Do I tell them what their baby name means?

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Name changed as very outing.

A friend has just named her newborn Mari-Jane. Do I tell her that it's a very well-known slang name for marijuana especially with the spelling Mari? I realise the pronunciation is slightly different but there will be people who pronounce it as "Mary" and she will just be known as Mary-Jane. Am I the only one who thinks she needs a heads up before registering the baby's name? I realise that most names can have quite creative nicknames and there will be plenty of people who don't know that it means marijuana but I feel like this is just asking for mockery.

Thoughts?

It is an Americanism for the Mexican Spanish marihuana or mariguana, which is associated with the personal name María Juana. Mary Jane, is the English version of María Juana.
Mari = Mary in English
Juana = Jane in English
Hence: Mary Jane = Marijuana

It's a shoe to me and judging by the responses not many people would make the connection you have, certainly not younger people.

That is funny but not everyone knows that association op don't ruin it for them 😂

Only in the US.

I did tell one future parent, who wasn’t from the UK, what Fanny could mean in England. They chose another name.

Also in Scotland!

Definitely tell her. Otherwise someone else will when it's too late.
Wouldn't matter if it was a middle name of Jane which is never used, but hyphenated as a first name is awful, it'll be embarrassing to even call in the park

In my 40's, dated someone who lived on it, tried it once and yet had no idea about the name.
Like others have said, Charlie is the big one but most people know to separate a name from a drug.

“What’s the matter Mary-Jane, you’ve had a hard day…. It’s a long way down this rollercoaster”

Personally I wouldn't say anything but I totally know where you're coming from!!

I know a woman who gave her Daughter the middle names 'Mary Jane'. She isn't the sort of person that does drugs but her husband smoked weed regularly. Such an odd choice. He would definitely have known it was slang for weed.

I had no idea before reading this thread. To me it’s a type of shoe (and I’m not American).

No one calls it Mary-Jane any more, and no one clutches their pearls when someone calls their baby Molly or Charlie, and both are very popular names at the moment.

I thought when I read the title they'd called their baby something like Fuk.

As we've already said, there's a big difference between a very common name/word - like Charlie or Molly - which can be used to mean something unfortunate as well; and an uncommon name/word/phrase - especially one with more than one word in it - that will be the first thing that many people will think of when they hear it.

Could have been worse for example Mr Kerr's Spanish wife wanted to name her son Juan.

There was (possibly still is) an antiques dealer in Devon called Robin Bastard.

We called the shoes with the one strap across the instep Mary Janes way back in the 70s and 80s in Ireland. It's not just a US thing.

I had a pair of black canvas ones. They had a reddish brown flexible sole.

And they say names don't determine your fate.

My personal favourite is a guy called Wayne Bruce, known to his friends as Manbat.

Maybe they know its meaning and enjoy the odd spliff themselves.

That's a very outdated and niche term. It would be very rude to tell them that.

Where are the family from. I've heard that term but I dont think it's really used in the UK. I think most people would associate Mary Jane with a style of shoe.
I'm sure in years to come US and UK language will overlap more but here it's simply a spliff, or a puff, weed, even dope, hardly ever a blunt or Mary Jane

Tell them

Mary jane - is a Anglicized version of the Spanish / Mexican Marijuana- slang name used for many years