Anyone else married to a copper and having this problem

[Debs3013]

Okay our first baby and we're pretty much agreed on name if we have a girl but man am I hitting a brick wall with boys names!

Here's how the conversation goes..... me 'how about (insert name)?' him 'drug dealer' me 'oh my okay what about....' him 'shoplifter' and so it goes on.

I also find it ironic that all the names I like are biblical - the Isaacs, Gabriels etc. but apparently all very popular in the criminal underworld!

Wonder if there is any name I can come up with that he hasn't arrested!

[pamelat]

takethat oh no I have an Ella, she is only 3 but I hope not bullied in later life!!

I was very shocked to find out that "Harry" is a naughty boys name, well at my MIL's private school

[wigglesrock]

Yes, my husband is a policeman and they feckin' shorten everything, why say the actual word when they can use 100 acroynms, everyone is called Steve, Mike, Jess, Bill (no pun intended), Will, etc. Drives me mad, husband has name that is shortened quite a lot, in 20 years of knowing him, I have never shortened it, neither has his mother. Two weeks in the job and he was known as ...........ie!!

[takethatlady]

Ah pamelat your Ella will be a beacon of social success, I'm sure :)

I try to point this out to DH ... there's no correlation between the kids at school and our baby, but to no avail! I also try to tell him that once the baby is born and named that name will belong to it and it won't matter who else shares his/her name. He sort of agrees, but some names (not Ella!) have been forever ruined!

To be fair, Claire/Clare has been ruined for me, despite being a perfectly lovely name - there were no less than four in my class at secondary school and my crazy old boss was called Clare too. So I guess we all have it!

[Debs3013]

Yes they do or they apply really daft nicknames. I swear I don't know the real names of most of his colleagues!

[BuntyPenfold]

How about Bobby for a boy?
Or Bill?

[TitianTinselTemptress]

Bunty

[thereisalightanditnevergoesout]

We had the same thing - but my DH works for Probation. So many names were deemed unusable because of his 'clients'.

[jenga079]

Hahah, yes, I'm a teacher. We have the same problem. There are just too many associations with naughty kids.

[MentalFloss]

My brother is a secondary school teacher and when my sister in law was trying to name their twins these names got turned down:

Florence "has a different boy every week"
Ellie "the quiet one who has a secret drug problem"
Jake "the one who is determined to fail the exam"
Charlie "the one who has been pulled out of public school all of a sudden and has found himself at the local comp"
Lauren "the queen bee of the classroom who everyone secretly hates"

She despaired and tried to go for names he had never taught....

[ShakinScarecrow]

I work with young offenders in SE London and all the girls are called Jade, Paige and Courtney. Most of the boys are called Alfie, Charlie, Ronnie, Reggie etc.
Yet I see these 'barrow-boy' names are increasingly popular, especially on Mumsnet. Not so much the girls ones though!