Email from friend about my baby's name

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I've just had DD, she is a whole 5 days old and we thought we'd picked a good name, but I've just received an email from a family friend saying that it's a terrible name.
Please tell me straight, is Ophelia Elizabeth Cole a horrible name?

Who the hell goes out of their way to email someone to tell them their baby’s name is awful???

If you send out any emails with baby pics, make sure this ‘friend’ is included and put the full name of your baby on every single pic. IN CAPS.

I read it as “I feel ya hole” sorry.

I heard something dubious as soon as I said it out loud, (a feel of your hole - in a slightly cockney accent) so I'm sure there's a lot of people that won't find it difficult to hear the same. I'd have to try really hard not to laugh out loud when being introduced to Ophelia Cole.

If this is true, then thank your good, lovely friend profusely and listen to her.

If it isn't true, then nice work OP.

It takes a special kind of dickhead to email a friend because you don't like the name they chose for their baby!!

Enjoy Ophelia and ditch the mate!

You have chosen a very beautiful name.

By the time your DD is a teenager, her friends will probably have shortened it to Lia. I really don't understand any of the cruder suggestions on here?
And by the way, your friend? She isn't one.

Congratulations 💐. Enjoy the snuggles.

What did Family Friend actually say?

Ophelia wouldn’t be my choice, but if everyone only used the names I like, we’d need numbers after our names - long ones!

Despite not being keen on Opelia, I do think Ophelia Elizabeth Cole sounds nice. However, for me, Ophelia Cole runs together too much and does beg for idiots to make something of it, in a way it wouldn’t if it was Ophelia Harrison for example.

In your position I would, regretfully, change her name while it’s easy to do and she’s not aware of it. You have a year until it’s more difficult to change it.

I don’t like the name at all but I wouldn’t email my friend if she’d just called her baby that.

I have no idea what posters are getting at re saying the name aloud. Genuinely lost.
Congratulations OP on your lovely daughter and as for your 'friend', well who needs enemies...

Lovely name, dodgy friend.

It's not what I'd choose but I'd never be so horrible as to tell someone it was terrible.

Have you read/seen Hamlet? I agree that it's a beautiful sounding name but I couldn't use it because of the tragic connotations. But then, I'm a pretentious English teacher and you're probably not!

Enjoy your lovely baby girl.

I'm sorry, I just read my earlier post back and it sounds mean. I honestly didn't intend that!

Ophelia is a lovely name, though the Shakesperian connotations are sad. It does lend itself to 'I feel your...' jokes, but Cole is a non-sequiter for that purpose.

For the above reasons and because it is quite a 'statement' name, I think it's a slightly 'brave' choice. But, that's fine. I met a little Ophelia a while ago and thought, 'oh, bold choice but, pretty name. Why not?'

I really like it and so does DH. We have no idea what people mean about how it's pronounced - we certainly can't find anything funny or rude about it.

My daughter is called Ophelia too, because I love the pre Raphaelite painting.

I no longer underestimate the collective powers of children's imagination. Not since a register call in Wigan with Joanne Card on it and 32 kids giggling.
Joanne Card? Joanne Card?
Yer not sayin it right, miss!
Jwank ard JWANK ARD fits of giggles
(Do you wank hard...allegedly)

Despite my knowledge of the aforesaid Joanne, Ben Dover, Hugh Jarse, Phil Mccrackin. Theresa Green, Annette Curtain et al
Ophelia Cole did not fit the bill.
Even applying the laws of Urethra Franklin and trying to make it a leak hole does not pass the supply-register test. 0/10 must try harder!

Even if you'd called your DD Sewerpipe Arsehole, iy's so fucking rude to email to say you don't like it.

AS it is you've chosen a lovely name. I love it.

Congratulations on your lovely new arrival

It is a beautiful painting - but of a tragic character.

Well that fell a bit flat OP, most people don't think it sounds rude. Maybe Ben Dover would have been more obvious?

It's lovely.
Your friend is rude.

Even if you'd named baby Princess Consuela Bananahammock, she would still be rude.

Also gobsmaked here. I’ve read the OP to DH and we both said, simultaneously, the only appropriate response is fuck off .

Congratulations on your lovely new baby with her lovely name 💐

Lovely name. Doesn't sound rude at all

Ophelia is a beautiful name but that is beside the point.

Who on Earth thinks they have the right to email you criticising your child's name!? Tell them to piss off.

Eh? I don't get why people are saying this is a joke.

I really wanted to tell you that your friend was a complete tit and while I think it’s so rude to send that to someone so soon after the birth- I really think you need to rethink your dd name with your surname it does sound rather unfortunate sorry op!