Your baby's name is 'so weird' ...?

[brandnewcoffee]

Due with our baby girl in just a few weeks. It took us a long time to pick a name that will flow nicely with the middle name as well as the surname and a name we both love equally. My nan texted me this morning and ask if we've picked a name yet so I told her that we have and told her the name we chose is Esmé. Her response was simply 'such a weird name'. Nothing more, nothing less. I'm gobsmacked and don't know what to say back. I know it doesn't matter what others think about the name we chose for our baby girl but it really got me doubting myself and now I'm sat here worrying whether we picked the right name. AIBU?

[CaptainMyCaptain]

It's not weird, it's not even that unusual.

[letsgoandtango]

Rude! And wrong, Esme is a completely normal name.

FWIW my DM hated DD1s name (which is a much less common name than Esme)! but we loved it and stuck to our guns and now I can't imagine her being called anything else.

Go for the name you love and next time don't tell anyone until after the birth.

[Nightbear]

I think “You’re weird!” is the appropriate response from what I remember of primary school etiquette.

The name is fine. People are strange.

[Synthesiser]

I was going to ask if she'd never come across the name before as it sounded like something someone would say if it was the first time she'd ever heard it. It sounds like she just likes being rude though from your last post

[sweeneytoddsrazor]

Esme is a great name I would have liked it for one of my DDs but DH wasn't keen. I blame myself for telling him it was in honour of Granny Weatherwax I should have just said it was a nice name.

[SwanShaped]

Sewing Bee is on atm. Tell her to watch that.

[Lollypop4]

I know thos sounds silly but does she know how to pronounce it?
Our DD middle name is Alys (It's the welsh spelling for Alice but pronounced the same) G.grandma thought it was Prounounced ' Elise' .

Either way, your Gran was rude.
Simply reply ' very rude' .
Esme is a nice name

[MsTSwift]

My friends grandmothers literal dying words were “why the hell did you call her Elsie”.

[NewlyGranny]

It's a beautiful name, unusual, easy to say and spell, impossible to shorten.

Does your Nan have form for being rude outspoken? I'd just text back, "You'll get used to it ".

Your baby; your decision. She's had her turn at baby naming already, hasn't she?

[8misskitty8]

Not weird or unusual either. My Dd has a friend with that name and is a late teen.
Also know a few nursery and early primary age esme’s as well.

[sapnupuas]

@brandnewcoffee

I feel so much better after posting. I was expecting to get a lot of judgemental people on here like my nan but I'm glad I didn't. I really love the name, we both do and didn't think it was weird at all my Nan is a very strange, rude person, she always feels entitled to say negative things about Everything I do and the way I live my life, etc. to make me feel bad for some reason but I did NOT expect her to say this about DD's name. Next time, I shall keep quiet!

All the more reason to use a name she's not a fan of.

[Rainbowsandstorms]

Gorgeous name it was one of my favourites when we had our second child but we had a boy. I think some of the older generation are sometimes (not all the time) a bit out of touch with names and can be very blunt, I wouldn’t take it to heart. I imagine she’ll come to love her name.

[nancywhitehead]

What? I know lots of people called Esme! It's not a weird name in the slightest, it's pretty common!

Even if you had chosen a more unusual name, that's a horrible comment to make to someone about their choice of baby name.

If I was pregnant I don't think I would tell anyone the name until baby was born so that you don't have time to dwell/ doubt it based on people's comments.

[NoIDontWatchLoveIsland]

Ha. I have a family member like this. She didnt really like either of my kids names and made that clear. She also told me I should call my daughter by her middle name instead. Given that the middle name was exceptionally wacky (I doubt another child in the whole country has it), it says a lot about how much the relative dislikes the first name.

I don't care a fig

[DustCentral]

Esmé is just beautiful. A truly pretty and very UNweird name. Love it!

Your Nan has now shown you her meanness has no limits and your daughter is a potential target too. Be careful letting your Nan be around her if she’s that nasty.

[Echobelly]

We have an Esme - it's not at all weird, we know several others, though it's not everywhere.

[ConfusedAdultFemale]

I’d assume you were a twilight fan, but there’s nowt wrong with the name. She’ll not meet another child with that name though that’s for sure! (Also a good thing, one child that has a couple of others with her name and she hates being “Confused A”

[bananamonkey]

@Iamanunsafebuilding

My GM declared my nephews name as 'weird' when he was born, his name is Joe. I could only think it's because Joe is his full name rather than a longer name shortened!

My parents wanted to call my brother Drew and GDad couldn’t get along with it because it wasn’t a “full name” i.e. Andrew

[YoniAndGuy]

Text back -

‘Thanks! Job done, I’d have been disappointed if we hadn’t managed to give you something new to complain about 😉’

Rude cow, so make sure you dish it right back out, but with that useful little winky smiley so that you can say ‘Oh it was only a joke! I’m assuming your comment was the same, I mean you’d never really be so horrible as to say that about our baby would you?’

[RuthW]

Esme is a perfect normal popular name. Odd reaction.

[PhatPhanny]

You have picked a beautiful name for your daughter.

I think I'd send back a sarcastic message, Im so glad you love it, this name means so much to us and we spent a lot of time picking the perfect name for our little girl.

[funnylittlefloozie]

I think Esmé is a lovely name, so poo to Grandma. She may not be the only Esmé in her class, either!

[fairislecable]

Knock knock
Whose there?
Esme
Esme who?
Esme great granny always a bitch

[OnlyheretovoteonAIBU]

I don’t know why we are expected to indulge older people being rude and offensive just because of their age. It’s never ok.

[HalzTangz]

I would text back, well actually there's two options, Esme or banana. So we won't for Esme as banana is totally weird....right