AIBU to want to tell my sister to change baby’s name?

[Eleanora8]

My nephew is due this week and my sis really wants to name him Atlas! Me, my parents and her friends all dislike it and my Mum has made her feelings clear and joked she hopes he never gets lost with a name like Atlas...
My sis got upset but I wanted to tell her I hated the name too but felt bad.
Should I speak up (vote yes) or keep quiet (vote no)?

Personally I don't like it, but you can't tell her to change it, her son, her choice.

Is this a joke? It’s your sisters baby not yours. Say nothing.

YANBU to want to.

But YWBU to do so.

If she's shared it before the baby is here, there might be ways to nicely ask if they've thought about x or y, but not sure why you fee entitled to be "telling" her what she can or can't name the baby.

Please don't. It's not your baby.

If she asks your opinion, be honest. Otherwise, say nothing.

It will become normal eventually, although those outside your family might raise an eyebrow.

Tell her to change it

Hahaha! Yes please do but don't forget to come back and tell us how it went.

Oh and while you're at it, why not read and re-write her birth plan too if it's not to your liking?

At least it’s a change from the eternal George, Jack and Harry.

If you we set on a name and most of your family said they hated it how would you feel? I imagine hurt and possibly even embarrassed. Don't make your sister feel bad just because she's chosen a name you don't like, in a few months/years you'll forget you hated it and it will just become him. Yes he might get jokes but it's still a name she's chosen for a reason, and he won't be the only kid with an unfortunate name or spelling.

It's ok. You can all call him Attila as a nickname.

Will he have a middle name? He'll probably choose himself to go by that once he's old enough.

It's not your baby and it's a nice name. Stop being awful

Unless she specifically asks for your honest opinion then the only polite thing to say is "how lovely". Her baby, her choice, beak out.

When I was pregnant with DC1 we had SIL telling us our name choices were rubbish, she even bought us a book of names so we could choose a "good" one, then when DC was born and we decided on a name she made a point of telling us it wasn't permanent until we'd registered it on the birth certificate so we had time to change our minds. DC has a perfectly normal, not at all "odd" or "out there" name, she just didn't like it. We don't see much of her nowadays.

Just don't.

My family laughed their socks off when I told them what we wanted to call our daughter.

They all adore her name now (and so do lots of other people) even though at the time it was very unusual and still is.

...shrugs.

Personally i dont like it either but everyone is right... its her baby she can call him what she wants x

My grandson is called Atlas, and it really suits him

People like your family are why so many are encouraged not to share a name pre birth.

Suck it up. It’s not your child. Tell your mom to knock it off or she might not have as much contact as she wants

He will probably get called Fatlas if he turns out chubby.

I don't like it but would say nothing unless she specifically asked.

It's not that bad?

If your sister names her baby Atlas, you’ll all get used to it in time and won’t be able to imagine him named anything else. It’s an unusual name, but look at how Chris Martin’s daughter Apple’s name now seems not so strange. It’s not worth upsetting your sister over. She might even decide to name her baby something else when he is actually born. But don’t let it be as a result of you or your mother commenting and giving “advice”.

It’s unusual but not awful. I could imagine a little Atlas. But, she has to be prepared for the comments she’s likely to get and own it with confidence. If it’s likely to upset her everyone someone says oh that’s unusual then she might not be able to carry it off. If she’s the confident type that doesn’t care what others think then just stay out of it.

No keep it to yourself it is an unusual name but a thought provoking one.
Names grow on you.

It sounds like a PlayStation game character. Which is cool. But, for a real life kid, perhaps not so much.

As others have said, it isn't your baby. Unfortunately you can't call the shots here. Your sister may change her mind anyway...

You really are mean op.

Your poor sister!

Is she really serious?

We decided not to tell anyone our choices of names so just "invented" one. And if people said anything about our unusual choice, we told them it was an ancient anglo-saxon name!!