Fanny for a girl?

[LemonZebras]

Hi everyone,

I’m expecting a baby girl. My husband is French and is insistent that he wants to name our daughter after his aunt who raised him - Fanny! It’s a common French name, but the baby will be born and raised in the UK.

Am I unreasonable to say no and to worry that she would be bullied or made fun of? My husband thinks I’m overreacting and that the slang word is barely used nowadays and that not many people know of it.

I will be showing him this thread with the different responses.

Thank you

Particularly not if you are Scottish

Absolutely not

Louise is an excellent name. Definitely go with that!

No.

No!

and In USA it’s your bum!

no no no!!!

can you call her Frances - then he can call Fanny as a nickname

Click bite :))))

Only if you're changing your last name to Price. Best character name ever 😂

It's weird that Willies and Dicks fine, but Fanny is seen as such a big issue here.

Err when was the last time you heard of anyone called Dick or Willy? In fact, wasn't Dick in an Enid Blyton book get changed to Rick in more recent years? Might've been The Magic Faraway Tree.

It's a perfectly fine name in Europe, but it doesn't translate well. What about Frances and Fran?

Much nicer.

I live near a Fanny Street and even that gets a laugh if you have to say it for any reason 🤣

Omg please dont saddle your child with this.
What about Francine? I know someone called Francine and Ive always liked it x.

In primary school I told the class during a history lesson (presumably which had mentioned old names) that my nan calls me Fanny-Anne as a sort of term of endearment and I was so laughed at, even the teacher didn’t keep a straight face. It was so embarrassing.

You can't call your DD a slang name for vagina.

The nickname Willy has gone out of fashion in the UK for the same reason!

Tell your husband not to be a fanny. Of course you can't use the name.

Hard no if you even vaguely like your unborn child.

I mean, I do know two adult men (40's) who go by "Dick/ Dickie" and one woman (Annabel) who has always been known as Fanny as long as I've known her but you've got to have the sort of personality where you're really able to own it and it's not fair to call a child that - maybe use Annabel instead?

Fine. Fanny is great. You can call her Cunty as a cute nickname. Because that’s what all the other children will do.

I was waiting for someone to share this!

I would say definitely no, but I do know a (French) Fanny who lives in the UK and people seem to quite quickly adjust and stop seeing it as anything other than her name, so, maybe it'd be fine! As a middle name maybe better, though...

Just seen the update. Louise is lovely.

FFS! NO!!!!!!

Do not inflict this name on your poor baby.
Stand your ground on this one, its your baby too and he needs to understand that this is NOT an option.

Willie - or Wullie as some people get called in Scotland isn't actually that uncommon. Obviously less people calling their kid William now but you never know with folk who are Royalists

I work in the same department as a Dutch girl called fanny. She gets the piss ripped out of her daily. To her face and behind her back. It’s pretty awful

If this is happening in the workplace, isn't it bullying with a bit of racism thrown in? She should raise a grievance. And if there are any people in the department who are not juvenile idiots, they should shut it down when they hear it.

Ya canny call her Fanny

Fanny by Gaslight

Absolutely not .