Grandchild name

Er, well, I have to own up to a recently mentioned male/female moniker . I only answer to it in the Dr's surgery and on official forms, passport etc. otherwise, I am known by a totally different name and have been since I was about 3 weeks old. Completely ridiculous I know!

Until we know what dreadful name this poor baby has been saddled with, it is hard to make any meaningful comment. Other than that to say that is it not really down to the parents? (That said, I read recently that 3 children were simply registered as " C " ) Now if their granny were to ask AIBU I think our answer might be more sympathetic!!

Just think of England Galen!

I knew someone who wanted to call her new baby girl Melanie. She sent her DH to register the birth but he didn't know how to spell it so the poor child ended up labelled Melony.

Another person I worked with had a DD whose married name was Plonka (Polish I think) and she had a baby girl and called her Polly. Still makes me smile!

NellieM I've put the hulk on the picture thread!

I boggle over anyone falling out with their child over the choice of a grandchild's name. You may not like it, you can perhaps suggest the problems that may come. My middle name was changed because someone pointed out to my mother that my initials would form a word that could lead to a lot of teasing but fall out with a child over the name of a grandchild seems OTT.

However Ermintrude I note you say you lent your son money towards buying his house and then objected when he extended it. I get a feeling that perhaps you are still trying to control your son the way you could when he was a child and that everything would improve all round if you could accept that he is now an adult, married with a child of his own and will make his decisions for himself.

Speak to any grandparents who have a continuously good and happy relationship with their children and grandchildren and you will find grandparents who stepped back once their children grew up and had a family of their own and let them make their own decisions, for good or ill. Many have helped their children with money and assistance but none have used this to wield power or influence.

Nice to see a leg puller on a different subject....makes a change from Aerobics classes.
P.S. is a certain person on holiday?

Sssshhhh! Hilda

My mother sent my father off to the registry of births marriages and deaths with the instruction that I was to be named Roberta.
Dad took no notice

My mother wrinkled her nose at the traditional and unfashionable name I chose for absentdaughter on the grounds that it was "an old woman's name". I pointed out that old women had been babies once. My mama soon got used to it. Absentdaughter, however, hated it and has since legally changed it. The name has since become a particularly popular one.

In other words, the name is not really that important.

Francis/Frances, Valentine, Jody/Jodie, Samantha???

Sky/Skye, Sonny/Sunny, Louie, Bobby/Bobbie

Ermintrude I think you are having us on and winding us up!

When DH's father went to register him he bumped into a relative who asked what the baby was going to be called. On being told Robert the relative pointed out that it was an unlucky name because a distant cousin called Robert had fallen off a cliff/been hit by a bus or something similar. FIL thought he'd better go for the second choice but couldn't remember what it was. He knew it began with a K so that is why DH is called Keith.

The second choice of name was actually Kenneth!!

Merlot

We had a lovely eccentric Lady of the Manor in Cornwall (can't remember her official title) When her father went to register her she was supposed to be called Janet but he got it wrong and she was registered as Jonet. She always introduced herself as Joney the spelling mistake!

I have always understood that Shirley was originally a male name and that Charlotte Bronte was the first person to use it as a girl's name.

I have Jenifer with one n and ann without an e. I say I was born in rationing!

Come on Ermintrude - where are you? What is he called????

I know of a child called Cwm. My DD had a colleague originally Moonbeam with siblings with equally aesthetic names. They all changed them. Does anyone like the name their parents gave them?

Yes - I'm Plain Jane and I think it suits me

The name my mum wanted for me, Wendy plus a middle name would have made my initial WET. My dad refused to have a daughter who may have been called Wet & windy Wendy! They dropped the Wendy!

I like names to have meanings.
DS is Edward, the guardian of prosperity.
DD1 is Susan, the white lily.
DD2 is Elizabeth, the grace of God.

DD looked exactly like me when she was born so we called her by my name, as soon as she could talk she shortened it and has been called by that name for 42 years. My father, obsessed by all things Norwegian, wanted her to be called Solveig or something. Father never called me by my name anyway he always used a nickname.

DGD3 was going to be called Amelia. I thought it was a lovely name so was quite disappointed when I got the phone call to say Sophie had been born.

Apparently DIL took one look at the baby and said, 'Hello, Sophie'.

She is, of course, a lovely, gorgeous, Sophie.

My Grandmother, who by all accounts was a lovely lady, was dying when she told my mother what to call me so that was the name with which I was inflicted. As soon as I could I gave myself a nickname which everyone uses but I feel now at the ripe old age of 64 that I have finally grown old enough for my name

merlot
DD2 was to be a Sophie, but I took one look at her and decided, no way, so she became a Georgiana - always known as Georgie!

My cousin was born in the week the 2nd WW finished and was called Victorine,my Grandma never forgave my poor Grandpa for changing her name on the way to the register office from Victoria,but it stands to reason she was always known as Vicky.