Mothers rude comment.

[ilovemykids5]

35 weeks pregnant and have decided on the name Aria.
Had only told my children the name. But the other day my mother asked if we had picked a name and they told her.
Her comment was "EURGH! Where have you dug that name up from"
It has been bugging me all week. I'm so annoyed. Its put me off the name and I know it shouldn't.

My neice is an Aria, it's been quite popular after GOT but my sister named her as she'd never seen the show and it was the first name she opened on in the A section.

Ignore her and go for it. We've got our names picked (my family all like our choices so far..) but I was extremely hesitant to tell my family because it can ruin a name for you if they make shitty comments.

It’s a lovely name! We had this with MIL first time round, so now we are having DD2 we aren’t telling anyone our choices!

Some people of our parents' generation struggle with any non traditional names. Ignore her and carry on.

That's a bit ageist

I know people called Autumn, True, Austin, Courtnay, Sonny, Summer who are in the late 30s and 40s. So not everyone was called John or Janet 30/40 years ago.

I really love the name Aria it's gorgeous

Told my mum my friends DD name which was Luna which I really loved and she made a really rude and judgemental comment which put me off telling her any of my baby names.

Most of my friends mums are the same and only like traditional baby names: Amelia, Charlotte, Isabella etc.

Your mother chose her own children's names. Now it's your turn.

I agree with your Mum.

When I told my mum what I was calling my 2nd son, she said "eugh, you can do better than that". I ignored her and called him that name. She's never mentioned it or apologised for being rude and I don't mention it either.

I think it's beautiful. Ignore her

My mum did similar. I said I wasn't telling anyone as even if they try not to, they show their opinion. She promised she wouldn't so I told her what we thinking of and I swear to god her immediate reaction was a grimace and "urgh". I mean, seriously.

As it was we ended up choosing a different name but didn't tell anybody.

1. It's a gorgeous name and
2. Even if it was awful, who reacts like that? What a fucking weirdo

There will be a LOT of girls called Aria and Arya in future years so she'll have to get used to it. This can happen with 'new' popular names. I remember someone calling their baby Noah about 8 or 9 years ago and older people thought it was really out there. The same people now think it's a nice name as it's so mainstream. She might change her mind!

We told everyone that our baby was going to be called a very long winded odd name just so they would stop asking.

A differently spelled Arya? Does she read/watch Game of Thrones?

Tell her you've changed your mind and the baby will now be named Poinsettia or Ermintrude or similar. She will be relieved when the baby is born and is named Aria (which is a lovely name).

Yes! Please tell her you're calling the baby Poinsettia

Haha this is an excellent idea! Say you’re calling the baby “Candida”🤣

Totally outing so name changed but my son is called Arie. Different to Aria I know but everyone loves the name

Stick to your guns OP. I told My DM my fave name and she hated it, I listened and called him something else (equally lovely name). 13 years later we were talking on the phone about the royal baby and she started to gush about what a gorgeous name he had. You guessed it my name was Archie.

Don’t give her the pleasure of charging your mind!
Aria is a beautiful name.

Could try making up a very long winded version and telling everyone that this is the child’s name. Ariadneannabelle?

When my niece was born my sister took the call from my brother at the hospital (pre mobiles) and completely misheard the name (or more likely wasn’t listening) and made up a very long version of the baby name and everyone was very polite ‘oh that’s very... unusual isn’t it?’ We found out the next day when my brother resurfaced.

It’s a very pretty name. Take no notice

It's much easier to just not tell anyone a name you've decided on. I'm 36 weeks and have 2/3 of each names picked out but if anyone asks me and dh casually shrug and say 'oh not yet'

It's really rude to say anything negative, some names just get that reaction aria being one of them.

I actually prefer Robyn, but nothing wrong with Aria! Go with the name you love OP.

we have an Aria in family, beautiful name for beautiful clever girl

Tell her you have taken her views into consideration and have decided on - Gladys.