To think I'm not unreasonable to tell sister no to this baby name?

[DerekSprechenZeDick]

Loveheart Belle Princess.

That is what my sister has decided the baby shall be called. She refuses to accept that I have said no and has started to refer to her as that.

Her argument is that it's a really pretty name, princesses are cool and she can call her love for short which is nice.

I think at 6 she is old enough to be told fuck no and be banned from naming anything

Or am I missing out and will regret not using said name?!

My daughter names things made up words like "shalam" "shpoot" "minong" "pafat" and expects me to remember them. If she ever gets a sibling, she won't be naming it 😂

I forgot to mention she is 4 😂

I temped in an office many, many years ago. To wind up the rather sedate women who worked there, I told them if I ever had a daughter, I would name her Benazir Bhutto Boutros Boutros Ghali Surname ...they were horrified! Missed my chance, as I had a son!

My parents were convinced my brother was a girl so had no boy names. After two weeks of arguing and time running out they let me choose ..... My nursery teacher used to tell stories about her nephew Jonathan so Jonathan he was .......I wish I'd gone for Batman, Plutonium Cyborg now though

Mind you my best friend from school's adult daughter is called Boot. I have absolutely no idea what her real name is as we'd gone our separate ways by then and she always refers to her as that. Fortunately she's a pretty girl or it'd be very unfortunate.

Boot around here is a slang term for a erm... sexually loose woman

Traf

When she 10 or so, my mum was asked . to pick her cousin's name and also chose Jonathan.

Although given her age the alternative would have been supercar, Thunderbird, Aguamarina,or Bronco, rathan than cyborg.

I'm impressed at the vocabulary young folks have these days!

My only tests for naming the kids were (a) would they or I be embarrassed shouting it across a playground (that ruled out lots) (b) how may it be shortened (embarrassingly ... seen any young Dicks lately?) (c) not too long: they are going to have to write/type it out a zillion times.

The Births Registrar takes a dim view of some names too, although there isn't a proscribed list as I understand it, just some proposed names are 'not on' officially.

Mind you, we do have a godawful surname, which sometimes leaves people open mouthed and struggling what to say. Kinda proud of it in a way .... but a definite disincentive to embellish with outlandish first names!

Don't think you can officially name baby prince/ess. Duke/duchess and the like because these are titles given by the queen
You can however call your child whatever you want as long as on official documents the 'real' name is entered

I just asked ds1 what we should have named ds2 (who apparently is "boringly" called edward) his reply

"Superhero robot flying baby"

Capital...off we trot to deed pol land

Ds wanted to call dd either Susan or Margaret. We went with Darcy instead. I don't know which is worse, ds's rather old fashioned taste in names or dd's weird taste in names. She has dolls called baby potato and fishy.

Perhaps just Belle - as a middle name? No use as a first name as both Isabelle and Isabella are amongst the more popular girls names at the moment, so there will be dozens of Belle's at school.

Dd1 was insistent her baby sister was to be Mermaid Megan, almost as bad as my work colleagues who had named the bump Nessie......

Our surname is Hunter

I've read all these at work - had to lock myself in the loo at one stage to let out all the suppressed guffaws

Heather princess is permitted unfortunately trust me I've shouted it in the park. I think it's Australia you can't use prince/princess etc.

Either that or my cousin blackmailed the registrar

Should also point out I'm trying to impress the importance of professionalism on a new Saturday assistant.

Galdos, is your surname Hitler?

At 6 I named my twin dolls Clockfreed & Tittyfa.

Perfectly reasonable .

My then 4 year old called her guinea pig princess sparkles!! The other one girl piggie was called Lollipop which in fact was quite the right choice after we one day found three babies in their age so lollipop went for the chop!! Thankfully for him he wasn't princess sparkles as even prince sparkles sounds a bit daft for a boy

We have guidelines around names for babies here in NZ, where names can't resemble titles or cause offence etc. It's a good thing too imo, looking at some of the 'names' on this list
www.ohbaby.co.nz/baby/baby-names/71-baby-names-banned-in-new-zealand/

I (aged 4) named my unborn baby sister Bob. She is 27 and everyone calls her Bob. Thankfully my parents named her something that works quite well with a nickname ending in Bob and it has just stuck. My name is shortened to a boys name too. My poor mum gave us both lovely family girly names and this is what she ended up with!

Wow, that list from NZ is inspiring Don'tevenblink, I'm now regretting not naming my baby Special Constable Anal Sex Fruit, awesome!

Heatherjayne1972

You can call your child Princess/Duke should you wish. The only grounds a registrar will refuse to register a name is if it is offensive.

You could even use the title Dame or Lady or Princess or Professor should you wish, just so long as you don't do so for fraudulent purposes.

If it's any consolation a friend of mine's DD wanted to call their new baby Jesus. And the baby was a girl!