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?!

Amity

a Seamstress 😜

it's quite an ordinary name, but quite a pretty one. I had a rat called Alice. it really suited her. nosiest rattie ever.

doesn't it mean "wrinkled foreskin"?

I don't like the full name, but my aunties first horse was called Caris (sounded like Cerys, but with an A sound instead of an E sound) and that works for Charisma.
I think a lot of the problem with the virtue names is that a lot of them don't shorten well into day to day names. some do, lots don't. at our stableyard, there was a Connie (Constance) for example. and Pru for Prudence, and so on. but a lot of them, you just wonder how they're going to be named by people around them day to day.

Is the name responsibility

AI suggested Justice.

Charisma Carpenter is a gorgeous actress.

Chastity?

True?

Morality?

Charity?

Janet Jackson played a character named Justice in Poetic Justice. Tupac played Lucky.

One of my favorites.

That reminds me of the horror film. Although this thread is turning into a nightmare 🤦🏻‍♀️😂.

OP give us a clue, I feel like Una Stubbs. Has anyone said the name?

My favourite in the whole thread was definitely Kumquat 🤣🤣🤣

OP Please "suggest" a name under a different username and then like wink 😉

Unless your friend is a Dingle from Emmerdale she should maybe steer clear of **ity names

I never knew that! Love it.

Found this very sweet film about all the Toniblers, Blers and Tonis of Kosovo.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jun/20/tony-blairs-little-boys-kosovo-great-man-video

I have an old book about a very prim girl called Princess Candida.

I like many virtue names but not keen on Honor. I wonder if people pronounce the H.
Chastity is dire and also has titty in it.

I have the same book! Also, I had a classmate in primary school called Candida, usually Candy for short. I think it developed its negative associations fairly recently.

The H is silent - as in the word.

Didn't Cher have a DD called Chastity - who now identifies as a man and goes by Chaz?

Is your friend testing your honesty?

I'm going with it being Chastity.

Sounds so pretty but would be a terrible name today.

Similar names like Serenity, Virtue, Destiny, Felicity or Amity don't have the connection to sexual behaviour. It would be a tough name to navigate through childhood teens and 20s.

If it is a name like this can you not just explain this and suggest name like above that are similar but don't have the sexual behaviour connection?

you are a "bad name tease" you are being cruel 🥴🤦‍♀️😂

Oh gosh. I met a Candida once. I couldn’t believe it.

You can't say anything. And if she picks Godawful or whatever the name is just gulp and smile.

The OP can't say what the name is because her friend will see it and never ever speak to her again.

If its really out there and a wild card as such maybe shes testing you to see if you will tell her if a name is awful?

If it’s serenity it is popular from Firefly. I know several little Serenity’s.

I rather like unusual names that are actual words. a friend here in USA has a little girl called Clarity which I think is sweet. Another has a daughter called Athena which I didn’t think was a good idea when she was little but she grew into it.