To be grateful to have discovered the mumsnet name board before having my children and giving them “stripper names”

[Krystalmethany]

Well excluding my first child who is male so thankfully has a very generic boy name.

But the names I liked for my girls thank god I mumsnet searched them first 😂 there are some brutal opinions on here that I suppose people are thinking irl but too polite to say to your face.

Mumsnet saved my kids from having stripper names or methhead trailer trash names

Because the assumption was originally that it was a black family. I think it’s a US bias though, because it makes no sense in the UK.

Some names are more typically American, and less common here. Some of those may be more common among black families- but in the UK they still come across as American rather than anything else, imo.

Lots of names have jumped the pond though.

I still think it’s a lovely name and know a lovely Lola but personally I was picked on for being “manly” as a kid so couldn’t pick a name like that for that reason

😂😂

Most of us have hang ups associated with the teasing we got at school

So we avoid that and fall into a different pit! People will be unpleasant regardless of your name. It’s just a matter of what they pick on you for 🤷‍♀️

Oh that's not good I was only joking.

Or Lucy-Goosey... Or the other favourite "oh, that's my dog's name"

Sapphire and Crystal are gemstone names which were very popular in Edwardian times. I love the name Sapphire (although I'm deeply biased as it's my birthstone.)

So you really want to saddle your child with a name that may handicap him/her, get them bullied for, or a name they have to spend their life spelling out for people?

Not a stripper name, but as a child born in the 80s I LOVED the name Tracey. As an adult it seems so dated now, I don’t think I’ve met anyone called Tracey under the age of 35!

I do not know how I will explain to the dog that her name is a strippers name now....

Wish I'd RTFT, I said the same thing. 😁

Surely she won't be surprised when she walks around all the time wearing nothing but a fur coat?

Because some parents choose to use "nicknames" or short forms instead of full names, actually registering them as Lizzie, Charlie, Archie, Billy etc.

Having looked at countless names… the conclusion was that every single one was hated by Mumsnet.

My children have dogs names, apparently.

The learning? You can’t please everyone so do what you like.

To be fair, the long name for Archie isn’t great. I couldn't do it.

I don’t like it when dogs have people names! Jemima and Henry are not dog names. I love the name Toby, but someone else named my dog Toby. I also love the name Martha, which someone nicked for a cat!

My eldest, now 36, was named something that everyone sneered at and said was a dog/cat/old person name; by the time she was in her teens it was in the top ten and is now really popular across the board!

Have a heart, mumsnet. I gave my sòn a fairly uncommon Irish name the year before that bloody film, The Omen, was released.

My daughter’s name is very very unusual and never comes up here.

When she was 7 she came home from school and told me that her best friend’s Mum had just had a baby girl and had called her the same name. I was miffed We lived in a small town.

Damien is a really common name, though. I must know a dozen.

Genuinely read that as a masters in meth first time!! 😂😂

Some of the names thrown around this site as preferred names are awful, little Aristotles and Gertrude's 😂 Think I’d rather the dreaded Jayden, Kayden, Okayden that some of the pompous crap suggested on here sometimes.

Archimedes?

I have never forgiven the mother in my antenatal group, who gave birth 10 days before me and called her daughter the name I had decided on. She knew it was my name choice for a girl as well, and we lived in the same village.

This forum was very useful to give me a variety of points of view, unfiltered, about names I was considering. Then I decided which ones to take into consideration.
I think it's useful to know what people really think about names. I don't want to be that mum who says "really? I never thought of that..." when people come up with a cruel nickname or comment. I like to do my homework before I make a decision.