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?!

My GM was going to name one of my uncles Geraldine. When he turned out to be a boy, her neighbour decided she was going to call her baby girl Gelatine due to a mishear. My GM had to work hard to explain it was a bad idea.

I've heard the suggestion of "Integer" before too.

I think you need to explain to them what the word really means or be enthusiastic towards the other options!

I do remember liking the name Ardal when pregnant. Until my FIL pronounced it Our Dal (like the Indian dish).

Out of interest, why are some people indignant about the idea of a British couple calling their DD Honour?

I know it's more usually spelled Honor, but why is it so frowned on to anglicise it in the UK? I presume the root meaning of the name is exactly what we're assuming: the virtue?

That's made me giggle far more than it should have!

You do have to carefully consider the surname and how it will all fit together. I remember the episode of Modern Life Is Goodish where Dave Gorman and his pals tried to persuade their other friend James to call his new baby Adil, as in Adil Ray. Only problem was that the family surname was Fiddler...!

If we've agreed it's not Anxiety after all then I'm going to say it's Humility.

All well and good until they start learning vocabulary for various foodstuffs in their French lessons - and the lad is henceforth forever known as Mushroom, or Mush for short!

All names are socially constructed, so all names are made up

Verity is a perfect normal name.

I think virtue names are generally much less popular in Britain, to the point that I can remember reading in a magazine in the midwife’s waiting room that you should avoid virtue names like Hope, Honour, Grace, Faith, Joy etc incase your child turned out to be the complete opposite as an adult!

I'm guessing Embezzlement.

Isn’t that the name of the rat in Charlotte’s Web

No, that’s Templeton

Wait... so Face from the A Team was named after a rat?!?!?!

Is that Bez's full name from the Happy Mondays?

Top drawer - also good name 😁.
My favourite answer so far was from the verrucacella person 🥇

Nooo! Please tell me you're joking?

You'd be better off calling a kid Thrush, at least that's a bird

In Spanish and Italian it means 'without malice, straightforward' (for a woman).

Like candid in English, but with the a ending to show it's for a female.

Not used to having coffee come down my nose so early in the morning - that’ll teach me for reading MN at the breakfast table !!

The name Candida is a girl's name of Latin origin that means "white" or "radiantly bright". It comes from the Latin word candidus. Throughout history, the name Candida has been associated with purity and innocence. In ancient Rome, the name was often given to girls as a symbol of their innocence and loveliness, and during the early Christian era, the name became prominent in a religious context, associated with saints and martyrdom. There was an even a pop song dedicated to a girl called Candida (think it was Tony Orlando and Dawn, in the 70’s).

I still wouldn’t burden a child with it as a name !!

My money is on purity or humility. I don't think you answered my question OP about the first letter. You could add in the last letter and it won't be goggleable.

Tell your friend chastity is an awful name

Why not? If the rest are ok i would just wince slightly at the dodgy one and say wow thats a bit random/ out there, where did you get that from? ( could be a nice story behind it!) I take it she' s asking your opinion or at least tesing reactions. It could be a joke/ friend test😃😃
Please tell us what it is. Is it an incorrectly spelled amalgamation by any chance ???🤣

Ignore my previous post!!!. Thats a nice name, if unfortunate connotations . I would suggest Candice as a possible alternative

Loyal, perhaps? Honesty?

Honour is the correct spelling (the origin is French). Americans spell it wrong. It's an unusual name but perfectly ok.

The name is Honor. The word is honour.

If it's 'Serenity' I know one and it actually suits her so well! I was quite surprised tbh but it's lovely.

You can definitely praise the other names and maybe pointedly not say anything about the one you don't like. I remember feeling very sorry for a friend of mine who discussed baby names with some colleagues of ours and people actually laughed at one of her suggestions saying "you can't name him Ralph!"

That said, I assume people talking baby names want feedback or they wouldn't bring them up. DH and I aren't sharing ours because we're confident in our choice, want it to be a surprise (there's some honour names in the mix) and also didn't want feedback from people with different tastes. If she does go for it, it will end up suiting the baby. I've known close people who've gone for what I'd consider questionable baby names (one a flower that is not used as a name and one rhyming with -ayden that isn't to my taste at all) and you just get used to the name on that child.