Woman cancels baby shower after people ridiculed baby’s name

Yeah, names get shortened. It happens. About all you can do is choose a name with a shortened form you like. Or at least don't hate.

That's why my brother never got the first name johnathon or Antony.

Yeah, it's a title. But it is also used (rarely) as a first name here - possibly because we don't use the title of Squire.  

I know the Boone family (as in Daniel Boone) has been using Squire as a first name since the late 1700's.

We also have the occasional (still rare, though) titles as first names. Major Garrett is a well known reporter, as is Shepard Smith. I don't know the origins of those first names, but it is a practice of very long standing for Americans, especially males, to be given the maiden last name of their mother/grandmother as a first name and sometimes those surnames are also titles.

ETA - OK, Shepard isn't exactly considered a title. It's an example of a very unusual first name that is more commonly found as a surname.

Yes, and what if he were to actually run and get elected? He'd be Senator Senator. Snort.



In naming my four boys, I used my own maiden name, my mother's maiden name, my grandmother's maiden name, and my ex-MIL's maiden name. (I also have my grandfather's middle name, my ex's grandfather's name, my father's middle name, and my great uncle's name thrown in there for good measure.)

Because so many of their first names could pass for last names as well, when we would call all their names out together my ex-MIL used to snarkily comment, "You don't have a family. You have a law firm."

I like using maiden names in naming as well. My youngest has the middle name Leeder which is my grandmothers maiden name. My DH wanted it to be his first name but I went with something more traditional.

Absolutely! It makes me laugh, too.

In a similar vein I have a distant relative in the mists of time whose first name was North, being his mother’s family surname. IIRC mother’s Brother died childless and left his estate to his nephew North, providing he changed his surname to the uncle’s family name . . North. Thereafter the chap was known as North North.

Thank you for starting my day off with a good laugh!

So, no? I should not give my kids new, more interesting names for Christmas then?

Sigh. There goes my big surprise.

she writes "I never knew my family could be so judgmental" as she is TOTALLY judging all of them for their conduct. SMDH.

And if she thought about it for at least 10 seconds, she would see they're ridiculing HER for the choice of name, not ridiculing her CHILD.

it took the daycare workers about 3 weeks to shorten Callan to Cal, and at soon to be 10 he goes by Callan or Cal. Occasionally Cally Cal but I suspect that's going to get filed under moooooom don't call me that very soon. He's still my Callan, but yeah I had no say in them shortening it.

This is why I come here 😂😂😂😂

This kind of crap is exactly why I fought tooth and nail when I was pregnant with DD to name her Jane. Ex won a more trendy name, but nothing weird or creatively spelled. Jane is her middle name.

And DS? In 17 years, he's never met another kid with his classic name. I did win that fight.

I have 5 kids from 18-8 and no one knows a Scott. We just discussed this at dinner a few weeks ago. So if you really want to be original...choose Scott.

And then you give your beloved younger daughter the classic, time-honored name of Margaret, planning to call her Maggie as it fits with your family's Scots-Irish heritage, and the older one re-christens her "Gart." And thus she is called ever after. 😂

Yeah we specifically did not choose a certain middle name for DS as my mother would have called him his initials just to piss off my ex. I mean I was disappointed he couldn’t have my grandfathers nane for a middle name but has ex’s grandfathers nane for a middle but my mother definitely would have driven me INSANE.