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!!

We called Ds1 a shortened version of a fairly popular name. A friend of ours used to do those wiggly finger inverted commas whenever she said his name or introduced him to someone else. For two years!!

I hated my name. I was named after my nan and never liked having a "granny" name.My brother was named after my Dad, but his name was such an awful name and I think he escaped lightly. But,when I was expecting DS and we were discussing names I made the mistake of saying that I didn't like the idea of naming babies after people as it felt like putting pressure on them from babyhood. My mum did not take kindly to this....

My DS was eventually called Wyn, which is a relatively unusual Welsh name,especially in Dublin where he was born. Most people misheard it as Wayne, which drove me up the wall, but my favourite was this exchange with a stranger while walking down the street:
Old Lady "Oh he's lovely. What's his name?"
Me "Wyn. It's a Welsh name. His Daddy's Welsh" (That just rolled off my tongue due to the amount of times I had to repeat it)
Old Lady "Oh well, never mind"

WTF?? I didn't know how to respond to that!

a good - but self-confessed green-eyed (i.e. jealous!) - friend, couldn't quite be happy with our good news when our DS was born and her reaction to his name was, " I mean, for fuck's sake, you might as well have called him Apple!". the look i gave her triggered an instant withdrawal/apology and she is suitable doting these days!

From my mum: "No, that's a Blackpool donkey name.' (Lucinda)

Luckily it was just me running through some ideas while I was still pregnant and the baby was a DS anyway.

"Ah yes, like that little girl that went missing."

I actually want to change her name.

Checkout girl "isn't he lovely, what's his name?"
Me "Gabriel"
Checkout girl "Gary?"
Me "No, GABRIEL"
Checkout girl "Where on earth did they come up with that?"

I think she thought I was his granny or ancient childminder.

at some of these!

There was silence when we said our dds perfectly ordinary name. Didn't find out until later that we should have called her Margaret as the first girl in each generation has been called that. How did I not know this? And would it have made any difference of course not

When I said Sophia - a "friend" said "sophia, well it's not very you, is it?", well no, obviously! Only leaving to wonder what would be more 'me'?

And with DD2, my entire family including my hubby have decided to say her name as they chose not as I wanted and I felt I had to fall in line with their pronunciation. For any about to be mums - my advice is to be as clear as you can before the birth on the names you like and stick to your guns when bubs is born - and before the SERIOUS hormones kick in!

DS2 was seeing a doctor at the hospital once and at the end of the appointment she said. " I have a grandson with the same name, I thought it was one of those silly made up names" his name is Lucas! I turned and said "no it is greek"

My best friend: You can NOT call her that!
Me: You've got 4 months to get used to it.

Her name? Florence. (And a yummy little Florrie-pop she is too!)

Should mention I'd just had my 20 week scan and discovered she was a girl, the name was just right, straightaway.

We joked all through the pregnancy that if DC was born on Christmas Day (and was a boy) he would be called Damian (apols to any Damians out there) but the baby was due in January anyway.

Fast Forward to Christmas Day DS was born. On ringing MIL to let her know he was born and we were both alive (a bit touch and go for the moment) the first thing she said to DP was, "oh you are not going to call him Damian are you, please say you arn't".

We didn't, but weren't going to anyway - oh and MIL I was fine thanks.

When my DD was born her name just flew out of my mouth as though she had put it there, but my DH had not really thought about names and so I left it open for a few days after she was born as to how we spelt it, what middle names to choose etc so he did not feel he had nothing to do with her name.

Well, seven days later, we proudly announced DD's full name to my mum and stepdad, thinking they would gush and coo over her now they had a name... instead stepdad's first comment was "errgh, Is-a-bell-on-a-bicycle-strictly-necessary".

Both then suggested why don't we call her Isabella instead, and started debating second names between themselves...as though their opinion would be persuasive after being so mean.
I wish I had read this thread before it happened, as I might not have been so scarred by such a stupid thing. I now know this is a really common schoolyard taunt going back to their generation, but how horrible to dump it on my beautiful moment with my daughter.
Ultimately all new mums and dads want is a bit of a verbal hug and a hip hip hooray for their new baby.

PIL was there not long after DDs birth (thankfully only for a few mins). On announcing her full name we just got a cats bum face from MIL, we also said we would commonly call her by the shortened name so reply was eventually 'well the shortened name isn't too bad'

btw I think it's poor form for the few posters on here to have criticized some names.

MIL always says that her friends "have to pull a face" when they pronounce DSs name. It's Finn. What face would this be? Just how much can one syllable contort your face?

(What she really means is that she doesn't Finn but she is too passive aggressive to say or just let it go!).

I know this is from way upthread but re: Marcus being a name for black boys what utter bullshit...

I'm pretty sure Marcus Aurelius (Roman general, philosopher...) would have been very surprised to wake up and find himself a black man.

Some. People. Are. Twonks.

Apparently DS's name is chav, according to MN. It happens to be my maiden name.

DH excitedly rings his DM to tell him the good news. Melika has just had a little boy!

She said 'great news, what are you going to call him?'

DH replies 'Jacob'.

Phone goes quiet, she tells someone in the background, Melikas had a boy and they are going to call him Jacob but I think he's joking!

This will always make us laugh as she has now passed on, but she always pronounced it as 'Jacub', like she didn't know how to say it.

When my PIL and gran-in-law came to visit me and DS in hospital they asked what I'd called him.

I told them his name and there was a slight moment of silence in which gran-in-law said, "Oh, nice modern names, then."

I was a bit as his first name is Adam (first man ever created on Earth!) and his middle name is a name from the Old Testament, some 2000 years ago! So not quite modern, but thanks for the comment.

My MiL wanted to know why, of all the three names DD has, one isn't Mary.
She looked at me in all seriousness and told me that since DD was born abroad I could write Mary on the birth certificate and it would be legal.

Years ago,at the local baby clinic,I was sitting facing a local girl who was a bit unfriendly,ok she was a caaaah,(we called her 'Tango Girl' on account of her orange fake tan),anyway back to the clinic,the HV came out and yelled "Lucky Harris"....to which Tango girl got off her chair and snorted "It's Lequann,actually!" . You could hear the sniggers all over the surgery.

MIL to SIL, on hearing that her son was Gianluca, to be known as Luca: "Oh, such an Italian name with their surname. And why not just call him Luca if that's what he'll be known as?"

Well, first of all his father is Italian... And secondly, perhaps a fair comment apart from the breathtaking hypocrisy, given that SIL is (eg) Betty Jane, always called Jane, because Betty is a family name for MIL.

my name is Billie and people say all the time what is your real name?? Old people tend to ask if it's short for billerina?! or "you're parents clearly wanted a boy"

DD is called Saskia. Not that unusual, and pretty common in Holland (DH is Dutch)

My Mum had real difficulty saying it at first, (she'd not long had a stroke) and when introducing her to people would say "Sass as in Sasparilla and Ikea like the shop!"

I should have said in my first reply to this thread, that as well as those comments from friends, my MIL (who is the devil incarnate) isn't impressed with the fact the children have Hispanic names. She hasn't said anything bad about the names themselves, at least not to us (I'm sure she has behind our backs though), but she did say something like, "they're English, they should have English names."

My son (DC1) is called Jonah, my MIL made much if not liking this, topped off by my FIL saying 'well don't blame us when he comes to you when he's older saying he hates you'. Right; thanks, woah baby bubble rupture!

Should say we now get on well and they use his name no probs.