Ridiculous name for baby

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My step son and gf have recently called their newborn a really awful pretentious name. I know it’s their choice but neither me nor my husband can bring ourselves to say it in a sentence. Every time we talk about him we say ‘the baby’ or the ‘little one’. We have been very diplomatic and said things like ‘ oh that’s unusual’ but they have started to notice we don’t use his name in conversation and it’s becoming tense.

Any advice on how to move forward?

Why does the name upset you so much? Unless it has an actually negative meaning, or is the name of someone who bullied you, etc, I can't see why you can't just call the child by his name and accept that it's not a name you like, but it's his name.

@Garriet

Monkey Tennis Capybara Smith’s Redknee Tarantula Wolverine Phoenix

I actually know no fewer than three boys called Phoenix! It wouldn't be my choice but it doesn't bother me.

I suppose the most difficult one for me is Isis: I have met two women called that; both born before the name developed its extremist associations, and presumably called after the river goddess, but...

I know a woman called Storm (not Stormy), who usually uses her more conventional middle name.

There was also the writer Storm Jameson.

I would not give a child the name, especially as it could be used to imply proneness to tantrums; but it wouldn't upset me.

Please 'accidentally' call him rain

P.s if you can't stand it find a nickname for baby storm and use that

@Strangevipers

Please 'accidentally' call him rain

P.s if you can't stand it find a nickname for baby storm and use that

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Please be passive aggressive and nasty, using a baby against its parents, because a name isn't to your taste.

Knick name Choppy you could make up your own reason for it.

Or call him Claude and say you misheard them.
People really don’t consider the future feelings of their children.

My MIL didn't accept our spelling of our DD's name,said it "should" be spelt a different way,and had done so for 30 years. Caused problems when she used to send cheques on birthdays and the like. Another family member insists on using the DM, surname and not the DF who is on the birth certificates

Whats the name?

@RedToothBrush

You ok hon?, you have missed the joke

@Whammyyammy

Whats the name?

You could read the thread and find out.

@Underamour

Imagines grandoarents in the park…. Thaddeus! Thaddeus! Time to get off the swings and go home now!

I work with a Thaddeus!

He's South African. 🇿🇦

Good god. Poor kid. I know names are a bit more adventurous these days but he is going to get the absolute piss ripped out of him at school.

Stormy-Water Cloud Johnson .... or some other similar common surname

@Window1

Stormy-Water Cloud Johnson .... or some other similar common surname

Storm / Stormy I think is fine and probably normalised to a degree due to the Kardashian/Jenner clan.

I'm sure I'm not so much time at all the Water will be dropped and he will be good old Stormy

So Stormy represents how their lives were before they met each other? Why would they want to be reminded of this previous chaos everytime they look at their child

I personally wouldn't choose the name but I'm not offended by it in any way.

It's not yours or your husbands choice to make.

And honestly, for your husband to think differently of his Son over the name they have chosen to give their child is disgusting. I could understand if they'd named the baby Hitler or Stalin

@Whammyyammy

Whats the name?

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Ooh...yeah, I'm sorry but that's awful. I like traditional names though and think 'wacky' names say more about the parents than the child. I think the only people who can even slightly get away with those kind of names are rock stars.

@SpudleyLass

I'd like to know the name for reference.

When I was pregnant with my DD, I was adamant she would actually be a boy and I'd name the baby Rufus. My family teased me a lot for that.

It only made me more sure that that is what I'd call a son.

Rufus is a horrid name.

Very naf!

However you not using the name won't make it any better.

Could you just call him stormy? Though if you do that they willl probably start a thread on here about how upset they are that people won't use DS correct name and everyone will tell them to be firm and if necessary NC you.

Storm is quite cute and he can always change it if he doesn't like it. Kids have more out there names now than before.

There's a tik tok influencer who has named her baby boy midnight.

Many famous people give their kids weird names - like Bear or West. I don't get it. But I am older so..

I know a boy who's first name is Chase. Second name Waves.

You’re gonna have to get over it OP. It doesn’t impact your life. My DB & DSIL have called their children names that I think are a bit pretentious but that’s their choice - they probably think our name choices are too plain!

That is especially dreadful. Plus it marks him out as having thick parents for life.

You'll just have to weather it as best you can, cringing all the way. But you're not being unreasonable. That name is nothing but embarrassment, and kids do pick up on it. I have a friend with a really stupid name, no one could pronounce it, and people eventually stopped saying it. She never wanted to use it either and said it felt like she had no name at all. She was very scathing of parents who do this to their kids.