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Has anything ruined your DC's name?...

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Yorkshirelassreturns · 17/10/2014 12:24

Just a bit of Friday fun... Our baby daughter is called Annabelle, forevermore to be associated with a horror film about a haunted doll... Thank you very much indeed Warner Brothers! So it got me thinking about other people whose child's name has been tainted by a film/book/vile celeb etc. There must be plenty of parents of Elsa/Annas out there cursing Frozen!!!...

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Crazycrazypmt · 22/10/2014 14:12

Yep, we have a very unusual surname, so had to pick first names carefully. All fine, til about a month after ds was born a guy bursts onto the music scene with the exact same name. And he's pretty good so seems to be going nowhere. Poor ds is going to have it commented on his whole life.

Tournesol · 22/10/2014 14:21

I was going to name DC2 Harper if they were a girl but he was a boy so I was relieved that he hadn't been a girl when a year later Victoria Beckham had a Harper!

Funkytown · 22/10/2014 14:25

i have a jayden (different spelling)
and after it being called a chavs name I'm pretty

RockMummy · 22/10/2014 20:50

James is not a naughty boy name but my son would rather be called that than his own name which apparently is a naughty boy name.

Momagain1 · 22/10/2014 20:55

My brother is named,Damon, was about 5 when The Omen came out. That name is DAMIEN but it was still such a hassle he asked if he could change his name to Simon.

loveableshoulder · 22/10/2014 21:03

I have always liked the name Eve, not that common but not unusual. DD is now one of three in her class. And PIL, who we see weekly or more often, live next door to another. Plus one of DD's friends has a sister called Eve. It hasn't spoiled the name, but I'm disappointed it has been so common in her experience.

mamadoc · 22/10/2014 21:44

I named my beautiful, tiny baby girl Madeleine and we were still in hospital when the news of Madeleine McCann's abduction broke.

I thought it would blow over....

Doesn't trouble me much at all. Still love the name and feel it suits DD. If you look at the baby name stats sites the popularity of the name really fell off a cliff in 2007.

McBear · 23/10/2014 05:54

I always wanted to call my daughter Evie. Ever since i watched 'The Mummy' when I was quite young. I thought she was beautiful and courageous and I wanted my DD to be these things. All the parenting magazines I read whilst pregnant had at least 5 parents wanting to call their kids Evie. I was unsure and DP disliked it anyway but I was getting no positive feedback about his suggestion Lilla (lily with an A not lyla) so in the end his best friend chose as I couldn't. He chose Evie.

I've spoken about this many times on mumsnet but nowadays I find it funny. As soon as the name was picked and whilst I was still in hospital, DP got a tattoo of the name. I remembered during discussions he always spelt it Evee as he associated it with eevee the Pokemon. I text him saying make sure you spell it right. As I do, he's having a discussion with his friend and tattooist. They believe he's spelling it wrong and he insists it's correct. He received my text but the tattooist requests he doesn't look at the phone as he's trying to do a tattoo. I simply get a reply an hour later 'erm, it's Evee now'. He prefers it. I really wasn't sure. I myself have a popular name with an unusual spelling and have been saddled with having to spell it out my whole life. We've now saddled our Dd with the same issue.

I then read an article about a girl called Evee moon who had two boyfriends or something promiscuous. That put me off.

There were four other Evees born in the same year. Billions of Evies. Maybe it's a good thing...

McBear · 23/10/2014 05:57

I also have a friend who called her DS Christian Elliot months, maybe even a year, before 50 shades of grey came out. She wasn't hugely impressed from what I remember.

Theonlyoneiknow · 24/10/2014 10:39

Yes, Mumsnet ........

It gets slated every single time it is brought up on a baby names thread

Fxckedmywayuptothetop · 03/04/2015 17:51

Well my name is Katie and everytime I even think about Katie Hopkins I feel ashamed to share my name with her luckily my DD's names have not been ruined yet even though everyone on mumsnet seems to hate Tiegan

MrsJen3 · 03/04/2015 18:13

Roy Chubby Brown ruined DDs name for me, she was 3 days old when he released "Alice, who the fuck is Alice?"

FattyFishwife · 04/04/2015 23:20

Im on #6 now and will not share the names till s/he is born, because there will always be someone who makes an off the cuff comment and spoil it, or make you doubt yourself...... which is really sad at a time when you should be filled with joy :)

having said that, and I apologise for anyone having those names on here that my most vile, nasty and hated school bullies were called Pauline, Paula, Shirley,Susan and Dawn, so those names were always a HUGE no-no....cant hear those names without instantly thinking of nasty cruel girls

another really pretty name was ruined by me living next door to a little girl of about 4 or 5 when i was 10, and she constantly had a thick green candle of snot from her nose to her top lip that she licked at all the time.

its funny what reasons put you off a name that you have loved for a while, and you never know just what will happen to put you off that name in the blink of an eye...be it celebrity baby, a well publicised criminal, sad news story, daft cartoon, or something as simple as a rhyming moniker, or nickname

*can sympathise with the "is a bell necessary" comment....apparently in march 1971, I was to be called Emma (my surname was wright) but my nan said to my mum, she will be forever tormented by people saying to me 'Emma Wright?? Emma wright??....no...youre wrong!!, so much so that at the last minute before being registered my mum completely went off it and changed it to Sharron, after a character in a sit-com at the time....she has hated it ever since....I'm 44 now!!!

Blame my dad for the extra 'r' in my name as he cocked up the spelling :D but when i see it spelt with only 1 r, it doesnt look finished to me!

Ive been going through the baby name book this time round and fell in love with the name forrest......until, with a snigger realised that when reversed in a register, it would read the name of a very popular black cherry cake from germany....... O.o

Guin1 · 05/04/2015 07:13

Really liked the name Tirion for DD - it ticked all the boxes: unusual, Welsh, not too frilly, good nns, nice meaning. Then it was pointed out to me that there is/was a male character in GOT whose name has same pronunciation. I have never watched GOT, but couldn't use the name after that.

Amimitchell · 05/04/2015 10:27

I have an Ava, who will be 10 this year. When I named her, I didn't know of any other Ava's. When she was about 6 months old, myleene klass named her daughter Ava, and it became popular. Now there are lots of Ava's! I still think it's beautiful though. She was named after Ava Gardener.

I also have a Sonny, aged 7, which has also become very popular in the last few years!

Currently pregnant with second son, we like Atlas, which has been bashed a lot on here but I think we will be going with it

rockinrobintweet · 05/04/2015 19:16

my daughter is Scarlett and i had no idea that this name was well known- still don't really but have seen people on here saying its really over done etc.

I loved Roxanne for a girl and Brianna for a girl also but both my brothers got girlfriends with these names during my pregnancy. didn't use them as was worried they'd stick about.. Roxanne did; they're now married!!

i also wanted Ophelia for a girl but and DH vetoed it and it's blown up in popularity so I am so so so pleased we didn't use it!!!

Fattycow · 06/04/2015 00:45

My cousin is called Billy-Jean and she always gets asked 'like the Michael Jackson song?'. No actually. She is older than that song and was named after the tennis player Billy-Jean King.

Steppeoneggs · 06/04/2015 00:52

I had friends who had a daughter called Hermione. It was so unusual that most people had to ask a few times and get them to spell it out. She was born about 3 years before the first Harry Potter was published.

Proudmummytodc2 · 06/04/2015 00:57

My little girl is called Laylah and everyone that meets her sings the Eric Clapton song layla and it does my head right in I had never heard of this song before I called my little girl it

Proudmummytodc2 · 06/04/2015 01:06

I should have also said my little boy is card victor (after daddy and papa) and people used to say like victor
meldrew which was annoying but I now get such a lovely unique name ect which is now better

Steppeoneggs · 06/04/2015 01:15

I think the current female Rileys may be linked to several CBBC programmes that have Rileys in them. All American, maybe it is more popular as a girl's name there?

I knew a baby Isis, who would now be 12. At the time I thought what an pretty unusual name. Such a shame.

CheerfulYank · 06/04/2015 02:03

I don't like unisex names so it irritates me whenever I hear of little girls called Sam, because that's my son's name.

Florrieboo · 07/04/2015 06:57

In Ireland the name Siobhan (sh-vaughan) comes with the saying "shove on your knickers your father is home" If I had ever been considering it, that would ruin it for me.

YonicScrewdriver · 07/04/2015 07:35

Does Samantha bother you too, CY? Assume a lot of SAMs are either Samuel or Samantha on the BC.

MamaLazarou · 07/04/2015 09:59

LOL @ 'Shove on your knickers'!

Weeks after my son was born, a high-profile TV show began featuring my son's name as the main character's name. At the time I was horrified but it doesn't seem to have sparked a surge in popularity as we have still to meet another little boy with the same name.

I have always loved the name Rosemary but it has been ruined for me by Rosemary West.

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