People's (not good) opinions on my baby name

[KarenLF]

I'm currently 19 weeks pregnant and finding out today what we're having!! Sooooo excited!!! My whole pregnancy I've thought it could be a girl - also I'm also massivley expecting them to say Boy just because I think girl! Anyway, I've loved the name Ada for a girl from about week 10 and, although I know I may change my mind, I just absolutely LOVE it!
However, I'm just so angry at people's reactions - where do people get off slagging off baby names when they've asked what you like and you give them an answer. My auntie for example said "oh god, you can't call it that!" when I told her I liked Ada for a girl!
I actually don't care if people don't like it - I think it's beautiful and my husband loves it too but if it is a girl and she comes along and we call her Ada I'm just going to remember all the people that slagged it off!!
Just think it's so rude and you should just respect whatever people want to call their children - within reason! Sorry, this was more just a rant than anything! Anyone experienced this who can give me any good come backs to shut people up?!!

People are incredibly rude, even after a baby is born. We named our son Henry, and when introducing him to people we had three separate occasions of people telling us they prefered Harry and we should of gone with that, not Henry.

My dad even refused to call him Henry and kept calling him Harry as he thought it was 'much better'. I had to ask him to stop as I found it rude, but even two years later he will still call him Harry.

FWIW, Ada is a beautiful name that I don't hear very often.

We have Henry too and keep getting, 'Very posh!' In a slightly smug, mocking way Tossers!

Ada is lovely. Are you pronouncing it as Aid-er or Adder? Because if it's the latter I could maybe understand people reacting curiously. I have a friend who called her DD Ada (pronounced Adder) and her DD is sick of correcting people who pronounce it the conventional way.

I love Ada. It doesn't go with our surname or I would have had it on my list. If anyone says anything negative just reply: "each to their own. For example, I've always felt sorry for you having to live with your name.... it must be so hard for you...." (slow head shake)

Don't listen to me. I'm petty. although as a pregnant lady you can get away with a lot!

We didn't tell anyone our top 3 for either sex when pregnant with DD. MIL still managed to ruin our favourite boys name! She works in schools and just burst out with "whatever you do don't call it . All boys called are little shits". She guessed what she'd done by our stoney silence.
13 weeks with DC2 and no one has asked us about names yet.

I knew a little girl called Ada. She was such a lovely child. It's not to my taste, but not a bad name by any means.

Ada is lovely. It was on my list with lots of older fashioned names. My MIL said several times "you can't call your baby xxxx". Eventually I told her that I didn't care if she or anyone else liked the name but could she please stop asking me to not call the baby a specific thing. Her response? She said "I'm allowed to not like the name". I said yes. That's fine but very different from asking us to not name it something we like.

I went off all names myself but came around and named the baby the name she did not like. She even came to the hospital and when names weren't even mentioned the first thing she said again to OH was "don't call the baby xxxx". If I'd known that I wouldn't have let her in to visit.

My partner brought it up the other day and she denied ever saying it. Nuts.

So go with it and eventually they won't be able to have an opinion because that will just be her name.

My MiL was more concerned with what other people would think rather than disliking the name herself. She just thought other people wouldn't like it.