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?

I was just thinking this today! Not just celebrities either!

I hear Wolf/Wolfie and I think Tooting Popular Front

I know an Anakin and a Fantasia (Tasia for short). I suspect one or both may make a change later in life, depends on how the star wars franchise continues I suppose.

Was there something about there being no baby Ians registered in 2016. Quite like the name but can't imagine it for a baby.

I’ve met a baby last year called Hawk.

Name your baby the name you love, no one else’s opinion matters, trends change constantly. I always think it weird when people on MN ask for opinions on names & nick names before the baby is born, surely it’s your decision alone, especially the Nick name it evolves from your babies own personality.

My great-grandmother had an extremely unusual, if not unique name. Born around 1875, family legend has it that my great-great-grandfather got extremely inebriated on the way to the registrar and completely mangled what was a slightly uncommon but reasonably well-known name. She was always known by another name but gave her legal name to one of her daughters who was then called by yet another name! 😂

My name is unusual but not outlandish. I have to spell it out all the time and no one pronounces it correctly. I never had anything personalised but I wouldn't change it for a common name any day. Nowadays anything can be personalised. My son's name is traditional Irish (so's his dad) but in England people have never heard it. I'm sure people think I'm trying to be different but I think being a little unusual is good. I'm a teacher and most children have 'normal' names. Those that aren't become normal after a while. I struggled to find a boys name I hadn't taught!

Everyone harps on about ‘no one else’s business’ but TBH I think it’s fine to point out that calling a child a stupid name, or a normal name with a funky spelling (Emalee instead of Emily), is a selfish rotten thing to do.

I once met a child called Silver. She had bright orange hair which just made it all the more unusual.

I also have a gym instructor called Aymiee (pronounced Amy)

I think names are the last thing on anyone's mind when they're either employing someone or going for a "top job" your priorities would be laughable if you chose a Sarah over a Jude based purely on name!

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

drfostersbra except people do make assumptions based on names, even subconsciously. A friend changed their name by deed poll because they could only get shitty jobs, and never got to the interview stage for decent jobs, and lo and behold, they got an interview with the new name and are now in a much better position in life.

I know a toddler named Malcolm. I was fairly stunned when I was told, as I expected it would be Jayden or Kai.

I wonder if that's the Malcolm I know!?

Personally, I did the prime minister test for mine

I did the fish finger test. I've got low expectations!

Fashion's change, in 50odd years all the nursing homes will be full of, what some think of as, modern names and more traditional names will be in again. My dh is Neil, any baby Neils out there?? 😮 😂

I know kids called Norbert, destiny, Edgar and petal

You see, I tried to be so clever with this and called my DD Catherine, with Kitty as the diminutive. Catherine is a lovely grown up name, but now I can't see her ever using it, she's used to being Kitty; I don't know if it works for an adult.

Totally fucked up with the initial (K? C?) and nobody ever puts Catherine on a pencil case. Or Kitty.

I will apologise when she's older...

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?

My son went to nursery with a Betsy Pearl and another little girl called Dolly. Not short for Dorothy.
Also a family with Talula and Bear.
And most randomly. The pediatric Dr in a&e is an Indian lady called Cinderella.

Oh and I know a new baby called Barney. I will forever think of a purple dinosaur!

Give them a proper grown up name and just call them the diminutive until they grow into it.

This is exactly what we’ve done. DC have got the ‘sensible’ version of their names in their back pockets just in case they feel it would be better in the future, but now at age 2&4 they wouldn’t recognise them as their names yet. At the moment they go by their much more cutesy diminutives. But the choice is theirs when they’re older.

If you met my DD, you’d probably think she has a stupid name. It isn’t obvious at all that it’s just a nickname and she has a regular name that will pass the high court judge test. But unless you ask each parent of an unusually named child, you’ll never know whether there’s a normal name lurking in there.

I’d guess my DD will either have to go back to her given name or style it out and pretend to be seriously posh with a nickname like Binky.

The people in these positions are of a different generation.By the time kids born now get to the age to be chairman of the bank of England or High court judge there will be Jaydens already there

Wolf is a perfectly normal name in Germany, although Wolfgang is better known.