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?!

Marlana backwards?

If you type it with a space between each letter it won't be googleable.

Precious, Blessing, Promise, Cherish, we love em. We (Nigeria) had a president named ‘Good Luck’.

I think it's absolutely fine to point out that someone's unborn baby name choice is awful providing you have data and evidence for that.

They're such beautiful names. I love "Blessing".

Not just special…SUPER special!!

Tell us in the hope your friend googles it and they'll assume their younique name isn't that younique after all.

Moraleigh
Interestingleigh
Honestleigh
Brilliance
Patience
Memory
Gift

If she is still deciding and has involved you in the discussion then I think you csn absolutely say I'm not keen on xyz, but I love your nether choices. And if she asks why csn tell her you think it's a bit too unusual and likely to get bullied for it.
You can do it tactfully, just don't laugh in her face and tell her it's awful and she must be insane.
Basically don't criticise it so hard that it will be awkward if she chooses it anyway, but gently make it clear you aren't a fan.

This thread is nothing without the name! Honesteigh/Honestleigh

Verity?

Verity is a lovely name.

Kintegrity? Mintegrity? Zintegrity?

Echoing all the others - no name = pointless thread

Fanny or Willy.

Latrine, Candida

I’m very intriguedleighed.

And her sister Lenor.
@IVbumble wins with Diversity.
I nominate Lukkeedip

Hmm. This is reminding me of a baby name I encountered through work which caused me a bit of trouble. If it is the one I am thinking of here is a cautionary tale.

I can't give too many details so as to be outing.

Anyway I used to support a computer system that collected data in a healthcare setting. Every month certain details would be extracted from the system and put in to a file, which was then opened and used in an Excel spreadsheet. This system had been in place and working perfectly OK for years.

One day the customer who used it rang to say that in this month's report, all was OK apart from one entry where the name simply would not show in the spreadsheet. Anyway, I identified the entry and on looking at their details commented to the customer "Oh I think you have just entered this baby's name wrong. Where you expect to see the forename it says True".

"That's right", she replied "Her name is True"

Well guess what happens if you have a cell in an Excel spreadsheet with the value True? Yup, it is displayed as 1.

Took me quite a bit of faffing about to work around that one, while muttering curses about parents who give their children names that break other people's spreadsheets.

Is it Probity?

@Lighteningstrikes , Hero is a girl's name.

Yes, I've just checked - Goodluck Jonathan. I thought it Goodluck Johnson but realise I'm wrong. I think they're lovely names.

Could you give us a list of say 10 made up bad names and include the one she has suggested as one? That shouldn't be too outing.

Same.
Just because US society has far fewer hangups about class and a lot more willingness to embrace the shiny and new doesn't mean people there are less sophisticated or intelligent. People with all sorts of names that wouldn't pass the 'KC test' or the 'Archbishop test' graduate from the top universities, work for NASA, and even write books.

My friend did this. Luckily we can shorten it to a nicer name but the child will definitely have a lot of conversations about it when they become an adult.

For those suggesting Puberteigh, the son in the Addams family tv series and films was called Pubert.
Myself, i think it could be Tru (spelt like that.) Many years ago I knew an American girl called Tru and she was truly awful...

I knew a Velocity once. Think her Dad was RAF. And of course, most people heard “Felicity” when introduced, not “Velocity.” I thought it was a great name!

If you called your child Justice they would constantly be being mistaken for a judge as an adult!