To want to shoot my friend

[liverbird10]

...for naming his daughter Tinkerbell?

I know I am actually BU as it's none of my business etc. Also shooting people is generally not the way to approach such matters.

I feel so sorry for the poor kid. She's going to go through torture at school. Not to mention thee rest of her life. Imagine a high court judge called Tinkerbell.

I kind of like Tink as a name

Disney didn't invent the nane. It was in the original book by JMBarrie.

Terrible name for a child though.

Just curious, was it the mother or father of "stinkerbelle" who pushed for the name? If it was the mother I can see the poor tot dressed in "Disney Princess" finery.

A cocoa lillybelle lives near me!

My cat has that name.....you're all being very cruel.

Some of my fav responses ever I feel!

OP your friends will realise soon enough how unfair that name is. Just be ready with an "I told you so". Get on your high horse for a name like Tinkerbell!!!!

Blech

I named my Ds after a character in the magic roundabout We're in Wales though so he blends in.

Dh still thinks it was the bloody poet (ha, ha, no...)

I have met a baby 'Bell'. Not even Belle.

Well it least they spelled it correctly. I have heard many an idiot refer to Tinklebell.
It is a revolting princessy name. Yuck.

@busyboysmum

Disney didn't invent the name. It was in the original book by JMBarrie.

Terrible name for a child though.

True...... but he invented it as a name for a fairy.
The name he invented for a little girl for the very same story caught on rather better.... Wendy didn't exist until he created it.

Sorry if someone has already pointed this out, but the name Shula is often short for Shulamith or Shulamit - spellings vary.

Anyone with that name is probably Jewish, so yes, Shula Archer, being called Shula is a bit odd.

Doris this is the second thread I've seen now where you have blown up in the OPs face.

Are you otherwise well?

Put the gun down please.

There's nothing worse than a name that everyone else has. I'd die before naming a child Sarah or John. I've got lots of friends that I grew up with with off-centre names. Puck, Rabbit, Kezia etc

Mumsnetters are perhaps a disproportionately conservative, aggressively aspirational and judgmental lot so you already know the response you're going to get here.

DorrisGurl easy does it. I know I can get right grumpy but the OP was having a light hearted conversation no need to blow a gasket.

I think its suspicious both Doris and the op have disappeared....let's call Basil the Great Mouse Detective.

DorrisGurl, you say your dd's in high school, does that mean you're in America or somewhere not UK? Generally it's secondary school here. I just wondered, because the culture is very different; that may have a lot to do why most of us on this thread think the name is going to be a problem for the child, while you disagree.

I have a Belle

To be fair though she is an Eleanor, from which came Ellie > Ellie Belle > Belle.
Most people call her that. She does Princess cosplay as well at cons so can get the odd raised eyebrow.

sister's Belle is lovely.

Jux in Scotland we say "high school". It's not just an American thing.

There's a competent, pleasant doctor on TV (Embarrassing Bodies) whose first name is Pixie

Wrong! Her name is Bernadette. Just in the same way that Pixie Lott is called Victoria.

She can be known as Belle.

MistressClaireBeauchamp yes I know. I was responding to the poster who thought the name had been made up by Disney. 😊

Awwww Neutrogena how does it feel to be politer, more helpful, and well, more just more pedestrian than Dorris

Shame

Boring now x

MistressClaire

Wendy was a surname long before JM Barrie "invented" the name", in the 16th century a man of that surname was the doctor of Henry VII.

JM Barrie may well have introduced the name Wendy as a first name, but he by no means invented the name itself.