Name Nightmare!

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Hello everyone,
So my daughter is called Naomi and I am due our second child (a boy) next week. We were completely set on Isaac.
However someone pointed out that Naomi is ‘I moan’ spelt backwards and Isaac sounds like ‘I suck’ and so together it would be like I moan and I suck which isn’t great.
AIBU to burden my children with this or do you think it will go unnoticed?
Thanks in advance. X

That would never occur to me. Go ahead and name your children what you like.

Agree

Until you said it I’d never have thought of it

Both names are a delight

That’s ridiculous. My name backwards would be nonsense, as would my daughters. Literally give me one example where a backwards name would even be brought up seriously in a conversation in their lifetime. Never mind putting that together with a well used common name. It would go so unnoticed that years later you’d think back on how silly you were to think this. Come on OP, seriously?

I very much doubt this would occur to many people. Whoever pointed it out to you sounds immature, so I wouldn't take their in-put very seriously. They're both well-known names that won't raise an eyebrow.

However someone pointed out that Naomi is ‘I moan’ spelt backwards and Isaac sounds like ‘I suck’ and so together it would be like I moan and I suck which isn’t great.

I don’t know whose 14 year-old son you’ve been listening to but tell him to mind his own business.

No one will ever read or say your daughter’s name backwards! It’s just not something that ever happens.

Actually kids do sometimes do that, the backwards name thing, I remember doing it with my friend in school for a day or two, she was enaJ :) But honestly, I think they'd just laugh and it's not a reason not to give your kids some perfectly lovely names.

Naomi and Isaac are perfectly ordinary names. And they're lovely classic Old Testament names with a moving & meaningful history attached to them.

In the current Jew-hating climate, people may assume you're Jewish and direct some anti-Semitic comments towards your DC, but that's their problem. And if you're Jewish, they are beautiful and historic names.

Given what some people call their DC (I mean "Navy" or "Nevaeh" ???), you are giving them classic, beautiful names.

Lovely names! The only name that stuck in my head as 😵‍💫 with the backwards spelling is Lana, your choices are great!

Lovely names

I'll see what my kids Elohesra and Tawt think 😀

Honestly I think you're over thinking it. If kids are going to be mean they'll find something to be mean about.

They are lovely names and they go well together.

It doesn’t sound like I suck, it’d be I sack if anything. And it doesn’t spell anything when spelt backwards… how have you managed to over think this so much?

Who would even come up with that. Isaac isn’t ‘i suck’ anyway, it would I sac. Pathetic, ignore them

I don’t say I-Sac. I and everyone I know says I-Suc. Only ever come across one person who said I-Sac.

People spelling it wrong, now that’s a whole other issue!

That's definitely overthinking. I know someone who has a child, that putting their first name and surname together sounds a bit like 'bollock'. The mum was the one who pointed it out to me. She wasn't bothered though!

Nevaeh 🙄 it’s heaven backwards don’t you know?

But seriously, I agree with this. No one is gonna think that Naomi and Isaac are weird together, OP.

Utter bollocks.

They are lovely names, just don’t share them in advance with rude simpletons.

@InterestedDad37Thank you so much for brightening my morning! Good laugh!

It would never occur to me. The person who pointed this out is weird

just carry on with Issac which is pronounced I sack

There’s Isaac’s all over the world and plenty of Naomi’s one would think. Isaac often used by Jewish families but not exclusively.

The way I say it sounds more like I-zik 😂

Name your children what you want.

Naomi and Issac are great names.

Ignore the idiot who went to great lengths to find an insult in them.

Ive heard it said with both the u and the a sound, but never with an s sound always a z. So I-Zac or I-Zuc. Doesn’t sound like suck or sack to me.

One of my oldest friends is called Naomi and I have never realised it was I moan backwards. That seems a total non issue.

You’re right, it’s more of a Z sound rather than S. My point was everyone pronounces it as UC rather than AC, but could be a regional thing.