to feel sorry for this little girl

[Kariba29]

Whilst shopping in town yesterday a woman and her little girl about 4/5 were walking in front of us when the girl got distracted and got left behind the woman called out Chardonnay, Chardonnay come here now, i looked at DH with a did i hear right look and he just smiled at me and nodded

Seriously, i thought it was an urban myth, do people actually call their children this?(shocked)

I hope she had had one to many when she thought of this name otherwise there is no excuse really!!

Yes, you are a bit unreasonable . There are many, many names I dislike. I am sure if I was (were? was?) to type the names of my children, more than half of mners would hate them. I love them. the kids haven't complained.

Each to their own. If this girl hates it when she grows up, she can always change it. I think we should save our pity for children who are mistreated or abused, not who have a name we happen to not like.

I think Chardonnay is a deadful name....I drank far, far, far too much of the stuff once, now I can't even look at it. Even typing it is making me feel ill.....

But Merlot is lovely.

Candida is a perfectly normal Spanish name

I think that there are lots of children now being saddled with names that they will change of their own accord when they get older.

About Shiraz? I actually quite like that. Now I know several people called Wim... A name is just a name. I don't like mine particularly...it is NOT child abuse.

No my personal choice, but neither are some of the old lady/man names some of the middle classes seem to favour at the moment.

activate(I actually did the voice in my head as I read it, brilliant).

Of course Chardonnay is a dreadful name, but then my children have unusual names and I love them!!

See pm1, I have a daughter called Mabel!!

and I am not offended at all!

Don't you realise, OP, that it's better to admit to theft and/or murder on MN than to be seen as a judgey pants?

Personally, I think the name is vile, and I would indeed feel sorry for a child called Chardonnay. Though I dare say other people would feel sorry for my DCs for their poncey names (my Gran, for example, said 'poor little chap' when I told her my DS's name!)

Mabel is unusual, but it is uncommon(never made the names list and I've never met another) , I have not met any other children with the names I have given my sons.

ISN'T....doh!

YABU, i sometimes feel like people sem a bit judgey about DS2's name. But i dont care I like it!

No Mabel is not unusual, i see it more of an older generation name (trying not to sound judgey lol) Its my nans middle name. It is nice though.

Port - is the with an "English" W or a Germanic W

I didn't know anyone else with children with the same names as mine, in fact I didn't know any adults with the same names either..............then the farking shop owners down the road had a baby boy and named him the same as my DS1

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' I like what some refer to as 'old lady chic' names'

Thats what i ment about older generation.

DS2s name is more of a surname Jaimeson, i really liked Jamie. ExP did not, but for some reason liked Jaimeson. ExP nearly always calls him Jamie now though

I dislike the name Chardonnay, I dislike the name Belinda. There are many, many more names I dislike, yet other people love.
Wouldn't the world be a boring place otherwise?
How would names change and evolve if nobody 'created' new ones?
Incidently, the name 'Belinda' first appeared in an 18th century poem. A few took a liking to the name, and so it gradually became popular. Many probably looked at their husbands smiling and nodding in mutual disbelief when they first heard it being called.

I'm in North Yorkshire and know lots of Mabels but no chardonnays.
Good for Chardonnay's parents for being independent-minded enough to go for a name they liked, rather than worrying about what others might think of it.

But the OP says she thought it was an Urban Myth, a bit like sibsets called Sam 'n Ella.

Have never met a Chardonnay and thought it more a tongue-in-cheek name used on Footballers' Wives to lampoon Wags, but maybe like some OLC names, it's being 'reclaimed'!

I do know siblings called Sam and Ella.........they have 2 other siblings as well.

Nasty, nasty, nasty.