Do I be honest what I think about this name

[Driftingthoughlife]

With everything going on with DH (previous thread) I may be potentially be about to fall out with my best mate if I tell the truth
She is pregnant due in a month and she has texted me to ask what I think of the name they have chosen. I think it’s awful. She says she really values my opinion
I don’t know if I can take falling out at the moment so aibu to lie and say it’s lovely but at the same time in am thinking this poor kid has to live with this name

Lol at the name being AIBU 😂

Could work in the Asian culture!

Arsen Fook 😂

A child in DS class has the original surname ‘dikshit’ (possibly not spelled like that but definitely pronounced that way). The parents changed the name when they moved to the Uk. Luckily the boys name wasn’t Willy.

"So glad you found a name you love! Can't wait to meet him/her soon :)"

Not your baby, not your issue. Be gracious. Say nothing. Chances are she'll go with the name anyway, despite protests. So don't blot your copy book and just keep it cool.

Agree with @UCOinanOCG

@Mummyoflittledragon I was wondering the same!

"She is pregnant due in a month and she has texted me to ask what I think of the name they have chosen."

"So glad you found a name you love! Can't wait to meet him/her soon "

Right but what happens when she replies, "Yes but I just asked you what you think of the name we've chosen"?

Ah 3 pages in and the name hasn't been revealed... Names are mostly a matter of taste and very personal.

I remember my friend being very vocal about my choice of name for DS ("it's a dog's name" - classic name but not top 100, never seen or heard of a dog with that name). She called her DD a safe cutesy name. When we walk to and from school together we see many dog walkers - we have heard 3 different dogs being called by her DD's name... Of course I have never said anything.

^Oscar or Rufus?

Oh god, it's Cersei isn't it?

Bumfuck arsedonkey 😂😂😁😁

Rex or spot?

We have been ‘introduced’ to many a dog in the park with the same name as DS when he was little (who has a perfectly normal people name). The way some dog owners react it’s as if his name was Rover!

Balonz Arsen Fook. A tenner for the first MNer to call their child this.

It’s Chlamidia, isn’t it?

It’s Nellie-Ann

Yeah I hate that too. Literally Silly-Ann.

Is she aware that Nellie also means silly?

I just think of nelly the elephant and also I know someone called Nel not Nellie but despite having he shortened version she got called smelly Nellie

Yeah, I'm with you, I'm not keen on that either to be honest. It's the Nellie bit.

I think I'd be vague. Something like " that's an unusual choice, what made you think of that, and what does your partner think?"

Nellie the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus, off she went with a trumpity trump, trump, trump, trump!

I did have a great aunt called Nellie, she was lovely.

I've heard worse, say nothing.

My bff was honest with me in this same situation and thank goodness she was! Looking back it was a truly awful name! Pregnancy does weird things to your brain

Love Nellie but not Ann

Nellie the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus, off she went with a trumpity trump, trump, trump, trump!

Actually that could be the answer. Text her this with a load of laughing emojis. Then tomorrow text her and say " oh god I was so drunk when I texted that last night, sorry."

Nellie-Ann isn’t silly / invented enough for you to be honest imo. This falls into the camp of ‘not to your taste but not beyond the pale’ and so you should say it’s lovely.

I don’t mind it myself, though I wouldn’t choose it.