Friends awful baby name

[ThisIcyHare]

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?!

Decenceigh?

I've also dealt with two different clients called Goodness.

Is it Chastity?

i think kids will tease anything. I was told DD’s name was a nickname and she’ll be teased.

1. it was my great aunt’s name
2. it’s been a name in its own right since the 16th century but can also be a nickname
3. she’s 13 and never been teased
4. she loves her name

honestly, even weird names become normal the more you hear them.

That would be my guess too, and it's not that bad if so.

I'm guessing Chastity. In which case, YANBU.

Honor, Patience, Felicity and the other "virtue" names are fine. I did see an Avarice in a book once, which is just awful!

If you are American or she is then what you have said is fine.

If you aren’t that’s pretty generalising and a crap thing to say as you wouldn’t know anyway.

When someone ridicules someone else for their name, they are the stupid one since the named person didn't chose their own name..

I knew a girl called Carisma (charisma spelled incorrectly and that poor girl did not have any charisma at all). But her peers never treated her badly, just called her her name.

I think Goodluck is another name along those lines. I only started hearing these names in the past decade and once I got used to them I now think they are really nice. I think it wonderful that baby's parents endowed them with a name like Precious or wanted the best for the baby and lots of good luck in life. There's something really charming about it to me.

Dignity
Piety
Virginity
Ingenuity
Elegance

Came for the title… stayed for the amazing guesses 🤣

Will you tell us if someone gets it?

I went to school with a guy called Hardlife

It would be bad even by American standards

YABU for that considering some of the tragic names we see in the UK.

You’re also unreasonable for not just telling the name. Unless you give her entire list she’s not going to recognize it, especially if it’s something mundane like Honour. Though admittedly I think Honour is probably a more popular choice for a German shepherd than for a child.

Noooo!! Avarice? Did they not know the meaning of it? Who would saddle their kid with something that means something nasty?

Precious Mackenzie, wasn’t he an Oldskool Olympic flyweight boxer or similar?

I like Precious too ( My dad did meet Precious Mackenzie many years ago)

Serendipity?

That should be hyphenated as Seren-Dippity.

Justice?

Yes, Precious Mackenzie. We're showing our age here :) I remember him from the 70s but forgot he was a man. For some reason I associate it with being a woman's name.

@ThatEllie , the name is Honor (spellchecker might be to blame)

I like virtue names, like Charity, Prudence, Honor, etc. Is it one of these?

Have you googled and checked it’s not actually a name?

Candida?
I know.....Rumpelstiltskin!

If it's a virtue name you could say, "I'd personally steer away from virtue names because what if your child turns out to be the opposite? I always think girls named Chastity are destined to become strippers, lol."

Luckily this was a fictional character in a medieval crime story. I think the author gave her the name as an apt character description.