Feeling sick to my stomach that Katie Price has just named her baby the same name as my son!

[GiveMeVegemite]

Currently holding my head in my hands rocking back and forth screaming "whhhhyyyyyyyyyyy?!?!"

Well, not really..... But I feel like doing that. I thought I had hit the jackpot with Jett, unique yet masculine and not too weird sounding and now KATIE PRICE has named her son Jett too.

Sorry, just had to have a rant. :(

[Rowanred]

I like Jett, I think it's unusual without being chavvy! My friend had a baby George the day before Prince George and she feels the same as you! I don't think Jett will rocket as much as George though

[LEMisdisappointed]

Yes, its downright fucking rude and ignorant to slag off someone's name choice, especially if they have already made it. If they come on and say - im thinking of calling my child Titsalinabumsquash then by all means say, don't be a twat it will be shortened to tits but if the decision has already been made then this would be an example of a time when the adage "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" comes into its own!

I have two DDs, DD1s turned out to be THE most popular name of that year and there were four girls with the same name in her class. DD2 is called Lucy and for some reason, the world and his wife has started calling their Dogs lucy this really does piss me off!! Well it doesn't really especially as lucy spends most of her time pretending to be a dog anyway

[Kittykatmacbill]

badtime Space detective lol.

[TSSDNCOP]

Would it help OP if I told you I thought "thank god, at least one of her kids has a normal name".

[AnneEyhtMeyer]

That would be Harvey.

[Anjou]

(My turn Pictish! )
I agree with Pictish! (And LEMisdisappointed)

When is it ever ok to be really vindictively mean about a name someone has already given their child? If someone starts a thread saying "what do you think about xxx name?" then it's not surprising - but still not nice - when people say they don't like it. Personally, I see no point saying "I don't like it". Who gives a monkeys. I do see the point in pointing out that the name rhymes with something rude, that it has an unpleasant meaning etc that the OP is perhaps unaware of. The OP may not care, but its objective info they can take on board.

The OP's point with this thread was that she doesn't want people to think she's named her son after Jordan's kid. Even if you're Jordan's biggest fan, you know fine well that a LOT of people don't aspire to being anything like her. The OP's original post was not nasty. Many of the responses on here are spiteful & unwarranted. It's obviously rude but its perhaps worth noting that writing bitchy comments doesn't make the OP look like a dick ....

[GiveMeVegemite]

Some of you are seriously nasty and need to get a life. Luckily I don't value or pay any attention to the bitchy opinions of random ladies (or men), on an Internet forum, especially when I haven't even asked for them. So grow up, get some decency and stop being horrible to people you don't know, using the veil of anonymity that this site offers. As some have said, I bet you wouldn't say any of this in real life!

I know you will all probably now jump back on and slate me some more and just prove how malicious you are....be my guest. It just makes you look like a bitch.

Thanks to those of you how actually took my thread for what is was and offered kind and supportive responses.

[TSSDNCOP]

Ah I'd forgotten about Harvey, that's quite nice too.

OP don't let the snidey fuckers get you down. You loved DS's name before and you should continue to do so.

[Onesleeptillwembley]

She used the word 'chavvy' in reference to Katie Price. She can't complain that people are agreeing that yes, 'Jet' as a name is 'chavvy'. But I will say Persephone is lovely. Massive difference in the style of her children's names. Lucky Persephone drew the long straw.

[SconeInSixtySeconds]

Badtime: I actually arfed at JettRiviera Space Detective! Excellent...

I have made a pact with dd that she will call her son JettRiviera LotsaTuddles in honour of this thread. She claims she may forget but I have the memory of an elephant.... So what if she Is only 9....

LEM aforementioned dd is a Lucy. Six months after she was born my sil got a new dog and called it, yes, you've guessed...

[CogDat]

I also thought the Space Detective was very funny. Kudos to badtime.

[JakeBullet]

Jett is a fabulous name...and she has good taste like you.

....and she is copying. ..you chose the name first

[YoniSingWhenYoureWinning]

Jett is kind of a celeb-child name though? I don't mean that badly, it just is fairly 'out-there' by most standards?

Anyway cheer up, if you have a little girl you can call her Princess Tiiami Crystal. So that will be nice.

[CheeseFondueRocks]

Gosh, you're surprised a tacky celebrity used the name Jett? Really? It's hardly James or Maximilian.

I get why it bugs you though. I would have been upset too. But then I'd never chose any names that KP would go for.

[LadyLurksalot]

Wow! Threads like this are the reason I avoid this topic. Some of you have been so astoundingly rude and nasty. I second the 'if you can't say anything nice - then press the hide button' because ultimately, this is not a face to face conversation you are having, where you might have to, through gritted teeth, give a polite response. It is a forum where the Op would never know if you slunk away because you couldn't show some manners.

I love how some posters have referred to it as not being a real name. What quantifies something as being a real name then? How did Oliver become a real name? Is there an approved list that I somehow missed? Or do a certain number of people have to hold the name before it becomes real? Where do all you real-name-mustn't-be-a-shortening-won't-be-a-high-court-judge think the names we use today come from? They've evolved, from names used in history, and if they didn't we wouldn't have the diverse amount of names we have now. Along the way, people will throw in a couple of randoms, and over time, they too will become accepted.

I could go on and on more than I have.

OP I get totally what you're saying. Fwiw I don't think it will become popular, but that's not necessarily the problem. Actually most people will probably avoid it now, except the KP wannabes. That, I suspect is the problem. It's the association with KP and her ilk that most people would like to avoid. Last week your Ds had an unusual, non conformist cool name, today it's been linked to an undesirable. BUT she does seem to be closing herself off a little bit hopefully and apart from this attention seeking story, she does tend to keep the children out of the limelight more than before so hopefully this baby will be heard of less than the other children were. I do think her star is fading, but you have my sympathies none the less. I think a few of us with Dc's whose names were not from the approved list could have been caught out by KP. As someone else has stated, she doesn't follow a set pattern with their names, so it was hard to predict IMO.

[merr]

I used to want Jett as my sons name, from the James Dean character in Giant, I always thought it had some 50's cool about it. Must say the KP version sounds a bit more pornstar and less 50's cool to me and its pretty ruined!!

[Whatwhatwhat]

I haven't contributed at all to this thread. I don't have a lot to say on the topic.
Until I saw that LadyLurksalot said that "Wow! Threads like this are the reason I avoid this topic. Some of you have been so astoundingly rude and nasty."
and then
"It's the association with KP and her ilk that most people would like to avoid. Last week your Ds had an unusual, non conformist cool name, today it's been linked to an undesirable"
I haven't considered the whole thread but from scanning it it is clear that there have been some nasty and unwarranted comments from people to the OP.
I'm not a fan of Jordan/Katie Price - I don't have much of an opinion about her, what with not actually knowing her. But I can not see how referring to her "and her ilk" as an "undesirable" is anything less than astoundingly rude and nasty. Echoes of the caste system. She had a child and she named him as she saw fit. As she's perfectly entitled to. She, nor anyone else, doesn't deserve such vitriol.

[LadyLurksalot]

Whatwhatwhat - the difference, IMO, is that KP makes a living out of people having an opinion of her. If I were to meet her IRL, or even on here, I would do as I have suggested, and either be polite, or say nothing.

Unfortunately, KP was at the height of her success around the time I was up all night with small babies. I ended up reading one of her books, and catching some of her reality shows. As such, the opinion I have of her, is one that she has herself given me. If you scrutinise her life story, things she says don't add up, she has sold out every aspect of her life for a quick buck, and has only stopped doing so in order to appear superior to PA. By 'her ilk' I'm merely describing people who conduct themselves in the same manner.

She is not a positive role model, she made money initially through her looks, but has since gone on to sell every aspect of her life, which at times has been incredibly dull, so she made stuff up. If KP were to read this, I doubt she'd care, because frankly, if she did, she probably wouldn't be where she is today. None the less, I find the life she puts out there, undesirable; and would not like any association with it. Which has absolutely nothing to do with any caste system. She could fit anywhere in a caste system and I would still find her vulgar. Equally I find K a t i e H o p k i n s vulgar, again, nothing to with caste systems. They both have these personas that they readily put out there, that I find distasteful. You're right, I don't know them, but what they let us see, I don't like.

For me, a particular low point from KP was when she publicly slated Jade Goody for courting the press while fighting cancer, when I knew I had seen her doing the exact same thing about discovering cancer in her finger.

While I accept I have been rude about KP, I think, like KH she makes a living out of getting a reaction, so would probably be more disappointed if people didn't have an opinion.

The OP however, is reading these responses. She is a normal person, without a team of publicists and pr people and probably therapists, who came on here to have a moan - and I sympathise. Why people felt the need to be rude to her is beyond me, when they could have just walked away. If KP had called her son James, I think the OP would have had more sympathy from some of the nasty posters. The point of the thread was not to discuss the name, it was to discuss the association.

[JamieandtheMagicTorch]

KATIE PRICE HAS HAD A BABY????

I am seriously out of the loop.

OP

Jett is nice, but as others have said it is quite celebby

[Anjou]

Awesome posts, LadyLurksalot.

[JazzAnnNonMouse]

I think it's a cool name actually - it's deffinately unusual!

I wouldn't immediately think of kp. I understand your disappointment but I don't think people would think of kp

[Cloudkitten]

I think you would have to be spanking brand new to Mumsnet not to know you will get all kinds of opinions, some of them forthright, some of them supportive, on any post you start within the topic "Baby Names".

If anyone is seriously offended by differing opinions on baby names then they don't have much to worry about and should be happy about that instead. :) Good grief, get a grip.

OP: I feel your pain over the name though.

[dementedma]

Prefer Jett to Persephone!