Fake names for nosey people?

[Usanayme]

Did you come up with a fake name to give to the nosey parkers who wouldn't stop asking about the name?

My cousin went with Dave and Damien

thinking of people named after where they were conceived (like Brooklyn, Chelsea and Paris Hilton), try "Bermondsey" "Milton Keynes Travelodge" or "Hearthrug"

You just need to be frank, OP. I couldn't be bothered with making up fake names, then the dull, predictable conversation that followed.

Alright maybe precious was a bit harsh. And lots of people don't decide until after the birth. But I just find the secrecy when people have decided a bit unnecessary.

I never announced it widely or anything but if anyone asked while I was pregnant I just said it was going to be Mxxxxx or Pxxxxxxx if boy or girl. Don't get why I would refuse to answer just to make a big reveal later.

Spartacus.

I wouldn't tell people just because I don't really want to hear their opinions on my chosen names. I don't want to be talked out of a name by my relatives, if they don't like it, they will get used to it!!

My MIL was overly nosy (and would have been judgmental) about names, so when pg with DD, we wound her up with corkers like "Beelzebub" and "Homer". She was half disbelieving/half believing us as we were totally straight-faced every time she asked. She eventually gave up asking and when DD was born and we rang her to say "it's a girl, her name is D", she was so relieved it wasn't one of the previous contenders that she loved the name! Win!

I'm so fed up with people asking this! Even when I try to evade the question they interrogate me... "Is it an unusual name? is it an English name or a German name? Is it an American name? Is it like DS1's name?" etc...

People might think I'm being secretive for the hell of it but I just don't want to hear unwanted opinions on the name - it's hard enough choosing a name as it is, without relatives chipping in and saying "oh I knew someone's ex boyfriend with that name, he was an arrogant bloke!" or "Hmm I'm not keen, how about something traditional like George?" or "are you serious? it's a bit poncey isn't it?" etc etc...

My grandmother and my dad were both really negative about my son's name even after he was born and made rude remarks about it. So I am pretty sure they wouldn't hold back with the thoughtless comments if I told them any names for my second baby while I'm still pregnant.

After having rude comments on our previous choices we decided to do a "big reveal" when our last was born (not sure what the difference is between that and not actually choosing a name till they're born TBH)

So we told everyone baby would Englebert or Ermintrude.

iklboo I love yours!
Can't remember what we said for a boy but a girl was going to be Anathema. A friend suggested Santa Maria delle Nieve might make a good middle name.
We had boys: I still think rather fondly of my imaginary little Anathema.

We had this with my bonkers mother in law so we had her convinced we were calling our DS Jesus (as in jeesus not the Spanish pronunciation of heyseus!) by month 4 and we didn't tell her the real name until he was born! She was so relieved it was hilarious

Absalom Caractacus.

Trouble is with telling people the real one is then you get their unwanted opinion - it's not the desire to have a big reveal. When I told my auntie which names were on our shortlist for DS, she described what turned out to be his actual name as 'high-falutin'. (It really isn't.) When I mentioned it to her after he was born she claimed to have no memory of saying it, but I never forgot!

This thread is a hoot. Thank you to all the creative namers!

My go-to fake names for any occasion are always Barnaby and Narcissa.

Shatonya or Tarquin

Lochan Are you a friend of a relative of mine?! Because this happened in our family !

We did, and used the names so much they are still a nickname nowadays. We didn't even use the right gender as we didn't want to tell people!

Stella for a girl, Jack Daniel for a boy...a nod to the circumstances of their conception.

For those saying why bother just tell people the truth - I found when I was truthful .... we're thinking about xyz then people always seemed to have an opinion and it put me off ... so didn't bother to tell people after that til they were born

The truth I would tell is that we were keeping the names to ourselves until after the baby was born.

MeadowHay Quite possibly!

In my first trimester I dreamt, rather vividly, that I gave birth to a hippopotamus called Philomena Flump and thus the bump was christened. DH actually really started to like Philomena. I just couldn't have a girl called Phil!

I fancy Frogmella or Spudulika, the names given to the children of Wayne and Waynetta Slob on The Fast Show.

Ruprecht

Both of ours did.

I don't know what it says about us that our family and friends believed us, I know that it only says good things about them that they only ever expressed gentle concern (if at all, although there were plenty of carefully neutral faces!) at the ridiculous names.