Somebody was very rude about my baby's name yesterday.

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He is seven months now. When I told her his name she said "oh. you don't mind him being bullied when he's older then" .

His name is Alessandro.

They're right about Delilah, though. Everyone breaks out into "Patricia the Stripper" when they meet me :o

Seriously though, it will happen a lot. You just learn to smile politely, it's no biggie.

Agree that she mustn't get out much, afterall who is going to invite out a complete bitch like that. At least she was a stranger though, when we told my Mum what we had named DD she looked like she was sucking a lemon when she said "well I suppose you can't choose what they call your grandchildren".

Its a lovely name, ignore her and enjoy your baby.

It's a lovely name, and as everyone else says kids these days will grow up around far more unusual names.

When I told my family what we'd called my son, my sister responded with 'you know you're supposed to love him don't you?'

Strangers have been much more polite though :)

Thats one of my fav names ever,unfortunate that we have no italian/spanish heritage or would have used it.

Some people have no manners. Alessandro is a lovely name and even if it is not to her taste, she shouldn't make such a comment.

You should have told her to eff off

When an old lady asked what my DS2was called, I told her. She shook her head and said, "Well, never mind." Cheeky cow.
It's a traditional Welsh name, by the way... And we are in deepest Wales!

Lovely name OP. And have no idea how he is going to be bullied because of his name! Don't worry about it, really.

Alessandro is a lovely name!

I get the 'oh' reaction all the time with my kids's names.

Bothers me not.

Almost all of my OH's family actually insist that my DS is called RUBY.

He isnt.

Bit off topic I know but I cba to start a whole new thread about it

My dp's uncle was very rude about my DS's name and I was quite speechless at the time (which is almost unheard of for me )

I did get quite upset about it afterwards - right up to the point when I remembered he had called his son Wayne and so actually I didn't give two sh*ts for his opinion on names!

With apologies to any Waynes, my point is as long as YOU like it, who cares what the rude tossers think

Don't worry at all, his name is lovely. My DC names are Fabian and Raphael (Rafe for short) and we get loads of 'Oh' reactions. Nothing outright rude, just that you cane see a lot of folk think WTF!
I don't care, and neither should you. I love my DC's names and that is really all that matters. Fabian has been at school now for a year and as far as I know, no one has commented on his name, far less bullied him.

Oooooh funny, what lovely names!

I remember telling a colleague my new daughter's name and she pulled a face and said: 'why did you call her that?' I just replied 'because I like it' (well, obv) and walked away - but I was seething.

Alessandro is a lovely name. Shes ignorant, rude and not worth giving another thought!

Why bullied?? Stupid comment. Alessandro is a great name. One of my favourites in fact.

OP - my children all have Hispanic names and we get that too.

These people don't realise there is life beyond English names!

I like it.
Very rarely do I get a positive reaction to ds's name, people usually just say:
What?
What?
Hows that spelt?
Oh.

Can't get angry with idiots anymore, I consider it a twat filter as all the nice interesting people either say that's nice, or is it Irish? And I kiss them

why thank you Belle [coy]

aye Teddy re nice and interesting people. I deffo judge folk on their reaction to my DC's names. If anyone says "oh", I think 'fool' and if anyone says how lovely etc, I put them on my Christmas Card list

People are stupid.

A friend's mother enquired after another mutal friend, who had just had a baby. She asked the name, I told her (Lily). "Oh, ", says mother, "What a shame. It's flower names, you see, they always sound awful." She knows FULL WELL that DTD1's name is Daisy. Stupid old trout.

mister wouldn't let me call our daughter Delilah, for which i'm still bitter. there's also a queen song Delilah about a cat.

re OP: yes that was rude and unnecessary. a simple 'how unusual!' gets your point across without actually spelling it out. i get a lot of 'how unusual!'s about my son. the registrar made a snarky comment about my daughter when we registered her.

FunnysInTheGarden - one of mine is Rafael (the Spanish spelling), a great name!