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

I love the name Nell, which Nellie will be shortened to. My gran was Nellie and I would have thought of using Nell.

You could say that it's lovely but you are worried about teasing? I remember learning about miners' lamp which were called nellie lamps because they looked like a vulva ...

Is it short for Eleanor? In that case I would reply that I absolutely love the name Eleanor, what a great choice. Hopefully she can read between the lines then that Nellie isn't such a splendid idea in your opinion.

YVONNE!! How the hell did Yvonne get in there?! 😲😆

Pronounced 'Why- Von-Ee'

@Snuffalo - see, to me it's 'eh-boo'. I could Iive with that

In your position I'd say something like:

"It's unusual and I like it but for something so important, rather than just get my view on it why not post in baby names on MN to see what a majority of people think? It's a good way to get feedback and people might mention associations you and I haven't thought of".

Slink off and let MN posters do your work for you....

It’s not great is it. When it’s spoken it could be so many things.. Nelyan, Nellianne, Nel-Leanne?

I love the name Nellie (although I would spell it Nelly)
Just say to her that it’s not to your taste but don’t let her be put off using it because of you.
Names are funny old things, one of my friends has an Ethen and another an Evan, I didn’t like either to begin with but I like them now as they suit the child.
I also really hated my own child’s name for about a year (DP loved the name and I was really ill at the time so didn’t really think it through) but now I absolutely love DDs name and I’m glad that it’s the one that she has. Basically, you may grow to really like the name once the baby is here or you may end up still not liking it.
Another of my friends has 2 kids, I liked their names initially but now I don’t really like them

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I love Cordelia - great name

I don't think.it's too bad tbh, granted I wouldn't have chose it if I had,had a girl ,but I have heard far worse .

Makes me think of Nellie from Little House on the Prairie.

Yes Cordelia is lovely Nellie is just shite.

'Oooh! Is that short for Eleanor, or Penelope? I love Eleanor and also Penelope...'

Does she know that Nellie/Nelly is a nickname for Helen? My GM was a Nelly. She was a right evil old witch who made my DF's (her DS) and DM's lives a misery. And ours as DC.

And nobody over about 5 should have a hyphenated first name. I work with a few ladies who started out with a hyphenated name. No blokes though funnily enough. It was a thing in the early/mid 1980s apparently. I'm late 1960s so not something my peer group really experienced.

They have all quietly dropped the second hyphenated part, relegating it to a middle name, and just use the first part as their first name.

I think out of the 6 of them it was pretty much even as Louise and Jane.

But then again, I didn't even get given a middle name. I might be projecting a bit....

Shoet for elephant. If course.

To me Nellie is a similar jibe to Jessie and there are thousands of them.

That picture of Nelly looks like King Joffrey in drag!

I quite like Nellie and love Nell, and it comes from a generation of names that are becoming ever more popular. I am old school and did (and still would) give my DD proper full names, they call them by their nn. So I would register Margaret May even if we called her maggie-mae from birth. This is not either of my DD's name but the one who had a very cutsie name reverted to her proper name at 16 when she went into sixth form.

I don't like Ann or Nellie-Ann but that could just be me, 2 out of 3 of my DN have names from this generation that were not popular when they were born and at first I was a bit whoa, not sure that is nice but I said nothing to my DB. 10 years on and the names are great and suit them perfectly.

Surely if she is truly your best friend you can be honest and not fall out. If this would make you fall out then you are obviously not best friends.

Nellie-Ann’ sounds like something a young girl would call her fanny.

Absolutely fucking hilarious.

Nellie-Ann is not a good name but I think this comes down to preference. It is still a name. A bit hill billy.
I have friends that have asked what I think of their chosen names, and knowing they love them, I just say 'that is nice', even if that is a huge lie.

When naming children I immediately think of bullying opportunities when they are at school. Kids are very inventive and will find ways to turn a name in to anything. So it's tricky. But given that she hasn't said she is going to call her kid Womblecock I would personally say nothing.
She probably knows that smelly nelly and nelly the elephant are all a risk but likes the name enough not to care, which is ok.

Nellie-Ann is fine. It's not a name I'd use, but it's not awful either.
It's a similar style name to Pollyanna which I love!
If it was something wacky like Unicorn then I would say something, but Nellie-Ann is fine.

I'd probably say 'Nellie-Ann is such a sweet name for a little girl. Are you going to give her a long name on the birth certificate? Eleanor Ann would be lovely when she's grown up '

It’s not a great name but not one you can exactly complain about. It’s disappointingly unridiculous. You may have the Nellie the Elephant song in your head now but you’ll soon associate the name with your best friends little girl instead. My ds has a friend called Otter. I could barely bring myself to say it for a while after I first met him. Now I immediately think of that little boy when people talk about badger c or something.

As long as itsnot slithery itsfine

I'd be tempted to text, "Is this where I am meant to reply 'Not on your nelly', or is that really the name you are going for?"