Unpleasant comments you have received when revealing baby name

[Polkadotfanatic]

My friend has just had a daughter (Monday morning, all new and pink and fresh and gorgeous). She has chosen Alice Elizabeth, (imo) a timeless classic name which wont age.

Her mother's comment:

''Oh. Playing it safe are you?''
''Well I suppose someone has to use the boring names so the braver people can use the nicer ones...''

I mean as comments go, it's not the nastiest, but the timing (Alice was about four hours old and friend was in blissed out baby loveness) wasn't great.

Just wondered what, if any negative comments you had when announcing baby name...

On telling SIL I wanted to call DS2 Declan - "Oh that's a poofs name, if you call him that I'm not going to use it" We didn't use it, but I really wish we had now. (And it left me wondering what the hell a poof name is?? Stupid bint)

DS5 - Why have you called him Barnaby as a full name? Barney was bad enough. Damn, I wish I'd gone with Ptolemy just to see the outrage!

I thought by not mentioning the name till they were born I'd avoid the negative comments but I was wrong.

My MIL totally flipped out on hearing our daughters name, Anouk.

For a week she wouldn't talk to us, and actually said things to my husband about 'not being able to have us in the family' and how we had 'broken her heart', she 'wouldn't be able to bond with our little girl', how we should have asked her first (!!!) and actually asked us to change it.....

She only apologised when husband told her how hurt we were, and was shocked that it would have upset us. She is a bit crazy though!

Really ruined our first few weeks with our amazing little girl.... Just hoping she doesn't flip again this time!!

" Good one.." "what are you really going to call him?"

MIL: "Oh no...You haven't have you? Really?!"

Then a few weeks later when we said we were off to register the birth (had to wait ages for an appointment): "Oh, are you still calling him that then? I thought you'd waited so long to register because you'd changed your minds"

She still resolutely spells DS's name wrong now, and he's 5.

It's not as if it's even that odd, long or difficult to spell - DS is Ifor (mn Bryn). DH is Welsh and so is MIL, and she'd been going on for years about using welsh names as BIL hadn't with his!

Who knows what she's going to make of DS2 when he arrives and we finally agree on something...

When we were considering Henry for DC1, my mum told me "that's a bit posh for you isn't it?" We ended up going with something else but not because of her comments.

DS2 has three names (one we liked and then middle names after someone on my side and someone on DH's side) and then our surname. My mum said that three names were unnecessary. At first she used to address cards, etc to him using just the first two name initials and then his surname.

Yesturday I told a group of friends that we are thinking of Artemis if I have a girl. One friend came out with, "What, for a girl?!

err yeah, it's a girl's name....

When DS was a few days old, I was still in hospital because he had jaundice. A nurse asked what his name is. When I told her (his name is Caleb), she said "oh" and actually scowled at me! She didn't say another word to me after that. So strange! I have since learned, via mumsnet, that some people consider caleb to be a chavvy, made up name (despite the fact that it is in the bible) so maybe she was of the same opinion, who knows?

Ha ha! Almost universal disapproval for DS' name, and DD's name got mixed reviews.
Thing is, they've turned out exactly as their names suggest - DS is charming, suave and a man-about-town, and DD is exactly like the female lead in How to Train Your Dragon.

People really can just bugger off.

MIL suggested Joan for DD's middle name - some obscure familial reason. It didn't happen....just doesn't fit with us.

When my Sis told someone we'd called our DS Archie, they replied: "What's it short for?"
Sis: "Archie"
Bloke: " but what did they put on the birth certificate?"
Sis: "Archie"
Bloke: "but it's not a real name!"

er it is now! Lol

I feel a bit bad tho - once when I asked someone their DC's name I genuinely couldn't catch what they were saying. They ended up mumbling that it was a family name - really suits the child, I was just too slow picking it up

Each to their own. I've met children called Fanta and Olay and I would be lying if I didn't look a bit like this but I wouldn't dream of saying anything to the parent.

When revealing DD2s name, my FIL remarked that her name sounded similar to the name of the aeroplane that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He said that her nickname at school would probably be 'Bomber'

PlumPeridot - Adele Katherine is a lovely name. Sod your stepmother and go for it. DD's middle name is Katherine and I love it even more now than when we chose it...

Beautiful name! Timeless and classic but I'm slightly bias as it is the name I had picked for DS2

This is why I try to find out the names of babies via text/email - I can't help my reaction showing in my face or sounding in my voice. If I genuinely like the name someone's chosen for their baby I'll obviously say so but I find it so much easier to type something diplomatic if I think the name's a shocker.

In my defence, I'm completely prepared for my family and friends to hate the names of my future children! Any time I have a discussion with someone about baby names we're always very open about what we think - I don't know if it's just my friend group/family though.

We called our cat Teddy and a whole bunch of our friends told us it was terrible and that we should have called him Clive or Spike or something equally as hideous. So I'm expecting an even bigger reaction when baby names are announced.

i was told by a now little seen friend that my DDs name sounded like a cats.

its Molly.

can i just point out that Caleb is my DH middle name and was his grandfathers name, who took part in the D day landings and spent years in a german concentration camp.....its also biblical! how can that be chavvy or made up [confused)

oh and its also my DS middle name.....what on earth can people find wrong with Caleb?

To be fair, I did have a cat called Molly. Well, I still do, she's 10 now but lives at home.

My aunt's friend has two girls called Molly and Lily - both of which are names of pets I've had. She didn't know that, obviously.

I'd just put that down to good taste ;) I told her to feel free to use the name Teddy if she has a little boy next!

dd1's name:

From my ex (not her dad, just good friends, he supported me when her dad should have) - Why would you do that to a child?

From my Gran: I'm just gonna call her Melissa. I can't say that other silly name (her name sounds nothing like Melissa - she then proceeded to call her a variation of her actual name for until dd1 learnt to talk and would correct her)

From my nephew - If she is a girl and you knew she was a girl, like my mam said, why for did you call her a boys name?

It is a lovely name, gran will get used to it.

"Why Alec?? With all the nice names on OUR SIDE OF THE FAMILY" - Right, Mum, Casimir would have been a much more fitting choice... for a cat

"Alex?" - "No, Alec" - "I see... You wanted the name to be a little creative...like you..." - My aunt, feeling that bringing me flowers was not enough, also added criticism AND psychoanalysis to the package.

Peahen Octavia is also high on our list for DC2! I am already starting to get ready for the comments...