to judge this baby name?

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Or rather the parents that chose it?

Overheard in the local shop a young girl (8ish) telling her friend that her new baby brother is being called....Kaiser. She wasnt joking.

I often wonder when people say "what name goes with Natasha" or "tell me all the names you know", well, I know a Natasha and a Boris that are siblings, but did you want Bulgarian names or just English names? Or did you want Raina and Hawa and Noga and Owais or just "English" names?

Yep! And also all the times when OP will ask for opinions on a choice between two names they are considering - let's say two obviously Polish names - and everyone posts to say ooh, that's going to be hard for English people, your poor child, why don't you anglicise it in such-and-such a way or call him Harry instead?

We heard a parent shouting his daughter over and over again. Her name was Meadow.

Did he have an Uncle Junior, was he big in "waste-management", and did he use the phrases "Omerta" and "Sleep with the fishes"?
[ The Sopranos humour RIP James Gandolfini]

Personally, I quite like Meadow as a nature name: along the lines of Flora/ Summer/ Heather/ Fern etc. Nice connotations.

Agree with masi, camper, drspouse, Nell and others re some views on some MN threads...

^ Sorry, "We heard a parent shouting his daughter over and over again. Her name was Meadow." should have been in bold, as was a PP's quote!

No lie, Christmas Eve many years ago in a well known supermarket, I heard a mother shouting at her two kids to stop poking the turkeys, there names: "Loki" and "Odin"

My daughter went to school with a boy called Tuna Can (first name, last name) - no joke

Just remembered ds friend from primary was William Bone.

I recently met a Jem

Truly outrageous!

sails over the heads of anyone not alive in the 80s

showmewhatyougot there's a mumsnetter who's first name is Loki

I remember a friends little boy coming home from reception telling us he'd made a friend called Gay Boy, we eventually figured out he was actually Gabriel

I know a little girl called Cupcake. Poor kid.

Madame, Gabriel was my first choice for a boy. My sister had put me off on day 2 of knowing I was pregnant. My son tells me he'd have changed the name if I'd persisted, on the basis of the variations his classmate called Gabriel gets called...

My godson( he's 2.5) pronounces his name as 'Domadic' - I wonder if he'll end up on one of these threads one day

Apparently a girl who met my DF on their first day at school went home and told her mother that there was a boy in the class the teacher kept calling "Alice dear".
Don't know how long it took them to work out that he was Alastair.

I've never got why you would call a child Ebony (perfectly nice name btw) if it was white. I've come across a couple. It just seemed odd

oops crossed posts with seven. But yes, this.

lime ebony doesn't mean black skin though does it. That's the same as saying you shouldn't call your child Amber or Scarlett if they are orange or red.

I went to school with a white ebony, named for her black hair (which has been bleached blonde since she was 14)

*unless

Full name of the Jem at my DD's school is Jeremiah

Istole fair point - but both Ebonys I came across were very blonde too so it def wasn't for the hair.

A guy I knew had a Rottweiler called Kaiser. It suited the dog.

Lime maybe the parents just liked the name. Doesn't have to match up to what the child looks like really does it. Otherwise all babies would be called wrinkly bald thing 😂

Or gollum

Shame people are being so dismissive of Khaleesi. I wouldn't use it myself but I don't see what is wrong with naming a girl after a strong feisty female character from a book who champions women's rights and works towards abolishing slavery tbh.

Also as an adoptive parent it would be nice if sometimes people remembered that some of us don't get to choose our kids names and yet weirdly we somehow manage to love them anyway, even when friends and relatives look askance at what they are called.

My DS went to nursery with a boy called 'moth' (actually samarth)

or Gollum 😂😂😂

A guy I knew had a Rottweiler called Kaiser. It suited the dog.

I know a few dogs called Millie and Poppy.