Lourdas?

[Massey1990]

Hi all.
We're deciding on baby names and for a girl we were thinking of lourdas and would be Lou-lou for short.
It's our favourite place in the world a little island in kefalonia in Greece.
What do you think?!?!

It's awful. A clumsy, ugly lump of a name. Don't do it to her.

Mr French kids all say not good. One said it's vulgar it means fatty.

No, it's awful.

This is very funny op: if DD was named after where she was conceived her name would be Lourdas!

So I do get you...but I don't think it's that great as a name. Very close to Lard Ass unfortunately...

I too immediately thought Lard ass.

You're getting arsey already, imagine the comments when your baby is actually here? You asked for opinions and you got them. And for what it's worth it's a no from me.

I should have called DD Holetown after where she was conceived. It would help her if she chose a career in porn.

*oyster" 😂

You're getting arsey already, imagine the comments when your baby is actually here?

I think this on so many of the baby name threads!

OP: Asks opinion of random anonymous strangers on Internet, presumably to get an idea what people will think, but be too polite to say, IRL

Internet strangers:

OP: No need to be so fucking rude, who cares what you think anyway?!

Obviously it's not too everyone's taste and that's fine just no need to be rude that's all!

I am a very polite person generally but i have to say my thoughts on this name reflect what other posters have said.

I firstly thought to will be pronounced Lard Ass, then thought you had misspelled Lourdes. This was before i even clicked on the thread and read any replies.

It is not a name to saddle a child with. Use it as a middle name by all means but not as a first name.

If you don’t wan peoples true views then don’t post on MN asking for them.

Who has been rude? The 'lard ass' comment is what people will think.

Obviously it's not too everyone's taste and that's fine just no need to be rude that's all!

Not rude, just opinions, which you asked for

If you think Lard Ass/Lord Ass is rude then it's probably best to avoid the name

Massey you will not get a yes to anything other than Grace or Imogen on here.
Names should MEAN something! I will never ever understand picking a name from the top 10!
I think it's beautiful and the meaning behind it makes it so special. I also have a child named after a special place for my family.
Please go for it and save the world from another unimaginatively named child!

What nonsense - Grace and Imogen are considered dull and unimaginative on here! Of course names should have meaning, but remember you're potentially saddling another person with a bad choice of name for the rest of their lives - so if you really want to give your child a name which happens to sound like Lord Ass/Lard Ass don't ask for opinions on a public forum.

Perhaps it says more about you than the original poster that you thought of a nasty name for a CHILD?!
I'm not being ridiculous-any name even remotely different is slated on here, every time.
You'd all have a field day with my Daughter's name. Never once been picked on. You know why? Because she's been brought up to be kind and respectful to others and it's been reciprocated. No such thing as a bad child, only bad parents...I'm guessing those (that I've never come across and I work with children!) giving nasty nicknames are getting their ideas from home.

Yes, that'll be it, absolutely.

waitrose - yeah, ok. You can think 'Crapweasel' is a beautiful name if you like. If you use that name 'FOR A CHILD' people are still going to think it's a fucking terrible name, whether you think it's lovely or not. And all it says is that you lack basic common sense, not anything about anyone else!

Such a beautiful attitude you have
Luckily everyone is different and we don't all have to subscribe to your way of thinking.
Op, use a name YOU love, it doesn't matter what a bunch of strangers on the Internet think.

Nothing wrong with giving a child the name of a place that's meaningful to you if it's a beautiful name. Holetown is very meaningful to DH and I but we didn't call our DD that because that would be fucking stupid. We didn't selfishly use it anyway because DD is a person not a pet and eventually we'll be sending her out into the world and she shouldn't have to face it with a stinking turd of a name.

I'd bet my house on Lourdas being called Lard Ass by mean kids at secondary school if not before.

oyster you're right and a lifetime of having to spell it, explain it and having to change it once allowed to!

waitrose it's not about attitude it's about not saddling a child with a silly name.

Sorry OP.

I started all this Lard Arse stuff. Didn't mean to be offensive at all, I just didn't know if you had considered that Lourdas sounds like lard arse in English, which is not a pleasant comment to make about someone. That's it. Not everyone on mumsnet has English as a first language so may not know that it sounds like a slang word for fat. If the child is to be brought up in the UK, then quite a few people in the UK would make that connection with her name. And none of us on here, I hope, would consider making fun of any child with that name (or accept our children making fun of that name) but sometimes children and even adults do make unkind associations with names (Smelly Ellie, Snotty Lottie and the like). We all wish that they didn't.

It is otherwise a nice name. I quite like place names for children - Dakota, India, Skye, etc.

If it's Greek the emphasis will be on the AS I think - too similar to lard ass.

Louisa is beautiful!

It's not a name and it's fucking awful. But your baby your choice, if you are happy for her to be called lard ass. Poor kid.