What's worst response from people about LO name??

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When we told my fil (arse) what we had called dd1 he told me " you can't call her that it's a black girls name"
and another " and how am I meant to spell that!!

womd??!! im getting thicker by the day :( womb womb womb!!!

My friend told me dd would be "boring and overlooked" . Her names
Anna, quite plain i know and everywhere, and she was named for my beloved Aunt who'd died the year before.

Meant to add i love Anna.

DS - Oscar - my nan said 'I thought you were joking'. She loves it now.

DD2 - Alice - my parents said 'Well, it wouldn't be our first choice'.
Well, exactly - you don't get any choice. Oh and they named me a feminine version of a man's name, so either I get called the male version or people just mis-hear and call me whatever they like. Score, parents!

My sister said my chosen name for DS was a black mans name too. Then promptly refused to speak to me for 8 weeks after I said I'd call him what I like. She was meant to be my birth partner too, had to find new ones :(

She kept saying it and also said she'd steal him away and register him herself if I insisted on calling him that. I put up with it for weeks until she had told so many people that I had her neighbours saying the same thing ' oh the only person I knew with that name was black...' ummm, Fuck Off - I barely know you! I couldn't care less if the only person you knew with that name was a rainbow coloured leprechaun serial killer.

If I ever have another baby no one will know the name until I've given birth!

Ex-Dh's mad aunt 'What you calling her then?'
me 'Lois'
MA 'Ooo, I dont like all these modern names, what's wrong with Louise'
me 'It's a biblical name, so that's pretty old'
MA 'You're talking rubbish, it's not in the bible'

Cue me turning up next time with a bible with the passage highlighted ...she's still not convinced.

My mother is awful, especially about names she considers to be catholic.

I cannot imagine putting up with a relative calling dc names other than their own. I wouldn't even expect the to use a nn version unless dh and I did.

We only got positive reactions for dd1 - Lydia, but we're expecting more of a reaction with the names we have for our twins (due Sept), who will be Heidi Matilda and Kitty Alice (might be Alice Kitty but we'll decide when we see her and see how brave we feel). Kitty is a family name on my dad's side (great aunt's name) and we were reminded of it at my Nanna's funeral a few weeks ago. I mentioned it to dh expecting him to pull a face as he tends to like quite classic names, but he really likes it. We're just bracing ourselves. Lydia, Heidi and Kitty sounds nice to me. Not telling people in rl until they're born as it seems to be acceptable to be rude if the baby hasn't arrived yet.

Reuben. I thought people would go with the 'are you Jewish' thing but never expected the black thing tbh.

I know it's not hugely popular on MN but where I lived it was never used. Then we moved and have met a few here but I still love it. It was the only one I could settle on. The other choices were Matthew and Oliver which just didn't seem right at the time. My sister wanted Riley or Ethan both of which I didn't like at all.

We are talking again now but it's taken some time to actually get over it! She loves DS to bits now but prefers to call him Roo {hmm}

I call him Roo as well, we all do. But she seems incapable of using Reuben on cards etc. She introduces him as Roo to friends. She just won't accept I didn't take her opinion into account!

After a year she admitted she regretted the fall out and missing his birth which was a huge deal for her!

Dd1's name sounds like sanitary wear according to mumsnet (said while I was actually on the thread saying the name!)

'Caspar'
'Ooohh, as in the ghost?! ha ha!'
'No, as in the bible you twats'

Well, actually just because I really like it but honestly checkout woman/midwife/neighbour; Zip It

Caspar was one of the 'three kings' btw, though I'm sure you all know that.

My youngest is named Toby.

My cousin (middle class, pilot, alcoholic and general twat) told my aunt "thats a dogs name!"

I do sometimes :o

But always with a smile!

I just cannot beleive how rude some people are. I always just say 'aww that's sweet, lovely etc' unless I ind it very odd and then I ask the meaning of it so it shows I'm interested. I have heard a couple of names I truly didn't like but softened once I heard what they meant and the reasoning behind them.

There is only ONE appropriate answer when someone tells you their childs name IMHO

"His names Herod? How lovely!"

End of.

Yes, but does that still stand if, for example, they've decided to name the poor wee thing after a French cartoon character who lives in a small village and beats up Romans?

I tried not to say anything, I did.

TheSecondComing - thank you. People sometimes assume I'm being pretentious, I'm not, I'm Hispanic!

I love your children's names too, Clara and Francis are so strong and distinguished.

I've read comments on MN about DS name, apparantly it's one of them chavvy, made up names (think Jayden).....apart from it being a very old hebrew name that is.....

Ahh apparently my name is chavvy too LPP, despite the fact that I pre-date the term chav by quite a few years!

Blimey, SkipToTheEnd, your sister (and her vile neighbours) sounds like a really horrible person. I can't understand why anyone would criticise anyone's choice of name for their child, but to be racist with it is just awful.

Reuben is GORGEOUS.

My children's father is Brazilian. They've never met him (even though there's a 4 year age gap - long story!) but we go to Brazil when we can and I wanted them to have some sense of cultural connection so I gave them pass-as-British first names and Hispanic middle names. I admit the result sounds a little odd and fussy:

Savannah Gabriella Fernanda
Jessica Giovanna Pietra

But my mother's reponse was downright rude (though, now I'm not hormonal I think the first one's kind of funny)

With Savannah: "Can I get that on a fridge magnet, I'm going to need an easy reference point"

and with Jessica: "Good God, not again, those poor children."

My DS is adopted and when I phoned my sister to tell her we had been matched with a baby all she said was that his name was ghastly!