People suggesting names for your baby?

[Sausagesarenottheonlyfruit]

Does anyone else get this?

Since we announced the pregnancy, I have had suggestion after suggestion of names for the baby.
And the names are almost universally awful not to my taste - my mother even makes names up! This morning she suggested Tandy! For a boy!

BF is not much better, all her names are surnamey type things.

Why can't people back off? As if they are going to come up with an amazing name that DH and I hadn't thought of, bugger off and name your own baby!

Thanks sausages! You're glowing too!

Catsy and Superhero that's exactly why DH and I do not want to tell our chosen name to anyone - someone is bound to make a stupid comment and I just don't want to get into "that2 conversation. It took us ages to come up with a name we both like and that works in 4 languages (we are both multicultural) so am not letting anyone ruibn it for me!

Of course, once the baby is named they can still make stupid comments/not like it etc but at least am hoping they will have enough tact to do it behind my back hahahahaha ;)

Beesok, I was holding my DD at the time!!!! You would think people would have the sense to keep their thoughts to themselves - still you live and learn.....

I (as a joke as we were discussing names) suggested to a colleague that she name her unborn DD with my first name. Her response was superb: "That used to be my name, but I didn't like it, so I changed it.

breatheslowly that is a very fine quality response!

Just tell them you're bringing back "Adolph" oh so "Joseph" is more acceptable because....shuts the buggers up quick-smart! (mainly 'cos many don't connect Joseph with 'Stalin' as easily as the Hitler thing).
Don't know if I find this more irritating or the 'oh, you're still feeling sick, must be a boy", or "you've got a nice round bump, having a girl are we?"...I'm 15wks
..no, I'm having a BABY and all I care is that it's healthy...

We're telling people that if it's a boy, it will be Agamemnon, and a girl will be Clytemnestra. It gets a good long blank stare. I think people are starting to believe it... DH is a historian, so you never know...

We have perfectly "normal" names picked out for actual use, but they are our business. I don't want anyone (particularly his mother) criticizing our real choices.