. I know 3 (adult) Bonnies and never thought twice about it. Never heard a negative comment about the name, I don't think the Bonnies I know have had a hard time or any particular reaction to the name.

People who are saying its a dogs name because of the dog on Blue Peter, well they had dogs called Mabel and Lucy too but they are used for baby names.

It's hardly the same as naming a baby Fluffy or Rover.

From henceforth The Deed is going to be called a 'chummy frumble' in our house. DH is crying laughing

I think bonny might mean fat round here

Wasn't Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler's daughter called Bonnie?

Bonnie doesn't mean fat up here in Scotland - it means pretty.

And aren't you scared your friend will find out you've been ridiculing her on here OP?

If she's your friend couldn't you just tell her that you think the name Chummy will be making her daughter a target for ridicule?

Bonnie is FINE

Chummy is WTF

Is it a science experiment?

If you call one child "friendly" and one child"pretty" - do they grow up to behave according to their names?

Bonnie is just about okay - reminds me of "Bonny baby" competitions yes I am that old and Scarlett o'Hara's girl. It still sounds like a name for a Yorkshire terrier to me.

Chummy is toe curlingly dreadful. That poor child!

And is Rayon not actually Rayaan (which is fairly common or garden in Arabic names)? If not God help them too!

Chummy Frumble and Sexy Bananas have me roaring with laughter .

Scarlett and Rhett's daughter was really called Eugenia Victoria. Bonnie was her nickname.

No, Scarlett wanted to call her Eugenia Victoria but Rhett wouldn't let her and issues her being called Bonnie Blue Butler because of her bright blue eyes.