To think most parents these days don't consider their baby's names for when they are adults..

[LondonAnne5]

Just that really.

I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen someone post a picture on their feed of their newborn with a name that is either really, really different or something that the child may not enjoy being called in the future when they are a teenager/adult...

E.g. Billi Mucklow naming her new baby boy Wolf Nine. It's different, yes and okay when he is a baby but I'm just imagining a professional middle aged businessman named Wolf and can't picture it.

I grew up with a very different name that is often mispronunced and is also a bit "babyish" for my age now which I do find awkward in a professional environment.
AIBU and alone in thinking this?

Your all making me panic now. My daughters name is Isobel, and DH insisted on that spelling, I wanted the original spelling. I've had nothing but compliments about it but every time she's moved room at Nursery or started at a new toddler group I've had to spell her name out.

Curse you DH

And Yes i'll name change after this

Your all making me panic now. My daughters name is Isobel, and DH insisted on that spelling, I wanted the original spelling.

It must be a new thing.
My name used to be mispelled to Isobel quite a lot.

We jab a Xavier.

I think Prince Xavier (after marriage to Charlotte) works lovely. As does
Dr Xavier
The Right Honorable Xavier
Lord Xavier

He is totally awesome enough to rock his name. Other people will turn their noses up whether its Xavier, Jhaiyden or John

Baby naming was nearly as bad as the last trimester. Ex H would say 'No - excuse!' We literally went through over 100 names for each.

I can't think of any class mates that have obscure names, well there's a few different names but nothing that would make adulthood difficult.

I worked with a lad who had evil parents and he had a last name which with the first name was something like Joe King or Ben Dover. Oh I remember it now

Is DD's class there's an girl with a beautiful name, ex H would spend his time saying imaging if she married a guy with this name. It really entertained him which shows his maturity really.

Cherry an orange-haired girl called Silver reminds me that I know a white girl called Ebony

I know a white girl called ebony too. I also know white girls called scarlet, amber, violet and a black girl called jade. What’s your point?

My Aunt is Isobel and her great grand daughter is Isobel so you can spell it O or A

^You cannot imaagine yourself in a high up job unless someone with the same name as you has held that post before??

What kind of crap is that? Seriously?^

Yes, completely seriously. I have two degrees and until I had my kids I worked in a very well paid profession. I went to one of the worst schools in the country (bottom 5 in Scotland and now closed) and my parents both worked minimum wage jobs. The hardest part of social mobility for me wasn't the degrees, or the work, but imagining myself being successful in my aims and living this different life, and fitting in with people once I got there. The name's not everything, but it would have helped. I've met one other Dr Toomuch in my entire life.

PrinceGeorge I used to work with a Dr Xavier, you're all good

Is Isobel the Scottish spelling? I know a few Scottish Isobels. Of course all Isobel/Isabel/Isabelles are now cursed with trying not to get landed with the extra "a" since Isabella became so fashionable.

"My daughters name is Isobel, and DH insisted on that spelling, I wanted the original spelling"

There wasn't an 'original spelling' to any names, the spelling depended on where it was from.

Isobel dates as far back as Isabel. My Grandmother (born 1910) was given that middle name, after her long line of past relatives with that spelling. My Mothers middle name was Isabel (her father was mixed heritage and it fitted in) and mine Elizabeth (same origin and I'm the first child of my Father's family to be born in the UK).

A lot of 'unique' spellings criticised on here, are often perfectly acceptable.

You can't look at someone and know their heritage.

toomuchtooold we have Proffesor Xavier sorted too haha

I know of a new-born called Margaret. Never thought I'd see that name come around.

True Birds.

I’m sure people think I’ve given DD a “yooneek” spelling but she’s half that heritage and in fact has spent more time in that country than in the uk in her life. You’d never know to look at her or hear her speak that she isn’t wholly white British though.

Like Doctor Pixie McKenna?

My poor DD is saddled with very 1940's names after her grandparents because DP and I couldn't agree on anything. Everything I liked, he ruined (eg Lucy - Poosy, Ellie - Smelly, etc!!). However the nickname for the first one is fine even if most people assume it's short for something else.

No idea what we'll call DD2 as we've pretty much used all the family fossils already...

Umm Wolf is an Eastern European Jewish name. It was on our list for DS.

When you judge a name you don't know the full story.

DS has an unusual middle name. Chose to honour someone wonderful.

I really like Wolf or Wolfie. I wouldn't even mind Fox, perhaps as a middle name.

But Bear or Tiger or Lion would be weird!

So many people said this to us when we gave ds1 an unusual name. He's now 12 and we're still waiting for it to happen. Children don't comment on his name and the adults who do are overwhelmingly positive (which he can find a bit cringy tbf). The weirdest comment was from the local Bishop who asked him if he liked his name - ds1 just stared at him for a moment then said "Of course. Do you like yours?"

I really liked the name Isobel when dd was born (1974 so quite unusual) then I heard the folk singer Jake Thackray sing a song called ‘Isobel makes love upon national monuments’ and now it gives me an ear worm whenever I hear the name.
Dd is Joanna like so many seventies girls.

Toomuch I get it but I don’t think it had to do with your first name. More like everything else put together. I bet you’d have felt the same wven if you were called Margaret. As you said School, your parents jobs, area, etc

But the name on its own?

Maybe you are right but I find it very strange.

Xavier is a really common name in Spain and Spanish speaking countries. I'm sure there are thousands of Professor Xaviers in the world.

I gave my son what I thought was a really traditional name altho underused now days, and my nan still said 'Gosh who on earth would name a child something like that!!' to my face when she saw the baby for the first time. I was also begged by my friend not to call him that as he would get bullied. She had got bullied for having an unusual name she said... her name is Rose...... I mean thats not unusual is it? It may have been in her school but generally I dont think someone picking the name Rose would have thought it would pose any problem at all.
I got bullied at school for my name too, which is a very traditional name.
Motto of this story is: choose a name you love because kids will find anything to pick on each other about and its a very bad life lesson to teach your child that they have to make sacrifices over what they really feel and want in order to fit in and avoid conflict.
If you love the name Mary, great, if you love the name Wolf thats great too.

Greylady - one of my best friends is a 70's Joanna. Oh how she hated Eddie Grant for "gimme hope Joanna"!!

(Although she didn't know what it was really about back then - she just hated her brother and his mates singing it at her nonstop!!)

My youngest childs called Buddy - but i thought of this and it can be shortned to Bud.

Outside of the UK, Wolf and Wolfie (I love both) are really not that unusual. But if your own name is Billi Mucklow (who is he/she?!), you probably don’t have the same angst about names.