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Friends awful baby name

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ThisIcyHare · 01/01/2025 16:26

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?!

OP posts:
PalmLady · 01/01/2025 20:39

Honesty
Pride
Virtue
Morality

Garlicnorth · 01/01/2025 20:41

More 'similar to Integrity' (apologies for any PP I've missed):

Incorruptibility
Indestructibility
Molecular Regularity
Undividedness
Morality
Internal Consistency
Coherence
Completeness
Robustness
Scrupulousness
Electrical Signal Stability

I quite like some of these 😄

BarbaraHoward · 01/01/2025 20:41

Abitlosttoday · 01/01/2025 20:12

Is it 'Aileen'? My mum has a friend called Aileen. It always seems ridiculous to me.

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It's an Irish name, about as exciting as Jane.

Not everyone is British.

NamechangeRugby · 01/01/2025 20:43

ThisIcyHare · 01/01/2025 17:15

No! It’s not honour, charity, faith. It’s like Integrity.

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Is it 'like a ship called D***y', by any chance Op?

In which case I agree with you.

Maurora · 01/01/2025 20:44

Rectitude it is then... Or Sincerity <<< It's that one, isn't it lol

BrassyLocks · 01/01/2025 20:46

Celebrity.
Mortality.

Onlyvisiting · 01/01/2025 20:47

Is it Honesty? If it is then try and steer her to Honor instead?
If its Probity then tell her that naming a future teenage girl anything with 'probe' in it is tantamount to child abuse.

Onlyvisiting · 01/01/2025 20:48

Oooh I know.
Is it scrumptious? Truly scrumptious???

Gonners · 01/01/2025 20:48

Dyra · 01/01/2025 20:17

Apparently there's something about Alice and grandma's to be because mine did the exact same. However, she did come around to it a few weeks later (we were set on it as our girl name). Sure enough baby Alice was born a few months later, and Mum can't imagine her named anything more perfect.

Not read OP's posts yet, but I do wonder if the name in question is on par with Rae Farty.

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Arf at the Alice comments - sorry, I should obviously have quoted the above, or one of the other Alice-related posts.

Smarties2 · 01/01/2025 20:49

I know someone who named their child Calamity. I did wonder if they knew what the word meant when they chose it.

fitzwilliamdarcy · 01/01/2025 20:49

I’m hoping it’s Audacity.

If it’s like Integrity then with any luck it’ll be a team name chosen in the Apprentice this year and that’ll put her off.

Maurora · 01/01/2025 20:49

Smarties2 · 01/01/2025 20:49

I know someone who named their child Calamity. I did wonder if they knew what the word meant when they chose it.

Nominative determinism?

SpringIscomingalso · 01/01/2025 20:50

I have met only two women here with these names: is it Fanny or Gaye

totalnamechanger · 01/01/2025 20:53

Authenticity?

Onlyvisiting · 01/01/2025 20:53

Smarties2 · 01/01/2025 20:49

I know someone who named their child Calamity. I did wonder if they knew what the word meant when they chose it.

I heard of a family who called their daughter that once. Had a brother with an equally unusual name beginning with B.....?

SpringIscomingalso · 01/01/2025 20:53

ThisIcyHare · 01/01/2025 16:59

It’s not a ‘made up name’, it’s a word that you’d use, a bit like Integrity. That’s the closest I think I can get without saying what it is

ok, gotcha. They are Catholic and the name is: Fertility.

Butchyrestingface · 01/01/2025 20:54

SpringIscomingalso · 01/01/2025 20:53

ok, gotcha. They are Catholic and the name is: Fertility.

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Could be FECUNDITY.

SpringIscomingalso · 01/01/2025 20:54

Or actually: Fidelity

chaosmaker · 01/01/2025 20:55

@ThisIcyHare why can't you say anything? I don't get it. Aren't friends supposed to be honest with each other? Especially 'super special' ones....

FairFuming · 01/01/2025 20:55

It's not power or something ridiculous?

Smarties2 · 01/01/2025 20:57

Onlyvisiting · 01/01/2025 20:53

I heard of a family who called their daughter that once. Had a brother with an equally unusual name beginning with B.....?

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Does have a brother with a very unusual name -but begins with C.

SpringIscomingalso · 01/01/2025 20:57

I got the name, girl: Eternity

Normallynumb · 01/01/2025 20:57

Truly?
As your friend has listed other options, then the easiest thing to do is say the other choices sound better with her surname
It doesn't matter what the actual name is, as I'm sure you realised before you started your thread

ChippedIkeaFurniture · 01/01/2025 20:57

The name is Integrity.

Maurora · 01/01/2025 20:57

SpringIscomingalso · 01/01/2025 20:57

I got the name, girl: Eternity

Took you long enough to work it out lol