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AIBU?

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To ask if this is an actual name?

109 replies

coffeeisnectar · 16/01/2016 22:08

Someone I know is calling their new born Treylon..is that a name? I've never heard it before.

Fwiw the grandmother's on both sides are telling everyone that asks that the name hasn't been chosen yet while trying to get the parents to pick something else.

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HPsauciness · 17/01/2016 11:06

I wouldn't worry about that. My dd has a lovely name, but shortened sounds extremely rude. You know what, no-one has ever shortened it! If I'd come on MN, everyone would have been full of dire predictions, but in reality, children get teased a lot for lots of different things, and funnily enough, it's not always for the obvious name issues.

CallieTorres · 17/01/2016 11:14

I know a mum-of-Rueben and she's 'just a normal mum' - i think she just liked the name

knobblyknee · 17/01/2016 11:16

Neighbours kids are called Sergeant, Major and, I shit you not, Rayon.

coffeeisnectar · 17/01/2016 11:22

Why was Rayon demoted? Poor kid wasn't even a lieutenant

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Libitina · 17/01/2016 11:24

It sounds like a 'trailer trash' name.

DinosaursRoar · 17/01/2016 11:32

I think you can probably spoil it for the "gangster wannabe Dad" by liking his fine, traditional Cornish name - that you are surprised as you didn't have them down as the Cornish heritage types. That it might be funny when people meet them, they'll be expecting "lential weaving types" when they hear the name. yes, you are surprised but really like it, very much the sort of name someone from my generation would pick... Grin

Pipbin · 17/01/2016 11:47

Other peoples children names are not a cue to be rude.

No, but anyone is allowed an opinion about whether they like the name or not.
If a friend came told me that her new baby was called Treylon I wouldn't say anything rude to the parents but I might pass a comment to my DH later that I didn't like it. I am as entitled to not like someones choice of name as I am to dislike their choice of wallpaper or favourite book. I just have better manners than to say it to their face. Life would be very dull if we all liked the same thing.

lionheart · 17/01/2016 12:48

People are so judgmental about names. My DS has a very old name that people assume is made up, 'chavvy', trailer-park blah blah.

Snobbery drips off the baby naming/maiming board.

GarlicBake · 17/01/2016 13:21

Baby names is an eye opener - you'll likely see your own name and your DC's names given a ripping on there.

Yes, my own name is frequently given a supercilious thumbs-down Grin People take the piss out of it in RL - or, now I'm old, limit themselves to insisting it's a similar,more usual name. Obvs, I don't know my own name!

I feel qualified to slightly joke about unusual names: it's an exclusive club and I'm in it Wink

JessieMcJessie · 17/01/2016 13:36

Dinosaurs the Cornish name is Trelyon. (treh-lee-on). This baby is named Treylon (Tray-lon).

SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 17/01/2016 13:47

Now pronounced Treh-lee-on I really like the name. The positioning of the y is crucial!

Lasttangoin2016 · 17/01/2016 14:09

Sounds like Trayvon to me. He was the American teenager who was shot by George Zimmerman. It was in the news for a number of weeks.

DinosaursRoar · 17/01/2016 14:28

Jassie - yes but, I would put money on the fake gangster Dad not knowing that and be annoyed if he was trying to find a "tough American rapper" sounding name, actually people were thinking he'd picked a hippyish or traditional West Country one. I'd be tempted to do fake Cornish accents around them too... Sometimes, the easiest way to get people like this to change their mind is to have someone who's opinion they don't value really like and be enthuiastic about their choices... Wink (Bit like the quickest way to get me to stop wearing something as a teenager was for my mum to say "oooh, I like that, very jazzy." it would go back of the wardrobe, never to see the light of day again)

Luckygirlcharlie · 17/01/2016 14:36

knobbly laughing my head off! I think this name would bring out my judgy side or my 'unconscious bias' as they call it at work!

EssentialHummus · 17/01/2016 14:54

I'd be tempted to do fake Cornish accents around them too...

I'm imagining OP speaking to this family in a full-on ahoy me hearties! pirate voice, wearing an eyepatch. Grin

ingenvillvetavardukoptdintroja · 17/01/2016 19:36

What's with the Reuben bashing!! It's no 66 name, it's hardly habbakuk! It's of Jewish origin... Like Hannah, Daniel, Joseph, Jacob......
(not very impartial...)

SquinkiesRule · 17/01/2016 19:51

I've heard Trey before, usual it was a young cowboy types when my boys were in high school in the US Along with Travis and Troy.
Treylon and Trevon I've heard too, only then it was gangster style rapper wannabes.

CFSsucks · 17/01/2016 21:02

I don't care if people think it's no one's business etc. It's a bloody awful name and sounds completely made up. People are allowed opinions that don't agree with others fgs.

CFSsucks · 17/01/2016 21:03

Oh and I love the name Reuben but DH didn't like it. Dsis liked it too but her DP didn't like it.

scarlets · 17/01/2016 21:44

There was a Trey in Sex and the City.

Trelyon is much nicer than Treylon.

JessieMcJessie · 17/01/2016 23:23

Reuben is a sandwich to me. A bloody delicious one though Smile.

JessieMcJessie · 17/01/2016 23:24

PS Dinosuars I get it now and like your strategy!

Cavaradossi · 18/01/2016 10:17

This thread is bristling with not so-unconscious bias. Like the baby names forum, which is eternally afire with class anxiety. About 80% of the posts are essentially 'Is X too 'chavvy' or, alternatively 'too try-hard'?' There is only a particular 'band' of names which are considered to neither flaunt their working-classness too loudly (not names like Nevaeh-Lillie or Perri-Rose) or too aspiration (not too posh like Ptolemy or Araminta), and so are acceptable.

Someone up the thread said Treylon was a 'trailer trash' name. Someone else asked whether Treylon's parents were black. And how it would be less unacceptable if it was slightly rearranged as the Cornish Trelyon, because Cornwall evokes nice, middle-class holidays and Boden catalogues.

And all covered over in faux-anxiety about whether little Treylon's CV will be tossed on the rejection heap because of other people's prejudices. Which are in fact being reinforced by those kinds of threads.

I don't particularly like the name Treylon, either, I hasten to say, but then neither do I like George, which to me is a 'podgy, stodgy, red-faced Hanoverian king after too much port' kind of name. But I don't go about thinking everyone else should share my dislike, telling the parents of newborn Georges, or imagining that my dislike has some kind of objective value...

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EssentialHummus · 18/01/2016 11:38

Well, other people's prejudice towards names and (esp. in the UK) class markers is a thing, and would be a thing without MN or the baby name threads Cava. People can choose to ignore it when choosing names, but I personally think it at least merits some consideration. I think the uniqueness of this name makes it rather different from George.

I posted the CV comment, not out of anxiety for a kid I don't know and will probably never meet, but because I help in a small way with careers development for youngsters in my field, and I can imagine OddName Smith being passed over for a role because of his/her name. I've had a few vacation scheme students ask me if they "have" to include their given names on applications, or whether they can just go by their second name/anglicised name/a newly-chosen name.

Obviously names "date" / go in and out of fashion, there are lots of class markers whether we like it or not, and there are those (like me) whose name is perfectly acceptable in one country/culture but odd in another - so, try as you might, the name chosen might work against you sometime, somewhere - but I think this issue still needs at least some consideration under the banner of "doing the best for my child", and uniqueness or sentimental attachment to the name shouldn't be the only consideration.

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