Aibu? Baby names not suitable for adulthood?

[caz198917]

Wary I am probably going to cause a riot with this one! 🙈

Pregnant with baby boy number 2. And some of the name suggestions are awful.

Yes. Your name may suit a baby/toddler but an adult!?

Names such as Ralphie, teddy, hughie, Rupert, etc.

Do people honestly think there children are going to be babies forever.

Or am I being unreasonable and should just mind my own? 🤣

Totally agree. If Teddy/Teddie is a nickname for Edward, then find. But call I c a child Teddy on their birth cert is ridiculous. I cannot imagine a 45 year old fella enjoying telling people his name is Teddy

@FelicityPike

I know an adult (mid 40s) Ralphie. He has always been Ralphie. I also know loads of adult Hughies. It seems to have been a popular name round these parts.

Really I've never met a Hughie. Has this become popular now ? My DS is Hugo and not met any others so far.

Lots of my friends have given their babies ie / y names as their full birth certificate name. Albie, Teddy, Bertie, Freddie, Charlie. I do think it's child like, but they are naming a child, it sounds friendly I suppose. I would of thought it's more lower class, but then we have Meghan & Harry using Archie as his full name.

But if adults who have the full name go by the nickname it shows nothing wrong just using the nickname or shortened version
Why use the full name if your never going to use it
My son has shorted version not an ie one but we would never use the full name so his birth certificate is what we call him
My old grear great uncle was charles but always went by charlie i know loads of older freddies/ freddy ( flintoff) is one
I think people over think

@Kokeshi123 how snobby to say the least
Who knows what is on someones birth certificate i know many a higher class who go by charlie or teddie who's birth cert says charles or edward
I so hate when people judge based on a name
Other emglish countries like usa and canada do use these names also

@Kokeshi123 so what about royal family who now have an archie
Does that make them lower class
Reggie etc all names used for years yes they may have had Reginald on birth cert but wouldn't of ever used

I have an old school friend that was Teddy at primary, Ted at senior school and as an adult - we still call him Ted but for work he uses Ed - didn’t realise until we went to a party for him and people called him Ed! Old friends still called him Ted!

Alfie sounds awful on a strapping 6ft teenager, as does Teddie.

@Toddlerteaplease except it doesn't and if you had teenagers you would know lots of Alfies as its popular my ds is 16 and knows a fair few alfies and a Ted
Alfred would sound worse
Michelle , kelly etc were all names used now not many would use on a baby as didn't sound right and associate with middle age but at one time they would of been a popular baby name
People really need to understand there are trends and many people will think your childs name may sound awful as different tastes

I know a 10 year old Scottie (no, not the dog) and that's his name on his birth certificate. Also know a Ralphie who was named after his father who, in his 50s, is still called Ralphie.

It's quite the opposite for us, we called DS quite a serious, grown up two syllable name and have always used it, however, he calls himself the shortened version and even introduces himself as such.
So his friends call him the nickname while we, and indeed all the family, always use his full name.

The issue I have is it will 'date' the owners to the 2010s onwards (I know some did exist before then!)
My eldest was born in 1993 and the trend then was for shortened names, but without the - ie/y ending, so lots of boys called Tom, Josh, Ben, Jake etc.
When you hear the names, you know there's a good chance they were 90s babies, and I do think that a grown man called Josh sounds fairly ridiculous, to be honest.
I am also laughing at pps who are saying that Gary etc would look silly on a baby.
You do realise that Gary's parents would have thought exactly the same about babies called Albie, Alfie etc?
It's called trends.

Better than shit like 'storm'

Maggie Thatcher

I didn't like her but she wasn't known as Maggie to her friends and family, so it's a bit unfair to put her on that list.

@ESGdance

Ted Roosevelt Ted Kennedy

Didn’t seem to have held them back in reaching the top …. and would imagine that they were registered their long form name.

Theodore Roosevelt and Edward Kennedy used their full length name in politics. Sure some people called them Teddy or Ted but in office they were referred to by their full name. A better example would have been Jimmy Carter who although named James was never referred to as President James Carter, was always President Jimmy Carter. Or Bill Clinton who again was never referred to as President William Clinton, he was President Bill Clinton.

I have an Edward/ Teddy/ Ted. We chose the name because it can grow with him.

I dont think I have ever met a grown up person who introduced themselves to me and my t
reaction was to think. Ohh a baby name

It just doesn't work that way you accept thats their name and move on.

Personally I dont like Teddy or Ralphie or Rupert but I have known grown up men called those names and that was just their name (never met a Hughie big or small)