has anyone ever told you their dearest newborns name and you've had to choke back a giggle?

[peacelily]

prob offend some people this but can't please everyone.

For me it was when uber competitive Mum at baby massage introduced me to Hubert.

Apols to any mummies of Huberts out there

Ahem-

pretendy son alright...

Luciabelle

I didn't bite my lip. just (tactfully I hope), said how Lucia was Italian (I think?) for Lucy and how pretty is was. Bit about adding belle to the end of it but didn't say that.

Oh and Alloradenim. Classic!

Ahh neither of mine slept even when newborns for more than 10 minutes during the day- knackering! Ds is brilliant but dd very patchy and has been ill so sleep is all over the place and I think to myself, gawd I couldn't do all that again every night.

I take my hat off to parents who aren't sleeping and then have another, then another!

My BF heard "Placenta cummm 'ere!" In the Primark in Hammersmith last week.

Never had to bite my lip. Of course there are names that we prefer, and some that we downright don't like.

We thought ds was going to be dd3 so we spent the whole pregnancy quarrelling about girls names. My first choice was Maude, his was Fiona. We agreed on a name a week before I had the baby, and didn't tell anybody.

After ds was born my mil asked what we would have called him if he had been a girl, we told her, expecting her to hate it, and she said 'I thought so.'

It was her mum's name, but silly old dh didn't know.

I said 'we were going to call our dd3 after your maternal grandmother'

He said 'What! Nanny Smith'

Her name was Winnie Smith

Placenta? Surely not!

Marjory-Storm.
Both are okat in their own right .. but imo DO NOT go together.

I did want to call my daughter Sappho. DH refused point blank ... Sorry if that falls into the Hubert category.

I once heard a woman shout for her daughter "Ivonneeeee! Come 'ere." And then I twigged it was YVONNE.

DS has just started school and has a little boy called Tyton in his class. I must admit I had a quick grin about that one.

But then his other mate is called Stan and that isn't much better imo even though I know it is a bit more fashionable these days. I still think Stan Ogden from Corrie.

oh god yes

can't put it here in case she recognised it but it was only when you put it with the surname that it was so silly

Young lad at work told me he wanted to call his child Jester. I had to bite my lip then.

I'm sure I've said on here before that I met a Toulouse and a Glint in the summer. I do worry that writing them down will make some poor person whose brain has been softened by pregnancy hormones think "Oh they are lovely names - perfect for the twins" and it'll be all my fault!

Whenever I see these threads I am always dying to know what the piss-ripping posters kids are called

I think you all have Jack, Chloes and Alfies

whenever threads like this appear some people are going to be hurt.
OP do you generally enjoy snurking at choices other people make? Do you tend to stick to the middle ground in most things so as not to be sniggered at yourself.

and no my children are not called Ginger Nuts or the like but still...ffs.

sorry for snipey post OP - I shouldn't have been personal.

agree SFD it is not just the OP being prsttish here

fgs these are KIDS NAMES . I actually think it rather unkind to laugh at the name someone has chosen for their child.

But honestly, does anybody call their child Glint and not expect eyebrows to be raised? I thought people used names like this because they WANTED people to comment! There isn't any other reason, surely?

A very sensible new colleague told me her son was named after the hospital he was born in (that we both work in). I am still mortified that I might have caused her offence in what I said - giggling in your mind might be ok... but never again will I say anything other than "how lovely/ unusual" etc.

Attila - seriously.
I am sorry to baby Herbert who we see at one of our group do dahs as it still makes me smile whenever I see him.

Possibly. Lockets, but does anyone name their child for that simple reason alone? I know I didn't - I loved the names, but there were also family and cultural reasons for using them.

I also considered how the names would sound as they grew up and the assumptions that people, including strangers, teachers, employers, juries (worst case scenario here!) might make about them. I also thought about what it would feel like to introduce yourself at all stages of your life with that name.

I honestly can't believe Glint's parents went through this process!

Some of the names on here were all contenders for DD1 or 2. I love Freya, DD1 was very nearly Mia that I would have shortended to Mimi (don't know why I say shortened as its longer!) and I really loved Anya, it just didn't go with our surname (plus I know everyone would pronounce it a different way to the way I love and I wasn't prepared to keep correcting everyone!)

I once came across someone called Wiggy, i thought it was a nickname, but no it was on her passport and drivers licence! Now that really did make me snigger!

my ex-fil name is GILBERT, makes me think of chicken gibblets (????)(hes really nice actually so feel rotten about that ,but i just cant help it!)

sorry but pmsl at liaison
hope they always remember the 2nd i