Worse name you EVER heard for a child

[xmasevebundle]

Today i went out and was doing shopping heard this name been called i thought it was a nickname, then the dad and nan said it to him, but fuck me i feel for the kid.

His name was DENIM.

I thought about this all day and it cant be...

[ThePigOnTheWall]

Ivy doesn't mean poison ffs. It's a very old name. Like Holly Rose

[NellyJob]

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[ThePigOnTheWall]

And Brizzmus that's bullshit too. What 5yo boy knows the names of sanitary products?!?! You know this first hand? Or you've just "heard of" it?

[HairyToedHobbit]

ThePigOnTheWall is correct. "Poison ivy" (a North American plant) is not a true ivy. Ivy is not poisonous, is a beautiful plant (imo) and gave rise to a popular name in my grandmother's generation.

[ThePigOnTheWall]

Thanks hairy. Ivy no more means poison than Rose means thorny and Holly means prickly. Ridiculous.

[Brizzmus]

thepigonthewall I taught him. And didn't say he was 5yo??

[NurseBernard]

Dd you actually ask the Mum to spell the child's name? I mean, it might have been Denholm, or Denham. They're pronounced the same.

And where are you getting your learning from, if you think Ivy means 'poison'?!

There is a type of ivy (is it even a real ivy?) that is poisonous; is that what's confusing you? Otherwise - ivy is the name of a plant.

[mathanxiety]

Want to join the chorus of about 'Ivy means poison'.

Symphony. NN Symi. Not Phony..
And DD3 knows a girl named Tieranny, pronounced tyranny.

Bryleigh, Bristol, Trig, Tripp, and Brayden

[CheerfulYank]

Toni Braxton has two sons, Denim and Diesel.

[ThePigOnTheWall]

Still not convinced Brizzmus. Not convinced any age of boy would know that was a brand of "women's necessities" whatever the hell that means

[NurseBernard]

Teenage boys would, if they have sisters. Or, um, mothers...?

Why would she make it up?

[CatPower]

A friend of mine once heard a scary-looking woman yelling for her barely-more-than-a-toddler daughter who was racing up and down the aisle...

"POCAHONTAS! POOOCAHONTAAAAS! C'MERE NOW POKEY!"

[CatPower]

By aisle I mean supermarket aisle, not church.

[McKayz]

BlueSuede, my Mums cousins DH is called Renault. He's French and it's apparently very common over there. Still makes me think of a car.

[NurseBernard]

I used to work with a French guy called Renaud (same pronunciation) - is that the spelling?

[perplexedpirate]

I love mumsnet. I was just about the get the out re Ivy meaning poison but I see it's covered.
DS would have Ivy were he a DD.

I was in the emergency docs once with a kidney infection triggered by a D&C.
You can imagine how wretched I felt, but when the mother of the teeny toddler opposite started yelling (in a broad Manc accent) 'Chardonnay, will you leave it alone' I fell about.
I had heard of it on telly but in real life?!

[ErnesttheBavarian]

Cat, was that in Gravesend by any chance?

Pocahontas is one thing, but to shorten to Pokey?! The kid ain't going to thank her for that, is she?

[runawaysimba]

There was a baby on the news recently called Sativah. SATIVAH. She had an older sister and I was hanging out for them to name her, but they didn't. Can only imagine.

[crackcrackcrak]

Tia Maria
China blue (what makes this worse is it's the name of a well known shop on the main road to lots of places that anyone from this area would have seen)

[Knittingmamma]

Was having a picnic and the family next to us kept shouting after the toddler... "London!"

[violathing]

a child at my son'd first nursery alled Tellulah, not even sure how to spell it. ALso know of a child called Ribena

[LST]

I know someone called Denim. He's lovely and the name really suits him.

[Vagaceratops]

I know a little boy who's middle name is Bud. Not Buddy, just Bud.

[ripsishere]

JoshyDarlling. I am sure that the child was simply called Joshua, but his mother insisted he was Joshydarling. All one word.