Hate DD’s planned baby name. Is it ever ok to say that?

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I expect the answer is to keep quiet but I fear by future grandchild will be teased mercilessly.

I really like it, sorry. The only hesitation for me would be the I/L confusion but if I. saw it written down I would assume Io as that is a name, not Lo.

Kids don't really get teased for names anymore ime as they hear so many different ones now from so many different backgrounds.

I had forgotten that there is nothing so parochial as a MN name thread.

Loads of people in life are going to do shit that’s annoying. It doesn’t mean we bow down to the lowest common denominator.

I don’t think it’s that strange but I immediately think of one of jupiters moons and not greek mythology. it’s not a million miles away from ivo. i think you need to keep quiet and learn to like it.

I’ve worked with children for over thirty years and have never come across one. Mind you, I initially read it as Lo.
Once you said it’s pronounced eye-o, I immediately thought of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Sorry! Also, reading about the connection of Io being raped, I would definitely gently mention that in conversation if you can. There must be so many other mythological names/whatever she’s after surely?

Io isn't an uncommon name in Greece though I don't think? And if they are at an international school it wouldn't stand out.

I'd your daughter had suggested something like Twinkle-ina then you could possibly say something but she has picked a name that is not to your taste. I gave my dd a perfectly normal, traditional, pretty easy to say name. Mum hated it and sent me an email of all things telling me what a mistake I had made. I opened it in the middle of the night and cried, I was already feeling terrible with a newborn who wouldn't sleep, this made me incredibly upset. I still feel very upset now many years later when I think of it.

When it only concerns ourselves, fair enough. When it’s a question of knowingly setting a child up for being teased, I don’t think the noble principle of not bowing to the lowest common denominator is actually very noble.

I don’t like the name at all.

I’d listen if my mother didn’t like my baby name.

No, the correct pronunciation is EEEE-oh, not eye-oh

No, the OP, and obviously her daughter as well (which is worse) have the pronunciation wrong - it's Eee-oh

It gets worse 😳

Kids will tease about ANYTHING. I have an awful surname that kids teased me about but my parents parented me and it was water off a duck’s back. I didn’t change my surname when I got married.

It is not pronounced eye-oh! it's flipping EEEE-oh

I really really hope she doesn't choose this name, the fact that there are so people who appear to be quite knowledgeable about greek mythology don't know how to pronounce it is baffling.

@HolidayBrochure , Io (mythology) - Wikipedia, Io (moon) - Wikipedia

I've only ever heard it said as Eye-o. Similarly, Diana is Die-anna, nor Dee-anna.

I quite like it. I have an unusual name and spend my life hearing it mispronounced but it doesn’t bother me. It’s a conversation starter - so much so that I use a different name entirely for coffee shop orders to avoid having to talk about it or spell it.

@HolidayBrochure in English, Classical Greek words, including names, are usually pronounced in an anglicised way, aren’t they? That is also how the language has historically been taught in school in the UK. The name Iris is “Eye-riss”, not “Ee-riss” as it is in modern Greek.

I suppose you're right, anglicisations do say eye, doesn't mean it's correct however. I would go with Eeee-oh as I know some greek.

It just shows how bloody confusing the name is going to be. I would avoid it.

I jest ye not. It was Primrose Hill.

Do children actually sing that now? I did; I don’t think my Dc have.

I also think that children nowadays are desensitised to names and don’t actually tease anymore just the adults who frankly now should be old enough to know better

DS has a girl in his class called Dolly Bow and can’t work out why I think it is an odd choice. Different names from different cultures means they give it far far less thought than we do. And also are happy to say how it’s pronounced and stick with it

Io won’t even appear on the radar as being odd. Plus it is common nowadays if you have a name you don’t like in High School or isn’t you uou change it

I know! Some names have very poor meanings.

With my two DC, we obviously knew the first and surname, but for reasons I won't go into because it is too outing, I wanted a friend of mine to come up with a selection of middle names for us to choose. For my DS, one of the names she suggested was Claude. It means 'the lame one' or 'crippled'. I pretty quickly crossed that off the list!

I also know a teen Io and she is fine. It’s really not that strange.

I wouldn't really be keen on people suggesting alternative names to me to justify shortening into Io, it changes the whole idea of a name.

Def the Io I know is pronounced eye-oh.

I think Lo is a nice name tbh