How People Reacted to My Baby's Name

It is so annoying when people play around with names and then get irritated when people mispronounce the name. You just want to say "Oh, grow up!" I have a friend named Gwen and all her life people have said it incorrectly or spelled it incorrectly and bless her heart, she just says, "No big deal". The best was a letter she rec'd addressed to "Given", but she gets many Quinns too, which is not near Gwen.....

instead of thinking of your own desires for a name think of your child..he or she is the one who has to live with it the rest of their lives.

we named our daughter Reagan- after the President. 99 % of people say "oh my god! i love that name. he was the best president!" one woman asked my daughter her name and she replied, "reagan." the woman asked my 4 year old daughter, "do you have another name? I'm a democrat." i threw a can of soup at her. say something to me, not my kid. idiot.

My name is Heather, when I was growing up there were like 40 of us in school, now I went with more different names andmy kids now 15 love them
Tequlia Rose, LaneClyde and JusticeWilliam

Im not sorry and neither are they!!

I love that name! I named my daughter, Apple! I get mixed comments on her name too. It just felt right that that was supposed to be her name. I get asked all the time in our outings...OH that is what Gwenth Paltrow named her baby...Well that is not why I named my daughter that name...It was was what it was, for no given reason....The idea and thought of her name was bigger than me. I always wanted my children to have unique names, so one will never forget. I could not get Apple out of my mind. SO my son, age 5 at the time, kept telling me little secret of his baby sister's name...AND oh boy.did I hear it...Do you mean, Apple like the FRUIT...Yes...Apple like the fruit...It actually means divine in the dictionary...and so it was...and is almost 2 now..Apple Marie...The love of her Mommy's Life!

it is funny because i get that all the time with my youngest son and daughter my sons name is mayan abriel and my daughter is serenity wiccanna but isn't unusual better then the same names over and over it is the 20th century.

My previous wife wanted to name our son Derek. We did not have a family member of that name, but she watched the daytime serial One Life To Live religiously in the 70's. Our son was born on September 6, 1979. If you watched that show during that time, one of the main female characters was an older women who had a younger lover named Derek. The rest is history. Our son was named Derek Anrthony Williams instead of Anthony James Williams , Jr.

I haven't thought about this issue for years. I changed my name when I went to college ... and it became an AKA ... and crept into my passprt and legal documents without incident. I hated it. It was a fussy feminine name and I was a brilliant irrascible feminist rabble rouser ...

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I think the issue is, while your son may be the world to you, to the rest of the world he is no more important than the next guy. People arent going to change the way they talk to figure out how to pronounce the name of someone they just met. Conceitedness- its a common problem of the country of origin, that and "avoiding" war.

My name is Destiny, people always comment how lovely my name is, but growing up I got bullied for it. I love my name now as its a real talking point and I'm sure its helped me get a job interview a few times. I wanted to name my children with unusual names, but my husband wasnt keen. my sons are called Taylor James and Eoin Pheonix (Eoin being Irish for Owen) and my daughter is Katie Scarlett Louise. If I have any more kids I'd like Ethan, Tobias, Violet or Ruby.

my middle name is jacqueline (i'm french too!) and i CAN'T stand when people say jack-a-lin. i feel (you and) your son's pain!

I know what you mean about the alcohol thing. I named my daughter Bailey (18 years ago) and I got quite a few "Is that what you were drinking when you got pregnant?" Har Har.

I can relate, and my name is spelt with an "i" not a "y" - I have grown up with the same comments.

When I had my oldest daughter in March of 1978, the woman who was my room mate (they didn't have private rooms back then!) had a baby girl. The father was a drunk and verbally abusive (I detested him and only saw him a couple of times when he came to see his wife whom he treated like a dog; she was a mousy thing!), and their last name was Rogers. They named that poor baby Brandy Alexander Rogers and her name is an acronym for BAR! I'd have liked to have smacked that man. He was an @$$.

My sister is also named Brandy and she feels the same way you do. She can't stand the song and my grandfather always thought my mom named her after the drink.

actually i was gonna name my daughter Brandy after that very song, but my husband said it sounded like a hooker, i named her Tiffany

Umm.... My name is Brandi and my parents named me after that song!!!!! So therefore i see nothing wrong with it, i happen to really like that song too!!! and when people usually ask if i was namd after the wine named Brandy their usually just joking around!!!