How do you feel when you see your child’s name mentioned?

[DontWantTheRivalry]

Just curious how you feel when you see your child’s name being discussed and the general consensus is a “hell no!”

The only time I ever really see my son’s names come up is when there is a “Is this a naughty boy’s name?” thread.

Incidentally, both my boys are very well behaved

I’ve also just seen my name being discussed as a potential for a girl and let’s say the feedback wasn’t the most flattering

The whole thing does make me smile

Both their names seem to be “lovely but too popular/similar to others names”. I knew this already and don’t really care. Their middle names “nice but only as a nickname for too cutesy”.

My name is too 80s and dated but again not a surprise to me, I hate it for similar reasons!

DD’s name took an absolute pasting recently but I don’t care, I read the thread chortling and assumed the posters all used safe, top 10, boring names: Grace, Olivia, Evie, etc. She loves her name and that’s all that matters. It suits her.

My own name gets a 50/50 review of “classic” vs “plain, stodgy, doughy”.

My daughters name is quite liked on mn lately, but I've also seen people say it's a bit 'horsey' or jolly hockeysticks

@hotmeatymilk is your name Martha?

I love it!!

@Strokethefurrywall It’s not! But I love Martha. It’s in that genre – my family are fans of the old lady names, stuffier the better, we’re a step away from having Agneses and Dorises.

My daughter’s name is more a “classic” name, so the comments tend to be that it’s boring, nice but dull, just sort of fine but not very interesting. I don’t really mind that.

My name is an uncommon (but widely accepted and old) spelling of an already uncommon name. Whenever it’s mentioned on here the strong preference is for the more common spelling. The other spelling is more “fussy” to my eyes, it’s unnecessarily longer. But of course I have a biased opinion!

My two daughters names never seem to get strong reactions either way.
My sons name is probably considered to be a "bad boy name" although he really is lovely and well behaved.
I generally don't care what other people think. I love the names I've chosen for my kids and I couldn't imagine any of them to be called anything other than they are!

My DS's name is a well respected classic but not too common name, hence MN approves. My DD's name starts with a K, say no more

Ooh ooh ooh @hotmeatymilk is it Bertha? Or Pamela? Agatha???

My name is ‘wet’ apparently.

My DS's name is either beautiful, literary and underused or wet and pretentious. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground. I love it so it doesn't bother me when I see the latter type of comments.

DD's name tends to get better reviews. I've seen it occasionally fall into the category of "I wish I was brave enough to use this".

My own name is usually derided as boring and overused and I totally agree!

My daughter's name seems to divide opinion; some say it's lovely others say it's hard, that any name starting with Ass is a recipe for disaster, it's too faddy, they hate it. I don't really mind, we don't live in England and here it's a perfectly normal name that nobody has judged (not to our faces anyway!).
My son's name has never been suggested, though I haven't searched the English version of his name but it's pretty classic so I can't imagine it being too controversial.

My own name came up on the virtuous names thread, I think it's considered over-used on Mumsnet and I do find virtuous names are generally difficult to live up to so it doesn't bother me that people aren't very keen all the time.

@EnglishMcSwedeFace, I think it's a lovely name, if it's the one I think it is.

My DD is called Jessica which I think is as unoffensive as they come! However I've seen a few times on here that it sounds like sick which feels like a real stretch to me!

In the 10 or so years I've been on here, I've watched my daughter's name go from being boring to nice.

My ds's name wouldn't be liked on here (surname/slightly American type!) but I've seen a thread about DD's and was generally well liked. I still love both names, they really suit them and it doesn't bother me either way!

My daughters and I have very Irish names that English speakers have to ask how to pronounce.
On MN this is the end of the fucking world.

@loveisanopensore

My daughters and I have very Irish names that English speakers have to ask how to pronounce. On MN this is the end of the fucking world.

Me and my son too. It’s never cost either of us a second thought.

@EnglishMcSwedeFace

My daughter's name seems to divide opinion; some say it's lovely others say it's hard, that any name starting with Ass is a recipe for disaster, it's too faddy, they hate it. I don't really mind, we don't live in England and here it's a perfectly normal name that nobody has judged (not to our faces anyway!). My son's name has never been suggested, though I haven't searched the English version of his name but it's pretty classic so I can't imagine it being too controversial.

My own name came up on the virtuous names thread, I think it's considered over-used on Mumsnet and I do find virtuous names are generally difficult to live up to so it doesn't bother me that people aren't very keen all the time.

Assumpta?

@loveisanopensore

My daughters and I have very Irish names that English speakers have to ask how to pronounce. On MN this is the end of the fucking world.

I have a name that is unpronounceable if you don't speak that language.

People stumble on it or mangle it or use something different or tell me that my name is something else. It gets misspelt quite frequently

I cringe each time I hear it being mangled. If I meet several people in one day (e.g. hospital appointment) this will be by each new person.

It's not an unusual name in my culture, but one that isn't extremely popular.

@Serin she's called Astrid but apparently the As is enough to condemn her to a lifetime of bullying (except here in Sweden it's a common name).

Why does it bother you so much, @Sboncen? I similarly have a first and surname which a foreigner is unlikely to be able to pronounce unless je or she has some familiarity with my home culture's language. Mispronunciation by a medical receptionist doesn't bother me in the slightest -- why would it? There is no reason they would be able to pronounce it. It's not any kind of slight.

My DC's names usually elicit 2 responses - either they're good, strong, classic names, or they're boring as hell. The latter doesn't bother me because they're usually from the posters who are obsessed with their DC having names that no-one else's child in the country has (usually because they're shite).

@Birdsnesting, several reasons.
The mangled name usually sounds awful to me.
When people get my name wrong, they use a different name that is very old fashioned and a bit frumpy.

In the medical receptionist example, it would be mangled by each person who said it, so it might be about six people in one day, and it's not just the mangling, they will struggle to find my notes etc, probably because they don't really listen.

It gets misspelt on things like prescriptions, mail etc, which is an inconvenience

It's not the actual name but let's say it was Agnetha, but they'll say Ag-neth-a, Agneetha, Angeta, Aneetha, Anita, Agnes, Agnhild, Agatha, Annette etc

Nothing nice about being told you are saying your own name wrongly by an english monoglot

I really like my name but not when they get it wrong

My daughter has a “prostitute’s” name apparently. She’s 10 so I’ll have to update in maybe another 10 years my other 2 have acceptable names apparently.