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 can't imagine what that would be shortened to...

Lots of organisations and firms aren't enlightened. And few will bother with a name-blind sifting for a very temporary admin post.

I'd cringe at the idea of dropping an email to a senior person's team, confirming that she'll be met by Kryystle/Candy/Feefee in reception and escorted to the Boardroom.

Sometimes, names do matter. Giving your daughter a silly, overtly-feminine, oddly-spelt name will make her life more difficult.

Why risk it?

On the name board about 10 years ago, there was a thread which verbatim used my 2 eldest DDs names, for example "Ella Louise" and "Jessica May" and then used the extremely niche insult that "when I see these sort of names, I just think they are so generic... the parents must have got a list of the top 10 2012 names and just picked a couple of numbers at random!" Obviously this was delivered with an air of tinkly little laugh but the irony is, I have only met one other child with either of my daughter's first names.

I think the poster who said regional differences are lost was spot on

Yup. I have twins both with top 20 names and both names constantly derided on here for being too common and unimaginative.... Yet they are the only ones in their entire school of 400 odd kids. Dozens of Esme's, Ezra's and Eliza's though 🤣

When DD2 was born I was browsing MN in the early hours and saw a thread title with her (unusual) name. I thought it was someone else thinking of using the name, and excitedly clicked to say this was my daughter’s name. When I opened the thread, the poster was saying someone she knew had just called their baby this name, how awful it was, and that they were asking for her to be bullied! It is a really unusual name, so pretty sure it was about me!

She’s 5 now, and loves her name.

Oh no when did Gobbles become unfashionable? I've got three children called Gobbles1, Gobbels2 and Gobbels3 (pronounced Godblessune, Godblessdeux and Godblesstrois) but we've asked the school to use the names Uno, Dos and Tres for short.

If you’re Cornish and living in Cornwall that’s all well and good. I do think that people giving their kids elaborate niche cultural names when they have no connection to the culture themselves is a bit like cultural appropriation. I have a great friend called Deepak but as a white scouser it feels somewhat dishonourable to call my child that. But hey, there’s no law against it.

I'm Cornish back over 8 generations although don't live their currently. I do want to move back though and currently live in the celtic fringe.

If you like a name then who GAF what strangers on Internet think tbh.

The individual makes the name, not the reverse

Because people probably think those things irl too but are just too polite to say it. Who knew so many people thought names like destiny and Krystal etc were methhead hooker names. I’m so glad my child I had at 16 was a boy I saw “teen mums name” used as an insult who wants their whole family to be a walking meme.

Thank god for mumsnet

Imagine all the people that thought they were giving their kids a nice name pre internet and had no idea everyone around them was thinking that’s some trailer park shit

Gosh! That does sound like a mouthful!

I'm sorry, but their number's up.

Have you thought of changing their names by deed poll to alphabetical; Ay, Bea, and Cee... or trying the Dewey Decimal System?

Jimberly was the funniest thread I've ever read in over 20 years of being on here. I read it now and then and wheeze myself into an asthma attack laughing so much! I'll try and find it...

Jimberly

It's just brilliant

Not a brain surgeon but I know a barrister called Chantal-Aimee. It certainly hasn't held her back.

No, I live in the North, so there's two of them!

Brilliant!

If Damien is the name that poster is referring to, it's not an Irish name.

Damien was an early Christian martyr.

Is Torin Irish?

Or a typo for Tobin?

I am suffering badly with my mental health and so far I have laughed about 5 times and I'm only only page 3 .
Thanks so much for this 🙏.

Torin is an Irish name. It means cheif. As you may have guessed I like unusual names.

The most successful woman I know is called Chantal. Not exactly the same as Chantelle, I know, but I’m sure her name would still be subject to the same kind of biases.

On the subject of medical professionals and names, my DC’s surgeon and consultant has a double barrell AND hyphenated forename (gasp) which always gets the ‘chavvy’ label on Mumsnet. (She even calls DC her forename and middle name as though double-barrelled.) She’s world renowned in her area and lectures at one of the most prestigious universities in the world, educating the next generation of surgeons in her field…

This. It’s best not to trust most of the opinions on here, it’s really snobby and you won’t meet these people in real life. A bit like how politicians make rules for the rest of us but live in their own bubble.
Both my boys names are totally normal but always get pulled apart on here.

Wow. You have become the snob 😂

I don’t have name bias because I grew up in a big multicultural city so I realise there are cultural differences. A name like Crystal or Sapphire doesn’t automatically equal stupid and uneducated. Sometimes names are more common in African cultures for example, I actually met a woman of Nigerian descent called Kulture once. Occasionally also Romany Gypsy heritage.

It shows your naivety and ignorance if you automatically link a person’s name to their intellect. Makes me think you’re quite insular and probably grew up in a rural white middle class community.

Not me judging anyone that did give their kids one of them names it could easily have been my kids if I hadn’t stumbled upon this site