Friends awful baby name

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My best friend is due to have a baby soon, they are having a girl and she has been talking baby names with me, which feels super special. She has got a few very lovely traditional girly names, and a couple of more unusual choices, but not ‘offensive’. They are names I would expect from her. However, she has one absolutely terrible name, that actually just feels very cruel. It would be bad even by American standards and ‘tragedeigh’ names. It’s not that I wouldn’t choose it, it’s just crazy stupid and the child will be ridiculed by peers and adults. Some of her choices are genuinely wonderful, but I’m so worried she will madly choose this one awful name, I can’t say anything can I?!

Clarity, Honesty, Parsimony, Testimony, Happiness

I also know one of these.

The OP didn't say anything about it being from Greek literature though.

Alotta Fagina

Perseverance, but pronounced the old way: PerSEVerance.?

Persephone?

While we're on the classics.

Sometimes, people "hear" words or names differently.

I wanted to name our DD Hero, after a character in my favorite Shakespeare play. To me, when I hear the name Hero, its beautiful and elegant. DH vetoed, said absolutely NOT. His association with that name (word) is entirely different to mine. To him, Hero, is "superhero", for which a child would get mercilessly bullied for. I get it... So your friends name might not be completely rank, she just might associate it with something else

Is it like Honesty (which is also a flower)?

Is there a cultural aspect? I once went to language school with a a person called "Innocent" which I thought a bit of a burden for a 6' 2 African man. Or names like Kristian/Kristina which would be looked down on in the UK but would be very middle class names in many places in Europe.

I think your DH was rude to comment

Brockollee?

(I'm cooking right now now)

(points to username) Now we’ve got a Supreme Court justice named Ketanji.

If the name is Verity, OP is massively ignorant about “even by American standards,” because while Verity is 300-something on the UK name charts, it’s not even in the top 1000 for the US. Verity Lambert, born 1935, was also the founding producer of Dr Who.

She’d get so sick of people saying Hi, Fidelity! and thinking they are being funny!

Serenity? Chastity? I actually really like Serenity if it's that

I know several women called Verity - it is a pretty classic English name.

Tell her the word is slang for vagina in another culture

Amenity or Harrybo

If she asks your views again on her shortlist, you can easily heavily favour one or more of the others, without blatantly saying you hate 'tradgedina'. If put on the spot, revert back to saying 'oh, I much prefer Pauline or Stacey that you suggested before.'

Please say something. Would you like a child to have a lifetime of correcting spelling of their name, or worse still, being bullied solely because of their name? Be a loving friend and point it out, be it directly, or by being positive about alternatives proposed.

It’s Chastidy/Chasity/Chastity, isn’t it. I know several lovely girls/women with those names but I must admit I do always wonder whether they were made fun of at school!

Serenity?

Honesty ?
Virtue ?
Unity ?

Although none to my taste, not sure I would call any of those cruel or crazy stupid… Are you sure it isn’t just to your taste? Have you actually looked the name up on name berry to see if it exists as a name & people use it?

If you don’t like it, just tell her & your reasoning, but it’s her child & therefore I doubt she’d listen.

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Not read the whole thread so this might have been suggested , Dignity

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I also know a few Veritys and wouldn't say it was that bad.

Verity? Constance?