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

I'm sure they don't. Plus it's easy to get collars with their names on.

That's funny - I've always thought Clementine must be a popular northern name because several of the people I know with that name are very northern.

My DS apparently has a “naughty boy” name according to MN name boards.

I wouldn’t go on these boards for advice, otherwise you’d only ever call your children Amelia, Emily, James or Oliver ( lovely names but apparently the only inoffensive ones in existence).

The Hugo thread was bloody funny though

The only one I know is a Sophie 🤣

But what you claim as "nicknames" have existed as names in their own right for hundreds of years

Currently, this board seems to favour Wren and Audrey, which I think are awful names.
(Apologies to anyone who has chosen those, just my opinion)

Audrey?!
Good grief!

I did snicker slightly at a thread the other day from a woman torn between calling her DD either Lorraine or Glinda 🤣

Wow really! I've never met one. I always raise an eyebrow when I see it on here (which is a lot!)

Catherine

I think that was a wind up! Sadly, Wren isn't.

Pretty sure people will be reading and watching Hamlet for many centuries to come. That's by far the most obvious association with Ophelia.

Oh that's interesting. In my head, I imagined it might be a name serving staff in big houses would have had in years gone by. Just goes to show how wrong I was! MN is an educational experience. 😂

And this is why we have name blind CVs/recruitment.

One of the most useful aspects of Mumsnet is that you can garner honest opinions that people would never utter to your face. As painful as it might be on occasions!

Montana?

I bet I know what people associate your name with... 😉

I love people names for pets, and I know Cat called Martha.

Not stripper names, but my son's name is regularly on here being suggested as a girl name. My daughter doesn't have a "proper" name, according to mumsnet. We gave her the "nickname" version only, because we simply didn't like any longer versions of it and had no plans of ever calling her anything other than the "nickname". So for example, we just called her Alex, not Alexandra (not her real name but that's the gist of it). Apparently she'll now have no options as an adult.

Oh okay - I stand corrected!

I hate shit like this.

Poor kids getting judged by grown adults based purely on a name.

Its usually classism and racism, which would be bad enough to judge adults by but laughing at and judging kids is vile.

I’m a teacher and I have never judged a child on their name.
Hopefully the grown adults that do do not work either kids or vulnerable people.

I hate the snobbery but I do know what you mean. There is a solicitor working adjacent to me at the moment with a “made up” name and it does draw comments. My boss on being introduced to her said that her parents didn’t reckon on her having a career in law and in fairness to her she agreed and said that she hates it.

😁

One day your daughter will thank you for not being named Lacey Lola or Imelda Gobbles...

Well according to Mumsnet, all my children have dull, boring and common first names. I quite often see my elder son's name mentioned in threads where someone is getting castigated for picking an unusual name and someone supports them by saying "Well at least it's better than calling him something totally bland like X".
We picked it because it's a name that has been used in my family for multiple generations. We like it and don't really care what other people think, but it amuses me somewhat that the number of other boys we ever met throughout his entire chilldhood with this boring, bland and oh so common name is precisely zero!

There were always names like this. When I was in school nearly sixty years ago, the "fashionable" girl's names were Sandra, Sharon, and Michelle. The boys were Gary.