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AIBU- Someone has used my unusual baby name

530 replies

MmmmDonuts · 09/09/2017 20:32

I wanted my baby to have a one of a kind unique name.
I made up a name that I love. It's definetly never been used before.
(I realise this sounds dodgy already)

Anyway, my baby is 7 months old and someone in my town has just given birth and used the name.
I actually feel really gutted about it.

I realise I am about to be flamed in the comments.
BUt how can I feel less gutted about this? Meh

OP posts:
PeppaPigTastesLikeBacon · 09/09/2017 22:40

OP really can't think she made it up. She said it could be a surname - Mo Farrah - so even if she didn't know the teen mom/others I'm sure most people have heard of Mo Farrah. So really all she did was take a surname and make it into a 1st name Hmm

SmilingButClueless · 09/09/2017 22:41

I quite like the name Phryne, although associate it too much with the TV show.

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 09/09/2017 22:42

Phryne sounds like the noise my car makes when it won't start. How is it pronounced?

SmilingButClueless · 09/09/2017 22:45

It's Fry-Knee in an Australian accent, not sure if that's the universal pronunciation.

itsbeenaverylongweek · 09/09/2017 22:46

IlostItInTheEarlyNineties it's fry-nee. There's a series of books about an amateur detective set in Australia - Phryne Fisher

toastandbutterandjam · 09/09/2017 22:48

PelvicFloorClenchReminder Go for it! I reckon someone will guess it!
I'm not Miranda, sorry Grin

Sayyouwill I'm not - I've never actually heard of that name before!

Lovingmybear2 · 09/09/2017 22:48

Fry nee a river

imnottoofussed · 09/09/2017 22:49

This is so funny, come back op

cheesydoesit · 09/09/2017 22:49

Oh my God, I've just read the reccomended threads from a PP. The hamster casserole thread is killing me.

Racingraccoons · 09/09/2017 22:49

Come back OP

imnottoofussed · 09/09/2017 22:49

Toast is it Roseanne

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 09/09/2017 22:58

Ah Fry nee is quite a pleasant name. I thought it was pronounced Ffrrine.
I did read a whole book once convinced the main character (Persephone) was pronounced Percy phone. Blush

DjangoUnchained · 09/09/2017 22:58

Thank you so much to all the posters who said Marrowfat. The farrow's tin is the one from my childhood. I loved those tinned peas! I had forgotten all about them until I saw the photo.

I've wondered for years why Farrah made me think of peas and now I know.

silverbell64 · 09/09/2017 23:02

why would you want an "original name" anyway and why would you get pissed off that someone else used it.

OP I think you're silly on all accounts.

BackieJerkhart · 09/09/2017 23:06

toast are you...

Arnold (hey!) Grin
Arthur
Daria
Charlie ('s angels)
Savannah

BackieJerkhart · 09/09/2017 23:07

Sabrina?

BackieJerkhart · 09/09/2017 23:07

Blossom?

carjacker1985 · 09/09/2017 23:07

Cassandra?

Sayyouwill · 09/09/2017 23:09

@toastandbutterandjam WHAT?!!? But it's such an olde skool classic!!

tinytoucan · 09/09/2017 23:10

Toast- is it Clarissa?

toastandbutterandjam · 09/09/2017 23:13

imnottoofussed I'm not - I met a Roseanne once though!
BackieJerkhart You're close!!! (Not Arnold, but bloody love that programme!)

carjacker1985 Not Cassandra, but my Primary teacher was called that!

Sayyouwill What do you expect? I've not even met a TOM or a LILY in RL!

toastandbutterandjam · 09/09/2017 23:14

tinytoucan is the winner! Grin

I was bloody born in 1988 and never ever met a Clarissa!

PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 09/09/2017 23:15

Sapphire?

toastandbutterandjam · 09/09/2017 23:15

I should probably name-change now.

Not my RL name, i'll keep that one Grin

tinytoucan · 09/09/2017 23:16

Yay! Grin

I never win anything!