A woman is seeking reassurance after her family turned their noses up at her unborn baby’s name – saying it’s “super bad” and she is “mean” for giving him such a moniker
When it comes to naming a baby, most parents spend hours mulling over their options before deciding on a moniker. While some share their child’s name with the world before their birth, others decide to keep it quiet until they’ve arrived.
It has prompted one woman to urge others to choose the latter after making the “mistake” of telling her family her baby’s name ahead of time. She said on Reddit : “So me and my husband were the couple that talked about baby names after dating for like a month. We both love and have always loved the name Vincent and we therefore decided that any future son would be named Vincent if we ever had one.
“Well we’re expecting (we don’t know the gender yet, however) and I made the mistake of telling our families about our potential name. Of course, everyone hated it and thought it was super bad, pretty much stating that it would be mean to name a baby that. Vincent is in the top 50 of baby boy names in our country so it’s not like it’s extremely uncommon.”
Wanting to know whether her family ‘overreacted’, she has taken to Reddit to ask users for their thoughts on the name. In response, one user said: “Nothing wrong with Vincent, it’s a perfectly normal name. Unless there’s something about your last name that makes it weird?
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Another user added: “This is why I agree with parents who decide to wait until the baby is born to share the name. I don’t think there is anything wrong with Vincent, I actually quite like it! It’s definitely not a tragedy.” A third user said: “I love the name Vincent. I’m not a big fan of Vince or Vinny though, so I’d probably not use it for one of my own children. But, it is in no way a strange or problematic name, your families’ reactions are pretty strange.”
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