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

A name that always makes me raise my eyebrows is the name of a child in ds's school

MercyOfTheGiftOfGod

this was once shortened to MercyOfGod

now she is just Mercy

ds1-
Your name, Karl, is in position number 1103 in our 2008 list.Last year it was in position number 1122.Your name have moved up 19 places since last year

ds2 Your name, Zachary, is in position number 200 in our 2008 list.Last year it was in position number 238.Your name have moved up 38 places since last year.

Jezzabelle - spelling debabted between parents at length. They went for this spelling in the end.

debabted??????

I read a magazine article recently about a woman who had a daughter called Jer'Taime.

Pretentious and illiterate, all rolled into one.

I always thought Teddy was short for Theodore?

Well, I've never actually laughed at someone's name but I did think "oh dear" when I met a boy called "Cain" and a boy named "Calypso".
The parents obviously did not realise that they had named their boy after the first murderer, or that Calypso was a girls name, she was the sea nymph who had the hots for Odysseus.

Tut tut, look what happens when an entire generation misses out on their religious and classical education.

As you can see, I am in touch with my inner snob.

Hubert...there's nothing wrong with it, other than the Tom Lehrer song "whatever happened to Hubert?" which does make me giggle.

Calypso is not only a girl's name (nymph's name) but it sounds like a girl's name.

what about Asterix for a name?!!

I hope my friend doesnt see this,she may never speak to again.

My Nan was gonna call my Mum Blodwen !!
I know she was Welsh,but please!!
she got Gwen instead,much more acceptable

Friend called her DD Callie Lou (yes thats her first name) pissed myself thinking it was a nickname.

Other friend called her DS Also know someone who is scottish who was adopted by an in dian family, they called him Ardon. ROFL that gets some sniggers when we are out

Re the name Spike, it is lovely and really cool but it originated in the army as a generic nickname for someone tall and thin, ie they look like a spike. Most famous example Spike Milligan. If you read his army memoirs there are quite a lot of other Spikes, all called this for the same reason.

So if you call your DS Spike and he turns out short and fat, you may get a few snurks from older people.

I have heard say of someone who had two DDs, Siobhan pronounced (See-oh-ban) and Shevaunne. Whether it was true or not...?

And I did encounter someone with two boys called William and Liam . I wondered whether, if they'd had a third they'd have called him Billy.

My bump was called Herbert. Everyone said I wouldn't be able to stop calling the baby that, but I didn't have a problem.

If I had called him Herbert he would have deserved to be on this thread. We've never met one yet though

My first bump was called Iggy. We did call him Iggy by mistake quite a bit after he was born, but not for long!

Ds2 is called Hugh. We call him Hubert for long.

in all seriousness - if somebody asks for an opinion BEFORE they've named their kid and it's a bloody awful name then I will say that I don't like it.

if they've had the child and are not asking for opinions then I don't say anything. their baby, their choice.

Even though I hate, hate, hate made up chavvy names i also think the world would probably be a duller place without them.

I know of a Cassanova

Hiya haven't read all of thread sorry if I've offended anyone only meant it as a bit of fun, not mocking/sneering or anything like that.

Different senses of humour and all that. Prob because I wouldn't be remotely offenede if someone didn't like/found dd names strange I just think we had different tastes. Wouldn't cross my mind to be bothered we can't all like the same things.

Just for the record doing a school obs today saw a "tequila" on the whiteboard with some ticks next to her name.

I kid you not.....

I met a baby Maggie yesterday and was a bit . As a teenager of the 80s at a very left wing school, my immediate association was "Thatcher" rather than "Simpsons". Her mum was about the same aga as me, so clearly must have a different political bias.

Hmmm, difficult to know how you'd feel though really. I've had people express surprise or not like my boys' names IRL and taken it on the chin.

But the times their names have been laughed at on here, it did feel sneery and it does hurt.

And I am fucking nails, so it must be even worse for people with feelings

BikeRun, my immediate thought was Gyllenhaal....

I've forgotten the 80s, as has the great Dame herself I should think.

I'm 35 btw.

yes, hector.

but then my dd's middle name is buttercup and I have had lots of interesting comments. which just makes me love it more!!

and tearinghairout... i am type of potato as well. not an anya though. only found out when i was 15 though. the type of potato more commonly found in crisps...

Charlotte? Nadine?

maris piper??!

Cara?

King Edward?

hehe this is fun....... new? chips? Jacket?