To be worried about DS name (rude comment)

[Littlebittosunshine]

My DS is13. Never had any worries about his name before now.
But yesterday at work I had a rather rude comment from a customer ( I'm a garden/landscaper so have a chat with them here and there) this customer in particular im not a huge fan of. Fine in terms of work but just talks non stop only about herself and likes to mention how wealthy she is. But yesterday my colleague mentioned my son in conversation by name. And she gasped and said "oh how awful, who would name their child such a thing, eugh sounds like a bad omen"
I am now concerned there are lots of people who think this but have just never said it to my face before.
His name is Jonah.
I'm aware it has meaning in the bible to Jonah and the whale but I'm not religious and named him after a rugby player.
YABU his name is fine. YNBU she's just rude.
Be honest please.

Still wrong 😆

Now the name Damien is a bad omen 😉.

Maybe she's got confused with Judas, still a very rude comment, but I've never heard Jonah to be anything negative!

She’s probably three bottles of wine down by this point. Ignore her. Jonah is a lovely name.

So what if many people think it? You can't police people's thoughts. You like the name your son likes the name. What's the problem if people think it's bad (and it isn't)?

Thank god for an OP who actually tells us the name without creating 48 pages of questions from frustrated mumsnetters.
Thank you.
Jonah is a lovely name and she's shockingly rude.
Ignore her 😀

I've only heard it as a sailors superstition - I don't think most people would know this. It's a lovely name and one I nearly chose. Maybe she's wealthy but she's obviously not well mannered.

I think it's a lovely name. Maybe just don't take him out to sea just in case

I think maybe you mean

YABU - the name is a bad omen
YANBU - it’s a lovely name and she was rude

Anyway, whatever you meant I voted YANBU because you’re not being unreasonable. She was rude 😂

Hes almost certainly fated to be eaten by a giant whale now OP. What were you thinking?? Tempting fate like that.

My updated poll was still wrong 🤦‍♀️so I'm just gonna give up on that. Its been a long day 😂

Jonah is not in any way strange.

Its a fabulous name ignore her

It’s a lovely name!!

Lovely name. She sounds awful.

I thought it was going to be Damien and I would still say it’s fine.

Haha same!! Agree both - name is fine and she is rude.

It's a great name, especially with the link to the legend that was Jonah Lomu (RIP). However for me it also sets off a terrible earworm of "Jonahman Jazz" which is some strange little comedy operetta about Jonah that we did at school.

"Go down, Jonah, deep in the ocean, Go down, Jonah, far from the shore"...🫠

I thought you were going to say Adolf or something. What a weird thing to say, Jonah is a lovely name.

It’s a lovely name, and she is incredibly rude.

Yes, it was traditionally a bad omen name, but that’s an old superstition which is very much dying out. I remember my granny saying it when we considered it as a name for DS, but - as you can tell from the comments on here - not many people have heard of that superstition. I think the phrase ‘don’t be a Jonah’ meant ‘don’t put a downer on things’ but it’s not in common parlance any more.

Every name has a negative connotation if you look hard enough!

They're ridiculous. It's just a character in a story not some magical omen.

Great name - forget her.

I thought you were going to say it was Damien.. Yes, it’s a niche cuss and it is a lovely name

Jonah is a beautiful name.

She is incredibly rude. And Jonah is a fabulous name!