To comment on a baby name

[TrixieBlue2016]

My friend is pregnant and is having a girl. She has chosen her DD name. It is a location-drink type name like Glasgow-buckfast but not quite.

I smiled and said it was unique and quietly changed the subject. She has told several people who I have also spoken to. They think its funny and the wee girl will laughted at or will become some sort of chavy/neddy type.

I think its a daft name but not the worst one I have heard recently. Usually I would say her DD her choice but as someone with an odd name who was bullied at school I feel like I should say something.

Aibu to say something? Surely she would have thought about the slagability of the name? Help.

I'm desperate to know what your name is now OP!

Oh it's just got to be Jock OP!

So, let's see...

3-Jock, 5-Jock, 7-Jock - I could be here all night

These suggestions are brilliant

Many, many moons ago my DD was at playgroup with a boy called Riley Mitchell, which I always thought sounded like a British Leyland car. Erskine-Bailey sounds like a motorbike ('My Erskine Bailey has a wankel engine and I've spent the last three years rebuilding it') or a steam train. Please, OP, tell your friend that the poor girl will end up being called Foreskin when she's a teenager.

And telling us your name won't out you at all OP.

No siree Bob.

I just started going 1-Jock, 2-Jock, 3-Jock in my head too Salmotrutta. Then 1-McCoist, 2-McCoist...

In fairness, I didn't know Erskine was a place. To me it's a perfectly nice (admittedly male) name. Erskine Childers, fourth president of Ireland, and his father, who wrote The Riddle of the Sands. Erskine Caldwell, the U.S. novelist.

Erskine-Bailey does sound rather like a smalltown solicitors.

Seven Jock??

I'm going to go against the grain here, I like it.
And we have gone for very traditional, sensible names in our family!

My dad was called Gordon Robert after Gordon Richards, the jockey. Grandma wouldn't allow Richard as the middle name.

I also knew someone who changed her surname to Adams after getting divorced because her sons were Liverpool fans.

Seven- Billy?

OP will never tell us her name

Is it Sixty Seven-Jock OP?

No it's not jock or billy or Willie or Lou or Kenny.

Jimmy?

1-Jimmy, 2-Jimmy, 3-Jimmy...

Not Jimmy either.

Mccoist?! Wrong team Jock :)

Er dip even....jock on the brain now...

Maley?

I'm running out of Celtic managers that would have been "in the frame" back in the 80s (?) or thereabouts?

OP said it was a managers first name I think thenightwatch?

I like it.

Different.

That name is desperate.

However, this thread is hilarious, so thanks for starting it, OP...

(... Now please do the decent thing and tell us your name.)

Is your dad David Beckham

Oh I must of missed that one

Better than I thought...I thought it was Bombay Sapphire.

Erskine is okish...Bailey nah.

But really it's up to mum isn't it ? Her baby her choice..