I kid you not but a school mum has just had a baby and called in SMIRNOFF !!!!!

[laughalot]

I kid you not I made it worse by asking if she was taking the piss. All I need now is for her to be a mumsnet member. The wierd thing is she has two other sons with normalish names. Why would you do it ?

Sorry if anyones child is called this i dont mean to offend

You know I have no idea, if not now at comp no doubt!

"I made it worse by asking if she was taking the piss she just stormed off in am huff"

She'd better get used to it PDQ.

wow, it makes chardonnay sound like a good choice!

LMAO! How funny!

What ever next? Malibu, Pernod, Bulmers or maybe even WKD?

OP Are you serious?

I'm thinking calling my next one Whiskas. Or maybe Fray'Bentos. Classy.

"I'm thinking calling my next one Whiskas."

LOL, I struggle not to laugh when a work college was showing off her new baby son named Felix. I know it is a name but all I could think about was cat food

loads of mumsn' will have kids named Felix

oops

Smirnoff is a shit name for a kid - hopefully it will get shortened to Smurf.

You know your life is crap when you hope your name will be shortened to a small blue troll thing

I know of a little Tia Maria!

Our DS (3 yrs) is Felix. He has two soft toy cats called Whiskas and GoCat - of course he has no idea why it's funny. Pretty bad start in life when your own parents take the mickey out of your name . But he IS very happy and so far very lucky.

We were going to call him Emil or Emile, until my mum started talking about her soon-to-be grandson Email. Having piss taken by own grandmother is even worse.

But Smirnoff?? That's something else entirely.

LOL @ Wanklyn. Poor kid!

umf thats fab I like the name felix and as I don't have a cat I wouldn't think of the cat food. But having the soft toys is a stroke of genius, you might as well make the joke before someone else does

Smirnoff is certainly, erm, unique. Someone has to ask if the middle name is Ice...

My brothers dog is called Smirnoff. It gets Smirny as nn.

Bloody awful for a dog let alone a baby.

Oh dear.

Smirnoff is a surname - so not quite like Mercedes.

Stolichnaya, nn Stolly?

Hah! I like Stolichnaya! We were thinking about Russian names for next one...

I would defend the name Nike, as it is a name (Greek goddess of Victory, which is why it was half-inched by a sports company!)

Then I reread it was a boy called Nike...

Poke away, they deserve it.

I know of a Labrini

my mum taught someone called Tequila

I know a Chardonnay as well. it does not help that the mother is rough as a badgers arse and shouts it all the time!

What a chav, everyone know its spelt Shardonnez

What a horrible people, to call baby Smirnoff

i went to uni with someone called Bacardi. it really suited her, no jokes intended. i would never choose it, or one remotely similar (thinking alcoholic drinks!) but as these children grow up with their silly names, people who know them will forget the association.
re: a few baby name threads recently, i do think it depends on the circles in which you mix - celebs get away with odd names so why shouldnt others?

I taught a little boy called Foster. His sister was Stella. We always wondered what a third child might have been called. Kronenbourg perhaps or Heineken?