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!!

Ok maybe saying i felt SORRY for her was a bit harsh.

Speaking as someone who has a name that hasnt been heard by most people under 50 i just hope the little girl doesnt grow up hating her name like i did mine, obviously there are differences between our names mine is so old fashioned its unreal and hers is .. eh.. you know.

i dont think you're being unreasonable, i dislike that name...its cheap plonk!
sorry gillhugh!
she'll probably find a really cool abbreviation for it though. everyone will end up calling her charlie anyway!

FWIW, I have a Sam and plan to have an Elle. (Short for Eleanora) I won't be calling her Ella for obvious reasons, but Elle she will be. (When I convince DH to have another, that is ) I'll just have to be very very careful about the order in which I say their names.

Couldn't bear to be common, the name Mabel is given to 3/100,000 girls! IE 0.003% are called Mabel...

sighs with relief of originality.

you think thats bad i once heard a mother shout on her little girl "nokia al tan your wee arse for you" no joke!! i thought surely thats abuse calling your little girl that!

Jack, no I am not confusing the two. It goes without saying that a rotten name is not on a par with having a life-threatening illness, and that all that matters is that the child is loved, and all these other things that people trot out. One could object to the OP without being either nasty or sanctimonious.

Personally, I do feel sorry for a little Chardonnay as she will go through her life being judged for her chavtastic name by people like me, who will potentially be employing her as a judge or a doctor or a burger-flipper. Her name means there will always be a question mark over her in the same way that some people would feel about a Tarquin (or my own v poncetastic DCs, if it comes to it).

And here Tarquin would be chavvy b/c we don't have any of them and people would assume it's one of those "made up" names.

I canot believe Candida is a real name (although I suppose the 'white' is the origin for both??)
And Lambrini - really??
Really should have called DD Fann-Jo after all!

I know of a mum who has named her dc

Harvey
Bailey
Lambrini

or another one

Cartier
Rolex

I kid you not
My own dd2 is adopted and came with an incredibly chavvy name. We have had to learn to live with it. It doesn't stop me cringing when people ask her name.
I pray she wants to change it when she grows up.

Saw the thread title last night and didn't click. I assumed it would be about neglect/abuse, not a name!

Anyway, I know of a Chardonnay - aged 30.
She is lovely, not at all 'chavvy'.
Sometimes she shortens it to Charlie or Donna whilst among close friends. But she loves her name.

What you mean is, "Ugh, common people!" isn't it? Get over yourself.

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yabu unless it was hyphenated with either britney or shanequa

Old saying: Give a dog a bad name.....

Its like this horrendous chav girls who give there poor kids prison crewcuts and dress them like armed robbers, and plonk them in front of violent computer games from the age of 18 months till they are 16, and THEN wonder why the kida actually do end up in prison, with a crewcut, doing 15 to 20 for armed robbery.

BTW, theres a Russian name 'Yebenov' , it translates into english as 'fucked'.

A name is a name it doesn't define you.

My son is Tomas the spanish Thomas after his great grandad and also for benefit of uk side of the family. Many people comment and I say it's spanish and get ' thats the welsh way' etc. What do they know??? But it's not gonna change anything!!!

YABU

Chardonnay... I could just about not roll my eyes at (I'm sorry but it's just not to my taste!!)

Who in their right mind would call their child Rolex or Cartier... setting them up for a life of riddicule if you ask me.

I think a name does define you, unless people know you very well. Without knowing a nice, clever, thoughtful one, I could never take a Chardonnay seriously.

There was a thread on baby names a while ago about the names we would have chosen for our DC's if we had been brave enough. There were some lovely and unusual names, and someone commented how nice it would be if everyone actually used these very individual names, and didn't compromise for fear of what people would think. So maybe Chardonnay's mum just possesses sufficient self esteem and confidence to choose the name she likes, and not worry about other people's opinions. I have always wanted to call my DD Bonanza, but as mother of 2 DS's, my own bravery has not been tested...!

I was told my DD's name was an old lady name, to my face. The MW told me that she wouldn't "put it on the name card yet", and was a tad shocked when I kept to it!!! LOL, the best thing is that there is a Little Old Lady who lives nar t my gran and she has the same name and middle name as DD...

My opinion is that unless people are born OLD like benjamin Button, then the names were once very much children's names, and so one day Chardonnay will also be an old lady name.

Where can I check to see how popular DD's name was... Am paranoid that anothr child in the school has the same name.. I want her to be unique! LOL

found it... seems it is 0.07 in every 1000... hopefully that means she won't bump into one in her class!

I had considered sideboard... you know, where she was conceived, like?

I did hear of a Pepsi (a baby, not pepsi and Shirley)

@mumbar

Your so wrong.

A bad name defines you just as much as the way you dress defines you. When people see a stranger they judge them in the first 90 seconds on there appearance. Similarly if you communicate with someone blind, then you judge them on there name initially, because its the only reference point you have. This is not some baseless opinion, its proven psychology.

The primary problem you get is as you grow up, because children can be cruel beyond words. Give a child a bad name, you make him/her a target for ridicule and bullying, and thats shapes the persons entire view of the world for the next 20 years.