To think if you call you child such a ridiculous name

[southnownorth]

They will get mocked at some point.

The child in question is called Abcde, pronouced ab-city.

Whilst it was very unkind to do it so the child can hear, I think it is the most ridiculous name I have ever seen.

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I have a name that when I was a child (late 70’s) adults would laugh out loud at. It was mortifying and I remember once my headteacher presenting an award to me in front of the whole school and asking me about 5 times what my real name is as he didn’t want my nickname printed on the trophy. Despite my insistence he refused to believe it was my name until my form teacher backed me up and he did an ‘okaaaay, well, that’s unusual’ while my while school tittered at me.

Anyway, last year my name was the 11th most popular in the country. So maybe 40 years from now they’ll be hundreds of little Abcd’s toddling around. It’s shitty for adults to take the piss out of a child’s name or anything else that a child has no control over.

All i keep thinking is poor children. Why would you put your child through that.

I knew a kid called chaos but with a strange spelling. She certainly lived up to her name...

If you give your child a ridiculous name, then you open them up to ridicule. It might not be right, but it's certain to happen. The child and parents will have a lifetime of sniggers and comments to deal with.

Come ooooooon who names their child that?? Did they open the index of the baby book first and have a light bulb moment haha! It's just so ridiculous. That poor girl.

The person working for the airline was very silly to share on social media though, I mean I might have messaged my friends and said "you'll never guess what a customer's name was today...". Sharing it like that was wrong.

Do you know what Nick Knowles son TJ is actually called? dailym.ai/2DRtews. 13 middle names!

I also know someone who gave their DC the middle name Danger why

Now I have Big Bird from Sesame Street stuck in my head singing “ab ce decky...”

It’s a ridiculous name, but that employee should still be fired. Mocking a child isn’t just unprofessional, it’s cruel.

I know someone who called their child Harley.

Their surname is Quinn.
Apparently it'll be a nickname...

My neighbours son is called Chase.

Instantly making him a follower.

Zowie Bowie is now called Duncan Jones.

BathFullOfEels What is your name, if you don't mind me asking?

I used to work in a place where a not so often visitor was caller Ryan Ayr.

The airline employee should be sacked. Extremely unprofessional and such an arsehole thing to do. Poor child.

@WorraLiberty Living Proof Dad has lead in his pencil?

I’m sure it’s not been the first time and it won’t be the last. What exactly did the parents expect?

Well I have heard some pretty awful and stupid names but that really beats them all.

The child will need to get used to people making comments or laughing at that ridiculous name.

I do sometimes think you should not be able to call a child anything you want. You never used to be. My parents wanted to call me a certain name (not even unusual sounding) and it was refused when they went to register it

Presumably the airline employee thought they were harmlessly sharing a joke. Why choose a yoo-neek, like, name if you don't want people to notice that it's yoo-neek, like?

And no, no one can dictate that others only write nice things about them or their appellations.

I'm a teacher so I've come across a few but abcde is amazingly cruel.
Currently I teach someone with the same first name and last name. Poor thing.

Its a completely ridiculous name but no matter what the name is the man was wrong to ridicule her.

WTF were her parents thinking?

I think in France you have to give biblical names or something restrictive like that.

I can see how if you said it in a certain way it could also sound like Obesity.

Arff.

My step-aunt's cousin's girlfriend's dog sitter's niece is called L-a (I'm joking of course)

I used to work for a nursery. I used to love the new term with the weird and wonderful names. Some were lovely but some were bonkers.

I saw one of those American reality shows where what I think was a child (I hope it was a dog) named spurgeon was having their birthday. I didn't watch it so i can't be sure. But abcde is probably less bad than spurgeon.

I was watching paradise run on Nick a while back,and a child had Abcde as his name. I actually rewound it and paused the TV believing it must have been a mistake or I was reading it wrong. Nope the presenters and everyone else was calling him Abcde.

I saw a comnent on facebook that said "her brother Qwerty was also ready to board"