would you tell a friend that her new baby's name is used by some to refer to vulva/fanny/tuppence/girlie bits...

[FlyingInTheCLouds]

My mate is calling her little girl Minnie (she's now 10 days old).

I thought nothing of it, apart from the Minnie mouse/me connections until I mentionned it to a few friends who said that they used as a baby word for vulva/fanny {insert much argued over word of your choice here].

I had never come across this before but having re-read a few threads on this topic that some people do. It appears to be gaining in popularity.

So should I make my friend aware of this connotation of the name, in case it becomes like being called Fanny (as one of my aunts was much to our amusement as kids).

Or just leave it be.

my mum calls it a foofy-fuff, that would be a cool name!

god she's london based so now I feel confused.

We call it a min min in this house (DD is 3). I am from East Anglia which I guess is sort of Southern (not that it's a word from my youth).

That said, I don't think I'd say anything. As pointed out, it's no different from Will/Willy/William.

Yes, I know quite a few people who use Minnie to describe girly bits.

Not sure I'd be brave enough to point it out though. Possibly, only if she was a very good friend :)

When I do sex ed with year 6 and we go through the different terminology that children have, 'minnie' comes up a LOT!

Also in London.

as i see it,with baby names smile be gracious.minnie clearly a regional thang

i wouldn't say anything really,its better if she finds out on her own,

depends on how close you are maybe,

My elder daughter started calling my youngest daughter 'Muffy' as a nickname when she (eldest) was about 5 years old (youngest was a few months old) I was naive and didn't realise the connotation, until we were at centre Parcs once and I called her and some teenagers sniggered (I still didn't cotton on until DH suggested that her name was a bit 'suggestive') unfortunately, by that time it had stuck, she was about 3 by then. I tried to keep her real name at nursery ( successfully) and then at school, (unsuccessfully, because by then, they are interacting much more efficently and in a more sophisticated way ( and coming round to the house and hearing siblings and parents calling that child that name) I still cringe at the name, but it is her; I have heard other people who 'know' others named the same, tho' probably older generations. My only consolation is that there is 'Muffy' in 'Arthur' on CBEEBIES'. So 'Minnie,' methinks there is no problem, think 'Minnie Driver' and that's a stage name!

Minnie is def a name for girlie bits where I come from (East Anglia) I hear it again and again.

I might mention it, just so she knows, if you can do it tactfully.

My friend's nieces (Kent or Sussex I think) called theirs Mary so when they met an old school friend of our's with that name all hell broke lose.
o
Personally me and my sis called ours a 'venus' genuinely believing that was what it was called. I reckon we got penis and vagina muddled up at some point!!

Muffy , lol! That's the trouble with all those nicknames we give our kids!

My best friend of old used to use "Mini" (different spelling) as another name for vagina but she's the only person I know who did/does.

I think it's a cute name for a girl TBH and I'd keep quiet unless you'd know she'd take it well...

I think you should say soemthing. It's early enough for her to choose something different, and if she doesn't know the association, what sort of a friend wouldn't tell her?

has she def picked name or still considering

Fou Fou (someone mentioned further up the thread) is quite pretty imo. Mention it to her as an alternative.

Worst name I saw in a baby name book was "Anal". (honestly) I expect it was pronounced a bit like "Anna" with an L but even so.

scottishmummy - it was like that! I was really proud of him, thought, he did try very hard.

it was like the time a friend of ours came to dinner, without telling us that since we had last seen him, he had shaved his head and grown a gigantic handlebar mustache. I have NEVER been prouder of my children.

Never heard of Minnie being a fanjo-type name.

My mum had a friend called Minnie - short for Williamina.

onepieceoflollipop we must have had the same name book. At one point DS was named Anal Humperdink.

We had a sick game to come up with the worst name possible.

Thanks for confirming my post ZEN :) After I typed it I wondered if people might think I had made it up.

grammar - muffy made me chortle. But it's lovely. Our DS1 is nned wobble, which he now gets embarrassed at across the supermarket.

scottishmummy - the name is definately choosen.

anal - now I would be having words

am unfamiliar with the minnie=bush thang.so chosen as in on birth cert and registered?eeek id still say nowt given she clearly has no such association

anal as name aye id say something about uphill gardener name

Just think "mouse" or "roll" - as in Cadbury's, rather than "fanjo" when you see the baby or put this whole thing out of your mind.

not registered yet

I did wonder if someone at the book company was being "naughty" and slipped that name in as a joke.

ok,given potential for derision.tell her