AIBU to think you should give your children proper names

[KeepHimJolene]

and not 'rap' names. a la Stormi Jenner.

None of your business really.

Names constantly evolve and change, Stormi wouldn’t be my choice but there are far sillier, at least it’s spelt in a reasonably obvious way (I’ve seen some horrors). In the world that child will grow up in I doubt anyone will bat an eyelid.

Bit racist.

Bit ironic with your username

You can name your child what you want within reason, ie, not Satan or something.
Personally I don't like the names the Kardashians and Jenners have given their children. I think they're rather ostentatious and 'look at me' but each to their oen.

How is that racist?

I wonder why it’s spelled with an ‘i’.

How is it racist? Rappers can be any race and it's a comment on the type of "made up" name...

Why is it racist?
Noone mentioned colour or race

No idea why this particular example is racist, but I have yet to see a thread on ridiculous names on MN which does not sooner or later list names that are perfectly ordinary in e.g. Black African communities or White British working class communities.

YANBU

I sometimes wonder if parents should be allowed to name their children

Kidding!

Rap names? Because he’s a rapper?

If he was a plumber would it be a plumber name?

we won’t mention vanilla ice

Stormi is no worse than Gracie.

Prefer Storm on it's own.

I quite like Storm without the i but it was the name I chose when I was considering getting a blue Staffy..

Vanilla Ice’s real name is Robert.

I agree these threads are snobby and have definite racist undertones.

Not everyone wants to give their kid an MN approved name.

Rap names? Because he’s a rapper?

Maybe because of the similarity to Stormzy?

If you are a 'celebrity' child you can get away with it.

But for the rest of us, we can give our children whatever name we want, but names have consequences.

(Whose real name is Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo, Jr according to Wiki)

Not racist but celebritist.

I love Storm, and think in comparison to he cousins, she's doing well on the name front

I’m thinking Tempest would be nicer. Is it a boy or a girl?

According to MN legend if you don’t have a middle class name or if you have a foreign name then your CV will be shredded.

Somebody will also tell the story of the baby called Chlamydia or L-sha. It’s so tedious.

In the real world, very few people care.

I knew a Storm. She was a Dutch PA. I’m not sure what her parents did to give it a name/occupation category.

I don’t thing they named the baby after Stormzy but then I couldn’t pick them out in a line up so I’m pretty clueless.

I'd be worried about nominative determinism with a name like that - safer with joy or merry, surely?!

FFS - getting fed up with so many people jumping on the "it's racist" bandwagon. Tedious.