If you're not a white Brit - what names in your culture make you go "holy C**p what were they thinking!"?

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I am a white Brit, so I get all the threads on here which basically go "you can't call your DD Magenta Pixie what if she wants to be a High Court judge"

I work in a massive school which is only about 1/4 white Brit so there is a terrific array of names - none of which convey any message to me other than being the child's name.

Perhaps it is only us class obsessed Brits who read messages into name choice?

So - are there names in your culture make people go Or

I am a white Brit. I just want to see the answers, I'm intrigued!

Irish. Name of many of my aunts - Gobnait - pronounced Gubnit. Irish for Daphne apparently. DM not happy I didn't want to saddle DD with that moniker.

You could be a high court judge with the name Gobnait. It's not a name for the faint hearted however. The only one I knew emigrated..

I knew a girl named Morag who absolutely hated her name, but it's another that you could see with Dr before it or Esq after it.

I don't think there's the whole class thing associated with names in Ireland, certainly not at all to the extent it goes on in England (don't know about Wales or Scotland). You would be hard pressed to find Tarquins or Penelopes in Ireland, whereas Jayden, Trevor, Derek, etc are much more acceptable.

Kids at nursery in France called Arcange (i.e. Archangel) and Beyoncé. American soap-style names like Dylan get a too.

Dylan - american soap?! It's a Welsh name!

My Spanish MIL is Inmaculada Concepción!

(yes, DH's madonna/whore complex is the size of the Iberian peninsula!)

Mrs Joe Gobnait doesn't have a pleasing look to it, does it?

A Welsh name and the surname of arguably the greatest songwriter of the last century to boot!

I'm Finnish.

Yrjö - male name. Very old name but decades ago evolved into a slang meaning 'vomit'.

Pinta, are you joking? Is that really her name?

100% true. She uses 'Inma' day to day.

Immaculata is an uncommon name used in Ireland in times past. I know one Irish Assumpta and one Concepta. They're very old fashioned, pious names.

Fucking hell! I am shocked! Not much shocks me on mumsnet these days!

Just generally, msrisotto, or about something specific?

Natasha (Russian). It has very bad connotations which I wouldn't saddle my child with (sex slave).

Should add, Natashas outside of Russia, then it won't matter, but I my cousin (in Russia) called Natasha is very about the name choice.

Love these. Must say Gobnait is less than beautiful. And good to know that about Natasha...

The deep deep irony of calling your child immaculate conception.

My cousin in Zambia was called Trouble. 'Cuz his birth caused his mother ... well, trouble. I like it! (He's no trouble at all, though, a very thoughtful person!)

Turkish names that are cringe-worthy if the child ever lives anywhere else:

Oral (stay in Turkey, forever)
Mert (can't live in France)
Erkan (hope he doesn't move to the US)

And Irish name:

Connor (again, hope he doesn't live in France)

As a white non Brit... we don't care.
No, I tell a lie. My dad & I both blanched at Saguaro (it's a cactus & name of a boy we met on the beach).
But it's hard for an American to really blanche at a name. Just no biggie.

ps: my dad is a judge... and he has a made up name!!

Tis a pious RC Marian reference, MrsRisotto, not a reference to the child's conception. Dolores is another Mary-related name.

So in NZ maori
Kai -like the Rooney kid means food
Mimi - is pee
Recently met two children in the same family with those names and had muffle my children pronto.

Kai means loads of different things in a fair few languages it turns out! Everything from pee to loveable!

What does Connor mean in French?

I once met an Afro-Carribean lady who came to me at work for an issue, called Tuesday. I don't know if it's normal in her culture but I'd saved her number on my phone and for a few weeks, until the joke wore off, my DC would howl with laughter every time they took my phone and scrolled through the contacts to call a family member whose name also began with T.

I used to wonder if her siblings were also named after the day of the week on which they were born.