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!!

My b-i-l when we discussed names for dd-Oh not Lucy-loose elastic!Not Claire-chocolate eclair
We named her Joanna Sarah and my mum put a birth announcement in the paper calling her Sarah Joanna!it wasnt an accident she wanted dd to have Sarah as a first name.

Someone once said to me c'mom.......Claudia, it's a bit pretentious isn't it!

There was a long silence after telling my Mum DD was called Lottie, followed by 'think of all the horrible words that will remind people of...snotty, grotty, spotty and potty!! She then said well Charlotte would be a bit better but Dad piped up what, 'Charlotte the harlot?'!!!

Ive had nothing but lovely comments about dds name (apart from one wierd woman in greggs pulling a face but she works in greggs so i dont care!)

untill the other day the woman in the changing rooms in a shop said 'oh how miserable!' about her middle name (Raine). she has a point but dont say it like that! and to my face!

xP- "well, that's a good name if she wants to be a stripper"

fair dos, though- it's Delilah

Im quite conservative with my names but still my mum had issues with DD - Kate (officially) but really katie. Mum said how horrible, she will be called Keyhole Kate after some comic strip many years ago. She started singing k-k-k-katie. Ive never heard of keyhole kate. My DD loves it at the moment (shes 4) as she is convinced she is really Kate Middleton and she will marry a prince!
With DS we wanted his middle name to be David after FIL but MIL went beserk as she believes its bad luck to name someone after someone who is still alive and that they will die. We were only trying to be nice. However his first name is after my brother who hasnt died yet.

I live in Brighton and so many of my friends have kids with what I would consider odd names. It is hard keeping a straight face sometimes but to each their own.....

Our DD is called Juno Bella (Bella being her middle name!) and my DHs Gran left a message on our answerphone congratulating us on her birth, but on her name..."Well that's your affair!"
And a month before our Juno was born my SILs friend called her DD Juno Clementine and my MIL was saying how ridiculous a name it was until she tried to gobble her words back up as she saw the look between me and DH! Needless to say she 'loves' it now Juno is just Juno!!!

MIL re DD (on the materity ward so didn't waste time) "That sounds like something from the back streets of Belfast".

(Isabella, Bella for short).

(And to dh on arrival of first grandchild, "Now you have someone more important in your life than me."

The last words my friends granny's spoke before she died were "how could you have called her Elsie".

I have been told my dd's name sounds like a boat. People I know IRL are too polite but I remember telling some other new mothers in hospital the name to be met with silence. Which was pretty damning but their children were called super conventional names like James so just different tastes I guess.

Dr said at my post natal check,"what is her name?" me "Delilah" Dr " oh my god she'll love you" sarcastically.Cow.

On telling my mother DS was called Fergus "No, I don't like it. Everyone will call him fungus"

She and my step father also hummed "Waltzing Matilda" when she came to visit her granddaughter for the first time. She was apoplectic when I told her that dd's middle name was Scout. "Scout ? Scout?? What ? As in Boy Scout ?? Why ?"

Oh yes I forgot the midwife when asking what name she should write on the form when we replied Juno she said "are you sure, maybe I should just leave it blank for now!"

Ah just read back,another Delilah! I call her Dilly.

Well our boys have very Welsh names. Around where we live, mostly no problem as it is rural welsh speaking Wales. However, my Nan, on hearing of DS3 name said - does he have a middle one? I laughed. I saw a clip of my other gran the other day opening her birthday pressie and card from us - when she got to the youngest he become ' the baby'!!! The names are Rhodri Joseph, Heddwyn Michael and Brychan Samuel. Did I mention I am originally from Oz?

the reaction my mum got wad best, calling out to me in sainsburys when I was a kid she got confronted by an old guy who wanted to know why she was so crule as to name her kid after a potato (aparently theres a variety with my name . Oh and the registra decided she didnt like my parents spelling of my middle name and made up her own. Was meant to be after my nan but somehow no, as discovered when my passport and birth cert didnt match.

ok no DC's here (yet) but i've already been told no irish names by in laws. Yeah like im listening to them!

My MIL seems to be ok with my kids' names. But she has made no secret of the fact that she dislikes my nephew's (perfectly normal) name. Initially she wouldn't call him by his name but by a diminutive. My SIL went ballistic as "it wasn't his name", but my MIL kept at it. She started telling other people that his name was the diminutive - my SIL only found out when a relative addressed a card to the baby using the wrong name because my MIL had told her that's what his name was. Nowadays she addresses the baby by his full name (his second name is after my late FIL), and just a couple of weeks ago made some kind of snide comment to us about how she "would prefer" that he was known as something else. I usually keep quiet when it comes to her tiffs with my SIL but I couldn't help snapping that she wasn't the parent, what he's known as is not about her preference. I think it's incredibly rude of her to try and control what the baby is called against the parents' wishes. It's not like it's some cute nickname that has just evolved, it's a deliberate attempt to give him a name she prefers.

We were thinking of naming DD1 Flora after DH's much-loved and recently deceased granny. Made the mistake of sharing our thoughts with a leery male friend who immediately raised one eyebrow and said "easily spreadable then?". That's my unborn daughter you LOON!

MrsTwinks your in-laws have a point:

With Irish girl's names, the spelling gives no clue to the pronunciation.

And when your eventual DCs start school, you'll find most of the troublesome boys have Irish names: Callum, Connor, Kieran, Craig, Liam etc

all my children have pretty average names (DH is very boring when it comes to agreeing names)
If I had my way I would have Aubrey or Aubrianna because Aubrey has been the name or middle name of all my grandfathers on one side of my family (its my dads middle name too)for at least 6 generations that i have discovered on my family tree so far!

but I think MIL would actualy break down in tears esepcially at aubrianna. DH woud NEVER agree to it! DC5 due next year maybe i should start working on it now.

at some of these!!

No one has really said anything nasty about DDs name. (Well, not to my face)

The only odd reaction was 'Oh, you named her after the character in Friends then?' Erm....No, we just liked the name alot!! (DD is Phoebe btw!)

Have had no comments about my dd's name (which being Tess could have invited them I guess), but I did put my foot in it with SILs first dd.

All happily standing around the bed on the post natal ward, MIL pipes up with the usual 'well, what are you going to call her?' question and we all discuss names we like. I say the one I like and everyone goes quiet, MIL says I'll tell you later and it's brushed over - complete confusion on my part. Turns out SIL had been best friends in school with a girl who was abused by her father. She went on to have an awful life, with a lot of addiction and bad choices made then finally killed herself still quite young. Same name I'd suggested on what was meant to be the happiest day of SIL's life

She hasn't held it against me

Thats not there objection thou, and this was raised before we got married.

I get the awkward pronouciation business (my name has been a pain) and trust me no full on gaelic, but quite frankly I am Irish, if I want an Orla or a Patrick and DH had no issues then thats that.

My stepmum seemed to think she was allowed to choose the middle name of my DD. She and my dad came to visit us in hospital and we had only chosen her first name, and wanted to have a few days to decide on the middle name(s). She sailed into the room saying "i've got a middle name for you - R Jemima!"

Nothing against Jemima, but it's meant to be my baby, love!

DM simply said "But why?"

Erm, because we like it.