Have you changed your baby's name?

[lenac]

I changed my baby's name from Ralph to Huxley when he was six months old. I just felt his name didn't fit. I was quite surprised at the reaction I got from family and friends. Has anyone else done this or is thinking about doing this?

I don't mind the canvassing on MN. In fact I like the name Huxley. BUT I do mind the blatent lie about 'fierce resistance' on MN. Makes me wonder about how much of the rest of the article was completely fabricated.

Ralph and Huxley are both ridiculous names, and the author of the article is a frightful tit.

I think this bit's a lie too.

"I first got an inkling that we had given our baby the wrong name when another mother peered into his pram and said loudly, "So, do you pronounce it Ralph or Raef?" It wasn't the mispronunciation that made me cringe but how horrible she made the word sound; all hoity-toity with ugly, drawn-out vowels."

Unless she went out with the baby's name written on a piece of cardboard attached the pram, surely the question about pronunciation would have been redundant. Or am I missing something here?

Oooh, clever thinking LGP. I like it .

I just presumed the baby's name was on a blanket, dummy or toy or something.

I went to school with a chap named Ralph. He pronounced it Ralf. I crease myself when I hear it pronounced "Rafe". Which pronunciation is correct?

Both are right.

I guess if someone had had a birth announcement card "Ralph has arrived" and then seen them in the street they might have asked the pronounciation?