Names that are too cutesy/weird for anyone living in the real world

[littlemyyy]

I love love love babyish and cute girl names like:

• Sissy
• Kitty
• Bunny

but the incredible teasing of being a child with a name like that, in your typical school, must be awful. What are names you know you could never use?

Juniper
Daisy

I know a grown up kitty and it works fine on her!

Those names are fine. Cissy Spacek, Bunny Guinness, Kitty Dimbleby...
Kitty is pretty mainstream.

I adore Kitty.

Dolly

Dolly is fine too. Could be short for Dorothy although I much prefer Dot.

Dolly Parton.

I had a friend called Dolly when I lived in Australia. Was a nickname, but I didn't know her as anything else. I adored her, she was fabulous!

Also used to work with a woman called Candy. I pictured someone blonde, dressed in pink and incredibly bubbly...the only word I can used to describe her in reality was 'dowdy'. She personified the colour grey, it was quite jarring.

My mum's sister was just called (Auntie) Bunny, never anything else. I didn't find out until her funeral that her real name was Margaret.

I teach a Kitty- she’s really down to earth and lovely. No bullying as far as I can see

@DeathByMascara I wonder if we used to work together.... I know an exact same Candy

@reservoircats where was this? I was near Birmingham in 2006, ring any bells?

Any of those names, or Teddy, Kit, Tommy etc, on the birth certificate. Fine if they're nicknames.

I know children with a great aunt kitty

Bitsy for Elizabeth....

I love Bunny🙌🏽 I think it's beautiful x

I love Bunny. A work colleague was called Bunny. Never heard it as a name before and not sure which name it originates from.

Bitsy for Elizabeth....

I remember a character in an Ann Tyler novel called Bitsy. I had no idea it might have been short for Elizabeth.

I’ve always liked Kitty short for Nikita.

I’ve never known anyone be teased with their name.

That's you though @Awwlookatmybabyspider.
Mean kids and bullies will not hold back.

A name is your brand, so an unusual name needs the character to go with it.

Nikita is a boy's name, adopted as a girl's name after a hit single. A plain No from me. Why do that when you have the added faff of two initials (N and K)? Kitty has a bit of class to it - Katharine more so - but Nikita doesn't obviously shorten to it, and the hit single association makes it look like you were born in the 1980s.

Posey I love it but only for a baby toddler.

I like the names Honey and Bliss (I think I got them from watching Toddlers and Tiaras!) but would never use them. I have used them to name Sims characters though!

I've always been a bit swoony about the name Loveday, but can you imagine the hell that poor girl would go through?

Anyone know a Loveday?

Buttercup

I met a toddler called Twinkle once. She was Twinkle Caroline something double barreled and posh sounding. Twinkle as a precocious toddler? Adorable! Dr Twinkle the 40 year-old neurosurgeon? Not so much!