Unpleasant comments you have received when revealing baby name

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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...

I have a confession - on hearing a colleague had called their new son Wolf my first thought was - I really hope he can carry that off when older as if he is a bit of a geek he's gonna suffer.

Even Bear Ghrylls started with a standard name and swapped to his nn later!
I didn't say anything negative at all though.

Keeping my fave girls name under wraps until bump born though as I am sure it will get some

I'm such a hypocrite

hehehe

of 'Catherine' oh well you can always change it!

I told her it had been a difficult decision as we had many names on the list but the one we finally went for was Clementine. Her response?..... "Well, you can always change it can't you?"

I don't think she meant that she didn't like it - rather that she thought you might change your mind, given what you told her. I might have said the same, whatever the name was.

dandelionss I can empathise.
My mil really hinted hoped we would change it.
(It's not as if we named our dd Noreena or Zenobia!)

"oooooh. I thought of that for DD2 but wasn't brave enough".

Ha this is the most hilarious thread, been laughing my socks off!
After a 4 day labour I finally could speak to my mum and tell her my son had finally arrived, I told her his name and she said 'oh you can't call him that, I knew a man called that and he looked like a gnome'

When an acquaintance heard we had called DD2 a name ending in -la (DD1's name ends in -la too but is different enough to not mix them up) he said "What's the next one going to be, fucking Laa-Laa?" But he is a bitchy queen.

Just before DD was born my mum asked what names we'd chosen. I said I'd tell her if she refrained from comments. We didn't know the sex, and our names were Charlotte, Isobel, Alexander (I think, or was it Dominic) and Oscar. Mum immediately burst out, "Oh no, not Oscar!" Thanks mum . The next time round I didn't tell her anything.

we've had 'oh, isn't that a boys name?' For our DD's v traditional girls name

With DS we mostly get blank looks or confusion... don't think most people hear it properly. It's an old name too, v traditional, has been a saint's name but still v uncommon (its not odd, certainly not like Bede or Cuthbert or Osric!)

My sister nearly had a fit of herself on hearing our new daughters name. Apparently, she'll never be able to say it or pronounce it.

It's Celyn. Pronounced Kel-in.

And no sister, it's not a boys name, nor is it a mouthful. And the reason we chose a Welsh name sis, is because manshape is Welsh, and i've lived here for the best part of 22 years.

When I told dsis, her reaction was "?oh that's a bit weird.not really my cup of tea. I don't really like it tbh.he might get picked on at school.....they may call him (insert Ds name here) fish finger " Seriously! I couldn't believe it. It was at a time when it east a very popular name though. I was in bits, hormonal and upset. Dsis never apologised either.

Really, dee? Celyn a lovely name and not at all difficult to pronounce!

Ye, Chip - i'm from a small Lancashire town in which she still lives, and apprently 'it's right unusual'. I could understand it if it'd been her middle name - Sionedd - but she barely mentioned that..

Confession time. Many years ago, meeting a new mum at the local m&b group, I asked the baby's name-answer, Shannon. And my mouth started flapping before brain could engage and stop it - what did I come out with? Rockall! Bet that went down well.

Alice elizabeth is a lovely name, classic and classy.

I think parents should be allowed to call their children whatever they please, although I sometimes cringe inwardly when I hear of children given made-up names, I'd never project my feelings onto the parents we've chosen that name with care and love

*parents WHO'VE

"Why did you name your child after an ugly city?"

DS3 has a very popular Dutch name (for years in the Dutch top ten boys' names). My other two DSs have traditional Dutch names too. Nevertheless, my neighbour whispered to my friend when hearing DS3's name: "They're making it up, aren't they??"

jennifer I presume they meant Sofia, rather than Swindon?

One of my BFs is Alice Elizabeth! And she is fab so there's a good omen for you

When my DB-in-law was born, and my MIL told her DM his name she (DM) said: 'Oh no, you can't call him that, it's Jewish!' (His name is Nathan, btw). Fast forward 34 years and DB-in-law is actually converting to Judaism.... now is that spooky or what?

Our DD is Margot Elizabeth - my own DB said, on hearing the name: 'You know she'll get called Maggot at school?!' Um, really?! Well, we shall just have to wait and see, I suppose.....

"It's like you want her to be bullied" random old man who asked me DD's name in the street.

Most people have been positive though

FiL kept banging on about DS's name being a good Hebrew name. He was chuffed as he has recently discovered his Jewish 'roots' ("that's why I talk with my hands so much, because I'm Jewish" ). Fine, whatever. But he kept going on about that being the reason we named DS. After saying it for the umpteenth time to anyone who would listen, I snapped and said "we just liked the name, we didn't choose it because of your Jewish heritage." He then called me an anti-Semite.

We don't see him very often.

Queenkong

Some people

When everyone leaves a small, but very telling, pause before saying 'ooh, what an unusual name.

"You're not going to call him that silly Irish name are you?"
"Oh, so is he a girl then?"
"Oh... ok"
"Oh right, so did you make that one up?"
"What made you pick that?!"