Please remember these children have to grow up!!

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It is all well and good choosing a name for your darling newborn that revolves around the latest fashion or trend or just being so lazy and giving your darling little one initials or what ever but PLEASE remember that your darling little one, all too quickly will be off to school and then be taller than you could ever imagine and they won't thank you for being stuck with a really stupid name!! I work in a primary school and some of the names we see on the school registers year after year are enough to make you cringe!! Children are not stupid and please before you saddle your darling infant with something that makes you go 'wow, that's original, unique etc etc etc' remember that one day they have to go out into the real wide world and sadly sometimes the real world can be not a nice place to be, the play ground can be a tough place. Just a word of warning........

Hear hear!!!

What would you say was a really stupid name? Surely it's a matter of personal taste, unless parents want to call their children 'Bumface' or something.

I could see 'Bumface' for a boy. Maybe not a girl.

Is that Italian? Like ' Boom -fa-chay' ?

Do we get to hear what your children are called so we can judge you back?

I think 'Bumfacia' is the feminine equivalent.

Oh, touche, Sherbert!

(sorry, can't do acutes)

I wanted to call my first daughter Bumface. But if it's popular I won't. I'll pick an unpopular name that I hate, as long as it's quirky.

Yes, but is Bumfacia pronounced Boom-fa-cheea or Boom-fa-seea?

Did you by any chance call your children Harold and Betty, Bossboggle? Damn good solid names, btw.

I used to look after two girls called Faynie and Gentalia.
I'm not joking, sadly.

Yes you are, Twirly.

You are.

DH works with a guy whos wife is a teacher in a Secondary School on the West Coast of Scotland.

She recently encountered twin boys, named...

Armani and Versache McGlatchie

Seriously....

Oh and I meant to say, there is a difference between unusual names and those kind of names up there ^

And and and

When I had DS a women in the hospital had a wee girl and called her

Ibroxia

Probably will not mean much to most, Ibrox is the home ground of Rangers Football Club.

For those that want to know what a bad name is, I would say 99% of the names used on this website

Bumface needs to fit the trend of "using a name from a culture we have no connection to". Therefore I offer you the following translations;

Cara Mala (Spanish)
Mauvais (French for bum)

If we're doing names we know, may I present you with:

Aubergine (the granddaughter of a work colleague's friend)
Gandalf (overheard his mother screaming at calling to him in my local supermarket)

Aubergine?

Fuck.

Why did I no think of Ibroxia?

Too late now. Labia will have to do.

Damn, I should have called him Trafford!

mistressploppy it gets worse - little Aubergine was born around the same time as Apple Paltrow. Mum loved the name Apple so much but didn't want people to think she was copying Gwyneth so opted for Aubergine as the "obvious" alternative.

I guess it ticked the "A" box and the "fruit/vegetable" box

I was also told of a vicar who, after performing a Christening for a little girl named Isabella, shook the parents hands and thanked them for choosing a normal name!

Wow - 'darling' overload.

Loving the OP swooping in like a caped crusader, as if all this has never been said before a thousand times. For what it's worth, I agree with you which is why I've given my children good (IMO) names. But others can do what they like. Even if I do come on here now and then to try on my judgypants.