To tell my sister she's mad for naming her daughter this?

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First baby. The name is a word. A word you would use to describe a very pleasurable feeling. No, not orgasm, before anyone says it!

It's absurd and I think someone should tell her. AIBU to say 'sorry, but it's ridiculous. You need to choose something else'.

My mum is all very supportive and says 'well, sometimes we don't like names. Then can't imagine them as anything else'

I think this is an exception.

May as well tell you the name actually, as my sister isn't going to be on MN! The name is Euphoria

She wants to call her Ewie for short, the nickname our late dad went by (he was an Ewan)

"little bits of crap"

Tell her it's more likely to be shortened to Eufy, like the robot vacuum cleaner....

It has the sound of an old lady name to me, like Euphemia or Eunice. Tbh I don't like the full name or the shortened version, but it's their daughter and their choice.

However, I don't think it's unreasonable to be honest with her if she asks you directly what you think of it, but please be polite! It's such a personal thing and you could unintentionally be really hurtful.

We nearly died laughing in my GCSE year when we discovered that our obese, unpleasant, very grumpy maths teacher's first name was Grace. It's a gamble alright!

Which proves it’s adults who are the catalyst for bullying, not children if teachers openly mock about pupils’ names.

By such logic, any name that they don’t like including “foreign” names are fine to mock.

Young children wouldn’t bat an eye as much as the adult posters on this thread. Why would they? How many five years old do you hear mocking their classmates’ names?

Besides, child with common names get mocked and have insulting labels attached to their names yet nothing stops people from continuing to use them.

Awful. IMO it’s high time register office staff had the right to veto some of the ludicrous names some parents want to saddle their children with. It won’t happen, though, I know.

I'm not really a fan - it was a silly reference to an old football chant (about Cyril Regis??) that was used in a TV advert:

Nice one, Cyril!
Nice one, son!
Nice one, Cyril!
Let's have another one!

Probably showing my age there!

It's pretty and elegant sounding... but giving a name that basically means 'transient, only useful for a day' to somebody who might live for 110 years is a bit odd and actually quite insulting.

Brilliant! Or how about 'Epiphany?' 😂

Ophelia isn't too bad but can you imagine the truncations? Oaf is bad. As for Feelya? Much, much worse. I think that one would have to have a hard pass ...

It's not great is it, but not worth falling out with your sister over.
You could point out that it will be very hard for her to learn how to spell - she'll be the last child in class to be able to write her own name - or that she could use it as a middle name, as still use the nickname . .

reminds me in a wonderful way of our beloved EDM albums runs to play one and lovely connection to your late Dad 🫡 great name

Are you joking? Kids bully over unusual names a lot and it's not instigated by their parents.

People are such dicks eh? Absolutely tripping over themselves to come up with the next most hilarious riff on a name.

There is a popular TV show called Euphoria starring Zendaya which is about drugs hence why it may be associated with drug taking.

No. It's more an observation that parents should give careful thought to what they name their children. (And this site is geared toward parents). There could be truncations they haven't even considered, or the initials could spell out something unmentionable. A careful thinking-through of all eventualities should be a prerequisite of the process - but it's one a great many parents don't seem to consider.

That said, no matter what my private views on someone's choice of name, especially if that someone were my sibling, I'd keep a smile on my face and my mouth firmly shut. An anonymous internet forum is one thing, and allows for far more frankness - hopefully without someone on the receiving end being hurt (not always the case on MN, I know). In an offline context, some opinions are very much best kept to oneself.

Suggest Euphemia. The Ewie thing would still work.

Until you said it I was guessing it was Ecstasy...

That's sad

There are definitely some names - such as Ophelia, Iona, Joanne, Ivan/Ivana - where you really have to consider the surname too!

Well, that was helpful. What's wrong with Victoria, Vicky for short? Euphoria is fine, btw. Said so already.

Who truncates Ophelia? If you go that way you will end up calling your child monosyllabic names. Anne is nice and so is Jane, but sometimes something more interesting is appropriate.
My name has two shortenings plus one mildly amusing connotation (and some deep mythological ones). DSS said he'd met me on Blackpool beach last week. I find this funny. The association would not put me off using the name.
NB Why is Epiphany (revelation of the divine) funny? Only really weird people would shorten that to Fanny (which used to be a popular name in Britain, but always had the connotation you immediately think of e.g. Fanny Hill written c. 1750).

As a parent, I certainly wouldn't given my own DC has a polysyllabic name. Very often the name will be shortened, if not by the parents by the child themselves or their peers.

Nicknames are fine. I wouldn't choose one as a full given name, I'd give the full name and shorten it (personal preference). It's the way in which that shortening might work out, and how it might sit with the other names or initials, that needs some pause for thought!

NB Why is Epiphany (revelation of the divine) funny?

It can also mean ephemeral insight, or moment of recognition, which is why it sounded mildly entertaining alongside the example given by the previous poster. As a name I'll grant you it isn't particularly funny - just dreadful.

When I was at primary school - in the mid 80s- most girls were called Donna, Sharon, Andrea, Samantha, Joanne, Sarah, Deborah or Karen. Most boys were called Jason, Lee, Steven, Kyle or Adrian. Names go in and out of fashion. This isn't a worse name than than anything else. It's certainly better than Heath for a boy or Edith for a girl. I actually love my name. It wasn't common place in school. But it's quite unremarkable in most of Northern Europe. Yes, horrible kids took the piss out of it at school. But they're still called Jason or Andrea.

yep. I hate that name too, but it's up to the parents.
if someone was thinking of it, and asked my opinion, I'd say nothing stronger than "I'm not a fan, but it's up to you"

if teachers think trying to put a stop to bullying is "wasting time" then they shouldn't be teachers.

I've not seen it, and by the time she starts school, I very much doubt her classmates will have been binge watching it either.